Get Over 250GB Of Free Sound Effects Now
Need some sound effects? Are you still studying or just starting out? Is your budget tight? Here is our updated list of over 250GB of FREE sound effects that we have uncovered, which you can use in your audio productions.
Please note you may need to give your name and email address to get some of these.
Title image courtesy of Nils Mosh.
Over a number of years before COVID, Sonniss gave away bundles of sound effects as part of its celebrations for the annual Game Developers Conference.
Click on each of the graphics below to take you to the appropriate download page on the Sonniss website.
We Sound Effects are offering a 25GB We Sound Effects Bundle extracted from sound libraries available at We Sound Effects. Ready to use sound effects for games, films and multimedia projects.
The FREE bundle covers categories including Voices, Creatures, Monsters, Animals, Vehicles, Videogame, Horror, Sirens, Ambiences, Backgrounds, Waterfalls, Rain, Rivers, Wind, Doors, Foley, Impacts, Whooshes, Sci-Fi, Atmospheres, Drones and Textures Sounds.
You can download the full list from We Sound Effects.
There is a great site called Free To Use Sounds run by Marcel. Marcel travels full-time around the world recording sounds collaborating with professional sound libraries like Soundly, Soundsnap, Epidemic Sound, A Sound Effect, and Zapsplat and companies like Zoom, LOM Label, and K-Tek.
He also likes to try and make sound effects as accessible as possible and so Marcel has posted a number of free bundles on his Bandcamp channel. Here are just a sample of them…
Free Immersive Room Tones Sound Effects Library
The room tones in this free library vary from a very quiet room to a busy and noisy server room. Each location has been recorded in ambisonics A-Format Ambix (converted to B-Format Ambix) and native binaural (dummy head). The ambisonics recordings were made using a Sennheiser AMBEO VR Mic and a Tascam DR 701d recorder. The binaural recordings were made using a custom dummy head (Ernest) and a Tascam DR 100 MK III recorder.
For more information and how to get this free library, check out our article Free Immersive Room Tones Sound Effects Library.
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Free Immersive Room Tones by Krilloud
Red Libraries have 8 free sound effect bundles…
Freebies01 is a free selection of some audio files from Paris, including walla, discussions, people, footsteps, post office, shops and supermarkets
Freebies02 offers some of the very best of their collections like WOOD, IMPACTS, WINDMILL, WATER RUSH, WINDSHIELD, UNKnown-PASSBY and EVERYDAY LIFE IN PARIS.
Freebies03 is a selection from some of their collections like WORLD OF SECRETS and TWISTED UNIVERSE,.
Freebies04 is a selection from HUGE HIDDEN PASSAGES, which is a collection of elements designed for your mysterious access.
Freebies05 is a selection from BODYFALL, designed in collaboration with french foley artist: Florian Fabre.
Freebies06 is a selection from MUTANT INSECTS, TWISTED UNIVERSE and the MINI GAME PACKS.
Freebies07 is a selection from Space Battle and ARTILLERY with Cannons, Rocket launchers, Gun turrets and Lasers.
Freebies08 is a selection from Space Battle & ARTILLERY, FIGHTERS and MUTANT INSECTS and is a mix between Sci-Fi and Steampunk for all types of SF universe.
Richard at Takoma Media has posted 120 free sound effects files. The collection contains, Motorcycles, Race Cars, Trains, Glass breaks, Thunder storms, some Ambiences, Swishes, Household items, and some other miscellaneous items. You can view the track list here.
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Takoma Media Free Sounds
The Echo Collective are offering four free collections of sounds, Camera - Canon 7D sounds; Mafunktion - glitches. UI beeps and clicks; Micro Magnetic - a pair of magnets that are shaped like eggs; Shrieking Dulcimer - bows, scratches and dissonant impacts of an old Dulcimer.
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Echo Collective Free Camera Sounds
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Echo Collective Free Malfunktion Sounds
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Echo Collective Free Micro Magnetic Sounds
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Echo Collective Free Shrieking Dulcimer Sounds
Airborne Sound is giving away 10 small collections,
Airport Ambience Sound Effects - This collection features the sound of crowds and traffic from a bustling international airport. Field recordings were gathered from both international and domestic arrival and departure areas, a Priority Pass lounge, hallways, and walkways. Also included are passenger drop off traffic atmospheres, PA announcements, and more.
Concourse Crowd Sound Effects - features thick, gushing rush hour crowds, steady streams of pedestrians, and handfuls of wanderers. Use crowd sound fx of people in lobbies, lane ways, walkways, and atriums to add texture and depth to your foreground tracks. A broad collection of high heels and footsteps, corporate conversations, worker chat, and crowd wash.
Ambience Sound Effects - A bundle of 15 crowd, sports, hall crowd, and weather ambience sound effects. Includes stations, construction, and other evocative atmospheres.
Construction Sound Effects - Need some demolition sounds? Perhaps some building clips instead? Maybe you’d like to beef up your urban soundtrack with some work sounds and tool sound effects. 14 angle grinders, jackhammers, chop saws and other construction clips
Courthouse Crowds Sound Effects - This collection of courthouse crowd sound effects showcases the sounds of lawyers and judges, plaintiffs and the accused, crowds and more in airy halls, quiet court rooms, tight corridors, and echoey atriums.
Crowd & People Sound Effects - A mixture of pedestrian, crowd, and people sound effects featuring voices, activity, and walking from food courts, stations, cafes, and more.
Jet Fly By Sound Effects - 30 sound clips of commercial jet airliners flying overhead and with screaming passes by.
Crowd Sound Effects - A collection of 10 crowd sound fx: cafes, college, fair, train and subway stations, and more.
