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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.
Capture the moment with Analog and Digital Cameras Ultimate Bundle! Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Analog and Digital Cameras Ultimate SFX Bundle
Analog and Digital Cameras Ultimate Bundle gives you access to 1.000+ communication, digital, mechanical and equipment sound effects that you need for your related projects and room for further sound design with the flexible texture of the sounds for customization.
This is a unique bundle that has sounds of Minolta XG9, Lubitel 2, Horizon 202, Mamiya 645J, and many more camera sounds in 500 sound files in 24bit/192 KHz Wav format with easy to navigate naming. It is a thoroughly researched collection of very high-resolution sound effects, recorded over a 4 month period, in collaboration with professional photographers specialized in both vintage and modern cameras.
36 wonderful cameras and accessories were meticulously recorded with a very low noise floor, resulting in 1000+ pristine sounds of camera, shutter and related sound effects. There are recordings of different shutter speeds, shutter release lever, attaching and detaching lenses, battery chamber, flashlights charging and loading sounds, camera click button, diaphragm ring and more! We paid attention to include different speeds and variations of each action.
36 Cameras and Their Accessories Inside
Nikon SB900, Godox, Nikon Speedlight, Rhymelight, Sigma 35 mm, Sony A7M3, Canon 6D Mark II, Canon A1, Canon AE1 Program, Canon EOS 5d Mark IV, Diana F+, FisherPrice Toy Camera, Fujifilm Instant Camera, Fujifilm X-Pro 2, Horizon 202, Kodak EK 160-EF, Lubitel 2, Mamiya 645J, Minolta Hi-Matic G, Minolta XD11, Minolta XG9, Nikon F4, Nikon F75, Nikon L35AF, Olympus Stylus, Olympus Zoom Dix, Pentax PC55, Pocket Camera C-T1, Snap Sights Underwater Camera, Sony A6500, Sony A7 M3, Sony DCR HC 96, Vivitar EZ250, Yashica Mini, Zenit 122, Zenit E, Zorki 4K.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Mechanicals SFX Pack for access to 600+ mechanics, tools, Foley and equipment sound effects.
The doors are very kind, but don’t make them angry. They could lose their temper resulting in a very noisy bang.
This library enriches the sfx world with new door and gate objects, both source and designed, with variety of expressive actions and perspectives. The everyday usual noises along with fantasy stimulating sounds – e.g. deep “dungeon” metal door, high pitch squeaking wire-netting gate, heavy church gate and so on. To make the slams and smashes even more hard, heavy and dirty, wildly designed “Angry” versions have been added.
Library highlight:
• 18 door and gate objects, recorded in old, gloomy houses and a church
• 6.29 GB, 645 files, several takes for each action
• “Close-Up”, “Near”, “Middle” and “Behind” perspectives in selected cases, plus mix of them
• 192khz/24 bit including ultrasonic information- the greatest resolution for next design processes
• Sound Devices MixPre6, Sanken CO100K, Sennheiser MKH30, DPA 4007, DPA 4060, Schertler Dyn Uni P48
• Photo reference for each object
Clunky mechanical sounds from a collection of antique cash registers from the early 1900s + a bonus Kontakt MIDI instrument.
Perfect source material for designing all sorts of odd mechanical machinery, steam punk inventions, UI sounds for points and money, or just actual cash registers in shopping scenes. ~420 sounds in 285 files.
For creating this library we had to track down old cash registers in Denmark. We recorded them all with several high quality microphones from multiple perspectives – even with a lavalier microphone hidden inside the machine for super dry mechanical sounds and contact microphone attached to the back for beefy low end that can be mixed in to make your sounds feel heavier. We even added punchy ready-to-use detailed mixes of all the microphones.
We experimented to explore all the sonic gems hiding in the machines. You’ll find sounds like the classic “money earned sound” from turning the clicking cranks and bell ring as the drawer opens, chunky mechanical sounds from pulling the levers and foley sounds from touching and handling the cash registers.
