Handling sound effects, the small noises of hands on things. Picking up. Putting down. Guns get the most attention here, with magazines going in and out and slides racked back hard, but there's plenty beyond that, from coins being counted out on a counter to an old cassette clicking into its player.
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163
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49
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Mono, stereo, M/S, surround, ambisonic
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44.1 to 192 kHz
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Royalty-free for commercial work
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$3.50 to $399.99
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This library provides sound effects of a Swedish battle rifle, submachine gun, and machine gun, including multi-perspective handling and gunshots recorded in urban and industrial spaces.
Includes 192 recorded and designed weapon handling sound effects. Features multi-sound handlings, handling with moving fabrics, and single movement sounds for realism.
Historical musket sound effects comprise diverse handling, loading, and mechanical actions recorded using professional microphones, featuring authentic 19th-century firearms manipulated on multiple surfaces with varying perspectives.
Professional Foley artists capture authentic sound effects on a dedicated stage, utilizing Sennheiser MKH50 technology to record film-ready audio elements.
Professional Foley artists capture authentic sound effects using premium Sennheiser equipment, offering a comprehensive collection originally created for various film productions.
Detailed mechanical sound effects from eleven popular handguns, recorded with three microphones, featuring magazine loading, slide actions, and various weapon manipulations at 24bit/96kHz quality.
A collection of futuristic and steampunk weapon sound effects, featuring rifles, shotguns, submachine guns, and grenade launchers provided as single shots, loops, and bursts.
Zipper sound effects captured at 192kHz with a Rode NTG-3, covering fast and slow pulls, opening, closing, and handling textures for clothing, bags, jackets, backpacks, and cases.
Glass shard sound effects recorded at 96 kHz / 24-bit covering cracking under pressure, window smashes, shards dropping, sliding, pouring, sweeping with soft and street brooms, and handling on floors.
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.
Fridge magnet sound effects covering placement clicks, pull releases, hand rattling, and friction slides at soft, medium, and fast speeds, captured at 96kHz/24-bit with a Sennheiser MKH60.
School chair sound effects covering scrapes, drags, sits, stands, leaning back, pick ups, put downs, throws and rumbles performed on linoleum, wood and carpet, recorded dry with a Sennheiser MKH 60 at 96kHz/24-bit.
Desert Eagle 50 sound effects capturing single shots and Monster ammo at 0m, 1m, 10m and 40m perspectives, plus charging, dry fire, magazine moves and safety handling.
Wooden block sound effects featuring 300 source files of tactile hits, drops, scrapes, and Foley movement recorded with a Sennheiser MKH 416, alongside granular designed textures.
Aluminum crutch sound effects featuring walking performances, handling, adjustments, and drops across varied interior and exterior surfaces, captured with Neumann KMR81 and DPA 4060 boom and clip microphones.
Handling is what makes an object feel real in someone's hands. A gun with no handling sounds like a toy, however big the shot. That's why weapon recordings treat the Magazine, the bolt, the safety and the Dry Fire click as carefully as the bang. In games those sounds play far more often than the shot itself, every time a player checks a weapon or reloads. Everyday handling is just as useful, with coins and treasure chests for loot, and old tapes and cameras for retro props. Foley editors stack these quietly under almost every scene.