New Sound Effects: Crowds, Paper, Metal And Glass

Posted March 27, 2016 by Asbjoern Andersen in New sound effects libraries

After a brief hiatus, it’s time to take a listen to some of the new SFX libraries here on A Sound Effect. And from the crashes and hits of metal and glass to the ambiences of busy crowds and European cafés, to the ripping and crumpling of paper, there are lots of excellent sounds to check out:

Sounds of Europe 1 - Busy Places

City Life Sound Effects Sounds of Europe 1 – Busy Places Play Track 33+ sounds included, 105 mins total $28

European Ambient sounds made with Film/TV Sound Editors and mixers in mind – so they won’t just sit on your hard drive gathering virtual ‘dust’, but ones you’ll use often!

Busy, crowded places in London, Prague, Venice, Vienna and Annecy (France.)

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'Sounds of Europe 1 - Busy Places' by Resonant was created with TV and film in mind. It contains the sounds you need most often when designing for a European background with ambiences from cafes, train stations, churches, pubs and other public areas. Each track has been cleaned to remove unwanted sounds; however, a few tracks have kept perceptible words from various European languages in Venice, London, Prague, Vienna and Annecy. For a great assortment of European flavor, give this library a listen.

Paper

Foley Sound Effects Paper Play Track 400+ sounds included, 15 mins total $20

If you're after paper sound effects, this pack delivers more than 15 minutes of nothing but paper recordings. It covers various textures of paper, includes a wide range of sounds of a magazine, newspaper, old book, page turnover, paper drops, crumples, and tearing. The paper SFX library is recorded in 192kHz / 24-bit, recorded with a Sound Devices 633 with 2x KM185 XY microphones.

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Featuring sounds from books, newspapers, magazines and standard A4 stock, 'Paper' by Principle Sound Design has all the rips, page turns, crumples and tears you need. These 192 kHz recordings allow for maximum flexibility, whether you plan to pitch bend them into the deep mating calls of an underwater monster or create succinct UI sounds for desktop applications. With over 400 sounds, there are plenty to choose from.

Surround in a Crowd 5.1

Environments & Ambiences Surround In a Crowd 5.1 Play Track 25 sounds included, 120 mins total $69

Surround In A Crowd 5.1 features 25 5.1 Surround Sound Effects with a large selection of Interior and Exterior crowds.

Includes interior and exterior recordings from places such as a café, restaurant, park, playground, theatre, museum, courtyard, lobby, classroom, library, subway, shopping mall and more.

Recorded with discrete Quad microphones and mastered in 5.1 surround (L-C-R-Ls-Rr-Lf Embeded .WAV format). Recording locations are all from center perspective, captured in the center of a room or crowded space. A stereo version of each cue is included as well as embedded metadata. Most recordings are 2-3 minutes in length.

Want a taste of what's included? Download the 5.1 Surround Demo file for free here.

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'Surround in a Crowd 5.1' by 2496 Sound Effects contains 120 minutes of crowd ambiences from various indoor and outdoor hang-out spots. It includes busy shopping malls, children in playgrounds and parks, crowded lobbies, quiet libraries and museums, intimate restaurants and subways, and more. Each recording takes place in the center of the crowd for a perspective that allows the most immersive 5.1 and surround sound experience.

Elements: Metal

Metal Sound Effects Elements: Metal Play Track 1755+ sounds included $33

A massive collection of metal hits, drops, crashes, drags, and scrapes. It includes iron, steel, and metal. There is a mix of massive impacts and falls, as well as subtle debris moves and drags.

The takes are captured with a variety of perspectives. Most takes include close (mono), medium distant (stereo), and distant (stereo).

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Airborne Sound is the collector of all things audible. This time they’ve focused on the hits, drops, crashes, drags and scrapes of metal in their new library 'Elements: Metal'. Featuring iron and steel on concrete, dirt and checker plates, this library contains various proximities with close mono sounds and medium-distant and distant stereo sounds. With a massive collection of 1,755 files, you are sure to find the perfect match for your scene in this library.

Elements: Glass

Destruction & Impact Sounds Elements: Glass Play Track 516+ sounds included $24

The Elements: Glass sound library features a broad selection glass shattering, falling, bursting, and crashing. It includes glass debris, crushing shards, and trickling fragments.

The takes are captured with a variety of perspectives. Most takes include close (mono), medium distant (stereo), and distant (stereo).