The library has been tagged with extensive metadata and has been tested in Soundminer, Basehead, Soundly and Pro Sound Effects’ Search to make it easy to find the sounds you are looking for.
The library comes with a Kontakt instrument (requires full version of Kontakt 6) with several round robins and multiple microphone positions that be used to add mechanical rhythms to your music, or easily sync the sounds to pictures with MIDI notes.
The Antique Cash Registers library includes:
– Chunky rolling lever pulls in various durations
– The classic Ka-ching! sound from from turning the crank
– Performed continous mechanical sounds, perfect for machinery or creatures
– Opening and closing the wooden drawers – with and without money
– Foley and impacts from handling the registers
– Clicky mechaincal sounds from turning the cranks and smaller knobs inside the registers
– Several microphones from different perspectives as well as a punchy ready-to-use detailed mixes of all the microphones
– A Kontakt Instruments with several round robins and multiple microphone positions that be used to add mechanical rhythms to your music, or easily sync the sounds to pictures with MIDI notes
We asked Katrine Amsler (Wolfenstein 2, Control) to play around with the library, and she came up with this beautiful haunting piece:
This new library gets you a huge collection of all kinds of Buttons, Switches, Knobs, Levers, Sliders – that were pushed hard (and soft).
From small buttons, small mechanics to big levers of different materials.
Perfectly cleaned and edited for direct use.
Whenever there is something to be pushed, pressed, released, hit, clicked, pulled – you’ll find the sounds to go with it here.
All sounds are delivered as BWF tagged, 24Bit / 96kHz wav-files
Car Foley Bundle contains all three volumes of our Car Foley libraries. It includes an extensive selection of tactile sounds captured in a 2014 Kia Picanto.
Over 300 vehicle interior interactions have been recorded and meticulously edited by our Audio Craftsmen to afford a wide range of performances – from contact with buttons, switches, dials and knobs, to door slams, car seat creaks, seat belt clip-ins and -outs, steering wheel handling, gear stick movements, pedal presses and much more!
This sweetening library can be applied to any vehicle-based scenes in Film, TV and Game projects that require a sense of touch.
The entire bundle is delivered at 24Bit 96kHz and tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.
Car Foley Vol. 2 is the second instalment in a series of foley-esque vehicle sound effect libraries. Features a variety of door slam, car seat creaks, seat belt clips and more! You can combine these sound effects with our Car Foley Vol. 1 to sweeten the tactile scenes in any Film, TV or Game project.
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.
A wide variety of DIY sound effects! Both Hand and Power Tools
Perfect for scenes with people doing DIY, or to blend into other designed sounds (For example… Space Ship Engines!)
Types of sounds included
Power tools – electric screwdriver, drilling into various materials, jig saw, circular saw, blow torch, hot air gun, hole saw and others
Hand tools – various saw types, hammering, ratchet spanner, chopping wood, using tape and others
Plenty to work with, and all recorded in a quiet environment to get as clean a recording as possible.
Recorded in 24 / 192Khz to make it easy to edit and manipulate to your need! UCS Compliant
THE DOOR SHUTS ON THIS COLLECTION
Every sound a door can make is included in this collection, from openings and closings to slams, creaks, and rumblings. Including wooden and metal doors, gates, cupboards, refrigerators, sliding doors, electric doors, lift doors, and more.
ANTIQUE, AUTOMATIC, BARREL LOCK, BIT KEY, BUMP KEY, CARGO ELEVATOR, CHAIN, CLOSE, CLOSET, COMMODE, CREAK, DISHWASHER, DOOR CLOSER, ELECTRIC, FOLEY, FREEZER, FRIDGE, GARAGE, GATE, HANDLE, HINGE, HOPPER WINDOW, HYDRAULICS, INDUSTRIAL DOOR, LATCH, LEAVE AJAR, LEVER, LOCKER, MECHANICS, MECHANISM, METAL, METAL GRID, MICROWAVE, MODERN, OLD, OPEN, OVEN, PASSENGER ELEVATOR, PUNCHCARD, RATTLE, ROOM DOOR, SECURITY DOOR, SHUT, SHUTTER, SLAM, SLIDE DOOR, SLIDING BOLT, SQUEAK, SWING DOOR, TURNING KNOB, VEHICLE, WINDOW, WINGED DOOR, WOOD, WOOD SLAT
166 high-quality typewriter sound effects. All sounds were recorded at 32 bit 192kHz and rendered as 24 bit 192kHz, making them perfect for any further sound processing.
