Sound effects tag

Telephone Sound Effects

Telephone sound effects from the rotary dial to the smartphone. Old phones get the most attention, rotary and push button models ringing and being dialled next to other vintage kit. Plenty of ringing. Modern landlines and mobiles are here too, with vibration as well. Then there's the handset itself, picked up and set down.

Libraries
30
Publishers
19
Formats
Mono, stereo
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$5 to $499
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Channel format
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Embedded metadata
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All 30 libraries tagged Telephone

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96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
This comprehensive collection features authentic sound effects from a vintage candlestick telephone, including detailed dialing and ringing sounds captured from genuine antique equipment.
61 files · 92.6 MB · Metadata
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96 to 192 kHz, 32-bit. Formats: Mono.
This library contains 200 telephone sound effects from 75 landline and mobile models, including ringing, dialling, vibration, and various mechanical and electrical sounds.
162 files · 562 MB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
This nostalgic sound effects collection features recordings from nine vintage telephones, including rotary dial-up and push-button models from the 1980s and 1990s era.
310 files · 138 MB · Metadata
-30%
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono.
This library contains analogue rotary telephone sound effects, including switches, clicks, drops, and receiver movements recorded with multiple microphones and in various states of assembly.
65 files · 580 MB · Metadata
192 kHz, 32-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Vintage candlestick rotary phone sound effects featuring pick-ups, hang-ups, slams, slow, fast, and forced dial turns, hook presses, and handling recorded at 192kHz with Sennheiser and Sanken microphones.
194 files · 8.8 GB · Metadata
192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Telephone handset sound effects featuring 692 sounds of pick ups, set downs, slams, dialing 0-9, hook snaps, cable handling, and button presses recorded at 192kHz with Sennheiser MKH8050 and MKH30.
55 files · 2.01 GB · Metadata
-40%
44.1 to 48 kHz, 16 to 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Modern office sound effects featuring 919 files covering keyboard typing, mouse clicks, paper handling, phone ringtones, printer operations, desk furniture, stationery foley, notifications, and workplace ambiences.
919 files · 1.03 GB · Metadata
-50%
44.1 to 48 kHz, 16 to 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Vintage analog sound effects featuring over 350 recordings of retro radios, televisions, cameras, typewriters, cassette decks, vinyl crackle, telephones, walkie-talkies, VHS static, and 8mm projectors for period-piece sound design.
356 files · 386 MB · Metadata
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44.1 to 48 kHz, 16 to 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Sitcom sound effects including canned laughter, audience applause, ba-dum-tss punchlines, comedy jingles, household foley, character reactions, and scene transition cues for TV comedy production.
204 files · 186 MB · Metadata
-82%
48 to 192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
A collection of 86 libraries containing 25,000+ royalty-free sound effects, including cinematic themes, ambiences, foley, vehicles, destruction, and mechanical categories.
21,726 files · 151.9 GB · Metadata
Was $2,865.90, now $499.00
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192 kHz, 32-bit. Formats: Mono.
This library contains 100 signal error sound effects, including 40 source recording errors and 60 designed unpleasant noises, organized within the Universal Category System.
100 files · 1.62 GB · Metadata

A phone call on screen is a handful of small sounds in a row: the ring, the pick up, the Dial or keypad, and the handset going back down. The phone libraries cover those across landline and mobile models, with ringing, dialling, vibration and the small mechanical and electrical noises in between. Ring patterns differ by country. Some ring in pairs and some in single long bursts, and the vintage sets carry both. Older phones sit next to Typewriter keys and tape machines, which suits a period office or a living room from decades back. Hum and glitch sets can rough up a call that needs to break up.

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