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Featuring 77 files, 120 high-quality sounds and samples of real vinyl, scratch and Foley that are organic, creative and perfect for both sound designers and producers.
You will get 3 different vinyl record players of; Technics turntable, Pioneer and Philips shellac record player. There are turntable scratches, needle sounds, rewind, surface noise, pops, crackles, start and stops, end loop sounds, glitches, start noise, end noise and hiss – both vintage and new.
Vinyl Foley sounds include speed selector switch, start and stops. Vinyl Cover Foley sounds have taking out and putting in of sleeves, handle and put down sounds.
Variations of rythmical, vocal and scratch records enrich this unique collection!
Recorded in 24bit/96 kHz.wav, comes with intuitive naming and thorough metadata. Compatible with all DAWs, middleware, video editing tools and 100% royalty-free.
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What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Eerie Drones & Textures for access to 71 fear inducing and mysterious sounds.
Ebow Guitar Thriller is another good choice with 152 unique sounds of e-bow and terrifying noises to send chills down you audience’s spine.
This sound pack offers the ultimate solution for bringing your puzzle game buttons, levers, switches, and other similar mechanism interactions to life. Elevate your game with perfectly crafted button, lever, and switch sound effects for seamless object interactions. Whether you seek realism or creativity, our immersive SFX cover all your needs, delivering an exceptional puzzle game experience. Not just limited to puzzles, these versatile sounds can enhance any game genre you choose.
Certain sounds evoke memories of our childhood homes. By listening to them again, whether by chance or intentionally, we can magically be transported back to that time and place. For me, one sound that is forever engrained into my memory is that of an old vacuum cleaner. Vacuum Cleaners is my attempt at rediscovering the unique sound of the machine I remember from when I was a kid. To my imaginative, adolescent ears, it sounded like a rocket ship, a blimp and a race car. I couldn’t get enough of it.
Included are 35 machines: stick, canister, upright, robot, handheld, hand pump, industrial and central vacuum cleaners, plus antique and modern sweepers, a steam mop, carpet cleaner and shampoo polisher. To my ears, each motor’s unique voice sounds like something way beyond a simple vacuum cleaner. Vintage uprights howl and roar like rocket ships, classic space-age canister vacuums whine like futuristic hovercraft. There’s a central vacuum that can suck the life out of you and an antique pump vacuum that gives off eerie breath-like sounds.
I recorded some machines while sweeping back and forth in front of my microphones. For others, I captured them in place, in line with my belief that these motors sound more like rocket engines than vacuum cleaners. I created loops when a file allowed for it. To record a wooden Adler-Royal sweeper at an antique store, I asked the owner if I could walk around the store and sweep the aisles. She said yes, so I slung a Domke bag over my shoulder and gaffer taped a pair of contact mics to the sweeper. The result sounds like a muffled boulder going down a hill.
Machines Recorded
• Adler Royal Zephyr wooden sweeper
• Bissell ProHeat upright carpet cleaner
• Craftsman 9-gallon Shop vac
• Dirt Devil Plus handheld vacuum
• Dust Care sweeper (the non-motorized kind you see in restaurants)
• Dyson DC 25 upright vacuum
• Dyson DC 41 upright vacuum
• Electrolux Diamond Jubilee 1521 canister Vacuum (1984)
• Electrolux Sanitaire upright vacuum
• Eureka Airspeed One Turbo upright vacuum
• Fairfax Fax-O-Matic canister vacuum (circa 1992)
• Filter Queen Model 200 canister vacuum (circa 1939)
• Hoover Constellation model 842 canister vacuum
• Hoover Constellation model 858 canister vacuum
• Hoover shampoo polisher
• hydro vacuum excavator pushing out 62000 cubic feet of air per minute (current)
• Jaeger Jr. hand pump vacuum (1913)
• Kenmore 10341 stick vacuum (current)
• Kenmore 31140 upright vacuum
• Kirby Dual Sanitronic 80 upright vacuum (1967-1970)
• Kirby Heritage II upright vacuum (1984-1989)
• Kirby Sentria upright vacuum (2006-2012)
• Miele C3 Cat and Dog canister vacuum (current)
• Miele Dynamic U1 Twist upright vacuum
• Miele Powerplus upright vacuum
• Miele Quickstep stick vacuum (current)
• Riccar handheld vacuum (current)
• robot vacuum (current)
• Royal 501 Prince handheld vacuum (circa 1980s)
• Sebo Airbelt D4 canister vacuum (current)
• Sebo Automatic X4 upright vacuum
• Shark Navigator upright vacuum
• Shark steam mop
• Simplicity multi-use stick vacuum (current)
• Vacuflo Acclaim 12 Electric Powerhead central vacuum (current)
Welcome to a sonic world of steampunk machinery and mechanisms that sound huge, gritty and full of character.
