
Historical Sound Effects
Historical sound effects for stories set before anyone had a phone in their pocket. Medieval battle cries and orders, antique grandfather clocks and pendulums, coins struck by hand and bells over cobbled streets. Old but useful. Pre-war cars and early engines are in here too, along with newsreel noises and forests recorded without a modern sound in them.
- Libraries
- 9
- Publishers
- 6
- Formats
- Mono, stereo, surround
- Sample rates
- 44.1 to 192 kHz
- Licence
- Royalty-free for commercial work
- Price range
- $10 to $299
All 9 libraries tagged Historical
Period work depends on what's missing as much as what's there, and the forest recordings were made with no human noise in them, owls by night and woodpeckers by day. A clean start. The battle voices bring a whole cast, young soldiers to hardened royals, with cries and orders for a medieval fight. Antique clocks and pendulums set the pace of a period room. On the road, pre-war cars cover start-ups and pull-aways, horns included, and the Gasoline Engine recordings go back further still. Newsreel noises finish it off for an old cinema scene.
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