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Car Sound Effects Alarms & Sirens Play Track 262 sounds included $8.99
Alarms & Sirens is a sound library containing many designed alarm and siren sounds.

Features:
- 250+ audio files in 24 bit 96kHz quality
- WAV format
- All files are metadata-tagged, allowing for easy searching in sound library management tools
- UCS compliant file naming
- Available for commercial or personal use without attribution
- Includes 3 forms of each sound: “dry”, “with speaker”, and ” with speaker and reverb”
Included categories:
- Emergency Vehicles (+ Pass-bys)
- Air Raid Siren
- Car Alarm
- Carbon Monoxide Alarm
- Mobile Phone Alarm
- Civil Defense/Tornado Siren
- Foghorn
- Generic
- Smoke Alarm
- Vehicle Reversing
View a summary of included sounds here

View a full list of included files here
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Mechanical Sound Effects Alarms & Warnings Designed Play Track 104 sounds included $25

‘Alarms & Warnings Designed’ is a collection of 52 alarm sounds suitable for the science fiction genre. This library includes ‘one-shot’ audio files that are ready to be placed in a sampler as well as 30 second loops of those same files. All sounds are ‘dry’ and ready to be processed.

This library goes well with ‘Fully Charged Vol.1’

Please note that my sound libraries do not go on sale (this is so prices are fair all year round), and they are sold exclusively on asoundeffect. :-)

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Sci-Fi Sound Effects Alarms And Noises Play Track 82 sounds included $30

A collection of ear-piercing, stress-inducing alarm tones and noise samples. They're built from the ground up, starting with synthetic test tones (dual and single), signals or noise, and then carefully tweaked through analog and plugins filters, to obtain the right tempo, pitch and feel. Most tracks are more than 1 minute long and are easily looped.

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Traffic Sound Effects Emergency Sirens Play Track 275 sounds included $99

Fire Department Sirens are from large and pickup Fire Trucks
Police Sirens are from a 2023 Chevy Tahoe Police SUV
Sounds are from one MS (mid side) handheld stereo mic and one XY stereo mic (in fixed
positions)
Sound Designers and Editors can use mid channel from MS if mono is needed.

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Traffic Sound Effects Undercover Police SUV – Ford Explorer Play Track 104 sounds included $149

Onboard perspective sounds are from 4 separate channels.
Cabin Stereo, Engine and Exhaust
External perspective sounds are from one MS (mid side) handheld stereo mic and one XY stereo
mic (in fixed positions).
Sound Designers and Editors can use mid channel from MS if mono is needed.

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City Life Sound Effects British Sirens Play Track 48 sounds included, 12 mins total $25

This library consists of sounds of authentic British sirens recorded during a 3 month period in London including while in Covid-19 lockdown. The sirens’ source vehicles include ambulances, police cars, and fire trucks. Recoding techniques include recording with a spaced pair of 2 DPA 4060’s in DPA BLM6000 Boundary Layer Mount with wind protection as well as following the source with Sennheiser 8060 shotgun when opportunity allowed. As a result, the library offers 48 sounds recorded in 24bit/96kHz format delivered in 64 files with a total runtime of approximately 12 minutes. The sound was edited in RX7 to remove the occasional sounds of birds.

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City Life Sound Effects Essential – New York City Play Track 54+ sounds included, 135 mins total $45

Top Selling Library!
Get the sounds of New York City, as captured by sound designer and recordist Rusty Dunn. The Essential New York City library includes recordings from locations like Manhattan, Coney Island, Brooklyn and more – and it packs recordings like ambiences from Times Square, Playgrounds, Central Park, the Subway, Sidewalks and streets around NYC and more. More than 2 hours of recordings are included.

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City Life Sound Effects Hospital Ambiences Play Track 35+ sounds included, 103 mins total From: $50

If you're after hospital sounds, here's a beautiful suite of surround sound hospital ambiences.

Access to hospitals can be tricky. Credentials are required, and different rules must be followed for every step one takes deeper into the building. It's not as simple as just grabbing a rig and walking in the front door.

Our hospital ambiences were recorded during one extensive day long shoot where we were granted access to one of the nation's top medical campuses. There are surprisingly few “hospital machines” making beeping noises at any given location within the building, which gives these sounds the flexibility to be used in any large institutional building.

Both public and non-public areas are covered, including:
– exterior traffic with a helicopter taking off
– large 3 story lobby area
– multiple nurse's stations
– the family waiting room
– the cafeteria
– the pathology lab
– an operating room prep

Each location was recorded in dual MS and decoded using the excellent Schoeps double MS decoding tool.

