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Vehicle sound effects and recordings – cars, helicopters, motorcycles, airplanes, ships, trains and sci-fi
In-depth recording of a Plymouth Cuda Convertible from 1971 with the extremely rare 426 Hemi engine and a 4-speed transmission.
Only two of these with the manual transmission were produced in 1971 so this car is obviously a clone but a very well built one. An original 1971 HemiCuda convertible is today extremely valuable, selling prices up to $5 million. The engine has 2 x 4-port Carter carburator and is (under)rated 425 horsepower by the factory.
The recording contains eight onboard microphones for interior, engine, intake and exhausts, and eight channels of exterior material.
It includes startup, idle, shutdown, driving at steady rpms, steady rpms in neutral, cruising, ramps, accelerations and decelerations through gears, approaches, passbys, aways as well as some foley like doors, hoods and knobs. Total recording length is 37m 39s.
Aged Truck features a variety of characteristic sounds from an old classic truck. From idling engines to acceleration and deceleration, as well as different perspectives of steady and casual driving, this sound library strives to capture the essence of classic trucking. It also includes detailed recordings of doors, gear sticks, pedals, and various levers and switches. Hear the metallic clatter of shifting gears during a drive, and the abrupt halt of an engine stalling mid-motion.
This library includes total 100 files, consisting of 65 mono files and 35 stereo files recorded in ORTF at 96 kHz. Approx. 1 hour and 29 minutes total.
Certainly, this library was carefully tagged with rich Soundminer metadata, including marks in the recordings highlighting interesting sounds.
All the recordings were recorded, edited and mastered with love and care.
Haunting, metallic creaks and moans of a ship’s steps as it shifts with the sea in Reykjavik Harbour. Recorded with a LOM Geofon this sound library contains eerie, dissonant textures and deep resonant tones, ideal for abandoned, post-apocalyptic or ghostly atmospheres.
Bring intense combat to life with over 1500 high-quality sound effects crafted for melee, action, and close-combat scenes. From breakables and steel clashes to swooshes and magical impacts, this ultimate fight pack delivers powerful audio for video games, films, and action projects. Each sound is engineered to bring out the raw intensity of battle. Perfect for any high-stakes battle scenario!
Own the entire Studio Obsidian library, over 18 hours and 10,000 sounds recorded and sculpted by sound designer Nathan Moody. This bundle includes:
ANALOGUE ORDNANCE: Science Fiction Weapon Construction Kit
MICROMECH: Small Mechanism Manipulation
SHIPSCAPE: Shipboard Ambiences
METALMOTION: Moving Metallic Textures
ULTRASQUISH: Unique Ultrasonic Gore
AEOLUS: Dark Wind Textures
METALLITRONIC: Vibrating Metal Textures
SIGIL: Dark Electro-Acoustic Textures
Introducing the first library of the Bicycles Sound Effects series; Bicycles: Trainer.
This is a focused collection of 98 high-quality sounds in 58 files that captures every nuance of trainer bicycles with exceptional clarity.
It has a comprehensive range of a variety of sounds from different trainer bikes, including magnetic and fluid trainers.
What’s Inside:
– Pedal and Chain Noises: Smooth pedalling, rhythmic clicks, and chain movement unique to trainer setups.
– Rides on the Trainer: at different speeds (from 3 perspectives: front, back, rider), bicycle hub sounds, brake sounds, gear shifter sounds, cyclist shoe sounds, trainer setup sounds, and accessory sounds like water bottle clicks, towel movements, and fan noises.
– Resistance Adjustments: Distinct sounds of changing resistance levels, from soft shifts to heavy gear transitions.
– Cadence and Speed Variations: Sounds at different cycling speeds, from gentle warm-ups to intense sprints.
– Multiple Sound Perspectives: Features mono close-up, distant, and onboard recordings to match any project need.
100% royalty-free – comes with intuitive naming and detailed description – UCS compatible.
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What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Bavaria 36 Sailing Boat for access to 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.
Mercedes-Benz Axor 1840 is another option with 54 pristine sounds with multi-channel tracks of exterior and onboard perspectives; ranging from engine starts and stops, rev-up, idle, gearshifts, accelerating and decelerating to constant and high, medium, low RPM, driving slowly and fast.
A collection of vehicle passbys. From big to small and fast to slow, all sorts of cars are recorded on dry concrete.
This is a sound library containing a wide variety of remote controlled and mechanical toy sounds.
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This Sound-Pack features a diversity of 84 Samples including Norway’s bests Waterfalls, Rivers, Ocean Shores, City Life, Harbours, Ferrys, Birds, Ice Cream Trucks and many more !
The Oshkosh M-ATV is a mine-resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicle developed by the Oshkosh Corporation (USA). This Sound Effects Library contains a total of 110 sound effects (93 files). All files were recorded at 96kHz/24-bit.
Unleash ultimate destruction with this epic collection of over 300 audio files of Cinematic AAA Quality EXPLOSION sound effects (101 original SFX). Whether your project is an epic war movie, an alien invasion TV show, a gritty FPS or Strategy game, or involves any other industrial / warfare or construction setting, you’ll have everything you could ever need and more with this earth-shaking collection.
