How did you get started with sound effect library creation?
After 15 years working as video editor and sound engineer specializing in documentary design, I felt there was a lack of compact and easily manageable sound libraries that could quickly give me what I need, without having to browse through hundreds of files.
This need for well-arranged and not-oversized libraries drove me to launch “Detunized” in 2009.
Under this brand I develop and distribute themed sound libraries with a handy size of often less than 1 GB.
My catalog covers a growing range of sampled instruments, sound design tool boxes and field recordings.
With “Around Bridges” I reached release No. 55, and as long as I get inspired enough this list will be expanded monthly.
How did you come up with the idea of recording the sounds of bridges?
Dresden, my home town, is situated at the nice river Elbe and therefore has a lot of bridges. Two of them are of special interest for me: The first one was opened this year – and because of this bridge, Dresden instantly lost its UNESCO authentication as a world cultural heritage, which is really sad.
The other one, and also much more interesting from an architectural point of view, is the one called “Blaues Wunder” (eng: Blue Wonder).
I have to cross this 120-year old bridge every day and I’m still impressed by its slender construction which is held together by thousands of steel rivets.
Inspired by the commotion caused by the first bridge, and attracted by the beauty of the Blue Wonder, it was just a question of time before I decided to have a closer look at their sound capabilities. And, to be honest, without big expectations.
But right after listening to the first test examples I felt a little ashamed that I completely underestimated the sonic potential of a bridge! |
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What was your approach to Around Bridges?
So my approach was to find out if and how vibrations are transmitted by the steel components of a bridge and how these sounds are perceived when the visual context is missing or has changed.
Firstly, I discovered that even the voices of passing pedestrians are transmitted by a bridge’s handrail. As fascinating as this was, I did not include these files in the library because they are too specific and definitely insist on a concrete dialog scene of a movie, or something related to images of a speaking human.
Recording on the bridge
The same goes for these slowly swelling or sometimes even steady drones with their decent resonances (my favourite sounds of them all). It’s always nice to include a discreet background texture in a musical track, a movie score or a soundscape for theater or dance performances.
To round up this library – and knowing from experience that one often need some according ambiences in documentary editing – I also included some ambiences that are mainly recorded below the bridges. This gives them a certain character in terms of frequency range and stereo image.
What was your recording setup?
For Around Bridges I used at least 2 handmade contact mics that went into a Shure FP33. This is a rock-solid piece of gear which I’ve owned since my TV years.
I love it´s high output because this allowed me to go straight into the consumer level input of an Olympus LS-5 where I had to use just a minimum of gain.
How did people react to your project?
Well, that was one thing that struck me during the days of recording: The fact that nobody seemed care about what this guy was doing there! I mean, just imagine a person crouching down by a handrail in the middle of a bridge, staring into a pocket of dubious content, with black wires coming out that disappear anywhere between the bars of this handrail. Shouldn’t this attract some interest?
Only once a kind lady asked me if I was an employee of the town and what kind of measurements I was doing. She was seriously concerned that this bridge was in such a desolate state :-)
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From all 4 earth’s corners, air streamlines the environment and shapes our stories. Discover the cinematic world of rare winds!
This sound library is the ultimate achievement of a really ambitious project of recording winds from very remote places across the world.
Included are authentic recordings from the Boreal region (North hemisphere: in Canada and Iceland), from the Austral region (South hemisphere: Tierra del Fuego in Argentina and the Last Hope province in Chile), on Islands in Mediterranean region (Thira in Greece), in the Sahara desert (Marocco), Isle-aux-Grues (Canadian winter), and more (see file list for more details)
These were recorded either in urban settings, countryside, or complete wilderness.Included is a set of useful synthesized, tonal, and designed winds.
The sounds are categorized into 3 folders: Designed, Indoor & Outdoor.
WHAT’S INSIDE:
- 102 stereo files
- Highly focused and meticulously edited sounds
- Ready to use Loop
- Urban area and Wild area
- Useful Designed & Synthesized Wind Sounds
- Recordings from the Boreal region (North) in Iceland & Canada
- Recordings from the Austral region (South) in Argentina & Chile
- Recordings from Islands in Greece & Canada
- Recordings from the desert in Marocco
- Abandonned houses and shelters
- Marina, lake, forest, car, flags, arctic, metal pole, prairie, street, mountain, grass, …
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This bundle includes 4 different libraries.
The Baltic Sea sound library is compilation of 56 WAV files recorded with Sound Devices 702, Rode NTG3, Sony PCM-M10, two Oktavas MK012 set in MS, XY and ORTF setup. All the sounds were recorded far away from the cities and roads. Since most of the sounds were recorded in late winter, there are no insects or birds in background. There are few files that includes the sound of birds, but I left them on purpose, because of the overall feel of the files. In this library you will find beautiful sound of waves crushing on the rocks and shore, recorded from different perspectives in different stereo configurations, during calm and windy days. In addition to those sounds, there’s foley like walking, running and swimming in the water.
