Sound effects tag

Construction Site Sound Effects

Construction Site sound effects from digging the foundations all the way up. Excavators, angle grinders, nail guns, drills and hammering, concrete pours and crews at work. Loud stuff. Some recordings focus on the tools themselves, and others give you the whole site as a background, with everything going at once.

Libraries
36
Publishers
24
Formats
Mono, stereo, surround, ambisonic
Sample rates
48 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$8 to $97
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Recorded or designed
RecordedDesigned

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Channel format
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Embedded metadata
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All 36 libraries tagged Construction Site

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96 to 192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Construction site sound effects covering power tools, nail guns, chop saws, angle grinders, excavators, concrete mixers, tree shredders, brick debris, and site ambiences recorded at 192kHz across close and distant perspectives.
674 files · 14.9 GB · Metadata
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96 to 192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Construction site sound effects recorded at 192kHz, covering angle grinders, nail guns, DEWALT and Makita drills, excavators, tree saws, concrete pours, tape, rope, and site ambiences.
225 files · 4.04 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Comprehensive collection featuring ten authentic construction site recordings, encompassing diverse sound effects from power tools, heavy machinery, industrial equipment, and general worksite ambience.
10 files · 292.7 MB · Metadata
-24%
48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
City ambience sound effects covering busy traffic, crowded markets, shopping malls, metro stations, airports, schools, parks, suburban neighborhoods, construction sites, and thunderstorms, with morning and night variations in stereo.
264 files · 5.18 GB · Metadata
-34%
48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Industrial ambience sound effects featuring factory machinery, power plant interiors, warehouse room tones, cargo port atmospheres, excavator and bulldozer operation, forklift and truck crane movement, elevators, and backup beepers.
106 files · 1.01 GB · Metadata
-25%
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
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.
30 files · 2.46 GB · Metadata
192 kHz, 32-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Construction site sound effects recorded in Indonesia at 192 kHz / 32-bit float, featuring layered daytime ambiences with hammering, grinder, cement mixer, gravel shoveling, motorbike pass-bys, and surrounding wildlife.
20 files · 3.71 GB · Metadata
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48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo, Surround, Ambisonic B.
A library of Spanish urban ambience sound effects, including traffic, construction, and pedestrian zones. Files are delivered in stereo, 5.1, 7.1.2, and original ambisonic formats.
79 files · 15.72 GB · Metadata
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96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Construction machinery sounds featuring angle grinders, jackhammers, and chop saws deliver realistic sound effects through 14 high-quality recordings totaling 863MB.
14 files · 863 MB · Metadata
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96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Atmospheric sound effects capture the essence of Northeast England, featuring urban recordings from Newcastle and Durham, including train stations, museums, and the iconic Tyne Bridge.
26 files · 2.71 GB · Metadata

A building site is a background and a set of spot effects at the same time. The site ambiences give you the bed, with crews at work and demolition machinery rolling along under the scene. Then you pick out the hits that sell it, an Angle Grinder biting through metal or a nail gun firing, and drop them where the camera lands. Drilling and hammering get their own recordings from job sites and workshops. Swearing not included. For the heavy end, Excavator covers the diggers on their own. Building work next door is in there too, for scenes where the site is heard rather than seen.

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