Sound Effects

Remote field recordings, unique location sounds and raw sample libraries from Iceland

As much as I love to sit and listen to the sounds of nature – explore abandoned buildings – chase storms … I also have a definite taste for weird and experimental sounds.

I hope to bring you a selection of both.

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Foley Sound Effects Whisk in a Sink Play Track 128 sounds included, 7 mins total $7

A metal food whisk is scraped, dragged and rotated in a metal sink.

The results are a selection of coarse, textured animalistic and alien vocal sounding textures. Perfect design source material for sound morphing into alien / creature languages.

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Horror Sound Effects Wind Through Metal Gates Play Track 77 sounds included, 156 mins total $14.99

The resonant and tonal squeaks, bangs, rattles and scrapes of 10 different metal gates in winds of varying strengths in remote countryside areas of Iceland.

Recorded with Stille and Klang contact mics and the LOM Geofon into Sound Devices Mix Pre 10ii

77 looped files of varying lengths totalling 2 hours and 36 minutes.

Perfect for ambient and atmospheric sounds for Abandoned Buildings, Castles, Cemeteries, Churchyards, Country Gates, Dungeons, Graveyards, Prisons, Security Fences and similar.

Suitable for Creepy, Dark, Eerie, Fearful, Hostile, Isolated, Lonely, Lost, Tense and Unsettling atmospheres.

Files are stamped with UCS compliant metadata in Soundminer.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Drones – Dark Ambience 01 Play Track 48 sounds included, 161 mins total $14.99

The moving inner sounds of an industrial cooling system at the back of a small factory in Iceland was recorded with a LOM Geofón into a Sound Devices Mix Pre 3II

Canadian sound designer Alex Lane has crafted these recordings into dark, ambient drone loops – perfect for adding dissonant, tense and disturbing vibes to your film, game or song.

All sounds are normalised, tagged with UCS compliant metadata in Soundminer.

Total pack content:

30 x 3 minute designed looped files at 96k/24 bit

18 source files of varying lengths (also looped) at 192k/24 bit

NB: some of the designed file content in the YouTube video is listed as 44.1 k sample rate – this applies to Unreal Engine and Unity asset uploads only.

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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!