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Car start 1.wav

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spurioustran...

September 13th, 2020

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Sound effects > Vehicles
Wir fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n

I recently contributed a track to a Triple LP set of krautrock cover versions ("Head Music 2", released by Fruits De Mer Records, December 2020). The song I chose to cover was Kraftwerk's "Autobahn".

If you know the track, you'll know that it uses synthesised traffic sounds alongside recordings of the same. On my version, I achieved these in three ways:

1) I downloaded some public domain traffic sound effects from elsewhere here on freesound.org (thanks, guys!)

2) I got in my car with my Zoom recorder and made my own recordings of the engine starting, stopping, etc

3) I made my own sound effects using virtual synths and effects in Ableton Live 10

This particular sound falls into the second category.

Let me stress that while the song "Autobahn" is copyrighted, these are isolated sound effects and are not covered by copyright. I'm making them available here under a public domain licence.

If you download and use any of these samples, please let me know in the comments what you did with them. It's not compulsory but it would be interesting to know what people did with these sounds.

Sound illegal or offensive? Flag it!
car
car-engine
car-engine-ignition
car-engine-start
cars
driving
engine
engine-ignition
engine-start
ignition
road
start
starting
street
traffic
turning-over
turn-over

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

0:14.445

File size

2.4 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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WillTaylor

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Thanks for the sound! I used it in a short video we made for free for a local charity supporting mental health.
It's a zero-budget Christmas advert, you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/ZLSu7jrr4Fk

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