This week on A Sound Effect, we explore 25 new sound effects libraries, from lyrebird-based sci-fi and a NASCAR race weekend to room tones in 7.0.2 Atmos.
You’ll also find office foley, dark drones, potion-shop UI, classic Vespas, anechoic source sounds, small aircraft, horror braams, medieval melee, robot voices, gamelan, and airliner cabins. Hear them all below:
New ReleaseNOVA by Mattia CellottoThis hybrid sci-fi library gives you ultrasonic lyrebird recordings, industrial machines and aggressive designed weaponsWATCH THE LAUNCH VIDEO →Nova
A sci-fi library built from ultrasonic recordings of the lyrebird, plus aluminum welders, laser cutters, and pneumatic presses, with a designed section of aggressive weapons and tools:
Atmos Room Tones
Get 67 interior room tones recorded in 7.0.2 Atmos, from bedrooms, basements, and attics to offices, with windows open or closed and stereo mixdowns included:
Office Various 02
This office library gets you 491 recordings of everyday workplace gear, like hole punches, a stapler, a paper cutter, desk lamp switches, and vintage typewriters:
Doom Drones 3
Dark drones, tape experiments, and industrial textures close the trilogy – 303 files, including field recordings from a 1920s Gothic Revival building, made for horror and sci-fi:
THE APOTHECARY: USER INTERFACE
These 66 UI sounds were recorded from real objects, featuring glass flasks, herbs, coins, and book pages for potion crafting, trading, and inventory in fantasy games:
Office & Workspace Foley
Mouse clicks, laptop lids, and calculator keys are among the 382 sounds in this desk foley set, recorded on a RØDE NTG5 for games and UI:
Polaris Motor AM-FIB 2003 ultralight trike
An amphibious ultralight trike captured at 192 kHz, with 33 sounds of fast and slow flybys, taxiing, false starts, engine revs, and seatbelt foley:
PIAGGIO Vespa 1982
Get 45 recordings of classic Vespas, including the 50 Special, PX 125, and ET3 Primavera, with pass-bys, idles, horn honks, and the stand going up and down:
ULTRASONIC ANECHOIC – Complete
Reflection-free source sounds from an anechoic chamber, recorded with a Sanken CO-100k and a LOM Uši Pro stereo pair at 192 kHz for pitching down several octaves:
Cessna Skyhawk II 172M 1973 civil utility airplane
This library captures a 1973 four-seat Cessna in 63 sounds, from flybys and false starts to cockpit switches, door latches, yoke movements, and flap adjustments:
Horror & Suspense Sound Design Toolkit Vol.1
Build tension in horror films, psychological thrillers, and trailers with this set of 68 braams, sub drops, risers, stingers, and dark drones:
The Sounds of NASCAR
ARCA, Xfinity, and Cup Series cars recorded over a race weekend at Pocono Raceway, from pass-bys and pack roars to pit braking and crowd reactions:
Medieval Melee Weapons | Swords • Daggers • Axes • Maces • Flails
120 handcrafted sounds in 360 files for RPGs, bringing you sword, dagger, axe, mace, and flail combat, plus shields and battle crowds:
Sound Design Elements Vol. 01
The first volume of a new series collects 555 recordings that never made it into separate libraries, sorted into engine, hit, mechanical, and signal elements:
Sound Design Elements Vol. 02
Amusement park sounds, cardboard pipes, plastic bottles, squeaks and creaks, and weird metal make up this second batch of cleaned and edited sounds:
Sound Design Elements Vol. 03
In volume three, you get 555 sounds of ball games, the gym, and noise elements, plus odd extras like dropped brass bullet casings:
Sound Design Elements Vol. 04
This fourth volume features bubbling and sizzling, a stone crusher, rummaging through backpacks and cupboards, designed mechanics, and retro video game effects:
Sound Design Elements Vol. 05
Here the usual 555 grows to 575 sounds, with magic, an electric car, 8-bit game effects, sci-fi elements, and wind among the categories:
Inner Worlds
Recorded with a contact microphone, these 67 sounds come from inside a wristwatch, a soda can, drain pipes, a car exhaust, and an electronic lock:
Dark Technology Vol. 1 | Designed
Ominous sci-fi technology in over 1050 designed sounds, featuring robotic vocalizations, huge walker-like entities, glitches, and synthetic interfaces, with no weapons or mechanical movement:
Essential Ambience & Foley – Sound Effects Bundle Vol. 2
Six libraries bundled into one, getting you 544 sounds of matches and lighters, an Indonesian cave, gamelan instruments, bus interiors, and dark space ambiences:
Aero East Europe Sila 450 C 2016 light airplane
Get 13 recordings of a Serbian-built ultralight with a Rotax engine, taken from the ground and onboard, featuring taxiing on tarmac and grass, full takeoffs, and touchdowns:
Cessna Aerobat 150K 1970 civil utility airplane
Shotgun, omni, and boundary mics recorded this two-seat acrobatic plane from 1970, including flybys, takeoffs, landings, and handbrake and door foley in 41 sounds:
Binaural Sounds – Inside Passenger Jet Vol.2
The second volume follows a flight in airliner cabin loops, from boarding and takeoff to the descent and a landing with or without applause:
Binaural Sounds – Inside Passenger Jet Vol.1
Each of the 30 in-flight loops in this first volume comes in binaural and stereo, recorded on a Zoom H3-VR for games, film, and VR:
New tool
A new low-end plugin for music, sound design, and sound for picture joined the shop this week:
Uberbass
This bass enhancer adds harmonics around a frequency you choose, with drive and gate controls to shape them and a low cut that keeps rumble out:
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