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Vehicle sound effects and recordings – cars, helicopters, motorcycles, airplanes, ships, trains and sci-fi
“Mini Minor complete” is all you need for sonic reproduction of the amazing Morris Mini-Minor.
An 1969 Mini-Minor MK1 from, 850cc engine was captured with multiple microphones at several use-cases.
This package delivers signals for both motor granular reproduction, as well as continuous drive sequences for linear sound design. One-shots of horn, doors and turn signals are also part of the package.
The vehicle was captured using 4 microphones:
All microphones where recorded using a Zoom F8
Note that this pack does not include static rev recordings for cross-fading techniques. However, there are plenty of different excelaration recordings that are greate for granular synthesis engine emulation.
All of these synced signals are made of mono, stereo and ambisonic and may be easily mixed to achieve your desired sound or listening perspective.
This library of a 2001 Aprilia Falco with a very smooth yet fast sounding 4-stroke engine, 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, as well as foley.
The Falco is a sport-touring machine produced by Aprilia between 2001 and 2005. It can reach a top speed of 246 km/h and can go from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.2 seconds.
Specifications : 60° V-twin, Four stroke, 997cc, 118 HP, 6 gears, Custom LeoVince exhaust pipe.
Multiple mic perspectives
This sound pack includes 14 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 ambiant perspective. The library also includes a custom mix of onboard mics for an easy integration.
Gear used
Sound Devices MixPre-6 II • Zoom F6 • Zoom H6 • Sound Devices 722 • Neumann Kmr81i • LOM MikroUsi • LOM Usi Pro • Sennheiser MKH 8040 • Sennheiser MKH30 • Oktava MK012 • RODE NTG1 • RODE NTG3 • RODE NTG5 • Shure SM57
Metadata
This sound library is UCS compliant and comes with fully embedded metadatas compatible with Soundly, Soundminer and Basehead.
All Aboard!
Commercial Aircraft Interior contains a distinct collection of ambient recordings taken onboard commercial aircraft flights over the North Atlantic.
Our Audio Craftsman captured the various stages of an aircraft journey including general onboard ambiences, the plane idling on the runway, take off & landing and some sounds taken from the baggage claim and check-in sections of the airport.
There are also wallas in various languages and the sounds of passengers shuffling in their seats and putting on their seatbelts. We captured recordings from two different plane journeys to get a variety of sounds. This library includes over 50 minutes of audio content, giving you all the ingredients you need to design compelling aircraft and airport soundscapes.
All audio files have been carefully edited so that you can simply drop them into your project timeline and are provided dry in 24Bit 96kHz allowing for further sonic manipulation if required. All files are tagged with extensive metadata and are UCS compliant.
SUV Dirt Track Racing contains extensive sound effects of two racing SUVs (Ford F-150 2004 and Ford Explorer 2004) recorded on a speedway in Ontario, Canada. With an amazing collection of driving, revving and racing sounds in different perspectives, this library gives you that full throttle, pedal to the metal sound that you only get from genuine racing vehicles.
Our Audio Craftsmen have sourced engine sounds of the modified SUVs from interior – exterior perspectives, exhaust nodes, and engine perspectives. We also recorded sounds of the SUV’s racing each other, including high revs, drifting through gravel, pass bys, suspension sounds and much, much more.
The library also includes sounds of a driver getting inside the car, opening doors, putting on helmets and seatbelts, starting the engine, turning off the engine etc. We captured both vehicles in isolation and racing each other – driving constantly, passing by, engine idles and explosive revs.
All of the sounds were captured using either a Sanken CS-M1 or a DPA 4060, carefully edited and ready to be used straight away in your projects. They can be used to represent many different types of Racing Vehicle, SUV, Motorbike, Muscle Car due to the nature of their engines being pushed to the limit during recording.
Alien Game Sound Effects library is 650 extra-terrestrial sound effects, all royalty-free, Includes big explosion sounds, alien creature voices, robot voices, futuristic weapon sounds, plasma pistol shots, blaster gun sounds, alien ships and more. Get all the essentials plus all the extras to make any interactive audio project sound like astronomical genius. With 4.28 GB of royalty-free audio assets you’ll be well on your way to exploring distant alien territories. On sale!
