192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
A high-fidelity collection of metallic sound effects sourced from a suspended steel cable, featuring resonant impacts, harmonic oscillations, overtones, and detailed frequency sweeps.
Sound effects tag
Overtone Sound Effects
Overtone sound effects from metal that rings. A steel cable struck and left to vibrate, and bowls humming long after the hit. Pure ring. Some are almost as clean as a sine wave, while others wobble as the overtones rub against each other, which is where the interesting stuff lives. Crowbars and steel bars add brighter, glassier tones.
- Libraries
- 3
- Publishers
- 2
- Formats
- Mono, stereo
- Sample rates
- 96 to 192 kHz
- Licence
- Royalty-free for commercial work
- Price range
- $15 to $20
All 3 libraries tagged Overtone
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono.
A diverse collection containing musical resonances from 14 bell-like objects, featuring sound effects ranging from simple sine waves to intricate wobbles, all tuned and sampler-ready.
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono.
Modern metallic sound effects cover diverse tones, from glockenspiel-like chimes to ethereal resonances, created using crowbars and steel objects for authentic percussion elements.
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192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
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96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
A library of over 375 creaking and cracking sound effects, featuring breaking cables, ropes under tension, and metal stress sounds. Includes 192kHz source material.
Every struck metal object rings at several frequencies at once, and the balance of those overtones is what makes a bell sound like a bell and a cable sound like a cable. Sound designers stretch them into sci-fi pings and long Decay tails for transitions. The cable recordings even include slow sweeps that suit exactly that job.
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