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
73
Publishers
39
Formats
Mono, stereo, M/S, surround
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$2 to $82.80
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Recorded or designed
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Channel format
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Embedded metadata
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All 73 libraries tagged Interference

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96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Electromagnetic field sound effects recorded from active shipboard equipment, featuring 767 files of transformer and electric motor buzzes, stepper motor movement, interference, pulses, glitches, and crackles at 96kHz.
767 files · 18.6 GB · Metadata
Was $90.00, now $50.00
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96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono.
Walkie-talkie sound effects from the AEG Voxtel, Cobra MicroTalk, and Kenwood TK-3107, featuring button clicks, power beeps, squelches, feedback, static, interference, garbled speech, and pager rings.
59 files · 436 MB
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96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Electrical interference sound effects created by converting data files into audio, featuring buzzes, EMF/EMI noise, broadband interference, short and long static, and glitches across 93 UCS-compliant 96kHz/24-bit files.
93 files · 743.3 MB · Metadata
Was $20.00, now $10.00
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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
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96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Behringer Neutron synthesizer sound effects featuring 153 rhythmic elements, alarms, frequency shifts, electromagnetic interference, and eerie soundscapes, processed through guitar pedals for sci-fi and horror design.
153 files · 2.87 GB · Metadata
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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
192 kHz, 32-bit. Formats: Mono.
This library contains 100 signal error sound effects, including 40 source recording errors and 60 designed unpleasant noises, organized within the Universal Category System.
100 files · 1.62 GB · Metadata
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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
Was $5.00, now $2.00
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96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Captured with specialized equipment, this comprehensive library features 350 EMF sound effects, including buzzes, hums, and glitches from various electronic devices and household appliances.
350 files · 6 GB · Metadata
Was $87.00, now $40.00
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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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