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Vehicle sound effects and recordings – cars, helicopters, motorcycles, airplanes, ships, trains and sci-fi
Junk Cars is a collection of on-board multi-channel recordings of old, barely-functioning European cars. The first car in the library is a 1995 Opel/Vauxhall/Holden Astra with a 1.6 liter Petrol engine, a broken exhaust and in a very sorry state. It wasn’t roadworthy when I found it, but with a little help from a car mechanic we managed to get it on the road.
Important! More cars will be added to the collection as they are recorded. Get your copy now and you will receive all subsequent updates for free.
The Warfare Sound FX Library very unique and exciting library recorded during a three day military exercise, using several Combat Vehicle 90 performing live firing exercises with 40mm cannons and 7.62 machine guns.
Get the sounds of the the Honda VTX 1300 – a distinctive cruiser motorcycle.
Its 1300cc displacement is right in the sweet spot between the zippier 750 models and the massive 1800 road warriors. This particular one was equipped with a set of custom Vance and Hines Big Shots exhaust pipes early in its life, giving it a distinctive and throaty note that can be heard up and down the highway. The VTX line is also known for its distinctive transmission, which gives a meaty ‘clunk’ with every shift.
This library is a set of recordings that were made using a combination of onboard and exterior mics at a variety of useful speeds, as well as free running on the highway. Its a smaller set, but very distinctive and useful.
We recorded multiple channels on every movement:
• Onboards consisted of Line audio CM3, Crown PZM and Sanken COS11 mics
• A handheld MKH416 rig covered bys and exteriors
After a half day of recording we had material ranging from idles and slow starts to fast bys and highway runs.
Need futuristic sounds? Sci-fi Evolution is a massive compilation of more than 1700 audio files – and it covers a lot of ground! Check out the full selection below.
Our Auto Repair (248 HQ – 96kHz/24bit) library includes both tools and general ambiences of auto repair shops as well as home garage sounds. Hit play, close your eyes and you will find yourself amidst cars, toolboxes, revving engines, mechanisms, servo sounds, metal clunks, and car mechanics in action.
In this library, you will find audio samples of wrenches and ratchets being dropped on various surfaces and with various intensities, different kinds of metal clunk and mechanical motions, as well as audio of mechanics operating hydraulic machines and servomotors, handling screwdrivers, welding and hammering chassis, handling screwdrivers/ pneumatic pistols and sawing/scraping metal auto parts. All captured in real garages and auto repair shops.
In addition to the sounds mentioned above, we have included a variety of clean, studio recordings of hand tools and metal parts that can be used as starting points for further sound design. We had cars and bikes brought in, which we used to record a series of engine startups/shutdowns, idling, and revs which might serve as starters for creating multilayered, compelling atmospheres.
Bluezone Corporation presents 'Cargo – Spaceship Sound Effects', a new sci-fi sample library covering a wide range of elements including cockpit and interior ambiences, interface and beep sounds, reactor rumbles, spaceship passby sounds and more. Created with a large selection of high quality recordings and then meticulously layered, this downloadable sample pack will enhance your creative potential with as many as 138 highly usable sounds.
All sound files are named according to their content and sorted thematically. WAV files are provided as 24 Bit / 96 kHz and sorted in 11 folders. In order to give you ready-to-use sounds for your productions, all samples are royalty-free for all your commercial projects.
Sit back, relax, and listen to all the sounds a car makes. No, not the hum of the engine, not the tire squeal either, but everything else. Non-Engine Sonata Noises includes sounds (noises) of various button, switches, compartments, doors, slams, and even an automatic seat inside a 2013 Hyundai Sonata. These are the features you interact with ever time you step and sit inside the car, but get drowned out by the frustrations of traffic and stop lights. This pack totals 56 sound files with over 1224 sounds recorded in MS using the Sennheiser MKH8050 and MKH30.
