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Bat Cave is an immersive field recording album by Sound Effect Stacks, capturing the rich acoustic environment of a bat-inhabited cave from noon to dusk. Recorded deep in a natural cave setting, this collection highlights the unique bat activity throughout the day—featuring detailed cave room tones, fluttering wingbeats, bat vocalizations, and the intensifying sounds of hundreds of bats preparing to emerge at dusk.
From quiet ambient textures to dynamic bursts of movement and communication, this album offers an authentic soundscape ideal for use in films, games, installations, or deep listening. Perfect for sound designers, nature lovers, and audio storytellers seeking rare and high-quality wildlife recordings.
Bathroom Ambience is a collection of high-quality field recordings capturing the natural reverb and unique soundscape of a bathroom interior. This album includes a variety of room tones and subtle details such as dripping water, faucet sounds, toilet flushes, ventilation hum, shower water flow, and echoing footsteps on tile.
Perfect for film, TV, podcasts, video games, and sound design projects, these recordings deliver authentic bathroom interior ambience with realistic echo and acoustic reflections. Whether you need clean room tone, background layers, or detailed water and plumbing sounds, this album provides versatile audio textures ready for professional use.
Enter the brutal heart of cinematic terror with Cinematic Nightmares: Impacts Vol.1—a meticulously crafted sound pack designed to deliver raw, unrelenting power straight to your speakers. Packed with thunderous impacts, bone-rattling hits, and layered textures of chaos, this collection is built to elevate your horror trailers, dark cinematic cues, and intense game soundscapes. Whether you’re crafting jump scares, dramatic transitions, or tension-building moments, these sounds will hit with precision and presence, helping you shape unforgettable sonic moments that grab attention and refuse to let go.
Like its whooshing predecessor, this pack is built for flexibility and depth:
● Designed Section – 10 fully layered impact sounds, sculpted and delivered in both wet and dry versions for instant drag-and-drop power. You get 20 ready-to-use files to give your productions immediate punch.
● Layers Section – Go deeper with 49 expertly curated impact layers, each provided in both wet and dry versions. That’s 98 individual files, purpose-built for layering, tweaking, or using standalone.
Each sound includes 6 variations per file, with both wet and dry processing included. This means you’re not locked into any one sound—you can apply your own reverb, layer them with other effects, or manipulate them into entirely new sonic monstrosities. Total freedom, zero compromise.
Massive Value: 708 High-Quality Sounds
With this pack, you’re not just getting great sound—you’re getting a full arsenal of ready-to-use audio assets:
● Designed Sounds: 120 wet and dry variations (10 sounds × 6 variations × 2 formats).
● Layered Sounds: 588 wet and dry variations (49 sounds × 6 variations × 2 formats).
● Bonus One-Shots: Every variation is also provided as a pre-cut one-shot—clearly labeled and organised within its own folder, drag-and-drop ready for your DAW or sampler, making workflow fast and seamless.
Check out the sound demo here:
All sounds are provided in 24-bit / 96kHz resolution, ensuring industry-standard quality. The total pack size is 5.6 GB, and everything is embedded with full UCS-compliant metadata to keep your sound library organised, searchable, and production-ready.
When we think of spaceships in science fiction, we might picture massive hulking vessels moving slowly across the cosmos… Or we might think of small nimble fighter crafts darting in and out of battle…
But there’s another kind of spaceship that is just as popular as the first two mentioned, but is under represented by most sound effect libraries out there… Until now!
Cinematic Spaceships, is our latest sci-fi designed sound-set specializing in mid-sized spaceship sound effects!
These mid-sized space craft usually have multiple engines and thrusters and are large enough to hold maybe a dozen people or crew.
Think of the troop-ships or shuttle-crafts seen in many movies, video games, Anime, TV & Streaming shows over the last 30 years…
They’re everywhere across media -and now you can have this robust library focusing on these bad-ass spaceships!
***If you would like to hear every sound from this set, watch our Deep Dive video for Cinematic Spaceships!
What you get in Cinematic Spaceships are three unique spaceship classes that feature various exterior sequences, flybys and more. And as a bonus, there’s a whole bank of Sweeteners that include rocket thruster sounds, hypersonic thunder claps, mech builds, and more!
Here is a breakdown of the sound-set:
Here’s a link for a more in depth audio-demo that reveals more of the actual sounds found in Cinematic Spaceships! Enjoy!
Check out Cinematic Spaceships today and drop us a line if you have any questions! [email protected]
We can’t wait to hear how you use our sounds!
