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Vehicle sound effects and recordings – cars, helicopters, motorcycles, airplanes, ships, trains and sci-fi
2024 Audi Q3 S Line model SUV, 2.0 liter, Inline 4 cylinders, Turbo powered, All Wheel Drive, 251 horse powers
Onboard perspective sounds are from 4 recording channels.
Cabin in Stereo (left and right), Engine and Exhaust
External perspective sounds are from one MS (mid side) stereo mic at fixed positions
Sound Designers and Editors can use Mid from MS if mono is needed.
Classic GT Series Pass-By compiles over an hour of sports cars racing at a private event, resulting in minimal crowd conversations or unnecessary background noise. Recorded at three distinct locations, in this library, you’ll find long takes recorded at the finish line and at the tightest corner of this particular race track, resulting in plenty of engines revving and cars driving off into the distance, ideal for media scenes set in these settings, or for creative sound design purposes, as these takes were recorded only 5 meters from the vehicles themselves. Also included are recordings of the vehicles revving their engines before the competition at the pit lane.
This sound library is available in both Ambisonics FuMa (B Format) and Stereo (Binaural) formats.
List of vehicles included:
I’ve got a thing for recording Trains and hanging out by Railroad Tracks so I decided why not do another mini Train Library. Much like with my first Train library, Train Life, Freights were the main focus. Included are a variety of Exterior Slow, Medium, and Fast Trains, some solo Locomotive Bys, Idling, Squealing, along with Train Horns from different perspectives. Mic perspectives varied from up Close and Medium, and then some distant with the Horns. Locations were in the High Desert of California and a couple of Train Stations that get a lot of Freights passing through.
THE GEAR
Recorder
Sound Devices MixPre-6
Sony PCM D-100
Mics
Sennheiser MKH 8040 + MKH 30
(31 of the Files were recorded using an MKH 8040+MKH30 in MS which were then decoded)
Sony PCM D-100
METADATA
Detailed Metadata has been provided so that all of the sounds are easily accessible. Photos have been embedded with each file. UCS compliant, markers have been placed where applicable to make for quick navigation.
City Life: Los Angeles is a collection of Sounds recorded in downtown Los Angeles, Long Beach, and some of the surrounding areas around LA. The focus was Ambiences, Vehicles, Horns, Sirens, and more of the grittier / vibey sounds that can really add to a Soundscape when working with Backgrounds in Film Projects. This library consists mostly of Exterior locations and with Vehicles and sounds without People , but there’s some Interior / Exterior Public Places mixed in with Walla and more Movement.
The idea for this library started a couple years ago. I thought it’d be cool to take the recording gear and really explore the Downtown LA area. There’s quite a lot going on from a sound perspective, whether you’re on a busy Street in the Historic Core with Cars and Motorcyles revving away, or hanging out above the City on Bunker Hill, on a Parking Garage Rooftop with the constant City Fill, or roaming the streets of Chinatown. The idea was to try to capture some of the sounds in spaces that are particular to not only LA, but also a lot of busier Cities.
25 miles South of LA is Long Beach. It’s a smaller Big City, but one that has a lot of character sonically. For those recordings I mostly recorded in a neighborhood on a rooftop just outside of Downtown. With these you get more of a distant perspective. A few of the other recordings took place in some of the surrounding Cities.
Vehicles (These are Singular Individual Sound Files)
Bus (9 Files) – Close, Bys, Away, Brake Squeaks
Cars (19 Files) – Close, Medium, Distant, Bys, Revs (Think less generic and more Engines with a lot of character)
Freight (8 Files) – Close, Rattle Bys, Garbage Trucks
Motorcycles (10 Files) – Close, Distant, Revs, Bys, Aways
Truck (6 Files) – Low Bys, Aways
Sirens (9 Files) – Close Medium, Wailers, some Fast Doppler Bys
Horns (16 Files) – Close Medium
Ambiences
Birds (2 Files) – Seagulls, Crows
Construction (5 Files) – Larger Busy Worksites
Public Places / Walla (9 Files) – Mostly Interior, Chinese Cafe, Library, Park, Street Vendors
Traffic / Transportation / Urban (15 Files) – Parking Garage, City Fill, Traffic Bys, Under Bridge, Industrial
Miscellaneous
Helicopter (5 Files) – Circling and Bys
Recording perspectives varied throughout this library. Sometimes I had a full rig set up and other times I opted for the more stealth route with hidden mics attached to a backpack.
The Gear
Sound Devices MixPre-6
Sony PCM D-100
Mics
Sennheiser MKH 8040 and MKH 30 (Decoded to MS)
Sennheiser MKH 8040
Sennheiser MKH 8020
DPA 4060
Sony PCM D-100
Metadata
All the files have detailed Descriptions, along with UCS. For some of the files I’ve included the words Downtown and Rooftop along with city locations so with a quick search it’s easy to navigate to the different perspectives and areas. Photos are included to give a bit of a sense of where they were recorded.
