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Vehicle sound effects and recordings – cars, helicopters, motorcycles, airplanes, ships, trains and sci-fi
When snow has fallen on the ground, but time, cars and temperature have made it half melted, it has transformed to ‘slush’, making this distinctive sound when cars pass by.
This Car on Slush sound library is a small collection of cars passing by on slushy roads. As a bonus you will find 2 long ambiences of snowy streets.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz and 24bit, 96 kHz with Rode NTG1, Rode Lavalier and Shure VP88 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds.
The following is a 2.5 Ton diesel powered 2010 Military Truck LMTV (Light Medium Tactical Vehicle)
single license library (3.6gb compressed .rar file, 5.4gb Uncompressed) with Metadata.
For Mac users we recommend UnRarX. For Windows users we recommend WinRar.
All 194 wave files are in 24 Bit, 96 kHz. The Onboard multi-track recordings are in 6 separate mono wave files. Drag & drop or import each of the files into your audio editing software, then align them for creative mixing. There are also ready to use stereo mix versions of the OnBoard recordings. the External sounds are in stereo wave files. The combined driving time is more than 94 minutes long.
Onboard Settings: Ch1 – Engine 1, Ch2 – Exhaust, Ch3 – Cab Left, Ch4 – Cab Right, Ch5 – CargoArea Left, and Ch6 – CargoArea Right
External Settings: Stereo in Left and Right Channels
Notes: If you need specific shots of this truck, Watson is available for hire to re-record this or similar sounding vehicles. Other types of vehicles are also available upon request.
Definitions:
External = Sounds recorded from outside of the vehicle (passbys, etc)
OnBoard = Recording perspectives on and in the vehicle
Cab = Cabin, where the driver and in cab passengers sit
Cargo Area = this is the opened area behind the cabin where troops sit and where cargo is stored.
Ramp = is when vehicle is using a single gear (typically 1st gear) and smoothly driven from idle up the RPM redline, then engine brake back to idle. Ramps are often used in video game software.
SSL34 Volvo XC60 AWD D4 2019. This time we recorded this car with several mics all around!
BMW X1 sDrive 18d 2018 is our new library. This time we recorded this awesome car with several mics all around!
Designing vehicle sounds for motion picture? Done with the engine? Let’s tackle the other 50% – tire, wheel and chassis interactions.
Create highly dynamic and authentic skids, bumps, friction, rolling noise and much more with a high variety of wheel configurations, ground materials and perspectives. Customize and automate everything in real-time!
GRIP requires a free iLok account
Sirens wail! Authentic police, fire brigade, and ambulance siren systems, captured and catalogued for media production use. The recordings were made at distances ranging from 1.5 to 5 meters. Each siren has several subtypes of sound. For all of life’s emergencies, within are the sounds that signal. Neumann U 87 microphones were used for the recordings.
Vintage Air Travel – Planes, airports, stewardesses, pilots, announcements and more.
This pack contains some of the sounds associated with vintage air travel. Not a specific decade (some parts will be suitable for a contemporary setting), but think of the film ‘Catch Me If You Can’, 60s 70s 80s. An era when smoking was still allowed on planes, when PAN AM and TWA ruled the skies. I have created these ambiences, voices and sounds to suit that era.
There are two ‘tourist information’ tapes, based on the audio that would have accompanied a slide show for visitors to London and Los Angeles.
There are public address announcements that you might hear in an airport.
There’s stewardess VO as heard in the cabin of a jumbo jet and stewardess greetings as you board. A few pilot announcements, sounds of busy jumbo jets in-flight from a passenger perspective. A ride in a Cessna, with pilot chatter, planes passing overhead and more. For a full list of sounds, view the excel document, and play the preview file for a taster.
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.
Dacia Sandero II 1.0 SCe sound library features 65 high-quality files recorded with multi-mic setup. Engine was recorded in sync with interior cabin ambient, and you can expect different styles of driving. From casual city driving, through accelerations on a highway up to rpm ramps and constant rpm loops for game audio. In addition to designed sounds, you’ll find raw recordings for each perspective (engine, air intake, exhaust).Â
The Construction Zone library consists of 260 HQ recordings of a wide range of heavy-duty vehicles and construction workers engaged in raucous activities such as driving around, digging holes, flattening surfaces and more, that will satisfy your appetite for… construction!
Specifically, the library comes with sounds of dump trucks moving debris, hungry excavators, bulldozers pushing rocks, loud drilling hammers, cranes, asphalt paving machinery and screeching crawlers. Other sound effects include construction workers hammering, shoveling, sawing, welding and drilling in all kinds of environments such as public roads, cobblestone streets, renovation sites, and other facilities.
