New Sound Effects: Dystopian Drones, Small Fires, Underwater Exploration, Handcuffs - And More!

Posted February 11, 2018 by Adriane Kuzminski in New sound effects libraries

In this new recap, we have 7 new libraries that will give you the detail, professionalism, and immersion that only be conjured by the masters. We have intricate libraries featuring the inner workings of a hybrid vehicle, instructional video sounds taken to a highly entertaining level, mood-setting light sources, Smith & Wesson handcuffs, and the sonic synesthesia of city dwellers. We also have sound libraries that will convince your audience that modern society has ended or that they embarking on an underwater exploration. Enjoy these audio treats!

Small Fires

Fire Sound Effects Small Fires Play Track 46 sounds included, 43 mins mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$40
This library was made for the small stuff. I have always had a hard time finding small fire sounds. I work mostly in games, and trying to find a small fireplace sound, or torches on the wall in a castle, or perhaps a candle or oil lamp sound, are impossible to find in commercial libraries! I've always been unhappy with what I had to make for those elements. So, I went to work getting small and delicate fire sounds.

It took multiple field recording trips using a variety of different materials to find the best small fire sounds. Finally, after a lot of hard work (and smoke to the lungs), here is the Small Fire SFX Library!
- Small fires with a variety of different materials including cloth, cotton, hand sanitizer, a multitude of different woods, Vaseline, and pure alcohol
- 1.22 Gigs, 43+ mins, 46 files
- Stereo & Mono 96Khz, 24bit
- Metadata included for programs like Soundminer
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'Small Fires' is a library born out of necessity. Noticing the lack of fire sounds for very common sources in games - castle torches, candles, oil lamps, fireplaces; you know, the things that give an environment life! - The Sound Keeper decided to make his own collection and share it with us. These small, delicate fire sounds are perfect for the items described above as well as campfires, burning cloth and money, and even the blue blaze of hand sanitizer. As usual, these sounds come in 96kHz and include Soundminer data. For over 40 minutes of flames to enhance your scene, check this one out.

EXPLNR Sounds Vol. 1

Foley Sound Effects EXPLNR Sounds Vol. 1 Play Track 1181+ sounds included $42

Need sound effects for your explainer videos? The EXPLNR sounds series is a collection of sfx libraries designed and produced with the classic 2d animated explainer video in mind. These sounds will give quick and useful coverage to the common moves used in this style.

Vol 1 is an excellent all-around base library that includes whooshes, clicks, pops, swells, ratchets, slides, rips, drags, flicks, crumples, and dings – all custom designed with the playfulness and clean edges required to match the explainer video style.

To help cover repetitive visual movements, multiple iterations of each sound are included. A host of designed sounds will quickly cover more complex movements.

The next time you have an explainer video in the house, you know your starting point.

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'EXPLNR Sounds Vol. 1' by echo | collective is an interesting collection of sounds for animated instruction videos - though you don't need to be working in PowerPoint to find these useful! With 1,181 sounds of pops, clicks, whooshes, rips, crumples, dings, swells, and more, this library will give your video a clean, playful feel no matter how dry your topic is. It also includes sounds for repetitive movements and multiple iterations, making it not only useful for presentations and user interfaces, but even cute little machines, too. Give it a listen!

Cuff 'Em

Foley Sound Effects Cuff ‘Em Play Track 2285+ sounds included, 51 mins total $15

Cuff ‘Em is a collection of all things handcuff. Lock up the villain using the Smith & Wesson 100-1 series nickel plated carbon steel handcuff. Use the key to unlock and unlatch to make your escape. Pick up and drop the cuffs on numerous surfaces. Surfaces include: Wood Table, Resonant Wood Table, Carpet, Carpeted covered Hardwood, Hardwood Floor, Two Metal Tables, Resonant Metal Table, Chaise Lounge, and Leather Drum Stool. Also included is opening and closing of the latches, fidget and jiggle around, spin on different surfaces, and more!

60 files, 51 minutes, with over 2,285 sounds in total! Recordings decoded from MS into stereo using the Sennheiser MKH8050, MKH30 microphones into a Sound Devices Mix Pre-6 Recorder.

All files are metadata tagged and updated using the Universal Category System in Soundminer, Basehead, and Soundly.