Grand prix circuit (a motorsport race track) FX sound library with sounds of the race and ambiance of the race including: near, mid and far field recordings as well as backstage/boxes ambiance etc.. Recorded in Automotodrom Grobnik, Croatia.
Metadata tagged with detail description of the mic placement/orientation, mic and mic technique used and object of recording. Check the track list for additional info.
Curated from an extensive vehicle workup of a 2001 Saleen Mustang from The Odyssey Collection by Academy Award®-winners Mark Mangini & Richard L. Anderson, this library includes a wide variety of powerful car recordings from different angles, distances, speeds, and perspectives.
What is a workup? A workup is a thorough series of recordings of the same subject from many different perspectives. Having these options at your fingertips helps to quickly and intuitively cut sound effects for a scene without needing to reuse or process sounds to make them fit the picture.
Streamline your sound editing workflow with expertly recorded car sound effects from the 2001 Saleen Mustang including ignition, engine revving, idling, driving sequences in forward and reverse on various terrains, pass bys, tire skids, door and trunk open and close, horn honks, engine rumbles, and more.
This workup also includes a selection of multi-mono recordings, which offers the choice of different mic positions from the same recording. And each sound is embedded with rich, descriptive metadata for lightning-fast, pinpoint search results.
Vehicle Workup: 2001 Saleen Mustang is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Standard.
The Urban Elements sound effects library delivers all of the sonic ingredients you need to seamlessly customize your city environments. Fill out your metropolitan soundscape with over 300 city recordings captured by sound designer Eric A. Norris (Ford v Ferrari, Spider-Man: Homecoming), including vehicles like cars, buses, and motorcycles, plus tire squeals, isolated horn honks, pedestrian vocalizations, emergency sirens, and more.
Recorded above the constant sonic energy of the iconic Hollywood & Vine intersection in Los Angeles, these pristine, indirect city sound effects were captured with a natural reverb that blends perfectly into any city background. Build your urban environment with the sounds of helicopter flyovers, street drummers, trash can clatters, car alarms, and more. Create sonically rich and realistic downtown cityscapes with the flexibility of clean, individual elements of urban life.
Descriptive embedded metadata helps you find exactly the sound you need to quickly find the components you need to start creating your bustling boroughs and active city-centers.
Urban Elements is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Standard.
The Sonomar Collection: Trains is a collection of 53 train recordings that is sure to embolden your projects with the raw power of a 200-ton diesel locomotive. Explore the vast array of steam hisses, metal clanks, and squeals that this library has to offer. Use this versatile collection to provide your scenes with train arrivals, departures, and idles, or enhance them with crossing bells, air valve releases, and passenger walla.
This library features a wide variety of trains including a 1907 steam train, modern electric commuter trains, diesel freight trains and more. From simple pass bys and horn blasts to the unique rattles of wagon couplings connecting, supply your project with the specific train sound your scene requires. Lengthy onboard recordings and train station ambiences allow you to supplement your scenes with an authentic backdrop.
Each sound file is embedded with diligent metadata to help you find the exact sound effect you need with fast, pinpoint search. Enable creativity with detailed descriptions of each recording encompassing both literal sonic qualities as well as the images they invoke. Advanced metadata fields ensure compatibility across any database search platform such as Search by PSE, Soundminer, BaseHead, Netmix, Workspace (Pro Tools), Find Tool (Media Composer), Media Bay (Nuendo), Reaper, Adobe Premiere, and beyond.
Here is a collection of car sounds recorded from the interior and the exterior.
The Nissan Versa Note is a subcompact four-door hatchback car. We focused on capturing all the functions other than driving as aeration, windows, doors, knobs, hood, light, windshield, …
BMW X1 sDrive 18d 2018 is our new library. This time we recorded this awesome car with several mics all around!
All files are recorded 24bit, 96 kHz, with Rode NTG1 and Shure VP88 microphones. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds.
Recording of a McLaren 570S from 2016 with a V8 biturbo rear mid-engine with rear wheel drive and a 7-speed clutch.
The McLaren 570S sound effects collection gathers 235 clips in 19.73 gigabytes of audio. It features the sound of the 2016 model of the British sports car and its 8-cylinder biturbo and rear mid-engine with rear wheel drive and a 7-speed clutch.
