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All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.
Rare Vintage Lawnmower Sounds
All dating from the late 1800’s through to mid/late 1990’s.
Most are British made, with a couple of exceptions (USA, Japanese).
Most are very rare and hard to come by
Petrol
Battery/Electric
Electric
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Welcome aboard! Our sailboat today is a Bavaria 36ft, 30HP, with Volvo Penta MD2030 engine. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Bavaria 36 Sailing Boat
You will hear 58 unique files of 32m 35s duration, including sailing, sail foley, engine ignition starts and cut offs, water movements, different RPMs, interior and on-deck Foley and ambiences from different perspectives like front, rear, near the water, inside the hull.
These pristine sounds are broadly categorized as cruising, sailing, mooring, sailboat Foley, such as wheel anchor rope engine, engine takes and interior and deck ambiences.
You will experience windy and calm ambiences on a fine day on the Marmara Sea, far from the Istanbul shore. Recorded on our favorite DPA-4060 and Neumann KM184 pairs, making the most of the different ambiences of many spots on the sailboat.
These meticulously recorded 400+ sounds have clarity and lots of room for further usage and sound design with the flexible texture of the sounds for further customization. Plus, you get the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!
You can now set the bar higher for all your sailing game, motion and video projects with the 32 minutes of pristine sounds with their intuitive and detailed naming.
Keywords Actions, Mood, Style, PerspectiveSailboat, Bavaria 36, DPA4060, stable RPM, stern, pulpit sailing boat, boat, sailing, cruising, sea, lake, mooring, Foley, wheel, weighing, stowing, anchor, chain, rope, engine, interior, deck, ambiences, Water, splash, winch, starboard, creak, cabin, cabinet, toilet, kitchen, cleat, reverse, release engine, hydrophore, radio vhf, long, short, seagull, subtle, wind, idle, stop, start, accelerate, water tank booster, beep, creak, Italian, Russian, English, jump, firm, walk, slow, closet, open, close, curtain, lock, slide, Tascam DR-40X, tray clutch, kitchenware, moored boat, crank, ferry, pass-by, sail up, flap, mainsail, control, tension, float, ship, fog horn, flush, automatic, bow thruster, Raymarine Transducer, Room Tone.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Mechanicals SFX Pack for access to 600+ sounds of mechanics, tools, Foley and equipment sound effects and Suzuki Samurai 1.3Â for 84+ rare sounds of Suzuki Samurai and four wheel drive (4X+) vehicle sounds.
100 sounds, 41 devices – radios, tape machines, CD players, car radios, cassette players, recorders, gramophones… All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with Rode NTG1 & FEL Pluggy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II & Zoom F3 recorders. The library is also available in UCS.
Gamer or player? Gaming Keyboards will make you want to play longer hours! Recorded by true gamers. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Gaming Keyboards SFX Pack
Being obsessed with those subtle organic sounds of premium keyboards, we recorded 200+ stereo sounds of gaming keyboards, including typing, keystroke, writing, tapping, clacking, pressing buttons, mouse clicks and dragging, dropping, numpad, button variables, spacebar, affix, enter, numeric, switch, scroll and more.
These clean and raw sounds come in hard, soft, slow, medium pace, random, soft burst, single, long, varied speeds.
You will get the wonderful tones of SteelSeries, Brown Switch, Rampage, Apple Magic gaming keyboards.
These meticulously recorded sounds have clarity and lots of room for further usage and sound design with the flexible texture of the sounds for further customization. And you get the intuitive, detailed naming and the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!
96 pristine files of 24bit-96kHz .WAV were carefully recorded on our favorite Neumann KM184 stereo pair.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Mechanicals SFX Pack for access to 600+ sounds of mechanics, tools, foley and equipment sound effects and Typewriter SFX Pack for 150+ sounds of some old-fashioned writing in style with the iconic Olivetti!
Here is a collection of Sounds from a tin workshop, creating jewelry, using different kinds of tools and machinery.
Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriters. Watch out for typos and find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Typewriter
Our new Typewriter sound effects pack comes with 102 files and 150+ sounds of the iconic Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter.
This SFX pack includes different speed and variations of typing, mechanical sounds, carriage slide and return as well as different types of switches and button sounds. The texture of the sounds is realistic and flexible for customization. It’s recorded organically with our favorite Neumann KM 184 stereo pair.
All sound files are in stereo 24bit/96 KHz Wav format, with easy to navigate naming.
Plus, you get the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!
We hope these sounds are good fit for your new projects – historical or contemporary – and looking forward to seeing them go live!
Yours truly,
Vadi Sound Team
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 and Gaming Keyboards SFX Pack for 200+ premium gaming keyboard sounds of true gaming.
Eastern European Train Loop sound effects 01
These iron monsters amaze everyone, so here’s 70 pieces of train sounds looped right from Eastern Europe just for you
to use them on any field you like where these sounds are needed.
I recorded these train loop sound effects next to real Eastern European train tracks in the summer. The collection is the result of several days of sound recording work.
