Sound effects tag

Broken Piano Sound Effects

Broken Piano sound effects, where the piano stops behaving. Rusty, grinding hits and growling resonance from pianos that have seen better days, plus strings rattling under objects placed on them. Contact mics get right inside it. It's unsettling stuff, made for suspense and tension rather than anything pretty.

Libraries
1
Publishers
1
Formats
Mono, stereo
Sample rates
96 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price
$69

1 library tagged Broken Piano

96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Experimental sound effects captured from pianos using contact mics and unconventional techniques, featuring 652 textured recordings of prepared strings, broken elements, and processed tones at 192kHz resolution.
652 files · 16 GB · Metadata

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A broken piano works best when the audience can still tell what it is. The resonance and the String rattles are still there, just wrong. Hits like these sit under a horror reveal or a slow build of dread. A designed set comes with them, already pitched and processed for the mix.

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