Ship Sound Effects

Ships, boats and ferry sound effects and recordings

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Bundles Studio Obsidian Complete Bundle Play Track 10000 sounds included, 1000 mins total $416

Own the entire Studio Obsidian library, over 17 hours’ worth of 10,000 sounds sculpted by sound designer Nathan Moody. This bundle includes:

ANALOGUE ORDNANCE: Science Fiction Weapon Construction Kit

SHIPSCAPE: Shipboard Ambiences

METALMOTION: Moving Metallic Textures

ULTRASQUISH: Unique Ultrasonic Gore

AEOLUS: Dark Wind Textures

METALLITRONIC: Vibrating Metal Textures

SIGIL: Dark Electro-Acoustic Textures

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Ship Sound Effects Laurin Koster 32ft, 4 Cylinder Sailboat Play Track 351+ sounds included, 300+ mins total $75

This library features recordings made from a Laurin Koster 32ft 4 cylinder engine Sailboat.

This library contains docked harbor ambiences while windy and calm, water movements, sail foley, engine ignition starts and cut offs, multiple different RPMs while taxiing out of the harbor, sailing, on-deck atmospheres from different perspectives and contact mic recordings of different unique sounds of the sailboat. Contains everything you need to construct a film, game or commercial from a sailboat’s perspective.

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Bundles Haunting Ambiences Bundle Play Track 236+ sounds included $48.50

Haunting Ambiences Bundle includes three of our fastest selling Horror Sound Effects Libraries to date. With a total size of 29.5 GB and 236+ files (690 mins approx.), this product includes 39 dense, multi-layered construction kits, everything you need to build a world around your horror scenes with separated stems.

The team in collaboration with Georgi Valchev from West Wolf Audio captured creepy ambiences and sounds from different countries across Eastern Europe, various vocalisations, instruments and synthesizers. We even recorded sounds from the cellblock where a couple of notorious killers (The Moors Murderers) were held at The Old Courthouse, Manchester.

Our Audio Craftsman meticulously edited the sounds and designed them to make menacing shipyards, abandoned mansions, forgotten forests, mental asylums, gas chambers, underground prisons, experimental labs, haunted sewers, haunted houses, zombie apocalypse and much, much more.

These dense ambiences include split stems with the same running length to encourage experimentation, allowing you to add or subtract certain elements, balance them or combine them with sounds from other construction kits in the pack. In addition all of the files are tagged with extensive metadata to integrate seamlessly with your workflow.

You will be more than 15% of the total cost of the individual libraries when purchasing this bundle, an excellent value for money addition to your films, documentaries, video games, escape room/live experiences and other horror/sci-fi projects.

Included libraries:
Haunting Ambiences Vol.1
Haunting Ambiences Vol.2
Haunting Ambiences Vol.3

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Water & Ocean Sounds Boat Ride ">Play Track 100+ sounds included, 225 mins total $40

Also included in LT Underwater Bundle 2!

The library has been recorded on small and medium-sized trip motorboats in Montenegro, Adriatic Sea. Rather than image of a specific boat model, this collection includes a set of universal elements with plenty of variations and perspectives, both realistic sources and stylized designs.

Boat ride / overwater – engine roar with more or less rushing water hiss, mic onboard

Boat ride / overwater – without the sounds of engine – universal rushing water around a fast moving object

Boat ride / underwater – sounds of a fast movement underwater

Waves splashing on a hull / underwater – boat is not moving, different wave intensities

Designed underwater – adding more interesting variations and emotions to the previous categories – stylized / multi-layered / spacious / diffused / distant / deep / eerie

Gear used:
Ambient Sound Fish 1 MKII hydrophone – includes ultrasonics
Aquarian H2A hydrophone
Sound Devices Pre6 recorder
Sony PCMD100 handheld recorder
Rode SoundFiled NT-SF1

Key features:
• 94 files – 19 source overwater, 20 source underwater, 55 designed underwater
• 24 Bit / 96 kHz native resolution mono/stereo
• meta-tagged in Soundly
• each filename includes the full tag line

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Environments & Ambiences Sci-Fi Background Ambience Loops Vol 2 – Dark Halls Play Track 15 sounds included, 27 mins total $39.20

Volume 2 invites you to explore the subtle ambiance of echoing spaceship corridors, futuristic structure halls, and mysterious passageways. Seamlessly blending with your chosen music, these atonal sounds create a harmonious audio experience. Craft unforgettable soundscapes and elevate your sci fi game from good to great with immersive soundscapes and atmospheres.

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Environments & Ambiences Sea, Coastline, Harbour, Port Ambiences Play Track 208+ sounds included, 323 mins total $26

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).

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Ship Sound Effects Lake Boat – Mercury 4-stroke 60HP Play Track 43 sounds included $20.30

Recordings of a runabout type boat powered by a powerful Mercury engine.