Library includes:
Individual strikes
Burst strikes
Special keys (Spacebar, Shift)
Bells
Mechanical (Carriage Returns, Switches, Levers, Rollers)
Download includes:
192KHZ 24BIT version
RECORDED WITH: Sennheiser MKH 8040, Sound Devices MixPre 3 MK2
EDITED AND MASTERED WITH: Pro Tools, Brusfri
Give a unique character to every door with these fresh doors. Make an entrance with your projects with Everyday Doors. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Everyday Doors
This go-to SFX Pack has got hundreds of organic door sounds that a busy sound designer frequently needs in their projects. These are doors at their most expressive!
It gives you access to 752 sounds of doors, gates, and their furnishings with their distinctive character, ranging from domestic wooden doors to palaces, pubs, studios and garden gates to stone houses and antique wardrobes and closets. These meticulously recorded natural sounds have clarity and lots of room for further usage and sound design with the flexible texture of the sounds for further manipulation.
This is a fresh and unique pack that combines many practical themes in one collection. You will get a big and immersive selection of gardens, palaces, houses, apartments, domestic rooms, studios, pubs, bars, and more, in interior and exterior, with close, medium and distant perspectives and behind the doors. 268 fresh and pristine sound files – in stereo 24bit/96 KHz Wav format with detailed, easy to navigate naming and UCS compliance.
You will have opening and closing of doors in various speeds, reverberation and impact, chain, latch, door lid, hinge and handle sounds, knocks on doors with nails, fist, keys and palm, locking & unlocking clicks, turning keys, slide locks, door knobs and wonderful creaks, slamming, pounding, rattle, squeak, thuds and sliding doors in many forms with multiple variations. There’s a suitable sound for every scene; in different speed, intensity, size and material of the door (large, medium, wooden, solid, thick, thin, with or without glass, oak, alder, hollow, metal, plastic, PVC, glass and more). Level of action reflects quiet or regular, fast, soft, or hard, rhythmic, or hesitant and tense and even creepy at times!
You will have wonderful timbres of solid doors with the minimum noise level. These everyday doors are perfect for Foley, game, film, tv, videos as well as music and advertisement. You will easily notice our favorites; some antique door sounds that are perfect for fantasy and medieval games.
There are also some bonus window and door bell sounds inside. All 752 sounds were recorded organically and no designed sounds are included.
Tell us if you enjoy them as much as we did whilst recording!
Recorded with our favorite Sennheiser MKH 8040 and DPA 4060 stereo pair mics, in ORTF and AB.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our new bestselling Room Tones and Ambiences for access to 3 hours of room tones and quiet or low activity ambiences, ranging from loud industrial spaces to quiet domestic rooms.
Get the sounds of switches, buttons, knobs and handles – recorded inside an old, retired flight simulator donated to the Danish Technical Museum.
This machine used to make aspiring pilots sweat in their seats, putting them through all sorts of mechanical failures, emergency landings, and just plain flying.
There is basically a switch, button, knob or handle to start every single possible emergency situation a pilot and crew may encounter when flying.
When the sound recording started, some of them were partly broken, and others missing, some did not turn or switch, but most of them were still there and worked beautifully. The variety is surprisingly great, and very different from today's modern switch sounds.
91 tracks, recorded with a Sennheiser 416 onto a Sounddevices 702, all tracks Metadata tagged.
