New Sound Effects: Halloween Soundscapes, Weapons, Dry Ice, Fairgrounds, Seagulls & Exotic Birds, And Contact Mic Recordings

Posted October 23, 2016 by Asbjoern Andersen in New sound effects libraries

After a brief hiatus, the independent sound effects roundups are back – and let’s start out with this look at some new libraries that can be used as literally or as radically as you’d like:

You will find strange contact mic recordings of computers and cars, sounds of handguns, sniper rifles and machine guns, dry ice that screams and whines on metal. You’ll also find European and Latin American birds, quintessential Halloween sounds, metal hitting metal, rain and thunder in stereo and 5.1, and the clanging and ringing of a noisy fairground.

So whether you’re creating a scene with these locations or in someone’s imagination, these libraries are sure to inspire you.

Inner Ambience

Mechanical Sound Effects Inner Ambience Play Track 60 sounds included, 85 mins total $33

The Inner ambience sound effects library is a collection of high definition sounds recorded inside various spaces using matched stereo contact microphones.
Each ambience has its own unique character and natural frequency modulation.

Some of them has constant velocity like an industrial hum, power block energy field, fans and compressors, while others have weird fluctuations like road columns affected by wind and passing-by cars, bridge columns, fences, water pipes: some of the mechanical and electrical sequences were recorded as well, such as water pump, lawn mowers, automatic window rollers, pool cover mechanism and others.

The audio files could be used, as they are – for dark, eerie, confusing atmospheres or elements in your game or film projects.

It is a good source for further manipulation and designing new sounds as it is recorded in 24/96. In addition to the pack there are designed sounds of these recordings to give you an idea of how you can push them in a different creative way and of course use it in your projects as well.

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'Inner Ambience' by Protosfx captures reality and twists it into peculiarity. This library features everyday objects like fences, bridges, computers, and cars, but with a twist - they were recorded with a contact mic. These droning, buzzing and wailing sounds each have a 'Twilight Zone' feel perfect for Cold War-era games, dream sequences, and anything needing an internal, lo-fi edge. With almost an hour and a half of content, this library's intriguing sounds may even inspire you to purchase a contact mic yourself. For sounds that evoke feelings of retro-futurism and uncanniness, check out 'Inner Ambience'.

Birds Extension

Bird Sound Effects Birds Extension Play Track 20-61 sounds included From: $21

Get the sounds of exotic birds – a huge collection of seagull recordings – with the Birds Extension SFX library:

The Birds Extension Pack

This collection of sounds contains a nice variety of birds: 18 different species spread across 41 audio tracks – including Chachalaca, Great Kiskadee, Crow, Goose, Great-tailed Grackle, Hen, Macaw Parrot, Magpie, Motmot Turquoise Sourcils, Nestor Kea Parrot, Peacock, Rooster, Snow Owl, Yucatan Woodpecker and more. The sounds have been recorded in Mexico, Finland and France. Seagulls available in a separate pack.

The sounds have been recorded in 24bit / 96 kHz Stereo or Mono, the Mono tracks have been recorded with a wide-frequency response microphone (30 Hz to 50 KHz).

Library specs: 41 tracks mono or stereo (mostly stereo) • 949 MB • 29 minutes total

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Chachalaca Group Scream (1:13)
Crow 1 (1:12)
Crow 2 (0:23)
Crow 3 (0:06)
Crow 4 (0:02)
Crow 5 (0:03)
Crow 6 (0:02)
Crow 7 (0:01)
Goose Finland (0:12)
Great Curassow (0:09)
Great Kiskadee 1 (0:14)
Great Kiskadee 2 (1:18)
Great Kiskadee 3 (2:41)
Great Tailed Grackle, misc Yucatan exotic birds in background 1 (1:06)
Great Tailed Grackle, misc Yucatan exotic birds in background 2 (0:14)
Great Tailed Grackle, misc Yucatan exotic birds in background 3 (1:18)
Great Tailed Grackle, misc Yucatan exotic birds in background 4 (0:10)
Great Tailed Grackle, misc Yucatan exotic birds in background 5 (2:04)
Great Tailed Grackle, misc Yucatan exotic birds in background 6 (3:17)
Hen 1 (0:40)
Hen 2 (1:05)
Hen 3 (0:36)
Hen 4 (0:38)
Macaw Parrot (1:41)
Magpie (1:03)
Misc Finland (0:19)
Misc Yucatan birds 1 (0:22)
Misc Yucatan birds 2 (1:03)
Motmot Turquoise Sourcils (0:30)
Nestor Kea Parrot (0:28)
Parakeets (1:00)
Peacock Female 1 (1:13)
Peacock Female 2 (0:36)
Rooster 1 (0:47)
Rooster 2 (0:06)
Rooster 3 (0:13)
Rooster 4 (0:09)
Snow Owl France 1 (0:05)
Snow Owl France 2 (0:15)
Woodpecker (0:22)
Yucatan Woodpecker Grackle in background (0:18)

