Screech sound effects that set teeth on edge. Rusty metal squealing and train wheels screaming on a bend. A bird of prey cries high overhead. Then the monsters, undead creatures shrieking as they attack and dragons screeching from the sky. Nasty stuff. Nearly all of it is friction, either in a throat or in metal.
Libraries
59
Publishers
39
Formats
Mono, stereo, M/S, surround
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$5 to $200
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A high-resolution collection of old object sound effects featuring screeching, scraping, and grinding metal, spinning wheels, and straining mechanical parts. Includes both edited and raw unprocessed recordings.
Dragon sound effects featuring over 250 designed roars, growls, fire breath, wing flaps, footsteps, tail swipes, and landing impacts with juvenile, giant, and underwater dragon variations for fantasy game and film use.
Jump scare sound effects featuring over 200 files of metallic screeches, acoustic dread, booms, impacts, and suspenseful stingers designed for horror games and trailers at 96kHz/24-bit resolution.
This collection of 709 raw, unprocessed vocalization sound effects contains clean growls, hisses, yelps, and croaks for designing custom creature and monster characters.
Recorded with contact microphones, this library features 183 metal drones and screeches. It contains high-resolution sound effects captured from household and urban objects for atmospheric design.
Professional collection featuring 1,489 monster and creature sound effects, including vocalizations from 16 unique beings like werewolves, zombies, and gorgons, delivered in high-quality 96k/24bit WAV format.
Authentic gate recordings feature both shotgun and contact microphone sound effects, capturing detailed creaks, groans, and mechanisms in 96kHz for cinematic and medieval applications.
Unsettling sound effects captured from an Icelandic Langspil create haunting drones and textural elements through various playing techniques, ideal for atmospheric sound design.
Detailed recordings capture authentic London transport ambience, featuring underground and railway sound effects, from screeching rails to passenger chatter and station announcements in high-quality 24-bit format.
Through an electromagnetic coil pickup, this collection captures natural electronic sound effects, including static, hums, and glitches from everyday devices like TVs, computers, and switches.
A versatile collection capturing wood-based sound effects through various actions, including snaps, breaks, creaks, and impacts, suitable for horror, nature scenes, and general sound design applications.
A screech is friction with a pitch to it. Metal does it when it drags or flexes, and contact mic recordings catch that at its rawest, a squeal you feel in your jaw. Rusty squeaks sit closer to an old Hinge or a tired machine, smaller but just as nasty. The creature libraries go the other way, with shrieks for werewolves and the undead. Real birds of prey give a cleaner, wilder screech for nature films. Layer a metal screech under a Howl and a monster gets a lot scarier. Horror uses screeches for jump scares, and games use them for anything with wings and teeth.