The 1966 Ford Mustang SFX Library contains a variety of recordings of the 1966 Ford Mustang GT vintage car. This 1966 Ford Mustang GT model sports a v8 engine (225 hp, 168 kW, 228 PS “289”), grille-mounted fog lamps, disc brakes, reverse lights, and a hard top. The 1966 GT interior boasts an instrument panel that includes a speedometer, fuel gauge, temp. gauge, oil pressure gauge and ampmeter in five round dials.
The recordings in this library include accelerating, decelerating, driving steadies, idling, pass-bys of various speeds, pull aways, pull in and stops, revs, doors, ignition, levers, switches, windows, and more.
All files are fully mixed and edited. Multiple microphone models and placements were used for each 96kHz high sample rate take. The best source files were then mixed together to create full-frequency and balanced-timbre sound effect files ready for immediate use in your sound effects library.
Microphones and placements:
Gizmo is a mechanism library for designing mechanical actions in machinery without the engines. This library covers the gambit of steam, ronks, clicks, clanks, clunks, servos and all sorts of mechanical actions from various props.
Unlike most libraries, this one was recorded at 192 with a stereo pair of Sanken CO100k microphones for extreme lossless pitching, so you can take something small like a typewriter, and make it sound like a massive printing machine.
The second advanced series of experimental fantasy machinery is here with the release of GIZMOS AND GADGETS. Perfect in games, film, or television. Great sounding smaller machinery, gizmos, gadgets, steam releases, foley, and more. This package of sounds also has massive potential for creating your very own fantasy machines! Gizmos and Gadgets features more than 200+ sounds and pristine 24bit/96khz .WAV files.
Huge Hidden Passages takes you from the depths of the jungle, to the entrance of a temple, and behind the thick walls of a castle to discover a buried pyramid – and beyond. Some of passages will be hidden to your eyes, but we offer you the sonic keys of those closed passages. The library is the final installment in the World Of Secrets series.
Available in two versions, and a bundle:
Specs: 187 .WAV files, 1.07 GB
Recorded with: 744T + EAA Micromix • Schoeps MS Couple • KM 82i Neuman • 2 KM 184 Neuman • DPA 4060 • Barcus berry contact mic
An incredible toolbox, issued from a year of recording and sound design. Versatile, dense, pitchable.
Specs: 1540 .WAV files, 10.43 GB
Recorded with: 744T + EAA Micromix • Schoeps MS Couple • KM 82i Neuman • 2 KM 184 Neuman • Sennheiser MD 441 • DPA 4060 • Barcus berry contact mic
Specs: 1727 .WAV files, 11.05 GB
Recorded with: 744T + EAA Micromix • Schoeps MS Couple • KM 82i Neuman • 2 KM 184 Neuman • DPA 4060 • Sennheiser MD 441 • Barcus berry contact mic
All packs contain stereo & mono, 192 / 96 kHz, 24 bit files.
This sound effects library of latches, locks, switches, clips, slides, clasps, gears, bolts, and ratchets is a mechanical sonic powerhouse, offering the functional and mechanical sounds of a plethora of quirky contraptions that latch or lock together in some manner or another. Embellish a simple hand tool or build utterly complex mechanizations.
Some source materials were discovered in old railway yards, others were random findings in an antique mall, while others still were dislodged components of even larger, more complex machines. Like little sonic building blocks, the sounds herein are primarily reduced to their smallest meaningful components, giving you the quick, accessible freedom to drop/move/stack them for fast production. As with many of our libraries, we focused on providing sets of similar sounds so that you can create sequences and randomized groups for an event on the fly without having to commit extra editing time.
We’ve also included 26 of our own designs to get your creative machine turning!
Need rich, mechanical sound effects? You should definitely check this one out then: We got our hands on two functioning vintage Letterpresses: The motorized “Original Heidelberger Tiegel” (built in 1969 by Heidelberg Schnellpressen AG) and the pedal-driven “Boston Pedal Tiegel” (built in 1901 by Emil Kahle Maschinenfabrik).
We captured these two unique printing machines in 192 kHz stereo from different angles using a range of microphones (Sennheiser MKH 8040 ORTF, Neumann TLM 103 ORTF, Barcus Berry Stereo Contact Mic). The 15 recordings are on average 4 minutes long each and include idle, run, stop and different running speeds.
