Retro Fax Machine Sounds

Retro Fax Machine Sounds is a sound library that captures the interesting actions and noises of a 90s office fax machine.
From the press of hard plastic buttons to motors working, this collection offers many options to add a retro flavor for your projects.
Wether you are looking for sounds to help fill the ambience of an office, to enhance UI interactions, to build abandoned soundscapes or sounds to make any device look clunky and old, these provide solid options for many use cases.

Included:

• Plastic buttons pressed and released right after
• Beeps, connection noises and incoming call ring
• Loud feedbacks between the handset microphone and the beep speaker
• Cables plugged and removed
• Handset picked up and returned
• Handset hook switch pressed and released
• Document inserted
• Document guides adjusted
• Paper guide locked and unlocked
• Internal roller levers toggled
• Panel lid opening and closing
• Dial tones for each keypad digit, played through the handset speaker
• Motors working when printing, copying and after power on
• Thermal paper placed, handled, installed and torn
• Short click impulse response of both beep and handset speakers

All files were recorded and edited in 24bit/96Khz (wav). Each sound follows the UCS standard, includes embedded metadata and is named consistently for easy integration.

Curious about how it was made?

Watch some behind the scenes of the recording process in the video below: