Posted July 3, 2016 by Asbjoern Andersen in A Sound Effect, New sound effects libraries

This week we have a plethora of crowd ambiences in both the Ambisonic and surround formats, along with mechanical sounds you won’t find elsewhere. You can hear crowds cheering and booing at sports games, quietly eating and conversing in restaurants, enjoying a quiet, trafficless European city, and playing with their children in city parks. You can also find the sounds of abused hard drives pushed to their mechanical limits, wind turbines, rain and thunder – as well as hospital equipment rolling through hallways for interesting, rarely heard ambiences and foley. Whether you’re looking for something specific or something different, we’ve got a library for you!

Large Crowd Reactions

Sports Sound Effects Large Crowd Reactions Play Track 81+ sounds included, 53 mins total $75

Sometimes emotion comes when you feel together as one. This is happening in stadiums, arenas, demonstrations when people are as one voice. This collection gets you the power of the crowd. People will go through various feelings, sometimes silent or very noisy, you will be able to cover a lot of situations with it. Moreover ambisonic format-B 3D recordings are great to enhance those kind of situations.

About Ambisonics:
This is an Ambisonics sound effects library - and by using the free SoundField SurroundZone 2 plugin you can convert the B-format files into your preferred format (stereo, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0 or 7.1 surround). Note: The library also contains ready-made stereo mixdowns for your convenience.

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Unless you're Peter Jackson with a Lord of the Rings budget, recordists are at the mercy of how the games unfold when capturing crowd reactions. But the gods must have been smiling down upon Gaël Nicolas at Spheric Collection when he captured an hour of clear responses from the masses for his library 'Large Crowd Reactions'. This library contains group emotions of every sort with loud applause, boos, cheers, whistles, building 'oohs', disappointed 'awws', laughs, stomps, and more, all in the ambisonic format so you can make your audience feel they are truly in the center of the crowd. It also has calm ambiences of people chattering, finding their seats, and waiting in the stands which make great beds and transitions. For the power of thousands of voices acting as one, give this library a listen.

Annihilated Hard Drives

Mechanical Sound Effects Annihilated Hard Drives Play Track 200+ sounds included, 200 mins total $45

This Hard Drive SFX library delivers the sounds of severely mistreated hard drives. We hit hard drives with hammers, drilled holes in them, bent them and inserted objects into them before turning them on. Power ups, shut downs, grinding, screeching, whines, and rattling are just a few of the sounds you’ll find here. Great source material for sound design and heavy processing.

Annihilated Hard Drives – Microphones Used:
• 1x Neumann KM130 (cardioid)
• 1x Sennheiser MKH50 (cardioid)
• 2x Barcus Berry contact microphone

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'Annihilated Hard Drives' by Norsonant has the malfunctioning sounds of mistreated hard drives. These storage devices were hit with hammers, intruded with foreign objects, drilled, bent, and just plain abused to create the distinct sounds of RPM gone haywire. The hard drives whirl, whine, screech, grind and rattle as they start up, power down and spin, creating sounds of labored friction. Using pitch shifting, spectral editing, sample-based synthesis, or whatever tools of manipulation you have, you're sure to find or design a sound like no other!

Surround in the Park 5.1 + Stereo

Nature & Countryside Ambiences Surround In the Park 5.1 + Stereo Play Track 25 sounds included, 130 mins total $69

Get a large selection of ambiences recorded in parks, residential areas, playgrounds and other urban areas with this SFX library. 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 – in the middle of a park or residential area, to create the widest possible sound. A stereo version of each cue is included as well as embedded metadata. Most tracks are 2-3 minutes.

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'Surround in the Park 5.1 + Stereo’ by 2496 Sound Effects has over two hours of peaceful park ambiences. These sounds include quiet breezy parks interrupted only by crows, distant voices in a golf course, children playing in a playground, softball games, tennis games, and distant trains, traffic and construction. Most recordings take place in the center of the parks to capture the widest and most complex sound field, plus stereo versions of the sounds are included with the surround files. If you are looking for the happy tune of humans enjoying the urban outdoors, check out this library.

Wheels

Foley Sound Effects Wheels Play Track 250+ sounds included, 67 mins total $49.99

This library is all about wheels – and lots of them! Includes recordings of a selection of objects with wheels such as carts, transport stretchers, gurneys, rolling stands, shelves, IV stands, wooden tables, wheelchairs – and all the button clicks, slides, latches, and electronics that come with them.

All sounds were recorded in Mid/Side technique with mid on the left channel and side on the right. Recorded with Project Studio C4 mics, Sennheiser 416 Mics, Ambient Emesser, on a Fostex FR2 2 track recorder and mastered in Pro Tools.

