A collection of scientific equipment sounds handled by experienced researchers. Includes sounds of liquid nitrogen canisters, centrifuges, photometers, pipettes, timers, freezers, and more.
Game Triggers is a game sound effects library jam-packed with over 1920+ memory optimized designed and source sound effects, 420+ sound sets across over 50 sound types and styles for use in video games. This focused sound library gives you a hybrid mix of game actions, interactions, and one shot sound that are perfect for game hits, UI, inventory sounds, notifications, cartoon styles, apps, funny moments, comedic relief and other sound fx found in popular games. Whether you’re creating a high energy button masher, silly platformer, a wacky racing game, or a lighthearted puzzle game, our library has the perfect sound effects to match your game’s style and mood.
Add energy and power to your projects with more than 320 destructive glass, wood, and metal glass bursts, collapses, drops, cracks, and crash sound clips.
The Metal Hit Sweetener sound effects library features metal hit sound effects, drops, bashes, and more with shovels, containers, pots and pans, and others.
The Metal Hit Sweetener Library gathers over 80 multi-sample strikes, hits, impacts, drops and other clips in 1.18 GB of 192 kHz sound-design friendly field recordings.
The metal hit sound effects include strikes with hammers, drumsticks, forks, and other implements hitting over 22 types of props: from bowls to pots and pans, oil barrels to wheelbarrows, shovels and spades, trailers, and much more. Every recording has multiple performances in each file to allow for a variety of sound design tools created to sweetener hits, blasts, bursts, breaks, and other impactful sound effects.
Includes 18+ fields of Soundminer metadata, BWAV, and iXML metadata and MacOS Finder comments.
Motion Universe is a whoosh & motion graphics sound library featuring 3611 video game sound effects, 345 sound sets across 14+ sound category types. This focused sound library gives you a hybrid mix of imaginative sound sets for common and abstract game actions like casting magic spells, fiery pass bys, ice swooshes, robotic mechanism transitions, vines growing, liquid entropy whooshes, earthy attacks, summons, unlocks, shimmering reveals, orbs, flaps, swings, slides, pop ups, enchants, swells, and granular designed textures useful in many cases where motion is needed. With game developers and sound designers in mind, we carefully handcrafted these game ready audio assets so that you can have a multitude of options. This library will cover many of your bases and needs in regards to pacing, whoosh speeds, style types, all delivered as neatly organized completed sound sets so your sounds never get old or annoying.
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.
‘GEIGER COUNTER’ by Flysound is a comprehensive sound catalog for a very unique piece of kit: a Soviet era radiation measurement device.
We have captured the different beat intensities of the machine, the strength of detection signalling, and other sounds such as on/off. We were able to capture the nozzle reacting to real radiation – minimal, but still significant enough to create great sound.
The 96kHz/24bit synced recordings bring the sound of atomic danger into the 21st century production values category. The metadata has been written to adhere to the Universal Category System.
Household Textures is all about those peculiar textures that we can obtain from an everyday object that is already in our place. These sounds can become a super useful source when it comes to sweetening your sound design workflow.
The goal was to use any object located in a house and manipulate it as much as possible in order to get a unique sound that might be used in a completely different scenario.
From carpet to mayonnaise to rubber. The list is endless.
A plant, if moved with the right timing, might become insect wings. A sliding door can be used for a portcullis. Some synthetic clothes do sound like sand. Even a mountain bike can fake a giant watermill spin.
Actions included such as carpet rustling, putting down a leather jacket, extracting viscous sounds from homemade sauces, scraping aluminium foil, sharpening a knife, etc. From long steady movements to short impacts and hits.
Cloth, dirt, glass, liquid, metal, plastic or wood are among the recoded textures.
Gear used: Sound Devices MixPre 6-II, Sennheiser 8050 & 30 in MS, Sennheiser 8040s in ORTF, LOM Usis, LOM Geofon, LOM Mikro Usis, Sony D100.