Whoosh Sound Effects - A collection of 70 multimedia whoosh, swipe, sweep, and fly-in sound effects.
Button Sound Effects - A collection of 50 button and switch sound effects. You’ll find menu selects, switches, chunky presses and sound design elements. These clips have you covered with the classics as well as tactfully designed clicks, flicks and buttons.
Los Angeles based re-recording mixer Nikola Simikic has released a number of free mini sound effects libraries.
Vacuum Cleaner - a little library of vacuum cleaner sounds.
Rain - the sounds of rain hitting the deck roof hard, interior perspective rain and room tone, and rain hitting a window.
Wind Through Coniferous Forest - Recording just wind and nothing else is a challenge. Finally, Nikola, using multiple layers of wind protection on the Line Audio CM3’s, recorded wind with little else.
Jackhammers - a small collection of Jackhammer recordings. Two of the files were recorded with a Sanken CO100k in 192k so they sound great, slowed down.
Small Exterior Crowd Applause - useful especially for scenes of small sporting events like little league games.
Thunder & Wet City Ambiences - some rolling thunder, along with wet city ambiences at night, and some rain.
The Bluezone Corporation has a page full of free sound effects collections…
Learn more on their free sound effects page.
They also have a free 1GB bundle of free sound effects that you can download.
Shaping Waves has created a free 3.6 GB sampler of their 96 kHz / 24 bit ambiences and sound effects collections. They are taken from: Insects & Swarms, Big Machines, Piping Systems, Letterpress, Air Travel, Stethoscope, Athens Rooftop, Alarms, Robot Voices, New York, Berlin Balcony, Wendland Autumn, Circuits, Quadcopter, Planets and 8-Bit Games.
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Shaping Waves Sampler
Volterock has released two Vocal Hazard Packs. Participants were asked to yell as if they were dying, falling, attacking/charging into battle, punching, being punched, singing like a metal band, growling, shrieking, and gasping.
Cedric Chety from Fox Audio Post Production reached out to tell us about their 3 free sound effects libraries - Household, Quadcopter Drone and Jaguar S Type.
Articulated Sound Effects Libraries has released v.2 of their starter pack in which all files are now with all files UCS-compliant. It is made up of a 3.7GB selection of sounds from all of their libraries.
Karel Psota has released 4 free sound effects packs, Fire Weapons, Epicomposer (email needed to download this), Ava Instinct (20 sounds from the official trailer sound effects library - email needed) and Haunted Farm, which was Karel’s first sound library.
Sound of Essen is a blog from sound designer, composer, and field recordist Nils Mosh and there are 36 posts focusing on nature sounds like birds, ambiences or dawn choruses, others cover the sound of industry, leisure and travel.
Boom Box Library have released a free sampler showcasing four of their sound libraries; Ford Mustang, Editor Toolbox, Babies & Kids and Heads Up Display.
Sonopolis has 4 free sound effects bundles. Each bundle are a selection of sound effects drawn from various Sonopolis libraries.
Bundle 1 includes Sci-Fi Electric, Underwater, Percussion, Water, Water Ambiences, Tools/Construction, and Blades.
Bundle 2 includes musical sounds, ambience, roomtones, animal sounds, rain, thunder, metallic sounds, Foley sounds, sci-fi sounds and sports sounds.
Bundle 3 includes sounds drawn from Foley Plus, Whoosh, Swoosh & Swing and Icy Snow HD
Bundle 4 includes 60 Free sounds drawn from Clothing Foley, Dogs, Household Doors, Heavy Metal! and Icy Snow 2.
Sound Of Italy has 3 free sound effects libraries; Sound Of Italy - Various, Sound Of Italy - Explosions and Sound Of Italy - Naples Fireworks.
Back Pocket Sound set up by Canadian sound designer, dialogue editor and re-recording mixer, Benjamin Spiller, has released over 30 mini sound packs that together offer over 10GB of sound effects. All of our sounds are high-quality WAV files with embedded metadata.
AntiSample offers up five different free sound effects bundles…
88 one-shot sound effects - A collection of one-shot samples from various sound sources. 60 high-quality sounds at 24 bit and 48 kHz.
Laser Construction Kit - This has everything you need to construct a modern ultimate, super extreme laser shot sound effect.
Computer and robotic voices - 9 audio files with various computer, robotic, alien and experimental voices. Each audio file has 22 words. All of the voices have been created and processed at 24 bit and 96 kHz and include metadata.
Whooshers - This collection includes long, medium, short and ricochet-type sounds, which they feel are best used in a Sci-fi genre. All of the whoosh sounds have been created and processed at 24 bit and 96 kHz.
Kickers - 30 kick drums samples made using a variety of analog synthesizers and are in 48K /24bit WAV format. They are heavily processed and shouldn’t require much work when dropped into your session. There are a wide variety of kick types suitable for most types of EDM, Cinematic music and even your own sound design adventures.
Tovusound offers 28 authentic rickshaw sounds for free .
Bonson in Canada offer a free sound effects bundle. You will need to provide your name and email address which will added to their mailing list.
Ready To Buy Some Sound Effects?
There are a number of larger brands supplying sound effects like Sound Ideas and Pro Sound Effects, providing comprehensive sound effects libraries to buy. However, make sure that you check out the companies featured above as they all sell sound effects, and what nicer way to say thank you for the free sound effects than to buy some of their sound effects when you are ready to extend your sound effects collections?
We also recommend you check out the myriad of small independent sound effects providers, and the best way to do this is to use sites like A Sound Effect, Sonniss and We Sound Effects, who provide platforms to enable independent sound effects creators to reach many more customers than they could on their own.