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Choose from a huge selection of bigger-than-reality sounds for every situation, including MATERIAL sounds such as GLASS, LIQUID, STONE, CONCRETE, METAL, GAS, SNOW / ICE, WATER, ELECTRICITY / PLASMA and GENERIC explosions, designed to fullest detail, including CRACKING, BURSTS, EARTHQUAKES, ELECTRICITY NOISES and DEBRIS. All available in a variety of SIZES, LENGTHS, COMPLEXITIES, COMPLEX SOUND SEQUENCES and OTHER VARIATIONS.
SIMPLE TO USE, POWERFUL RESULTS
Each and every audio file has been expertly mixed and mastered by our experienced sound design team to fit perfectly into any mix, with meretricious labelling and keywords so you can spend less time searching and more time enhancing your project with epic sounds! This collection is supplied in both WAV and MP3 format for your convenience, and is drag-and-drop ready, so you can create the ultimate warzone, industrial carnage or most realistic construction site in minutes!
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MASSIVE SAVINGS: The Modern Warfare Sound Effects Bundle brings together crucial military sounds—weapons, explosions, vehicles (across air, water, and land), battlefield ambiences, and soldier voiceovers—into one all-encompassing package. Purchase the bundle and achieve significant savings over buying individual packs. Click here to discover the bundle and maximize your savings!
It made sense whilst driving to Manchester that we should record the journey there and back for a Interior car ambience sample pack
We recorded the ambience of Ford Fiesta 1.25L driving on the motorway and around Town
This includes:
Ambiences at different speeds
Ambiences for different road surfaces
Ambience changes due to Rev’s
Departing from a stop position
Slowing to a stop position
Joining the Motorway
Exiting the Motorway
Passing vehicles outside
General groans and movements of a car
Noises when travelling over bumps
Driver Foley
Indicator noises
Car Interior Driving Ambience will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of a car interior driving, boosting your project to the next level. Car Interior Driving Ambience has been edited to allow a drop in ready and Royalty Free sample pack. These Samples can be used in a variety of projects from Sound Designing/Compositions for TV, Film, Documentaries and Video Games. UCS Compliant and Metadata is attached to the samples
Sci-Fi Vehicles Vol. 2 is a collection of 4 sci-fi inspired land vehicles, meticulously designed and crafted from the ground up.
Our Audio Craftsmen used a plethora of sound design techniques to create 4 unique land-based crafts, each inspired by a particular shape, size, material, or purpose;
Electric Hoverbike – A personal use vehicle to get where you need to be, as smoothly as possible.
Fire Speeder – A land speeder similar in shape to a modern box car, with 3 fire fuelled thrusters.
Space Bike – The extra-terrestrial equivalent to the Harley Davidson.
Future Dystopia Car – Mad Max meets Dune. A combination of modern motor car and future technology.
For each vehicle you will find sounds covering engine turn on, idle, speed up, slow down and turn off, alongside 12 pass by’s at various speeds and distances.
This library is a perfect addition to sci-fi Film, TV & Game trailers, or productions with a futuristic, experimental or abstract edge. Use these sounds in projects to inject larger than life, futuristic textures into your vehicle sound design.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
A large, ambitious and carefully assembled collection of authentic P-51 Mustang exteriors. It contains dramatic flybys, takeoffs, landings, taxis, runups, and formations at various speeds, distances, and microphone patterns. All sounds are recordings of real events and have not been designed or altered aside from basic clean-up. Recorded and meticulously edited and tagged for over a decade. Perfect for documentaries, war movies, and video games.
224 files – 153 Stereo, 71 Mono. 98 minutes of audio.
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– External recording
– 2 Spots, 4 mics
– Eng start, idle, maneuvers, drive, reverse, shtdwn, passby, doors, trunk, hood, wipers, fuel filler neck and etc
– Slow, medium and fast
– 96 KHz, 24 bit
– 4 x schoeps ccm (card and omni), 2 sys AB, Zoom F8
– 2h 15min
SPOT A – sys AB – approx. 0,5 м. 2 x schoeps ccm4 (card)
SPOT B – sys AB – approx. 0,5 м. 2 x schoeps ccm3 (omni)
P.S. See car interior sounds for UAZ-452 in our products
Textures, recordings and soundscapes of the sea, coastline, harbour, harbour-industry, port, beach in summer, boats, ship, seagulls and other
(for film and multimedia ready)
This sound library contains:
Recordings of the boats, fisherman boat/ship (in navigation, in the port), powerboat, big ship, etc. Variety of sound perspectives, from super close to distant ones. Some recordings are intentionally recorded in mono with shotgun microphone (Sennheiser MKH 60-P48) to get direct clean sound (for use in video Foley or in audio post) on vessels in navigation.
Close up recordings of the sea (surface), cavity in the rocks, peddles washed by the sea, walking on the beach,…many different sea waves sounds are captured, sound of the sea storms, rough sea, etc. Check the sound list for additional info.
