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This week on A Sound Effect, we have libraries that are as interesting as they are useful. If you’re looking for game audio, we have three new collections that feature retro 8-bit sounds, sandbox crafting foley and effects, and adventurous fantasy RPG elements. We also have unique impulse responses and cinematic guitars that will take your audience for a loop. And if you’re looking for something more true to life, we have libraries that feature geysers, dump trucks, Italian atmospheres, and a stockpile of residential and urban ambiences that will likely find themselves on your DAW’s timeline for years to come. Enjoy!

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Builder Game
 
  • Welcome to this sonic tribute to the world of builder games. Take this tidy sound pack on a fun, cartoon adventure and you’ll be backpacking with 625+ game inspired sounds and effects that your audience/users will love, enjoy and thank you for.

    Your pack is complete with bubbly items and collects, designed cute UI, cartoon creatures, door opens, closes in many styles like treasure chests, apothecary cabinets, wooden and more.

    It also includes liquid elixir potions, drinks and bubble pops, explosions, fireworks for maximum celebration and epic-ness in your game – torches, fire starters, digging, mining, magic twinkles and poofs, unlocks, enchants, buffs, Bows, footsteps and more! Don’t forget the Material Break, and Tool section.

    Inspired by the sounds of the popular game Minecraft, Builder Game’s Tool and Material break section gives you the essentials for breaking a variety of materials, building supplies for crafting your sandbox world to perfection.

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'Builder Game' by Epic Stock Media gets you an all-in-one library focused on this addicting game genre. With over 625 sounds, you'll have the components to put some sonic magic in your sandbox world. With sounds of torches, fire starters, digging and mining, tools, materials, and footsteps, your game will have satisfying audio for all your gameplay elements. You'll also hear snappy user interface sounds, cute creatures, pops and explosions, twinkles, buffs, and much more! For a library with charm and personality, definitely give this one a listen.
 
Italy – Sicilian Ambients
 
  • Environments & Ambiences Italy – Sicilian Ambients Play Track 36+ sounds included, 287 mins total $32

    Get almost 5 hours of sounds of Sicily, Italy – captured at various locations during different times of the day. The library features sounds of both empty and crowded streets. Mornings and nights sounded different from siesta time, that’s why I’ve recorded streets during all those times.

    Another location was a fish market recorded in the morning, during most intense moments.

    Other files covers the traffic on the streets full of honking scooters, barking dogs and just cars passing by.

    In addition to the recordings from Trapani, you’ll find sound of the airports, not only in Italy but also in Poland, which contains both Polish and Italian walla.

    Walla sounds varies from ones with a lot of people talking from different directions, to more narrow ones, with small groups speaking from one place. Most of the recordings are not that easy to distinguish, but there are also files where you can hear very clearly every word.

    Italy – Sicilian Ambients features 36 WAV files, recorded with two 8040s plugged into Sound Devices 702 and Sony PCM-M10 portable recorder. The total length of the files is 321 minutes.

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'Italy – Sicilian Ambients' by Soundholder is a collection of ambiences from Trapani with the romantic elements you've come to expect from movies or perhaps your own holidays. Featuring over 5 hours of recordings, you'll hear busy fish markets, honking scooters, seaside birds, uppity chickens, ringing church bells, barking dogs, and Italian walla that ranges from unintelligible to almost eavesdropping. To help you find a fitting atmosphere, the city was also captured at day and night. For sounds of a beautiful city, you won't find a more bella collezione.
 
Dumpster Truck / Skiploader
 
  • Dumpster Truck (Skiploader) delivers the sounds of a DAF CF 75.310 mid-size truck that delivers open steel containers. They are mostly used to collect debris, junk or discarded furnishings. Once these containers filled up, the truck picks them up again to bring them to the suburban garbage dump.

    The library delivers 103 files in 5 categories:
    Container Handling, Driving Activities, Engine, Foley and Props, Underneath Truck
    This includes sounds of container dumps, noises from load chains and their locking mechanisms as well as sound from the truck itself (interior, door slaps, air pressure system, wheel noises, 7.5l 310hp diesel engine, exhaust and much more).

