Jonathan Wachoru worked as lead sound designer on the sound for OUTLAST, a survival-horror game by Red Barrels – and below, he takes you through the creepy (and sometimes downright nasty) sound elements and assets that make up the game’s effective soundscape. Note that the video is a bit graphic – you’ve been warned :)
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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Four Elements Play Track 3050 sounds included, 251 mins total
$149.99$112.49Master the Art of Bending the Elemental Forces
Unleash the raw power of fire, water, earth, and air with this comprehensive 9 GB sound library featuring 3050 high-quality sound effects across 630 files. Whether you’re designing cinematic soundscapes or enhancing video games Four Elements delivers the tools you need to harness the energy of the natural world.
Construction Kit – 2443 Sounds
A treasure trove of raw, organic, and processed sounds including seamless loops divided into Fire, Water, Air, Earth and Explosion categories. Customize every detail with an extensive selection of sound components.
- Organic Fire: Campfire sizzles, torch whooshes, and flame bursts.
- Processed Fire: Distorted impacts and unique crackles.
- Organic Earth: Rock crashes, gravel scrapes, and heavy stone hits.
- Processed Earth: Stylized rumbles and granular textures.
- Organic Water: Ocean waves, hydrophone bubbles, and fluid splashes.
- Processed Water: Underwater whooshes and stylized liquid smashes.
- Organic Air: Bamboo swishes, cloth movements, and pressure bursts.
- Processed Air: Filtered gusts and dynamic noise sweeps.
- Explosion: Firework detonations, Butane bursts, and cinematic impacts.
Building Blocks – 416 Sounds
Game-ready sound layers featuring Impacts, Whooshes, and Textures as seamless loops. Elevate transitions and enhance atmospheres with loops and pre-designed sound layers.
- Fire: Explosive bursts, blazing infernos, and warm embers.
- Earth: Ground-shaking impacts, crumbling terrain, and heavy collisions.
- Water: Cascading waves, serene rivers, and underwater ambiences.
- Air: Whispering breezes, stormy turbulence, and slicing gusts.
Design Kit – 192 Sounds
A collection of ready-to-use sound effects divided into Attack, Bend, and Explosion categories for quick integration into your projects. Perfect for high-energy scenes and immersive storytelling.
- Fire: Crackling flames, fiery bursts, and roaring infernos.
- Earth: Crushing impacts, shifting ground, and massive land eruptions.
- Water: Splashes, fluid manipulations, and crashing tidal waves.
- Air: Slicing winds, swirling currents, and thunderous gusts.
Four Elements gives you complete creative control, blending organic recordings with processed sound layers to meet the demands of any project. Master the forces of nature with Four Elements. Let your creativity ignite.
Keywords:
Elements, Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Wave, Water, Liquid, Rock, Cast, Stone, Pebble, Torch, Gas, Flame, Campfire, Sizzle, Burst, Scrape, Whoosh, Impact, Texture, Attack, Bend, Bending, Explosion, Processed, Surge, Quake, Hit, Flow, Burn, Ignite, Drop, Smack, Destruction, Rumble, Hiss, Blow, Wind, Cloth, Movement, Underwater, Bubble, Ocean, River, Lake, Firework, Firecracker, Bang, Blast, Detonation, Magic, Fantasy, Forces, Fire Magic, Water Magic, Earth Magic, Fire Air, Fire Effect, Fire Whoosh, Water Whoosh, Seamless Loop, Loop, Fire Cast, Water Cast, Earth Cast, Air Cast
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Mechanical Sound Effects Train, Train station, Railway Ambience Play Track 137+ sounds included, 282 mins total
$25$20Train, Train Station, Railway Ambience
Including: train sounds, trains passing by, different perspectives and distances, In urban and remote area etc.; Many types of trains, locomotives, service train vehicles etc.; Train horns;
Mechanical, pneumatics sounds. Train stationary sounds.
Train station/railway ambience, both interior (inside building, room tone) end exterior. Crowd. PA announcement, train operator whistling etc.. Train station soundwalk. Restaurant…Train station in city and in rural; Rail crossing; Train room tone. Locomotive room tone;Â
Structure borne sound of train passing by, sound recorded with contact mics on railways; Recorded in daytime and nighttime, all year round. Total time is approx. 280 mins. Comprehensive train FX library. European railways, trains, recorded in Europe.
Various microphone setups used as well as microphones. Depends on application. Description and equipment info in metadata chunk.
