48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Emotional underscore sound effects featuring e-bow bends and feedback, flutter and bending horns, cello, tonal and hollow impacts, stingers, synth bends, pings, metal scrapes and whooshes, key-labelled throughout.
Sound effects tag
Wind-Up Sound Effects
Wind-Up sound effects from clockwork that needs a turn of the key. The ratcheting click as a spring gets wound tight, then the slow tick of the mechanism letting it go. Lovely and fiddly. An antique cuckoo clock does its thing here too, gears whirring before the bird pops out, alongside little clockwork boxes recorded in close detail.
- Libraries
- 3
- Publishers
- 3
- Formats
- Mono, stereo
- Sample rates
- 48 to 192 kHz
- Licence
- Royalty-free for commercial work
- Price range
- $12 to $49
All 3 libraries tagged Wind-Up
192 kHz, 32-bit. Formats: Mono.
This library provides 219 one-shot sound effects from three music boxes, including isolated notes and mechanical sounds with pristine, antique, and eerie tonal qualities.
$25.00
Add Music Boxes to cart96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono.
This authentic German timepiece delivers mechanical, reed-based sound effects, featuring traditional cuckoo calls and clockwork tolls recorded from genuine antique craftsmanship.
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96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Professional collection features 150 high-fidelity clock sound effects with seamless loops and diverse ticking variations, recorded at 96kHz/24-bit stereo.
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Extensive collection featuring 2,300 carefully recorded sound effects of clocks, from tiny pocket watches to grand mechanical systems, including chimes, ticks, and gear movements.
A wind-up sound is all ratchet and spring, and the faster the key turns, the more urgent it feels. Horror loves the slow version, a Clockwork toy winding down in an empty room. The Cuckoo Clock recordings come from a genuine antique, so the creaks and whirs between calls are real. Period dramas and puzzle games use them as well.
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