A total of 12 synchronized takes showcase 11 onboard and 8 exterior perspectives. The exterior microphones capture driving at slow, medium, and fast speeds while the car departs, arrives, passes, as well as idles and starts and stops. The onboard microphones present driving at steady RPMs, with gearshifts, and with ramps from the interior, engine, and exhaust, with ready-to-use mixes of each perspective.
The collection includes Reaper and Pro Tools mixing sessions, full professional metadata embedded in every clip, and metadata import files for 7 languages.
This bundle features recordings of sounds from 4 BMW cars:
This library will get you all of the powerful sounds of a Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk that has a 707 horsepower, Hellcat 6.2L V8 Engine. Using the onboard, exterior, and interior recordings, it allows you to create any car sound your heart desires to bring your video game, or film to another level.
Included Recordings:
• On Board slow, medium, fast accelerating, shifting, and reversing as well as general driving
• Exterior Pass bys, take offs, pull ups, and more
• Interior general driving, speed ups and more
Unique recording of the world’s only running Tiger II heavy tank, also known as a King Tiger II Ausf. B, Köningstiger, or Royal Tiger, equipped with a German V-12 Maybach HL 230 P30 gasoline engine with 700 PS (690 hp, 515 kW).
The GMC Savana (identical to a Chevrolet Express) is one of the most popular vans in North America. It has a 6.0L, small block V8, 361 hp engine with a 6-speed automatic transmission. This library features a full range of speeds and performances, recorded from interior, onboard (engine/tailpipe) and exterior perspectives of a 2010 model. Also included is a full compliment of doors (front, side, rear and hood), chimes, switches, power windows, gearshift and the horn.
Get the sounds of a Sea Doo RXT 260 RS jet-ski with a four stroke four cylinder Rotax engine. It consists of six channels, two engine, one exhaust, one engine air-filter and left and right passenger back. It contains engine start ups and stops on land and in water, steady rpms, blips, slow and fast take offs, ramps and reckless driving. The recording length is 16 min 1 s.
This collection is really immersive, distant noises in large halls, people walking away to catch their train and much more.
Presenting my 2nd car sound library, featuring detailed recordings from a 2019 Range Rover Sport. Whether you’re looking for realistic vehicle sounds or creatively designed elements, this pack has everything you need to bring your on screen vehicle to life!
Low-price. High-quality. Essential.
An essential collection of 150 golf cart sounds, including travelling on concrete, gravel & grass from multiple perspectives, starting & stopping as well as seamless travel loops!
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!)
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If you’re looking for a pack filled with classic whooshes…THIS IS NOT IT! Oh yes, there are some classic whooshes in here, but also so much more.
Ultimate Whoosh is a combination of 6 mini packs. Get a complete collection of whooshes perfect for your project’s transitions, magic spells, vehicle passbys and flybys, character power-ups, weapons, and more.
In the sound pack, you will find whooshes and flybys including Abstract Whooshes, Elemental Whooshes, Flybys, Stingers, Textured Whooshes, Metal, Organic, Sci-fi, and many more.
All sounds in the Ultimate Whoosh sound pack are drag-and-drop ready for your project. Every audio file is UCS compatible and can be easily searched and found as they are meticulously organized with metadata chunks including description and keywords among others.
Train, Train Station, Railway Ambience
Including: train sounds, trains passing by, different perspectives and distances, In urban and remote area etc.; Many types of trains, locomotives, service train vehicles etc.; Train horns;
Mechanical, pneumatics sounds. Train stationary sounds.
Train station/railway ambience, both interior (inside building, room tone) end exterior. Crowd. PA announcement, train operator whistling etc.. Train station soundwalk. Restaurant…Train station in city and in rural; Rail crossing; Train room tone. Locomotive room tone;
Structure borne sound of train passing by, sound recorded with contact mics on railways; Recorded in daytime and nighttime, all year round. Total time is approx. 280 mins. Comprehensive train FX library. European railways, trains, recorded in Europe.
Various microphone setups used as well as microphones. Depends on application. Description and equipment info in metadata chunk.
Edited RAW recordings ready to use. No dynamic manipulation (compressors/limiters) used, max. peak level: -5dBFS. No recorder’s limiter used during recording – full dynamic recordings.
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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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.
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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