The left side of the RAW files can be used as a MONO center effect and the encoded files as a stereo effect which has the width of an XY configuration and can be panned center for a mono compatible mix.

rMS = Raw Mid/side
MS = Decoded Mid/Side

Recorded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Steven Ejbick and Ryan Macneill of Textures Sound

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'Wheels' by Textures Sound is a library dedicated to one of humankind’s greatest inventions. This library features many sounds of wheels attached to carts, stretchers, gurneys, IV stands, wooden tables, wheelchairs and more rolling down hospital hallways. It also has sounds of the buttons, slides, and latches attached to these transportation devices as well as recordings of various load sizes, speeds and lengths of movement. But this library not only for hospital scenes and equipment, it can also inspire the sounds of Steampunk machines, creepy ambiences, and whatever else your imagination conjures up!

Crowds at a restaurant

City Life Sound Effects Crowds at the restaurant Play Track 25 sounds included, 57 mins total $75

Restaurants are some of the most popular film sets. They are all different and it’s impossible to be exhaustive. So, what have we got here? A large French restaurant, an American Diner, a bar, staff canteen and next-table conversation. The Ambisonic recordings will help you to adjust your sound to your picture so you can bring some life to your silent restaurant.

About Ambisonics:
This is an Ambisonics sound effects library - and by using the free SoundField SurroundZone 2 plugin you can convert the B-format files into your preferred format (stereo, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0 or 7.1 surround). Note: The library also contains ready-made stereo mixdowns for your convenience.

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If you design sound for film, especially romantic comedies, then you understand the frequent need for restaurant ambiences. These scenes are often peppered with a range of sounds from light conversation and the pattering of dishes to heavy crowds and busy waitstaff. If you're on a tight deadline and you need these sounds now, then check out 'Crowds at a restaurant' by Spheric Collection. This library features bakeries, diners, cafeterias, bars, halls, self-serve eateries, canteens and more, all in the immersive ambisonics format. It also features both French and English-speaking crowds from Paris and New York. For an hour of content that will live in your Pro Tools sessions, listen to this collection.

Wind Turbines

Mechanical Sound Effects Wind Turbine Play Track 28+ sounds included, 25 mins total $30

Get the recordings of a three-bladed wind turbine, captured from five different positions. The collection includes the full-length recordings from each position as well as shorter, edited files. The full-length recordings are tagged with “RAW” at the end of the file name. The shorter, edited files are tagged like this: “high intensity”, “low intensity”, “low to high intensity” and so on.

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Get the humming, rotating sounds of a a 3-bladed Wind Turbine with this SFX library from Norsonant. It's been recorded a five different positions, and features the wind turbine sounds at varying intensities. At total of 25 mins of spinning sounds are included.

Rain and Thunder

Weather Sound Effects Rain and Thunder Play Track 73 sounds included, 39 mins total $30

Do you want to add some tension with thunder sound effects? Are you looking for immersive rain? Do you need perfect loops of rain in your game?

'Rain and Thunder' is a collection of high-quality sounds recorded over a timespan of several years at different locations with a Mid-Side and XY rig. This sound pack contains variations of rain: soft, hard, under metal, under plastic, on top of plastic, and with and without thunder rumble.

This pack is guaranteed to immerse the listener with the pattering drips of water and the roaring thunder!

All sounds included are tagged with metadata (keywords and description) for use in Soundminer/Basehead, etc.

Rain and Thunder includes:
• Rain Hard Loop (12 sounds)
• Rain Hard and Stream Loop (2 sounds)
• Rain Pouring Loop (1 sound)
• Rain Pouring and Thunder Rumble Loop (1 sound)
• Rain Soft Loop (11 sounds)
• Rain Soft and Bird Loop (1 sound)
• Rain Soft and Stream and Bird Loop. (1 sound)
• Rain Soft and Thunder Really Long Loop (2 sounds)
• Rain and Distant Thunder Loop (5 sounds)
• Rain and Distant Thunder Rumble Loop (11 sounds)
• Rain and Stream Loop (5 sounds)
• Rain from Inside Loop (2 sounds)
• Rain on Plastic Inside Loop (1 sound)
• Rain on Plastic Outside Loop (1 sound)
• Rain on Rocks Loop (1 sound)
• Rain on Water and Bird Loop (1 sound)
• Rain under Metal Loop (4 sounds)
• Rain under Metal and Thunder Rumble Loop (6 sounds)
• Rain under Umbrella Loop (1 sound)
• Rain, Distant Thunder Rumble and Bird Loop (1 sound)
• Rain, Distant Thunder and Bird Loop (1 sound)
• Thunder and Bird Loop (1 sound)

Gears & Specs
• Every file included is tagged with metadata keywords and a description for use in Soundminer, Basehead, etc.
• Recorded with a Oktava MK-012 in Mid Side configuration and Zoom H6 XY.

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Need the sounds of rain and thunder? That's what you get with the Rain and Thunder SFX release from Double Trouble Audio, including soft, hard and pouring rain, indoor and outdoor rain loops, rain-on-umbrella recordings, thunder and more.

City Plaza 1

Environments & Ambiences City Plaza 1 Play Track 17+ sounds included $75

People in the street without any traffic, that’s what this collection delivers – featuring city life, with restaurants and pedestrian commercial streets. Most of those sounds have been recorded in Venice, which is one of the largest pedestrian zone in the world.