Flip on the heated seat switch, and search through meta-data tagged and updated using the Universal Category System in Soundminer, Basehead, and Soundly.
4-channel recording of an old Dacia 1310 driving in the city and on motorway, recorded with 2 DPA 4061 mics (one on the engine and the other on the exhaust) plus a Sony PCM D100 in the boot. These sounds can be used to portray this specific model, but also as sound design material for old carburetor engine vehicles or rickety rattletraps.
The WORLD WAR 2 TANKS sound effects library delivers a gigantic arsenal of tank sounds, recorded in collaboration with Pole Position Productions (PPP) from Sweden.
You get 8 different tanks to be super-flexible in your military sound design environment. Each tank gives you driveby and onboard maneuvers. The onboard recordings are multi-channel recordings (4x stereo) that enable you to perfectly mix the sounds as you wish.
For example: your interior scene sounds good but you need some more mechanical chain sound? Simply boost the “Tracks” channel in your mix and you’re set. You’re totally free to give your tank the character it needs.
Whether it’s a heavily damaged and slow tank or some massive crawling beasts that will – once at full speed – flatten everything that crosses their way. You’re in full control with this SFX library. But there’s more. Besides driveby and multi-channel driving sounds, we added some handling sounds and – you’ll especially love them – a fine selection of incredible cannon shots.
Included are more than 400 files in more than 27GB of data. All files contain extensive metadata to provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible.
• Char B1 bis, French (France) light WWII tank
• 38t Hetzer, German light WWII tank destroyer
• M24 Chaffee, US American (USA), light WWII tank
• Sherman M4A1, US American (USA) medium WWII tank
• Panther V, German medium WWII tank
• Somua S35, French (France) medium WWII tank
• T 34, Russian (Soviet Union) medium WWII tank
• MkIII Valentine, English (Great Britain) infantry WWII tank
+ WWI Generic tank
This SFX library includes 44 sounds, recorded at rally service areas and the race track. Contains Pass bys, idles, revving and other car engine sounds.
Foley Plus is a massive collection of Foley-related sounds including new and unusual footsteps, clothing movement, household/kitchen/bathroom/office sounds, wood and metal creaks, squeaks, scrapes, and so much more you’ll have to check out the track list! Add a big PLUS to your FOLEY library!
‘T-34’ by Flysound is a comprehensive sound catalog for the iconic Soviet tank. The suite of 219 recordings is a systematic compilation authored by a dedicated full service post-production team, deploying Neumann U87s, Sennheiser MKH416s, Sound Devices 788Ts, Aaton Cantar X-2s, and further top quality recording, editing, sound design, and mixing equipment.
The medium tank, instantly recognisable globally, and its professional driver have been tracked from a myriad of angles and distances, both external and onboard. The engine and exhaust (including their warm up phase), the operation and ambient sounds of the tank cabin (including radio toggle switches and foley of gas, clutch and brake pedals), the treads in motion, driving at slow, medium, and fast speeds, gear shifting, braking, stopping, turning, revving, idling and reverse – it’s all there. And wait for it… the blast of the main gun! And its reloading, turret rotation, and the hatch and door sounds. In short: this is the most attention to detail possible, giving proper reverence to the champion of classic tanks, here in this suite.
The symphonic grace of our T-34 was captured with orchestra-grade studio equipment and field kit, by professionals, for professionals, ready to be used as authentic sound, ready to be arranged into seamless edits and proper 5.1 or Atmos post-production. The 15.4 GB, 96kHz/24bit synced and multi-channel recordings have comprehensive metadata tags giving full position, microphone, and action detail. The metadata has been written to adhere to the Universal Category System.
Who’s ready for the great outdoors? This sound library of a 1990 Volkswagen Westfalia Vanagon has all the essentials to recreate a camping trip in an awesome retro camper van! With 70+ 192 kHz / 24 bit sound files and 100+ total sounds, you have everything you need in the highest audio quality. In this library you get drive-bys up to 30 mph, different onboard engine perspectives while driving, turning the engine on and off, idling, revs, the unique interior sounds of the doors, windows, fans, wipers, the popup, gear shifting and of course the classic VW horn! If your project needs camper van sounds, look no further than this library!
