Sound effects tag

Dissonance Sound Effects

Dissonance sound effects sit across a handful of dark sound design collections, all made to put a scene on edge. Nothing lines up quite right. Pianos used the wrong way, with contact mics on prepared strings and broken parts. Unsettling drones made from a factory cooling system picked up with a geophone. Then distorted industrial hits, piercing transitions and tension layers drawn from feature film work.

Libraries
8
Publishers
7
Formats
Mono, stereo, surround
Sample rates
48 to 96 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$15 to $75
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Experimental sound effects captured from pianos using contact mics and unconventional techniques, featuring 652 textured recordings of prepared strings, broken elements, and processed tones at 192kHz resolution.
652 files · 16 GB · Metadata
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48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Haunting Waterphone recordings captured in a Victorian church deliver ethereal sound effects with natural ambience, creating otherworldly textures perfect for unsettling cinematic moments.
30 files · 851.3 MB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Seamlessly looping atmospheric sound effects encompass 203 abstract ambiences, featuring Shepard Ambiences across 132 minutes of fully searchable, meta-tagged audio content.
207 files · 4.31 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Meticulously crafted collection features 88 seamless, loopable sound effects utilizing Shepard Tone, creating perpetual rising and falling abstract ambient atmospheres across 39 minutes.
88 files · 1.28 GB · Metadata
Only on Sonniss
96 kHz, 24-bit.
Inside an 1805 London piano and Soviet Lira, haunting sound effects emerge through unconventional playing methods, yielding dissonant tones suitable for horror scores and metallic impacts.
374 files · 3.2 GB · Metadata
48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo, Surround.
Expertly crafted sound effects from feature films, including 62 atmospheric layers in both stereo and 5.1 formats, designed to enhance dramatic tension in professional productions.
62 files · 3.64 GB · Metadata

Dissonance does its work under a scene rather than on top of it. The piano recordings bring dissonant tones and metallic impacts from unconventional techniques, including an ordinary Upright Piano pushed well beyond its usual job, and the experimental set adds prepared strings, broken elements and processed tones. All of it suits Suspense and horror. The factory drones and the tension layers carry a long build under dialogue. When the moment breaks, the distorted industrial hits and piercing transitions mark the cut, and the Shepard ambiences keep the pressure rising for as long as the scene needs.

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