Happy sound building!
These sound effects were recorded in the city of Guadalajara Mexico during a very rainy season. In this library there is Thunder, interior and exterior rain, Hailstorms, and more.
They are ideal for background use in your projects, for soothing wet atmospheres creation or for intense “the sky is falling” scenes.
City Rain has a runtime of 1 hour and 26 minutes and includes 38 files
All sounds have been carefully curated and edited, providing a ready-to-use and royalty-free sample pack.
They are UCS compliant, with embedded metadata for easy organization.
Step into the soundscape of a real commuter journey across Yogyakarta to Central Java. This album captures the authentic atmosphere of Indonesia’s bustling railway life, featuring immersive recordings from station platforms, lively passenger coaches, and the powerful rush of trains passing by.
From the anticipation of waiting at Wates Station, the layered chatter of commuters and footsteps on the platform, to the rhythmic hum inside the train as it glides through villages, towns, and open landscapes toward Palur Station in Solo, each track transports you directly into the experience of daily rail travel.
Perfect for filmmakers, sound designers, game developers, or anyone seeking the genuine ambience of Indonesian commuter trains, this collection blends urban life with the natural rhythms of movement, creating a versatile library of transport soundscapes.
Whether you need the energy of crowded platforms, the calm of steady train motion, or the thrill of locomotives rushing past, Commuter Line Ambience delivers an inspiring set of authentic recordings that bring realism and depth to any project.
Are you ready for Dark Whooshes?
We hope so! The transition sounds in this mini-set are characteristically darker and heavier than some transition sounds out there… If you look at these sounds through an audio spectrum meter, you’ll notice that these dark whooshes reside mostly in the lower and low mid-range of the scale. Dark Whooshes evokes a subdued sound-profile and in some cases, understated shadowy movement that will fit many media genres! So whether you use these sounds for animation or to convey powerful motion in game design or videos, there’s something for everyone with Dark Whooshes!
Dark Whooshes is part of our Mini-Set Series that specializes in small, bitesized sound packs that come in at under 20 sound-files in total. Mini-Sets allow creatives like you to quickly find the sounds you want so that you can get to the fun parts of your projects quicker than ever! No more searching through hundreds of sounds. Our Mini-Sets are concise and packed with awesome original sound design, and they’re low in price to boot!
If you would like to learn more about our Mini-Sets, click right here!
So try Dark Whooshes with our other mini-sets today and get ready to bring your creative to the next level!
Dawn Vehicle Passing By captures the rich, organic textures of early morning life in a riverside village near the Progo River, Yogyakarta. This immersive field recording album features a dynamic blend of natural ambience and human activity — from the gentle chorus of crickets, birds, and lizards to the rising rhythm of passing vehicles. Dominated by the distinctive sound of motorbikes, with occasional trucks and cars rolling by, each track tells a sonic story of dawn along a quiet village road.
Ideal for sound designers, filmmakers, and ambient audio enthusiasts, this collection offers authentic rural Indonesian atmosphere with layers of nature and movement. Recorded in high quality by Sound Effect Stacks, these soundscapes reflect the calm, yet ever-awakening pulse of village life at first light.
64 Files 96 Khz 24 Bit
126 Files 192 Khz 32 Bit
Demolition Aftermath is the perfect sound library if you’re looking to add a cinematic and realistic edge to your project. Featuring a total of 6 categories and 299 high-quality sounds, this collection provides a wide range of impactful, ready-to-use sound effects.
Inside the library, you’ll find carefully organized sounds across the following categories:
– Buildings collapsing
– Vehicle crashes
– Glass: impacts, cracks, and shattering in various intensities
– Metal: twisting, impacts, and bending
– Rocks: avalanches, impacts, and crunching textures
– Wood: creaks and impacts in multiple intensity levels
Each category is structured into separate folders, with multiple variations for each type of sound, giving you maximum creative flexibility and precision when selecting the perfect sound for any moment.
As with nearly all of our libraries, each sound has been recorded, edited, and mastered at 192 kHz / 32-24 bit, ensuring exceptional audio quality and top-tier adaptability — ideal for professional sound designers and anyone seeking a fast, drag & drop workflow.
We had a blast creating this library: we were able to collaborate with several companies that allowed us to break, manipulate, and record a wide variety of materials in real-world conditions, ensuring you get the most authentic and powerful sounds possible.