Most of the files are in 96 kHz / 24 bit, while the ones recorded with LOM Usis and with usable frequency content are in 192 kHz. They all have embedded Soundminer metadata.
UCS Compatible Metadata embedded. Fields included CatID, Category, Subcategory, FX Name, Filename, Description, BWDescription, Library, RecType, Microphone, Designer, Manufacturer, Keywords.
Tortured Metal Cabinet is a collection of disturbing metal scrapes, low groans, cinematic booms, menacing drones, ear piercing squeals, spooky stingers etc… all performed on and with an old storage metal cabinet.
This library is a nice addition to your library if you need to add tension, suspense or weirdness to any project, not restricted to horror.
Various exciters were used to create friction and make the cabinet sing such as glasses of different sizes, large pieces of metal, hangers, spoons, my hands, etc…
The sounds were recorded with a pretty cool and unconventional setup that gave me a lot of flexibility during the mastering process :
a LCR setup of Sennheiser MKH 8040 + MKH 8050 (because let’s be honest they sound amazing + extended frequency response)
a pair of Lom Usi Pro (different perspective and polar pattern + also nice ultrasonic response)
an AKG C 411 PP contact microphone (nice proximity and low/mid response)
For more convenience, I’ve premixed the different mics and sonic perspectives into 26 long ” raw ” files, both in Stereo and 5.1 Surround.
These Source files were mastered in a way (minimal EQ / dynamic processing / ultrasonic denoise on the MKH 8000 mics) that will let you manipulate them extensively and create your own designed sounds with them.
You also get 41 stereo designed files / 300+ individual sounds that are ready to use in your project.
These designed assets have been creatively processed to give you an idea of what type of sounds you can create from the source material, the possibilities are pretty much endless… I’ve paid attention not to over compress the sounds and keep some of the natural dynamics of the raw recordings, because who like overly crushed and loud sounds that blast your ears when browsing through your library ?
In addition to the source and designed folders, you’ll find 16 Radium Presets ready to use in Soundminer Radium sampler, these presets basically let you create an infinite amount of random new sounds different than the ones in the library itself. (thanks to Kai Paquin for the help with the presets)
Like all aXLsound collections, this sound library includes detailed, comprehensive, UCS compliant metadata. (see below)
Balloon sound exploration from inflation, deflation, manipulation and destruction.
Sounds of air filling, tapping, pulling, stretching, air release with squeaking, flatulence and popping. Included are designed pitched down effects for that larger than life effect.
Ghostly Presences is a collection of ambiences made specifically for use in your horror genre projects.
Synth-generated drones and recordings of instruments and voice were manipulated to afford haunting and unsettling horror ambiences. This library comprises a variety of sounds crafted for layering or individual use. Included are choral wails, resonant winds, deep drones, electrical interference, haunting whispers and more; the perfect selection for enhancing your horror soundscapes in film, TV, game audio and real-world projects!
Our Audio Craftsmen have carefully edited each sound for maximum sonic clarity so that you can drop each sound directly into your project timeline and get down to work with minimal fuss.
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.
The sounds of an electric guitar being bashed about and smashed.
Pete Townshend of The Who claimed that he first smashed a guitar out of anger when he accidentally put the head of his Rickenbacker through a low venue ceiling, damaged the guitar and decided to finish the job.
Well, that opened the floodgates and plenty of guitar players have followed suit.
I took a guitar and an amp and gave them hell, so that when you are making a documentary on the history of Rock music, you can get some Strat smashing feedback howling sounds for it without having to ruin your own precious axe.
There are sounds of the guitar being hit (with varying velocity) and dropped both unamplified, amplified, feedback howls, string twangs and general mangling of the instrument.Please note, there is no audience sound effect in this pack, this is only heard in the sample.
No (decent) guitars were harmed in the making of this pack.
