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An electric kettle starting to boil - it has a high-pitched shrieking effect great for layering into sound design. I've used this in a couple horror trailer pieces. Enjoy!. Recorded with a zoom h4n.

Sitting inside a car while driving through a small city. It is raining outside. First start of the engine, during the ride the rain is getting more heavier. Maybe very good for radio play as background. Recorded with a zoom h2n (m/s)44. 1 khz/24 bit.

Sitting on an outdoor paris cafe terrace some buskers started up across the road. The wind cooperated and i got this nice blend of chatting cafe sounds, passers by walking on the sidewalk, vehicles and a little of the popular desmond/brubek number 'take five' in the background. A very pleasant beer that was.

The town bell in avalon, ca on catalina island rings 9:00 am. I’ve included the sound of the mechanics getting started. Recorded on 20 february 2012 with a zoom h4,standing approximately 15’ from the bell tower. No editing (other than normalization) has been done.

This is a recording at about 5 o'clock in the morning, the sun just started coming up. You hear some dogs and the birds and perhaps a distant car. Olmue is a smaal town in the center of chile and famous for it's national park la campana and the festival del huaso which is shown for four day on television.

Recorded with a zoom h4n onboard microphones, spur of the moment kind of thing. No checking for an optimal recording position, or levels. I just switched it on, opened the window fully and started recording. The batteries were running on empty so i quickly caught as much as i could.

Well. . . . . Field recording is a bit of a stretch this was recorded on my back porch in springfield mo usa in june of 2000. I used a minidisk and two pzm's and a home made spliter box that worked only if you never touched it. It was one in the morning to try and avoid most of the traffic. Rain starts about half way in. Enjoy.

Droning sounds created by rubbing a string against my acoustic guitar in an open tuning. There's some plucking at the end but that's kind of random. I figured i should start uploading some of the more interesting things i have since i've used a lot of material from this website without really contributing to it at all.

Beam, hoover, hover, starting spaceship soundcreated by accident from an a-capella bass drum recordingsliding upwards exactly one octave (pitch shift). Recorded by an ic recordermodified with audacity. This sound is part of the public domain. You can use it without any credit.

Big breaker switch for one of three phases of power coming into an industrial metal shop. I'm pretty sure it was a 50 amp breaker. . You can hear a transformer buzzing in the background and a fan start once the switch is thrown. Fairly roomy (being a large concrete garage type environment) but usable. Recorded on a zoom h4. .

This is my new rotary-valved cornet with german valves and a 1913 holton bell all plated in gold and white rhodium. The sample was recorded in a large church in north carolina. With the help of bill jones i designed this horn and dr. Jones built it. It starts loud at a forte but then plays some quieter phrases around a mezzo piano.

This is a recording of birds singing early in the morning when the birds get up to start singing. Recorded in the middle of the forest. Originaly ms recording with zoom h6, 24bit/48postedited with noisereduction and wide stereo. Enjoy for free without terms of credit, :)but i nevertheless appreciate credits to marius mass grøtvedt.

As it says, day of the dead. Cemetery feeling, like when you're out at midnight and that cold turkey starts to bite. Oven ready for the morphagene.

Rain hitting on the window of an nyc apartment building. Recorded on june 08, 2021 from the second floor window of an nyc apartment building. This recording was made with the on-board x-y microphone of a zoom h4n pro recording device.

Starting with eerie sounding buzzing/fan noise on the street, entering into one of the buildings around rockerfeller center, new york city, and then into the lively underground shopping mall. Ended up briefly walking thru a guided walking tour and walking down the steps with them.

A sample of my microwave oven's transformer starting up was paulstretched to roughly 30 seconds using audacity. Makes a really nice 50hz buzz sound. Input voltage was 240v 50hz ac, output is about 2400v (2. 4kv) ac. Recorded using an oppo reno 8 lite 5g phone.

An old hard drive starting up. The idle sound is from the hard drive itself and not the computer's fan noise. Some minor editing has been done to remove a slight bass rumble from the computer's fan. Recorded on sony pcm-a10.

An ambient startup sound made for a game console. This is not copyrighted or anything, i made it myself to try and imitate the type of sound you'd hear when turning on a ps4 or ps5. Feel free to use it for that sort of thing.

