Great New Sound Effects: Wild Tire Skids, Lots Of Animal Sounds (some By Humans As Well), Nature Ambiences, Horror Sounds And More!

Posted October 19, 2022 by Adriane Kuzminski in New sound effects libraries

This week on A Sound Effect, we have interesting ambiences, tons of animals, and, of course, more horror sounds for the season.

If you want peace in quiet in your soundscapes, we have a new wind collection and a tranquil Ambisonic crickets and insects library. For more human sounds in your atmospheres, we have urban and suburban recordings and ambiences of Newcastle and Durham, too.

For animal sounds, you can hear petting zoos, a collection of zoo and farm animals, and a library with actors (as well as a metal singer) mimicking everything from a dolphin to a platypus.

If you're working on a horror film, game or trailer, check out the new cinematic trailer horror sounds - and perhaps you might need some painful bone cracking sounds, isolated tire skids, and sounds of ice breakings as well - that seems like a scary storyline to me! Happy listening!

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Isolated Tire Skids

'Isolated Tire Skids' by Herutsu has isolated tire skids from a '21 Porsche Taycan Turbo and '14 Toyota GT86 - with no engine sounds! Get onboard and exterior drifting sounds from a DPA 4060 and Sennheiser MKH 8020 and Neumann KM184 and Sennheiser MKH 8060.

Car Sound Effects Isolated Tire Skids Play Track 22 sounds included $45

Fully Universal Category System (UCS) compliant sound effects library of isolated tire skids (without any engine sounds!). This library offers detailed recordings of various drifting sounds on tarmac with both onboard and exterior microphone perspectives – 22 files, 16 min 43 sec, a total of 472mb (24bit/96khz).

The onboard recordings were captured with DPA 4060 and Sennheiser MKH 8020 microphones.

The exterior recordings have both stereo and mono perspectives and were captured with Neumann KM184 and Sennheiser MKH 8060 microphones.

Cars recorded: Porsche Taycan Turbo (2021) and Toyota GT86 (2014).

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UK Parks & Petting Zoos

'UK Parks & Petting Zoos' by 344 Audio gets you sounds of animals and environments in rural North-East, England. Hear grunting pigs, clucking hens, cawing crows, cheeping blackbirds, and more, perfectfor injecting a sense of rusticism into your films, TV shows, and games.

Animal Sound Effects UK Parks & Petting Zoos Play Track 39 sounds included $38

UK Parks & Petting Zoos Vol. 1 features a variety of sounds from the animals and environments in rural North-East, England.

Included are recordings of: grunting pigs; clucking hens; cawing crows; cheeping blackbirds and more! The candid quality of these sounds makes them perfect for injecting a sense of rusticism into your Film, TV and Game projects.

All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing for further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.

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Wind collection – vol 2

'Wind collection – vol 2' by Useful Sound Effects offers gentle breezes to strong gusts, spooky drafts to rare old bamboo field wind sounds. All files are clean and contain no traffic noise or any other human made annoying sounds, great for documentaries, games, movies, and all time periods!

Environments & Ambiences Wind collection – vol 2 Play Track 76 sounds included, 210 mins total $65

Wind collection Vol 2 offers gentle breezes to strong gusts, spooky drafts to rare old bamboo field wind sounds. All files are clean and contain no traffic noise or any other human made annoying sounds. This means the wind sounds can cover many productions including documentary, game sounds, movie background, and for all time periods! From medieval settings to unknown times and places, these wind recordings offer a credible background. During 3 years this collection was growing bit by bit, adding variations and useful situations. The rare presence of insects or birds is mentioned in the metadata, but they apply to less than a handful of files.
The acoustic wind collection covers over 3,5 hours of stereo recordings, binaural recordings for immersive wind sounds, and some mono files for specific use.

