Ticking Clock Sound Effect

📝 Description

The ticking clock is time made audible and slightly threatening — a dry, relentless tick-tock that turns any silence into a countdown. Thrillers use it for bombs, dramas for deadlines, and grandmothers for entire living rooms. Its pressure is universal: whatever is happening, the tick insists it should be happening faster. Use it under decision scenes, exam edits, and waiting-room comedy, or as a bed beneath any procrastination montage. Sped up, it becomes panic; slowed down, dread. Time was always passing — this sound just makes it personal.

📊 Sound Details

Duration

0:01

Format

MP3

File Size

9 KB

Added

July 11, 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 prometheus888 via Freesound. View original source →