When you buy a library from Detunized, you get the chance to listen to the world from the perspective of Stephan Marche. In his newest library, 'Dumpster Truck / Skiploader', you will hear over 100 sounds of a dump truck from all sorts of interesting angles. You'll hear the vehicle's hydraulic pump as it lifts and dumps steel containers from the inside and outside, and you'll also hear sounds of the engine revving, foley of the doors, horns, windows and ignition, rattling load chains and carabiner hooks, and even sounds from underneath the dump truck. This library will make you look at dump trucks in a new way.
 
Game Jingles & 8-bit SFX
 
'Game Jingles & 8-bit SFX' by WOW Sound gives you retro-inspired sound effects for a video game aesthetic that never seems to lose its charm. With over 170 sounds, you'll get user interface sounds like clicks, confirmations, errors, notifications, and alarms all with their shiny, chip-tune sounds. You'll also get lots of arcade-inspired jingles that will reward your players or tell them to try again. Whether you're in the prototyping phase or looking for final tracks, check this one out.
 
Collected Ambiences
 
  • Each SFX library in the “Collected Ambiences” series features 33 Stereo Ambiences from many different locations.
    The series includes ambiences such as Public Spaces, Roomtones, Drones, Forests, City, Train, Bus ride, Rain and many (many!) more.

    Collected Ambiences highlights:

    Vol 1: Airplane Landing/Take Off, Backyards, City, Car Wash, Residential Area, Construction Site, Birds, Fireworks, Crowd, Train, Roomtone and more. 33 files, 3.85 GB, 111 Minutes

    Vol 2: Car Wash, Chop Shop, Backyard, City, Residential Area, Fireworks, Construction Site, Supermarket, Train, Roomtone and more. 33 files, 3.58 GB, 103 Minutes

    Vol 3: City, Birds, Crows, Pedestrian Area, Residential Area, Bus, Roomtone, Village Fair, Weekly Market, Roomtone and more. 33 files, 3.45 GB, 100 Minutes

    Vol 4: City, Traffic, Birds, Funfair, Pedestrian Area, Residential Area, Bus, Roomtone, Shopping Mall, Train, Roomtone, Drone and more. 33 files, 4,69 GB, 136 Minutes

    Vol 5: City, Park, Train Station, Plaza, Birds, Crows, Pedestrian Area, Residential Area, Bus, Roomtone, Village Fair, Weekly Market, Roomtone and more. 33 files, 4.66 GB, 135 Minutes

    Vol 6: Public Spaces, Roomtones, Forests, City, Small Towns, Country Side, Rain and more. 33 files, 4.65 GB, 134 Minutes

    Vol 7: City, countryside, creek, forest, park, open-air bath, small town, water park and more. 33 files, 4.9 GB, 147 Minutes

    Vol 8: Public Spaces, Roomtones, Public Bath, City, Busride, Farm and more. 33 files, 5.14 GB, 148 Minutes

    Vol 9: Public Spaces, Industrial, Animal Shelter, Factory, Mall Food Courts, City, Park, Schoolyard and more. 33 files, 4.62 GB, 129 Minutes

    Vol 10: Public Spaces, Gym, Train Interiors, Fireworks, Public Bath, , City, Train, Busride, Rain and Wind, Wind and many more. 50 files, 8.94 GB, 248 Minutes

    Vol 11: Beach, Public Space, City, Rain, Wind, Weekly Market, Bistro and many more. 33 Files, 4.93 GB, 122 Minutes

    Vol 12: Countryside, Heavy Duty Gardening, Riverside, Rain, Zeppelin, Garden, Trainstations, and more. 33 Files, 6.37 GB, 180 Minutes

    Vol 13: Countryside, Heavy Duty Gardening, Riverside, Rain, Zeppelin, Garden, Trainstations, and more. 50 Files, 9.88 GB, 275 Minutes

    Vol 14:Harvester Cabin, Home Improvement, Busy Exhibition Hallway, Kids Crowds, Farm, Coutryside, and more. 33 Files, 5.76 GB, 160 Minutes

    All recorded with Sound Devices 744T, Sonosax SX-R4+, Sound Devices MixPre-6, Sennheiser MKH-8040 ORTF, Sennheiser MK-30 + MKH-8050 (MS), Beyerdynamic MC930 ORTF, RODE NT4 or Sony PCM-D100. All files were cleaned, edited and most of the files loop seamlessly.