The Birds Extension Seagulls pack

This collection of sounds contains 20 seagull tracks, and a nice Tern close-up recording. You will find a nice variety of seagulls vocalizations such as calls, scream, screeches. Some single close-up recordings and some large group recordings. All the sounds have been recorded in Finland and France.

The sounds have been recorded in 24bit / 96 kHz Stereo or Mono, the Mono tracks have been recorded with a wide-frequency response microphone (30 Hz to 50 KHz).

Library Specs: 20 tracks mono or stereo (mostly mono) • 371 MB • 14 minutes total

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Seagulls and Tern Close Tern (1:03)
Seagulls Close Agitated Group 1 (0:29)
Seagulls Close Agitated Group 2 (0:36)
Seagulls Close Agitated Group 3 (0:16)
Seagulls Close Agitated Group 4 (0:12)
Seagulls Close Agitated Group 5 (0:22)
Seagulls Close Single 1 (0:43)
Seagulls Close Single 2 (0:39)
Seagulls Close Single 3 (0:30)
Seagulls Close Short Screechs (0:08)
Seagulls Close Long Screechs 1 (0:42)
Seagulls Close Long Screechs 2 (0:21)
Seagulls Close Screechs 1 (0:36)
Seagulls Close Screechs 2 (0:40)
Seagulls Close Screechs 3 (0:43)
Seagulls Close Screechs 4 (1:07)
Seagulls Close Screechs 5 (0:30)
Seagulls Large Group fight for food (2:34)
Seagulls Call (0:48)
Seagulls and Fledging (1:47)

Birds Extension Bundle

Contains both packs above, at a special price!

Bundle Specs: 61 tracks mono or stereo • 1.32 GB • 44 minutes total

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'Birds Extension' by JMV features birds both flightless and flittering from Mexico, Finland and France. The stars of this library are the harsh and throaty chachalaca, the talented Foley-like grackle, the smart and peaceful Nestor Kea Parrot, the beautiful and user interface-inspiring Motmot Turquoise Sourcils, and the instantly recognizable Yucatan Woodpecker. The library also includes more common birds like crows, geese, hens, roosters, macaw parrot, and Harry Potter's favorite - the snow owl.

Also included is a big collection of excellent seagull recordings, featuring lots of vocalizations such as calls, screams and screeches. Both single close-up recordings and some large group recordings are covered.

For local authenticity or new sounds to manipulate, check out 'Birds Extension'.

Dry Ice Metal Resonance

'Dry Ice Metal Resonance' by Glad Sound Libraries is a work of sonic creativity at its finest. This library features the interesting and crazy sounds of dry ice as it resonates on metal. For those unfamiliar with this interaction, this description may not even call a sound to mind! To give you an idea of what to expect, you will hear sounds of screeching, whining, creaking, and what sounds like air coming out of a balloon as well as mutant bees caught in a tunnel. And with 42 minutes of over 250 sounds, this library has more gems to share. 'Dry Ice Metal Resonance' is one you must hear to believe!

Fairgrounds

Environments & Ambiences Fairgrounds Play Track 72 sounds included $37

Over 70 fairground ambiences. Includes fun fair game area atmospheres (plate breaker, BB guns, bingo), exhibition halls, game callers and barkers, and more.

