Drones & Mood Sound Effects

Atmospheric drones and ambiences – light and dark, beautiful and eerie, lively and serene

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Water & Ocean Sounds Dive Deep 2 Play Track 53 sounds included, 106 mins total $56
Dive down in the dark abyss and experience the cold otherworlds with sharp currents and muddy bottom…

Following the legacy of Dive Deep 1 from 2016, here comes Dive Deep 2 with a new generation of underwater ambiences. The sounds of rushing, bubbling currents have been created with more impressive details, clarity and definition. And there are other design styles at your disposal too, such as flat pads, grainy trickling, otherworldly drones or deep kicking moves.
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53 designed underwater ambiences, 2 minutes each

top-notch gear used, including Ambient Sound Fish 1 MKII and Aquarian H2A hydrophones, Sanken CO100K, Sound Devices Pre6 and Zoom F8

edited in Pro Tools Ultimate with industry-leading plugins

meta tagged in BWF MetaEdit

each track has the full tagline information in its filename
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Bundles The Complete Collection Play Track 1582+ sounds included, 521 mins total $70
The Complete Collection contains 1582+ sound effects from every sound library that we have released so far. It features Sci-Fi, Fire, Ice, Mecha, Rocks, and Plastic sound effects and field recordings, including ambiences, drones, textures, swooshes / wooshes, impacts, glitches, sequences, and more. Royalty-free.

Included libraries:
- Designed Sci-Fi – 546 files / 3.06 GB
- Designed Fire – 255 files / 1.17 GB
- Designed Circuits – 272 files / 1.58 GB
- Designed Mecha – 47 files / 190 MB
- Designed Ice – 47 files / 236 MB
- Designed Rocks – 60 files / 309 MB
- Designed Plastic – 146 files / 490 MB
- Designed Atmospheres – 82 files / 4.47 GB
- Designed Glitch Scenes – I – 30 files / 745 MB
- Designed Statics – 53 files / 1.07 GB
- City Ambiences: Berlin – 44 files / 5.9 GB
- 9+ Hours in total
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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Cloud Piano Play Track 20 sounds included, 20 mins total $10

This small, highly focused sound library features drones and textures created solely with sounds from a 1950’s Cable upright piano.

These sound effects range from low, dark, and pulsating, to high and shimmering and could easily work in sci-fi, suspense, thrillers, or fantasy. While they can sound otherworldly, the sounds are actually quite organic. The sounds were made with looped and layered tone clusters and ambience recorded inside the piano – no granularization, synthesis, or additional processing like reverb were employed.

They can be used alone or mixed with other sounds to great effect.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Abandoned Oil Tank Play Track 327 sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$50

On a recording trip to the smaller Danish port town Struer, I came across an abandoned empty oil tank. Inside I found two giant wires attached to the floor and the ceiling of the tank, almost like a huge 2 stringed double bass. I’m telling you the reverb in there was longer than the Eiffel Tower on a cloudless day !

On the outside this was just an empty abandoned building, but it turned out it was not empty at all because it was full of sound and a few dead birds. I’m glad I was curious enough to go inside for a closer investigation and not just pass by.

After several hours of concentrated recording, it was nice to get my ears back out in dry air. I’m happy there are no open sends to Valhalla in real life but experiencing the eternal resonance on the low frequencies from the wires was absolutely amazing.

Abandoned Oil Tank was recorded with a LOM basic Ucho stereo pair, a Zoom H6 and the LOM Geofon. All files are in 96 kHz/24 bit and contain the original recordings.

The result is a unique sound effect library including balloon pop impulse responses from a truly unique location that very recently became even more unique since word says that the oil tank is no more and has abandoned this world.

327 individual sounds – all tagged with Universal Category System (UCS) metadata.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Hvac Drones & Tones Play Track 27+ sounds included $26

Hvac Drones & Tones gets you the noisy insides of hotel rooms, bathrooms and much more; recordings of large ventilation and filter units, cooling compressors and whining fans. All files are UCS-compliant.

Some of the sounds are completely pristine and unprocessed, while others have been tampered with to reveal hidden qualities. This collection contains both noir and noise!

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Hum, Buzz & Glitch Sound Effects Vinyl Record Noise Play Track 11 sounds included, 59 mins total $12
Vinyl Record Noise is the first sound library from Oddball Audio. The library features eleven 10” blank records recorded from start to finish at 45rpm. The records were cut and pressed by Lathecuts in Arizona using a myriad of techniques to get the most surface noise, pops, crackles, and hiss for your sound design pleasure. In the cutting process they used four different lathes with varying noise floors and records made from many types of materials.