Orbital Emitter is proud to present Star Fighter Cobalt – the second release in our Star Fighter Flight Series!
This comprehensive sound-set provides a rich arsenal of futuristic space fighter sounds for you to use in all of your creative sci-fi productions! Building off our first release, this new and unique star fighter sound-set features powerful engine blasts, interior cockpit perspectives, sync’d interior and exterior flight perspectives, an epic launch and landing sequence, robust fly-bys and two types of powerful weapon blasts presented with varying perspectives! You can use parts of this sound-set to create your own spaceship sounds or simply drag & drop our audio-scenes and audio-stems into your productions as-is! It’s up to you how you want to enjoy our sounds!
What we hope sets this sound-set apart from other space craft sounds from other companies is that our space ship sounds are meant to sound complete– like an actual field recording of a futuristic space fighter taking off, flying around, engaging in battle and landing… All in ONE Sound-Set!!
The Star Fighter Cobalt sound-set contains 32 individual sounds spread over 20 audio files and times out to over 12.5 minutes in total length. It features 24bit/96khz stereo WAV files – embedded with meta-data to help keep the sound files organized.
All of our sounds are 100% original – 100% royalty free – designed for believability, creativity and cinematic impact. We hope you enjoy our sci-fi sounds!
Vintage Tram features sounds of a fully working light rail vehicle in small valley near Dresden/Germany. The 2-axle railcars were built from 1957 until 1967 with reference to concepts from the 1930s.
The recorded tram drives along an 8 kilometer track through a small valley that is surrounded by reverberant rock faces of various intensity.
The Library contains recordings from the driver´s seat, from several positions in the wagon, both with and without passengers. Also included are exterior recordings of squeaky approaches and pass-bys, couplings, doorbells, and door openings/closings.
Recorded in 192 kHz the material allows for extensive downsampling to generate versatile soundscapes far beyond the original. Please listen to Audio Demo No.2
Introducing “Apocalyptic Game” – a highly focused and proprietary blend of post apocalyptic RPG game sound effects library. Collect crafting minerals and materials to create weapons, mods, items or buildings. Have all the high-quality sound needed to slot in different aesthetics to you characters bag & inventory. Now you can outfit your next dark dystopian themed game with a complete post nuclear sound effects collection inspired by major game hits like Apex, Fortnite, and Fallout.
Recorded from an old scrap Honda Accord 97 that has clocked in more than 340.000 km (211.000 mi).
Many perspectives of the malfunctioning engine, exhaust, wheels and car body parts. Starting problem and spinning tire.
Quad and Stereo recording. The library contains 102 files of various problematic car sounds.
Each sound has been meticulously edited individually, all files were recorded and are delivered in 24bit 96kHz Broadcast Wave files, all embedded with metadata information for easy import and ensure a fast and easy workflow.
The Black Hawk UH-60M sound fx collection features 1,145 sound clips in 44.39 GB from an American military helicopter performing during a military exercise. This bundle gathers 44 takes of tandem maneuvers from two General Electric T700-GE-701D engines with cowling.
This sound library includes both onboard and exterior field recordings. The onboard recordings include 3 perspectives of the vehicle idling with rotors and turbine at low, high, and medium speeds, including an Ambisonic take. The 22 exterior perspectives include 49 channels of the chopper starting, taking off, passing by, landing, and shutting off. There are also a wide selection of stationary idles from close, medium, and distant perspectives in front, behind, and to the side of the Black Hawk at high to low RPMs. Ambisonic, surround, and double MS perspectives join stereo and mono takes. The collection is complimented by a wide variety of cockpit instrument performed effects, doors, and more.
