9 new sound libraries Asbjoern Andersen


This week on A Sound Effect, we have a great selection of interesting new sound libraries. We have ambient recordings of subtle distant traffic, small towns and farms, and interior locations in South Africa. We also have lots of sounds for your games and interactive projects with clothing Foley, recordings of a large 12-passenger van, energy explosions and whooshes, cinematic impacts and hits, clean UI effects, and even a collection of elevator sounds. Happy listening!
Traffic Hush
 
  • Traffic Sound Effects Traffic Hush Play Track 20+ sounds included, 70 mins total $30

    Traffic Hush by Badlands Sound offers twenty unique ambience three and a half minute files each of distant traffic hush! This library is perfect for sound editors creating high-quality distant ambiences quickly and easily with several options including very sparse quiet traffic with a few cars driving by to large bustling city roads with semi trucks.

    This sound library was recorded in 96 kHz / 24 bit using Sound Devices 702t with a pair of Line Audio CM3’s in ORTF microphone configuration.

'Traffic Hush' by Badlands Sound has 20 ambiences with smooth, faraway recordings of - you guessed it - traffic. These bustling sounds capture both passbys and ambiences from various scenarios - cars howling across a bridge, large semi-trucks barreling in the distance, single cars creating sparse passbys, etc. All together you get over an hour of subtle traffic noise that's perfect for night-time traffic, inner-city padding, or even real-world textures for synth drones. If you need a little rumble and distant whoosh, this one has what you're looking for.
 
Clothing Foley HD
 
  • Cloth and Fabric Sound Effects Clothing Foley HD Play Track 429 sounds included, 29 mins total $35

    Clothing Foley HD is a collection of four different outfits performing walking Foley at various speeds without shoes. Also included are various body pats, buttons, zippers, and cloth sounds like shifting, reaching, rubbing, and pocket sounds.

    Clothing Foley HD highlights:OUTFITS:
    Jeans + T-shirt
    Khakis + Button Down Shirt
    Suit + Tie (suit pants, suit coat, button down shirt, necktie)
    Snow Pants + Winter Coat

    SOUNDS INCLUDED:
    Walking Foley – without shoe sounds, various speeds for each outfit
    Material Sounds – reaching, shifting, rubbing
    Pockets – hands going in and out, rustling around, inserting and removing cell phone
    Body Pats – various strengths on each material, on belly, legs, back, arms
    Zippers – jeans, khakis, suit pants, winter coat
    Buttons – suit coat, winter coat, button down shirt
    Tie Sounds – tying, untying, adjusting

'Clothing Foley HD' by Soundopolis gets you the body sounds that will connect your character movements to their congruous footsteps. With nearly 430 sounds, you'll get performances of reaching, patting, zipping, tying, buttoning, and more to bring a corporeal realism to your scenes and interactive characters. You'll also get the sounds of walking in various clothing like jeans, khakis, suit pants, and snow pants captured with an XY microphone that faces both the upper and lower body. Whether you need Foley fast or you want to prototype your middleware events, this library will get you on your way!
 
GMC Savana 2010
 
  • Trucks, Buses & Van Sounds GMC Savana 2010 Play Track 188+ sounds included, 120 mins total $159

    The GMC Savana (identical to a Chevrolet Express) is one of the most popular vans in North America. It has a 6.0L, small block V8, 361 hp engine with a 6-speed automatic transmission. This library features a full range of speeds and performances, recorded from interior, onboard (engine/tailpipe) and exterior perspectives of a 2010 model. Also included is a full compliment of doors (front, side, rear and hood), chimes, switches, power windows, gearshift and the horn.

'GMC Savana 2010' by Big Room Sound Inc. has sounds of this popular 12-passenger van. This library captures the vehicle from interior, onboard, and exterior perspectives as it drives around, takes fast corners, and completes 3-point turns. You'll also get a collection of component sounds from the horn, doors, switches, windows, gears, and more! For over 2 hours of large van effects with a powerful V8 engine, check this one out.
 