When Loop is indicated in the filename, the file can be looped as you would expect, but these files are unlike sample loops, or instrument loops: they are of course longer and loop after a good amount of time, sometimes several minutes. The looped files are chosen by their contents and have no moments that are too recognizable if heard a second time, so they are useful for backgrounds.

All files have UCS compliant names and include metadata with useful descriptions.

You can find a Draft folder with stereo and binaural recordings in interesting abandoned places that had a draft close to a door or window. You might hear some dark reverb or cracks in those places that deliver a great ghostly atmosphere.
The bamboo wind recordings are also very special as these were made in old bamboo fields that were not cleaned. This means there were old and broken parts between the weeping bamboo, assuring nice clunks and squeaks.
Other than that you will find many winds, through air, through vegetation, in empty villages, in a small van for specific perspectives, wind through tunnel, very bad recordings with no wind protection for typical interview fails…

You can find the following libraries in this collection >

Wind collection: Volume 1

Wind collection: Volume 2

Wind collection: Volume 3

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Breaking Ice

'Breaking Ice' by Vadi Sound Library brings you organic and designed textures of ice cracking, squeaking, and creaking. It includes crashing, shattering, debris movements, falling on different surfaces, rolling, stabbing with different tools, tiny-medium-large ice breaking, scatters, and more.

Environments & Ambiences Breaking Ice Play Track 250 sounds included $39

Out of ice? Please help yourself. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.

About Breaking Ice

This cinematic ice sound effects bring you 103 files and 250+ sounds – in both basic organic and designed formats.

You will get different types of ice cracking, squeaking, and creaking that you need for your related projects and room for further sound design with the flexible texture of the sounds for customization.

Performances include single or multiple crashing, smashing, shattering, debris movements, falling on different surfaces, rolling, stabbing with different tools, tiny-medium-large ice breaking, sweeping through, scatters and more. Breaking ice can level up your projects with fresh high quality sound effects with variety and quality of recording. And the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!

All sounds are in mono and stereo 24bit/96 KHz Wav format and they are just great for Foley, film, video, game, advertisement and music.

Breaking ice can level up your projects with fresh high quality sound effects with variety and quality of recording and the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!

Keywords including Actions, Parts, Equipment and Style
Ice, crash, friction, debris, snow, carving, cube, piece, rolling, breaking, hammer, melted, dropping, rubbing, crashing, crush, block, handsaw, falling, spatula, shatter, rolling, hitting, chisel, metal, wooden, cleaver, floor, small, wet, dry, little, medium, large, short, deep, pocket knife, scraping, metal, spatula, handsaw, half, concrete, sweeping through, tension, glacier, smashing, cinematic.

What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Crafting & Survival SFX Pack for access to 1000+ sounds of drawers, electricity, fire, tactical and sports equipment, explosions, cloth, weapons, food and drink, glass, gore, mechanical gear, lots of metal impacts and movements on different surfaces, paper and other objects, robot, rifle and guns, rope and other vital tools, vegetation, vehicles, other weaponry, whoosh, wood, bags, doors, chains, destruction.

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Ambisonics - Crickets, Insects vol. 2

'Ambisonics - Crickets, Insects vol. 2' by IVO VICIC SOUND LIBRARIES has Ambisonic soundscapes of crickets and insects recorded in spring, summer and early autumn. Get daytime and nocturnal recordings, with or without wind.

Ambisonic Sound Effects Ambisonics – Crickets, Insects vol. 2 Play Track 64 sounds included, 202 mins total $20

Crickets, insects, soundscapes/recordings, recorded in Ambisonic. Recorded in spring summer and early autumn. Daytime and nocturnal recordings, with wind in background or without. With birds and without birds in background. Close or distant perspectives. In nature environment, urban or in rural area. Check the sound list for additional info.

tech note:

Ambisonic recording (3D audio, VR360 audio) – Immersive Audio, Spatial audio;

Recorded with Sennheiser Ambeo VR microphone (tripod, Rycote blimp/windjammer/ included) and Sound Devices recorder. All channels matched with pink noise generator.
B-format (Ambix) – RAW files and stereo files (binaural) rendered via Reaper/Ambeo (Sennheiser plugin), A to B format converter and they are ready to use.