Recording equipment used:
– Sound Devices MixPre-6 II
– Sanken CO-100K
– Sennheiser MKH8050
– Zoom H6
– Tascam Portacapture X8
More about the pack
– Intuitive file naming
– All you’ll ever need regarding demolition sounds [Use them again & again
– Use the sound effects over and over, in any of your projects or productions, forever without any additional fees or royalties. Use the SFX in your game, in your trailer, in a Kickstarter campaign, wherever you need to, as much as you want to.
– Totally mono compatibility
– All sounds have several variations.
– Use your imagination and feel free to use any sound for a creature other than the one described, remember that the world of sound is totally subjective.
– For any questions or problems: [email protected]
Features
– 299 sounds
– Number of Audio Waves: 299
– Format: 192KHz / 24 bits
– Do Sound FX loop: No
– Win/Mac: Yes
– Minutes of audio provided: 22:59
These sound effects were recorded next to a pilot school in Mexico, capturing the distinctive sounds of small airplanes flying overhead. This library features a variety of flybys, from distant hums to powerful close passes, with different aircraft models and varying speeds. The recordings showcase natural Doppler effects, creating a dynamic and realistic sense of movement.
These sounds are ideal for background use in your projects, whether you’re designing immersive aviation scenes, recreating realistic outdoor ambiences, or adding depth to documentary and cinematic settings.
Engines in the Sky has a runtime of 32 minutes and includes 12 long-duration files.
These sound effects have been carefully curated and edited, providing a ready-to-use and royalty-free sample pack.
These samples can be used for various applications, from sound design and compositions for TV, film, and documentaries to video game development and music creation.
They are UCS compliant, with the UCS-compliant document included in the download file.
Each sample comes with embedded metadata for easy organization.
Product Specs
• Ambisonic Files (AMBIX format, First Order Ambisonics)
• 96kHz 24-bit
• Size: 2.24 GB (expanded)
Esoteric Series Bundle Vol. 2 – AIR & WATER is a premium professional SFX library that unites Esoteric Series Vol. 1 (Third Element – WATER) and Vol. 3 (Second Element – AIR) into one epic collection. Featuring 370 studio‑quality WAV samples at 24 bit/96 kHz, drawn from seven years of meticulous field recordings and advanced post‑production, it delivers the full spectrum of water and air:
Each noise‑free sample is engineered for deeply immersive ambiences, making this bundle ideal for film, video games, VR experiences, trailers and immersive installations. Download now to harness the raw power of air and water sound effects and elevate your projects to elemental heights.
What sets this collection apart is its origin: over 90% of the fire movement sounds were synthesized in Bitwig Studio’s GRID, where analog-style synthesis, FM, distortion, and spectral shaping were combined with macro-modulated dynamics and convolution layering. The result? Fire that doesn’t just sound real – it sounds scorching hot!
Perfect for sound designers working on:
From fast-passing flame whips and pressure-heavy blasts to longer, smoky, and textured burn trails — this pack offers a versatile range of fire movement textures ready for layering or as stand-alone assets.
DESIGNED IN: Bitwig
EDITED AND MASTERED WITH: Bitwig, Pro Tools
Unleash the sonic power of the gong with Aum Audio’s Gongs sound effects library.
Step into the sonic world of Shawn Aceto Sounds with a unique collection of gongs. Crafted by the metallurgist master Shawn Aceto and brought to life by master performer of the shamanic sound, Eddie Funxta.
These gongs are sonic marvels, designed to produce a full spectrum of tones, from primal, earth-shaking crashes to ethereal whispers that linger in the air. Add emotional vibrations and dramatic depth into your projects from a unique source in the gong and musical instrument industry.
Four selected gongs are included in this collection. Rain, Shri Yantra, Soul Voyager and Star Child. A variety of striking mallets, friction mallets, and percussive sticks were used along with Funxta’s touch and finesse to provide a multitude of takes for a wide selection of emotional impacts to choose from. Ringing decay lengths are from short 3 second accents to almost 2 minute sustains with some having big low end. Get it on and let’s bang a gong.
Royalty-free for commercial use in any of your creativity, such as film, television, radio, gaming, podcasts, audio books and more.
• 240 files totaling 5.87 GB, about 150 minutes
• Recordings of the 40″ Rain, 32″ Soul Voyager, 32″ Star Child, 28″ Shri Yantra gongs
• Various takes of mallet strikes, flumie friction rubs, percussive taps
• Files are BWAV format in stereo 96k at 24bit resolution, metadata enabled
• Universal Category System (UCS) standardized naming convention
• Product description, metadata sheets & EULA
• Artwork
“Lullabies and Curses – A Vocal Tale” is a haunting vocal collection that intertwines the innocence of lullabies with the darkness of curses.