Audacity:. • file→new. Left track• tracks→add new→mono track• change become left channel. • generate→chirp. . . - waveform: sine- startfrequency: 1000amplitude: 0. 5- endfrequency: 3000amplitude: 0. 5- interpolation: linear- duration 00h 00m 01. 000s. • effect→tremolo- wavefrom type: sine- starting phase (degrees): 0- wet level (percent): 100- frequency (hz): 6. 0. Right track:• tracks→add new→mono track• change become right channel. • generate→chirp. . . - waveform: sine- startfrequency: 1500amplitude: 0. 5- endfrequency: 4500amplitude: 0. 5- interpolation: linear- duration 00h 00m 01. 000s. • effect→tremolo- wavefrom type: sine- starting phase (degrees): 0- wet level (percent): 100- frequency (hz): 6. 0. • make stereo track.

An older generation hp proliant server booting up and shutting down. The hard drive has been spinning for many years, therefore it sounds deeper than usual. Year: 2020location: aalsmeer, the netherlandschannels: 1 (mono)microphone: unknownmic polar pattern: cardioid.

Rain hitting on the window of an nyc apartment building. Recorded on june 08, 2021 from the second floor window of an nyc apartment building. This recording was made with the on-board x-y microphone of a zoom h4n pro recording device.

Our expresso machine making a latte. You can hear it start up, fill the mug, as well as the milk whipping part of it softly run in the background. There’s probably some background noise to this because i was making breakfast. It can get pretty loud i was recording up close.

I placed a radioactive towards a series 900 mini-monitor (gm tube), starting from about 50cm away. Saturation is reached 5cm away. I repeated moved the rock towards and away from the detector over a period of 2 minutes. I used a zealsound microphone and recorded directly into my laptop using audacity. The sound is as recorded.

This second sound is a recorded sound of a bike chain, i modified it using some effects :1-normalize2-wahwah effect with-frequency = 3. 3 hz-start phase = 0-depth = 70%-resonance = 2. 5-wah frequency shift = 30%3-melt closingthe final sound gives an impression of a sound under water.

Samples of the small glockenspiel i started out on as a child. Have fun! :-). Recorded with a zoom h5 and a rode nt2000. Edited in audacity and ocenaudio. It's always nice to hear what projects you use these sounds for. Let me know. ;-).

Made this with the fm synth in caustic 3. Just hit record & started turning knobs. Even though its almost a simple synth, it definetly has enough for endless possiblities. // its a 3 iscilator synth w/ a few fm settings.

Desoutter ts144 pneumatic cutter started once. Recorded in 24-bit 96khz with a tascam dr-40 and a sony ecm-nv1. For details on sow: blacksmith ed1 sound pack see: www. Oree. Storijapan. Net/praxis/sound-of-work.

Wav-file recorded with the zoom h1 with internal microphone, which was lying on a seat in a tram in berlin, germany. The tram stops and starts again, some people are talking. There is a curve and a lot of noise from the tracks. Bonny orbit sound library.

This recording was made as part of a class exercise, sound and acoustic sketching course. It was part of a sound walk starting in the meditation hut in my back garden down the back lane passing a electricity sub generator and playing children.

I made the "rocket start up" sound by cyberkineticfilms loopable inside magix music maker. (original: http://www. Freesound. Org/people/cyberkineticfilms/sounds/130202/ ). Feel free to use for anything.

Sounds of the smoky mountain railway in bryson city, north carolina. Includes many sounds of starting with some diesel locomotives, depot ambient noise with passengers, and goes into the steam locomotive preparing to leave the station then goes into sounds of the locomotive as recorded from between the cars with a very nice steam locomotive whistle blowing frequently.

It's the 80s and i'm about half-way through making a punk/new wave party mix tape when my turntable starts repeating itself. Unwilling to to back and re-record the mix, i batted the needle around on the record for half a second and stopped the tape. This is the part that isn't recognizable as "hey, st. Peter!".

I recorded the sound of my dog's collar using a zoom h4n recorder and a rode m3 microphone. This would be a good sound used in the background in an outdoor scene. I can imagine this recorded noise starting off soft and gradually getting louder to indicate a dog walking by before it softens up and gradually trails off as the dog gets further and further away.

Walking on a trail in the winter woods. . . Fairly fast pace. I start off walking through leaves, then transition to walking on the gravellyasphalt surface. Since this recording was made in winter in early afternoon, there are no othersounds in the woods but just the steps. Equipment used: zoom h4n recorder, beyerdynamic m58 microphone.

