99 Sound Effects is a collection of free sound effects for music production, game development, cinematic trailers, movie scores, TV shows, creative sound design, YouTube, and more.
The free download link is located at the end of this article.
Free Sound Effects
99 Sound Effects is a premium-quality collection of royalty-free sound effects designed by Tomislav Zlatic.
The included sounds are suitable for use in trailers, film scores, game development, music production, podcasts, and other creative purposes. I carefully edited and mastered the sound effects to ensure they were completely production-ready.
You can drag and drop these free sounds into your project and use them instantly without additional processing. Of course, you can also use additional effects and processing to customize the sound to your liking.
The library includes a range of sound effects, from cinematic braams and drones designed for use in movies to modern cinematic impacts, complex sonic textures, and various purely digital noises that can be used in any audio or video project.
These free sound effects provide an exciting arsenal of modern cinematic-style SFX for use in your creative endeavors. The included earth-shattering subs and high-impact swooshes will bring any audio or video production to the next level.
99 Sound Effects also includes a set of retro-inspired sounds that will serve well as a sonic cure for your 80s nostalgia. These retro sound effects use analog synthesizers as the sound source, with various vintage and new outboard gear used for additional processing.
The download includes a free sound effects library for Native Instruments Kontakt.
All audio content is provided as lossless 24-bit WAV files. The audio files are neatly organized into categories with descriptive file names to help you quickly find that perfect sound effect.
We also have an article about what SFX is and how it can improve your video.
Using free Sound Effects for Movies and Video Games
Sound effects are crucial for creating an immersive experience in audio-visual projects, especially movies and video games. Sounds and sound effects add realism, emotions, and impact to a scene.
For example, impact sounds can highlight a dramatic part of a scene. Tension builders can draw the viewer’s attention and create a dramatic effect before a pivotal scene in a movie or a video game.
However, getting high-quality sound effects can be expensive, especially for creators and developers who are working on a tight budget.
That is why I created this collection of free sound effects that you can use in your projects at no cost. The sounds are also royalty-free.
Using free sound effects offers several advantages. Most importantly, it saves money, allowing the developers and movie producers to invest in other essential aspects of production.
99Sounds offers this one and many other free sound libraries to help creators and emerging artists showcase their skills. Feel free to explore our other releases like Cinematic Sound Effects and Water Sounds.
Summary
99 Sound Effects contains 99 audio files in 24-bit WAV format and one instrument patch in NKI format for Native Instruments Kontakt (full version of NI Kontakt required).
The download size is 263 MB (ZIP archive).
Content
- 99 sound effects
- 8 Braams
- 2 Downers
- 8 Drones
- 4 Impacts
- 5 Metal hits
- 4 Noises
- 4 Punches
- 9 Retro sound effects
- 4 Risers
- 12 Transient sound effects
- 4 Subs
- 9 Swish sound effects
- 10 Textures
- 6 Whoosh sound effects
- 24-bit WAV format
- 100% Royalty-free
- 263 MB download (ZIP archive)
45 Comments
Thanks very match!
Cheers! :)
Thank you guys!
You’re welcome!
Thank you 99sounds, I love the effects
Thanks for checking them out!
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Thank you! It took a lot of work, but I think the new design looks great. Many more free libraries to come, stay tuned. :)
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you guys.. thanks for this! :)
Cheers! :)
Thank you so much! Excellent!
You’re welcome!
HEAVY as usual — what remains to say…?
thanks a lot for this incredible sound collection – once again!
many thanks for your effort and uninterrupted creativity.
It’s a pleasure, thanks for visiting!
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I’ve been a “customer” since the very first day and have always appreciated all the work from the great artists the share their work here at 99 Sounds. I hope my donations will help toward keeping this site alive forever and I encourage everyone to give something… anything, I’m sure every little bit helps and makes these developers WANT to keep sharing….
Thank you for your support! :) There’s another free library ready for release later today – World Sounds by Marcel Gnauk.
I’m wondering if you have any additional metadata that would make these sounds searchable in a software like Soundminer? Thanks!
Hmm, not really. To be honest, I’ve never used Soundminer but I’ll look into it. Thanks for the tip!
Thanks for these :)
Can I use 99 Sound Effects commercially? I’m developing a mobile game.
Yes, absolutely!
Awesome thank you for the share, you are amazing!!
Thanks for the kind words! :)
I downloaded the rar file and the wav files and other files have no info and take up zero mb.
I downloaded the zip file and the zip file just contains the rar. file
please advise thanks
Greg
Hi Greg, sorry for the inconvenience. Did you download the sounds from here? https://99sounds.gumroad.com/l/sound-effects
Bless you ! You guys really help to boost some sound designers amateurs like me on the first steps ! Thank you 1000 times !
Thank you! :)
Maybe this has been asked before, but can I use this sound for my short film that I send to festivals or will that be an issue or some sort of violation?
Hello, the answer is YES. :)
Thank you so much. This is really helpful. <3
It’s a pleasure! Thanks for visiting 99Sounds. :)
Hello 99 sounds
I’m here wondering if you could help me find a song that smii7y used in his video “Totally Accurate Vampire Simulator” (song started at 12:30)
If you could be of help i would much appreciate it since I’ve been at it for 3 hours trying to find it
Thanks
This pack is amazing, just what I need for my game!
Thanks
Hey, thanks for the kind words! Always happy to hear that our sounds are useful. Have fun using them for your game! :)
Umm, .zip is just a .rar in a zipped folder, lol.
Is there an option without .rar, I’m running into issues opening it.
Hey Rob, sorry for the inconvenience. Did you manage to extract the RAR archive? 7-Zip is an excellent freeware tool that lets you do it.
You guys are awesome. Many thanks for offering these for free.
I looked and kind of mucked my way through your website. I find it very lacking on several levels. Although you have a decent amount of sound & audio effects recordings, the layout of your website is haphazard. Worst of all, you don’t have a search tool, or search bar that would allow users to more precisely locate sound and audio recordings that they might like, need or want. Not very useful. It becomes an exercise in agony, futility and frustration having to wade through the quagmire of audio & sound effects recordings that you have stored in your storage server online.
Do you have plans to update your website? I’m interested in what you might have. But I’m NOT interested in wading through 10s of thousands of recordings just to find more specific recordings of what I might be interested in. I’ll leave my email addy in case you want to respond to this.
James
Muy buen pack de Sonidos para usarlos de transición!!!!
Muchas gracias por compartir tu tiempo elaborando estos productos!!