Foley Essentials

The Foley Essentials sound effects library features over 90 lifelike recordings of everyday actions from Academy Award®-winning sound artists Mark Mangini and Richard L. Anderson. Craft your scenes with common Foley recordings like footsteps, cloth rustle, body grabs, and dozens of props to bring your everyday scenes to life.

What is Foley? Foley is technically the act of recording sound effects performed in-sync to picture, using various props and surfaces, often on a Foley stage. For this library, these Foley-like sounds were recorded by Mangini and Anderson to fill out temp mixes of feature film projects before the traditional Foley process – with a focus on discrete actions within natural sonic environments.

Each sound file is embedded with rich, descriptive metadata for fast, intuitive search results to help increase efficiency and sustain creativity.

Note: This library is included in Odyssey Foley Effects and Odyssey Complete.

Key Features:

• 93 broadcast .wav files (400MB)
• View Sound List: PDF | XLSX
• 24-bit/48kHz, 24-bit/96kHz
• Descriptive, uniform metadata
• Delivered via download (.zip)

Want more world-class Foley sounds?

Check out Odyssey Foley Effects – the full collection featuring over 4,500 everyday recordings curated from the private library of award-winning sound artists.