Sound effects tag

Clock Sound Effects

Clock sound effects, from a quiet tick in an empty room to a big old chime. Antique clocks whirring before they strike, and tiny gears clicking inside a watch. A chess clock gets slapped mid-game. Then school corridors and flats where a clock is simply there in the background, ticking while nobody speaks. Time passing, basically.

Libraries
64
Publishers
31
Formats
Mono, stereo, M/S, surround, ambisonic
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$7 to $449
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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.

All 64 libraries tagged Clock.
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All 64 libraries tagged Clock

96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Meticulously recorded sound effects capture authentic antique timepieces, featuring grandfather clocks, pendulums, and vintage mechanisms - all preserved in high-quality 24-bit audio format.
20 files · 631 MB · Metadata
96 to 192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Household sound effects featuring interior room tones, ticking clocks, cooking foley, wooden drawer movements, and electrical appliances like microwaves and washing machines, captured with close microphone techniques.
264 files · 5.14 GB · Metadata
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44.1 to 48 kHz, 16 to 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Kitchen cooking sound effects featuring over 600 files covering frying, chopping, boiling, appliances, eating, drinking, cookware, glassware, ingredients, food packaging, and kitchen ambience loops.
678 files · 720 MB · Metadata
48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo, Surround, Ambisonic B.
Roomtones and interior sound effects captured across kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms, laundries, and abandoned spaces, featuring ambient hum, distant voices, rain, and subtle environmental details in ambisonics, stereo, 5.1, and 7.1.2 formats.
60 files · 11.46 GB · Metadata
192 kHz, 32-bit. Formats: Stereo.
A library of school ambience sound effects with classroom room tones, quiet hallways, and aisles, featuring integrated environmental details like distant trains, birds, and light traffic.
28 files · 23 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 32-bit. Formats: Stereo.
This collection of sound effects captures bathroom ambiences, including room tone, ventilation hum, toilet flushes, shower flow, faucet drips, and footsteps with natural acoustic reverb.
102 files · 18.5 GB · Metadata

A ticking clock is an old trick in film sound, and it still works. Drop a Tick into a quiet room and the silence suddenly has a pulse. Speed it up and the tension climbs. The antique recordings give you character, old mechanisms that wheeze and clunk, and a Grandfather Clock is the classic for a hallway at night. Tiny mechanism recordings suit watches and wind-up toys, while motion graphics designers use ticks for countdowns on screen. Room tones with a clock already in them save layering, since the tick sits in the right space from the start. Thrillers and puzzle games use clocks mostly to make someone nervous.

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