New Sound Effects: Amusement Parks, Waves, Fire And Ice, Tools, Towns - And Lots Of Guns

Posted June 5, 2017 by Asbjoern Andersen in New sound effects libraries

This week on A Sound Effect, we have new libraries that focus on the elements – both as the essentials you need and the physical makeup of our world. You can hear ocean waves from the shores of Taveuni and Northern California, crunchy, twisted ice blocks and ice cubes, and hot and cold combining for some sizzling goodness. You can also find rifles and pistols itemized for your game audio needs, in-depth coverage of amusement park rides, all the pieces of a carpenter’s workshop, and residential ambiences that show daily life from morning to night. If you are working on an interactive project, this is definitely your week!

Thermal Flux

Materials & Texture Sound Effects Thermal Flux Play Track 206 sounds included $60

Thermal Flux is a sound effects library formed by extreme temperature reactions. With materials ranging from -119°F to 1900°F all captured at 192kHz/24bit, it’s a fiery (and icy) collection of unique sound design source material.

In each recording, props with vast temperature differentials interact with each other… Red hot ball bearings vaporize liquids, melt ice, and destroy various household products. Extremely cold metal instantly freezes water. Molten metals and glass pour into water, groaning, chirping, and crackling, as they solidify. Dry ice causes coins to viciously chatter. Water beads bounce, whine, and buzz on blazing hot pans. White hot sand roars and erupts upon contact with water. All of this and more was recorded with mics capturing quality frequency information up to ~65kHz. This ultrasonic content allows for extreme pitch shifting without compromising fidelity.

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'Thermal Flux' by Collected Transients discovers extreme temperatures for an interesting collection of elemental sounds. Ranging from -119°F to 1900°F, you’ll hear molten metal and glass being poured into water, water beads falling on hot pans, dry ice interacting with coins, white hot sand hitting liquid, and more. Captured with multiple microphones, this library also gives you the perspectives you need from the designers’ curious minds and ears. For a thermodynamic library with plenty of experimental sounds to play with, check this one out.

Battle Rifles and Pistols

Firearms Sound Effects Battle Rifles and Pistols Play Track 133 sounds included, 80 mins total $129

Battle Rifles and Pistols is an extensive library collection of modern firearms, recorded and designed by Watson Wu (Assassin’s Creed, Breach & Clear, Operation Flashpoint) and Nick Dixon (Call Of Duty, Homefront: The Revolution, Need for Speed).

The collection has been mixed and designed from 10, 12 and 16 channel recording sessions. Each weapon features a full suite of ballistics, foley, casings on four surfaces and multiple firing modes where appropriate. The library includes close and distant range ballistics alongside a small selection of impulse responses for acoustic processing.

Battle Rifles and Pistols includes:

Firearms included:
• AK47
• FN SCAR
• SKS
• XM8
• Micro Uzi
• MP7A1
• 44 Magnum
• Baretta M9
• Desert Eagle
• Glock 18
• TT-33
• Benelli Supernova
Casings Included:
• 9mm
• 45 ACP
• 50 BMG
• 223
• 303

Impulse Responses Included:
• 5 Floor Apartment Stairwell
• Underground Car Park

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Watson Wu and Nick Dixon, both of AAA fame, know their way around gun foley for games, and their new library 'Battle Rifles and Pistols' brings it all to you. Featuring 17 rifles and pistols, casings falling on various surfaces, foley, stairwell and underground carpark impulse responses, and multiple firing modes and perspectives, this library is the holy grail of ballistic game audio. You can also read about the making of this library, too, in their latest guest post! If you need an all-in-one gun library, this one will make you drool.

Residential Ambiences

City Life Sound Effects Residential Ambiences Play Track 15+ sounds included, 150 mins total $35
In Residential Ambiences you will get the sounds of 15 different recordings of residential atmospheres with a duration of 10 minutes each so there’s no need to loop.

Recordings have been done during five different periods of a day. Each one includes three versions:
1. Early Morning
2. Morning
3. Afternoon
4. Evening
5. Night
Recordings feature sounds such as dozens of birds singing in the early morning, dove calls in the morning as the same time traffic gets noisier, human activities in the background in the afternoon distant traffic and voices in the evening, and sirens wailing in distance at night.

Some of the birds included are: doves, sparrows, crows, a cock, woodpeckers, blackcaps, magpies, and pigeons.

