Sound effects tag

Binaural Sound Effects

Binaural sound effects, made for headphones. Real places and machines, from a beach house with the windows open and shut to freight trains recorded on a dummy head and building work going on next door. Then the designed side, with ethereal breaths and sci-fi soundscapes. Headphones on for this lot.

Libraries
26
Publishers
15
Formats
Mono, stereo, M/S, ambisonic
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$8 to $120
FiltersAll 26 libraries tagged BinauralFilter by the spec, not just the subjectRecorded or designed, sample rate, bit depth, channel format, embedded metadata and file count. Narrow it down before you download anything.
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.

All 26 libraries tagged Binaural.
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All 26 libraries tagged Binaural

-33%Only on Sonniss
48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Cinematic whoosh sound effects featuring 20 designed transitions with binaural left-right panning, Doppler, granular, glitch, smudge, and delay treatments plus hall, chamber, and room reverb variations.
20 files · 24 MB · Metadata
Was $29.90, now $19.90
Add Cinematic Swooshes to cart
-61%
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo, Ambisonic B.
Sci-fi ambisonic sound effects combining spatialized impacts, weapon blasts, trailer hits, morphing drone textures, and designed soundscapes delivered in 3rd-order Ambisonics, first-order AmbiX, and binaural formats at 96kHz/24-bit.
1,013 files · 16.5 GB
-24%
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo, Ambisonic B.
Spatial impact sound effects featuring 800 designed hits delivered in ambisonic and binaural formats, including boom hits, trailer hits, sci-fi weapon blasts, plasma shots, underwater impacts, magic spells, and rock and wood impacts at 96kHz/24-bit.
800 files · 3.46 GB
-60%
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Through expertly manipulated sine waves, this collection delivers binaural sound effects capturing mental transitions, featuring brainwave fluctuations, ambient drones, and atmospheric pads in high-quality 24-bit format.
49 files · 1.29 GB · Metadata
Was $28.00, now $11.20
Add Mind States Vol. 3 to cart
-20%
48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
This comprehensive collection captures authentic gardening sound effects in both stereo and binaural formats, featuring tools like shovels and rakes recorded with precision in a countryside setting.
32 files · 458 MB · Metadata
Was $20.00, now $16.00
Add Gardening tools to cart
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Comprehensive collection of 225 earthquake sound effects, featuring binaural and stereo recordings that capture indoor, outdoor, and underwater seismic sensations with authentic rumbles, debris, and environmental elements.
58 files · 3.6 GB · Metadata

Binaural recording puts the mics where a listener's ears would be, so the file carries the small timing and level differences that place a sound around the head on headphones. On speakers it plays back as ordinary stereo. The beach house room tones were recorded this way, with wildlife outside, household noises inside and the windows open in some takes and shut in others. Several of the sci-fi sets also come as Ambisonics, which suits VR and games where the sound has to turn as the player looks around. The binaural versions suit a headphone mix, and they work in trailers and podcasts too.

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