Video: Sound Fields - Adventures In Contemporary Field Recording:

Posted May 1, 2018 by Asbjoern Andersen in Recording

Just noticed this great, short documentary on field recording today by Sam Campbell – featuring Nabihah Iqbal, Equiknoxx, Lawrence English, Lonelady, David Chatton Barker, Félicia Atkinson, Jonáš Gruska and Cheryl Tipp from the British Library:

Sound Fields: Adventures in contemporary field recording

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Spells Variations Vol 2 Play Track 405 sounds included $14

Step into a world of spells, mysticism, and creative power with Spells Variations Vol. 2, the follow-up to our acclaimed magical sound collection. This time, we’ve expanded the elemental and thematic range, offering 405 professionally crafted sound effects that are fully categorized and ready to use.
Inside, you’ll find a wide variety of magical types:
🔥 Fire
💧 Water
🌪️ Air
🌍 Earth
⚡ Electricity
❄️ Ice
☠️ Poison, Mud, Rocks
✨ As well as Arcane, Dark, Monstrous, and other mystical spell types.

Each category is organized into individual folders, with multiple variations for every spell, giving you complete flexibility to choose the perfect sound for each moment, All this makes a total of 44 different spells.
Just like in Volume 1, every sound in this collection was recorded, edited, and mastered at 192 kHz / 24-bit, ensuring top-tier quality and adaptability—perfect for professional sound designers or anyone looking for drag-and-drop magical effects for games, trailers, animations, or any audio-visual production.

More about the pack
– Intuitive file naming
– All you’ll ever need regarding magical sounds [Use them again & again
– Use the sound effects over and over, in any of your projects or productions, forever without any additional fees or royalties. Use the SFX in your game, in your trailer, in a Kickstarter campaign, wherever you need to, as much as you want to.
– Totally mono compatibility
– All sounds have several variations.
– Use your imagination and feel free to use any sound for a creature other than the one described, remember that the world of sound is totally subjective.
– For any questions or problems: khronstudio@gmail.com

Features
– 405 spell sounds
– Format: 192KHz / 24 bits
– Win/Mac: Yes
– Minutes of audio provided: 22:26

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Electricity Sound Effects NeoVolt – Electricity Play Track 600 sounds included $26

NeoVolt is a carefully curated collection of over 600 electricity sounds across 60 files. Inspired by the iconic Tesla coil zap sound from Red Alert, but with so much more to offer. Perfect for any scenario featuring electricity, magic, or futuristic sci-fi elements. Contains both designed audio and source files.

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Metal Sound Effects Moving Ship’s Steps Play Track 26 sounds included, 8 mins total $6

Haunting, metallic creaks and moans of a ship’s steps as it shifts with the sea in Reykjavik Harbour. Recorded with a LOM Geofon this sound library contains eerie, dissonant textures and deep resonant tones, ideal for abandoned, post-apocalyptic or ghostly atmospheres.

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Bundles MASTERGUN – NSV Play Track 872 sounds included $125

The Master Gun NSV Sound Effects library is recorded using a large array of various microphone configurations, we recorded shots from several distances in an open shooting range in the Nevada Desert.

Raw Recordings

Our raw shots features a total of 26 channels including 12 Stereo and 2 mono sources. All of our close and mid spaced pair Microphone options can be used as two independent mono microphones. The right side of every spaced pair will have more Mech than its left side counterpart.
Every single gun has been recorded using the same gain settings on the same recorders, and we have level matched each microphone option between the same calibers so your 50ft microphones will be the same or similar across all libraries that share the same calibers. This makes mixing large amounts of weapons easier as the loudness and character of each gun is predictable.

Our foley features a total of 4 audio channels with 1 Stereo and 2 mono sources, including the Sanken CO-100k which captures frequencies above 100kHz for extreme pitch shifting workflows.

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Created from the ground up we’ve designed a collection of game-ready mixes for your next project. If you are creating your own custom weapons system and would like to use our designed mixes in your project, you can use our no-tail options which are our realistic designed mixes without our tail layers. Just drag, and drop.