Pure Energy
 
'Pure Energy' by Breakup Audio has sounds that are great for special abilities, character movements, and any time you need an electric feel. In this library, you will receive over 200 energy sounds for your impacts, explosions, lasers, and whooshes, giving you lots of plasmic movements and clean booms. Each file has 6 variations, too, so you'll have lots of variants for your interactive elements. If you need a focused pack of sounds for your futuristic weapons, magical spells, and small sci-fi vehicles, give this one a listen.
 
Town & Country
 
  • TOWN & COUNTRY provides a wide range of professional sounds for creating perfectly convincing and realistic town and country ambiences in high-end quality. In addition to a broad and solid foundation of town and country lifestyle, we focused on credible ambiences that are full of detail and at the same time leave enough room to place further sound design in the foreground.

    MAJOR STRENGTH: FLEXIBILITY!
    The main part of this library consists of extensive – mostly loopable – background ambiences with varying daytimes and locations of town & country sceneries. More detailed and easily accessible sounds of e.g. camp fire, farm animals or an extraordinarily impressive file with flies on a roadkill are another strong addition to your SFX pool.

    More than 200 files of vivid town and country days and nights give you all the flexibility you need to bridge the gap between a very rural country life with animals and man-made town sounds. TOWN & COUNTRY has all necessary components to design organic and grounded acoustic backdrops while keeping a naturalistic feel and human touch.

'Town & Country' by BOOM Library takes you to the heart of charming, rural towns and peaceful farmlands. You will hear over 200 detailed, immersive, and often looping soundscapes from fields, campfires, pig pens, cemeteries, parks, and more, during all parts of the day. Plus, you get unique scenarios like buzzing flies from road kill, grave ornaments in the wind, a trickling well pump - as well as the detailed metadata to lead you there. For ambiences you will find yourself using over and over again, you can't go wrong with BOOM!
 
Disturb – Impacts & Hits
 
  • Disturb sound library features 170 cutting edge cinematic impact sound effects perfect for music production, movies, tv, advertisement campaigns (trailers, teasers, promos) and more!

    Whether you need those massive cinematic bassy hits or you’re looking for a dark, creepy and intense metallic impacts and slams, this sound library has you covered. With this collection of designed impacts at your disposal you’ll have a powerful, hard-hitting sound arsenal ready to become a part of your next track, game or cinematic project!

    Disturb sound library contains 496MB of high definition 24bit/96khz Stereo WAV files, embedded with metadata to speed up your workflow and separated into three categories: 1. Cinematic Signature Impacts 2. Dark Horror Impacts 3. Metallic Tension Impacts

'Disturb – Impacts & Hits' by Sound Response has 170 hard-hitting cinematic impacts for your blockbuster trailers, sci-fi weapons, and more! These sounds come from a range of textures including metallic slams, bassy hits, gritty impacts, eerie tension, and all sorts of gritty, glitchy, and stuttering effects. Plus, these high-quality sounds have room to be manipulated to how you need them to be. For instant power for your epic stories, check this one out.
 
Activation
 
  • The ACTIVATION Sound Library features more than 1,100 sounds. The futuristic and electronic sound effects are especially useful when it comes to creating user interfaces (UIs), head-up displays (HUDs), games and video animations.

    The ACTIVATION Sound Library offers 12 categories, granting easy access to a variety of sounds — alerts, beeps, bells, buttons, clicks, counter sounds and many more.

    The sounds provided by the ACTIVATION Sound Library have been carefully produced, selected, edited and tested.

    The ACTIVATION Sound Library offers a great variety. The sounds are based on analog and digital synthesizers, guitar effects units, professional software as well as a modular synthesizer rack.

'Activation' by CB_Sounddesign get you over 1,100 futuristic user interface sounds for your video game heads-up displays and animations. With sounds of alerts, beeps, bells, buttons, clicks, data processing, and more, you'll get a wide selection of shiny analog and synthesized notification sounds for your clean, modern interface. Plus, each sound comes in several variations, so you can inform your audience in subtle ways or at least give them a pleasant amount of randomization. For games and apps alike, this library will get your sonic interaction design on its way.
 