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Does your project take place in the Wild West or at a police station in Brooklyn? Then 'Cuff 'Em' by All You Can Eat Audio may help you out with your next scene. This library gets you 2,285 sounds of this intricately-designed securing device. Featuring a nickel-plated carbon steel set of handcuffs by Smith & Wesson, you get sounds of the cuffs latching and unlatching, clinking together and jingling, as well as being twirled, picked up, and dropped on various surfaces like wood, carpet, metal, and different types of furniture. If your project has a bit of law and justice, this is an easy buy!

Urban & Suburban

City Life Sound Effects Urban & Suburban Play Track 140+ sounds included $135

If you're after city ambiences, URBAN & SUBURBAN provides a solid foundation for any sound designer to create a believable acoustic backdrop right out of the gate with common ambiences in varying intensities, daytimes and configurations. Easily accessible public places are captured in excellent quality, yet enough balance and distance to support the scene in the background and embed more prominent sounds into the mix.

COMMON VS UNUSUAL
While URBAN & SUBURBAN provides all the necessary basics, it also goes the extra mile by providing more isolated environments as well as recordings of special events that will come in handy when a change of scenery or dramaturgy is required. Various forms of traffic, groups of people, buildings, animals, wind and many more sound sources that make an appearance in this library ensure that you are able to craft an experience complete with the necessary components.

INCLUDED SOUNDS – KEYWORDS:
Urban, Suburban, Area, Mowers, Sprinklers, Traffic, Babble, People, Cars, Trucks, Horns, Sirens, Light Traffic, Traffic Echoes, Train Horns, Traffic Roars, Electricity Crackles, Emergency Vehicle Sirens, Car Passes, Cobblestones, Celebratory Car Horns, Car Horns And Shouts, Shuttle Bus, Luggage Wheels, Footsteps, Airport Interior Ambiences, Security Announcements, Chair Movements, Food Circus, Tsa Security Checkpoints, Train Station Entrances, Toll Stations, Coin Tosses, Underground, Rumbling, Arrival, Departure, Backgrounds, Trains, Park Morning, Park Day, Sidewalk, Cathedral Bells, Crowded Indoor Spaces

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'Urban & Suburban' by BOOM Library gives you professional backgrounds for your city scenes. These sounds aren't just quick guerilla recordings during a vacation, they insightfully capture the details of city life with a focused ear. With honking traffic, cooing pigeons, lonely crickets, busy subway stations, echoing intercoms, commuting pedestrians, and more, you get over 140 recordings that instantly put you in the heart of the city. You also get daytime and nighttime recordings and multiple intensities, and nearly all the recordings loop, too. If you need reliable city sounds that you can revisit time and time again, this one's got 'em.

The Underwater Bundle

Water & Ocean Sounds LT Underwater Bundle 1 Play Track 1057+ sounds included, 290 mins total $116

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Get ready for your next project with this unique combo! Grab SPACE DIVERS together with DIVE DEEP – 1057+ sounds in total – at a very special price:

DIVE DEEP – a pack of more than 50 underwater ambiences, divided into categories like “Water Flow”, “Bubbles”, “Distant” and more.

SPACE DIVERS – a unique sound design project that takes you from deep sea dives to space walks, with resonant impacts, movement, breathing, machinery and much more.

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'The Underwater Bundle' by Lukáš Tvrdoň is a bundle of his two beloved and well-crafted libraries 'Dive Deep' and 'Space Divers'. This collection (which basically gives you 'Dive Deep' for free!) has immersive bubbles, resonant impacts, true-to-life protective suit experiences, and sonorous soundscapes. Altogether you get nearly 5 hours of sounds that will make your audience instinctually hold their breath. If you are looking into either one of these libraries, this bundle should be a delight!

Electric Vehicles vol. 1: Renault Fluence

Car Sound Effects Electric Vehicles vol. 1: Renault Fluence Play Track 111 sounds included, 123 mins total $50

Looking for electric car sounds? This library delivers 111 files / 123 minutes of 96k recordings in mono and stereo of the Renault Fluence Dynamique electric vehicle.

The Reanult Fluence was one of the first medium sized electric vehicles in Europe, originally produced in 2012. The car is based on the Renault Megane conventional vehicle.

In these recordings, we have recorded the engine with contact mics, capturing the raw sound of the otherwise very quiet electric engine.

We also have a lot of tire sounds on different surfaces, gravel, asphalt and rumble strips on the highway, as well as passby sounds.

