Sound effects tag

Interference Sound Effects

Interference sound effects for signals that won't come through clean. Radio static hissing over a voice and a walkie-talkie breaking up mid-sentence. Then the hidden noise of everyday electronics, the buzz and glitch you only hear with a coil pickup held to a TV or a computer. Ugly, in a useful way. It's how sci-fi makes technology feel fragile.

Libraries
70
Publishers
38
Formats
Mono, stereo, M/S, surround
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$5 to $149
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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

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Embedded metadata
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All 70 libraries tagged Interference

96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Electromagnetic field sound effects recorded at 96kHz from active shipboard electrical systems including power transformers, distribution panels, battery chargers, and elevator motors, capturing buzzes, hums, arcs, whines, and glitches with dynamic tonal variations.
284 files · 7.65 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
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.
293 files · 8.85 GB · Metadata
48 to 192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
This library of science-fiction sound effects includes planetary ambiences, weapons, UI textures, sci-fi voices, radio transmissions, power fluctuations, and various electromagnetic system sounds.
2,512 files · 11.6 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Using specialized microphones, this collection features over 100 electromagnetic sound effects captured from various devices, offering 36 minutes of glitchy, machine-generated audio in high-quality formats.
110 files · Metadata
192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Multi-layered horror ambiences blend haunting choral wails, resonant winds, and unsettling sound effects, featuring high-quality 24-bit recordings suitable for films, games, and immersive audio projects.
16 files · 3.10 GB · Metadata

Interference is texture, and it does a lot of storytelling. A clean radio voice sounds like a studio. Add Static and dropouts and suddenly it's coming from a long way off, or from a ship in trouble. The libraries here cover the radio side, with military transmissions and old CB hardware, and the Electromagnetic side, recorded with pickups that turn the hidden fields around electronics into sound. The electromagnetic material is really useful for sci-fi interfaces and broken machines, where a short Glitch can sell a screen failing. Thrillers use interference for wiretaps and failing comms. Horror uses it when the radio picks up something it shouldn't.

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