The collection also includes a handful of fair ride sound fx: The Zipper, a Ferris wheel, and bumper cars.

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'Fairgrounds' by Airborne Sound is a pack of sounds from one of our favorite summertime family activities. This library includes 70 ambiences from fairgrounds including sounds of games with trick shooting, bingo calls, buzzers, rings, and announcers. It also includes crowds and children as well as fair rides like the bumper cars, ferris wheel, and The Zipper, a ride that spins you 'round and 'round on several axes for suspense and unpredictability. Whether you're working on a fair-themed zombie film, a creepy clown horror movie, or just a plain old fair scene, check out 'Fairgrounds'.

Handgun Essentials

'Handgun Essentials' by Glad Sound Libraries features lots of akimbo action. These sounds come from six handguns such as the Colt 1911, Glock 19 and the .22 Long Rifle. It features body handling sounds and shots from a revolver, BB gun, 9mm pistol and more for a collection of almost 100 sounds. These high quality sounds also allow you to stretch them into larger weapons, and their variations of handling sounds make them perfect for interactive use. For a well-rounded pack of handgun sounds, check out 'Handgun Essentials'.

Metal Contact

Metal Sound Effects Metal Contact Play Track 136+ sounds included, 230 mins total $18

The Metal Contact sound library features the recordings of various metal surfaces tortured with different tools. From touching things with fingers, through hitting with metal bars and up to using blenders or magnets to cause the materials to resonate.

While recording this library my goal was to cover different needs, not only for sound designers but also editors. Scrapes and squeaks were recorded with different intensity and speeds, just like the impacts. From soft and quiet, through medium up to loud and reverberant ones.

In addition to the regular approach of just touching, hitting and scraping metal parts, I’ve decided to record few experimental sound effects. Listening to the tons of water flowing through a dam, by sticking the microphones to the building’s wall? You got it. Messing with guitar strings using a blender and magnets? It’s here. Throwing coins and different metal parts inside cast iron cooking dish? No problem!

Includes recordings such as:

Different lids, cast iron dishes, metal pots, baking forms and sheets, bullet catcher, different boxes, cooking oven, sinks, fan, pans, grills, coins, small tools, different jugs, electric guitar, buckets, washing machine, metal parts, old doors and walls, road sign, handrails, cages and much more.

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'Metal Contact' by Soundholder is a metal-on-metal cornucopia. This library features sounds of dozens of metal objects - buckets, pans, sinks, grills, coins, doors and more - as they are banged, rubbed, shifted, hit, scraped, shook, and manipulated with blenders and magnets. This massive collection includes nearly four hours of sounds that range from ten seconds to nearly five minutes, and they are created with editors in mind with their different intensities and speeds for easy implementation. For sounds that are both practical and experimental, give 'Metal Contact' a listen.

Halloween 101

Horror Sound Effects Halloween 101 Play Track 101 sounds included $20

Halloween 101 is a great collection of sounds for your spooktacular projects! Inside are eerie ambiences; ghosts and zombies; human grunts, dying, screaming, and wailing; bloody gore; blade sounds, glass breaks, squeaky floors and doors, and so much more!

Halloween 101 includes:

• Strange, haunting ambiences
• Blades – impacts, hits, chainsaw, war-hammer, battle ax
• Fighting and Gore – punches, rib cage ripping open, splats, goops
• Footsteps – glass, creaky wood
• Glass Breaks
• Human Sounds – evil laughs, screams (solo and group), grunts
• Unhuman Sounds – Groups of ghostly voices, zombies (solo and groups), speaking in tongues
• Weather – thunder & wind
• Doors – creaking, “Demons Gate”

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If you didn't see this library in our Halloween roundup, then here's another chance to hear the classic haunted house sounds of 'Halloween 101' by Soundopolis. This library has the archetypal sounds of our favorite holiday scenes with insane laughter, portent birds, chainsaw-wielding murderers, ghostly voices, zombies, gore sounds, and ritualistic language. It also includes ambiences of spooky weather, creaking doors, and breaking glass to help you create whatever scenario you'd like. For a great mix of frightening and fun, listen to 'Halloween 101'.

