Padlock Rattle Sound Effect

📝 Description

This Padlock Rattle sound effect is a padlock worked open on a wooden gate, the shackle knocking against the hasp and the body swinging loose before the mechanism gives. It is a busier and rougher sound than a clean deadbolt, full of small metallic collisions rather than one decisive shunt, and that untidiness is what makes it feel real. Editors use it for sheds, lockers, chains and anywhere a character is getting into somewhere secured, and it doubles neatly as generic metal handling for prison, industrial and post apocalyptic settings.

📊 Sound Details

Duration

0:04

Format

MP3

File Size

70 KB

Added

August 14, 2026

⚖️ License & Source

This sound is released under the CC0 license (public domain) — free to use in personal and commercial projects, no attribution required.

Original recording by NachtmahrTV via Freesound. View original source →