
Tugboat Sound Effects
Tugboat sound effects from real boats, inside and out. A vintage tug is recorded from all over, from the engine room and wheelhouse down to the bow wash, as it travels and docks. Another tug idles and accelerates with radio chatter on board. Then the port around them, moving containers and humming machinery.
- Libraries
- 3
- Publishers
- 3
- Formats
- Mono, stereo, surround
- Sample rates
- 48 to 96 kHz
- Licence
- Royalty-free for commercial work
- Price range
- $26 to $249
All 3 libraries tagged Tugboat
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A tug is all low end. The slow, heavy engine sits under everything, so perspective matters: down in the Engine Room it's a wall of machinery, up in the Wheelhouse it's a muffled thump. The vintage tug has those positions recorded in sync, with doors and hatches performed separately. The other set adds the Anchor going down and coming up, and a quiet marina. The port recordings fill the background with HVAC hum and containers on the move.
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