An entire hour of fireworks recordings from various urban locations. These recordings were captured using the Sony PCM-D100 and Zoom H3-VR, offering two distinct audio perspectives. The directionality of the recorded content can be modified using ambisonic signals.
For convenience, 59 edited files were created from the raw recordings.
I recommend using the DearVR Ambi Micro ambisonic decoder for the H3-VR files.
This 1979 Spezio Sport Prop Plane, aka the “Tuholer” (for its two holes to sit in) is a home built hobby plane fitted with a 125HP Lycoming engine. Recordings were made at a quiet grass airstrip in the country which allowed for low altitude pass by’s and ground maneuvers including stationary throttles. Onboards were recorded with 5 channels and mastered as 5.0’s. Also included are cockpit switches and yoke moves.
This 1964 Rambler was your typical family car back in the 60’s. A mid-sized 4-door sedan with a V8 engine. All the performances and perspectives you’ll need to fill out your edit. Includes a stereo mix down of the onboard engine/tailpipe mics. As well a full compliment of doors, gearshift, switches, windows, leather seat moves and the horn (dopplers too).
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with Shure KSM 137, Line Audio Omni1 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving, foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with Shure KSM 137, Line Audio Omni1, FEL Clippy XLR EM272, Sonorous Objects SO.3 and JrF C-Series Pro+ microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II & Zoom F3 recorders. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.
Trains of LA: Subways is an extensive collection of high-quality recordings capturing the wide variety of sound in the Los Angeles Metro subway system.
Available in both Stereo and Immersive versions. All recorded at 24Bit 48kHz on Los Angeles Metro’s B (red) and D (purple) subway lines.
This library includes a huge variety of subterranean transportation related sounds including but not limited to clicks of fare gates, crowd walla and ambience at Union Station, echoes of crowded underground platforms, roaring and screeching subway train arrivals and departures, announcements, elevators, long recordings of train interiors during rides with and without chatter, an end to end ride of the D line from Union Station to Wilshire Western, doors opening and closing, lights humming and buzzing in walkways, escalators, and more!
Recorded mostly on the Rode NT-SF1 ambisonic microphone and Tascam X8, with a few sounds from the Rode NTG5/Zoom H5 and Zoom H3-VR.
Stereo Version Includes: All Stereo and Mono Files and Stereo Files Decoded from AmbiX
Immersive Version Includes: All Files, AmbiX, 5.1, 7.1.4, Stereo
Produced by Cheviot Sound
Recorded by Jack Weiss and Roy Berardo
Edited by Jack Weiss
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, Line Audio Omni1, Shure KSM 137, FEL Pluggy XLR EM272, FEL Clippy XLR EM272 and Sonorous Objects SO.3 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II & Zoom F3 recorders. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds.It is also available in UCS.
This library presents diverse means of rail transport in Italy. I recorded it in 2020, but some trains were decades old. In these you’ll find warm sounds of old electric motors, as well as creaking, rattling, squeaking and rumbling of their weathered bodies.
In some files you’ll hear some conversations of various intensity, as well as announcements in Italian and English, in foreground or background. Some of them are about covid restrictions, masks etc., but usually just station names.
In addition to 53 files with onboard sounds you get 11 files with ambiences from stations – indoor and outdoor, busy and desolate, with or without PA announcements.
The onboard sounds are made in 10 types of rail transport:
* vintage diesel railcar
Fiat ALn 668
(made in 1980s, designed in 1950s)
* vintage electric multiple unit
ALe 724
(made in 1980s)
* vintage electric multiple unit
Sepsa ET100
(made in 1960s)
Cumana/Circumflegrea
suburban lines in Naples
* modern electric multiple unit
TFA Alfa 3 ET500
Cumana/Circumflegrea suburban
lines in Naples
* vintage electric multiple unit
FE220
(1970s-1980s)
Circumvesuviana narrow gauge
suburban line in Naples
* modern double-decker suburban
train in Rome
TAF ALe 426
* trams in Rome (modern Fiat
Cityway, and Stanga 7000 from
1940s)
* funicular in Naples
(Funicolare Centrale)
* passenger cars in various
regional trains
* metro in Naples
The library is UCS compliant.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with Shure KSM137, Line Audio Omni1, FEL Clippy XLR EM272 and Sonorous Objects SO.3 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II & Zoom F3 recorders. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.
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.
A pack of 20 courthouse crowd sound clips: halls, atriums, courtrooms, & corridors. 1.5 GB.
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.
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