This week on A Sound Effect, we have evocative libraries to ignite your creativity!
For impacts and textures, dive into the clash of steel, lose yourself in the swirling textures, craft immersive soundscapes, and enhance your rhythms with hand drums and auxiliary percussion.
You can also bring tension to your games with dungeon traps, powerful RPG weapons, creepy undead monsters, or intense metal friction.
For sci-fi soundscapes, check out futuristic space sounds and music and chilling space atmospherics. Or go far back into the past and bring your prehistoric creatures to life!
We also have a bounty of specialized libraries to add depth to your projects, such as the raw force of Hurricane Nicole, an awe-inspiring French military air parade, lively construction sites, journeys down German highways, the darkly hilarious sounds of tumbling down a staircase, as well as a comprehensive collection that will meet all your aural needs.
So, buckle up and get ready to explore a world of sound! Happy listening!
Sword Fight
'Sword Fight' by Justin Jet Zorbas offers 40 sounds of sword swings, clashes, and handling for use in video games, animations, and other media projects. Designed for professionals, it provides realistic sound design elements to bring medieval combat scenes to life.
Hurricane Nicole
'Hurricane Nicole' by Eric Berzins captures the intensity of this hurricane's landfall in Florida in November 2022. It features 40 recordings and 179 minutes of howling winds, heavy rain, and powerful gusts, as well as bonus sounds from Hurricane Ian.
German Autobahn – Highway Ambiences
'German Autobahn – Highway Ambiences' by Sound of Essen offers a rich soundscape for your highway scenes. It features recordings of traffic at various speeds (cars, trucks, motorcycles) on dry, moist, and wet road surfaces, as well as sounds of car pass-bys, honks, sirens, and even the creak of suspensions.
Staircase Tumbling
'Staircase Tumbling' by Sound Armoury provides 39 sounds of various objects tumbling down stairs. The objects were made from four different materials, allowing you to create impactful sound effects for destruction or comedic moments.
Car Pass By Interior
'Car Pass By Interior' by Stone Ear Sound is a library of car pass-by sounds recorded from a car's interior. It offers options including wet/dry ambiences, windows up/down perspectives, and close/distant car sounds.
The Definitive Library
'The Definitive Library' by Vadi Sound Library offers a diverse palette of fresh progressive sound libraries with the best value. With thematic series (cinematic, medieval, anime, horror), nature ambiences, vehicles, all-you-need Foley, and more it will serve perfectly across multiple genres.
Construction Machinery
'Construction Machinery' by Airborne Sound has construction sounds to enrich your audio projects. It captures sounds of jackhammers pounding, cement mixers churning, drilling rigs working, excavators, loaders, backhoes, etc., as well as forestry equipment sounds like chippers and mulchers.
Percussion: Auxiliary Percussion
'Percussion: Auxiliary Percussion' by Boom Box Library has over 6,400 sounds of percussion instruments like tambourines and cowbells to more unique options such as the flexatone, guiro, and kalimba. Each instrument is played at different tempos and with various techniques.
Classic Dungeon Traps
'Classic Dungeon Traps' by Justin Jet Zorbas will stop your audience's protagonists in their tracks with heart-stopping sounds of swinging axes, perilous pitfalls, dart traps, flame traps, and more. This library provides the audio elements to enhance the thrills and dangers lurking within your dungeons.
RPG Monsters Vol.1
'RPG Monsters Vol.1' by Justin Jet Zorbas will enhance the atmosphere of your fantasy projects with monsters from the undead to goblins and wraiths. It is a chilling collection of gasps, groans, growls, shrieks, and whispers, bringing creatures like gelatinous cubes, owlbears, skeletons, and zombies to life.
Metal: FRICTION
'Metal: FRICTION' by PMSFX is brimming with metal scraping sounds. Designed for sound professionals, it features 272 recordings - perfect for creative manipulation with clear recordings and intuitive UCS metadata.
French Military Air Parade
'French Military Air Parade' by JMV captures the 2015 edition of the French military air parade which takes place every year in Paris for the 14th of July. The different sounds are edited with short crossfades in the audio demo, but all the aircraft and jets pass by are isolated sounds with no cross over between them.
Fantasy RPG – Essential Sound Effects
'Fantasy RPG – Essential Sound Effects' by Goldsmith Audio has 67 sound effects for your fantasy game, including sword clashes, whooshes of magic spells, and fearsome roars of dragons. Each effect is handcrafted for a unique feel, and the library covers everything from thrilling combat to magical elements.
FRL. Kaleidoscope. Surround
'FRL. Kaleidoscope. Surround' by Field Recording Library was designed to immerse listeners in unique atmospheres. It includes everything from echoing waves in an abandoned duct to rain on a metal canopy with meticulously categorized UCS metadata.
Sci-Fi Essentials – Sound Effects & Music
'Sci-Fi Essentials – Sound Effects & Music' by Goldsmith Audio has laser blasts, mech movements, and user interface bleeps and boops. It also offers 13 original retro synth music tracks to set the mood. This is a one-stop shop for enhancing the soundscape of your sci-fi project.
RPG Weapons Vol.1
'RPG Weapons Vol.1' by Justin Jet Zorbas was designed to enhance the combat scenes of your fantasy game, animation, or audiobook. It offers a wide range of weapon sounds, from the clash of swords and twang of bows to the whoosh of throwing knives and the bone-crushing impact of maces and hammers.
Death Space Vol.1
'Death Space Vol.1' by Sun Sound Studio is a sound library inspired by the sci-fi horror film "Event Horizon." It provides 100 chilling sounds perfect for trailers, games, and videos with a variety of atmospheric elements and creepy sci-fi noises.
Dinosaur / Dragon SFX
'Dinosaur / Dragon SFX' by Goldsmith Audio offers 13 sounds of roars, attacks, and idle breaths for your fantasy projects. Designed for large reptile creatures, these sounds can be used for dinosaurs, dragons, or similar monsters to bring your prehistoric beasts to life.
Inventory
'Inventory' by Justin Jet Zorbas provides 44 sounds for video games and animations that depict actions like opening/closing backpacks, rummaging through them, and using zippers. These sounds will enhance your user experience when interacting with inventory menus.
Percussion: Hand Drums
'Percussion: Hand Drums' by Boom Box Library features over 1,150 recordings of hand drums, including djembe, doumbek, and frame drums, played at different tempos and with various techniques with single drum hits and a rhythmic patterns.
