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Vehicle sound effects and recordings – cars, helicopters, motorcycles, airplanes, ships, trains and sci-fi
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
Ambisonic City (Berlin) delivers a spherical surround sound image of a modern European city. It features a vast variety of traffic sounds from vehicles, public transport trains, trams and airplanes that were captured at crowded intersections, various squares and arterial roads and the Tegel airport. As complementary counterpart the library also contains recordings from wide open spaces, recreation areas, public parks and side roads.
The recordings were made with the Sennheiser Ambisonic microphone and the encoded B-Format FuMa files are ready to use for speaker arrays of any number.
Ambisonic City (Berlin) is available in two versions:
Ambisonic and Stereo
The Ambisonic version delivers 4 channel B-Format (FuMa, WXYZ) files recorded with the Ambeo VR microphone in upright position.
The Stereo version contains the same number of files with equal playing length, but, as the name suggestions, only in stereo versions.
This is an Ambisonics sound effects library – and by using the free SoundField SurroundZone 2 plugin you can convert the included B-format files into your preferred format (stereo, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0 or 7.1 surround).
The Mediterranean Summertime SFX library includes 120 selections dedicated to life and the atmosphere of both glitz and off-beat Mediterranean islands, during summertime. We follow tourists in well known busy bays, as well as head out to quieter destinations recommended by locals.
Get the sound of the Tunturi Maxi ‘Pappatunturi’, a Finnish moped model from 1974 with 2 gears and pedals. The library features external, onboard and foley recordings. OnBoard recordings feature 3 different channels: Engine1, Engine2 and Exhaust. All 3 channels of OnBoard sounds can be layered and will line up nicely in your audio editor.
The LAX Aircraft library features descending aircraft flyovers at Los Angeles International Airport. One advantage of LAX is that it’s nestled in the city, making it easy to stand directly under very low flying airplanes to capture a great sound.
A range of aircraft was recorded for this release, including the Airbus A330, Boeing 737, 747, and Bombardier 800.
Two different microphone positions were used: One facing the oncoming aircraft, and the other pointing in the opposite direction to capture the flyover and further decent as the aircraft lands.
Brand New Sci-Fi Ambiences from The Library by Empty Sea. 6+ GB, 150+ sounds, almost 3 hours of material, all 96k, all looped for easy use.
Meet Sybelle de Bauvais, a beautiful Percheron mare who helped us record this sound collection.
Recorded with and without the carriage, the libraries features this huge draft horse walking, trotting and galloping on various surfaces such as concrete, dirt, gravel, sand, grass and others.
For the carriage, microphones were positionned on various positions to capture a large variety of metal rattles, squeaks and creaking sounds. The library also contains clean hoove sounds recorded with microphones mounted on, or following the rider.
Multiple mic perspectives
This sound pack includes multiples channels of onboard perspectives around the carriage and the horse, capturing the wheels, the hooves, the frame or the harness.
Gear used
Sound Devices MixPre-6 II • Zoom F6• Sound Devices 722 • Neumann Kmr81i • LOM Usi Pro • Sennheiser MKH416 • Tascam DR-40 • LOM MikroUsi
Metadata
This sound library is UCS compliant and comes with fully embedded metadatas compatible with Soundly, Soundminer and Basehead.
This is a sound library of an electric Hyundai IONIQ 5.
The library has 74 audio takes of onboard audio covering a wide variety of sounds, any variation this car can do while outputting audio via an inbuilt speakers system. This includes accelerations of various intensities, variations of deceleration, continuous driving, emergency braking and throttle variations.
The audio was captured by micing up the speaker of the vehicle but also has takes with an additional microphone next to the motor in the back of the vehicle. Enjoy.
Including sounds of driving off-road, road, macadam road, interior/exterior of the vehicle… near, mid, far-field, rough terrain, snow, gravel…
Land Rover Defender FX sound library. In this library, you can find numerous sounds of tdi 300 (2.4 litre, 113 HP) diesel engine of this iconic 4×4 vehicle. Apart from engine sounds, there are sounds of the interior of the vehicle like: switches, vents, ventilators, door opening, hand/parking brake, window opening, etc. Recorded in two positions, near field and midfield. These sounds are in sync so you can mix them together if needed. There are recorded “room tones” of vehicle: in drive, stationary-engine off, while raining, on a windy day, etc.
Sounds of the exterior like: doors, windows opening/close, engine start, engine running, engine off, etc. are also here.
Furthermore, sounds of driving on the road, macadam road, off-road, in woods with branches scratching the vehicle, sounds of gravel under the tires (external mic., recorded in motion) are here too. You can also find sounds of the vehicle driving (with mics placed on the roof rack) on asphalt road and macadam road. Just listen to library preview.
Every file is metadata tagged with a description of action recorded, mic used, and placement.
Game Audio Engines sound library was built from 311 WAV files, with a total length of 193 minutes. It features recordings of 22 different cars. Inside you’ll find engine on / off sounds, idle loops, rpm loops, rpm ramps, interior recordings and stems. Each car features a different set of recordings, and you can see the exact specification in the table down below. Cars that are part of this library:
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.
