Sound Effects

Welcome to the Northern Film Orchestra. Authentic orchestral samples and sound effects.

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Environments & Ambiences Metallic Atmospheres Play Track 12+ sounds included $18

Metallic Atmospheres is a collection of designed ambiences crafted entirely from metallic source material. Our team recorded a wide variety of metal objects and surfaces, then applied advanced sound design techniques to transform them into evocative atmosphere tracks.

This diverse assortment captures an extensive range of textures and emotions, from eerie resonances and unsettling tonal beds to harsh industrial environments. Perfect for quickly establishing a dark, immersive mood, these sounds are ideally suited for sci-fi, horror, dystopian, and post-apocalyptic productions.

Every file has been meticulously edited for immediate use, so you can drag and drop them straight into your DAW timeline without extra cleanup. All sounds are delivered at 96kHz / 24-bit for maximum fidelity, giving you the flexibility to manipulate, stretch, and layer them further in your own designs. Each file has been tagged with UCS-compliant metadata, ensuring seamless integration into any professional sound effects workflow.

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Metallic Impacts Play Track 149+ sounds included $18

Metallic Impacts delivers a dynamic collection of strikes, crashes, and resonant hits created from a variety of metal objects. Each sound is provided in both raw and processed versions, giving you the choice between natural recordings for authentic realism or designed impacts for instant cinematic punch.

Designed with versatility in mind, these sounds are perfect for trailers, action sequences, combat design, or building tension in horror and sci-fi contexts. Every file has been precisely edited for immediate use, recorded and mastered at 96kHz / 24-bit to preserve detail and allow for extreme processing. All files include UCS-compliant metadata, ensuring they drop seamlessly into your sound effects workflow.

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Metallic Scrapes Play Track 113+ sounds included $18

Metallic Scrapes is a focused library of metal-on-metal movements, featuring a range of drags, scuffs, and surface scrapes. From short, subtle textures to longer, sustained scrapes, these sounds provide useful building blocks for adding grit, tension, or industrial detail to your projects.

Each sound is included in both raw and processed versions, giving you flexibility to choose between clean recordings for natural realism or designed variants that are ready to drop straight into your timeline.

While less dramatic than impacts or crashes, these textures are effective for layering into ambiences, creating transitional elements, or adding subtle tension in sci-fi, horror, or industrial contexts.

All files are carefully edited and delivered in 96kHz / 24-bit quality, complete with UCS-compliant metadata for fast and accurate search results in your sound effects workflow.

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City Life Sound Effects UK City Tram Play Track 21 sounds included $19

UK City Tram is a meticulously curated collection of authentic UK tram recordings, expertly selected by our sound design team. This diverse assortment captures a wide range of tram sound effects from both interior and exterior perspectives, providing everything you need to create immersive and realistic urban soundscapes. Whether you’re working on films, games, or other projects set in a UK city, these high-quality recordings will bring your scenes to life with authentic tram and train ambiance.

Our sound effects team have meticulously edited these sounds so that you can simply drag and drop them into your DAW timeline. All sounds in this library are at 48kHz 24 Bit to allow for further manipulation and design, and have been tagged with extensive UCS metadata to fit seamlessly into your sound effects workflow.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Cello Textures II Play Track 115 sounds included $30

Cello Textures II is an eclectic collection of dark and ominous Cello sound effects, showcasing various experimental playing techniques such as harmonic trills and slides, dramatic glissandos, ricochets, swells and heavy pizzicatos. This versatile library gives you everything you need to create intense and unsettling soundtracks, and is perfect for use in genres such as horror, thriller, mystery and psychological.

You can use the sounds in this library to create full original soundscapes, or simply drag and drop in sounds as “one-shots” or “sweeteners” to enhance your film/game music.

All sounds in this library are at 96kHz 24 Bit to allow for further manipulation and design, and have been tagged with extensive UCS metadata to fit smoothly into your production workflow.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Cello Textures I Play Track 66 sounds included $30

Cello Textures I is the first volume in our “Textures” series, where we bring you sound effects from orchestral instruments played in unconventional and interesting ways.

This unique collection features various textural effects performed by the Cello, including open and natural harmonics, bow overpressure, bowing with wood, circular bowings and delicate flautandos.

The sounds in this product are dark, intense and foreboding, and are perfect for use in genres such as horror, thriller, mystery and psychological.

You can use the sounds in this library to create full original soundscapes, or simply drag and drop in sounds as “one-shots” or “sweeteners” to enhance your film/game music.

All sounds in this library are at 96kHz 24 Bit to allow for further manipulation and design, and have been tagged with detailed UCS metadata to fit smoothly into your production workflow.

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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!