South African Ambiences Interior
 
  • This library is a myriad of uniquely South African interior ambiences.
    Get true interior ambience sounds of South Africa in this authentic collection. The South African Interior ambiences sound effects library features recordings from places in and around Cape Town, hospital, airport, restaurant, various shopping centres, boxing gym, hotel lobby, residential interiors and many more.

'South African Ambiences Interior' by TheWorkRoom Audio Post is the companion to their 'Exterior' ambiences from the perpetually temperate Cape Town. With sounds of PA announcements in a train station, voices in a busy shopping center, athletes warming up in a boxing gym, crying babies in the pediatric ward, loud indoor construction, and much more, you will get a wide range of scenarios that are perfect for your scenes. Recordings last from 1 minute to over 15 minutes with multiple takes from most areas, too. For over 160 minutes of ambiences with the distinct accents of South Africa, check this one out.
 
Elevators (S)
 
  • An library of elevators! From your standard elevator to EWP, platform elevator, large industrial lifts, one of the largest elevators in Europe and an old elevator from the early 1900s. Hear them pass by, listen to room tones, button presses, door movements and more! Everything recorded in Stereo, 96 kHz 24 Bits with Neumann KM184, DPA 4017 and Sennheiser MKH50 on a Sound Devices 633. Total 46 files in 625 Mb.

    Sonner Sound
'Elevators (S)' by Sonner Sound focuses on this convenient mode of transportation with sounds of standard elevators, platform elevators, and industrial lifts. You will get 46 sounds of button presses, door movements, and of course lots of humming room tones from going up and down. You'll also get sounds from an elevator built in the early 1900s and from one of the largest elevators in Europe! If you need a focused yet wide-ranging collection of elevator sounds, look no further.
   

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A Sound Effect gives you easy access to an absolutely huge sound effects catalog from a myriad of independent sound creators, all covered by one license agreement - a few highlights:

  • Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Abandoned Oil Tank Play Track 327 sounds included $40

    On a recording trip to the smaller Danish port town Struer, I came across an abandoned empty oil tank. Inside I found two giant wires attached to the floor and the ceiling of the tank, almost like a huge 2 stringed double bass. I’m telling you the reverb in there was longer than the Eiffel Tower on a cloudless day !

    On the outside this was just an empty abandoned building, but it turned out it was not empty at all because it was full of sound and a few dead birds. I’m glad I was curious enough to go inside for a closer investigation and not just pass by.

    After several hours of concentrated recording, it was nice to get my ears back out in dry air. I’m happy there are no open sends to Valhalla in real life but experiencing the eternal resonance on the low frequencies from the wires was absolutely amazing.

    Abandoned Oil Tank was recorded with a LOM basic Ucho stereo pair, a Zoom H6 and the LOM Geofon. All files are in 96 kHz/24 bit and contain the original recordings.

    The result is a unique sound effect library including balloon pop impulse responses from a truly unique location that very recently became even more unique since word says that the oil tank is no more and has abandoned this world.

    327 individual sounds – all tagged with Universal Category System (UCS) metadata.

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  • Electricity Sound Effects Polarity Play Track 975 sounds included $72

    Polarity delivers more than 950 sounds of electricity, science and technology – captured in several locations around the world, from electricity museums to science labs. About 50% of the library is all about electricity, with various types of Jacob’s Ladders, Tesla Coils, Ruhmkorff lamp and all sorts of impactful bursts of energy.

    Then we go through welders, plasma spheres, 3D printers, starting to cover a more broad technology theme – like old phones, telegraphs, dynamo wheels, rotary dials, whirling watchers, alarm, lab centrifuges, something scientists call a roller and a rocker, servo sounds, neon lights, a wimshurst machine and sparklers.

