Sound effects tag

Buzz Sound Effects

Buzz sound effects, some alive and some electric. Bees working a hive and cicadas droning in the heat. Then the wires. Old TVs and tape machines buzzing with mains hum, and electromagnetic fizz picked up from gadgets that were never meant to be heard. Air conditioning grinds away underneath.

Libraries
134
Publishers
76
Formats
Mono, stereo, surround, ambisonic
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$0 to $180
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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
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Soundminer and UCS fields written into the files.

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All 134 libraries tagged Buzz

192 kHz, 32-bit. Formats: Mono.
Housefly sound effects of a single fly stuck to an adhesive UV trap, featuring buzzes, sizzling zaps, clicks, pitch bends, and stutters captured with Sennheiser MKH8050 and Sanken CO-100K microphones.
1,304 files · 1.34 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Electrical interference sound effects created by converting data files into audio, featuring buzzes, EMF/EMI noise, broadband interference, short and long static, and glitches across 93 UCS-compliant 96kHz/24-bit files.
93 files · 743.3 MB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono.
Fridge and freezer sound effects across 170 UCS-compliant files covering door suctions, latches, bottle and jar rattles, plastic drawers, ice trays, and compressor hums, recorded at 96kHz with a Sennheiser MKH60.
170 files · Metadata
48 to 96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Free horror drone sound effects spanning braams, hits, stingers, sweeps, piano clusters, ebow feedback, metal scrapes, and bee swarm textures, key-labelled and delivered in 24-bit at 48kHz and 96kHz.
90 files · 380 MB
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Electromagnetic field sound effects recorded at 96kHz from active shipboard electrical systems including power transformers, distribution panels, battery chargers, and elevator motors, capturing buzzes, hums, arcs, whines, and glitches with dynamic tonal variations.
284 files · 7.65 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono.
Electric motor sound effects captured as electromagnetic field recordings from working shipboard and industrial equipment, covering start-ups, shutdowns, idles, stepper glitches, grinders, blowers, pumps and compressors at 96kHz.
190 files · 2.33 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Electromagnetic interference sound effects recorded at 96kHz from active shipboard equipment including boiler panels, engine control room indicators and purifiers, capturing pulses, buzzes, glitches, whines and digital noise.
293 files · 8.85 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo, Ambisonic B.
Granular texture sound effects featuring 25 spatial compositions built from layered everyday objects - metal, water, glass, paper, machinery, and organic materials - delivered in Third-Order Ambisonic and binaural formats.
50 files · 14.1 GB
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Tattoo parlour sound effects featuring machine hums, needle buzzing, latex glove snaps, tool handling on metal trays, ink bottle sloshes, and studio ambiences captured in 24-bit/96kHz.
224 files · 1.17 GB · Metadata

A buzz gets under the skin because it never quite settles. An insect buzz moves, getting louder and softer as it flies round the room, while an electrical one sits still and grates. Horror uses both, a bee swarm for dread and an Electricity buzz for a flickering corridor. Designers grab Electromagnetic recordings for sci-fi interfaces and broken robots, because they sound mechanical and alive at once. A steady mains Hum under a scene makes a room feel lived in, or slightly wrong, depending on the level. Fans give offices and server rooms their quiet drone.

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