    Please check the Content Lists below for each library to see what the full list of ambiences in each library.

    If you buy all 14 Libraries together in the “Collected Ambiences – Bundle”, you land some great savings compared to the individual collection prices.

    Get the “Just Ambiences | Construction Sites” Library for free by purchasing the “Collected Ambiences – Bundle”

'Collected Ambiences' by SoundBits now contains 10 volumes of sound effects from all over city and suburban areas. Each library features 33 stereo ambiences from places like train stations, supermarkets, construction sites, fairs, plazas, forests, school yards, gyms, food courts, shopping malls, farms, and much more! You'll even hear airplanes landing and taking off, fireworks, drones, traffic, creeks, and wind for those extra elements you need. For over 16 hours of ambiences, this collection will give you plenty to work with.
 
AXmos_Cinematic Guitars
 
  • Need to create suspense, tension and movement in your production? AXmos Cinematic Guitars is great for you.

    Atmospheric elements, crazy chords, impacts, movements, reverses, soundscapes, distorted melodies, musical sound design and transitions are some of the things you will find in this collection, produced using a stratocaster type electric guitar. For that reason the sounds have a deep and musical feeling with such versatility that you can use them as effects or to enhance musical productions, generate a sound design musical moment and even compose tracks.

    Apart of being a great library for Horror or Sci-fi games and movies, this collection is great for trailers too.

    Sounds included:

    Atmospheric elements (designed, distortion, high, low and tremolo) • Chords (evocative chords, dark arpeggios and fantasy) • Impacts • Melodies • Movements • Pads • Reverses • Soundscapes (surreal and tension) • Transitions

'AXmos_Cinematic Guitars' by MatiasMacSD is a unique library that will make you say, 'This is what I was looking for!' You'll hear electric guitars wail straight into your subconscious with chilling chords, impacts, distorted melodies, transitions, and different effects. With 150 files and over an hour of content, this collection is ready to put an interesting edge on your horror and sci-fi projects and trailers. Give the demo a listen to be taken to a dark, new world.
 
Impulse
 
  • Impulse is a collection of “designed” impulse responses to expand your design palate, featuring a wide variety of metallic, wooden, glass, and icy reverbs, as well as some delays and effects. The IR included in this collection are unique “spaces” to help you take your sound design to different realms and planes of being. Why settle for just practical, real-world spaces, when you can explore the blurred lines between reality and fiction? Film, tv, and internet productions are exploring realms between conscious reality and the unknown – this library seeks to help you on those journeys.

    Whether you’re looking for metallic, wooden, glassy, icy or even watery spaces – look no further. There are small, claustrophobic, metallic spaces; huge, thunderous spaces fit for a Greek god; icy castles only Superman could live in; strange delays that will have you bouncing around the room in a straight jacket; and crazy effects that will make you question your sanity.

    The included track list gives short descriptions to help you find something to suite your needs. For example “Short Verb – Box Trap” is described as “Like you’re in a very reverberant, but small, bassy, wooden box.”

    Impulse responses included:
    • Short Reverbs
    • Medium Reverbs
    • Long Reverbs
    • Delays/Echoes
    • Effects

'Impulse' by Soundopolis is a collection of impulse responses that will take your sound design out of this world. With short, medium and long reverbs, as well as delays and echoes, you can transport your audience to strange new places like the inside of an armory, a fantastical ice castle, or a 'cavern of whispers'. You'll also get lengthy abstract IRs like 'Daemons Breath' and 'Poseidons Fury' and delays and effects with textures of metal, wood, glass, and ice. If you're still not sure if it's right for you, check out the very informative demo!
 
Fantasy Game
 
  • More than 500 sound effects inspired by hit computer games like World of Warcraft, and Diablo. Tell your story, equip your quest and outfit the adventures in your fantasy world with imaginative and immersive sounds, effects and creative crafted audio. Fantasy Game empowers today’s game developers, audio remixers, sound designers engineers, DJs and even game oriented modern podcasters with an ultra exciting collection of designed sounds derived from stunning 192k source recordings.