This library contains various metal impacts, hits, clanks, drops. More than 700 individual sounds and 30 metal objects types. From tiny to bigger. Source material for great variety of uses. Recorded in stereo/mono 24 Bit/96 kHz. Due to big number of individual sounds they are represented in form of sets that contains several sounds but grouped via type of a sound.
Electromagnetic Design Vol. 2 contains a diverse collection of experimental ambiences gathered from a variety of sources around an Electrical Power Plant and a radio tower.
Using both condenser microphones and an electromagnetic receiver, our Audio Craftsmen captured material ranging from fences & metal coverings surrounding the power plant, to wires, generators & pylons. Our team then meticulously edited and designed these sounds, including a range of characteristics such as screaming interference, distorted glitches, sweeping electrical currents and much more to create an eclectic assortment of short ambiences. Perfect for building nerve racking intensity within your sound design in Sci-Fi, Horror or Dramatic film, game, or television projects. All files are available in 24bit 96kHz allowing further sonic manipulation, tagged with extensive metadata and are UCS compliant for ease of workflow.
Recorded and designed by legendary film sound pioneers Ann Kroeber and Alan Splet, Industrial Sounds with Soul is a sound effects library featuring unique recordings of roaring factory ambience, hypnotic oscillating rhythmic machinery, metallic clanks, clicks, ticks and more.
Following the Cinematic Winds library, Industrial Sounds with Soul is the second exclusive release by Pro Sound Effects curated from Sound Mountain: Kroeber and Splet’s renowned private recording collection created over decades of film sound work with major directors like David Lynch, Carroll Ballard, and Peter Weir. Kroeber has since worked on or supplied sounds for film, television, and games – including 6 movies that won an Academy Award® in sound, and 7 additional nominations.
Immerse your audience in the industrial setting of your current project. Create subconscious tension and artfully steer narrative with subtle, emotive recordings of ominous mechanical humming, gurgling percolators, and hissing steam pipes.
The variety, quality, and deep character captured in this small boutique sound library is sure to spark creative inspiration for sound professionals in film, television, game audio, music production and beyond. Take your sonic creation to the next level by dragging and dropping the artful work of Kroeber and Splet into your production.
Rich embedded metadata helps you find the exact sound you need with descriptions that go beyond the literal to detail the emotional power of the recordings. The sound effects are grouped within five main categories:
Plunge your audience into the battle trenches with ultra immersive WARFARE environments of the highest quality! This audio library offers you hours of different soundscapes, including DAYTIME NATURE ambiences in FORESTS or GRASSLANDS, distant GUNFIRE from BUNKERS or GARAGES, classic WARZONE BATTLEFIELD environments, prisoner of war HOLDING CELL interiors, WINDY WASTELANDS, WAR SAFE ZONE COMPOUND interiors, and much much more! Whether your project is set on the beaches of Normandy in Saving Private Ryan or set in a VietNamese jungle in Apocalypse Now, everything you’ll need to immerse your users in ambiences of gunpowder and bullets is here!
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Our expert team of sound designers have meticulously crafted each ambience into CONTINUOUS, NON-REPETITIVE, DRAG AND DROP-READY LOOPS that will serve as perfect background audio for your game, film, animation, live event, or even as relaxing background audio! We have even included FULL and SIMPLIFIED MIXES, SHORT and LONG non-repetitive variants, multiple choices for INTENSITIES, and numerous other options for your convenience!
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Vibrations Bowed Materials 1 is a construction kit library composed of various plastic, metal and paper materials vibrated with a cello bow! These sounds are meant to be manipulated and mangled to oblivion for further creative purposes. These sounds are highly flexible and can easily be pitch-shifted -48 semitones or more. They remain remarkably useful and clean giving each sound multiple “dimensions”.
I’ve found particularly strong potential in using these for creature sound design. One of the metal props recorded was also used to produce my Electric Arcs and Energy designed sound library. The array of how they could be used or transformed is quite possibly endless!