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'Electric Vehicles vol. 1: Renault Fluence' by Morten Green Sound FX is a collection with over 2 hours of recordings from this French automaker's hybrid vehicle. It captures it in a unique fashion: with dozens of contact mic recordings, you hear the mechanical workings of its quiet electric engine. You also get sounds of it driving on gravel and in traffic, as well as sounds of the alarms, buttons, doors, male and female navigation voices, and more! If you're looking for a car library that has more than just driving and accelerating, this one's for you.

Dystopian Drones

Drones & Mood Sound Effects Dystopian Drones Play Track 233 sounds included, 227 mins total $45

Dystopian Drones sound library features 200+ high quality drone sound effects that instantly evoke unsettling feeling and post-apocalyptic images of a machine-dominated world, destroyed dystopian cities, deserted landscapes and sci-fi machine rooms, reactors and engines!

Perfect for creating disturbing industrial ambiences and dark otherworldly soundscapes, these sound effects will work great as a background for any dark futuristic sci-fi scene full of tension and suspense.

You can choose between different types of drones ranging from intense pulsating ones, dynamic and evolving ones to the constant drones. Whether you’re working on a post-apocalyptic video game, movie, tv show or if you need dark ambient textures for a music production, this sound library has you covered!

Dystopian Drones sound library contains 7.39GB (227 minutes total) of high definition 24bit/96khz stereo WAV files, embedded with metadata to speed up your workflow and separated into three categories: 1. Evolving Drones 2. Pulsating Drones 3. Constant Drones

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'Dystopian Drones' by Sound Response celebrates the decades-long culture of dystopian cinema with sounds that make you want to go and re-watch anything directed by Ridley Scott, James Cameron, or John Carpenter. With over 200 unsettling drones, you'll be able to add dark qualities to your soundscape with disturbing feedback, synthy pulses, tense tones, eerie noises, and more. These drones are perfect for your horror, sci-fi, and retro projects! If you need overpowering post-apocalyptic suspense, this will have your project dripping with it in no time.

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User Interface (UI) Sound Effects Motion Graphics Play Track 650+ sounds included $9

Introducing MOTION GRAPHICS, a complete Motion Graphics sound effects library from SoundMorph!

Motion Graphics focuses on all the elements you might need for sound design on a trailer, a cinematic scene or a visual that is heavy with motion graphics, whether it be abstract or straight forward, Motion Graphics has all the elements and textures you could think of. Motion Graphics are something all of us sound designers run into at one point or another, so this library is an excellent addition to your sound effects tool box.

Motion Graphics was created by and in collaboration with sound designer Rostislav Trifonov (SoundMorph Elemental library contributor).

Motion Graphics features 650 24bit/96 kHz .wav files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata.

The library features:
• 450 + designed sound effects
• 190 + source audio files
• Whooshes
• Impacts
• Risers
• Stingers
• Low end and Sub Bass
• Impulse Responses
• Passbys
• Textures – noise, grit, glitch
• Ambiences
• Buttons and Clicks
• Mechanical Elements
• Granular effects

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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.

Haunting and Experimental

Create haunting atmospheres, perfect for horror, thriller or experimental soundtracks. Every element has been designed to unsettle and disturb, blurring the line between music and noise.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Bloody Nightmare Play Track 550 sounds included $9

Bloody Nightmare is a modern horror cinematic library aimed at the most cutting edge bone chilling productions out there.

Whether you work in sound design, as a composer, trailer editor or as an electronic musician, Bloody Nightmare is a valuable new wave of Horror sounds that will surely cause visceral moments of terror and dread!

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects SpellBound Play Track 969 sounds included, 122 mins total $90

SpellBound is premium sound effects library exploring the intersecting spaces of modern magic and science fiction energy. The result is a polished, designed, and inspiring set of cinematic magic sounds ready to bring new life to your film, game, and media projects. Brian Johnson, the creator of SpellBound and Slipstream is an award winning sound designer who after working in film, and television, has found his home designing sound for the biggest video game franchises in the world.

SpellBound has 969 total sound effects
Spells, explos, tails, whooshes, beds, impacts, drones, and more.

Designed section – 202 designed multi-event show stopping full frequency sound effects.
Elements section – 767 designed construction kit, layers, sweeteners, and single event effects.

SpellBound can compliment your fx arsenal with traditional fantasy, modern magic, cinematic impacts, and even as an explosion sweetener. It can take over a fantasy trailer or a compliment a hybrid space magic video game.

Thank you for licensing SpellBound. I hope it inspires you to create something exciting and magical.

