The Sounddogs Cars Volume 1 Sound Archive is the first part of the Sounddogs Car Sounds Archive and contains a comprehensive collection of sound recordings of cars and vehicles with a total of 941 sound effects.
The Car Sound Effects Library from Sounddogs contains extensive recordings of the following car models: Cadillac Deville 2000, Dodge Charger 2006 and 2007, pick-up trucks, Mercedes Benz 450 SL, Off Road Racing Car Jim Tucker, Porsche Cayenne, Ram V-10, Toyota Corolla as well as a Volvo 240 1993.
Sounddogs - Cars Sound Effects
The Sounddogs Cars Sound Effects Library is a comprehensive collection of sound recordings of cars and vehicles with a total of 2,361 sound effects.
This car sound library contains extensive recordings of the following car models: Cadillac Deville 2000, Cadillac XLR 2005, Dodge Ram Pickup Truck, Mercedes Benz 560 V8, Toyota Land Cruiser, Fiat 850 1987, Fiskar Karma 2012, Jaguar XKR 2008, Porsche Cayenne 2002 as well as popular cars like Volvo and Mercedes Benz.
The car sounds archives from Sounddogs contain sounds of cars taking off and pulling up, as well as countless other sounds like buttons, switches, doors, window lifts, windscreen wipers and hoods – in short, every possible car-related noise.
Sounddogs - Cars Sound Effects is a Sounddogs product.
The Sounddogs Cars Sound Effects contains 2,361 car sound effects from the following car models: Cadillac Deville, Chevy Colorado, Chrysler 300, Fiat 850, Fiskar Karma, Ford Explorer, Jaguar XKR 2008, Mercedes 560 V8, Prius and more.
46.5 GB at a resolution of 24 bits / 48 kHz, including all Metadata
We offer this Archive in 24 Bit / 48 kHz Resolution for Download.
Sounddogs Cars Sound Effects Library is available for direct download
Sound Recordings of Cars
Image: Sounddogs sound effects recording from a historic 1950 car
The Sounddogs Car Sound Archive comprises a wealth of recordings of each care model. This is crucial for sound editing as it allows you to use sounds from different perspectives or use different speeds and angles of the car.
A car will sound very different depending on where you locate the microphone. Placed near the hood, the mic will pick up the sound of the engine; at the rear, it will mainly pick up the bass sounds and the exhaust.
Car Sounds - Different Speeds
Sounddogs picture: Rob Nokes makes a recording of a souped-up family wagon with all sorts of built-in gadgets. It is doubtful if this car would be street-legal in Switzerland...
Recordings of a car at different speeds should be part of any comprehensive, high-quality sound archive. This is especially important for sound editors who work in feature film, documentary and TV production; having multiple angles, speeds and perspectives at your disposal will help you edit the sounds more precisely within a sequence. If the car appears several times in the film, it needs to sound the same way each time.
Sounddogs - The Specialists for Car Recordings
Sounddogs picture: Rob Nokes wires up an old Toyota Landcruiser. A microphone is placed in the engine block (you can see the windshield in the foreground). This should only be attempted with the utmost caution, as microphones and windshields can catch fire bec
Sounddogs recordings are famous for their creativity and inventiveness. Rob Nokes, the founder and owner of Sounddogs, is an ace car sound recordist. Over the course of his career, Rob has recorded countless cars and vehicles. Reason enough to take a look over Rob's shoulder and learn some of his tricks.
In the following article, we observe Rob Nokes as he wires up cars for sound recordings.
Comprehensive Recordings of Cars and Vehicles
Sounddogs Images: Rob Nokes talks to the driver from the Toyota Landcruisers
The Sounddogs Car Series Sound Archives contain comprehensive recordings of various cars and vehicles. This is very useful in film production, as a vehicle might appear several times and in different situations in a film. The extensive vehicle recordings in the Sounddogs Car Archives were made at various speeds and from different angles.
Rob Nokes and the Sounddogs team put a lot of effort into these recordings (demonstrated by the following example of the Soundminer metadata for the Toyota Landcruiser recordings).
Sounddogs' Vehicle Recordings
Rob Nokes always makes sure to capture different acoustic perspectives and angles with all the Sounddogs reocordings. The following pictures of the 1971 Toyota Landcruiser illustrate the inventiveness of Rob's microphone positioning around the car. You can easily tell that Rob Nokes has a lot of experience mounting microphones in unusual places, e.g. on the car's suspension, in the engine block (in a fire-proof position), on the exhaust pipe, by the wheels, etc.