The Harbours Of Norway sound library features 25 files with ambients recorded in Myre, Sto and Nyksund, very small towns with direct access to the sea. Most of the sound effects were recorded at night, but since it’s a polar day time of the year, it was very pleasurable to walk and look for convenient places to set up my gear. Everything was recoded with ORTF setup built from two Sennheisers MKH 8040. Inside this library, you’ll find a lot of seagulls, waves crushing on the rocks and plants, windy ambients from the cliff, industrial sound from port in Myre with ship unloading the cargo, walla with steam engine boat and additional sounds from boat engine market and air cooling aggregates from food containers. Every file was recorded in 96kHz, edited (i removed any unintentional bumps, pops and unwanted sounds). I limited EQing to removing harsh frequencies, or enhancing a little bit the good sounding ones. At the end of the chain there is a small compression, for louder sounds.
The Summer Ambients sound library contains 33 beautiful WAV files recorded with Sound Devices 702, Rode NTG3, two Oktavas MK012 in MS and stereo XY pattern. All sounds were gathered in different and beautiful places like forests, lakes, meadows or swamps. You can expect amazing ambients, textures, different birds, insects, forest during rain, calm and windy days. It’s a perfect library for designing background sounds. Everything was recorded in amazing Masuria in Poland.
Summer ambients Update – library got 2x bigger and heavier than the original library. 59 additional files, 123 minutes of high quality audio recorded with Sennheiser MKH 8040 ORTF setup, Rode NTG3, Oktava MK012 XY setup plugged into SD702 and Sony PCM-10. It features ambients from the forests, ponds, swamps, meadows, lakes and suburbs recorded is very quiet locations, mostly just before the sunrise, during the day and before sunset far away from the cities.
Water Flow sound library took me about six months to record, consumed about 15 thermoses of tea and 42 litres of gasoline to get to all locations. It offers 90 BWAV files recorded in different locations. Huge part of this library is based on the recording sessions on the rivers. Two completely different locations, recorded regularly for the last 5 months allowed me to create this unique sound library. Most of the recording sessions took place during winter just before the sun was rising to reduce the amount of unwanted sounds. Almost all recordings are completely clear and only few have birds in background, since it was my intention to record some location ambients with natural backgrounds.
You can see the metadata and sound list below.
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The Cars In Motion sound library gets you exterior sounds of cars driving at different speeds, slow/medium/fast/very fast pass-bys, reverse sounds, accelerations, braking sounds and a lot of additional files. You’ll find different engines, and cars with different character.
From a small BMW 114i through to a powerful Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.7 V8 with Magna Flow exhaust, up to a fast twin turbo BMW 640D F12. In addition to cars there are also files covering big machines like tractors and excavator.
The library features 561 WAV files with total length of 340 minutes, recorded in 96kHz and 24 bits with a Sound Devices 702, two Sennheisers MKH 8040, Rode NTG3 and Sony PCM-M10.
Here are the cars included in this library:• Audi A4 Allroad 2.0 TFSI – 73 files – 73 minutes
• Audi A4 B8 2.0 TDI Avant – 11 files – 10 minutes
• BMW 114i E87 – 20 files – 10 minutes
• BMW 530D E60 – 55 files – 21 minutes
• BMW F12 640D Gran Coupe – 87 files – 49 minutes
• Excavator MF 860 – 30 files – 20 minutes
• Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.7 V8 – 62 files – 51 minutes
• Renault Kangoo 1.6 16V – 71 files – 32 minutes
• Renault Master II 2.8 dTi – 21 files – 13 minutes
• Renault Master F3500 dCi135 – 30 files – 12 minutes
• Tractor Case II CX90 – 15 files – 10 minutes
• Volkswagen Golf II – 26 files – 13 minutes
• Other Cars – 60 files – 23 minutes
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Game Audio Packs & Bundles Dirt & Asphalt Series: Motorbikes Bundle Play Track 365 sounds included, 305 mins total$116.66$99.17Dirt & Asphalt Volume 1 is the first addition of vehicle and transportation recordings from Output Audio. This library contains a selection of recordings from 3 road bikes, with additional bonus content from other road motorbikes. The library also contains acceleration ramps for use in granular playback engines.
Road bikes included:
• Yamaha 450cc Thumper
• Triumph 600cc Dual Fuel Injection
• Aprillia RST 1000cc Futura
• A selection of bonus pass-bys and externals from a range of high performance bikes
Dirt & Asphalt Volume 2 is the second addition of vehicle and transportation recordings from Output Audio. This library contains a selection of recordings from two motocross events and two practise sessions, with additional bonus content provided as race atmospheres.