Construction Zone library has been captured using both control and stealth field recording techniques. In all those cases, post-production and curation work has created a fine outcome, totaling approximately 7 hours of material.
Overall, the collection caters to projects that require construction site ambiences and/or detailed, close up sounds of heavy machinery. The sounds in this library can also be used as raw audio material for further processing.
Mazda Miata MX5 NBFL 1.6 Stock sound library features 149 high-quality files recorded with multi-mic setup. Engine was recorded in sync with interior cabin ambient, and you can expect different styles of driving. From casual city driving, through accelerations on a highway up to rpm ramps and constant rpm loops for game audio. In addition to designed sounds, you’ll find raw recordings for each perspective (3 engine microphones, air intake, 2 exhaust microphones). Additionally, this library features 30 files with exterior recordings (passes, manoeuvres, approaches, engine start and such) and 22 foley files with recordings of doors, trunk, hood, and interior SFX.Â
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with Rode NTG1, Rode Lavalier and Shure VP88 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds.
In this large bustling European city, transportation means are plentiful, with tramways, metro, bus, trains, boats, bicycles, … Emergency workers have to be heard distinctively above the city’s clamor.
Recorded from the 5th floor of a traditional building, but also at ground level in actual street of Budapest. Hear the natural acoustic of these famous street.
Iconic military truck recorded from all sides and at various distances. There are slow, medium and fast drive-bys, departures and arrivals. The interior was recorded quadraphonically. The exhaust system was taped, as was the engine from under the hood. Microphones used were the Neumann U87, Sennheiser MKH 70, Sennheiser MKH 416, Violet Design’s ‘Amethyst’, and the Schoeps CMC MK4. Also recorded were the doors, gas pedal, wipers, gearbox and ventilation system of this general-purpose off-road beast.
A lite and mixed version of this suite is also included, comprising 19 authentic stereo files, designed, mixed, and studio packaged on best-of-breed equipment for simpler tasks which would have a preference for a package of ready made stock sounds of Ural 4320
Field recording captures the sounds that are hard to get in the studio. “Bicycle essentials” SFX library was designed to record the essential sounds of a bicycle while riding in the city, suburbs and, the field.
Fresh on the heels of our successful Command Center 1 sound-set, we have released another imaginative environment from our Star Cruiser Environments Anthology Collection… Orbital Emitter is proud to present, Command Center 2!! – a comprehensive sci-fi sound-set featuring a rich arsenal of futuristic environment sounds for use in any multimedia project! Inside you will find rumbling room tones, retro-futuristic system displays, stellar scans, trans navigational sequences, tactical perimeter warnings, intricate processing sounds, a booming alert klaxon and much much more! And like the rest of our growing library, this environment sound-set can be customized to your liking allowing the creation of multiple environments -all from this one sound-set!
Is Command Center 2 worth purchasing if you’ve already bought Command Center 1? -We think so! Command Center 2 compliments its predecessor because it was designed to be different in direction and focus. While similar in name and type of environment, the two sound-sets are utterly different from one another while still existing in the same sonic universe. Listen to our demo and let your ears decide!
This sound-set is delivered industry ready at 24 bit/48kHz WAV and each sound file contains meta-data to make our sound files easy to organize & find. All of our sounds are 100% original, 100% royalty free, created in our sound-labs and designed to boldly explore the universe of sci-fi sound!
Recording of the British 1943-44 Valentine Mark IX DD tank with a 165hp GMC 6004 diesel, 6-cylinder 7-liter inline engine.
The British 1943-44 Valentine Mark IX DD tank sound effects collection gathers 171 clips in 12.31 gigabytes of audio. It shares the sound of a 165hp GMC 6004 diesel, 6-cylinder 7-liter inline engine.
The bundle includes 10 synchronized takes of onboard and exterior driving. The 9 onboard perspectives mount microphones in the interior, and at the exhaust, engine, and tracks to capture standard driving and with ramps. The 6 exterior perspectives document driving from slow to very fast as the tank approaches, reverses, departs, and passes by. Also provided are a variety of performed effects of levers, pedals, switches, and more.
The sound library includes 4 custom stereo mixes of the onboard recordings, Pro Tools and Reaper mixing sessions, complete professional embedded metadata, and metadata import files for English, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.
This library packed with high-quality recordings of classic Yamaha Rajdoot RD 350, the most powerful motorcycle of its time, 350 cc 2 stroke parallel twin-cylinder engine.
Kick starts, rides, pass bys, engine idles, horns much more recorded with Sound Devices MixPre 6 at 24 bit/192 kHz.
All sounds include metadata.
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.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with Rode NTG1, Rode Lavalier and Shure VP88 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds.
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.
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.
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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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.
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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