Sound effects tag

Clattering Sound Effects

Clattering sound effects for things that won't keep still. Gears and old machinery rattling away, chains jingling and whipping, marbles rolling and colliding, dice and game pieces tumbling across a board. Even skeletons. A clatter is lots of small hits piling on top of each other, and these recordings have that loose, busy texture in spades.

Libraries
26
Publishers
16
Formats
Mono, stereo, M/S, surround
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$4 to $249
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Recorded or designed
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Channel format
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Embedded metadata
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All 26 libraries tagged Clattering

48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Hardwood, plywood, and OSB panel sound effects covering breaks, bends, drops, hatchet chops, and crowbar withdrawals across concrete, dirt, and wood pile surfaces, captured with Neumann and Schoeps microphones.
1,470 files · 2.3 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono.
Pneumatic tool sound effects captured in a working ship workshop with Earthworks QTC 50 microphones, covering angle grinders, die grinders, impact wrenches, needle scalers, and vacuum pumps at idle and under load.
338 files · 2.73 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Professional mechanical sound effects featuring industrial machinery, rotating gears, and metallic impacts from vintage workshops. Detailed recordings capture neo-Victorian era mechanisms and Steampunk-inspired contraptions.
182 files · 346 MB
192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Raw, pristine sound effects capture metallic interactions at 192kHz, featuring 765 variations of clanging, scraping, and resonating materials, from squeaky gates to warbling sheet metal.
765 files · 2 GB · Metadata
192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono.
Detailed leather and metal sound effects featuring intricate textures, from squeaky handling to impact recordings, capturing both intimate movements and metallic accessories like buckles and rivets.
538 files · 1.29 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo, M/S, Surround.
A comprehensive collection of high-fidelity metal sound effects, featuring diverse objects from massive containers to tiny bolts, recorded professionally with premium microphones at 192 kHz resolution.
3,183 files · 98.49 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Detailed marble sound effects captured through specialized contact microphones, featuring authentic rolling, jumping, falling, and collision recordings in pristine audio quality.
156 files · 636 MB · Metadata
48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
This comprehensive collection features over 1,750 metallic sound effects, spanning 2.3GB of hits, impacts, scrapes, and crashes captured from approximately thirty different metal sources.
1,755 files · 2.3 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Deep beneath and across vast pits, authentic coal mining operations come alive through dramatic sound effects, featuring massive excavators, underground shafts, and echoing conveyor systems at 1500m depths.
49 files · 5.69 GB · Metadata
96 kHz. Formats: Stereo.
Urban wind sound effects capture nature's force through cityscapes, featuring whistling flagpoles, rattling fences, and marina movements across various calm locations without traffic interference.
35 files · 6.23 GB · Metadata

Clatter is texture rather than a single event, often the busy aftermath of a Topple, so it's mostly about the material. Metal clatters bright and long. Wood is drier and shorter. Bone is hollow and light, which is why skeletons get away with it. The recordings here cover a lot of ground: workshops full of pneumatic tools, a coal mine's machinery, a vintage tractor rattling along, rifles being handled, and shaking metal picked up with contact mics and transducers. Board game pieces and marbles give you the small, tabletop version.

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