Sound effects tag

Pluck Sound Effects

Pluck sound effects, the quick twang of something tight being flicked. Violin strings plucked close for source material, and the soft plucky blips modern phones and apps use for notifications. Cartoon twangs and boings handle the comedy. Boing. A few stranger ones come from metal stairs on a ship and a pipe sunk into a lava field. Most are short and bright, made to sit on top of a moment rather than under it.

Libraries
25
Publishers
15
Formats
Mono, stereo
Sample rates
48 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$6 to $190
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Recorded or designed
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Recorded means captured in the field or a studio. Designed means built from other material.

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

Embedded metadata
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Soundminer and UCS fields written into the files.

All 25 libraries tagged Pluck.
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All 25 libraries tagged Pluck

96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Nylon guitar UI sound effects featuring 226 plucks, slides, strums, chords, and harmonics across achievements, notifications, navigation actions, and sweeteners at 96kHz 24-bit.
31 files · 253 MB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono.
Moog Subsequent 37 sound effects spanning laser guns, UI clicks and plucks, sub oscillations, telemetry beeps, droid sequences, and energy fields across 274 master files at 96kHz/24-bit.
274 files · 1.56 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Cartoon comedy sound effects featuring 506 hand-performed boings, bonks, crashes, whistles, whooshes, zips, splats, squeaks, horn honks, and magical chimes designed from original source recordings at 24-bit/96kHz.
506 files · 2.39 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
This collection provides 55 sci-fi drone sound effects, including dark ambiences, interiors, and suspenseful backgrounds for cinematic productions, games, and other media projects.
55 files · 1.74 GB · Metadata
192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono.
Deep within an Icelandic lava field, a disused borehole transforms everyday sounds into otherworldly sound effects, creating metallic echoes and natural delays through various experimental techniques.
392 files · 6 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Through bowed and plucked guitar techniques, this collection delivers 67 sci-fi sound effects, featuring space engines, ambient textures, and weapon impacts, all recorded at 24-bit/96kHz quality.
80 files · 693 MB · Metadata

A pluck is a sharp start and a fast fade, which is why it works so well for notifications. Quick and clean. It gets noticed, then gets out of the way. The phone and menu libraries use that idea for alerts and selects, some in dry and phone speaker versions so you can hear how they'll land on a real device. The violin recordings go the other way, raw String source for designers to stretch and process into something new, with Bowing alongside. Cartoon twangs are made for timing gags, like a quick ping as something snaps back into place.

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