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Perhaps you're not making a retro game or a sandbox builder, but something with a little more plot and lore? 'Fantasy Game' by Epic Stock Media could be what you're seeking. With over 500 sounds inspired by games like World of Warcraft and Diablo, this library has magic, weapons, UI sounds, fire, foley, footsteps, growls and grunts, crafting sounds, and more. Plus, it has several takes of each sound, and it may even help you find SFX you hadn't thought of yet! For an immersive and adventurous library that will get your RPG well on its way, check out this library.
 
Volcanic Geyser
 
  • Water & Ocean Sounds Volcanic Geyser Play Track 21+ sounds included, 25 mins total $25

    Faunethic's Volcanic Geyser sound library is a unique collection of 21 sounds from the bowels of the earth. Steaming, splashing and muddy textures, these sounds has been recorded at San Pedro de Atacama, in northern Chile. The third most important geothermal spot on earth, San Pedro de Atacama is located between 4500 to 5200 meters above sea level offering a wide and beautiful sonic diversity to its visitors.

    This collection provides authentic sound recordings, captured with high-quality equipment: DPA, Neumann and 4minX. All Faunethic tracks includes metadata carefully edited with Soundminer. All these sounds are delivered at 24/96Khz .wav files. This collection come in easily downloadable zip file.

The sound designers at Faunethic have found yet another treasure in their world-wide travels - this time in San Pedro de Atacama in northern Chile. 'Volcanic Geyser' captures the steaming, muddy goodness that spouts from these natural wonders. With 21 sounds ranging from 20 seconds to two and a half minutes, you'll hear the geysers' spurts, bubbles, burps, and eruptions for a library that could voice your monsters, creepy ambiences - or simply your documentary on geysers. Whether you need realistic splatters or SFX with a strange familiarity, this library will make your design memorable.
   

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Popular sound effects this week:

 
  • Audio files for testing speakers and sound systems. These include Noises (Brown, White, Pink, Black/Silence), DTMF, Panning (50%, 100% Left, Right, Centre), Sines (20Hz-20KHz), Oscillator Sweeps (1-24000Hz)

  • Ever wondered how to get the creatures, beasts and monsters in your project as badass and nasty as possible?

    This collection is filled with high-quality sound effects that let your clients tremble in their seats. The curated package comes with everything you need: Vocals like attacks, breaths, threats, alerts, idle sounds, die screams and foley sounds such as bodyfalls, steps and movement.

    With this set of handpicked sounds you have the world of cinematic creature sound design at your fingertips.

     

    The Library includes:

    Beast, Coloss, Dwarf, Fishman, Gnome, Golem, Hellhound, Imp, Insect, Kraken, Minotaur, Ogre, Orc, Reptile, Witch, Wraith, Yeti, Zombie, Attack, Breath, Death, Idle, Step, Threaten, Voice, Foley

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  • Foley Sound Effects Grenade Foley Play Track 1374 sounds included $15

    A focused collection of grenade foley, captured with precision using replica units. This library provides the essential, clean sounds of tactical handling, interaction, and impacts.

    Recorded at 96kHz/24-bit across various surfaces including steel plates, carpet, wood floorings, soil, and grass, this library offers variation for different environments. The recordings feature grenade shakes, surface impacts and rolls, pin pulls, spoon lever ejections, spoon drops, and tactical gear foley, all captured with Lewitt LCT 540 S and Shure SM7B.

    This is a practical toolkit for sound designers working in film, games, and other media, providing a tonal and versatile foundation for building realistic military action.

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  • Door Sound Effects Locks & Doors Play Track 100 sounds included, 7 mins total $18

    This library gathers recordings captured with a contact microphone on various types of doors and locks. It includes wooden, metal, and plastic doors, as well as gates, residential doors, and office doors.

    The recordings highlight the internal mechanisms of locks: opening, closing, locking, unlocking, clicks, and latch movements. The collection also features isolated key handling and keychain sounds.

    The set provides detailed and usable sound material for sound design, post-production, or mechanical analysis.