The end result is an immersive set of recordings that show off the reality of what a hospital really does sound like. Pick up a copy and cover your hospital scenes the right way.

Two versions are available:

Full version:
• 24 bit, 96kHz quadraphonic split wav files
• soundminer and bwav metadata tags
• photography
• 9 Gigabytes of sound
• 103 minutes of sound

Lite version:
• 24 bit, 48kHz stereo interleaved wav files
• soundminer and bwav metadata tags
• photography
• 3.6 Gigabytes of sound
• 103 minutes of sound

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City Life Sound Effects Hospitals Play Track 210 sounds included, 521 mins total $80

This library features atmospheres from all aspects of children’s, private and public hospitals. Locations include entrance halls, hallways, wards, wings, emergency departments, waiting rooms, receptions and nurse stations.

All sounds were recorded using DPA 4060’s and Sound Devices Mix-Pre 6.

Visit edible-audio.com for behind the scenes photos, contact information, sound library updates and exclusive deals.

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City Life Sound Effects Hospitals | CCC Play Track 200+ sounds included, 230 mins total $125

This sound library is part of the Complete Craig Carter Collection, containing a wide range of hospital recordings.

Recorded over Craig’s 34 year career as an esteem Australian sound designer, this library consists of entrance halls, hallways, wards, wings, emergency departments, waiting rooms, receptions and nurse stations from private and public hospitals.

Visit edible-audio.com for behind the scenes photos, contact information, sound library updates and exclusive deals.

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Vehicle Sound Effects Italian Sirens & Alarms Play Track 172+ sounds included, 61 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$32

A collection of ambulance, police and fire truck sirens, captured in Italy. Features both cars, fire trucks and motorcycles – and comes with doppler pass-bys, stationary, close, distant and in-car siren recordings. A bonus selection of car/house alarms is also included, for a total of 15 minutes of howling siren recordings!

Each sound file has been carefully named and tagged for easy search in Soundminer and is Universal Category System (UCS) compliant.
(see the full track list below).

Just updated:
An additional 98 alarms and siren recordings have been added to the library, bringing the total number of files to 172 (61 minutes).

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Car Sound Effects Police Play Track 60 sounds included $25

The Audio Hero Police collection features 60 professionally recorded sound effects, ready for use in your productions. Included in this library are police cars, sirens, handcuffs, batons, whistles, helicopters and much more! These sounds are all hand-picked from the Sound Ideas General HD, Emergency, Classic TV and Digiffects libraries.

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Human Sound Effects POLICE RADIO Communications UK Vintage Play Track 21 sounds included, 14 mins total $50

Police radio and general walkie talkie comms sounds.

This pack contains both ‘police radio’ and general radio communications sounds.

I have recorded the police chatter stereo ‘PR’ files using real walkie talkies rather than affecting with software in post. There are some specific scenarios such as a police chase but mainly these will be best as undefined background or incidental sounds in a video game, film, theatre or other project.
The Police sound files in this pack are all English and reflect the style of classic TV shows like Z Cars, The Sweeney, The Professionals and The Bill.

The Garbled Radio Communications mono ‘GRC’ files are vintage recordings and suitable for any radio communications sounds from CB Radio to Military, other emergency services or even sci-fi.
The music in the preview is merely intended as an audio watermark and is not available in the pack.

I have read through the NATO alphabet three times. One is a flat read one has an upward inflection at the end of each word and one down, good for concatenation.

Have fun, hope they can help bring your project to life!

Wavs and MP3 versions both in the pack.

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User Interface (UI) Sound Effects Shocking Signal Play Track 170+ sounds included $29

SampleTraxx is back with SHOCKING SIGNAL, a collection of big screen alarm, disturbed cinematic feedback, ping, distortion and re-amped production elements.

Shocking Signal is all about alerts, notifications, danger, disaster, emergency, panic red alerts, sirens, warnings, static, bad signals, blasts, broken circuits, electrics, glitches, neon, power and anything requiring sophisticated and extreme sound design.

Providing new and experimental sound materials generated using the most cutting-edge digital techniques, this collection is designed to suit the needs of people who want to add something unique to their production.

Dedicated to sound designers, experimental composers, cutting edge electronic music producers, busy post-production facilities, video editors, broadcast radio/TV stations.

Featuring 170+ sound effects with detailed Soundminer metadata in 96/24 HD resolution ready to be fired in your favorite DAW.

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City Life Sound Effects Siren Play Track 54+ sounds included $49

Sirens wail! Authentic police, fire brigade, and ambulance siren systems, captured and catalogued for media production use. The recordings were made at distances ranging from 1.5 to 5 meters. Each siren has several subtypes of sound. For all of life’s emergencies, within are the sounds that signal. Neumann U 87 microphones were used for the recordings.