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Newcastle & Durham Vol. 1

'Newcastle & Durham Vol. 1' by 344 Audio captures local environments of these historic cities with urban and suburban sounds. It has a sonic tapestry of the North East of England with creaky footsteps in the Bowes Museum, clinking cutlery in Eldon Square food court, peaceful protest walla, evening rain, and more!

Environments & Ambiences Newcastle & Durham Vol. 1 Play Track 26 sounds included, 42 mins total $38

Newcastle & Durham Vol. 1 features ambient recordings of Newcastle upon Tyne and Durham, England.

The local environments of these historic cities were faithfully captured, bringing you a diverse collection of urban and suburban sounds. Together these comprise a sonic tapestry of one of Britain’s major regions – the North East of England.

Included are recordings of: clangs and bangs of a garbage truck; creaky footsteps in the Bowes Museum; clinking cutlery in Eldon Square food court; peaceful protest walla; pressure washer spray; evening rain; Haymarket Station bus engines; escalator squeaks; Central Station trains; Tyne Bridge traffic and more!

Use these sounds to build candid backgrounds and ground your Film, TV and Game projects in British realism.

All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.

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Bone Crackings Sound Pack 01

Do you like kung fu movies or fistfights where bones are breaking? 'Bone Crackings Sound Pack 01' by Debsound will get you painful elbow fractures a la Stephen Seagal and Mortal Kombat-like skull crushes. Perfect for kung-fu, fighting, action movies and games!

Foley Sound Effects Bone Crackings Sound Pack 01 Play Track 40 sounds included, 1 mins total $19.90

Bone Crackings Sound Pack 01

Do you like kung fu movies or fistfights where bones are breaking ?
I guarantee you’ll get your dose here !

I have always loved kung-fu, fighting, action movies and games, so there was no question that when I started working with sounds,
I would make such sounds. Even though these are not real broken bone recordings, they can be used perfectly if you are thinking about
a Stephen Seagal elbow fracture or a Mortal Kombat skull bone crush in connection with your production.
Some of them are painful even for me to listen to.

This sound effect collection is ideal for use in game software, applications, commercials, movies, TV shows,
videos,
animation, and any other entertainment industry where a high-quality audio effect is essential.

– 40 Bone crackings sound effect
– An excellent choice for fighting, bonebreaking productions

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Cinematic Horror Trailer

'Cinematic Horror Trailer' by Fusehive.com has trailer-ready horror sounds featuring unique character, intensities, speeds and weights. It is an immense collection that is scary and epic - perfect for cutting edge Hollywood-quality dramatic transition and movement sounds.

Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Cinematic Horror Trailer Play Track 180 sounds included $59.99
Add more horror and terror to your projects with this library packed with fear! Providing you with over 500 high-quality audio files of originally designed royalty free trailer-ready horror sounds, each featuring a unique character, intensity, speed and weight, this immense collection of scary epicness is a perfect choice for any type of media that requires cutting edge Hollywood quality dramatic transition and movement sounds.

ENDLESS FLEXIBILITY, WOLD OF POSSIBILITIES

Want to give your audience a ride of their lives by ramping up and down the feel of your project? With a dizzying selection of variant options, including DIFFERENT INTENSITY LEVELS, MULTIPLE LENGTHS, SIMPLIFIED and COMPLEX VERSIONS, FULL SEQUENCES, and many more, a whole world of possibilities is at your fingertips.

HUGE TIMESAVER, EASY TO STUNNING RESULTS

Each single sound in this collection was carefully produced for super-fast and professional results. To instantly boost your project to the next level, simply search for keywords that match the feel you wish to add to your project, drag the sounds listed by your search terms into your project, and blow away your audience by driving their speakers and subwoofers to the maximum, just like that!

