Free Metal Pipe Sound Effect
One heavy steel pipe hitting concrete: a loud clang and a long metallic ring. The universal "something just went wrong" sound.
Updated · Tested by the Facecam team
Metal pipe
2.5 s · MP3 · 25 KB
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7 metal pipe sound effects to download
Main take2.5 s · 25 KB
One heavy steel pipe hitting concrete: a loud clang and a long metallic ring. The universal "something just went wrong" sound.
Short clang1.0 s · 10 KB
Just the impact with the ring cut early, for a quick fail cut.
In a warehouse4.0 s · 40 KB
The same drop in a huge empty warehouse, ringing and echoing far longer.
Many bounces1.6 s · 16 KB
The pipe keeps bouncing and rattling, for chaos that won't stop.
Distorted1.8 s · 18 KB
Crunchy and blown out like an old meme upload, kept at a safe loudness.
Light tube1.6 s · 16 KB
A thin aluminium tube: more of a bright ting than a clang.
Pile of pipes3.0 s · 30 KB
A whole stack collapsing at once, for a total disaster.
Where it fits
- When a teammate whiffs the easiest shot of the match.
- Cutting off a long ramble in a call with one decisive clang.
- Edits where something (or someone) falls over without warning.
How we made it
“A heavy steel pipe dropped onto a concrete floor: one loud metallic clang with long ringing resonance and a couple of small bounces”
The variations
- Short clang
- “One heavy metal pipe hitting concrete, a single sharp clang, short decay, no bounces”
- In a warehouse
- “A heavy steel pipe dropped on the floor of a huge empty warehouse, loud clang with long echoing reverb”
- Many bounces
- “A metal pipe falling onto concrete and bouncing many times, rattling clangs getting smaller and faster”
- Distorted
- “A loud metal pipe clang, distorted and overdriven, harsh clipped meme style metallic hit”
- Light tube
- “A thin light aluminium tube dropped on a tiled floor, a bright high-pitched ringing ting with a small bounce”
- Pile of pipes
- “A pile of several metal pipes collapsing and falling onto concrete, a cascade of loud clangs and rattles”
- Loudness
- -16.9 LUFS
- Peak
- -0.9 dBFS
On these boards
Play it in Discord, OBS or Zoom
Press Use these sounds in calls, then pick Facecam Virtual Mic as your mic. Step by step: Discord, OBS and Zoom. For games, the Facecam desktop app.
- Short enough for Discord's own soundboard (5.2 s max): Server Settings → Soundboard.
More about this sound
About our version
Our take is 2.5 seconds: the impact, a couple of small bounces and the steel ringing out. We kept the full decay instead of cutting it short, because the ring is what makes it funny.
The clang has a sharp attack, so it reads clearly even through Discord's voice processing once noise suppression is off.
Questions
Why does the clang get cut off in Discord?
Discord's noise suppression treats the ringing tail as noise. Turn Noise Suppression off in Voice & Video and the whole decay comes through.
Is the metal pipe sound free to use in my videos?
Yes. It's our own sound, made for Facecam with AI, and the MP3 is free to download and use in streams and edits.