Edited RAW recordings ready to use. No dynamic manipulation (compressors/limiters) used, max. peak level: -5dBFS. No recorder’s limiter used during recording – full dynamic recordings.20 %OFF -
As you’ve probably guessed from the title, this SFX library is all about metal chain sound effects. Various sizes of chains were pulled, dropped, shaken, rattled, whipped, hung, dangled and jingled.
These sounds could come in handy for a wide range of purposes like morning star swings / whips, coin ringing, chain metal armor movements, hoists, addons for footstep movements and many more.
So if you’re after any kind of metal chain sounds, this SFX library is one to get!
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Unleash your creativity with out-of-the-box loops and tones.
HorrorSound’s Deep Tock is a unique collection combining two sample packs in one, offering a dynamic selection of stylized clock loops and signature sonic elements.
Signature Sounds
The Signature section boasts 145 modern horror abstracts and unsettling tones. These tormented and unique bleeps perfectly punctuate modern horror trailers and scores.
Featuring: Twisted Vocals, Signals, Alarms, Bursts, Processed Toy Piano and Glissato Strings.
Clock Loops
The clock loops are organized into 8 folders, featuring over 270 tempo-synced loops from 60 to 140 BPM. Spanning classic to experimental, you’ll find everything from ticking mechanisms to haunting chimes and plucks. These incredibly realistic and pristine loops are ready for action horror trailers and suspense underscores.
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This sound library boasts a comprehensive collection of door sound recordings taken around a Willerby Granada XL two-bedroomed static caravan on a quiet resort in Cenarth, Wales.
As well as interior and exterior door sounds, this library also features sounds of furniture and cabinet doors.
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Jaguar F Type SVR
Probably the most extreme sounding Jaguar you could buy as of 2025, and since the future of company is electric – probably most extreme exhaust sound on any Jaguar ever.
This SVR version has a supercharged 5-litre V8 engine with 567bhp.
Exhaust is titanium, vs stainless steel on F Type R version, meaning a different and more agressive/much louder sound.
The library consists of vehicle track day recordings with 2 exhaust mic configurations (different runs different rigs) – Shure SM58 dynamic mic and DPA 4062 rig and engine mic array capturing various engine sound perspectives.
External recordings were made with Sennheiser 8060 shotgun mic.
Library consists of startups, revs, onboards and variety of passbys.
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Nature & Countryside Ambiences East European Meadows & Hedgerows Play Track 20+ sounds included, 99 mins total From: $79.99
This premium collection of sound effects was recorded over 3 years in the foothills and lowlands around the Southern Carpathian Mountains in Romania. This is the sound of the eastern and southeastern European countryside – meadows and hedgerows thrumming with the sound of insects and birds.
Recorded in a spatially-open, exciting and realistic-sounding quad-surround NOS-based format*, these are ultra-low-noise recordings of cinematic quality. They are fully ‘rotatable’ for next-level sound editing options or alternative perspectives. Also available in stereo version.
Key Features
- 20 wildlife-rich atmospheres
- detailed Soundminer and BWAV metadata including species lists
- available in quad (4.0) or stereo (2.0)
- ultra low-noise
- fully rotatable surround format for alternate perspectives (4.0 version only)
Featured Habitats
Lowland rural meadows, scrub edges and hedgerows.
Wildlife Vocalisations
Some of the many birds to be heard include turtle dove, golden oriole, blackcap, buzzard, jay and great-spotted woodpecker. The birds have a range which extends across southeastern Europe.
Technical
Sennheiser MKH8040 based 4.0 microphone setup recorded into Sonosax SX-R4+
Recording Characteristics
- Ultra-low-noise
- Carefully mastered to remove any unwanted artefacts whilst preserving low-frequency energy
- Spatially balanced to ensure a coherent and immersive image appropriate to the recording.
- Continuous, unedited and uninterrupted, preserving the natural rhythms of the biophony.
All sounds recorded by Nicholas Allan, a Jackson Hole and BAFTA-nominated sound designer who, along with his team, has created the natural soundtracks for countless natural history TV documentaries and feature films for National Geographic, BBC, Discovery, Animal Planet, Netflix and others.
Special thanks to: Christoph Promberger, Andrew Wilson and Jolanta Brdej-Allan.
* tracks 19 and 20 are recorded in double mid/side
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Ambisonic Sound Effects Ambisonic Roomtones and Ambiences Play Track 54+ sounds included, 206 mins total
$27$23Roomtones and ambiences recorded in ambisonic B-format (ambix) and binaural.
Including some actions like elevator in use, door open-close etc.
Recorded with Sennheiser Ambeo VR microphone and Sound Devices recorder. See the track list for additional info.B-format (RAW-4ch.) and Binaural files. Audio preview is in Binaural (best with headphones). Metadata tagged.
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