Our sound pack contains multiple tracks of onboard and exterior recordings of revs, start-stops, idle, passbys and sailing at various speeds.
We also captured several ramps up and down for use in granular synthesis tools, and edited constant RPM loops for drag and drop in your audio middleware.

Specifications : 4-cylinder, 4-stroke, 60 HP.

Multiple mic perspectives

This sound pack includes 3 channels of onboard perspectives: two microphones for the engine and one in front of the boat to capture water lapping and splashes. It also comes with few exterior passbys.

‍Gear used

Sound Devices MixPre-6 II • LOM MikroUsi • Sennheiser MKH 8040 • Sennheiser MKH30 • Neumann Kmr81i

‍Metadata

This sound library is UCS compliant and comes with fully embedded metadatas compatible with Soundly, Soundminer and Basehead.

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Industrial Ambiences Vibrations Etm Play Track 83 sounds included, 63 mins total $20

In the summer of 2021 I spent about a month in Seattle and did a lot of field recording. One of the most successful sessions was a round trip to Winslow on the Washington State Ferry. The ship is huge and just about everything vibrates sympathetically with the engine pulse. This library includes all of those vibration recordings (Shock-mounted Sony PCM-100; 96k/24bit) To keep things interesting, and somewhat on point, I’ve scoured my personal library for other unique sounds – real and synthetic – which I’ve gathered or created over 30+ years that have some sort of vibration (or vibration-adjacent) element. I was pretty liberal in how I defined it: Quantum foam (Organic or Performed) The result is an eclectic mix – vibration being the through-line.

All sounds have UCS compliant metadata.

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Ship Sound Effects Motorboat Play Track 12 sounds included, 18 mins total $49

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.

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Ship Sound Effects Rowing Boat Play Track 13+ sounds included, 17 mins total $19

The Rowing Boat sound effects library gets you more than 17 minutes of rowing sounds. It features one-shots and rowing sequences in a slow, medium and fast pace + oars hitting the boat. It of course also gets you the creaking sounds of the oars, water splashes and the other sounds you associate with rowing.

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Ship Sound Effects Motorboat 2: Honda 4-stroke Play Track 4+ sounds included, 7 mins total $35

The Motorboat 2 library gets you recordings of a motor boat with a Honda BF 5A 5-HP 4-Stroke engine. Includes starts, idling, forward speeds, false starts, and engine shutoffs.

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Ship Sound Effects Boat Engine – Arvor 215 Play Track 39+ sounds included, 167 mins total $40

Arvor 215 boat sound library features recordings of the boat’s diesel engine in sync with its propeller. Onboard sound effects were recorded with two DPA 4061 microphones, taped under the “hood” and on the back of the boat, near the propeller. Inside this library you’ll find engine on and off sounds, running on neutral gear and three recordings of boat working on different settings.

There is a low, medium and high speed/rpm, each starting with engine being turned on, and than slowly going to desired speed. It’s easy to mix those recordings, and change their pitch, because of the 96kHz sample rate.

Sounds included:

Engine Mono Mix 1 and 2 – 8 files, 28 minutes

Engine Stereo Mix 1 and 2 – 8 files, 28 minutes

Engine RAW files – 12 files, 42 minutes

Other files – 11 files, 49 minutes

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Sci-Fi Sound Effects Star Fighter Cobalt Play Track 32 sounds included $19.95

Orbital Emitter is proud to present Star Fighter Cobalt – the second release in our Star Fighter Flight Series!

This comprehensive sound-set provides a rich arsenal of futuristic space fighter sounds for you to use in all of your creative sci-fi productions! Building off our first release, this new and unique star fighter sound-set features powerful engine blasts, interior cockpit perspectives, sync’d interior and exterior flight perspectives, an epic launch and landing sequence, robust fly-bys and two types of powerful weapon blasts presented with varying perspectives! You can use parts of this sound-set to create your own spaceship sounds or simply drag & drop our audio-scenes and audio-stems into your productions as-is! It’s up to you how you want to enjoy our sounds!
What we hope sets this sound-set apart from other space craft sounds from other companies is that our space ship sounds are meant to sound complete– like an actual field recording of a futuristic space fighter taking off, flying around, engaging in battle and landing… All in ONE Sound-Set!!

The Star Fighter Cobalt sound-set contains 32 individual sounds spread over 20 audio files and times out to over 12.5 minutes in total length. It features 24bit/96khz stereo WAV files – embedded with meta-data to help keep the sound files organized.
All of our sounds are 100% original – 100% royalty free – designed for believability, creativity and cinematic impact. We hope you enjoy our sci-fi sounds!

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Wylie Stateman

Supervising sound editor,
The Hateful Eight, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill: Vol. 1

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Gabriel Guy

Re-recording Mixer, Walt Disney Animation Studios:
Frozen, Big Hero 6

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Supervising Sound Editor/Re-recording Mixer, The Lego Movie & Mad Max: Fury Road

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