Each sound effect is included in 3 different formats for your convenience:
- 96 kHz/24 bit WAV, giving you the best quality for heavy editing, pitching and FX processing, while keeping a top notch level of clarity and precision
- 44/1 kHz/16 bit WAV, for quick mockups and media where project size and processing speed matter, while still preserving that industry standard, “studio level of quality”.
- 320 Kbps MP3, professionally compressed audio files, light as a feather, but sounding full and rich, ideal for online projects/apps and other downloadable media.
Designed by our team of industry veterans with decades of experience in the AAA gaming industry, this meticulously crafted sound library will add massive value to you project and instantly mind-blowing results for you and your audience.

KEY FEATURES:
- Huge selection of Woosh, Swoosh, Swish, Hit, Impacts, Drone, Riser, Drops, and all other Transition and Movement Sounds. From HUGE to Small, Mechanical/Industrial, Hybrid and Modern, Clean and Sleek sound effects, different speed, weight and intensity variants
- Ready to use – requires no editing, labeling or splicing
- Categorized, organized and individually labeled files for maximum use efficiency
- All sounds meticulously Meta-Tagged (HD WAV folder)
DOWNLOAD NOW and reward your audience with an epic scary, ground-shaking experience like no other!
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Humanimal Mimicry

'Humanimal Mimicry' by Articulated Sounds is a handy collection of human vocalizations mimicking the sound of animals. These naturally-sounding samples are useful for shaping expressive creature sounds. Tens of actors were involved in the process, and also one metal singer.

Amphibians & Reptile Sound Effects Humanimal Mimicry Play Track 1950 sounds included $50
Humaninal Mimicry is a handy collection of human vocalizations mimicking the sound of animals.

These naturally-sounding samples are useful for shaping expressive creature sounds.

Tens of actors were involved in the process, but also one metal singer. Recorded up to 192KHz with Sanken Co-100k, or 96KHz. Included are more than 60 various animals (imitated) such as Eagle, Koala, Tiger, Whale, Seal, Crane, Gopher, Dolphin, Elephant, Lion, Crow, Goose, Camel, Bear, Horse, Frog, Platypus, Raccoon, Seagull, Honey Badger, Squirrel, Wolf, Monkey,…

The sounds delivered are well edited and meta-tagged. These are crisp, easy, and malleable sounds that will enrich your existing collection.

Alternatively, these sounds can also be used for cartoon or comical effects.

What’s inside:
- 60 animals, imitated by more than 10 different actors (including metal singer).
- Variations of each sound
- 2 versions: Separated (1 sound per file) & Glued (many variations per file)
- Clear, malleable sounds, without background noises, up to 192 KHz for processing, or 96KHz.
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Beasts & Animals Sounds - Volume 02

'Beasts & Animals Sounds - Volume 02' by Potion Audio has 108 animal and beast sounds of gorillas, monkeys, cats, crocodiles, chickens, eagle, elephants, frogs, mosquitos & bees, rabbits, sheeps, goats, squirrels, tigers, and tortoises.

Ambience Vol.1

'Ambience Vol.1' by Black Edge Sound Studios has practical, go-to ambiences for fictional, factual, animation and interactive world design. It has a broad selection of city and suburban recordings in exterior and interior settings with footsteps and movement on exterior surfaces and walla at different densities.

City Life Sound Effects Ambience Vol.1 Play Track 129 sounds included, 228 mins total $149

Ambience Vol.1 is the first library in our Film, TV & Game Essentials range. If you are a working sound effects editor, sound designer, film maker or game designer… this really is content for everyday usage! And we say that with some experience working across multiple film, TV and video game productions. This library covers all of the practical, go-to sound categories that sound editors use on a daily basis working with fiction, factual, animation and interactive world design.

