Sound effects tag

Grunt Sound Effects

Grunt sound effects for anyone who's just had the wind knocked out of them. Human efforts from male and female actors, from swinging a sword to taking a punch, plus the last breath before a character drops. Then the stranger side, where monsters and anime characters grunt their way through a fight. Short and very useful.

Libraries
119
Publishers
38
Formats
Mono, stereo
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$7 to $399.99
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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
Tagged for Soundminer or UCSUntagged

Soundminer and UCS fields written into the files.

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All 119 libraries tagged Grunt

192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Professional voice actors deliver 211 high-fidelity sound effects, including combat grunts, diverse breathing patterns, and death sequences, recorded using premium Ehrlund EHR-M1 microphone technology.
211 files · 8.4 GB · Metadata
-40%
48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Orc warrior sound effects featuring 215 designed creature vocals, battle cries, melee exertions, heavy footstep loops, gore, and weapon strikes including axes, swords, spears, and shield clashes for fantasy game audio.
215 files · 171 MB · Metadata
96 to 192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Human mouth sound effects featuring over 300 male and female performances, encompassing breaths, sighs, coughs, yawns, and laughs recorded using close microphones at 96kHz and 192kHz.
315 files · 286 MB · Metadata
-60%
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Anime female voice sound effects featuring 369 expressive vocalizations including affirmations, screams, attack grunts, laughter, crying, pain reactions, exertion, and idle performances recorded at 96kHz/24-bit for games and animation.
369 files · 256 MB · Metadata
Was $60.00, now $24.00
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192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
This anime-inspired collection features female vocal sound effects across seven distinct character types, offering combat vocalizations, breathing patterns, and expressive utterances in high-quality 24-bit audio format.
572 files · 215 MB · Metadata

A grunt does a lot of work in a small space. It tells you how heavy something is, how hard a punch landed, and whether the character is winning. Game teams need lots of variations so the same effort never repeats, which is why the voice libraries here come in big sets of efforts, Pain sounds, Breathing and death grunts from different actors. For combat they sit under the hits. Monster grunts are a different animal: lower, wetter, often built from a real voice and pitched down, and they blend into a Growl easily. Anime grunts are higher and snappier, made to land with the action on screen.

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