Medieval Sound Effects
Medieval Elements is a collection of 508 sound effects designed to bring the raw grit and immersive realism of medieval warfare to your fantasy game or feudal feature film.
From the loud clash of swords to the scrape of a drawn dagger and the heavy thud of armour hitting the ground, this pack includes a wide variety of realistic medieval sounds. You’ll hear armour movements and hits, bow and crossbow loading, shooting, and impacts, plus swords, daggers, and knives being drawn, scraped, and dropped. Shield sounds include both wooden and metal variants with impacts and drops on multiple surfaces.
The pack also includes bonus sweeteners of metal and wood hits and a selection of whooshes for weapon swipes and melee swings.
Medieval Sound Effects: Weapons
- Broadsword: drops, scrapes, hits
- Dagger: scrapes, hits
- Knife: drops, scrapes, hits
- Sword: draw from scabbard, drops, hits, scrapes
- Arrow: pass by, hit
- Bow: firing, loading or pulling bowstring
- Crossbow: firing, loading or pulling bowstring
- Whooshes: weapon swings
Medieval Sound Effects: Armor & More
- Chainmail: drops, hits, movement
- Cuirass with mail: hits
- Plate mail: drops, hits
- Leather: hits, drops
- Shield, metal: drop
- Shield, metal, large: drops, hits
- Shield, metal, medium: hits
- Shield, metal, small: drop, hits
- Shield, wood: drops, hits
- Impacts: metal, wood
Multiple clip takes help recreate a dynamic soundscape of the Dark Ages, knights of the Crusades, or a Dungeons and Dragons fantasy
Includes extensive metadata with custom, hand-written keywords to help find sound clips fast.
Bonus Medieval Sound Effects
- 330 pre-pitched sounds – very high, high, medium low, very low, and xtra low
- 678 power mix – strong, forceful, attention grabbing
- 581 beefy mix – heavy, punchy
Use the bonus sounds to add more variety, extra oomph, or low end punchy power to the original futuristic weapon sound effects.
Learn more about this collection in the sound library announcement blog post.
Key Features
- 508 medieval sound effects clips + 1,589 bonus pitched, beefy mix, and power mix sounds.
- 96 kHz, 24-bit stereo WAV files.
- 786 megabytes + 2.2 gigabytes of bonus sounds.
- Top quality clips: professionally recorded, expertly mastered, and lovingly curated.
- Quick access: instant, secure download.
- Smooth workflow: extensive descriptive embedded metadata in multiple formats helps find sounds fast.


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