Sound effects tag

Whine Sound Effects

Whine sound effects in both senses. Dogs whining at the door or whimpering for attention, with wolves and apes adding their own versions. Then the mechanical sort, jet engines spooling up on the runway and holding a hover. Big cooling plants whine too, lower and steadier. High and thin or deep and grinding, a whine always sounds like something wants something.

Libraries
67
Publishers
33
Formats
Mono, stereo, M/S, surround
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$6 to $179
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Recorded or designed
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Channel format
MonoStereoM/SSurroundAmbisonic

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Embedded metadata
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All 67 libraries tagged Whine

96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Blaster pistol sound effects alongside energy rifles, electro pistols, classic and zapper laser pistols and plasma impulse shotguns, covering single shots, bursts, reloads and mechanisms across multiple pitch variants and mixes at 96kHz/24-bit.
1,164 files · 1.3 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono.
Pneumatic tool sound effects captured in a working ship workshop with Earthworks QTC 50 microphones, covering angle grinders, die grinders, impact wrenches, needle scalers, and vacuum pumps at idle and under load.
338 files · 2.73 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Electromagnetic field sound effects recorded at 96kHz from active shipboard electrical systems including power transformers, distribution panels, battery chargers, and elevator motors, capturing buzzes, hums, arcs, whines, and glitches with dynamic tonal variations.
284 files · 7.65 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Electromagnetic interference sound effects recorded at 96kHz from active shipboard equipment including boiler panels, engine control room indicators and purifiers, capturing pulses, buzzes, glitches, whines and digital noise.
293 files · 8.85 GB · Metadata
48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Wolf sound effects featuring 32 wilderness recordings of natural pack behavior, including lonely howls, aggressive growls, whines, and bone-crushing feeding sounds captured across close, mid, and distant perspectives.
32 files · 404 MB · Metadata
48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Field recordings captured at night in a sleeping city feature street dog sound effects. Contains individual dogs, groups, and conflicts. Edited and tagged.
35 files · 1.28 GB · Metadata

An animal whine is a high, wavering call through the nose, and audiences read it instantly as need or pain. Hard to ignore. The dog recordings cover lots of breeds, from soft Whimpering to whines that build into a Dog Bark, and some come with panting and growls between. Wolves and primates bring wilder versions for nature films. On the machine side, a Jet whine is the turbine spinning up, a pitch that climbs before the roar arrives, and military jets in a hover are almost pure whine. Cooling systems give a lower, steady version that turns eerie when slowed down. Sad dogs in dramas and airfields in war films both lean on it, and sci-fi pitches the machine kind into spaceship engines.

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