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Along a similar collective theme, Airborne Sound has focused on glass sounds, too. For 'Elements: Glass', Airborne Sound shattered every brittle object they could find. Pint glasses, platters, mugs, debris, and wine glasses were destroyed upon cinder blocks, concrete, wood, mallets and other glasses. With three different proximities, this library will likely contain the shattering, bursting or crashing glass you are looking for.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Seismic Core – Sonic Enhancers Play Track 548 sounds included, 45 mins total $44
Seismic Core is a modern sound effects library crafted to give your sound design its defining foundation. Every element in this collection is built for layering. Designed not to dominate, but to enhance, shape, and energize your creations. Whether you’re working on cinematic hits, trailers, motion design, game audio, or abstract sonic branding, Seismic Core delivers the essential low-end weight, transient snap, and textured grit that bring your designs to life.

These sounds are meticulously processed and polished, yet intentionally left with enough space to sit perfectly under your own layers. They’re bold enough to add instant character, but subtle enough to leave room for further creativity. This makes Seismic Core not just a toolkit, but a true starting point for powerful, flexible, and unique sound design.

This collection of Building Blocks contains following categories:
- IMPACT *
- BREAK *
- WHOOSH *
- SUSTAIN *
- TRANSIENT (high and low)
* Also including HEAVY & SUB variants

Build with it. Layer on top of it. Drop the anchor. Feel the quake. Design from the core.
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Mechanical Sound Effects Jason Cushing’s TOYED Play Track 5000+ sounds included $49

100+ Toys, 1500+ Designed Sounds – From Childhood Playthings to Cinematic Gold. TOYED has it all.

Think You Don’t Need a Library of Toys? Think Again.

This release might just change your mind—and blow your mind at the same time! TOYED is an exclusive sound library from the Founder of SoundMorph, Jason Cushing. With a 25-year career spanning AAA games, anime, cartoons, and film, Jason has designed for Electronic Arts, BioWare, and Epic Games, contributing to titles like the Mass Effect Trilogy, Skate Trilogy, and Unreal Engine’s weapon sound design. His deep expertise in cinematic sound design, UI creation, ambient textures, and weapons makes TOYED a versatile, high-end collection of professionally crafted sounds.
Jason’s meticulous approach to field recording and sound selection ensures that this library isn’t just about capturing toy sounds—it’s about unlocking rich, unique sonic textures that are ideal for games, film, animation, and futuristic sound design. With contributions from longtime SoundMorph sound designers Andrew Pals, Tibo Csuko, and Vincent Fliniaux (GORE 2, WATER, Robotic Lifeforms 2), TOYED is built to deliver exceptional quality and usability across multiple production styles.

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Metamorphosis Play Track 2328 sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$152

Metamorphosis is a huge collection of recorded source, synthesized material and hybrid sounds. The library was created to cover a wide range of themes, with rich textures, aggressive impacts and a large selection of pass bys, bass drops, pyrotechnics and many more types of material.

All of the Recorded Section was captured at 384KHz with microphones capable of recording up to 200KHz among with more conventional mics. The resulting assets are sounds that can be stretched to new extremes for greater sound design opportunities.
In many cases I took the liberty to slow down the assets while editing the sounds to deliver what I thought was the most useful version of a given recording though in most cases I have also included other takes at the original 384KHz sample rate to get the best of both worlds.

All of the Synthesized Content was created in Serum while the Hybrid Section was created by manipulating the Recorded and Synthesized sounds.

Techniques such as morphing were used to blur the lines in between the nature of the two sources, making for ambiguous yet extremely versatile material that can be employed on both realistic and abstract designs.

Bonus: Two extra libraries included for free: This library also includes two additional releases from Mattia Cellotto - for free: Crunch Mode delivers 230 crunchy sounds made with a variety of vegetables, fresh bread, pizza crust and a selection of frozen goods. The Borax Experiment gets you 158 squishy, gory, slimy and gooey sounds.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Seismic Core – Sonic Enhancers Play Track 548 sounds included, 45 mins total $44
Seismic Core is a modern sound effects library crafted to give your sound design its defining foundation. Every element in this collection is built for layering. Designed not to dominate, but to enhance, shape, and energize your creations. Whether you’re working on cinematic hits, trailers, motion design, game audio, or abstract sonic branding, Seismic Core delivers the essential low-end weight, transient snap, and textured grit that bring your designs to life.

These sounds are meticulously processed and polished, yet intentionally left with enough space to sit perfectly under your own layers. They’re bold enough to add instant character, but subtle enough to leave room for further creativity. This makes Seismic Core not just a toolkit, but a true starting point for powerful, flexible, and unique sound design.