Capture that mechanical feeling and find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Mechanicals
Mechanicals Sound Effects Pack has 600+ sound effects of, bike mechanics, typewriter sound effects, analog camera sounds, clock engines, guns, printer sound effects, lighter sound effects and many more mechanical sounds of different objects and tools. You will have access to mechanics sounds, tools sound effects, Foley sound effects, and equipment sound effects that you may need for all your projects. Plus, you get the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!
The sounds are organic and raw and have room for further sound manipulation with the flexible texture of the sounds, including rich Foley.
Keywords including Actions, Parts, Equipment and StyleMechanicals, wrench, crunch, turn, adjustable, fix, knob, film, camera, sew, machine, handle, timer, button, bicycle, wheel, impact, iron, stick, bell, brake, hold, release, hand, switch, click, gear, crackle, pedal, trigger, engine, work, flash-light, boat, bike, air, gas, chain, needle, clock, tire, car, fire, container, lid, tick tock, box, drill, gun, tuft, rug, electric, grinder, trimmer, Kamenzer, lathe, lever, tape, measure, band, slide, metal, cash box, lock, unlock, open, close, harsh, texture, meter, measurement, scale, mouse, movement, music-box, printer, pipe, household, latch, scissors, toy, spin, dryer, telephone, dial, robot, typewriter, body, ruler, repeat, vacuum, cleaner, ventilator, scale, weight, walnut-cracker, zipper.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Crafting and Survival SFX Pack for access to 1000+ survival, gathering, movement and crafting sounds. You will get 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.
Get the sounds of mechanisms, Steampunk inspired gears, contraptions, metal and servos with the Mechanism sound effects library.
Mechanism was created in collaboration with Sweet Justice Sound, Richard Devine, and SoundMorph, and we put great effort into ensuring the quality and usefulness of this unique collection. Half designed and half source recordings, Mechanism gives you a toolbox to be inspired by.
It features more than 300 files – and right now you get a bonus 400 best-of-sounds from our Robotic Lifeforms library, for a total of 2.8GB of 24bit/96khz .WAV files.
• Mechanical Gears
• Designed contraptions
• Steampunk rusty doors and levers
• Source recorded by Richard Devine
• All meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata
+ 400 “best of” sounds from our Robotic Lifeforms library
Metal elements is a metal, iron, steel bonanza of hits, impacts, slams as well as mechanical sounds, levers, clicks, drops and drags. This library is especially suited for anyone looking to design sounds that are metallic in nature. The sounds contained in this library will also work fantastic as foley pieces to spice up fights, robot movement, crashes or any action scene for that matter.
Some of the sounds found in the library make use of a contact microphone to add to the lower end frequency that would simply not translate using just a shotgun microphone.
Polarity delivers more than 950 sounds of electricity, science and technology – captured in several locations around the world, from electricity museums to science labs. About 50% of the library is all about electricity, with various types of Jacob’s Ladders, Tesla Coils, Ruhmkorff lamp and all sorts of impactful bursts of energy.
Then we go through welders, plasma spheres, 3D printers, starting to cover a more broad technology theme – like old phones, telegraphs, dynamo wheels, rotary dials, whirling watchers, alarm, lab centrifuges, something scientists call a roller and a rocker, servo sounds, neon lights, a wimshurst machine and sparklers.
Many sounds in this section were captured from vintage equipment, from a 1928’s tram to old telephone switchboards, high voltage levers and control surfaces.
All content was recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K, a couple of Sennheiser 8040 and a Neumann 81i, translating into final assets that have plenty of ultrasonic content, ready for the most extreme manipulation.
Here is a simple sound library that can prove to be useful.
These are close perspective recordings of small click button of the real world (or some would say “analog” in differentiation from the digital world)
Only small machines button, switch, press,… see file list for details.
These sounds are well edited and ready to be used.
1254 files • 96 KHz/ 24 – 32 Bit • 8.7Go
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