This sound library features carefully designed loops and elements of steampunk machinery, rotating wheels and mechanisms, chaotic and brutal impacts, huge levers and mechanical movement, rusty textures, air pressure, transitions and whooshes, peculier clocks, as well as a very rich source material pool recorded with an ultrasonic microphones setup and a contact microphones setup, providing exciting opportunities for blending huge up-close bass-filled sounding sources with detailed ultrasonic content.
Old broken lawn mower and typewriter, vintage bench grinder and knife sharpener, rusty old gates and various garden tools, table fans and chains were recorded focusing on creating motion for creative layering and morphing. The sound library centers around steampunk machinery and mechanical elements, however it is very flexible and can be used in a variety of scenarios.
Explore and layer meticulously edited source material or drag and drop designed sound effects – with plenty of experimentation and unique processing, this library introduces a fresh sound palette for steampunk soundscape of machinery and mechanisms for video games, films, trailers and animation.
This Sound Library is a part of the Slava Pogorelsky – Complete Bundle.
WHAT SOUND PROFESSIONALS SAY:
Philip Eriksson – Audio Director (It Takes Two, Battlefield V, Star Wars: Battlefront I & II)
“Slava has some pretty kick ass sound libraries!”
Victor Mercader – AAA Sound Designer (Apex Legends)
“I find myself continuously using Slava’s SFX libraries to blend it’s pristine and detailed sound designs into my own sounds. They always add that cutting edge I am missing and make my sound designs more unique and pristine.”
Enos Desjardins – Sound Designer/Sound Effects Editor (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Black Mirror)
“Slava has been creating some really cool libraries which I find myself using time and again. Really high quality recordings to start with but then the cool processing he has used for example in his cinematic whoosh libraries really stand out. They are not just your standard generic whoosh sounds but are loaded with character and have a unique feel to them that is really fresh and cuts through in the nicest of ways.”
Bjørn Jacobsen – AAA Sound Designer (CyberPunk 2077, HITMAN, DARQ)
“Slava has for several years made high quality sound effects for me to play with. I use his sound libraries across multiple projects as lego blocks of my creations.”
This typewriter collection features 3 models, the IBM Selectrics II a 1970’s office stalwart, the Smith-Corona Pride Line also from the 70’s and a manual Olivetti Studio 44 from the 50’s. All aspects of each machine were captured with close up, room and contact mic perspectives for maximum versatility. You’re covered whether you need to cut period offices or you need a playground of mechanical source material for your futuristic designs.
A wide array of of still cameras from the 40’s, 50’s, 80’s and 2000’s. Shutter clicks, switches, servos, lens/body handling, close and roomy perspectives. Recorded for literal uses like press scrums, crime scenes and surveillance, as well as for source material for gadgetry and weapon mechanics.
Bonus material like flashbulb crackles, electronic flash pops and charge whines.
Models: Bronica SQ-A, Canon 5D MkII, Canon T2i, Graflex Speed Graphic, Kiev 88, Leica M2, Nikon D50, Nikon D80, Nikon FM2, Nikon N2000
This sample pack is a unique collection of sounds recorded from a real cassette deck, tape recorder and sounds created by audio cassettes. Created in high quality 96 kHz 24 bit, this set includes sounds that evoke nostalgia for the era of audio cassettes.
This is a sound library containing a wide variety of remote controlled and mechanical toy sounds.
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Features:
Bringing you the hypnotizing sounds of 5 high performance vacuum cleaners.