This library gets you 130 minutes of stereo recordings from an intense off-road motorcycle racing event, captured on a late autumn day with ideal weather conditions.
Two-stroke and four-stroke engines compete together. The race track is about seven kilometers long with a high difference in elevation. The library features sounds such as race starts, test laps, roaring passbys, struggling engines as the bikes go up and down the hills, single bikes and groups + lots more sounds from the event.
I took out a MZ TS150 2 stroke Motorcycle and recorded approaches, departures, pass bys, circling in a grass parking lot, engine revs, idoling, etc.
I recorded this library with 2x dpa 4060s, 2x ME2, an sm57, sennheiser 416 and a pair of cm3s recorded in an xy pattern. I set up the cm3s on a mic stand, and followed the action with the 416, with 5 onboard microphones capturing sounds on the bike as well.
In the 179 files, there are 8 syncable takes of pass by's at different rpms with the onboards and 2 different exterior perspectives. Everything has been labeled in Soundly with metadata.
You will find what you need to cover any small 2 stroke engine motorcycle in here. With purchase, I offer you to email me at [email protected] and I will send you the protools session that has the sync'd files and original audio if you would like even more coverage of individual microphones (if that is something you are into). Feel free to email me with any inquiries before purchase.
‘The Excavator’ by Cinematic Sound Design delivers a collection of recordings in pristine 24 Bit / 96 Khz. Captured using highest quality equipment providing a discrete signal path, such as Sound Devices 702 and a pair of Neumann KM 184, this collection features engine & bucket sounds from Neuson 3602 rd excavator, suitable for your car & construction games, visual projects etc.
In total, you will get 43 field recording sounds totalling over 10 minutes of engine & bucket recordings, captured from different perspectives.
Product Details:
• 43 Field Recording sounds
• Engine Sounds
• Powering ups, pumping, speed ups, powering downs
• Excavator bucket sounds
• Shakings, digging, rattle
The first mobile roomtone library! Parked Cars is a collection of roomtones of car interiors at different times of day, often in the same locations with both windows up and windows down.
This library covers inner city, suburb, and a little country around the Los Angeles area
This is all mastered for Ambisonic B and Stereo, but can be further decoded into various surround formats
This library presents a vintage Gordini race car from 1947, recorded on a private race track.
We captured a full lap and a half with three onboards microphones and a Schoeps MS for the exterior pass bys.
Why a lap and a half ? Because the car broke down mid track, which made for several fantastic engine failure sounds.
Witness the powerful loud (LOUD) sound of this vintage beauty and its trumpeting exhaust from hell.
Recording setup:Onboards microphones routed to a MixPre6 :
Engine – Shure SM11
Exhaust – Shure SM11
Cockpit – DPA4061
Exterior passes recorded with a Schoeps MK4/MK8 to a Cooper CS104.
This 2005 Toyota Highlander is a mid-size crossover SUV with a 3.3L, V6, 225 hp engine. With a full range of speeds and performances, onboard and exterior, this collection provides the material needed for edgy car chases down to suburban trips to the grocery store. Another solid everyday car to add to your library.
You’ll also get a full compliment of doors, switches and power windows that can extend the use of this collection far beyond regular car sounds. Useful source material for creating high tech devices and gadgets.
The Complete Amusement Park Sound Effects Bundle includes two sound libraries featuring various amusement rides, roller coaster pass bys with and without screaming, amusement park ambiences, and more.
Most sounds were recorded with LCR (Left, Center, Right) microphone setup with a tracking handheld mono shotgun microphone. Stereo downmixes are included for extra convenience.
If you are searching for high-quality amusement park sound effects library with a lot of useful content, this is the bundle for you.
• 5 roller coasters
• Multi-microphone
• Pass by & onboard
• 10.3 gigabytes
• More details about this library
• 8 amusement rides
• Amusement park ambiences
• 5.4 gigabytes
• More details about this library
Dirt & Asphalt Volume 2 is the second addition of vehicle and transportation recordings from Output Audio. This library contains a selection of recordings from two motocross events and two practise sessions, with additional bonus content provided as race atmospheres.
AMCA Motocross Classes Included:
MX1/MX2/Experts/Seniors Unlimited classes
Engine Sizes Included:
85cc/125cc/250cc/450cc engines
All bikes have been recorded externally at a range of driving speeds performing stunts and manoeuvres in a competitive race environment. Jumps, pass bys and accelerations from groups and individual riders are all included so the content can be used to recreate a wide range of motorbike driving action!
Volkswagen Golf V 1.6 FSI is a small sound effects library featuring the engine recorded onboard (engine/exhaust/drivers cabin in sync) and exterior passes. Regular driving, accelerations, reverse, engine on/idle/off, rpm ramps (recorded with microphones onboard), and exterior perspective covering passes with different speeds, stopping and reverse sound effects. Recorded with a Sound Devices 702, Zoom F8, Rode NTG3, two Sennheisers 8040 and two DPAs 4061 microphones.