Great care was taken during the recording and editing process to ensure maximum flexibility of these sounds. The recording was done at 24 Bit / 192 kHz using the Sennheiser MKH 8050 mic which captures frequencies up to 50kHz. Any processing or editing was then performed at 192kHz.
Library includes:
Includes Forge/Reaktor Sample Maps
7 Different Bowed Metal Prop Recordings
6 Different Bowed Paper Prop Recordings
7 Different Bowed Plastic Prop Recordings
1000 sounds total
Bonus – Forge Sound Design Tool Sample Map
If you own the Forge Sound Design Toolkit this library also comes with a specially curated sample map. The sample map can be loaded into the sampler for randomization and the creation of more complex sounds.
I went there, so you don't have to. The nerv wrecking sounds of a fork scraped across a plate, the annoying scratches of fingernails on a coated pot are as well part of this library as many similar and sometimes less unpleasant sounds.
The major part of this library has been recorded in 192kHz with Earthworks QTC 50 microphones. Frequencies up to over 90 kHz are captured with plenty of the noises and allow for decent pitch and bend fun. Plastic, wood, metal, glass, porcelaine, syntetic leather and rubber has been used to perform squeaks, screeches, squeals, creaks, groans and scratches. Each material has been dragged and rubbed against each other in different speed and with varying pressure to make sure to get multiple variations of each sound.
This versatile library is a rich resource and a starting point for creature sound design, iron weapon action, robotic and machine movements and many more. Also great for music production – check the demo. Anything that should make the audience goose bumps or sound old an tortured will profit from “QUEETSH”.
Caution: some sounds might be considered unpleasent / annoying.
This library recorded a creepy, old, metallic, and huge storage door. It contains metal impacts, creepy metal squeaks, creeks and rattles. Use this SFX to create crazy sound design, especially for horror movies.
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.)
48 Kilos is our all 48kHz @ 24-bit library that provides you with a 4.6 GB tempest of audio assets. Perfect for all audio needs in film, animation, interactive interface design, game design, music production, and audio branding where high quality audio is desired with no re-sampling required. This library provide a wide mix of content in a compact form.
Sound content includes breaking bulbs, mechanical gates and doors, the smashing of liquid-filled vessels, manipulating musical instruments, blades, books, ceramics, film, resonant impacts, an AC unit, and much more. They are presented in an assortment of mono and stereo recordings, recorded in a variety of settings (on location, in studio, and a few interesting creative spaces).
Get ready for the most sonically satisfying library of piano destruction sounds! We give you every sledge hammer, every axe hit, every plier pinch, and every grinder that went into the demise of this Wurlitzer Upright Piano.
With this truly unique library you get smashes followed by short, medium, and long tails of the strings and body (or what’s left) of the piano. You also get out of tune and buzzy strings that can be used as the source material for something really dark and ominous. Use the impact sounds for one of a kind impacts or sample the tails to create tension, strange atmospheres, and more!
The axe and body files range from attacks on the wood, strings, keys, hammers, legs, frame, metal, and more. A grinder was taken to the strings and pliers were used to snap, bend, and pop the strings out of their places as well as general string play. Whether you need something unique to add character to your project or some really great source material of impacts that come pre baked with extra harmonic material this library will suite your needs. Enjoy the Destroyed Piano Sound Library!
Interface is a collection of Button Presses, Power-Ups, Data Rolls and Whooshes for use in Games and Multimedia. They are also very useful for creative music production. Use the whooshes as transition elements or the Power-Ups to start off a song. This collection belongs in every digital artist toolkit.
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.
Gabriel Guy
Re-recording Mixer, Walt Disney Animation Studios: Frozen, Big Hero 6
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.
There are many great independent sound effect libraries available these days. The main problem with having so many, is keeping track of them!
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Sound designer: Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit trilogies
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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!
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founder of The Audio Spotlight
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.
Afghanistan
Åland Islands
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Mexico
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