Sound Effects

We are a passionate and dedicated team of sound engineers who work collaboratively to craft award-winning soundtracks for feature film, television, cinema and radio commercials. TheWorkRoom boasts an impressive list of prestigious credits for film, television and radio, including 4 Emmy nominations and 2 Emmy awards for “Outstanding Sound in a Series” (2014 & 2016) a Cinema Audio Society (CAS) nomination (2015). Our studios are equipped to handle the most sophisticated audio productions, and our team of engineers, sound designers, composers and voice directors are all respected professionals. We are experienced in everything from simple voiceovers to complex feature sound design, as well as bespoke music composition and sound production. TheWorkRoom Audio Post was founded in 2005 by Stephen Webster and currently has four studios. All suites provide the latest in Pro Tools HDX systems with ISDN, Source Connect Pro Extended.

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Bundles The South African Bundle Play Track 312 sounds included, 978 mins total $285

A Uniquely South African Bundle with a mixture of exterior and interior ambiences, crowds, protests, soccer games, bars, sirens and other authentic South African Sounds. It’s a great collection for anyone looking to add a South African flavor to their productions.

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Environments & Ambiences Music Spill Play Track 54 sounds included, 35 mins total $40

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Environments & Ambiences Modern Office Ambiences Play Track 21 sounds included, 170 mins total $45

A library created to replace all the outdated office ambience riddles with telephone’s ringing and dot matrix printer about to self destruct. Modern offices have quiet spaces as well as human interactions and movement in various locations.

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Cloth and Fabric Sound Effects Neoprene – Wet Play Track 39 sounds included $30

A library consisting of various movements and actions involving Neoprene material items such as a full body wetsuit, vests, pants, boots gloves etc.
All the sounds were recorded in a quiet studio environment while the material was wet.

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Foley Sound Effects Flip Flops Play Track 25 sounds included $25

A library of much needed flip flop footsteps on concrete, carpet, wood, grass and sand. The library is recorded in studio for a cleaner, unprocessed approach.

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Cloth and Fabric Sound Effects Neoprene – Dry Play Track 40 sounds included $30

A library consisting of various movements and actions involving Neoprene material items such as a full body wetsuit, vests, pants, boots gloves etc.
All the sounds were recorded in a quiet studio environment while the material was dry.

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Human Sound Effects South African Ambiences – Protests Play Track 6 sounds included, 24 mins total $20

A library created specifically for authentic South African protests and riots. A small library of stereo and surround options to fit your mixing needs.

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Environments & Ambiences South African Ambiences – Interiors 2 Play Track 22 sounds included, 191 mins total $35

Another uniquely South African library with a mixture of Interior ambiences ranging from interior shack, spaza shops and taxi rides. Its a great collection for anyone looking to add an authentic South African flavour to their production

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Environments & Ambiences South African Ambiences – Exteriors 2 Play Track 34 sounds included, 234 mins total $40

Another uniquely South African library with a mixture of exterior ambiences ranging from quiet streets, to busy soccer games to taxi ranks. Its a great collection for anyone looking to add an authentic South African flavour to their production

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Foley Sound Effects Digging Play Track 57+ sounds included $30

A library compiled of various spades, shovels and gardening forks used to dig sand, dirt, gravel and grass. We have also added scrapes and pours for versatility and variation.

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Foley Sound Effects Underwater Movement Play Track 34+ sounds included $25

A series of foley recordings used for underwater movement as well as bonus surface featured ocean sound effects added.

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Human Sound Effects South African Soccer Crowds Play Track 45 sounds included, 34 mins total $40

South African Soccer ( Football ) crowds have a very unique sound. This library contains various perspectives of crowds and their reactions recorded especially for this library at Cape Town stadium. From chanting, singing, clapping, whistles and vuvuzelas to reactions to goals, fouls and missed attempts.

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Foley Sound Effects Condiments & Spices Play Track 37 sounds included $25

This library contains all the foley you will need to sound design and create authentic food preparation sound for commercials and shows a like.

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Environments & Ambiences South African Bars Play Track 22 sounds included $35

This library is the perfect way to start your bar scene, from noisy and busy to quiet and subdued. This has some South African flavour in the voices but can be used in any bar scene.

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Animal Sound Effects Animal Footsteps Foley Play Track 111 sounds included From: $15

This is a library complied of various animal footsteps on various surfaces. A one stop shop for all your wildlife documentary needs.

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Household Sound Effects Champagne & Wine Commercials Play Track 28 sounds included $20

A small library. Ideal for champagne and wine commercials, where slow motion pack shots and liquid pours are needed. The perfect library to have to speed up the sound design of your commercial.

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Travel & Transportation Real Everyday Driving Play Track 16 sounds included, 400 mins total $35

A library for all those situations where high revs and speeding into a corner wont do. We created the library with run of the mill cars, driving around town, at the speed limit.

Its a combination of manual and automatic cars with stop, start, accelerate, drive, coast, idle, brake, and turn.

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City Life Sound Effects Human Presence In Quiet Rooms Play Track 8 sounds included, 32 mins total $30

A small library of different size rooms with the presence of humans. This is perfect for courtrooms, churches, conferences and all other situations where the presence of humans needs to be felt but without any talking.

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Foley Sound Effects Sanitize Play Track 200 sounds included $15

We have created a small library to help with the ongoing need for safety videos during this strange time in our lives. From hand sanitizer’s to spray bottles, we have compiled a library to cover all forms of day to day sanitizing.

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Sports Sound Effects Cricket Play Track 436 sounds included $30

Cricket – Junior & Senior is our latest SFX library toolkit, created to cater to cricket specific sounds. We have covered a broad range of specific sounds that differentiate Cricket from other batting sports. Included are sounds for Cricket Gear, Movements, Batting, Bowling, Fielding and Other Miscellaneous sounds.

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Whoosh Sound Effects Slow Motion Play Track 36 sounds included $30

Slow Motion is our newest SFX library toolkit, created to help streamline the process of tracking slow motion shots used in countless commercials to showcase different types of food and drink. From falling fruit to swirling liquid, these sounds will be a great addition to your sound design library.

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Foley Sound Effects Crockery & Surfaces (Empty) Play Track 1984 sounds included $20

A library containing a number of objects being picked up, put down and moved around on a number of surfaces including wood, glass and metal.

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Foley Sound Effects Crockery & Surfaces (Full) Play Track 1646 sounds included $20

A sfx library containing a number of different glasses and cups filled with liquid interacting with various surfaces including wood, metal and glass.

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Foley Sound Effects Eating Play Track 173 sounds included $20

This library is designed for instances when chewing rocks is not what you are looking for. There are various types of food being chewed with open and closed mouth. From soft and squishy, to hard and crunchy.

This library was recorded using the Shoeps CMIT5 and the Avedis MA5 pre.

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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!