The library is perfect for use in any project that may need vinyl records to give it that vintage feel! Additionally these samples are great to use in granular processing, music, or to add subtle layers to a burning fire.

At a glance:
- 11 .wav files
- over 55 minutes of content
- recorded on U-Turn Audio table through tube preamps and RME interface
- 2.07 GB uncompressed size – 1.69 GB zip archive
- recorded and presented as 24 bit/96 kHz stereo files
- free lifetime updates
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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Around Bridges 2 (Berlin) Play Track 186 sounds included $50

Around Bridges Volume 2 gets you sounds taken from the iron and steel construction elements of various bridges in Berlin. The entire library was recorded with a two-channel contact microphone setup and it features thrilling vibrations caused be passing cars, trucks, trams and metro trains.

The material in this library is a comprehensive resource for creating otherworldly ambiences, futuristic pass-bys or eerie atmospheres with a touch of rusty steel and iron.

Categories:
Arch Bridge Iron * Arch Bridge Steel Rivets * City Rail Bridge Iron * Flat Bridge River Iron * Metro Bridge Cross * Metro Bridge Iron * Railroad Bridge Main Street Iron * Railroad Bridge River Steel * Road Bridge Iron * Road Bridge Steel Sections

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Wobble Play Track 30 sounds included, 60 mins total $15

'Wobble' by Badlands Sound includes 30 high-quality unnerving wobbly drone sounds perfect for your projects. Each sound file is two minutes long with high quality 96k 24 bit including metadata.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Tension Play Track 430+ sounds included $99

Tension is a collection of atmospheres, drones, musical sound design, darkness, noise, and distortion for creating moments of anxiety, ominous soundscapes, or musical foreboding highlights. Created by Charles Maynes (sound designer) and Jason Payne (musical composer) Tension creates a balance where both sound design and musical undertones collide. Tension gets you 430+ sounds and 7.5GB of 24bit/96khz files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata.

Tension includes sound effects such as:

Ambient Experimental • Musical Sound Design • Distortion and Noise • Drones • Experimental • Stingers • Vocal Experimental • Waterphones + Bonus Original Material from the Doom Drones Soundpack!

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Circuits Play Track 30 sounds included, 27 mins total $39

A collection of textural recordings of electric and electronic sound sources.

2025 Update
• New UCS 8.2.1 compliant file names
• Improved 20+ fields of UCS compliant BWAV/Soundminer/XML metadata
• Metadata translations in 40 languages (TSV/XLSX files)

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Augmentation Elements Play Track 155 sounds included $50

Frustration. You’ve spent hours on a project, only to end up with a sound scape that feels incomplete. The action scene feels empty, the weapons don’t sound heavy enough, the transitions don’t pack enough of a punch, the space ship doesn’t feel large enough and the monsters aren’t sufficiently scary.

The Augmentation Elements library has been built with this problem in mind. Due to the library’s abstract nature, the Risers, Stings, Swells and Whooshes can be molded and manipulated into adding that missing element that you’re looking for, and sweetening the whole mix.

In order to save you time and help you quickly find the sounds that you need, SoundMiner metadata has been carefully created for each individual file. There are no ‘Scream, 1’ and ‘Scream, 2’ in this library! Every single file is individually described, and the use of numbers is not employed!

Have a look at the metadata list further down the page!

Now, Your futuristic energy weapons don’t sound full enough? Try layering some of the stings and swells underneath them.

That large space ship doesn’t seem large enough? Grab some whooshes and pan them to your heart’s delight.

The alien doesn’t sound scary enough? Some of the stings sound eerily close to vocalizations. Grab them and run wild.

Are crucial transitions in your film lacking punch? Drag some of those risers into your DAW and see which one fits best!

If you have any questions about this library, feel free to quickly send me an e-mail. I tend to reply within minutes.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Dreamscapes vol.1 Play Track 44 sounds included, 43 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$20

A collection of versatile, carefully crafted, seamless looping drones and textures, that would take you away into the unknown realms. The pack includes all kinds of moods: from low-rumbling environmental ambiences and spacey drones, to the divine and transparent textures.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Around Bridges 1 (Dresden) Play Track 70 sounds included, 30 mins total $35

Around Bridges introduces the inner sound of various bridges.
The steel components of a bridge transmit the vibrations caused by passing cars or pedestrians in a fascinating manner.
So this library contains the sounds of excited beam barriers, noise barriers, expansion gaps and a lot more steel components that bridges are made of.
Also included are takes of footsteps, rain and wind – ordinary noises that get a certain magic when recorded at a handrail.
To round up this library several high quality AB-stereo ambiences of the acoustical surroundings of bridges are included.