Since some of the files are extremely quiet (mainly in the evening and at night), descriptive markers have been included to highlight interesting events in an otherwise featureless waveform. These markers can be read in programs such as Izotope RX, Reaper, and Soundminer. The markers are also included as .txt files in separate folder.

All files have been recorded in 96 kHz/24 bit with Soundminer and BWAV embedded metadata.

UCS Compatible Metadata embedded. Fields included CatID, Category, Subcategory, FX Name, Filename, Description, BWDescription, Library, RecType, RecMedium, Microphone, Designer, Manufacturer, Keywords.
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'Residential Ambiences' by GainWalkers gets you a series of 10-minute residential ambiences that contain all the signifiers of a passing day. You will hear sounds of evening birds, morning choruses, night traffic, dogs barking, retirees mowing their lawns in the afternoon, and more. Plus, the notable features in the tracks have been marked for Izotope RX, Reaper, and Soundminer to help you find what you’re looking for. For a cleverly organized library that will give your background the right amount of towniness, this is one to hear.

Complete Amusement Park Sound Bundle

Environments & Ambiences Complete Amusement Park Sound Bundle Play Track 753+ sounds included $299

The Complete Amusement Park Sound Effects Bundle includes two sound libraries featuring various amusement rides, roller coaster pass bys with and without screaming, amusement park ambiences, and more.

Most sounds were recorded with LCR (Left, Center, Right) microphone setup with a tracking handheld mono shotgun microphone. Stereo downmixes are included for extra convenience.

If you are searching for high-quality amusement park sound effects library with a lot of useful content, this is the bundle for you.

The Bundle includes:

ROLLER COASTER SOUND BUILDER
The world’s first roller coaster sound effects library.

• 5 roller coasters
• Multi-microphone
• Pass by & onboard
• 10.3 gigabytes
• More details about this library

AMUSEMENT RIDES & AMBIENCES SOUND EFFECTS
Multichannel amusement park rides & ambiences sound effects library.

• 8 amusement rides
• Amusement park ambiences
• 5.4 gigabytes
• More details about this library

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'Complete Amusement Park Sound Bundle' is fantastic, expertly-recorded library by the guys of Effect Sense. This collection is not made up of your typical guerilla recordings: the team shut down a park to record clean takes of the machines themselves - though they knew how much we need those audience screams, too! The collection comes in three versions, plus you can read all about in their recording adventures in their Q&A with us. If you need sounds from an amusement park, this collection is a godsend.

Carpenter’s Tools

Wood Sound Effects Carpenter’s Tools Play Track 100+ sounds included, 43 mins total $30

“Carpenters Tools” is a collection of sounds that come directly from the carpenter’s workplace. You will find sounds from a variety of machines and hand tools that help the carpenter form his creations. All machines are recorded in their full cycle: start, movement, part machining and stopping. This collection will fill your missing sounds from the carpenter’s workshop.

Tool recordings included:
Circular saw, small circular saw, small planer machine, table planer machine, old belt grinder, disc grinder, grinder, band saw, jigsaw, milling machine, hand drill, cordless drill, smirgell, vacuum cleaner, internal aspiration, external aspiration, saw, big size flat file, fine flat file, sandpaper

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The sound designers at West Wolf decided to take a break from recording rural and urban ambiences to stay inside their workshop. In their new library 'Carpenter’s Tools' you’ll hear a variety of machines and tools like saws, planers, grinders, jigsaws, drills, vacuums, sanders, and more for the sounds that some of the craftier of us live for. These tools were also recorded from beginning to end with a Neumann KM184 Stereo Pair in XY configuration at 192 kHz. Whether you needs sounds of carpentry or you are creating new weapons and machines, check this one out.

Ice Blocks and Ice Cubes

Ice Sound Effects Ice Blocks and Ice Cubes Play Track 48 sounds included, 6 mins total $5

Various handpicked and carefully recorded essential and familiar ice sounds. Recorded ice cubes and ice blocks of different sizes to make crackling, breaking, twisting, sizzling, swirling, chipping, smashing, and shaking sounds.

Several types of tools were used to chip and break the ice objects such as kitchen knives, hammers, rubber mallets, and ice picks. A hot iron was used to melt ice blocks, ice cubes were stepped on to make crushing and walking sounds, ice cubes in glass and plastic cups combined with water, plastic ice trays of freshly frozen ice that was twisted, turned, and recorded different ways.

These are just handful of examples of the many familiar sounds of ice that are included in this sound library.