Bonus: Pro Tools and Reaper session files align each take for easy editing and mixing. Over 18 fields of professional metadata embedded in every clip.
This is your library for making authentic background train ambiences in movies, games or radio plays. It features over 40 indoor ambiences in 5.1 surround sound. Recorded in 2017 with an INA 5 surround microphone array for realistic room impression. Finish your next project in light speed. Simply drag and drop the interleaved surround sounds into your DAW and get perfectly balanced and panned surround sound train ambiences.
• More than 40 indoor (cabin) train ambiences/room tones in 5.1 surround sound (3 GB)
• Fans, rails, machines, motors (diesel and electric), humming, heating, buzz, natural noise
• Doors, passengers, rattling, air conditioning, toilet, speed-up, slow down, pass-by noise
• Realistic room impression and sound location, true to original sound color
• Compatible with ITU-R BS.775 recommendation, no Ambisonics, no plug-in needed, just drag the 5 tracks into your DAW
• Perfect balanced surround sounds for drag and drop integration
• 24 Bit / 96 kHz / low noise recording
• Interleaved surround sound file (L/R/C/LFE/LS/RS), simply drop into your DAW
• EBU/BWF and WAV-Metadata made with Soundminer for use in any DAW
• Equipment: INA 5 surround microphone array, RME UCX, RME Quadmic 2
The Renault Master II van sound library was recorded with a two track Sound Devices 702 recorder. Foley was captured with a mono Rode NTG3 microphone. Engine sound effects were recorded with two DPA-4061 omni microphones.
The car was recorded during regular driving, accelerating, decelerating and more demanding way of driving with steady RPMs and RPM ramps. In addition to designed files, this library features RAW sounds pulled straight out of the recorder.
In this 88-minute long sound effects library you will find engine recorded onboard and outside, passby sounds, foley and engine recorded inside vehicles cabin in sync with microphones under the hood.
The Rally Cars 02 sound effect library includes 81 sounds at 24bit / 96kHz, recorded at actual rally service areas.
It includes Pass-bys, idles, revvings and other car engine sounds. Wroom!
Kyma Ambiences [USO003] is the third sound effects bundle created by Matteo Milani.
The generation of these “Artificial Reality Ambiences” starts entirely in Symbolic Sound Kyma from the processing of white and pink noise by filtering – in the time/spectral domains – and convolving these sources with custom FM, additive, formant and granular synthesis. The composition’s resource of sound material is drawn solely from these processed stochastic sound elements: coloured noise is a raw material already full of life and can be sculpted into a variety of temporal forms, movements and textures.
The interaction with Kyma was typical of a composer who explored a device’s potential for sound transformation like a musical instrument. The goal was to obtain an organic and acoustic quality using only a restricted sound source, in order to evoke real spatial characteristics attached to each invented sound.
The “Kyma Ambiences vol.1” sound effects collection is published @ 96kHz (native) – and is also available as dual-layer separated “Elements”, suitable for recombinant stratification, varispeed and spatial positioning in the surround field (for a total of 112 files @ 96kHz).
Need background passbys for your interior scene?
ROOM TYRE | Tyre-only vehicle passbys from an interior house perspective.
Included are a solid selection of singular residential passbys (recorded with an EV) and general traffic passes (meticulously stripped of combustion engines). As the world transitions to electric vehicles, this collection will ensure your tracklays are up to date with the smooth sound of electric transportation!
These passbys were recorded through a single pane of glass in order to maximise the ability to tweak the perspective and proximity with filtering when desired.
Supplement your scenes with a range of singular-vehicle passby speeds (20, 30 and 40mph / ~ 30, 50, 70 km/h) and tarmac conditions (dry, semi-wet and wet). ROOM TYRE makes sure you have a compelling set of high-end, future-proof and dependable passbys ready whenever you need them.