Every piece is performed with nothing but the raw human voice — no instruments, no synthesis — carrying emotions that shift between fragile tenderness and unsettling dread.
01. Lullaby of Dawn — a gentle melody that carries fleeting warmth.
02. Restless Cradle Song — a lullaby wrapped in unease and dissonance.
03. The Great Curse — a chant of overwhelming force, fusing solemnity with fear.
A powerful collection of mechanical sound effects featuring heavy gear grinds, intricate assemblies, and moving parts in motion. Divided into Mech_Big and Mech_Small, this pack delivers a diverse range of sound effects from massive industrial contraptions to delicate mechanical ticks—perfect for film, games, and motion design. Bring machines to life with precision and grit.
🎮 What’s Inside?
✔️ Mech_Big: Large-scale mechanical sounds: grinding ancient gears, industrial assemblies, rotating systems, structural shifts, and more.
✔️ Mech_Small: Compact and detailed mechanical elements: switches, levers, small gear turns, intricate clicks, and mechanical sequences.
Useful for films, video content, and games, this pack provides ready-to-use, professionally designed sound effects, tailored for creators who need polished sounds without extra processing. The Ultra High Resolution version may contain more variations and audio files than the High Resolution pack, with pristine 192 kHz quality that ensures excellent flexibility for projects requiring additional processing.
A dynamic collection of robotic sound effects capturing the essence of synthetic motion—from heavy mech footsteps to agile servo twitches. Organized into Robot_Big and Robot_Small, this pack delivers detailed mechanical gestures that give life and character to any robot—ideal for film, games, animation, and futuristic sound design. Bring your bots to life with authentic movement, precision, and personality.
🤖 What’s Inside?
✔️ Robot_Big: Heavy robotic footsteps, mechanical stomps, structural clanks, and full-motion sequences for large-scale machines.
✔️ Robot_Small: Servo-driven motions, nimble joint movements, mechanical twitches, and intricate robotic details.
Useful for films, video content, and games, this pack provides ready-to-use, professionally designed sound effects, tailored for creators who need polished sounds without extra processing. The Ultra High Resolution version may contain more variations and audio files than the High Resolution pack, with pristine 192 kHz quality that ensures excellent flexibility for projects requiring additional processing.
A high-octane collection of sci-fi engine sounds designed to power futuristic vehicles, starships, drones, and advanced machinery. With layered boosts, charged accelerations, and energetic propulsion, this pack delivers cinematic engine sounds with punch and scale—perfect for games, trailers, film, and sci-fi storytelling. Give your machines the roar of tomorrow.
🚀 What’s Inside?
✔️ Engine Boosts: Aggressive power surges, acceleration bursts, energy charges, and propulsion blasts.
✔️ Sci-Fi Motions: High-velocity thrusts, futuristic drives, and stylized engine pulses.
Useful for films, video content, and games, this pack provides ready-to-use, professionally designed sound effects, tailored for creators who need polished sounds without extra processing. The Ultra High Resolution version may contain more variations and audio files than the High Resolution pack, with pristine 192 kHz quality that ensures excellent flexibility for projects requiring additional processing.
Moaning Metal features a unique collection of sounds captured using the LOM Geofon and other contact microphones. We recorded household and other metal items around the city to create an array of rich drones and eerie screeches.
These sounds are ideal for adding depth, tension, and unease to your projects, whether you’re layering audio or creating an intense atmosphere.
These sound effects have been carefully curated and edited, providing a ready-to-use and royalty-free sample pack.
These samples can be used for various applications, from sound design and compositions for TV, film, and documentaries to video game development.
They are UCS compliant, with the UCS-compliant document included in the download file.
Each sample comes with embedded metadata for easy organization.
This collection, performed by U-chan, features entirely vocal improvisations enhanced with spatial effects and reverb, designed to portray scenes of a fantastical realm.
Each track is an improvised vocal performance — no instruments, no background music — showcasing the full expressive range of the human voice.
Rain and Thunder with Traffic Background is a high-quality field recording album by Sound Effect Stacks, capturing the authentic ambiance of rainfall, thunder, and suburban traffic recorded in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This atmospheric sound collection is ideal for video production, film scoring, podcasting, meditation, ASMR, and ambient music layering.
