Get wild sound deals in the huge sale here
Buy 3 packs or more = get new SoundBits pack included free
Home Sound Effects
The first in a series of Game & UI Interface sound effects brings you unique button clicks, hits, movements and special sounds perfect for apps, games or animations. All sounds have been meta tagged so they'll be easily searchable in Soundminer, ready to use.
This library consists of 380 different sound effects ranging from footstep to metals gliding through snow! With each surface, there are a variety of different footsteps, impacts, jumps, metal foley and more.
You can also hear the sound of banjos, jingle bells and more sizzling on dry ice! (The banjo sounds great, trust me.)
Types of snow/ice surfaces:
Glistening bursts of ear candy from Async Audio. Ideal for UI sounds, item sounds, or to add some sparkle to your next project.
Click for email support: Contact us anytime for custom sound effects, edits, or to let us know what type of pack we should make next.
Zombie Specimens contains a wide variety of zombie growls, groans and vocalisations straight from the zombie testing lab. We captured and designed voices from multiple actors to bring you these effects all in 24Bit 96kHz, allowing for further manipulation.
All vocalisations are provided without reverb, so that you can drop them straight into your mix and add your own spatial effects. Perfect for use in Film, TV, Game and horror productions.
Here are the included zombies:
Zombie Specimen CZ003: This zombie was partially decapitated in an attempt to stop the virus from spreading. Expect throaty growls with lots of character.
Zombie Specimen RK576: A more typical zombie, that was an average-sized test subject who escaped from the lab.
Zombie Specimen TX009: An aggressive zombie who often has a breathy and dynamic sound.
Zombie Specimen UT405: A heavier zombie who couldn’t escape in time before the virus spread.
Zombie Specimen WQ349: An aging zombie scientist who got locked in the lab during the outbreak, he sounds tired and weak.
Zombie Specimen YP555: One of the first infected zombies, YP555 has the highest dose of the virus, and sounds crazy and sporadic.
Medieval Battle contains a wide variety of sounds taken straight from the battlefield. Unleash the full force of your army with effects from a diverse range of medieval weaponry, crowds, horses and battle charges. There are also battle cries, screams and shouts to make the audience feel like they are right there on the frontlines. To bring you the most organic and natural battle sounds, we recorded actors performing in a quiet exterior location. All sounds were recorded in 24Bit 96kHz, allowing for further sonic manipulation.
If you think your sound collection is in need of some reinforcements then this is the library for you! Medieval Battle is ideal for use in Film, TV and Game projects, and will make a perfect addition to your sound design arsenal.
Here are the included folders:
Crowds: Crowd rushes and static battle cries in a natural exterior location make these effects perfect for building the bed of a huge Medieval warzone.
Female Voices: 4 individual female actors perform multiple vocalisations including screams, grunts and efforts.
Sword & Shield Hits: A variety of sword and shield hits performed by weapons and combat experts.
Male Voices: 4 individual male actors perform multiple vocalisations including screams, grunts and efforts.
Build the world of your story with award-winning quality sound curated from the private library of two Academy Award®-winning sound artists.
Establish the setting of any scene with the go-to recordings of The Odyssey Collection: Ambiences. Cover your needs for locations both everyday and exotic – from aircraft carriers to the Serengeti, nuclear power plants, brisk Canadian mountain air, Mexican bar walla, a Czechoslovakian office, record pressing factories, Malaysian forests, big cities, small towns and everywhere in-between.
Developed in exclusive collaboration with Academy Award®-winners Mark Mangini & Richard L. Anderson, Odyssey Ambiences delivers vibrant, diverse, high-quality recordings from around the globe – so you can focus on staying creative and delivering your best sound.
“Because Richard and I were so religious about fresh recordings, it was quite common for us to have a recorder with us everywhere we went. This allowed us to develop a rich, varied and international scope to our Ambience library without having to actually find money to fund every recording.”
– Mark Mangini (Blade Runner 2049, Mad Max: Fury Road)
Explore sounds from Odyssey Ambiences
Sound artists need a deep collection of ambiences to cover the location of any scene. Each recording in this library was captured with a dedication to gathering diverse, high-quality sounds from around the world – so you’re covered for every environment. Listen to a small sample from a variety of categories.
Optimized metadata for quicker searches and better results.
You need to actualize your creative vision in an instant. That’s why the PSE Editorial Team team has invested over 20,000 hours of library development work – eyes, ears, hands, imaginations – editing and cataloging each audio file in The Odyssey Collection. The result is a reliable wealth of professional sound effects to boost your projects – each with meticulous, rich descriptions optimized to our metadata standard for lightning-fast, pinpoint search results.
All Aboard!
Commercial Aircraft Interior contains a distinct collection of ambient recordings taken onboard commercial aircraft flights over the North Atlantic.
