Car Horn sound effects, from a polite little toot to a long, furious blast in traffic. Horns recorded on real cars, old and new, up close and from the street. Some come inside full car libraries with the doors and engine around them, others sit in busy city traffic where everyone's leaning on theirs. Short and rude, mostly.
Libraries
118
Publishers
34
Formats
Mono, stereo, M/S, surround, ambisonic
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$9 to $499
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This library of 300 car horn sound effects features 50 models in three styles, recorded from both interior and exterior perspectives and delivered in UCS format.
A collection of 300 car horn sound effects from 50 models, including three styles from interior and exterior perspectives, delivered as high-resolution, UCS-compliant audio files.
Denver suburban ambience sound effects recorded at 32-bit/192kHz from a third-floor apartment staircase, with 18 files featuring distant traffic, chainsaws, leaf blowers, airplanes, car horns, bird chirps, and metal impacts.
Italian train station sound effects recorded at Firenze Santa Maria Novella and Pisa Centrale, with train interiors, electric trams, elevator cycles, squeaking escalators, and underground car park ambience.
Protest march sound effects recorded in Toronto, Stockholm, and Chicago, capturing call-and-respond chants, yells, drums, whistles, megaphones, and vehicle horns at distant and pass-by perspectives in 96kHz stereo.
Mazda MX-5 Miata sound effects featuring 82 files of onboard and exterior recordings including acceleration, idle, pass-bys, revs, manoeuvres, and mechanical foley recorded at 96kHz/24-bit.
African urban traffic sound effects recorded in Lagos and Oyo State, featuring highway pass-bys, bus parks, rickshaws, motorcycles, horns, walla, and early morning street ambiences at 96kHz 24-bit stereo.
Nigerian urban ambience sound effects featuring street traffic, walla in Yoruba, Hausa, and Pidgin, church crowds, bar interiors, sirens, and suburban street activity recorded at 96kHz 24-bit.
African urban traffic sound effects featuring busy highways, bus stops, market streets, and wet roads with cars, motorcycles, trucks, horns, and crowd walla captured across morning, evening, and night settings.
Lagos traffic ambience sound effects recorded at 96kHz featuring bus stops, expressways, bridges, bus parks, and busy road junctions with vehicles, horns, walla, and sirens.
Viral video sound effects featuring 126 whooshes, transitions, UI clicks, notifications, cartoon effects, impacts, risers, and glitches designed for short-form social media content and motion graphics.
Toyota Fortuner sound effects featuring a 2.8L turbo diesel driving on gravel and dirt, recorded from four simultaneous perspectives including interior, exhaust, engine, and tire, alongside vehicle foley.
A horn says a lot about the car it's fitted to. Vintage horns honk thin and nasal, while modern ones blare, and a Sports Car library often has a horn tucked in somewhere. The car libraries record the horn as part of the whole vehicle, alongside the engine and the door foley, so it matches the car you hear in the rest of the scene. Street recordings catch horns in context, blaring through jams. Social video kits add sillier honks for comedy edits. A quick tap reads as friendly. A long hold is road rage. Chase scenes and city ambiences both need plenty.