Urban and suburban areas. This library contains a broad selection of city and suburban recordings, featuring activity from people in exterior and interior settings, clearly audible footsteps and movement on exterior surfaces like pavements, alleyways and walla at different densities. Sirens, street sounds and signature city environments are all included in this selection.

Interiors and Room Tones. One of the staples of sound effects editing, the background room tone. Useful for ADR editors and sound effects editors alike, this library features a number of tones, background hums and ambience that will provide the perfect bed for set dialogue, ADR and replacing missing interior shots from set. Our room tone content also makes the perfect edition for sound editors looking to enhance the audio from set or create a realistic environment scene. From perfectly still rooms to interior weather recordings, this selection can bring your interior scenes to life in any genre or story.

Nature. Vol.1 wildlife and natural environment selection includes ambiences from Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, England, Wales and Thailand. Featuring dense rainforests, jungle trails, native villages, hillsides, farmland and fields. From pristine natural environments to rural countryside shared with people, there are options to cover exotic and European exterior spaces that will prove useful across multiple genres and most everyday applications. Wide spread bird species are featured in these nature recordings that remain common across Europe and North America, such as guls, pigeons, ducks and more. The rural recordings included also contain common farm animals like sheep in fields.

Water. With so many textures and possible settings for water, this selection aims to provide some common use cases. Various intensities of sea waves, tidal sounds, waves against man made features and natural shorelines are included along with inland rivers, streams and water features. Elements like dripping, trickling and splashing all add detail and enhance any background mix or ambience design that contains these visual attributes.

Whatever the Weather… we’ve got you covered! This library contains multiple selections for rain and wind, along with enhanced detailed elements like howling, whistling, rain on specific surfaces, interior weather, exterior suburban weather and thunder. Nothing soaks the ground and sounds quite like tropical rain, thats covered too… with contextual weather recordings from Brazil and Mexico. Springtime rain from England and close reflections from rain splashing down in urban areas, the choice and flexibility featured in this set is not often seen in a single collection and represents great value for sound professionals to use again and again on productions.

From industry veterans to first time designers, this collection will prove useful on almost any production and add value to even the most established of sound effects collections. Recorded using Tascam, Sound Devices, DPA, AKG and Sennheiser equipment… and more than a decade in the making!

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THE WORLD’S EASIEST WAY TO GET INDEPENDENT SOUND EFFECTS:

A Sound Effect gives you easy access to an absolutely huge sound effects catalog from a myriad of independent sound creators, all covered by one license agreement - a few highlights:

Foley Sound Effects Grenade Foley Play Track 1374 sounds included $15

A focused collection of grenade foley, captured with precision using replica units. This library provides the essential, clean sounds of tactical handling, interaction, and impacts.

Recorded at 96kHz/24-bit across various surfaces including steel plates, carpet, wood floorings, soil, and grass, this library offers variation for different environments. The recordings feature grenade shakes, surface impacts and rolls, pin pulls, spoon lever ejections, spoon drops, and tactical gear foley, all captured with Lewitt LCT 540 S and Shure SM7B.

This is a practical toolkit for sound designers working in film, games, and other media, providing a tonal and versatile foundation for building realistic military action.

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Car Sound Effects Toyota MR2 1984 sports car Play Track 228 sounds included, 44 mins total $65

All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, Line Audio Omni1 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.

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Animal Sound Effects Collections Botswana Play Track 49+ sounds included, 136 mins total From: $60

Botswana Faunethic sound library is a unique collection of 49 sounds recorded through several national parks of the country (Okavango, Chobe,…). All these sounds has been recorded and produced with high quality equipment in multichannel.

This collection offers a wide diversity of soundscapes and animals sounds such as:

-Bush, savanna and forest soundscapes.
-Hippopotamus grunt and vocals.
-Elephants vocals, showering and drinking.
-Zebras and impalas fighting.
-Lion chasing an elephant during one night.
-Birds and insects at different perspectives.
-Villages

If you want to hear more about this field recording trip, feel free to check this post.
The multichannel version contains 40 tracks in native 4.0 and 9 tracks recorded in stereo only.