Our Audio Craftsman captured the various stages of an aircraft journey including general onboard ambiences, the plane idling on the runway, take off & landing and some sounds taken from the baggage claim and check-in sections of the airport.
There are also wallas in various languages and the sounds of passengers shuffling in their seats and putting on their seatbelts. We captured recordings from two different plane journeys to get a variety of sounds. This library includes over 50 minutes of audio content, giving you all the ingredients you need to design compelling aircraft and airport soundscapes.
All audio files have been carefully edited so that you can simply drop them into your project timeline and are provided dry in 24Bit 96kHz allowing for further sonic manipulation if required. All files are tagged with extensive metadata and are UCS compliant.
40 recordings from a VW Passat B5 3B.
Different sound effects like the turn signal, windshield wipers, doors opening and closing, handling with the seat belts or the steering wheel and much more.
Also foley movements on the car seats and seven interior driving ambiences (including start, stop and idle) recorded in NOS Stereo.
Geophonic Instruments Vol. 2 is our latest entry in the popular Geophonic line of sound effects libraries.
This library contains an assortment of interesting and unique sounds, which have been designed from raw recordings captured with the Lom Geofon. Our audio craftsman made use of a hand drum and violin for this library, recording a range of content including Hits, bangs, booms, scrapes, bowings and abstract sounds.
These sounds include super low frequencies, going down as low as 10Hz allowing you bring some intense low frequency energy into your projects
Geophonic Instruments Vol. 2 is perfect for sci-fi, horror and mystery projects, and will also lend itself well to Film, TV and Game productions across a variety of genres.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 192kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Explore the deep blue and inspire a sense of wonder with the Water Movements Bundle: an ultimate collection of aquatic sound effects perfect for custom underwater designs.
Our Audio Craftsmen utilised an array of props and physical motions – captured by the legendary MKH50 Super Cardioid microphone and Aquarian H2a Hydrophone – to produce a huge range of resonant, realistic water-based sounds.
Build high-quality, immersive soundscapes by implementing your choice of sploshes, splashes, plunges, bubbling, passes, rinses, submersions, swilling, swirling, draining, surface slaps and more!
Each sound has been carefully captured and meticulously edited for maximum sonic quality, enabling to you drop each sample into your projects with no need for further enhancement or modification.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 192kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata.
East Coast America Contains a variety of recordings from rural and suburban settings in locations such as Florida and Connecticut.
Immerse yourself in the sun kissed beaches as waves wash on the shore. Walk through bustling markets and streets. Take a ride on a busy ferry, and listen to the calming country ambiences of crickets and gentle winds.
This diverse collection of ambiences and spot effects can be used for a range of exterior settings. Ideal for building up backgrounds for your scenes, or further manipulation to create your own bespoke atmospheres.
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.
Interior Vibrations Bundle contains three volumes of sonic exploration, representing the most interesting and eccentric manipulations of vibration based sound design.
It offers a huge selection of experimental sounds, sourced from electric drills, metals, instrument and much, much more.
This bundle’s versatility makes it ideal for a variety of moods, genres and projects. With it, you can build tension in scenes, design creature voices, strange, discomforting ambiences or even accentuate other sources of sound.
Explore an eclectic collection of performances captured faithfully in our acoustically treated studios.
Each library is delivered at 24Bit 192kHz. The entire bundle is tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.
Flesh, Bones & Gore Vol. 3 is the third in our series of unsettling gore sound effects. This collection focuses on the slurps and growls of a creature eating flesh. General bone cracks and flesh rips have also been included to induce maximum cringe in your audiences.
Our Audio Craftsmen channelled their inner monster while tearing into various fruit and vegetables. The result is a grotesque collection of sounds ideal for unsettling viewers and users in your horror Game, TV & Film productions.
All sounds have been kept raw and are delivered in 24Bit 192kHz format, so you can drop them as-is into your timeline, or design your own monstrous creations. This library has also been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
The library contains four folders:
Bone Cracks: Heavy crunches and cracks.
Creature Slurps: Munches, slurps and chews of a creature digging into its prey.
Guts & Blood: Wet crushing of flesh, guts and bones.
Ripping Flesh: Brutal tearing and sawing of flesh.
The Foley Vault is home to an ever-growing collection of original Foley recordings.
Each library was captured by professional Foley Artists on our in-house Foley Stage using a Sennheiser MKH50 microphone.
These sounds were originally performed for a variety of feature and short film projects. They have now been compiled and released for you to edit and implement into your own film, game and television productions.
Essential Sound New York & Subway Bundle
This bundle includes both the top selling New York City libraries: Essential New York City, and Essential New York City – Street and Subway.
These two libraries combined give you access to the rich urban intercity, under-city and rural ambiences that keep making New York sound unique. Sirens, skyline drones, and the beating heart of NYC are all covered in this bundle.
Included sounds are: wet and dry close and distant perspective traffics, skyline dins, subway interiors, bys, through walls, etc. Pedestrians on busy sidewalks, quiet side streets, and dozens of other locations and situations.