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All files contain extensive metadata to provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible. Metadata can be read and processed by audio management tools. Some digital audio workstations feature an included search tool that can also read embedded metadata.

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Whoosh Sound Effects Swish and Flick Play Track 2092 sounds included $60

Swish and Flick is a sound pack featuring a collection of high-quality whooshes, designed whooshes, whoosh source, and tonal content.
This pack features 2092 sounds across 150 .wav files exported at 192kHz/24bit. Aimed at professional sound designers and editors looking for clean, mastered, ready to use assets with plenty of variation for game audio or linear media.
Recorded on the SD 788T with Schoeps MK 4 & 8 along with the CMD42 digital preamplifiers, as well as MKH 8040 pairs (among others), and meticulously cleaned up in iZotope RX while persevering optimal signal to noise and frequency content.
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Bundles MASTERGUN – HK21E Play Track 1521 sounds included $60

The Master Gun HK21E Sound Effects library is recorded using a large array of various microphone configurations, we recorded shots from several distances in an open shooting range in the Nevada Desert.

Raw Recordings

Our raw shots features a total of 28 channels including 13 Stereo and 2 mono sources. All of our close and mid spaced pair Microphone options can be used as two independent mono microphones. The right side of every spaced pair will have more Mech than its left side counterpart.
Every single gun has been recorded using the same gain settings on the same recorders, and we have level matched each microphone option between the same calibers so your 50ft microphones will be the same or similar across all libraries that share the same calibers. This makes mixing large amounts of weapons easier as the loudness and character of each gun is predictable.

Our foley features a total of 4 audio channels with 1 Stereo and 2 mono sources, including the Sanken CO-100k which captures frequencies above 100kHz for extreme pitch shifting workflows.

Designed Mixes

Created from the ground up we’ve designed a collection of game-ready mixes for your next project. If you are creating your own custom weapons system and would like to use our designed mixes in your project, you can use our no-tail options which are our realistic designed mixes without our tail layers. Just drag, and drop.

UCS compatible metadata embedded

All files contain extensive metadata to provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible. Metadata can be read and processed by audio management tools. Some digital audio workstations feature an included search tool that can also read embedded metadata.

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Electricity Sound Effects The Arcane Electric Spells Play Track 622 sounds included, 78 mins total $30

622 meticulously processed stereo electric and lightning spells sound effects recorded in 96 khz and 24 bits for high audio definition.

The collection comes with hundreds of variations, more than 1 hour of content and many different type of spells. It also includes raw files for more flexibility for your projects.

This collection is perfect for any films, video games or trailers.

The library is fully focused on electric, thunder and lightning spells. You will find simple one shot electric impacts, powerful high level thunder spells, magic weapon enchantments and so on. Spells such as lightning strike, electric blast, thunderbolt, magnetic field, thunder hammer, electric sword, lightning projectile, etc. are included in this library.

Recorded assets: Thunder, big and small adhesive tapes, inflated balloon, styrofoam, cellophane, various clothes, baseball glove, winter gloves, metal objects, aluminum foil, oven door, etc. Analog/digital synths and ultrasonic/geophone usage for more variety.

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Game Audio Packs - Game Sound Effects Libraries Board Game Sound Effects Kit – Sounds for Digital Tabletop, Card, Dice and Match Games and Apps Play Track 1203 sounds included, 19 mins total $55.20
Bring the world of board games to life with Board Game Sound Effects Kit – Sounds for Digital Tabletop, Card, Dice and Match Games and Apps. It’s a carefully curated collection of interactive sound effects that are made especially for tabletop and mobile game creators, app designers, and RPG sound artists. Whether you’re designing a card or tile-laying game, word puzzle, family party game, or roller/dice-based adventure, this sound library is packed with the tactile, satisfying, and characteristic sounds you need for all your gameplay mechanics.
- 1203 sound effects in total
- All in 96kHz/24bit WAV + other formats
- 700+ MB of samples
- 19+ minutes of crystal clear HD audio
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