Sound effects tag

Atmosphere Sound Effects

Atmosphere sound effects for setting a mood before anything happens. Abandoned buildings humming with dread, haunted mansions and graveyards, alien planets, spaceship interiors and the deep, dark rumble of the ocean floor. Mostly designed, often from real recordings pushed somewhere stranger. Lots of it is dark. Put any of it under a scene and the room changes.

Libraries
165
Publishers
70
Formats
Mono, stereo, M/S, surround, ambisonic
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$0 to $199.90
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Recorded or designed
RecordedDesigned

Recorded means captured in the field or a studio. Designed means built from other material.

Channel format
MonoStereoM/SSurroundAmbisonic

Mono for 3D positional audio. Ambisonic and surround for immersive mixes.

Embedded metadata
Tagged for Soundminer or UCSUntagged

Soundminer and UCS fields written into the files.

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48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Horror ambience sound effects featuring 24 loopable designed soundscapes across haunted locations including asylums, catacombs, graveyards, ghost towns, forests, hospitals, prisons, mansions and underwater shipwrecks in exploration and tension variations.
24 files · 186 MB · Metadata
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96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Within 136 minutes, this collection delivers 82 high-quality sci-fi sound effects featuring space atmospheres, alien harmonics, and cosmic streams - meticulously crafted using modular synths.
82 files · 4.47 GB · Metadata
Was $30.00, now $20.00
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96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Atmospheric sound effects featuring seamless loops of alien worlds, spacecraft drones, and futuristic engines, crafted from TV buzzes and calibrated for professional use at 96 kHz/24 bit quality.
92 files · 3.39 GB · Metadata

An atmosphere works on people without them noticing. Low drones, slow movement and the odd distant sound keep an audience uneasy, which is why so much of it leans towards horror and sci-fi. Haunted spaces come with the creaks and stirrings that make a place feel occupied. Space atmospheres bring hums and alarms, with the void outside. Underwater beds rumble with pressure. Layer an atmosphere with a Drone and a slow Tension build and you've got most of a horror scene before a single scare. Games run them under whole levels, so long files with clean loop points matter.

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