With 136 files, this one has all the sounds of Dyson Cinetic Big Ball Absolute 2, Philips Powerpro Compact, Dyson Cyclone V10, Dyson V8 and Samsung Jet 60; cleaning, moving, running, suction mode, switching, plugging, unplugging, hitting, sliding, stable and more.
You will get varying intensity, captured on different surfaces and in close, medium and distant perspectives in mono and stereo.
All organically recorded in-studio at 96kHz with a Sennheiser MKH8040 stereo pair, F3 and Sony D50 and a lot of fun.
The resulting spectrum is rich and allows for manipulation of the sounds for complex sound design. Use these for engines and motors for enhanced sound design.
136 sounds/ 1,55 GB/ 100% royalty-free / comes with detailed naming / UCS compatible
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What’s Inside
Vacuum cleaner, cleaner, cleaning, household, vacuum, vacuum fan, broom, dust cleaner, cleaner machine, house cleaning, wheel, motor, cleaning, moving, running, suction mode, switching, plugging, unplugging, hitting, sliding, stable.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out Clothes for 725 performances of everyday clothes, textile, and accessories of 30+types of clothes, and Room Tones and Interior Ambiences for 3 hours of room tones and quiet or low activity ambiences, ranging from loud industrial spaces to quiet domestic rooms.
Kitchen Foley is another great option with 750 sounds that capture pretty much every action in the kitchen.
Low-price. High-quality. Essential.
An essential collection of 400 machine sounds, including carpet cleaners, irons, sewing machines, toasters, vacuums, washing machines, woodchippers, escalators, printers, air pumps and more!
Each sound was created at 96kHz / 24-bit stereo and is fully compatible with the Universal Category System (UCS) – a public domain initiative establishing a standardized category list for the classification of sound effects.
Note: All of these sounds (and more!) are included in the 96 General Library (get 3,000+ SFX for FREE!)
Massive Movement is a collection of enormous sound effects from gigantic structures and machines. It features:
This library is recorded in a small furniture workshop where office furniture is sawn and created. We recorded the sounds of the factory so that they can be easily combined together to create a workshop of any scale.
Microphones were placed at varying distances from the recording subjects. Many recordings were created using a LOM Geofon contact microphone.
LET YOUR CREATIVITY TAKE FLIGHT
The SB112 DRONES Sound Effects Library is a collection of drone motors, control beeps, hovers passbys, whooshes and flight movement.
ELEVATE YOUR PROJECT WITH THIS LIBRARY
Soar above the rest with our Drones library. We’ve captured the subtle sounds of control beeps, the powerful hum of motors, graceful flight movement, thrilling whooshes and zipping fly-by’s. Additionally, this library features several M-S recordings of a DJI Quadcopter motor, that have been mixed down to stereo, and also include the raw Mid/Side recordings. Whether you’re enhancing the realism of drone footage, sweetening the practical sound of drones or crafting futuristic soundscapes in your latest sci-fi masterpiece, this library give you the tools to take your project to new heights.
Want sounds of buttons, switches, levers or gears - and other mechanical sound elements that clink, clank, whir, squeak and grind? These mechanical sound effects libraries offer you an extraordinary toolbox of recordings - from the tiniest gears to gigantic bucket-wheels, and everything in between. Recorded from a wide range of perspectives and featuring both construction kit elements and designed sounds, these sound libraries come in handy for any project that calls for mechanical sounds, or as sonic building blocks when designing robots, motors, machines and other contraptions that call for that mechanical sound.
Clank, whir, beep, click, hiss, buzz, hum, rattle, screech, thud, squeak, crackle, pop, sizzle, grind, roar, bang, snap, creak, chime
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Q: Are these sounds royalty free?
A: Yes, they're royalty free, and no attribution is required
Q: Who has recorded and designed these sounds?
A: They're created by the independent sound community, and have been recorded by some of the best recordists and sound designers on the planet. There's a constant flow of brand new sound libraries coming from the community, giving you the absolutely freshest sound effects available anywhere. Oh, and by getting sounds from the community, you support individual sound designers and sound recordists – that’s a pretty cool thing too.
Spell Variations Vol. 4 marks the grand finale of our magical sound series, delivering a diverse and powerful collection of spell effects. Inside, you’ll find summonings, blood spells, petrifications, healing spells, dark incantations, and much more!
