Sound Effects

Airborne Sound

Founded by: Paul Virostek

Airborne Sound is a small collective of field recordists from Canada. We live, breathe, and dream sound effects.

We’ve been capturing sound clips for almost twenty years. Our field recordists have scoured the globe gathering the most evocative, meaningful sound fx for our library.

We believe sound effects have incredible power to immerse and inspire. They’re more than just tools: they’re creative works with great potential to enhance the projects you create and work on.

We ensnare every field recording with this in mind.

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Whoosh Sound Effects Airy Whooshes Play Track 409 sounds included $29
Over 400 focused sound design accents of airy swooshes, subtle swipes, thin whooshes, and breathy fly-ins.

This collection features:
- Each clip is trimmed into its own file.
- Available in multiple pitches and speeds.
- Meticulously named and organized in both metadata and folder classification.
- Includes 18+ fields of professional Soundminer, BWAV, and MacOS Finder metadata.
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Whoosh Sound Effects Eclectic Whooshes 3 Play Track 385 sounds included $29
An mix of almost 400 creative whooshes, swipes, and fly-ins from an assortment of categories: comedy, energy, watery, thin, crystalline, granular, and more.

The package offers:
- Each clip is trimmed into its own file.
- Available in multiple pitches.
- Meticulously named and organized in both metadata and folder classification.
- Includes 18+ fields of professional Soundminer, BWAV, and MacOS Finder metadata.
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Whoosh Sound Effects Eclectic Whooshes 2 Play Track 425 sounds included $29

More than 400 diverse swipe and whoosh transitions and accents drawn from a variety of sonic textures including airy, chattering, choppy, thin, subsonic, thunder, granular, and many more.

Each clip is trimmed and carefully organized in folders and with extensive metadata.

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Hum, Buzz & Glitch Sound Effects Manic Glitches Play Track 347 sounds included $29

Almost 350 scratching, stuttering, and mangled, shuddering sound design glitches in over 500 megabytes.

Each clip is trimmed and carefully organized in folders and with extensive metadata.

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Electricity Sound Effects Electric-Magnetic Play Track 649 sounds included $29

Almost 640 clips of designed cracking electrical zaps and arcs and resonant magnetic fields in over 2 GB of accents, drones, and tones.

Each clip is trimmed and carefully organized in folders and with extensive metadata.

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Whoosh Sound Effects Crisis Accents Play Track 410 sounds included $29

Supercharge your projects with over 400 transitions, whoosh-to-hit accents, rises, impacts, and more. Listen to glitches, energy accents, shimmering, swirling, crashes, and other textures.

Each clip is trimmed and carefully organized in folders and with extensive metadata.

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Whoosh Sound Effects Organic Whooshes 1 Play Track 1215 sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$35

More than 1200 whooshes from classic and unusual sources. Broom, fire, cable, pipe, fabric and many other swipes join wooshes from aerosol spray, combs, dish rack, and more strange sources.

Each clip is carefully trimmed and meticulously organized in folders and with full metadata.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Transmission/Interference Play Track 529 sounds included $29

Over 500 sound design broadcast, interruption, noise, buzz, and hum sound clips in almost 2 GB of audio. Includes tones, drones, and accents crafted to simulate transmissions and interference for science fiction and terrestrial projects.

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Aircraft - Jet/Propeller Plane Sound Effects Attack Aircraft Maneuvers Play Track 118 sounds included $49

Attack Aircraft Maneuvers includes 118 fighter jet military aircraft including F-16C, F/A18C, CF18 Hornet, and CT-114 Tutors.

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Car Sound Effects Race Cars Play Track 203 sounds included $57

A bundle of fierce race car field recordings during practicing, qualifying, racing and race car passes. Includes clips from Ferrari Challenge, NASCAR, IndyCar, and other races.

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Car Sound Effects Motorsports 1 Play Track 200 sounds included $57

200 field recordings of race cars from 8 races, featuring Ferrari Challenge, Formula 1600, IndyCar races, and more.

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Tanks & Artillery Sounds Battlefield Howitzers Play Track 140 sounds included $44

Artillery sound fx including a M101 howitzer and a 25-pounder cannon from two perspectives.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Light and Dark Drones Play Track 115 sounds included $29

Listen to the balance of melodic tones and atmospheric drones. Features rhythmic, mystical, eerie, and angelic atmospheres. Also includes resonant ambiences, shimmering tones, ghostly drones, buzzing atmospheres, and swirling beds. Includes over 15 fields of metadata in three formats, including Soundminer.

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Sci-Fi Sound Effects Beeps and Buzzers Play Track 500 sounds included $29

A mixed collection of various sound design beeps and buzzers. Includes raw and coarse buzzers, nasal and thin buzzers, and humming buzzers. Also features pure and clean beeps, fluttering blips, and cybernetic boops. Includes over 15 fields of metadata in three formats, including Soundminer.

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Whoosh Sound Effects Eclectic Whooshes 1 Play Track 375 sounds included $29

A broad cross-section of whooshes and swipes. Includes storm whooshes, energy sweeps, robotic fly-ins, ghostly swipes, electric whooshes, fire swooshes, and more.