Get the sounds of a motorboat, with a Tohatsu 3.5 hp 4-Stroke engine mounted. It features sounds such as starting, neutral and forward speeds, false starts, engine offs, constant forward speed, and more. More than 18 minutes of motorboat sounds are included.
Fully Universal Category System (UCS) compliant sound effects library of a 2021 Porsche Taycan Turbo electric sports car. This library offers detailed recordings of both, onboard and exterior microphone perspectives, as well as various foley effects – 105 files, 1h 23 min 41 sec, a total of 2.06gb (24bit/96khz).
The onboard recordings were captured with 4 microphones and feature Idle, accelerations, drives at various speeds (slow, medium and fast), reverses and even drifting.
The exterior recordings have both stereo and mono perspectives and feature accelerations, pass bys at various speeds (slow, medium and fast), reverses, braking, tire skids and drifting.
Microphones used:
Onboard – Sennheiser MKH 8020 stereo pair, DPA 4060 and Zoom H1 (XY).
Exterior – Neumann KM 184 stereo pair and Sennheiser MKH 8060.
This Sound Effects Library features the recordings of a “90”s Volkswagen Classic Beetle. The sounds in this collection are unique and rare since these cars have been discontinued in most countries since 2003. We were very lucky to find one and rent it to record sound effects that would travel in time.
In this Library, you will find sounds of the engine with interior and exterior perspective, the beetle driving at different speeds, driving maneuvers, turning on and off the car, and foley of most parts of the car, such as doors, trunks, wipers, hood, and many more. There are 50 unique sounds that you could use for your video productions or dynamic Audio.
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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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The Extreme Drift SFX library includes 360 HQ (24bit/96kHz) close and distant range perspective, auto racing recordings. Audio material of vehicles, drifting and maneuvering around race tracks at various speeds and densities taking corners and speeding on long straightaways.
You will find idle engine sounds, powerful engine revs, slow and fast starts, crazy accelerations and wild breaking, roaring overtakings, tandem battles, tire screeches and skids echoing beautifully in the air. The audio found in our library is not limited to startups, shutdowns and gear shifts, but also offers ambiences of pit lane and working team crews.
“Old Engines Grab Bag” is a pack of numerous old, unique and characterful engines from early 1900s. It’s a massive collection of 56GB multitrack 192kHz recordings of old tractors and stationary engines, both diesel and gasoline fueled.
The intention wasn’t to cover vehicles driving, but to get isolated and very closely recorded mechanical elements of engines and exhaust pipes as a source material for sound design. There are many starts, idles, revs, offs, RPMs variations, backfires etc. Some are heavy and large sounding, some are small and funny. Tractors were captured EXT and most of stationary engines INT, but since they are very closely recorded there is just a little amount of reverb on most of them.
Most of engines are 1 or 2 cylinders and low horse power and their RPMs are also low. Thanks to this, many of those sounds aren’t tonal and can easily be used as additional layer with other design elements. They work great for adding vintage character, designing junky or funny vehicles, crazy huge steampunk machines or engines malfunction.
Sounds were recorded using multi-mic setup: Sanken CO-100k (most of the time pointing mechanical parts), Sennheiser MKH-8060 (mainly for isolated exhaust pipe), Schoeps CMC6XT mk41/mk8 (general image) and part also with Trance Audio Inducer contact mics (adding unique mechanical perspective).
The library is delivered as multitrack 192kHz files, as well as stereo mix of all microphones. Thanks to using microphones with extended frequency range, drastic pitch changes can be applied.
All files have extensive metadata created in Soundminer, including leg picker with microphone labels.
Demo files include pitched sounds, which are not delivered with library.
Introducing Extreme Drift 2: the highly anticipated sequel to our acclaimed sound library Extreme Drift!
With 376 audio files recorded at 96kHz/24-bit, experience the thrill of high-speed drifts, powerful engine rev-ups, blistering accelerations, and more.
This time, we’ve added 74 interior perspective files for an immersive cockpit experience. Ideal for filmmakers, game developers, and all audio professionals, Extreme Drift 2 takes your projects to the next level.
Get ready to feel the rush!
SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS
CURATION APPLIED
We meticulously curated each sound, removing unwanted environmental noise and ensuring clarity.
INTUITIVE FOLDER STRUCTURE
Sounds are organized into easily navigable categories:
Drifts
Engine Rev Ups
Accelerations
Pass Bys
Turns
Drive Offs
Interior Perspectives
DETAILED METADATA INCLUDED
Each sound is embedded with comprehensive Soundminer metadata, facilitating effortless browsing and editing across various platforms.
CAR MODELS COVERED
Honda Civic
BMW 320
Peugeot 206
Renault Clio
Subaru Altezza
Subaru Impreza
Toyota Yaris
Need bicycle sound effects? This SFX library delivers more than 650 bike sounds in 125 files, covering everything from cycle gears, chains, crankset, spokes, brakes, the saddle, gearbox, bells, bicycle pumps and valves – and of course lots of wheel sounds, spinning at various speeds.
It also features outdoor ambiences of cycling, bike passes, skids and even some falls.
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