Sound effects tag

Factory Sound Effects

Factory sound effects from places where things get made. Textile machines clattering, marble being cut, printing and packing lines running all shift, cooling plants humming in the background. Big echoey halls. Some recordings stand back and take in the whole floor, others get close to each machine. There's a steampunk side as well, all old gears and steam, for factories that never existed.

Libraries
67
Publishers
38
Formats
Mono, stereo, M/S, surround, ambisonic
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$6 to $699
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Recorded or designed
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Channel format
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Embedded metadata
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All 67 libraries tagged Factory

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
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Comprehensive industrial sound effects capturing operational oil shale factory environments, featuring vintage machinery, mining activities, and detailed interior/exterior recordings at professional 96kHz/24bit quality.
36 files · 8.54 GB · Metadata
44.1 kHz, 16 to 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
A collection of 55 factory-recorded sound effects featuring metal impacts, footsteps, glass shattering, and rainy ambiences, captured in stereo using X/Y configuration and minimally processed for versatile use.
55 files · 100 MB
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Expansive industrial soundscapes capture automated production lines and robotic machinery, with sound effects recorded inside Europe's largest laminate manufacturing facility.
64 files · 3 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Inside a massive cement factory, continuous sound effects blend mechanical drones and industrial ambiences, captured from various machinery locations to create uninterrupted, tonal atmospheres.
78 files · 475 MB · Metadata
44.1 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Captured at a Swedish Volvo factory, this collection features diverse industrial sound effects, including mysterious car lifts and air pressure machines, each edited into manageable segments.
21 files · 339 MB · Metadata

A factory is a bed of hum with events on top. The hum is cooling plants and machines running steady. The events cut through it, a press slamming or a forklift reversing. The ambiences here give you the bed, recorded in working plants, and close recordings of Machinery give you the events to cut on top. Ship repair halls add overhead cranes and metalwork, and the Warehouse recordings bring forklifts. Some cooling systems were recorded so close they turn into dark drones, which horror borrows a lot. Grim and heavy. Films and games set anywhere industrial lean on all of it.

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