Set your phasers to stun your audiences with these effects
The pilot bears down the Gs as the spaceship’s thrusters engage and the craft spins into evasive maneuvers. She was locked in a dogfight near the Antares sector, with nothing but the cold, starry void surrounding her and her opponent.
As they drew closer, lasers began to blaze across the darkness. She dodged and weaved, avoiding those deadly beams that could spell her doom. As she righted her craft, she had the other vessel right where she wanted him. She fired off a volley of torpedoes, connecting with the other ship. The explosion blasted outwards, propelling her own ship forward with the power of the detonation.
The pilot felt relieved as her ship shook from the turbulence, adrenaline still pumping through her veins. But she knew there would be more battles to come, and more sound effects needed each time.
The sound effects of space battles might not always be realistic – there is no “sound” in space, after all – but they do help transport the audience into the scene. From the epic films like Star Wars and Star Trek and series like Battlestar Galactica, to games like Star Fox and StarCraft, all the science fiction space operas had their own array of effects and technologies that needed their own sounds.
Smartsound Cloud’s latest upload provides just that. Perfect for game designers, podcasters, cartoonists, and people working on serials and movies that just need some good laser blasts and futuristic whooshes. We continue to expand our inventory of high-quality, recorded, royalty-free sound effects every two weeks – our subscription service just keeps getting better and better.
About the sounds
Our last upload involved zigging and zagging down drag strips and race tracks while our recordists captured the sounds of go karts and race cars. They came back from the races with their sounds, only to be sent out into cosmos. Or to a studio to put on their sound designer hats and figure out how to get some of the best science fiction sounds possible.
Our sound designers used synthesizers, polished field recordings, and made completely mad voice manipulations to simulate the sounds of engines, lasers, and other stock science fiction sounds. It took a lot of experimentation to capture that perfect flying bot sound, after all. This latest upload includes 500 sounds of science fiction mayhem, including spaceship engine sounds, sci fi whooshes, retro flying bots, beams, laser blasts, shockwaves, talking robots, charging weapons, and phaser guns.
What can you use these sounds for?
Like all our uploads, this one is full of high-quality recordings that can be used in everyday projects as well.
These sounds are great for any film or tv project that needs to design an immersive, otherworldly atmosphere and needs the right sounds to do so. And at the same rate, video game sound designers will also find this latest upload especially useful to help build up immersion and realism, enhancing the experience as players travel through space, fire laser weapons, and use future technology. Podcasters are another group that would find these useful, especially those with science fiction subjects that would like to sprinkle in some effects noises. Whooshes, zaps, and laser blasts make for some great transition sounds for such.
Outside of the content creation industry, there is also music production. Zaps, alarms, and sci fi vocals are some easy examples of effects that would be at home in a psytrance or psybient track.
Science fiction sound effects can be used in a wide variety of applications, from entertainment and advertising and beyond.
Stay tuned for the next upload when we’ll be bringing you more science fiction sounds!
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