Library highlights:AMCA Motocross Classes Included:
MX1/MX2/Experts/Seniors Unlimited classesEngine Sizes Included:
85cc/125cc/250cc/450cc engines
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Ui Two is the sequel to our overwhelming popular Ui One collection, this collection contains 377 original sounds uniquely crafted for creating user interfaces, telemetry, gadgetry and more.
Empty Sea’s Mark Camperell, carefully crafted these sounds using a variety of beepers, boopers and other sonic tools. A sample of which include synths, samplers, spectral editors and more. Each sound was recorded at 48k/24bit. Planned, processed, mangled and otherwise destroyed, every single tone was tweaked until it was something new, original, and exciting.
As usual, we meticulously edited, mastered and embedded the files with metadata. This collection is priced to move, so don’t hesitate. If you’re tired of the your same old UI inspiration, Ui Two from The Library by Empty Sea is a great addition to your library.
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An electric car sound library with a range of FX from the Hyundai SUV, Kona.
The library includes numerous driving FX on both gravel and asphalt including pass-bys, take offs, corners, approaches and skids.
It also contains a large range of interior recordings from driving at highway speed all the way to buttons and switches.
Multiple FX on each track – recorded in Sydney, Australia
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car interiors library is a great supplement for all the car engine sounds that you already own. That way the action on the inside of the car is not stale at all. Dashboard buttons, seatbelts, automatic windows, switches, switching gears, brake, clutch and gas pedals, vents, turning signals. They’re all here!
Got a whole bunch of roaring car engine sounds but then realised that you’re not equipped with all of the boring stuff like:
car door handles, seatbelts, turn signal, air vents, buttons and switches, seats, storage compartments, horns, windows, pedals (gas, brake, clutch), handbrakes wend
and all other Car Interior sound effects? Well then.. look no further! This is just the pack for you.
160 wav files with over 400 single sounds in total. Car Interiors will spice up that car interior scene with real, crisp sounds, recorded from over 6 cars in total!20 %OFFEnds 1574981999 -
Destruction & Impact Cinematic Strikes Play Track Up to 4140 sounds includedFrom: $119From: $95.20ENORMOUS SOUNDING PERCUSSIVE HITS
CINEMATIC STRIKES joins the BOOM Library Cinematic Series – and it focuses on big sounding drums. A whole world of cinematic percussive sound design lies a few clicks away: From devastating cracks and stomps over crisp swells and rolls to epic ensemble hits – you will be sure to find and build just what you are looking for.
With the ultimate flexibility of different microphone positions, single and ensemble hits, flams and swells using various drums and beaters, you couldn’t be better equipped to design huge blockbuster and trailer hits – or simply place ready-to-use DESIGNED sounds into your timeline and feel the earth shake.
CINEMATIC STRIKES – CONSTRUCTION KIT:
FLEXIBLE SOUND DESIGN TOOLKITThe Construction Kit offers you one of the most comprehensive drum hit packages ever recorded. Carefully planned to satisfy and complement every spot in the frequency range, you will never run out of low end booms, aggressive cracks, mid-range body impacts, reverberant tails and excellent sweeteners to top it off.
PERSPECTIVE & RHYTHM
Not only are you able to produce impressive sounding hits, but also transition into, out of and between peaks. Control the attack and release of each sound, using rolls, flams, double hits and other meticulously performed techniques. Three coherent microphone positions make spatial adjustments a breeze.
Files: 618 • Sounds: 3708 • Size: 13 GB
CINEMATIC STRIKES – DESIGNED:
MAXIMUM PUNCH – AND THEN SOMECINEMATIC STRIKES – Designed is what you get when layering and processing Construction Kit sounds BOOM Library style.
From rumbling low-end BOOMS, soft and natural sounding WHOOSH HITS to aggressive, frontal CRACKS and PUNCHES, the Designed library showcases what’s possible, while saving precious time and budget on a tight schedule.
This package is particularly useful for filmmakers and trailer sound designers.
Files: 108 • Sounds: 432 • Size: 1.4 GBCINEMATIC STRIKES BUNDLE:
THE BUNDLE – The best of both worlds at a discounted price.
The Bundle gives you the full sound design power as it contains both – the DESIGNED and the CONSTRUCTION KIT edition at a discounted price.
Files: 726 • Sounds: 4140 • Size: 14.6 GB
Included sounds – keywords:
BASS DRUM, BOOM, BOX, CAJON, CONCERT TOM, CRACK, CRASH, DAIKO, DOUBLE HIT, ENSEMBLE, FLAM, FOOT, GONG, HARD BEATER, HIT, JAM BLOCK, KICK, KODO, LOG, MALLET, BIN, PUNCH, ROLL, SINGLE, SNARE, SOFT BEATER, SPLASH, STICKS, STOMP, SWEETENER, SWELL, TABLA, TAIKO, TAMBORA, THUNDER SHEET, TOM, WHIP, WHOOSH HIT, WOOD PERCUSSION, WOODBLOCK
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Great idea, great sounds. Well done.