Recorded on my zoom h4n 44100 hz stereo. This is a short clip of my 11 year old son playing basketball in the driveway at our house. There is ambient road noise. It starts off with a swish, then some dribbling then another swish. This is a rubber basketball bouncing on asphalt with a metal rim, nylon net and wooden backboard.

This is a narrated soundwalk in which i walked around the ucla royce quad and narrated the sounds that i heard. Although the sounds are very quiet, the narration should describe them thoroughly. I started by walking away from the main fountain, and into the main area in front of royce hall. By the end of the recording, i was at the front doors of royce hall.

Sunday afternoon (october 2014) at jardin des plantes in nantes (france). Recorder r05 (inbuilt stereo mic). Sitting on a bench near a small waterfall. Birds start to sing after few seconds. A man, somewhere in the park, is playing a traditional music instrument.

An mp3 recording of members of a crowd applauding with a rather uncertain start. Taken with a black sony ic voice recorder, at boettcher concert hall with the denver young artists orchestra. Use however you'd like. Feel free to credit. God bless!.

Me walking from the trail into the fiesch ski resort in the swiss alps. Starts calm with footsteps on snow and then when i walk into the the ski resort you hear voices in multiple languages, ski and snowboard noises and mechanical noises from the ski lifts.

I was doing some field recording and it so happen that when i was out and about we had hail storm so i recorded from the start to finish. Whew! almost got hit by a hail stone as big as a pingpong ball. Yes, it was that big my car has dent all over, not good aye!.

I don't know the details (like male / female, barn, tawny, big, little etc) but this fella started hooting the tother day so loud we could hear him/her indoors. The recording was done straight from my samsung galaxy phone. Slight amplification applied but otherwise raw.

Quick clip of a bonus performance following saint mark's compline service. Sat about arms reach away from the organist which is why you can hear a click/thumping noise from the wooden pedals that control the larger pipes. The zoom started clipping towards the end from the boom of the organ. Looking for the organist's name.

Unbranded impact wrench started four times against a bench. Recorded in 24-bit 96khz with a tascam dr-40 and a sony ecm-nv1. For details on sow: blacksmith ed1 sound pack see: www. Oree. Storijapan. Net/praxis/sound-of-work.

Unbranded straight die grinder started four times. Recorded in 24-bit 96khz with a tascam dr-40 and a sony ecm-nv1. For details on sow: blacksmith ed1 sound pack see: www. Oree. Storijapan. Net/praxis/sound-of-work.

Series of house door sounds starting with several knocks, followed by door opening and then shutting. Mono close-mic recording done with a stageworks ld1 @ 96k/32bit floating. (this file can be multitracked with the other ortf file in this package. If so, do not edit time wise any of the two files before importing to a multitrack program. ).

Add 150 ms delay (silence) at the start of the right channel. (typically the tempo is 130 bpm but practically none). Rhodes on the chromatic scale.

I opened the woodstove door while recording with a zoom h1 n. So the first thing you hear is the door opening, and then the latch falling down. The fire had just been lit. It is starting to ignite the douglas fir wood slowly but surely, and you can hear the kindling crackling.

Against bolsonaro, people bang pans and scream at the windows of their apartments at night in downtown belo horizonte. 2nd day of manifestation in face of the crisis triggered by the brazilian president after his actions when covid-19 started to spread throughout the country. Recorded on a zoom h5 recorder.

Dog barking and approaching the microphone. Cachorro latindo e aproximando do microfone. My dog was barking while recording a video for my channel on youtube. I stopped the recording of the video and started capturing only the audio of the dog with the zoom h1 microphone because the barking could be used as sound effect.

It's a recording of a calcium-sandoz® forte/fuerte 500 mg effervescent tabled falling into a glass of water and dissolving. You can hear the tablet dropping into the water and water droplet hitting water surface back. After w while - co2 buubles start to appear creating noisy sound. The recording has a long natural fadeout and unfortunately some background noise. I leaved "silence" before the sound starts so you can de-noise the recording to your needs (i prefer audacity for denoisig). Recorded inside of my wardrobe for acoustic isolation using zoom h2 on a mic-stand. Recoded as 96khz/24-bit wav. Normalized, truncated and convertet do 16-bit flac using audacity. I've converted this to 16-bit as it still has plenty of noise and 24-bits would not be any better after normalization.