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'Ice Blocks and Ice Cubes' by Kevin Durr is a quick pack of ice sounds that cover a wide variety of needs. In its 48 files, you will hear sounds of ice blocks and ice cubes being cracked, twisted, shaken, and chipped with knives, hammers, mallets, and ice picks. You’ll also hear the sizzling sounds of melting ice and the twisting swirls of cubes as they are slowly thawed in a cup of water. If you’re looking for an ice library that will make a dent on your timeline but not your wallet, check this one out.

Binaural Beaches of Northern California

Water & Ocean Sounds Binaural Beaches of Northern California Play Track 11 sounds included, 54 mins total $25

This is a collection of various Northern California beaches recorded binaurally with a Neumann KU 100 Dummy Head. Recorded at Black Sand Beach, Stinson Beach, Muir Beach, and Bodega Bay.

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'Binaural Beaches of Northern California' by Kevin Durr has nearly an hour of lush waves as they creep upon the shores of Northern California. Recorded at Black Sand Beach, Stinson Beach, Muir Beach, and Bodega Bay, this library contains ambiences that last from three to seven minutes and capture peaceful, ever-changing whooshes that might just lull you to sleep. It also has different perspectives that capture close-up drips and hisses on the sand, as well as the low, engulfing rumble of waves charging toward the shore. For a solid collection of waves, give this one a listen

Wave Break Vol. 2

Environments & Ambiences Wave Break Vol. 2 Play Track 50 sounds included, 286 mins total $50

‘Wave Break Vol.2’ is a compilation of 50 recordings (286 minutes total) capturing the natural sounds of the sea breaking on land. This library follows on from ‘Wave Break Vol.1’ but is uniquely different as it features pristine tropical water recordings from Taveuni, a tropical Island in Fiji.

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Sometimes sound designers are drawn to capture the same types of sources, and this week is proof. 'Wave Break Vol. 2' is another new wave library and Alexander Gastrell’s next installment in his collection of both soothing and intense waves. Recorded on Taveuni Island, one of the Fiji islands, this collection captures this remote location with nearly five hours of tranquil laps and terrifying crashes. To help you navigate all it has to offer, Alexander also included helpful metadata with words like ‘pebbles’, ‘sand’, ‘rough water’, ‘low rumble’ and more. If you need waves, you have some good options this week!

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Hum, Buzz & Glitch Sound Effects Audio For Testing Play Track 137 sounds included $1

Audio files for testing speakers and sound systems. These include Noises (Brown, White, Pink, Black/Silence), DTMF, Panning (50%, 100% Left, Right, Centre), Sines (20Hz-20KHz), Oscillator Sweeps (1-24000Hz)

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Creature Sound Effects Monsters Play Track 789 sounds included $59

Ever wondered how to get the creatures, beasts and monsters in your project as badass and nasty as possible?

This collection is filled with high-quality sound effects that let your clients tremble in their seats. The curated package comes with everything you need: Vocals like attacks, breaths, threats, alerts, idle sounds, die screams and foley sounds such as bodyfalls, steps and movement.

With this set of handpicked sounds you have the world of cinematic creature sound design at your fingertips.

The Library includes:

Beast, Coloss, Dwarf, Fishman, Gnome, Golem, Hellhound, Imp, Insect, Kraken, Minotaur, Ogre, Orc, Reptile, Witch, Wraith, Yeti, Zombie, Attack, Breath, Death, Idle, Step, Threaten, Voice, Foley

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Foley Sound Effects Grenade Foley Play Track 1374 sounds included $15

A focused collection of grenade foley, captured with precision using replica units. This library provides the essential, clean sounds of tactical handling, interaction, and impacts.

Recorded at 96kHz/24-bit across various surfaces including steel plates, carpet, wood floorings, soil, and grass, this library offers variation for different environments. The recordings feature grenade shakes, surface impacts and rolls, pin pulls, spoon lever ejections, spoon drops, and tactical gear foley, all captured with Lewitt LCT 540 S and Shure SM7B.

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Door Sound Effects Locks & Doors Play Track 100 sounds included, 7 mins total $18

This library gathers recordings captured with a contact microphone on various types of doors and locks. It includes wooden, metal, and plastic doors, as well as gates, residential doors, and office doors.

The recordings highlight the internal mechanisms of locks: opening, closing, locking, unlocking, clicks, and latch movements. The collection also features isolated key handling and keychain sounds.

The set provides detailed and usable sound material for sound design, post-production, or mechanical analysis.

