New Sound Effects: 70s Fiats, Bowed Cacti, Swedish Forests, Swimming Pools, And More!

Posted September 23, 2018 by Adriane Kuzminski in New sound effects libraries

In this recap, we have 7 new libraries that will meet your specific needs. We have dark, creepy textures from found objects, bowed cacti from the American Southwest, a 1970s compact Italian car, and wind flowing through leafy Swedish trees. We also have sounds of public swimming, city traffic, and sci-fi vehicle interiors for your ambient needs. Happy listening!

Sigil - Dark Electro-Acoustic Textures

'Sigil - Dark Electro-Acoustic Textures' by Noise Jockey Sound Design has dark, eerie textures made from handmade electro-acoustic instruments and found objects.

Drones & Mood Sound Effects Sigil: Dark Electro-Acoustic Textures Play Track 600+ sounds included $60

Sigil is a unique library of dark, gritty, raw, and eerie textures and tones made from one-of-a-kind handmade electro-acoustic instruments and found objects created by sound designer and musician Nathan Moody.

Sigil provides an edgy set of layers that are rich with organic complexity: Skittery bows on handmade string instruments; “prepared” string tones and textures, bowed and rubbed springs under tension; salvaged rusty metal tubes; perforated steel gongs; aluminum water bottle bells; and deep, resonant handmade percussion instruments. Textures include chugs, shrieks, groans, drones, bounces, peals, and rattles. The sounds range from blissfully musical to horrifyingly atonal, and are equally at home lending an uneasy tone to either avant garde musical works or multi-layered sound effects, especially in thriller or horror genres.

The organic nature of the Sigil library means that its sounds hold up well to extreme processing like pitch shifting and granular resynthesis. The handmade nature of the instruments used means that there’s no other library quite like it.

The recordings were made with a variety of pickups, contact microphones, and traditional microphones, through various high-end “character” mic preamps selected uniquely per microphone and per instrument. Full details are in the library’s documentation.

This collection was recorded at 24 bits, 96 kHz and includes over three hours of recordings with more than 600 individual sounds, all fully tagged with metadata. Multiple articulations and voicing are ganged into single files for convenience and organization.

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Wind In Broadleaf Trees

'Wind In Broadleaf Trees' by Lydtopi is a collection of recordings of wind flowing through Swedish forests in October. It captures soothing and relaxing soft winds, tense moderate winds, dramatic strong winds, and transitions.

Weather Sound Effects Wind In Broadleaf Trees Play Track 42 sounds included, 66 mins total $20

Wind In Broadleaf Trees is a collection of recordings focusing on wind through broadleaf trees. Recorded in a Swedish forest in October it is representative of the most common broadleaf trees in Europe and other areas with a temperate climate.

In this collection I wanted to capture evocative and emotional wind sounds, from the soothing and relaxing soft winds, tense moderate winds, dramatic strong winds and the transitions between the different emotions or speeds of wind.

The collection was recorded at 24 bits 96Khz with an A-B stereo setup. It contains both longer files, with two minutes and more in length and shorter files edited to be a seamless loop. The files also come with embedded metadata.

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Bowed Cactus

'Bowed Cactus' by Thomas Rex Beverly is a visceral collection of bowed and plucked cacti from the deserts of the American Southwest, featuring guttural screeches with intense, physical energy.

Creature Sound Effects Bowed Cactus Play Track 553+ sounds included, 60 mins total $110

•In Bowed Cactus, get a visceral collection of bowed and plucked cactus from the deserts of the American Southwest. Take a violin bow to a cactus spine and hear guttural screeches with intense, physical energy. Hear plucked needles popping in rich organic granulation. Hear thick, bowed spines growling like supernatural animals and single needles stuttering with real grit.
•This library offers you an extensive collection of sounds from a unique organic sound source. Cactus sounds are incredibly soft and intimate in real life, but when recorded from two inches they morph into otherworldly creatures brimming with ultrasonic energy. I hope you are excited by their sound designing potential and I can’t wait to hear what you create!

2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased to offset my field recording travel for this library.

KEY FEATURES:
•Animalistic vocalizations
•Visceral scraping
•Wild screaming harmonics
•Rich ultrasonic energy up to 50kHz
•Guttural mid-range and bass stuttering
•Intricate granular textures of plucked needles
•Multiple similar sounds are grouped into single audio files with s fade ins/outs between each sound.
•Please note: the “Pitch Shifted Demo” was made to demonstrate the potential of the sounds in this library. However, Bowed Cactus does NOT include pitch shifted sounds, only mastered field recordings.

TEXT MARKERS:
•Named markers are included in each file to help find interesting events in files with multiple variations.
•Markers are included in the Soundminer and BWAV description fields starting with the prefix “Marker Text”.

FILE LIST & METADATA:
•View larger version or Download CSV
• A spectrogram is included for each audio file. Double click on the photo in the file list to enlarge.

BLOG POST:
•Read behind the scenes stories from this field recording trip in my blog post: Supernatural Cactus Creatures.

MORE INFO:
• Read 40+ user reviews for Thomas Rex Beverly Audio
• Read my Field Recording Mastering Rules and learn more about how these recordings were mastered.
• Browse the Library Info Master List to compare specs on all my libraries.
• Browse the Metadata Master List to search my entire catalog.
• MD5 and SHA 256 Checksums are included for each zip file in my catalog. Use these hashes to check the integrity of your downloaded files.

