If you need the sounds of a fast engine or tires whooshing across the pavement, check out the new car libraries featuring the Audi S6, Volvo P1800S and VW Polo. If you need two wheels instead, we have sounds a beloved bicycle and a Triumph Street Twin. For WWII-era vehicles, we also have a M5 High Speed Tractor and M16 Halftrack.
If you need ambiences instead, we have sounds of various museums and galleries – and if you need sounds that will get a reaction from your listeners, we have powerful squeaks and creaks, Steampunk contraptions, and a bundle of five compelling libraries that range from sword fights to car crashes. Happy listening!
'City Bicycles - UglyBike' by Frick & Traa has sounds from a typical old bicycle that works fine, but needs some TLC. It is a bicycle that's just average, a little rattle, a gentle scrape, a bike that everyone's had but traded in for a newer one. A story of unrequited love.. :)
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This is a unique bicycle library that captures this characteristic bike in clean, quiet, nicely performed true exterior rides. Including multiple perspectives, speeds and actions. From fast passbys on asphalt to slow onboard recordings and smooth stops.
The UglyBike is a typical old bicycle that’s working fine, but needs some TLC. It is a bicycle that’s just average, a little rattle a gentle scrape, a bike that everyone has had but got traded in for a newer one. A story of unrequited love.. :)
Speeds and actions:
Three speeds. Departures from slow, medium to fast getaways. Arrivals from slow stops with gently squeaking handbrakes to heavy stuttering skids.Five perspectives:
1. Onboard Front: captures the whirring tire and surface sound.
2. Onboard Pedal: nice overall combination of pedaling, crank creaks, chain rattle, tire and surface sounds.
3. Onboard Rear: close up sound of the rear axle, with chain, sprocket and switching of gear.
4. Tracking shot: mono recording of the passby, keeping the bike in focus while passing by.
5. Static XY shot: stereo recording of the passby that emphasizes speed.
Overview of perspectives and mic placement:
Onboard recordings are 2-3 minutes long depending on speed. Higher speeds > shorter duration.
All 3 onboard mics are edited in sync with one another to make layering easy.
All Passbys, Arrivals and Departures move from Left to Right.Metadata & Markers:
Because we know how important metadata is for your sound libraries we have created a consistent and intuitive description method that adheres to the Universal Category System. This allows you to find the sound you need easily, whether you work in a database like Soundminer/Basehead/PT Workspace work, or a Exporer/Finder window. We made a video that helps you navigate the library ans find your best bicycle sounds faster and easier.
CategoryFull
A quick way to filter out sounds you don’t need: like handling sounds or vice versa bicycle onboards.UserCategory
Fastest way to find the type of action you need for all bicycles. Passby needed, just click and voila.
OpenTier
Once you’ve selected the bike you can open up OpenTier and audition and select the perspective you want to use.Scene & Performer
This field contains the type of bicycle or other sound. So you can find the bike you like fast.iXMLTrackLayout
This is a neat little identifier you will find in the Waveform displays and you can see in a glance what Listening position you are.
MicPerspective
We have another way to find perspectives but it is more limited to distance to the recorded subject.
So passbys are MED – EXT and handling are CU – EXT. Exterior? Of course: we recorded everything outside!UserComments
We used this field to create the UserData and give you the minimal set of information about the recording in the filename.Additionally, we added Markers to some wave files, so specific sound events are easy to spot in Soundminer and other apps.
If you have any questions about this, please contact us info@frickandtraa.com!
Need more?
The GoodBike library is a part of the ‘City Bicycles – Complete Bundle‘ available here in the A Sound Effect store. It consists of all 4 bicycles and includes additional surfaces and extras ranging from one-off bicycle passes captured in the city and bounces and rattles. If you buy the complete bundle you get 1 package for free!Here’s a handy comparison table:
Responses:344 AUDIO: ‘City Bicycles has a plethora of content, for a great price. The perfect balance between a great concept, great presentation and outstanding execution, lands them an almost perfect score of 4.9..‘
The Audio Spotlight: City Bicycles is worth getting if you are in need of great sounding and well edited bicycle sounds.
Watch a video created by Zdravko Djordjevic.
'Gearbox' by Rock The Speakerbox presents sounds of mechanical contraptions from around the world. Ranging from bizarre creations to steampunk gadgetry, gizmos and machines, GEARBOX clocks in at over 10 GB of precision mastered sounds spanning across 2,987 construction kit sounds and 584 designed sounds.
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Featured Sound Creators Gearbox – Mechanics And Machines Play Track 3551 sounds included, 279 mins total $149We’ve ventured to obscure boutiques, prop houses and vintage shops to capture mechanical contraptions from around the world. Ranging from bizarre creations, to steampunk gadgetry, gizmos and machines, GEARBOX clocks in at over 10 GB of high definition, precision mastered sounds spanning across 2987 construction kit sounds and 584 designed sounds.
GEARBOX equips Sound Designers with a literal toolbox of mechanical gadgetry. Ranging from tiny to huge, GEARBOX‘s machines and gizmos provide coverage for interacts, mechanism, machine or device in your scene or game.
INTRODUCING BUILDING BLOCKS
In addition to CONSTRUCTION KIT and DESIGNED SOUND content, GEARBOX features BUILDING BLOCKS. This category of sound consists of designed phrases and oneshots utilized for our designed machinery, empowering Sound Designers with maximum flexibility when trying to get that particular phrase from an existing DESIGNED SOUND. GEARBOX features over 468 BUILDING BLOCKS ranging from levers, hits, grinds, snaps, and more.