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Around Bridges features sounds organised into 10 categories:

Ambience Below • Ambience Top • Beam Barriers • Expansion Gaps • Footsteps Handrails • Noise Barriers • Rain • Steel Structures • Wind

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Sci-Fi Sound Effects Electromagnetic Fields Collection [192kHz/24Bit] Play Track 600+ sounds included $13.75

This library has a unique selection of electromagnetic sounds, recorded and edited with the utmost care.

Includes over 600 sounds, 200 raw stereo 24Bit/192kHz recordings of more than 40 different electronic devices and industrial machines. Only the most interesting have been selected for this collection.

Perfect resource for SCI-FI sound design, weapons, spaceships and many more. Recorded with extended frequency range, which allows drastic pitch changes and offers extreme ease of handling.

Inside you’ll find different kinds of Noises, Glitches, Whooshes, Passbys, Beeps, Mechanical Movements, Hum, Buzz, Clicks, Crackles, from simple smartphone to carving machine or laser engraving machine, eco-solvent printer, cutting plotter, touch screen terminal and more.

Includes embedded Soundminer metadata.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Double Bass Sound Effects Play Track 82+ sounds included $75

This Double Bass & Violin sound effects library not only includes weird low double bass bow strokes, stabs, vibrating strings, drones, harsh harmonics, string scrapes, bow stroke voices, and bright violin tones and screams. It also includes the opportunity to open up a whole new set of sonic adventures.

Why? All double bass sounds have been recorded at 192K/24 bit, with an amazing stereo set of close up Sanken CO100K microphones, and a stereo set of Sennheiser Mkh 8020 microphones, capturing low end and room. All violin sounds have been recorded with a single Sanken CO100K microphone.

Common for all Sanken files is that you're able to either extreme time stretch/time compress, or pitch up and down the files, and by this discover a whole new world of sounds – without adding nasty degenerating artifacts or muffling the sound. The ultra-high frequency range of the Sanken microphones does really make a great difference!

Recordings these sounds was a pure blast. The amount of versatile organic material in the set is great. The bass instrument has been played in a very innovative way, using both regular bow on strings and bass body, but also finger cymbals attached to specific places for a vibrating ring or rattle noise, creating some really other-worldly sound effects, and almost vocal-like patterns.

While the double bass material produces a massive low end without any further processing, the violin recordings really benefit from being stretched and pitched. This makes all the non-audible bright sounds captured by the Sanken microphones come through.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Aeolus: Dark Wind Textures Play Track 45+ sounds included, 154 mins total $40

Aeolus is a collection of gritty and eerie sound design elements performed entirely by intense winds. These recordings were made on custom-made wind harps, handmade props, barbed wire fences, telephone poles, and other found objects. It is utterly unlike a normal wind library.

This collection of layers and elements of howls, drones, moans, creaks, rattles, clatters, and clanks provides rich material for the creation of unsettling ambiences, eerie presences, spooky room tones, and textural sweeteners for realistic winds. Aeolus is filled with conveniently long takes of piano wire, power lines, barbed wire, and other found and prepared objects that rumble, chitter, chatter, resonate, and whistle, in both gusty and sustained winds. Its sounds are perfect for horror scenes, magical effects, straining force fields, steampunk ambiences, extreme weather, high desert dramatic tension, or rusty post-apocalyptic soundscapes.

This UCS-compliant sound library is not a pure field recording collection; it contains lengthy recordings that are both minimally processed and extremely time- and pitch-altered. Some recordings lasted overnight, then reduced to mere minutes, remapping sound events into unfamiliar cadences or into/out of human hearing range.

Aeolus includes over two hours of raw recordings and twenty additional minutes of designed sounds from the original recordings, ready to use in a project or to serve as a launchpad for further inspiration.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects KINETICS: Cinematic Tension Play Track 570 sounds included, 163 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$39
Enhance your production with a collection of 130 trailer effects, which includes powerful and textural stingers, whooshes, drones, beds, ambiences, impacts and more. Emphasize tension and create intensive cinematic moments in video games, movies, TV shows and podcasts.

This library was made using various field recordings, which were further processed and designed to add grit, power and impact.