  • “European Birds 2” is a sound library containing many recordings of 56 different species of birds, with a focus on isolated recordings of individual birds. All sounds were recorded in England, and all recorded species can be found in continental Europe. Many recorded species can also be found in varying areas of Asia.

     

    Includes:

    • Pleasing sounds from songbirds such as Robins, Blackbirds, Finches and Wrens
    • Familiar sounds of Pigeons and Doves
    • A variety of water birds including Moorhens, Coots, and Geese
    • Raspy calls of Crows and other birds from the corvid family
    • Melodious birds of open farmland, such as Skylarks and Yellowhammers
    • Chaotic songs of summer migrant warblers
    • Forest birds such as a Tawny Owl, Cuckoo and Green Woodpecker
    • and more! (For a full list of species, see the contents summary)

     

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    • 950+ audio files in 24 bit 96kHz quality
    • WAV format
    • “Multi” and “One Shot” files provided
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    • Available for commercial or personal use without attribution

     

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Latest sound effects libraries:
 
  • Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Extra Rain Play Track 106 sounds included, 141 mins total $9.99

    EXTRA RAIN – is an auxiliary sound library containing 106 unique sound effect files of rain. From distant showers to slow growing down pours and rainy days by the window. Whether it’s a gentle background shower or a wall of rain you’re looking for; This Extra sound effects library will help supplement the rainy day needs, for your next project. Extra Rain comes in at over 2 hours and was recorded at 192kHz / 32bit using an ultrasonic microphone. All of our libraries comply with the Universal Category System naming convention standard, allowing for accurate and easy granular searches.

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  • Quietsub FX Complete Bundle

    Quietsub FX is a library of 15,055 sound effects at 24 bit 96,000 BWF. The library is organized into a number of collections related to specific categories, and a large miscellaneous category. The library was recorded to be as comprehensive as possible with an emphasis on quality and choice for users.

    The Complete Bundle includes the following parts:

    Quietsub FX gives you a wide ranging library of sound effects. Production of the library focused on creating high quality and choice for users, which ultimately is what creators want. This package is ideal for film, video, radio, podcast, and wherever sound effects are used.

    All files include metadata.

  • Quietsub FX Transportation

    An extensive collection of 1,321 Transportation sounds. If it has means of movement to carry people or goods, whether by engine or human propulsion, you’ll likely find it here.

    This collection comes in two parts. The transportation portion, and Transit Chimes.

    Transit Chimes: Transit Chimes are the sounds you hear all the time on public transportation. Dings, dongs, attention getters. This collection of 70 sound effects gives everything you need to satisfy your craving for these noises. Use them in your productions, or start your own transit system.

    Transportation: People are always going somewhere. And they sure make lots of noise doing it. Just about anything that moves people or freight can be found here.

    Recording for this category is outside the studio affair. A tremendous amount of time driving and walking around, as well as planting yourself in strategic locations where vehicles do their thing.

    • Cars general
    • Classic cars
    • Sports cars
    • Boats
    • Aircraft
    • Bicycles
    • Buses
    • Motorcycles
    • Trucks general
    • Garbage Truck
    • Highway and street backgrounds
    • Traffic sounds

    This extensive collection touches all the bases.

    Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.

  • Quietsub FX Video Transition Sound Effects

    A great collection of 128 Video Transition Sound Effects. These are designed to be used at video edit points to add impact.

    Video Editors will enjoy these video transition effects. In recent years, sound effects began appearing in videos to accompany the actual visual edit. This was the inspiration for creating this collection.

    There’s no better way to add depth to video edits than with short sounds and ramps. These work great with short video breakup visuals and flashes.

    This collection is made up of various wipes and transitions.

    Cut away. Chop, Hack etc. These sounds will make those video transitions more interesting.

    Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.

  • Quietsub FX Sci-Fi Sounds

    A collection of 192 Sci-Fi Sounds.

    There’s lots of science fiction out there, but still no little green men. Possibly that’s what makes sci-fi so popular. The dream of something you think may exist, but cannot be proven. Sci-Fi, of course, has its own sounds. In this collection of 183 sound effects, you will find most of what you will need to outfit your next spacecraft.

    Included in this collection:

    • Alien interiors
    • Blasters
    • Backgrounds
    • Space ship sounds

    Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.


   

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