Our sound effects library MECHANICALS brings everything you need to easily design the sound of mechanical processes – from simple clicking, sliding, rattling or snapping to the most complex mechanical procedures like opening complicated vault doors and treasure chests. Your project features some huge machines, robots or powerful mechs? Then this SFX library is your creative tool box. We bring you the next essential addition to your daily sound design resources – as always delivered in top-notch audio quality that BOOM Library is renowned for.
Mechanical Sound FX - Huge, medium, small & tiny
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Included sounds - keywords
click, mechanic, mechanism, mechanically, machines, checkwriter, typewriter, counter, gear, metal, clatter, roller, slot, handling, ski, boot, sequencer, snap, turn, roll, roller, slide, bell, ring, moving, turn, washer, wheel, ringing, apparatus, locking, cable, caddy, rattle, umbrella, buckle, snap, door, handle, locker, stamp, sweetener, pushing, operating, button, rollerblades, box, closing, opening, releasing, turning, sliding, processes, procedure, treasure, chest, robot, clockwork, machinery, drawbrigde, complex, sequence, spring, gaming, printing
Mechanicals Construction Kit
Mechanicals – A treasure chest with more than 2.000 single source recordings
In order to provide unlimited possibilities, we included more than 2.000 single source sound FX in more than 560 files. Choose from a sheer endless number of CLICKS, SNAPS, MOVEMENTS, COMPLEX SOUND SEQUENCES, RATTLING, ROLLING, SLIDING, SPRINGS, TURNS & SWEETENERS.
Different sizes, multiple variations and a huge palette of different machines and mechanism sounds give you full flexibility to enter a new world of outstanding sound effects.
Sonic characteristic: as dry and close as possible
We recorded the mechanicals sound effects with only small reverberation rooms to give you as much flexibility as possible. Therefore, the dry and very close sounds can easily be integrated into other reverberation rooms. After that, you can add as much reverb to your sounds as you need.
Designed, Construction Kit, Bundle: What’s the difference?
Mechanicals Designed
Create complex mechanisms in light-speed
MECHANICALS DESIGNED will let you create fascinating and complex mechanical sound effects in just a few minutes. Complicated vault doors, secret mechanisms, clockworks, huge, small or tiny machinery, drawbridges, mechanical processes of any size, you name it. You don’t have time to edit single sound files to create a fitting mechanical sound process? No worries, we have already done this for you and we promise – these sounds will fit to your special needs.
Flexible & diverse sound options
MECHANICALS DESIGNED comes with more than 350 pre-designed and ready-to-use sounds organized by size (LARGE, MEDIUM, SMALL, TINY) in 96 files. Each file contains four often heavily alternating variations of the sound to give you more flexibility and less repetitive sound options. The sounds come as 96kHz/24bit WAV files, ready to further process them as you desire.
Designed, Construction Kit, Bundle: What’s the difference?
Mechanicals Bundle
THE BUNDLE – The best of both worlds at a discounted price.
The Bundle gives you the full sound design power as it contains both – the DESIGNED and the CONSTRUCTION KIT edition at a discounted price.
Designed, Construction Kit, Bundle: What’s the difference?
What we recorded
The recordings for MECHANICALS were very interesting because we searched quite some time to find a collector of really rare, old, strange and charming machines (i.a. a successor of the famous Enigma). In the end, we were surprised by some very unique sounds. Everywhere where mechanics took place, we pointed our microphones towards it and captured the sound. We recorded tiny and wispy mechanics as well as huge machines and old, almost forgotten slot machines from the 1900s. For instance, chocolate- and gaming machines, type writers, check writers and printing machines.
WHAT OUR CLIENTS THINK ABOUT MECHANICALS
From time to time our clients directly approach us to tell us what they especially like about a specific sound pack.
We’d like to share this with you.
I simply wanted to say THANK YOU for your tireless work on your stellar quality recordings. I sound design a fair amount of the LEGO product animations. I wanted you to know that BOOM Library was an integral part of my recent Telly Award winning success! LEGO released a set for the Tantive IV (Princess Leias ship) in which I sound designed their product animation. The sound design received a Gold Telly Award and I used the Mechanicals library on.
Dusk, Amid Evil etc.
BOOM has been the library I reach for first anytime a developer needs some help in the sound design department. It’s incredibly high quality and never feels over-produced…it just sits in the mix how I imagine it should nearly every single time. I needed some big machine sounds and some rather outside the box raw sfx for two different projects. The Mechanicals and Magic bundles have been a life saver in both of those departments for me and for my work on Dusk and Amid Evil.
Guardians of The Galaxy, Lost In Oz, Dead Bullet etc.
The sounds of each library work brilliantly with my projects. Since the quality is so high, it's very easy for me to add lots of processing/pitch shifting to help create even more unique sounds. I use a lot of the Magic bundle, Mechanicals, Creatures, Destruction, Sci-Fi, Cinematic Hits, Cinematic Metal, Cinematic Trailers, Close Combat, Everyday Cars, and Medieval Weapons. As you can see, I owe a lot of my success to the amazing tools BOOM has provided me!
What's so special about this library?
The sound of complex mechanical processes is truly fascinating, and it counts to the most interesting and most challenging sound effect tasks we can think of: Too many layered sounds and it becomes indefinable. Not enough layered sounds and the SFX composition does not do justice to the often rich and tricky visual appeal. Therefore, working with absolutely clean and incisive source sounds is essential to achieve crisp and clean mechanical sound effects.
That’s why we recorded each sound as close as possible to capture a very detailed and direct sound image. Above all, giving you the best possible source material to work with.
Compatible Software
BOOM Library sound FX come as WAV files, meaning you can import and work with them in any software that can handle this file type. Here are the most common audio and video editing software tools that work perfectly with our sound FX
Audio Software
- Logic Pro
- Cubase
- Nuendo
- Ableton Live
- Pro Tools
- Reaper
Video Editing Software
- Premiere Pro
- Final Cut Pro X
- After Effects
- Vegas Pro
- Media Composer
Rich Metadata Embedded
To provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible, all files contain extensive metadata like file description & keywords to quickly find the sounds you’re looking for. Metadata can be read and processed by audio management tools. Some digital audio workstations feature an included search tool that can also read embedded metadata. Here are the most common audio management tools:
- Soundminer
- Basehead
- Soundly
Significant Savings
Mechanicals is part of the Signature Series Bundle. By purchasing the Signature Series Bundle, you save thousands of dollars compared to buying each of the 89 packs individually. This bundle offers exceptional value, making high-quality sound design accessible at a fraction of the cost.
Subscription Option
To make the BOOM Signature Series even more accessible, you can subscribe at a reduced rate and get instant access to every new release in the Signature Series. This flexible option allows you to enjoy the full benefits of the series without the upfront investment.