Try these effects in action and your scenes will be overwhelmed with explosive power and tension!
Main features:

130 files/570 sounds

96khz/24bit Stereo

Dark cinematic impacts, hits, whooshes, booms, beds and ambiences harvested from various recordings made with contact microphones.

Perfect sound source for trailers, games and intense scenes.

Extensive Soundminer and BWF metadata for search engines

Universal Category System (UCS) compliant
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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Shepard Ambiences Play Track 88 sounds included, 27 mins total $39
When looped, these abstract ambiences & drones seem to rise or fall endlessly.
- 44 rising + 44 falling ambiences
- seamless loopable
- audio illusion based on the Shepard Tone
All sound files are included in the Unreal Ambiences library and:
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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Hologram Room – vol.1 Play Track 431 sounds included $35

Hologram Room [USO001] is the first bundle of the abstract Sound Design Collection produced by Matteo Milani.
These two gigabytes of “ready to use” original sound elements are designed to help you sweetening and enhancing your sound production. The whole library is organized in eight main folders: Active Drones, Alarms, Blips, Buttons, Communications, Ignitions, Telemetries, Transitions. It provides a selection of out of this world drones and ambiences, futuristic sound effects and electronic tools.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Tinnitus (EA) Play Track 30 sounds included, 90 mins total $25

30 ear piercing samples created from organic recordings which were then stretched and manipulated using various professional plugins.

Recorded using the Sennheiser MKH 8020 Stereo Pair and Sound Devices Mix-Pre 6, this library is delivered to you at 24bit/96khz for all your sound design needs.

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

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Horror Sound Effects Horror 1 Play Track 28 sounds included, 48 mins total $75

Spooky, scary sounds – in ambisonics format. Hollow winds, strange metal resonances, all those sounds are natural and not coming from any kind of sound generator – you will be able to spread them all around the room and make them move as you like. If you plan to do a horror film, this is a must have.

About Ambisonics:
This is an Ambisonics sound effects library - and by using the free SoundField SurroundZone 2 plugin you can convert the B-format files into your preferred format (stereo, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0 or 7.1 surround). Note: The library also contains ready-made stereo mixdowns for your convenience.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Piping Systems Play Track 46 sounds included, 110 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$49

Get the sounds of gas and water running through massive and tiny pipes, at three processing sites closed to the public.

This library delivers the sounds of a gas control station, a sewage plant and a waterworks. We recorded the hissing of gas, low drones of water rushing through massive pipes, and the sounds of various stages of sewage processing, recorded indoors and outdoors in multiple locations and rooms throughout the three facilities. The library includes close-up sound effects, indoor and outdoor ambiences, and features ambiences and stereo contact mic recordings of active gas and water pipes, capturing the various resonating pipes in isolation.

Total play time of all recordings is just under 2 hours.

2025 Update
• New UCS 8.2.1 compliant file names
• Improved 20+ fields of UCS compliant BWAV/Soundminer/XML metadata
• Metadata translations in 40 languages (TSV/XLSX files)

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Dune Drones Play Track 25 sounds included, 61 mins total $50

An extremely rare recording of “singing” sand dunes recorded in Death Valley National Park.

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Horror Sound Effects Haunting Ambiences Play Track 46 sounds included, 136 mins total $20

Haunting Ambiences contains dense, multilayered horror construction kits. Everything you need to build a world around your scenes with separated stems. We captured and designed field recordings from multiple countries, voices, instruments and synthesizers all in 24Bit 96kHz allowing for further manipulation.

These dense ambiences include split stems to encourage experimentation, allowing you to add or subtract certain elements, balance them or combine them with sounds from other construction kits in the pack. Perfect for your horror films, video games or escape room/live experiences.

Here are the included Construction Kits:

Haunted Factory: Moving gears, pipe bursts and the deafening buzz of industrial lighting.

Haunted Forest: Weird birds, crows, wolves, owls, tree creaks and much more!

Haunted House: Distinct creaks of a wooden building under a bed of creepy winds and clocks.

Haunted Neighbourhood: Dog barks, crickets and clocktowers sit above layered crickets and streetlights.

Haunted Sewers: Build a wet and dripping scene with flowing water and more distinct drips echoing through.

Haunted Swamp: Misty wind, bugs and water splashes suggest an evil presence, combined with frogs and more!

Nightmare: A discomforting array of voices, hums, and rumbles.

Zombie Apocalypse: A crowd of Zombies are taking over the city, breaking into anything they can find.

Torture Chamber: A deep and surreal ambience with screams, drills, tools and other torturous sounds.

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