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Download over 280 FREE sound effects for your commercial and personal projects! Explore and get your FREE SFX packs now!

You like free stuff? Of course you do! Because free things are awesome, especially when they’re FREE sound effects for your film and video projects.

So, regardless of whether you’re shooting a short film, working on an exciting animation or composition, or even developing an app or video game and need some killer SFX, we’ve got you covered here at The Beat.

What’s the catch, you might ask? There’s not one! These sound effects and audio files are 100% bonafide and ready to use in any project—personal or commercial. All we ask is that you do not resell or redistribute these free sound effects. Other than that, you’re good to go.

These FREE sound effects are super easy to use and integrate perfectly into Adobe Premiere Pro projects. All you have to do is download them, import them into Premiere, and drop them directly onto your timeline.

Now, let’s take a look at the hundreds of FREE sound effects and audio files that you’re only moments away from owning.

25 FREE Unique Vintage Sound Effects

Let’s start off with some vintage and analog-inspired sound effects. These bleeps and bloops provide the perfect analog texture for retro sound and video projects. In addition to the previously mentioned bleeps and bloops, this pack presents plenty of opportunities to create atmospheric swells, whooshes, and audio hits.

Pro tip: Blend these sound effects underneath another sound effect or song to give your audio more depth.

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15+ FREE Household Sound Effects w/ ROOM TONE

Sound effects aren’t just for sci-fi films and futuristic compositions. They’re just as vital for even the most mundane of scenes and settings. A perfect example of this—background foley sounds and textures, like a vacuum running in a distant room. Or a toilet flushing. Or a neighbor’s dog barking in the backyard. Or a neighbor’s dog flushing a toilet while barking at a vacuum. You get the idea. All of these little elements really add up to immerse your viewers into a scene.

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Pro-tip: Mix these FREE household sound effects with some music to really sell your setting.

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​​50+ FREE Kitchen and Cooking-Themed Sound Effects

Unless your approach to making spaghetti is different than ours, that vacuum sound effect probably won’t be of much use for videos set in a kitchen. No worries, we’ve got you covered in that part of the house, too.

If food content is on the menu, then these cooking-themed sound effects are the perfect way to add a dash of sizzle and spice to your YouTube channel, documentary, or podcast.

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18 FREE Office Sound Effects Pack for Your Next Project

Filming a workplace comedy or corporate training video? This pack of FREE office-themed sound effects will help. It’s got computer beeps, keyboard strokes, background chatter, far-off phone calls, and more—pretty much everything you need to sell a true-to-life business setting.

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15 FREE Garden and Backyard Sound Effects Pack

If you need the sound of a neighbor mowing their lawn, someone digging a hole to plant flowers, or even little details like a garage door opening and closing in the distance, then you’re covered with this pack of garden and yard SFX. Plus, did we mention, it’s FREE? Yeah. It’s totally FREE. Crazy, right?

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10 FREE Christmas-Inspired Sound Effects

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Christmas marketing is starting earlier and earlier every year, so no matter when you’re reading this, you should probably get moving on some holiday content right now! Download this pack of FREE seasonal sound effects for holiday videos to get started. Trust us—yule be glad you did!

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20 FREE Movie Trailer Sound Effects

Chances are, if you haven’t already used these sound effects, you’ve probably heard many of them in projects made by friends or colleagues. This pack of 20 FREE movie trailer sound effects is one of the most popular freebies on PremiumBeat, and for good reason.

These assets—risers, sweeps, slams, and more—offer a huge advantage to video editors looking to create next-level, seriously epic trailers. Get them today and make something magnificent.

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10 FREE Glitch Sound Effects

Want to add some fractured audio effects and glitchy computer noise to your sci-fi and/or other futuristic compositions? Get this pack of 10 FREE distortion SFX from our friends at RocketStock.

(While you’re at it, check out RocketStock’s Corruption pack, featuring 120 glitch and distortion elements, as well.)

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29 FREE Computer HUD SFX

Now that you’ve got a seemingly endless supply of bleeps, bloops, and glitches, round out your sci-fi SFX collection with this UI pack, once again from RocketStock. This beautifully curated bundle features 29 FREE tech sound effects, including scanners, alarms, cursor clicks, keypad taps, and more—perfect for all of your HUD or computer interface needs.

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25 FREE Explosion SFX + 15 FREE Fireballs

Like making things go boom? Good news—we have one of the most explosive freebie packs of all time, featuring 25 FREE explosion sound effects AND some of our favorite explosion video elements—blasts, bombs, mines, grenades, and more. That’s over 40 creative assets, all for the combined low price of nothing.

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28 FREE Firework Sound Effects + FREE Firework Video Effects

Making magical summer content just got 100% easier thanks to this FREE pack of fireworks SFX and this FREE bundle of fireworks video elements. Load up on pops, whizzes, whistles, and bangs, and then let the OOOs and AHHs begin!

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30 FREE Horror SFX

We’re moving from the explosive into the spooky with this collection of 30 FREE horror sound effects—perfect for making your zombie-movie dreams come true. The pack includes plenty of risers, bloody splashes, creepy whispers, screeches, slams, and more.

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15 FREE Ambient Atmosphere SFX

Nearing the end of our roundup, we have some basic ambient atmospheres to share with you. These might not seem as exciting as the rest on the list, but, trust us—working in these ambient backgrounds is a super-effective way to transform a stale video into something more dynamic.

This FREE ambient SFX pack includes a wide variety of background noises—birds chirping, street traffic, coffee shop bustle, electric hums, forest mist, waves, storms, and more.

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7 FREE Cat Sound Effects for Your Next Video Project

Finally, we wrap things up with the most important sound effect category in the world—cat noises. You think we’re joking, but we’re not. It’s a simple fact that every video is better with a cat in the background. Prove us wrong.

This extraordinary pack includes 7 FREE cat sound effects, including the iconic “meow,” as well as “mrow” and “mew.” BONUS: We’ve also included the cat sound we consider to be the greatest cat sound of all cat sounds—the somehow-underrated-yet-completely-undeniable “mreeeoroeeor.”

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