All tracks have been meticulously recorded and mastered with Sony D10-D50 and similar field recorders and Pro Tools.
All recordings have full metadata created in Soundminer.
24bit/48Khz
The Metal Scrap library was recorded at a scrapyard where they do nothing but shredding, cutting, breaking and moving metal of all sorts, all day long.
• Large metallic objects and metal debris being drooped by huge cranes, into and onto various surfaces.
• The end of the Conveyer belt, where the smaller pieces of metal junk fall onto a bigger pile af junk.
• Lots of metallic destruction and impacts, huge and small.
A collection of interior and exterior ambience recordings made in New York, spanning streets and museums, subways and the Staten Island Ferry. Over three hours of urban ambiences recorded using a stereo pair of DPA 4060 omni mics.
The library contains different perspectives of the city including crowded and empty subway trains, distinctively dynamic New York traffic and the quiet and loud sides of New York’s museums. The library will help you build exciting and bold backgrounds for any project, whether it be film, TV, radio or games.
The recordings capture the full dynamic range of the city and the characteristic acoustic signature that it imparts to sounds, as well as containing a lot of low end power and mid to high range detail.
The Rustle is a sound effects library with recordings of grass, leaves, scrubs, branches, rods, twigs & trees rustling in the wind.
It gets you a versatile collection of high-quality recordings of natural sounding ambience and foley sweeteners – and includes sounds from sources such as small leaves, large leaves, grass rustling, scrubs, small and large hedge leaves, bamboo leaves, thick leaves, dangling bamboo rods, bamboo fields, maple tree branches, dry field grass, trees – and more!
Get the sounds of a motorboat, with a Tohatsu 3.5 hp 4-Stroke engine mounted. It features sounds such as starting, neutral and forward speeds, false starts, engine offs, constant forward speed, and more. More than 18 minutes of motorboat sounds are included.
The Drip delivers a comprehensive set of dripping sound effects that could be used in movies, video games etc. with both ambience sounds for backgrounds, and single sounds for spotting individual drops on various surfaces.
A variety of microphones were used to capture the different sounds in this collection: Telinga Microphones for a real zoom perspective, Mkh8040+30 for ambiences, a Mkh416 & Emesser mic for certain sfx sounds, and a set of Mkh 8020 for the real quiet sound effects sources.
Do you want to add some tension with thunder sound effects? Are you looking for immersive rain? Do you need perfect loops of rain in your game?
'Rain and Thunder' is a collection of high-quality sounds recorded over a timespan of several years at different locations with a Mid-Side and XY rig. This sound pack contains variations of rain: soft, hard, under metal, under plastic, on top of plastic, and with and without thunder rumble.
This pack is guaranteed to immerse the listener with the pattering drips of water and the roaring thunder!
All sounds included are tagged with metadata (keywords and description) for use in Soundminer/Basehead, etc.
This sound library is entirely based on the Victor adding machine, made in the 1920s. This machine was purely mechanical and non-electric. In this sound library you'll get individual recordings of the machine's hand crank, printer, paper, and button/keys tracks as well as six complete recordings of the adding machine in full action. The library also contains five different mic positions with two different mic techniques used.
Get the voices of Italy in this library, covering Italians in the streets, at concerts, amusement parks, schools, markets, at home and more – it even covers chanting at a gladiator fight at the Colosseum. Features men, women and children – solo and in crowds of various sizes.
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).
With A Sound Effect, Asbjoern has created a web site where our international community can browse, learn, and share the vast fruits of our labors. Together we are accelerating the very real potential power of sound design as a recognized art form.
A Sound Effect is an excellent resource for us to keep our animated films sounding unique and exciting.
A Sound Effect is a great asset to have discovered.
We found the site very easy to navigate, purchasing and downloads were effortless and the effects themselves are awesome! Asbjoern has done us all a great service.
We’ll definitely be back!
There are many great independent sound effect libraries available these days. The main problem with having so many, is keeping track of them!
A Sound Effect is a great hub, and is one of the first places I visit to look for sounds by category or genre. I started coming here to see if I could find libraries that I knew I had heard, but forgot WHERE I had heard them.
And in the process discovered libraries I never would have found otherwise. Great work! Keep it up!
We're always looking for new sounds to mangle, so when A Sound Effect had a holiday sale, I tried them out.
The purchase experience is really smooth and quick, and delivery is almost instant.
I'll definitely come back to them again in the future!
A Sound Effect is a wonderful resource for indie sound effects libraries. On top of that, it has some of the finest sound design, film and game audio interviews!
I often need very specific types of sounds so I've become a big supporter of independent recorders.
Until now I've always had to go to their individual websites. Now I can find them all in one place.
And, Asbjoern is great to work with!
A Sound Effect is a well curated boutique sound effects shop and a great place to find industry interviews and learning resources.