Sound effects tag

Machinery Sound Effects

Machinery sound effects for things that grind and thump. A working factory floor with every machine running, and an overhead crane hauling steel across a repair hall. Then the stranger corners. A bowling alley's pinsetter clattering away behind the lanes. Rusty machinery squeaking, and sci-fi machines doing things real ones can't.

Libraries
128
Publishers
61
Formats
Mono, stereo, M/S, surround, ambisonic
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$7.50 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

Mono for 3D positional audio. Ambisonic and surround for immersive mixes.

Embedded metadata
Tagged for Soundminer or UCSUntagged

Soundminer and UCS fields written into the files.

All 128 libraries tagged Machinery.
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All 128 libraries tagged Machinery

48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Industrial ambience sound effects featuring factory machinery, power plant interiors, warehouse room tones, cargo port atmospheres, excavator and bulldozer operation, forklift and truck crane movement, elevators, and backup beepers.
106 files · 1.01 GB · Metadata
48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
City ambience sound effects covering busy traffic, crowded markets, shopping malls, metro stations, airports, schools, parks, suburban neighborhoods, construction sites, and thunderstorms, with morning and night variations in stereo.
264 files · 5.18 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Small-scale machinery sound effects covering 103 close-up recordings of moving parts, mechanisms, tools, switches, clicks, clacks, whirs, rattles, and precision hardware at 96 kHz / 24-bit.
103 files · 35 MB · Metadata
-30%
96 to 192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Construction site sound effects recorded at 192kHz, covering angle grinders, nail guns, DEWALT and Makita drills, excavators, tree saws, concrete pours, tape, rope, and site ambiences.
225 files · 4.04 GB · Metadata
-45%
48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Lock and gear sound effects spanning 611 files of padlock clicks, vault dial mechanisms, chain rattles and drags, clockwork ticking, levers, ratchets, switches, winches, and metal door movement.
611 files · 501 MB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono.
Electric motor sound effects captured as electromagnetic field recordings from working shipboard and industrial equipment, covering start-ups, shutdowns, idles, stepper glitches, grinders, blowers, pumps and compressors at 96kHz.
190 files · 2.33 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo, Ambisonic B.
Designed room tone sound effects delivered in native Ambisonic formats including 3rd order HOA and 1st order FOA, covering spaceship chambers, underground tunnels, industrial spaces, and sci-fi environments at 96kHz/24-bit.
50 files · 52.7 GB
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo, Ambisonic B.
Granular texture sound effects featuring 25 spatial compositions built from layered everyday objects - metal, water, glass, paper, machinery, and organic materials - delivered in Third-Order Ambisonic and binaural formats.
50 files · 14.1 GB
192 kHz, 32-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Construction site sound effects recorded in Indonesia at 192 kHz / 32-bit float, featuring layered daytime ambiences with hammering, grinder, cement mixer, gravel shoveling, motorbike pass-bys, and surrounding wildlife.
20 files · 3.71 GB · Metadata
48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
A collection of 677 metal sound effects featuring frictions, mechanical movements, machinery, heavy impacts, and rolling elements, delivered as 24-bit/48kHz stereo WAV files.
677 files · 535 MB · Metadata

Machinery gives a space its heartbeat. A steady thump from a press or the endless churn of a conveyor tells you a place is working before anyone on screen speaks. In a Factory or a Warehouse that background should rarely stop, and loops make it easy to hold. The bowling alley recordings show machinery hiding in plain sight, all chains and clatter behind the scenes. Sci-fi machines are built from scratch, servos and hydraulics with heavy metal hits on top, so they move like something enormous. Rusty squeaks age any of it instantly.

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