This sound effect collection is ideal for use in game software, applications, commercials, movies, TV shows,
videos, animation, and any other entertainment industry where a high-quality audio effect is essential.
70 Train loop sound effect
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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.
Exterior Vibrations Vol. 3Â comprises textural, tonal sounds recorded with two stereo-figured contact microphones. Our Audio Craftsmen performed dynamic movements across metal, wood and motor vehicles found in the outside world to yield an abstract selection of hits, squeaks, shakes, bounces, braaams! and mechanical sound effects.
These raw recordings are made for further design and are great for adding an abstract edge to your projects.
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.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, RØDELink Lav and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II & Zoom F3 recorders. Library contains wav files of driving and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, RØDELink Lav and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving, exterior foley and mechanical sounds. It is also available in UCS.
Analog Tape Transitions contains dozens of genuine vari-fi effects created with a restored Akai 4000DS MK-II 1/4 inch tape recorder.
Get plenty of tape stops, rewinds, fast-forwards with 7 different tapes containing music, voice and noise.
Tired of using the same digital rewind sound again and again? Experience the variety and the smoothness of reel-to-reel analog sound.
• Vari-fi, rewinds, fast-forwards
• Mechanical tape recorder sounds included
• Ultrasonic content up to 48 000 Hz for easy pitch adjustment
• 96 KHz/24 bit
• Metadata UCS-compliant
• Recorded with AKAI 4000DS MK-II and Sennheiser 8040
LAPSE is a collection of 134 trailer clocks (24 Bit / 96 kHz, WAV, UCS). Is a simple and straightforward library for creating the famous and well know trailer clock sound.
This pack is a powerful kit of designed ticks, ready to be dropped in your session and create a tense and dark track.
You will find the classic ticks and more. LAPSE is a great addition to your collection.
Build, Craft and Survive! Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
Crafting and Survival
The new Crafting and Survival brings you 475 files and 1.000+ sounds plus the surprise bonus sounds!
Think Minecraft, Rust, The Forest, The Long Dark, 7 Days to Die. Think battling to stay alive in mysterious, wild, dangerous environments. We bring you the craftmanship to make it another day in the wilderness.
1000+ survival, gathering, movement and crafting sounds!
The subcategories can be summed as 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.
You will at once have a hold of tools, fire, weapons, cooking, harpoon, fishing, cooking, crafting, hunting, building, gathering, movement, smithing, materials, inventory, bag, building, metal, and wood (chopping, sawing, nailing and more), shotgun, mining, gathering herbs, digging, eating, cooking, tools, clothes, zipper, keys, lockers, glass, paper, coins, objects, matches, bush, explosion, and traps sounds. And the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!
Countless tools were meticulously recorded with a very low noise floor, resulting in pristine sounds. We paid attention to include different speeds, actions and variations of each action.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Analog and Digital Cameras Ultimate SFX Bundle for access to 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!
In this library you will find recordings of various analog objects such as VHS, Discman, Walkman, Radio, among others.
Sounds include actions such as pressing buttons, rewinding tapes and frequency noises.
These sounds are perfect for sound design in movies, games, documentaries, etc.
These sounds were all recorded with microphone shotgun Rode NTG 5.
After working these sounds in post production, this library comes with 79 incredible analog objects sfx sounds.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, RØDELink Lav and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.
The sound enthusiast in you will love to know that we scoured around the city/internet to collect a bunch of antique mechanistic objects for this sound collection. We even scored an old classic adding machine and a working antique pedal sewing machine! The gears and mechanisms in this odd assortment of old machines is from a beautiful and rich bygone era of manual movement, of strange and fascinating ideas from inventors creating moving parts that are simply unproducible in modern day gadgets.
Your ears spring to life as you listen through, one by one through these highly detailed and engrossing audio recordings that capture brilliantly the foreground and midground layers of the small moving parts. Perfect for older weapon Foley, for steam-punk machines, period piece machines, industrial era machinery, and on and on. A small vintage gear crank, that special metallic rich clickety-clack of a dusty old mechanism, the ribbon typewriter scrolling…
To get the most out of this collection of old mechanisms, we used a multipositional close mic-ing approach for these in order to get all those tiny moving details. Of course, they required that they be captured in our smallest studio used for precisely these low-noise environment sort of recordings – key in bringing the detailed three dimentional quality of these mechanisms to life.
As sound designers, we always need new, better, varied material. We want to feel excited by and connected to the sounds we use – enjoy and make it yours!
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.
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
Q: What are some of the most popular mechanical sounds?
A: Click to sort the category by most popular mechanical sound effects libraries
Q: Are there any mechanical sound libraries on sale right now?
A: Click to sort the category by mechanical sound libraries on sale
Q: How do I download the mechanical sounds?
A: Add the sound libraries you're interested in to the cart, and complete the checkout - you can then instantly download your chosen mechanical SFX.
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.
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.
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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!
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