This week on A Sound Effect, we explore 44 new sound effects libraries, from 1950s-style vacuum-tube sci-fi and a live drift event to dinosaur roars designed from real animal recordings.
You’ll also find train rides in London, Chicago, and New York, Greek walla, a Mercedes-AMG and a Lamborghini, balloons - and a giant squishy ball that came to a tragic end. Hear them all below:
Forbidden Tonalities
Inspired by how Louis and Bebe Barron made the first electronic film score in 1956, this library turns simulated vacuum-tube circuits on tape into flying saucers, ray guns, robots, and invisible monsters:
Explosion Sound Effects Pack 2 – Blasts
A follow-up with 626 all-new explosion sounds, from finished designs and separate blast layers to sub-heavy tails, incoming artillery shells, and fireworks recordings:
Trailer Transitions
This transitions library gets you 494 risers, pads, cinematic sweeps, wipes, and time-leaps for filmmakers, video editors, and music producers:
Industrial Environments
Factory floors, warehouse loading, and worksites with excavators, bulldozers, cranes, and forklifts in 106 industrial ambiences, plus mechanical room tones and beeps:
Drift Cars – Slides, Squeals & Pass-Bys
Recorded from eight trackside positions during live drifting, 260 stereo takes of single-car passes, two-car tandems, and groups of three or four cars sliding through the corner:
Xmas Sounds – Christmas SFX Toolkit
Get 110 Christmas sounds like fairy-dust sparkles, festive bells, logo stingers, and Santa Claus voices for holiday ads, reels, and animations:
Windy Night
Six ambiences of a bitter wind tearing through the trees on a New Zealand winter night, for scenes that need dread or isolation:
Small Town Ambience
This ambience sound library captures a small town in 30 recordings, featuring kids playing football, playground voices, passing traffic, and braking buses:
Puppy Dog
A boisterous six-month-old Labrador puppy in 76 recordings, from barks, whines, and sniffing to eating and tail hits:
RC Car Engine
Each of these 51 toy and RC car engine sounds comes in mono and stereo, including seven RPM loops from idle to limiter, acceleration sweeps, launches, and wheel spins:
Transportation: London – The Tube
This library gives you 63 London Underground recordings from the Central, Piccadilly, Victoria, and Northern lines, inside and outside the trains:
Transportation – Chicago
Chicago’s L trains on the Red, Blue, and Brown lines, with rail squeal, the rhythm of wooden track sections, and trains passing overhead near The Loop, 202 takes in all:
Madrid – Bars & Bistros
A free download with over 20 minutes of Madrid bars, outdoor terraces, restaurants, and cafes in the afternoon and evening, featuring conversations, cutlery, and plates:
Sci-Fi & Magic Combat
Built so a game’s blasters and spells sound like one family, this library splits 393 sounds into sci-fi weapons and tech, and spells in eight elements:
Organic Synthesis Vol.1
Metal, stone, wood, glass, and air recordings fused with layered synthesis into 450 files of risers, impacts, whooshes, and drones, almost all with five takes each:
Forest Streams
Get 85 natural ambiences for nature documentaries and outdoor game environments, with calm currents, streams over rocky ground, birdsong, rain in the trees, and forest nights:
Indoor Ambiences
From quiet room tones under dialogue to busy cafes, offices, museums, and train interiors, this collection brings you 215 indoor ambiences:
Ocean and Rivers
A water collection of 115 tracks, featuring lapping shores, storm waves, harbors with seagulls and distant ships, underwater textures, and inland rivers:
Storm Ambiences
Besides thunderstorms, sandstorms, and snowstorms, these 106 weather sounds include rain from inside cars, under umbrellas, on tents, and against windows:
Summer Scenes
Get 132 summer ambiences of beaches, parks, skateparks, cafes, and festival crowds for travel content, vacation videos, and lifestyle projects:
Game Ambiences
This game ambience library has 405 backgrounds for RPGs, horror, and sci-fi games, with medieval villages, campfires, abandoned hospitals, alien planets, and volcanic activity:
Dinosaur World