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City Life Sound Effects Sirens Play Track 170 sounds included $25

This library delivers a wealth of siren sounds, from police cars, ambulances, fire trucks and more. Features a range of US siren wails and yelps, arrivals, constant wailing and pass-bys, from internal and external perspectives + siren recordings from countries such as Spain, Denmark, Mexico, France and Germany. These sounds are all hand-picked from Sound Ideas General HD and General HD 2 libraries.

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Car Sound Effects Sirens Volume 2 Play Track 100 sounds included $25

Sirens Volume 2 delivers a wealth of siren sounds, from police cars, ambulances, fire trucks and many emergency alarms. Features a range of US siren wails and yelps, arrivals, constant wailing and pass-bys, from internal and external perspectives + siren recordings from European countries. These sounds are all hand-picked from Sound Ideas General HD and General HD 2 libraries.

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Roomtones Sounds of the Modern Hospital Play Track 31 sounds included, 41 mins total
Rated 3.00 out of 5
$35

Get the sounds of a real, modern-day hospital – the equipment as well as various locations. These are recordings that are not easy to access and took a lot of negotiation to capture.

Features recordings of hospital equipment / instruments such as:

Anaesthetic Machine • Automated Instrument Rinse System • Beckman Coulter Access 2 Analyzer • CT Scanner • Cardiac Monitor • Coagulation Analyzer • Dialysis Machine • Dialysis Machine • Draeger Oxylog 3000 Plus • Full Blood Count Analyzer • Geiger Counter (Berthold LB 124) • Haemoglobin A1C Analyzer • Heater Fan • Helium Cooler For MRI Scanner • Infusion Pump (Alaris Plus) • Lee Silverman Voice Treatment • METI HPS Mannequin • METI Human Patient Simulator • METI Human Patient Simulator • MRI Scanner • Ophthalmology • Orthopantomograph OP 2000 • Phacoemulsifier • Pharmacy Label Printer • SimMan Essential Mannequin • Sysmex SP1000i Automated Slide Maker • Ultrasound Scanner • Wall Mounted Suction Unit

As well as location recordings from the Robotic Pharmacy, an AGV (Automatic Guided Vehicle), the Operating Theatre and the Automated Mailroom (OPEX Mail Matrix).

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World Sounds South African Sirens Play Track 44 sounds included $25

Introducing our “South African Sirens” sound effects library. Immerse yourself in the dynamic world of emergency response with this diverse collection that captures the essence of urgent action and safety.

Featuring a rich array of siren sounds from different vehicles, whether you’re hearing them from a distance or up close, in robust mono or detailed stereo formats, we’ve got you covered.

What makes this library truly unique? In South Africa the same three iconic siren sounds are utilised across ambulances, police cars, and fire trucks. This means you can creatively mix and match these sounds to convey urgency, authority, or emergency, bringing authenticity and drama to your productions.

Also available as part of the “South African Bundle” collection.

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Fire Sound Effects The Burning House Library Play Track 20 sounds included, 107 mins total $49

Recording of a wooden summer cottage burning down to the ground. Interior and exterior perspective.

Includes fire sound effects and burning sounds of an inferno, complete with crackling and sizzling sounds.

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City Life Sound Effects Traditional Siren Play Track 133 sounds included $45

This is the siren out of an old ambulance I used to drive. Recorded in the woods with lots of natural movement, location and reverb.

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Foley Sound Effects Wheels Play Track 250+ sounds included, 67 mins total $49.99

This library is all about wheels – and lots of them! Includes recordings of a selection of objects with wheels such as carts, transport stretchers, gurneys, rolling stands, shelves, IV stands, wooden tables, wheelchairs – and all the button clicks, slides, latches, and electronics that come with them.

All sounds were recorded in Mid/Side technique with mid on the left channel and side on the right. Recorded with Project Studio C4 mics, Sennheiser 416 Mics, Ambient Emesser, on a Fostex FR2 2 track recorder and mastered in Pro Tools.

The left side of the RAW files can be used as a MONO center effect and the encoded files as a stereo effect which has the width of an XY configuration and can be panned center for a mono compatible mix.

rMS = Raw Mid/side
MS = Decoded Mid/Side

Recorded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Steven Ejbick and Ryan Macneill of Textures Sound

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Supervising sound editor,
The Hateful Eight, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill: Vol. 1

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Re-recording Mixer, Walt Disney Animation Studios:
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