Recorded in the quiet suburban areas of Yogyakarta, this album features the natural sounds of heavy rain, distant thunder rumbles, and the subtle background of cars passing by, creating a rich urban-meets-nature soundscape. Perfect for creators looking to add realistic rain and thunderstorm sound effects with city ambiance, this album brings depth and realism to any audio project.
Seismic Core is a modern sound effects library crafted to give your sound design its defining foundation. Every element in this collection is built for layering. Designed not to dominate, but to enhance, shape, and energize your creations. Whether you’re working on cinematic hits, trailers, motion design, game audio, or abstract sonic branding, Seismic Core delivers the essential low-end weight, transient snap, and textured grit that bring your designs to life.
These sounds are meticulously processed and polished, yet intentionally left with enough space to sit perfectly under your own layers. They’re bold enough to add instant character, but subtle enough to leave room for further creativity. This makes Seismic Core not just a toolkit, but a true starting point for powerful, flexible, and unique sound design.
This collection of Building Blocks contains following categories:
* Also including HEAVY & SUB variants
Build with it. Layer on top of it. Drop the anchor. Feel the quake. Design from the core.
SENTINEL is a cinematic sound library crafted by French sound designer Julien Caraz, known for his raw, visceral approach to audio storytelling. Created exclusively for HorrorSound, this collection is a deep dive into organic sonics, stylized textures, and hybrid cinematic intensity.
Built for composers, trailer editors and sound designers, music producers working in film, TV, video games, and dark audio environments, SENTINEL delivers cutting-edge audio assets that push the boundaries of traditional sound libraries.
At the core of SENTINEL is a versatile collection of pulsing, tempo-synced loops, clearly labeled with BPM and key information. These elements are purpose-built to provide the foundation of your cues—delivering tension, momentum, and a sense of narrative progression with ease.
What’s Inside
Over 750 high-quality WAV sounds, broken down into:
430 Loops
Fully stemmed and mixed for maximum flexibility
BPM + Key labeled
Rhythmic beds, pulsing grooves, evolving patterns
320 One-Shots
Braams
Impacts & Hits
Drones & Abstract Textures
Risers
Signature Sounds
Designed For
Film & Game Sound Design
Horror, Thriller & Sci-Fi Scores
Trailer Music Production
Ambient & Experimental Music
Audio Post & Immersive Installations
Available in three separate versions:
Complete – 750+ sounds $99
Loops Only – 430 sounds $69
One-Shots Only – 327 sounds $49
Sounds from a Transit System on Pause.
Underground Ambiences and Mechanical Atmospheres for Cinematic and Abstract Soundscapes.
The Still Line is a 139-minute sound effects library capturing the rare stillness and quiet pulse of an underground rail network paused in time. Recorded during a period of minimal traffic, as public life slowly returned after lockdowns, it spans resonant tunnels, hushed platforms, and moving trains, with subtle human presence woven throughout—footsteps, luggage wheels, and distant voices—adding life without disrupting the pervasive stillness. These recordings offer rich ambiences and precise mechanical textures, perfect for grounding a scene in reality, providing unique sonic textures, or reimagining it for something entirely new.
Step into an underground transit system where empty platforms, echoing tunnels, the mechanical heartbeat of infrastructure, and sparse human touches all coexist to create a cinematic soundscape.
This mini-library offers over two hours of recordings from quiet platforms, long tunnels, ticket halls, train interiors, and the subtle machinery that sustains the network. Freed from the usual crowd noise, every detail emerges: the tonal hum of escalators, the metallic sigh of air brakes, distant trains rolling through silent tunnels, and the layered resonance of vast, reflective chambers.
What’s Inside
Whether you’re building a dystopian future, crafting cinematic tension, or repurposing urban textures for abstract sound design, The Still Line offers a unique palette grounded in reality yet open to transformation.
Captured over five years in a secluded forest house — THUNDER CLAPS delivers the raw, untamed power of nature.
Recording lightning strikes at close range is one of the most difficult — and dangerous — things in field recording. Capturing them in a secluded home in the heart of the countryside has made this process a bit easier.
Now sit and feel the intensity of authentic close, medium, and distant thunder strikes, booms, and rumbles — recorded at up to 32-bit / 192kHz resolution for unmatched detail and dynamic range.
There are no other sounds in these files but the booming of the strikes. All tracks feature clean, isolated thunder claps — NO rain, NO wind, NO background noise — so you won’t waste time cleaning or editing. Just drag, drop, and unleash the storm.
Note: The SoundCloud demo includes a rain texture just for protection purposes. This is not included in the library.
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