About Ambisonics:
This is an Ambisonics sound effects library - and by using the free SoundField SurroundZone 2 plugin you can convert the B-format files into your preferred format (stereo, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0 or 7.1 surround). Note: The library also contains ready-made stereo mixdowns for your convenience.

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If you've ever recorded crowd ambiences, 'City Plaza 1' seems like an anomaly with its traffic-less crowd ambiences. How is it possible? Urban crowds and traffic go hand-in-hand. However, Gaël Nicolas over at Spheric Collection was able to capture crowds in several environments, both indoors and outdoors, untouched by the intrusive booms and honks of city traffic. These crowds enjoy Bruges from its pedestrian streets, city plazas, nearby islands, narrow alleys, stairways, and more. And as an Ambisonic library, this collection can fit your project—whether it be binaural, surround or stereo — using the free SoundField SurroundZone 2 plugin.

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Quantum State is a collection of 30 soundscapes (WAV files, 24 Bit / 96 kHz) aimed to be used in movies, games and documentary films. It was created to evoke the atmosphere of a Quantum World.

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Water & Ocean Sounds Black Sea Play Track 30 sounds included, 30 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
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Discover everything from the peaceful sound of waves gently streaming through slippery rocks, from inside a hollow, beached buoy, and on the beach, directly facing the sea, to the full force of mother nature, being recorded from twenty feet above, as massive waves crash onto a cliff face, salty water permeating the air

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This library is useful for, but not limited to: Feature Films, TV Series, Short Films, YouTube Videos, Games, Meditation, and more!

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Costa Del Sol – Crickets And Dogs contains well edited and well recorded sounds for your projects! Recorded on a Sound Devices MixPre6II and a matched pair of lom BasicUchos. One file is recorded with a Sanken CO100K. Recorded at 192/24.

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Bundles Dopplers Bundle Play Track 277 sounds included $40

The Dopplers Bundle comprises all three of our Doppler libraries – over 250 stereo field pass-bys featuring a huge variety of speeds, pitches and timbres.

Doppler effects are a form of acoustic illusion, caused by the changing frequency of a source’s sound wave as it moves away from or towards an observer. Due to the Doppler effect’s realistic imitation of physical movement, you can incorporate these Dopplers into your work to enhance the dimensionality and verisimilitude of space objects.

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The Historical Weapons Bundle is the go-to collection for swordfight and cold weapon combat sounds. Comprising the Historical Weapons Vol. 1 and 2, and Medieval Armour libraries, this bundle offers an extensive range of weapons and armour. Spears, shields, wooden poles, a warhammer, battle axe, steel helm, chainmail and sundry period swords are featured in a huge variety of solo or duel-based actions, sequences impacts.

All sounds were captured with all our multi-mic set-up (made up of the Sennheiser MKH50, Røde NTG-3 and Line Audio CM4) to provide multiple perspectives and sonic flavours.

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Foley Sound Effects Old Drawers Play Track 151 sounds included $12.99

Old Drawers is a collection of 151 carefully recorded and mastered drawer sound effects.
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LOCATION: Spain, Costa Blanca. Traditional Spanish hacienda before renovation.
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Sennheiser MKH 8060
EDITED AND MASTERED WITH: Pro Tools, iZotope RX (mildly).

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Bundles Punches, Kicks & Swooshes Bundle Play Track 116 sounds included $62.88

Punches, Kicks & Swooshes Bundle combines our ‘Vintage Fight Vol. 1’, ‘Cinematic Fight Vol. 1’, and ‘Realistic Fight Vol. 1’ libraries. Including over 115 sounds performed and designed to create or enhance your film, TV or game fight sequences.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects CIRCUS Horror Strings Play Track 180 sounds included $7.80

Strident and Demonic

Expand the timbre of your horror violins and cellos with CIRCUS, a sinister sample pack featuring 180 WAV sounds of screeching or high-pitched string noises, perfect for horror music and dark sound design.

Creative Tension

This collection offers a curated selection of screeches, high-tension tremolo, heavy jeté strokes, dark demonic textures, finger patterns, chaotic string elements, clock loops and bow accents.

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Mechanical Sound Effects City Bicycles – Extra surfaces Play Track 162 sounds included $30

This is a unique bicycle library that captures road surfaces from the perspective of super quiet bicycle. These are 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 Extra Surfaces library provides 162 sounds captured on the following road types Large Bricks, Gravel, Grit, Icy Asphalt.

The four additional ‘onboard road’ surfaces are the perfect extension for your other ‘City Bicycle’ library of taste. Just add it as a layer, mix it and voila your bicycle can move from gravel to bricks to grit or from large bricks to slippery icy asphalt roads.

Speeds and actions:

Three speeds. Departures from slow, medium to fast getaways. Arrivals from slow stops with gently brakes to smooth departures.

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.

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Bicycle Sound Effects City Bicycles – GoodBike Play Track 63 sounds included $30

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 GoodBike is a smooth sounding retro bike that doesn’t rattle or squeak, it has a really nice tire sound for a subtle presence in the mix.

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:

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.

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