This volume includes 255 high-quality sound effects, organized into 27 distinct spell types, each with multiple variations (3 to 17) to ensure no spell sounds the same, even when reused across your project.
Each spell type is carefully named and sorted into individual folders, giving you intuitive navigation and maximum flexibility for magical scenes, game effects, or cinematic transitions.
Recorded, edited, and mastered in 192 kHz / 24-bit, these sounds deliver exceptional clarity and full adaptability for pitching, layering, or creative processing.
A must-have library for professional sound designers seeking drag-and-drop magical sounds for video games, trailers, animations, or any audiovisual production.
More about the pack
– Intuitive file naming
– All you’ll ever need regarding magical sounds [Use them again & again
Use the sound effects over and over, in any of your projects or productions, forever without any additional fees or royalties. Use the SFX in your game, in your trailer, in a Kickstarter campaign, wherever you need to, as much as you want to.
– Totally mono compatibility
– All sounds have several variations.
– Use your imagination and feel free to use any sound for a creature other than the one described, remember that the world of sound is totally subjective.
– For any questions or problems: [email protected]
Features
– 255 spell sounds
– Number of Audio Waves: 255
– Format: 192KHz / 24 bits
– Win/Mac: Yes
– Minutes of audio provided: 19:21
Audiobeast is proud to present our second sample library; the only library of its kind to focus entirely on weapons being fired in urban environments! For this recording session we were given access to a military training site known as a FIBUA (Fighting In Built-Up Area) consisting of streets with a variety of buildings, vehicles, and exclusive permission to fire weapons in several locations. Pictures of the street and gas station locations and firing points are included.
The aim of this library was to offer the slapback type tails needed for gun sound design for convincing city scenes in film, games and tv production. It’s always been difficult to find gun recordings in a city environment so we hope this library helps sound people everywhere.
This Library contains over 3 GBs of weapons being fired in multiple urban environments, a street, outside of a gas station and inside of a tower block. 218 WAV files of single shots, bursts and many with multiple takes, all recorded at 96 khz 24 bit, with heaps of information on microphones used and distance from the firearms.
Various distances were captured, from the DPA4062 on the guns themselves, to the distant other end of the street 100 metres away. To add, some mics were positioned around corners, a nearby graveyard, through walls and in armored vehicles to capture a variety of perspectives.
Minimal cleanup on the recordings was carried out very carefully so as not to introduce any artefacts into the recordings, they are presented as raw as possible.
If you need a wider selection of interior gun recordings please check out our first library – The London Warehouse Firearms library
Florida Thunder by Eric Berzins contains 111 distinct wav files with over 200 dry thunderclaps and over 300 thunderclaps with rain. All files were recorded in the US state of Florida between 2021 and 2025. Florida has more lightning strikes than any other U.S. state! All files have been meticulously edited and cleaned, and have embedded UCS-compliant Soundminer metadata.
MAGIC – ALCHEMY is a professional sound effects library built from real chemical reactions and elemental forces. It delivers short, character-rich magic sound effects perfect for spellcasting, magical UI design, and fantasy storytelling. Designed to sit cleanly in a mix and shimmer with personality, these spell sounds are ideal for games, trailers, audio dramas and more. Real reactions, recorded with obsessive detail.
No digital fakery here. Every sound in MAGIC – ALCHEMY began as a live experiment — alcohol burning in jars, butane growling through pipes, fuses igniting, water swirling in glass. These are true-to-life textures, captured in a lab-grade recording setup. The result? Magical sound with depth, realism, and spark..
These are not long, cinematic flourishes. This library is about immediacy — short, dry, punchy magic effects that are easy to slot into your project. Ideal for game asset design, magical feedback sounds, and trailer moments where clarity counts.
Need a healing chime, a cursed hex, or something more ambiguous? The Designed section is grouped into Holy, Cursed, and Neutral categories — giving you emotional options that match your scene’s intent, whether you’re crafting a fantasy RPG or a subtle magical interaction.
Whether you’re layering magic for a fantasy film, adding interactive audio to a mobile game, or creating rich textures for audiobooks or theatre, MAGIC – ALCHEMY fits right in. It’s mix-ready, flexible, and full of sonic character.
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