This collection of Building Blocks contains following categories:
- IMPACT *
- BREAK *
- WHOOSH *
- SUSTAIN *
- TRANSIENT (high and low)
* Also including HEAVY & SUB variants

Build with it. Layer on top of it. Drop the anchor. Feel the quake. Design from the core.
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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Spells Variations Vol 2 Play Track 405 sounds included $9.35

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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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Spells Variations Vol 1 Play Track 361 sounds included $8.80

Charge up on magical energy with our Spells Variations Vol 1 sound library! We’ve designed this collection to give you a wide range of magical effects, allowing your project to shine with an extraordinary variety of sounds. With 361 fully categorized and carefully named magic sounds, you’ll have everything you need to create an immersive and magical atmosphere.

Explore categories such as arcane magic, water magic, electric magic, zaps, whooshes, celestial magic, dark magic, summons, and much more. Each effect has been meticulously recorded,edited and distributed at 192 kHz and 24-bit, ensuring exceptional sound quality. Whether you’re a professional sound designer or just looking for magic effects to drag and drop into your projects, you’ll find what you need here.

Our files have been named to reflect the essence of each magic, making it easy to intuitively find the perfect sounds for your creation.

More about the pack
– Intuitive file naming
– All you’ll ever need regarding magical elemental 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
– 361 spell sounds
– Number of Audio Waves: 361
– Format: 192KHz / 24 bits
– Do Sound FX loop yes
– Minutes of audio provided: 12 minutes and 31 seconds

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Car Sound Effects Porsche Panamera 970 2009 grand tourer Play Track 274 sounds included, 61 mins total $65

All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, Line Audio Omni1 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.

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Animal Sound Effects The Animal Symphony – Lemur Play Track 102 sounds included $5.50

With this lemur sound library, you’ll find 18 high-quality audio tracks, each featuring multiple variations. This collection captures the distinctive sounds of these curious animals in great detail.

Easy to Use Structure
All recordings are uniformly labeled to integrate smoothly into your workflow, making it easy to select, combine, or replace takes based on your creative needs. This library includes the typical short calls lemurs produce, such as sharp squeals, brief meows, and rhythmic wails.

Captured at Very Close Range
The sounds were recorded at very close proximity, allowing for exceptional clarity and detail. As with many of our other libraries, we used high-end recording equipment, including:
– Sennheiser MKH 8050
– Sanken CO-100K
– Zoom F6
– Zoom H6

The ultrasonic capabilities of this setup allow for pitch shifting without losing depth or richness, making these sounds ideal for fantasy creature design or realistics purposes.

Professional Standards & Quality
Resolution: Recorded at 24-bit / 192 kHz – 96 kHz, and delivered in the same formats, ensuring outstanding detail and dynamic range.
Editing: All tracks were meticulously cleaned to remove unwanted background noises such as birds, wind, footsteps, or human activity, delivering a clean, professional-grade product.

Ideal Applications
Video games: Add realism and depth to the natural environments of your games.
Cinema and Documentaries: Enrichment of the audiovisual product with authentic sounds.
Educational Applications: Use these sounds in educational projects to teach about wildlife and animal behavior.
Multimedia Projects: Ideal for any project that seeks to enrich the user’s listening experience.

Technical Details
– Total Tracks: 18 (approx. 34 isolated sounds per mic, total of 102 sounds
– Format: 192 kHz – 96 kHz / 24-bit
– Equipment Used: Zoom F6 with Sennheiser MKH 8050 and Sanken CO-100K microphones, plus Zoom H6 for stereo
– Total Duration: 1 minute and 11 seconds

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City Life Sound Effects NSL – 60s TRAINS Play Track 51 sounds included, 100 mins total $15

This Sound-Pack features a diversity of 51 Punctual Sounds, including Train Pass by, Onboard High Speed Rolling, Raw Metal Railway Sounds, Train Doors, and a lot more !

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Human Sound Effects Heart Beat Play Track 41 sounds included $10

The Heart Beat library is a small collection of real heart beat recordings captured using stethoscope. Featuring BPMs from 50 to 120, this library covers a range of emotional states—from calm and resting to tense and elevated.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Thunder Drums Play Track 512 sounds included $39

Thunder Drums is a sound effects library designed to deliver powerful low-frequency impacts, rumbles, and strikes for cinematic sound design. It features non-traditional percussion instruments, including a thunder tube (spring drum), loose drumheads, and large plexiglass sheets, struck with mallets and drumsticks to produce a wide range of impacts, thunder-like rumbles, deep strikes, and heavy drum hits.

In addition to raw recordings, the library includes designed elements enhanced with granular processing, distortion, and impulse response reverbs. Perfect for sound design in film, games, and trailers where powerful hits and low-end energy is needed.

All sounds were captured using a Sennheiser MKH 8050 microphone and Zoom F6 recorder at 32-bit / 192kHz, and are delivered as 24-bit / 192kHz WAV files. The library includes 185 files (512 sounds), is 3.7 GB in size, and is fully UCS-compliant with embedded metadata.

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