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User Interface (UI) Sound Effects Motion Graphics Play Track 650+ sounds included $9

Introducing MOTION GRAPHICS, a complete Motion Graphics sound effects library from SoundMorph!

Motion Graphics focuses on all the elements you might need for sound design on a trailer, a cinematic scene or a visual that is heavy with motion graphics, whether it be abstract or straight forward, Motion Graphics has all the elements and textures you could think of. Motion Graphics are something all of us sound designers run into at one point or another, so this library is an excellent addition to your sound effects tool box.

Motion Graphics was created by and in collaboration with sound designer Rostislav Trifonov (SoundMorph Elemental library contributor).

Motion Graphics features 650 24bit/96 kHz .wav files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata.

The library features:
• 450 + designed sound effects
• 190 + source audio files
• Whooshes
• Impacts
• Risers
• Stingers
• Low end and Sub Bass
• Impulse Responses
• Passbys
• Textures – noise, grit, glitch
• Ambiences
• Buttons and Clicks
• Mechanical Elements
• Granular effects

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Gore Sound Effects Forged In Fury Vol 2 Play Track 586 sounds included $9.35

Forged in Fury Vol. 2 – Modular Weapon Sound Design Kit

Forged in Fury Vol. 2 continues the philosophy of providing fully modular sounds, allowing you to design and customize your weapon audio exactly as you need. Each element is carefully edited and organized into categories such as whooshes, retractions, impacts, blood, and more, giving you total control to adapt and layer sounds to your project.

This volume includes 586 individual sounds at 192 kHz / 24-bit quality, ready to use as-is or to combine and shape into something entirely new.

🎧 Featured Content:

– Greatsword (123 sounds)
Heavy metallic textures with more weight, blood, and impact than a standard sword.

– Iron Staff (74 sounds)
Inspired by the legendary staffs of Shaolin monks, offering solid strikes and metallic resonances

– Karambit Knife (252 sounds)
Fast, sharp, and deadly. Featuring rapid spins, swift cuts, and an ever-present sense of danger.

– Nunchakus (137 sounds)
Dynamic and versatile, infused with the spirit of classic martial arts films. Includes wooden hits, chain rattles, and fast whooshes.

🔑 Key Feature:
As in the first volume, each sound is delivered in editable layers (e.g., whoosh + impact + blood). Want a greatsword strike without blood? Just combine whoosh + hit and you’re set. You can even swap layers across different weapons to create entirely new variations.

🎚️ Studio-Grade Quality:
Recorded at 192 kHz / 24-32 bits and delivered at 192 kHz / 24 bits, ensuring outstanding fidelity. Perfect for pitching, distortion, and heavy processing without losing clarity.

👉 Forged in Fury Vol. 2 is not just a sound library, it’s a true creation kit, giving you the freedom to craft weapons and scenes with maximum flexibility and realism.

More about the pack
– Intuitive file naming
– Everything you need for a Greatsword, Iron Staff, Karambit Knife, or Nunchucks.
– Use the sound effects over and over again, in any of your projects or productions, forever, with no additional fees or royalties. Use the sound effects in your game, your trailer, a Kickstarter campaign, wherever you need them, as many times as you want.
– Fully mono support
– All sounds have several variations.
– Unleash your imagination and feel free to use any sound for something other than what is described; remember that the world of sound is entirely subjective.
– For any questions or problems: khronstudio@gmail.com

Features
– 586 sounds
– Format: 192KHz / 24 bits
– Do Sound FX loop: No
– Win/Mac: Yes
– Minutes of audio provided: 06 minutes and 02 seconds

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This is a varied collection of sounds recorded from a vintage mechanical clock dating back to 1934. Includes chiming sounds and multiple perspectives of ticking.

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Foley Sound Effects Zastava 645 Zeta 1988 truck Play Track 140 sounds included, 52 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 only available in UCS.

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A US Military Truck is transformed into a percussive instrument and hit with drum sticks and a variety of mallets ( gong, xylophone and timpani ) and sampled using contact microphones and geophones.

A unique collection of 321 metallic percussive hits perfect for metal impact sound design and transient shaping.

Type : Source Files / WAV Mono

Normalised : -6 dbFS

Grouped Files for Easy Reference Included

Recorder : Sound Devices Mix Pre 10II

Microphones : Stille & Klang Spot, LOM Geofon

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Car Sound Effects Fiat 850 Sport Coupe 1968 sports car Play Track 175 sounds included, 46 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 only available in UCS.

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