    Many sounds in this section were captured from vintage equipment, from a 1928’s tram to old telephone switchboards, high voltage levers and control surfaces.

    All content was recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K, a couple of Sennheiser 8040 and a Neumann 81i, translating into final assets that have plenty of ultrasonic content, ready for the most extreme manipulation.

    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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  • Door Sound Effects Noisy Doors Play Track 44 sounds included $10

    This library contains recordings of eleven different types of doors specifically chosen for their interesting sound. I performed all actions with a lot of detail covering “open/close”, “knocks”, “bangs and thuds”, “handle grab and rattle” and when possible also “crackles and squeaks” (all recorded at various intensities)

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  • Trench Rammers is a one-of-a-kind sound library, created by sound designer Barney Oram. It features recordings of two 20th century Trench Rammers, some of the last operating machines of their kind in the world. The library features 48 files in total, capturing the Trench Rammers using a variety of microphones and perspectives, supplied in 192kHz 24bit WAV file format.

    This library contains multiple recordings of two antique Trench Rammers, the Pegson ER5 and the Warsop Benjo, and also features additional recordings of four antique stationary engines, the Amanco Hired Man (1920s), the JAP 1947, the Lister D (1940s) and the Norman T3000.

    Recorded in Leeds, UK, this library features multi-mic coverage and a range of distance positions captured on all included source content. Microphones used include; Sanken, Sennheiser, Neumann and DPA, captured with Sound Devices and Tascam recorders.

    This library includes detailed SoundMiner metadata and utilizes the UCS system for ease of integration into your library.

    Behind the Scenes Video:


    Trench Rammer


  • The cozy natural rhythms of hums, scrapes, splashes and thuds soundtrack the pottery workshop where the earth meets art. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.

     

    About Pottery Workshop

     

    84 sounds that are clean, subtle and capture pretty much every object and action of the magic of fire and earth.

    From the rhythmic hum of the spinning potter’s wheel, to the splash of water, the scrape of clay with the tools shaping and smoothing surfaces, listen up for the symphony of creation.

    You will hear the tapping and thud of ceramic pottery, wooden ribs, wire cutters, loop tools, and sponges, all kinds of rummage, and mud actions on the potter’s wheel. The clicking and whirring of mechanisms during firing cycles add a mechanical counterpoint to the workshop’s natural rhythms.

    You will get variations of sounds in different proximity, size, and style of action. This collection is handy due to the clarity and diversity of the raw sounds. They have both Foley and practical usability and room for further sound design.

    You will get intuitive, detailed naming, UCS compatibility and the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail in 84 pristine sounds. Recorded in 24bit-96kHz.WAV format on our favorite Sennheiser MKH 8040 stereo pair and Zoom F6.

     

    Keywords

    Pottery, workshop, electric potter’s wheel, wheel, oven, heat gun, mud, clay, ceramic, glass, wooden, metal, cup, handle, push, pull, move, remove, shape, tap, shake, clank, level, lid, tool, organizer, toolbox, rummage, fiberboard, button, bucket, sponge, plate, Dremel.

     

    What else you may need

    You may also want to check out Drag & Slide for 477 sound files of dragging, sliding, scraping and friction sounds of different objects made of wood, plastic, metal on various surfaces. Our bestseller Crafting & Survival is another good choice to get access to 1000+ survival, gathering, movement and crafting sounds.

  • All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with Shure KSM 137, Line Audio Omni1, FEL Clippy XLR EM272, Sonorous Objects SO.3 and JrF C-Series Pro+ microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II & Zoom F3 recorders. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.

  • Introducing Devils Bane Trailer, a chilling symphony of horror encapsulated in 533 meticulously crafted sound files, ready to unleash terror upon your audience. Dive into a nightmare realm where every creak, whisper, and shriek is meticulously designed to send shivers down your spine.

    • 533 files
    • 3.5 GB of game audio assets
    • All in 96k 24bit .wav
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  • Birdsong from the countryside of the Swedish rural region of Värmland.


   

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