This library provides authentic and interesting sounds, recorded with DPA, MBHO and Neumann mics powered by an Aeta 4minX.
All Faunethic tracks includes metadata carefully edited, compatible with Soundminer, Soundly and Basehead.

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Latest sound effects libraries:

Bundles Quietsub FX Complete Bundle Play Track 15055 sounds included $379
Quietsub FX Complete Bundle

Quietsub FX is a library of 15,055 sound effects at 24 bit 96,000 BWF. The library is organized into a number of collections related to specific categories, and a large miscellaneous category. The library was recorded to be as comprehensive as possible with an emphasis on quality and choice for users.

The Complete Bundle includes the following parts:
Quietsub FX gives you a wide ranging library of sound effects. Production of the library focused on creating high quality and choice for users, which ultimately is what creators want. This package is ideal for film, video, radio, podcast, and wherever sound effects are used.

All files include metadata.
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Travel & Transportation Quietsub FX Transportation Play Track 1321 sounds included $59
Quietsub FX Transportation

An extensive collection of 1,321 Transportation sounds. If it has means of movement to carry people or goods, whether by engine or human propulsion, you’ll likely find it here.

This collection comes in two parts. The transportation portion, and Transit Chimes.

Transit Chimes: Transit Chimes are the sounds you hear all the time on public transportation. Dings, dongs, attention getters. This collection of 70 sound effects gives everything you need to satisfy your craving for these noises. Use them in your productions, or start your own transit system.

Transportation: People are always going somewhere. And they sure make lots of noise doing it. Just about anything that moves people or freight can be found here.

Recording for this category is outside the studio affair. A tremendous amount of time driving and walking around, as well as planting yourself in strategic locations where vehicles do their thing.
- Cars general
- Classic cars
- Sports cars
- Boats
- Aircraft
- Bicycles
- Buses
- Motorcycles
- Trucks general
- Garbage Truck
- Highway and street backgrounds
- Traffic sounds
This extensive collection touches all the bases.

Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.
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Whoosh Sound Effects Quietsub FX Video Transition Sound Effects Play Track 128 sounds included $25

Quietsub FX Video Transition Sound Effects

A great collection of 128 Video Transition Sound Effects. These are designed to be used at video edit points to add impact.

Video Editors will enjoy these video transition effects. In recent years, sound effects began appearing in videos to accompany the actual visual edit. This was the inspiration for creating this collection.

There’s no better way to add depth to video edits than with short sounds and ramps. These work great with short video breakup visuals and flashes.

This collection is made up of various wipes and transitions.

Cut away. Chop, Hack etc. These sounds will make those video transitions more interesting.

Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.

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Sci-Fi Sound Effects Quietsub FX Sci-Fi Sounds Play Track 192 sounds included $25
Quietsub FX Sci-Fi Sounds

A collection of 192 Sci-Fi Sounds.

There’s lots of science fiction out there, but still no little green men. Possibly that’s what makes sci-fi so popular. The dream of something you think may exist, but cannot be proven. Sci-Fi, of course, has its own sounds. In this collection of 183 sound effects, you will find most of what you will need to outfit your next spacecraft.

Included in this collection:
- Alien interiors
- Blasters
- Backgrounds
- Space ship sounds
Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.
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Materials & Texture Sound Effects Quietsub FX Mechanical Parts Play Track 159 sounds included $39
Quietsub FX Mechanical Parts

A collection of 159 mechanical sounds made by small motors. This is the result of a massive editing job involving small metal and plastic parts, and any other item made by humans and others.

Stuff that clicks, winds, and moves by itself.

This collection covers the world of small mechanics. Sounds in this collection include:
- Clicking
- Cranking
- Metal levers
- Metal movement
- Winding
- Running
- Slowing
- Squeaking
You can get all wound up with this kind of thing. Something for any mechanical mind.

Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.
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