Startup sound effects for things powering up. A computer terminal booting, a spaceship engine spooling from cold, a truck diesel clattering awake and a robot unfolding with a hiss of hydraulics. Sports cars too, firing up with a bark. It's the sound of something deciding to work, and every machine does it differently.
Libraries
203
Publishers
40
Formats
Mono, stereo, M/S, surround, ambisonic
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$10 to $649
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48 to 192 kHz, 24 to 32-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Panavia Tornado sound effects alongside C-130 Hercules, A400M, Boeing and Airbus airliners, Gulfstream APU runs, Piaggio P-180 passes and Chinook landings, captured at 192 kHz including binaural flybys.
Rotax 125 Senior Max Evo go-kart sound effects across 52 WAV files, covering engine and exhaust perspectives of static RPM holds, race track laps, pass-bys, revs, overtakes and false starts.
Flevowerf Waterland 700 sound effects capturing engine and cabin perspectives across slow, medium, and fast driving, reverse, U-turns, revving, pass-bys, plus ignition keys, gearshift, ventilation, water pump, and windscreen wiper foley.
Yamaha WaveRunner EX Sport sound effects covering 53 files of dual-perspective engine and exhaust driving, revving, pass-bys, U-turns, and onboard foley recorded at 192 kHz / 32-bit float.
Elko Marine Big Foot Ultimate sound effects covering 24 files of outboard driving at slow, medium and fast speeds, pass-bys, reverse, U-turns, revs and start-idle-shutdown cycles at 192 kHz.
Triumph Street Twin 900cc sound effects across 280 stereo files covering ignitions, idles, revs, RPM throttle loops, pass-bys, and designed impacts, captured from separate engine and exhaust mic positions.
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.
1989 Toyota Celica sound effects featuring 215 files of tri-perspective driving maneuvers across five gears, exterior pass-bys, pop-up headlight mechanics, and detailed interior chassis foley recorded at 192kHz.
BMW R1200GS dual sport motorcycle sound effects featuring multi-perspective engine and exhaust recordings across all six gears, steady RPM loops, pass-bys, and tactile foley captured at 192kHz.
Toyota Fortuner 2.8 GD6 sound effects featuring onboard and exterior recordings of asphalt driving maneuvers, pass-bys, idles, and vehicle foley, captured across simultaneous interior, engine, exhaust, and tire perspectives.
A startup has a shape, a moment of effort and then the thing settling into its running sound. Get that shape right and the audience believes the machine is real. Truck and car startups recorded Onboard come with the cabin shaking as the engine catches. For computers and sci-fi kit, it's a rising hum and a chirp that says the system is ready. Pair it with a Shutdown from the same source and the scene opens and closes cleanly. Video games use startups everywhere, from menus to mech suits.