Designed from real animal recordings, this creature kit gets you T-Rex, Velociraptor, Triceratops, and Brachiosaurus roars and footsteps, plus egg hatching and Jurassic ambiences:
Extreme Environments
Earthquakes with collapsing ground, raging fires, lava and volcanic eruptions, violent thunderstorms, and desert sandstorms make up these 124 natural disaster sounds:
YMITTOS: Springs, Forests & Dawn Ambiences
On Mount Ymittos above Athens, these 11 long stereo takes capture flowing springs, forests, insects, and dawn bird choruses, with the city faintly audible at times:
Everyday Places
An ambience sound library of people in public places, such as airports, markets, schools, and sports events. Expect chatter, footsteps, and announcements in 361 backgrounds:
Greek Walla
Greek-language walla in 32 recordings, from six performed loop group takes by native speakers to real crowds at Athens street markets, metro stations, bars, and squares:
Essential Foley Game SFX
Made for indie games, this pack of 1219 files mixes everyday foley like bubble wrap, keyboards, doors, and bags of chips with 8-bit arcade sounds and trailer hits:
Long-Form Analog Drone and Cinematic Sound Textures – ILMARTO DESIGN VOL. 4
Twenty long-form analog drones, 41 minutes in all, from subtle atmospheric layers to intense, unsettling textures for film, games, and trailers:
The Cyberpunk Collection – The Age of Robotics
Machine speech fragments, marching mechanical rhythms, and an obsolete mainframe rattling out data in 23 seamless loops - and one bonus track is a robotic poultry farm:
Typewriter Memories II
This second volume adds nine mechanical and electronic typewriters, among them an Olivetti Dora and an Adler Gabriele 12, with keystrokes, carriage moves, and platen knob turns:
Garden Tools & Plants
Get 148 garden sounds, like a spade, pruning shears, weed pulls, watering cans, and the garden gate:
Board Game & Tabletop
For digital board games and tabletop simulators, this set has 335 sounds of dice rolled on several surfaces, card shuffles and deals, chips and tokens, and pencil scorekeeping:
Simple & Minimal UI
A minimal UI set of 194 sounds, featuring hovers, confirms, toggles, errors, and loading loops, plus true stereo versions of 20 of them:
Transportation – New York
Start at the JFK AirTrain, then ride the 6, 7, E, S, and V subway lines, with locally accented PA announcements, doors, and onboard crowds in 100 takes:
Transportation – London
Double-decker buses, three Underground lines, Thameslink, Gatwick Express, and Southern trains in 90 recordings, plus chimes and “mind the gap” announcements:
Paris – Crowd, Streets, & Stations
This ambience sound library gets you 11 Paris atmospheres, from parks and food courts to train stations, the Seine, and the Champs-Élysées:
Cologne City Life
Cologne’s pedestrian zones, underground stations, university campuses, and city parks in 44 tracks recorded with an IDA-5 surround array, available as a stereo or 5.0 surround edition:
Ford Mercury Comet V8 1967
Captured ahead of filming on Faraz Shariat’s upcoming feature Prosecution, this 1967 V8 comes with six phase-locked mic positions for ignitions, parking, acceleration passes, and long rides:
Sci-Fi Orbital Station
Space station interior loops, generator hums, a freight lifter with door operations, and rocket launches from outside and inside, plus cockpit switches for sci-fi games and films:
Balloons
From inflating, air releases, and raspberries to squeaks, twists, and knots, these 147 balloon sounds include pops in four variations, one of them a rounder thump:
Locks, Keys & Handcuffs
Padlocks, keys, handcuffs, and lockpicking with snapping picks, in 163 files for games, film, and animation:
Mercedes AMG GT X290 2018 sports car
At 32-bit, 192 kHz, engine bay, exhaust, and cabin mics capture this twin-turbo V8 four-door coupe, plus door, window, and power seat foley:
Lamborghini Huracan 2014 sports car
A naturally aspirated 5.2-liter V10 in 180 takes of steady high RPM, gear passes, overtakes, and aggressive pass-bys:
Giant Squishy Ball
Squishes, squelches, burbles, air suction, and farts from a giant squishy fidget ball - 285 sounds recorded before the ball came to a tragic end:
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