Sound effects tag

Cassette Sound Effects

Cassette sound effects from the machines themselves. Personal cassette players with their buttons and mechanical movements, plus the headphones that went with them. Tape recorders and cassette decks as well. There's degraded tape too, warble and distortion added on purpose. Proper analogue. It suits any scene set before everything went digital.

Libraries
19
Publishers
15
Formats
Mono, stereo
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$7 to $77
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Cassette deck sound effects captured from a real tape recorder across 160 files at 96kHz/24bit, covering play, stop, pause and power buttons, tape insert, eject, rewind, playback loops, hums, and cassette case handling.
160 files · 445 MB
192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono.
Professional cassette deck sounds featuring multiple perspectives of transport controls, mechanical operations, and detailed motor recordings, creating authentic analog sound effects for interface design and mechanisms.
91 files · 2.3 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
This extensive library captures authentic cassette tape sound effects, featuring mechanical player noises and textural elements, recorded at 24bit/96khz with detailed metadata for professional applications.
98 files · 327 MB · Metadata
-50%
44.1 to 48 kHz, 16 to 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Vintage analog sound effects featuring over 350 recordings of retro radios, televisions, cameras, typewriters, cassette decks, vinyl crackle, telephones, walkie-talkies, VHS static, and 8mm projectors for period-piece sound design.
356 files · 386 MB · Metadata
192 kHz, 32-bit. Formats: Mono.
This library contains 100 signal error sound effects, including 40 source recording errors and 60 designed unpleasant noises, organized within the Universal Category System.
100 files · 1.62 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
This collection offers 73 high-quality sound effects samples of vintage devices, including cassette players, Polaroids, and classic radios, recorded at 96kHz/24bit for authentic retro textures.
73 files · 158 MB
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
This vintage equipment library features 237 authentic sound effects from classic devices, including tape recorders, TVs, gaming consoles, and phones, captured in high-quality 24bit/96kHz format.
237 files · 590 MB · Metadata
192 kHz, 32-bit. Formats: Mono.
A collection of 100 sound effects from 41 audio devices, including radios, tape machines, CD and cassette players, car radios, recorders, and gramophones.
100 files · 684 MB · Metadata
48 to 96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Vintage VCR sound effects featuring mechanical operations, tape noise, and tracking errors, recorded in high-quality formats with multiple variations of each action for authentic analog authenticity.
542 files · 3.14 GB · Metadata
192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Vintage analog tape effects, including speed variations, hum, crackles, and feedback, combine with high-quality 192KHz recordings to deliver authentic distorted sound effects and processing artifacts.
107 files · 1 GB · Metadata
192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Vintage analog RE-201 Space Echo delivers authentic sound effects, including mechanical noises, oscillations, and echoes, capturing the essence of classic science fiction equipment.
210 files · 12.79 GB · Metadata

A cassette scene is mostly handling. A button goes down, the tape starts, and then there's Rewind and Fast-Forward while a character hunts for the right spot. The personal player recordings go into that kind of detail, headphones included. Wider retro libraries put cassette decks next to radios and VHS, so a whole room from the period can come from one place. The degraded tape side is different: processed loops and one-shots with the warble built in, for flashbacks or anything that should sound worn out.

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