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'Museums & Galleries' by Edible Audio features a wide range of recordings from war museums, history museums, state museums, science museums, art galleries, photography galleries and more, each differentiated by the nuances of their size and space. All recordings feature pristine echos, walla and movement.
'Squeaks & Creaks (MS)' by Matt Script Sound Design gets you everything from deep, wrenching creaks to high piercing squeaks. Here you'll find squeaky faucets, loose stairwell boards, creaking door hinges, squealing door coils, metal scrapes, bending wood and plastic, airy floorboards and more!
'M5 High Speed Tractor' by Pole Position Production includes over 20 GBs of a WWII US military vehicle with a Continental 6572 six-cylinder, 207-hp petrol engine. The performances include starting up, idling, departing, arriving and passing from 6 exterior perspectives at slow, medium and fast speeds. It also includes sounds of the motor, interior, exhaust, tracks and other locations.
'Audi S6 2007' by Pole Position Production features a 2007 European hatchback with slow, medium and fast performances from 19 onboard and exterior perspectives. You'll get approaches, aways, pass-bys, steady RPMs, ramps, gear shifts, idling and more.
'Volvo P1800S 1966' by Pole Position Production gets you hours of recordings of a vintage Swedish sports car with 16 perspectives of performances including departures, passes, and approaches at various speeds. It also has accelerating, ramps, gear shifts, idling and horns, as well as an Altiverb impulse response and an extensive range of performed effects.
'VW Polo 2003' by Pole Position Production features 228 sound effects from 11 perspectives of this 2003 European 5-door hatchback. You'll get onboard recordings of driving at slow, medium and fast speeds as well exterior starting, passing, shutting down, steady RPMs, ramps, gearshifts and idling, plus sounds of the doors, horn and windows.
'M16 Halftrack' by Pole Position Production is a WWII American anti-aircraft, and this sound library showcases 313 sound effects from 12 onboard perspectives of the vehicle in several speeds with steady idles and ramps, as well as 12 exterior perspectives of the halftrack starting, departing, passing, reversing and arriving.
'Triumph Street Twin 2017 900 CC Motorcycle' by Matt Script Sound Design gets you the sounds of this machine that combines classic motorcycle engineering with modern technology for a truly unique sound. In this library you'll get a variety of revving, idling, driving by at 50 mph, approaching, departing, engine breaking, accelerating and more!
'The Vault' by Rock The Speakerbox is comprised of 5 heavy-hitting libraries, including 'GEARBOX', 'SORCERY', 'HERO', 'BROKEN' and 'MELEE', getting you a wide range of sounds to include magical spells, car crashes and explosions, punches and blood splatters, sword fights, and mechanical contraptions - plus it's a great deal for all 5 libraries.
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Bundles The Vault – The Ultimate RTSB Bundle Play Track 29683 sounds included, 2459 mins total $1,159The whole 9 yards.
Comprised of 11 heavy hitting libraries, this bundle includes SEISMIC CORE, OVERKILL, 4 ELEMENTS, COLLISION, INTERACTIVE, SCI FI, GEARBOX, SORCERY, HERO, BROKEN, and MELEE. Save by bundling all ELEVEN in a single library.GEARBOX:
Boutique analog mechanical contraptions, steampunk gadgetry, gizmos and machines big and small.
SORCERY:
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BROKEN
Car crashes, explosions, crumbling buildings, earthquakes, ripping earth and metal, to debris, and more.
HERO:
HERO – Sword fights, stabbing, guillotines, impaling, battle cries, shields, drawbridges, armor, foley and more.
MELEE:
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Spaceships, machines, mechanicals, weapons and more. Technologies exceeding your boldest visions of the future.
INTERACTIVE:
The ultimate Game UI SFX library including clicks, pops, whooshes, musical and tonal elements, and ready to use designs for every UI action and game style.
COLLISION:
The ultimate sound effects library for massive impact sounds. Stingers, crashes, hits, whooshes and fully designed impact effects.
4 ELEMENTS:
Harness the raw power of fire, water, earth, and air with over 3000 elemental sounds crafted for limitless creativity.
OVERKILL:
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SEISMIC CORE:
Unleash raw sonic power with SEISMIC CORE – a meticulously crafted 1.62 GB sound library featuring 548 impact-driven sound effects across 108 files.
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Deep Ice is a unique sound collection capturing the organic power and delicate beauty of ice in motion. Recorded with precision on frozen lakes, this library offers an immersive palette of crystalline cracks, deep impacts, and pure debris.
You will find:
– Under-ice recordings with an Aquarian H2d hydrophone: deep cracks and resonant fractures
– Surface recordings in XY stereo with Schoeps CCM4: sharp impacts, hits, textures, cracks, and debris
These sounds are ideal for films and series sound design, video games, and musicals creations. Each recording has been carefully cleaned and formatted to UCS standards.
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Harbor and Ocean is a smaller micro library featuring a mix of Ocean and Harbor sounds. This features some recordings of Seagulls in a harbor, a large group of Cormorants and sea Pigeons hanging out on old dock pilings, and morning birds in a lake marina. There’s also a few various sounds of ocean waves on different beaches, water laps on rock jetty’s and a lake dock, a barge ship heading out of the harbor, and general industrial harbor ambience.
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