Soundscapes of the seaside (remote ones included), shores, harbour (industry), small port ambiances; soundscapes of the coastline. Nocturnal sounds/recording included.
17.2 GB or 5h 24min of high quality recordings recorded over years in all seasons and in all weather/sea conditions.
Recorded with professional audio equipment, Sound Devices Recorder/mixer, and Sennheiser mics mostly. Majority of the recordings are recorded in MS stereo (excellent mono compatibility for film, radio program etc.), but in other stereo techniques like XY, AB, NOS as well for more precise focus on detail or wider stereo image (regarding the object of rec.). Metadata tagged with a detailed description of mic positioning, mic tech. and equipment used.
Max peak level is around -5dBFS. No compressors or dynamic tools were used in editing nor limiters during recording (natural dynamic of the recordings maintained).
Our Motorcycle Sound Collection contains an extensive selection of recordings for a wide variety of bikes, ranging from off-road warriors to street ninjas and highway cruisers.
The detailed recordings comprise multiple tracks of onboard and exterior recordings with pass-bys, start-stops, idles, revs, driving, constant loops at various RPM and acceleration-deceleration ramps for use with granular synthesis tools, helping you design your vehicle sounds both for linear media as well as for interactive engine needs such as games or simulators.
Get a total of 9 individual motorcycle libraries, including 3 that are exclusive to this bundle, all in one attractively priced package.
Multiple mic perspectives
This sound pack includes the recordings of 9 motorcycles with synchronized channels of exterior and onboard perspectives. The exterior recordings are mono and stereo, while the onboard microphones capture the engine and the exhaust. The library also includes some custom mixes of onboard mics for an easy integration.
Gear used
Sound Devices MixPre-6 II • Zoom F6• Zoom H6 • Sound Devices 722 • Neumann Kmr81i • Rode NTG5 • Rode NTG3 • LOM Usi Pro • LOM MikroUsi • Sennheiser MKH 8040 • Sennheiser MKH30 • Oktava MK012 • Rode NTG1• Shure SM57
Metadata
This sound library is UCS compliant and comes with fully embedded metadatas compatible with Soundly, Soundminer and Basehead.
Onboard sounds are from four separate microphones.
Ch1 Engine Left, Ch2 Engine Right, Ch3 Exhaust Left & Ch4 Exhaust Right
This sound library features incredible sound of a rotary engine screaming at 9000 rpms. This flame spitting car runs without catalytic converter, stock air intake was replaced with Racing Beat Revi system and flames are thrown out of Invidia Q300 exhaust. It was recorded onboard with set of microphones under the hood (intake and two engine perspectives), on the back of the car (three exhaust perspectives) + stereo setup on the front seats in sync with engine / exhaust. Various styles of driving were covered, from regular driving through high speed spirited driving, aggressive accelerations up to RPM ramps and slow and steady increase for looping in game audio. Engine start, idle, stepping on the gas repeatedly and burnouts are also included. Exterior passes were recorded in mono and stereo, slow by sounds, fast ones, stopping, and differenty parking maneuvers. This library also features a lot of “foley” kind of recordings, so everything from door sounds to interior effects like handbrake, seatbelts, different locks, turn signals and so on.
This library of a 1998 Aprilia RS 125 contains multiple tracks of onboard and exterior passbys, start-stops, idle, revs, driving, various steady RPMs, arrives, departs, acceleration and deceleration ramps for use in granular synthesis tools.
This two-stroke sport machine, still produced by Aprilia, has been terrorizing the streets ever since it first coughed its way into life in 1992. It can reach a top speed of 120 km/h and helped a generation of adrenaline junkies to get high.
Specifications : Single cylinder, Two-stroke, 125cc, 15 HP, 6 gears.
Multiple mic perspectives
This sound pack includes 9 synchronized channels of exterior and onboard perspectives. The exterior recordings are mono and stereo, while the onboard microphones capture the engine, the exhaust and an ambient perspective.
Gear used
Sound Devices MixPre-6 II • Zoom F6 • Sound Devices 722 • Neumann Kmr81i • LOM Usi Pro • Sennheiser MKH 8040 • Sennheiser MKH30 • Oktava MK012 • RODE NTG1 • RODE NTG5 • Shure SM57
Metadata
This sound library is UCS compliant and comes with fully embedded metadatas compatible with Soundly, Soundminer and Basehead.
In this library you will find sounds of planes taking off and landing and ambient sounds of the airport near the runway.
These sounds were recorded as close to the airport fence as possible.
You will also find in the recordings at certain times an explosion as if it were a shot, these sounds are part of the airport system to keep birds away from the runway.
The name is bird scarer with gas cannon.
These sounds were all recorded with the stereo microphone Audio-Technica BP4025.
After working these sounds in post production, this library comes with 28 incredible airport ambient sounds.
Hello, Pass by!
Traffic Pass Bys is an assortment of single and multiple generic pass bys, featuring cars, buses and motorcycles on wet and dry British roads.
Use these sounds when building your backgrounds and exterior environments. This library also lends itself to creative transitions, and further processing into unique designs.
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 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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