GEAR USED:
•Sennheiser MKH 50 and 30 in Mid/Side
•Sennheiser MKH 8040 Matched Pair in ORTF
•Sound Devices 702
•Rycote MS Blimp
•Rycote ORTF Blimp

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Fiat 500 (1971)

'Fiat 500 (1971)' by On The Fly Audio covers a wide range of sounds produced by this colorful car, getting you extensive driving sounds, Foley of doors and windows, horn blasts, engine loops, and more.

Car Sound Effects Fiat 500 (1971) Play Track 281+ sounds included $70
This sound collection covers a wide range of sounds produced by this colorful characteristic car. Not only extensive driving sounds but also foley (doors, windows, body tapping, …), horn blasts and engine loops. All in high quality 96/24 BWAV-files, recorded with high end equipment.

The recordings are multitrack. For the onboard recordings you’ll find synchronized recordings of engine, exhaust, cabin. For the roadside recordings you’ll find an ortf stereo pair (on a stand) and a long shotgun mic (handheld, tracking movement)
Equipment:
Recorder

Sound Devices Mixpre 6

Onboard Mics

Engine hood: DPA Core 4061

Exhaust: DPA Core 4062

Cabin: DPA Core 4060smk

Exterior Mics

Roadside (on stand): Sennheiser MKH8040smk with Rycote blimp

Roadside (handheld, tracking movement): Sennheiser MKH8070 with Rycote blimp
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Public Pools

'Public Pools' by Edible Audio was recorded at 10 different public swimming pools to get you a number of empty pool room tones, busy ambiences at childrens' pools, and calm exteriors from lap pools.

Environments & Ambiences Public Pools Play Track 62 sounds included, 155 mins total From: $50

Whether is be empty pool room tones, busy children pools or calm exterior lap pools this library has you covered. Recorded at 10 different public swimming pools this library contains different spaces (interior and exterior) differentiated by the size, space and number of swimmers.

All sounds were recorded using the DPA 5100 and Sound Devices 788T. This library is available in stereo or 5.0 (5.0 package contains stereo down mixes as well).

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Static Space

'Static Space' by hzandbits is a collection of 155 space and sci-fi sound effects that are focused on continuous, seamless loops with sounds of spaceships cruising and idling, tones from engine rooms, strange transmissions, and more.

Sci-Fi Sound Effects Static Space Play Track 155 sounds included $29

Static Space is a collection of 155 UCS-compliant space or Sci-Fi sound effects, focused on continuous, seamless loops. Instead of fly-by’s and accelerations, you get the sounds of space ships going at cruise speeds or idling. If you need motion, just add panning, fades and doppler as you like.

Here are plenty of loops for designing alien environments, including engine rooms, general room tones, strange transmissions and more. Additionally, I have made sure to add plenty of variety; both in terms of moods, frequency content and tonality. Some of these are unmistakably space sound effects, while others are more ambiguous, and could be used for other high tech environments as well.

You will find both low- and high end sweeteners, so when ever you see the words “rumble” or “low end” in a file name; watch that master fader! Furthermore, I went for a strong, almost musical tone, in some sounds, while others are much more noise-based and abrasive.

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Traffic

'Traffic' by Edible Audio features various recordings of traffic ranging from rural highways, inner city and residential areas, wet traffic, and more, from different times of the day.

Traffic Sound Effects Traffic Play Track 84 sounds included, 210 mins total From: $50

This library features various recordings of traffic ranging from rural highways, inner city, residential, city CBD and wet traffic. Metadata includes information such as time of day, location and how busy the roads are. All sounds were recorded using the DPA 5100 and Sound Devices 788T this library is delivered to you in 24bit / 96khz and is available in stereo or 5.0 (5.0 version includes stereo files as well).

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City Life Sound Effects City & Suburbs Ambiences Play Track 135+ sounds included, 340 mins total $22

City ambiences, downtown ambiences, suburbs, residential area, harbor, industrial area.. traffic, people in background, urban birds, nocturnal-quiet ambiences etc.

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High quality recordings recorded in MS, XY, AB; NOS, etc., mostly with Sennheiser MKH microphones and Sound Devices recorder/mixer. Files are without any dynamic manipulation (compression) with max. peak around -5dBFS.

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Whoosh Sound Effects Swish and Flick – High Quality Whooshes Play Track 1992 sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$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 1992 sounds across 138 .wav files (20 Designed, 118 Source) 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 an MKH 8040 XY pair (among others), and meticulously cleaned up in iZotope RX while persevering optimal signal to noise and frequency content.
Detailed UCS meta data is embedded.
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Animal Sound Effects Animal Hyperrealism Vol III Play Track 1711 sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
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Animal Hyperrealism Vol III is a library containing sounds themed animal vocalisations, from real to designed creatures totaling more than 1700 individual sounds in 279 files.

The sounds were recorded in zoos and wildlife centers. The asset list includes but is not limited to: european red deers, monkeys, reindeers, hornbills camels, crickets, tamarins, boars, frogs, red ruffed lemurs, parrots, and many more.

The content has been recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K plus a Sennheiser 8050 for center image and a couple of Sennheiser MKH8040 for stereo image.
Part of the cheats section of the library features samples recorded at 384KHz. For these sounds an additional microphone was employed, specifically the CMPA by Avisoft-Bioacoustics which records up to 200 KHz. This microphone was used to record most of the library but the 384KHz format was preserved only where energy was found beyond 96KHz not to occupy unnecessary disk space.
All files are delivered as stereo bounce of these for mics, though in some instances an additional couple of CO100K was added to the sides.
The resulting ultrasonic spectrum is rich and allows for truly extreme manipulation of the content.

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