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Animal Sound Effects European Birds 2 Play Track 961 sounds included $23.99
“European Birds 2” is a sound library containing many recordings of 56 different species of birds, with a focus on isolated recordings of individual birds. All sounds were recorded in England, and all recorded species can be found in continental Europe. Many recorded species can also be found in varying areas of Asia.
Includes:

Pleasing sounds from songbirds such as Robins, Blackbirds, Finches and Wrens

Familiar sounds of Pigeons and Doves

A variety of water birds including Moorhens, Coots, and Geese

Raspy calls of Crows and other birds from the corvid family

Melodious birds of open farmland, such as Skylarks and Yellowhammers

Chaotic songs of summer migrant warblers

Forest birds such as a Tawny Owl, Cuckoo and Green Woodpecker

and more! (For a full list of species, see the contents summary)

Features:

950+ audio files in 24 bit 96kHz quality

WAV format

“Multi” and “One Shot” files provided

UCS compliant file naming and metadata, allowing for easy searching in sound library management tools

Available for commercial or personal use without attribution

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Extra Rain Play Track 106 sounds included, 141 mins total $9.99

EXTRA RAIN – is an auxiliary sound library containing 106 unique sound effect files of rain. From distant showers to slow growing down pours and rainy days by the window. Whether it’s a gentle background shower or a wall of rain you’re looking for; This Extra sound effects library will help supplement the rainy day needs, for your next project. Extra Rain comes in at over 2 hours and was recorded at 192kHz / 32bit using an ultrasonic microphone. All of our libraries comply with the Universal Category System naming convention standard, allowing for accurate and easy granular searches.

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Bundles Quietsub FX Complete Bundle Play Track 15055 sounds included $379
Quietsub FX Complete Bundle

Quietsub FX is a library of 15,055 sound effects at 24 bit 96,000 BWF. The library is organized into a number of collections related to specific categories, and a large miscellaneous category. The library was recorded to be as comprehensive as possible with an emphasis on quality and choice for users.

The Complete Bundle includes the following parts:
Quietsub FX gives you a wide ranging library of sound effects. Production of the library focused on creating high quality and choice for users, which ultimately is what creators want. This package is ideal for film, video, radio, podcast, and wherever sound effects are used.

All files include metadata.
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Travel & Transportation Quietsub FX Transportation Play Track 1321 sounds included $59
Quietsub FX Transportation

An extensive collection of 1,321 Transportation sounds. If it has means of movement to carry people or goods, whether by engine or human propulsion, you’ll likely find it here.

This collection comes in two parts. The transportation portion, and Transit Chimes.

Transit Chimes: Transit Chimes are the sounds you hear all the time on public transportation. Dings, dongs, attention getters. This collection of 70 sound effects gives everything you need to satisfy your craving for these noises. Use them in your productions, or start your own transit system.

Transportation: People are always going somewhere. And they sure make lots of noise doing it. Just about anything that moves people or freight can be found here.

Recording for this category is outside the studio affair. A tremendous amount of time driving and walking around, as well as planting yourself in strategic locations where vehicles do their thing.
- Cars general
- Classic cars
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- Boats
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- Bicycles
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- Trucks general
- Garbage Truck
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- Traffic sounds
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Whoosh Sound Effects Quietsub FX Video Transition Sound Effects Play Track 128 sounds included $25

Quietsub FX Video Transition Sound Effects

A great collection of 128 Video Transition Sound Effects. These are designed to be used at video edit points to add impact.

Video Editors will enjoy these video transition effects. In recent years, sound effects began appearing in videos to accompany the actual visual edit. This was the inspiration for creating this collection.

There’s no better way to add depth to video edits than with short sounds and ramps. These work great with short video breakup visuals and flashes.

This collection is made up of various wipes and transitions.

Cut away. Chop, Hack etc. These sounds will make those video transitions more interesting.

Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.

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Sci-Fi Sound Effects Quietsub FX Sci-Fi Sounds Play Track 192 sounds included $25
Quietsub FX Sci-Fi Sounds

A collection of 192 Sci-Fi Sounds.

There’s lots of science fiction out there, but still no little green men. Possibly that’s what makes sci-fi so popular. The dream of something you think may exist, but cannot be proven. Sci-Fi, of course, has its own sounds. In this collection of 183 sound effects, you will find most of what you will need to outfit your next spacecraft.

Included in this collection:
- Alien interiors
- Blasters
- Backgrounds
- Space ship sounds
Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.
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