Beeps, keyboard strokes, chatter, and phone calls. You can get all the office sounds and more in this FREE SFX pack for your production.
The internet is abundant with free sound effects, and even we have several packs available to download for FREE. These FREE packs are perfect for when you’re in a pinch and can’t go out to grab the sound effects yourself. Or, perhaps you don’t own audio recording equipment.
However, even if you do own your own gear, at the moment and for at least the next year, it’s unlikely you’d be able to grab the ambient sound effects of a bustling city office—or how a busy office would sound pre-2020. Therefore, making that process of acquiring office sounds a little bit easier, we’re offering eighteen high-quality office sound effects.
Whether you’re making a short film, editing a mockumentary about a self-deluded white-collar office middle-manager, or need some background foley for a skit in your tutorial, these sound effects will give you the added production value you need. Whether a paper company in the Slough Trading Estate or a paper company in Scranton, Pennsylvania, you’ll have enough SFX to bring your office scene to life.
The pack consists of sound effects ranging from the activity of office work, such as writing, typing, and mouse-clicking, to the sounds one would expect to hear from a city office building, such as elevator doors opening and the recognizable ding of an elevator arriving at its intended floor. However, if you wanted to hear the instant message dings of DunMiff/sys sending mischievous trolling messages to co-workers, you’d have to head on over to PremiumBeat to download the 29 HUD/UI SFX pack.
Like any sound effect, when applied to the timeline on its own, it can often sound coarse and unnatural. So, it’s best to throw in room tone or ambient sounds of the office. To make that process easier, you can find two lengthy office ambient tracks within the pack, as well.
DOWNLOAD THE OFFICE SFX PACK HERE
By downloading, you agree not to resell or redistribute these free assets.
Previous Packs
If you missed our previous packs, be sure to check out these, also.
15 FREE Garden and Backyard Sound Effects, from a gardener digging dirt to someone mowing the lawn.
Just in time for the content filmed at the start of Spring.
And, we also have 50+ FREE Cooking Sound Effects. This pack contains everything you’d ever need for spicing up a cooking video with high-quality sounds. It includes chopping, sizzling, blending, and various other utensil foley.
Make Your Own SFX
Additionally, if after downloading our packs you want to start creating your own SFX library as a handy backup, PremiumBeat‘s own Anthony Najera has a tutorial for recording DIY SFX. Find out what equipment you’ll need, how to approach recording foley, and how they need to be processed.
Shutterstock Sound Effects Library
These are just a handful of free sound effects we’re offering. For thousands more, you can visit the Shutterstock Sound Effects library. This is the first Metaverse-ready SFX library, as the tracks are presented in stereo, 5.1, and ambisonic formats. These immersive tracks can be used in a variety of projects from VR, game streaming, game development, immersive films, ads, documentaries, and more.
VISIT THE SHUTTERSTOCK SFX LIBRARY HERE
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