Also features bursts, blasts, power ups and downs, whip bys, and logo whooshes.

Includes over 15 fields of metadata in three formats, including Soundminer.

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User Interface (UI) Sound Effects Interface Accents Play Track 325 sounds included $29

A broad selection of sound design interface accents and UI sound fx. Includes a mixture of selection and menu sounds, readout, scrolling and scanning fx, buttons and switches, and notification and alert clips.

Includes over 15 fields of metadata in three formats, including Soundminer.

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Environments & Ambiences Fairgrounds Play Track 72 sounds included $37

Over 70 fairground ambiences. Includes fun fair game area atmospheres (plate breaker, BB guns, bingo), exhibition halls, game callers and barkers, and more.

The collection also includes a handful of fair ride sound fx: The Zipper, a Ferris wheel, and bumper cars.

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Motorcycle Sound Effects Victory Vegas Motorcycle Play Track 104 sounds included $37

A mixture of field recordings from the characteristic Vegas model from Victory motorcycles.

Includes onboard riding takes, as well as exterior passes by, approaches, and departures. Onboard takes are provided in a split left-right configuration as well as a mixed version.

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Vehicle Sound Effects Steam Train Play Track 39 sounds included $35

A collection of onboard and exterior field recordings of a Royal Hudson 4-6-4 steam train. Included are riding sound effects, exterior platform takes.

Featuring whistles, chugging, hisses, rail noise, and more.

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Military Sound Effects Jet Fighter Maneuvers Play Track 41 sounds included $39

A selection of 41 maneuvers from 4 military aircraft: F-22 Raptor, CF-18 Hornet, F/A-18 Hornet, F-16 Fighting Falcon (Viper).

Includes dips, dives, maneuvers, and passes by.

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Mechanical Sound Effects Tools Play Track 250 sounds included $36

The Tool Sound Effects collection from Airborne Sound includes 250 tool sound clips, totalling 5.85 gigabytes of sound.

Included are power tools, pneumatic tools, and hand tools. Each take is performed by professional tradesmen, mechanics, and carpenters. Features jig saws, abrasive saws, hammers, drills, compressors, impact drills, pneumatic ratchets and much, much more in over 60 tool types.

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Metal Sound Effects Elements: Metal Play Track 1755+ sounds included $33

A massive collection of metal hits, drops, crashes, drags, and scrapes. It includes iron, steel, and metal. There is a mix of massive impacts and falls, as well as subtle debris moves and drags.

The takes are captured with a variety of perspectives. Most takes include close (mono), medium distant (stereo), and distant (stereo).

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Elements: Glass Play Track 516+ sounds included $24

The Elements: Glass sound library features a broad selection glass shattering, falling, bursting, and crashing. It includes glass debris, crushing shards, and trickling fragments.

The takes are captured with a variety of perspectives. Most takes include close (mono), medium distant (stereo), and distant (stereo).

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Train Sound Effects Transit Trains 1 Play Track 230 sounds included $35

Vehicles: Transit Train Sound Effects features 230 sound clips of dozens of transit trains: subways, monorails, people movers, streetcars, and more, totalling 4.66 gigabytes

Includes recordings from Toronto, Vancouver, Berlin, New York City, and Mexico City.

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With A Sound Effect, Asbjoern has created a web site where our international community can browse, learn, and share the vast fruits of our labors. Together we are accelerating the very real potential power of sound design as a recognized art form.

Wylie Stateman

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

A Sound Effect is an excellent resource for us to keep our animated films sounding unique and exciting.

Gabriel Guy

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

A Sound Effect is a great asset to have discovered.

We found the site very easy to navigate, purchasing and downloads were effortless and the effects themselves are awesome! Asbjoern has done us all a great service.

We’ll definitely be back!

Wayne Pashley

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

There are many great independent sound effect libraries available these days. The main problem with having so many, is keeping track of them!

A Sound Effect is a great hub, and is one of the first places I visit to look for sounds by category or genre. I started coming here to see if I could find libraries that I knew I had heard, but forgot WHERE I had heard them.

And in the process discovered libraries I never would have found otherwise. Great work! Keep it up!

David Farmer

Sound designer:
Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit trilogies

We're always looking for new sounds to mangle, so when A Sound Effect had a holiday sale, I tried them out.

The purchase experience is really smooth and quick, and delivery is almost instant.

I'll definitely come back to them again in the future!

Charles Deenen

Director, Digital - Source Sound Inc.

A Sound Effect is a wonderful resource for indie sound effects libraries. On top of that, it has some of the finest sound design, film and game audio interviews!

Zdravko Djordjevic

founder of The Audio Spotlight

I often need very specific types of sounds so I've become a big supporter of independent recorders.

Until now I've always had to go to their individual websites. Now I can find them all in one place.

And, Asbjoern is great to work with!

Bob Bronow, CAS, MPSE

Re-recording Mixer, Sound Designer: Deadliest Catch, Ax Men, The Wrecking Crew

A Sound Effect is a well curated boutique sound effects shop and a great place to find industry interviews and learning resources.

George Vlad

video game sound designer

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