Sound effects tag

Resonance Sound Effects

Resonance sound effects for things that keep ringing after they're struck. Metal bowls left to hum, and a shipping container booming under a hit. Contact mics pressed onto everyday metal pick up screeches and moans the air never carries. Some of it is calm. A lot of it is pure tension, built for horror and sci-fi.

Libraries
175
Publishers
80
Formats
Mono, stereo, M/S, surround, ambisonic
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$6 to $395
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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 175 libraries tagged Resonance.
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All 175 libraries tagged Resonance

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.
21 files · 575 MB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Inside an abandoned WWII bunker, a deteriorating steel door generates haunting, musical sound effects through various interactions, producing harmonics and tones shaped by decades of coastal rust.
87 files · 253 MB · Metadata
96 to 192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Ethereal metallic sound effects, created using dry ice on resonant metals, offer versatile options for robots, creatures, and machinery, while delivering unique tones for horror and UI design.
77 files · 3.98 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Metal sheets and dry ice interactions produce versatile sound effects, captured in both mono and stereo formats with high sample rates, enabling extensive pitch and ambient manipulation.
338 files · 2.16 GB
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Deep, resonating metal sheets meet dry ice to create versatile sound effects, offering both mono and stereo recordings suitable for ambient drones and intense transformations.
212 files · 732 MB
192 kHz, 32-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Foley and object sound effects across 6,584 files, 232 minutes and 17 GB at 192kHz/32bit. Bells, friction tones, wood, metal, cloth, foliage, shakers and workshop mechanisms, UCS compliant with Soundminer metadata.
6,584 files · Metadata
192 kHz, 32-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Adriatic coastal storm wind sound effects recorded in Montenegro, with 14 exterior gale-force gust passes and 23 interior perspectives of window rattles, whistling draughts, and structural resonance at 192 kHz.
37 files · 3.16 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Metal impact sound effects recorded inside a ship's Bosun Store, capturing hammer, chain, shovel, and soft ball strikes in AB stereo, binaural, mono, and contact microphone perspectives.
521 files · 2.14 GB · Metadata

Resonance is what happens after the hit, as the material vibrates at its own pitch until it dies away. Sound designers love it because a single strike can be slowed down and layered into a long swell. A Contact Microphone gets right inside the object, so a railing or a pan lid turns into a groaning, alien Texture. Metal impacts with a long tail make good trailer hits. A struck bowl left ringing gives a calm, spacious bed instead. For dread, the drones and moans do most of the work, and Tension carries on from there. Horror and sci-fi lean on them hardest.

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