96KHZ 24BIT • 6.83GB • 742 FILES • STEREO • META DATA
Elevate your sci-fi sound design to cinematic heights with SCIFI PASSBY [DESIGNER SERIES] – a cutting-edge sound effects library that offers a vast array of futuristic pass-by sounds.
With over 240 high-quality source sounds, you’ll have the creative freedom to craft your own unique vehicle pass-bys and whooshes, perfect for adding depth and character to your sci-fi projects.
The source sounds in SCIFI PASSBY are diverse and dynamic, ranging from airy hums and seamless loops to choppy glitches and distorted burn-like layers. You’ll also find rotor and propeller sounds, synth layers, and heavily processed vocalized layers that can add a futuristic touch to your soundscapes.
In addition to the source sounds, this sound effects library features 500 meticulously designed pass-bys and whooshes, including layered engine sounds that evolve towards the middle of the file, as well as designed rotor and propeller effects.
With baked-in Soundminer’s and Soundly’s meta data, SCIFI PASSBY offers seamless integration into your workflow.
Whether you’re designing futuristic vehicles for films, video games, or other multimedia projects, this sound effects library is a must-have resource.
All designed pass-bys are left-to-right. In order to change direction of the pass-by flip the pan or split them to mono.
Download includes:
96KHZ 24BIT version
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + MKH8040, MKH8060, DPA4060, PCMD100
EDITED, CREATED AND MASTERED WITH: Pro Tools, Live, Brusfri, Reaktor, Traveler, Soundtoys, DMG Audio, Fabfilter, Plugin Alliance.
The independent sound effects community offers you a huge collection of vehicle sound effects libraries - giving you everything from sounds of propeller and jet aircraft & helicopters, bicycle sounds, car sound effects, and motorcycle recordings, to sounds of ships, drones, trains, trucks, busses, and vans. You also get uncommon categories like designed spacecraft sounds, and military-type vehicles.
The vehicles are driven, flown, sailed and handled in all sorts of ways to give you a great selection of sounds to work with. And with so many different vehicle brands available, you'll stand an excellent chance of finding the sound of exactly the one that matches your project.
Acceleration, braking, driving, engine, honk, jet, landing, motor, sailing, skid, speed, takeoff, throttle, transmission
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Animal Hyperrealism Vol III is a library containing sounds themed animal vocalisations, from real to designed creatures totaling more than 1700 individual sounds in 279 files.
The sounds were recorded in zoos and wildlife centers. The asset list includes but is not limited to: european red deers, monkeys, reindeers, hornbills camels, crickets, tamarins, boars, frogs, red ruffed lemurs, parrots, and many more.
The content has been recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K plus a Sennheiser 8050 for center image and a couple of Sennheiser MKH8040 for stereo image.
Part of the cheats section of the library features samples recorded at 384KHz. For these sounds an additional microphone was employed, specifically the CMPA by Avisoft-Bioacoustics which records up to 200 KHz. This microphone was used to record most of the library but the 384KHz format was preserved only where energy was found beyond 96KHz not to occupy unnecessary disk space.
All files are delivered as stereo bounce of these for mics, though in some instances an additional couple of CO100K was added to the sides.
The resulting ultrasonic spectrum is rich and allows for truly extreme manipulation of the content.
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.
Animal Hyperrealism Vol I is a library containing sounds themed animal vocalisations, from real to designed creatures totaling more than 1300 individual sounds in 290 files.
The sounds were partly recorded with animals trained for media production, partly recorded in zoos and wildlife centers. The asset list includes but is not limited to: african lions, bengal tigers, horses, donkeys, cows, exotic birds, owls, bobcats, pumas, dromedaries, wolves, dogs, geese, lemurs, gibbons and many more.
All the content has been recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K plus a Sennheiser 8050 for center image and a couple of Sennheiser MKH8040 for stereo image. All files are delivered as stereo bounce of these four mics, though in some instances an additional couple of CO100K was added to the sides.
The resulting ultrasonic spectrum is rich and allows for truly extreme manipulation of the content.
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