Hiss sound effects from things that want you to back off, and things that are just letting off steam. Snakes coiled and warning. Cats with their ears flat. Then the mechanical sort, hydraulics venting on a robot. And the soft hiss of wood on a fire. A short word for a lot of different sounds.
Libraries
109
Publishers
61
Formats
Mono, stereo, surround, ambisonic
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$6 to $180
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Pneumatic tool sound effects captured in a working ship workshop with Earthworks QTC 50 microphones, covering angle grinders, die grinders, impact wrenches, needle scalers, and vacuum pumps at idle and under load.
Electromagnetic interference sound effects recorded at 96kHz from active shipboard equipment including boiler panels, engine control room indicators and purifiers, capturing pulses, buzzes, glitches, whines and digital noise.
48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo, Surround, Ambisonic B.
Roomtones and interior sound effects captured across kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms, laundries, and abandoned spaces, featuring ambient hum, distant voices, rain, and subtle environmental details in ambisonics, stereo, 5.1, and 7.1.2 formats.
An ambisonic library of campfire sound effects, including 4-channel B-format (Ambix) and Binaural stereo files. All recordings are delivered with embedded metadata.
This collection of 709 raw, unprocessed vocalization sound effects contains clean growls, hisses, yelps, and croaks for designing custom creature and monster characters.
This collection provides 32 sound effects of cooling engine crackle and metal pings from 16 vehicles, including cars, trucks, tanks, and various motorcycles.
This collection of 820 mechanical sound effects features industrial machinery, grinding gears, hissing hydraulics, tool interactions, and complex mechanisms from both large and small scales.
This collection of mechanical sound effects features gears, pistons, steam systems, and clockwork, delivered as complex loops, one-shots, and kinetic textures for machine design.
A library of raw, unprocessed foley sound effects for creature design, featuring high-fidelity 100k acoustic performances with props and textures provided as source material with multiple variations.
This library of creature sound effects contains detailed recordings of bat shrieks, rodent chitters, snake hisses, frog choruses, and guttural growls from various animals.
Animal hisses are breath forced through a tight mouth, and they work best close and dry. The snake and cat recordings are real, from a quiet warning to an angry spit, and they layer well under a monster Snarl to make it feel reptilian. Mechanical hisses are a different family. Hydraulics on robots give you that clean release of pressure, close cousins of a Steam valve. Fire adds tiny hisses among the pops. Synthesized nature and liquid textures fill the gaps with designed versions. Creature designers use the animals most. Sci-fi teams take the rest.