Gun Sound Pack

Firearms Sound Effects Gun Sound Pack Play Track 416 sounds included $15

Gun Sound Pack contains 266 gun sound effects. Guns included: Pistol, Revolver Pistol, Shotgun, Rifle, Sniper Rifle, Semi-Auto Rifle, Sub-Machine gun, Machine gun.

A perfect collection of gun sounds suitable for all types of sound designers, video editors, game developers or anyone who needs a large range of high quality gun sound effects ready to use out-of-the-box. Designed specifically for games, video and other media by award winning sound designers.

This pack also includes a variety of 150 bonus sounds effects from our full library Pro Sound Collection.

Note that ALL sounds from this package Gun Sound Pack are already included in our other premium sound packages Pro Sound Collection and WARFARE SOUNDS. So if you need more sounds including: ambiences, bullets impacts/flybys, explosions, footsteps, silenced guns and other additional weapons, death screams and MANY MORE. Be sure to check out Pro Sound Collection and WARFARE SOUNDS before purchase.

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'Gun Sound Pack' by Gamemaster Audio is a booming library with locked and loaded gunshots. This collection features eight different weapons ranging from a compact pistol to a big ol' machine gun with powerful sniper rifle shots, a semi-auto rifle dry firing, and sounds of handling a pistol, loading a shotgun, and cocking a revolver. Plus, it features sounds of selector switches, unloading magazines, and long beautiful reverb tails. If you need a collection that quickly covers the bases of gun shots and body sounds, give 'Gun Sound Pack' a listen.

Thunder & Rain

Environments & Ambiences Thunder & Rain Play Track 46+ sounds included, 23 mins total $13

Thunder & Rain is a sound library that delivers the recordings of two storms. It includes a total of 46 audio files, split into three folders: STEREO, MS and UPMIX 5.1. It also comes with 40 audio files in the AS REC MS (NO De-Noise) folder.

De-noise was applied to most of the recordings, to only preserve thunder FX, but you have the NO De-Noise folder included too.

Create your own thunder ambiences with the included Winds/Storm/Rain files (in the preview below, I used the Rain file in addition to thunder files).

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'Thunder & Rain' by JP Belliard features two storms that boom across urban skies. This library features over 40 sounds of thunder as it booms and cracks from both across the city and building-shakingly close by. The library not only includes stereo recordings but also Mid-Side and upmixed 5.1. Plus, you receive the de-noised and raw files to meet your workflows and experimentation styles as well as sounds of wind and rain for fleshed out soundscapes. For a great pack to start your storm collection, give 'Thunder & Rain' a listen.

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Broken Play Track 2266 sounds included, 273 mins total $149.99

Nothing slaps a smile on a face like the sweet sound of destruction and mayhem. Designing sound for such complex events as a collapsing building or an earthquake requires a diverse and comprehensive palette of chaos. To create such havoc, one must be equipped with the ultimate destruction sound library.

We stopped at nothing to put together this library of utter mayhem. BROKEN boasts over 9 GB of HD quality content spread across 1940 construction kit sounds and 326 designed sounds. From car crashes, explosions, crumbling buildings, earthquakes, ripping earth and metal, to debris, BROKEN features all elements of destruction.

Recorded in the field and on the Paramount Pictures Foley stage, this library equips sound designers for film, games, and web with the tools for creating a ruckus.

Get wrecked. Get BROKEN.

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Foley Sound Effects Snow Foley Instrument_ Play Track 214 sounds included $0
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Snow Foley Instrument, a collection of pristine snow footsteps samples recorded with the legendary Sony PCM-D100 in the remote mountains of southern France. To enhance your sound design workflow, the samples are accompanied by user-friendly Kontakt and DSsampler instruments.

Whether you’re crafting linear sound designs, immersive interactive experiences, or dynamic game environments, this versatile library has you covered.

Key Features:
- 8 Different Walking types
- More than 200 unique samples
- Recorded in real snow, in different depths
- Stereo 96Khz 24bit
- Kontakt & DSsampler
- Midi Controlled Knobs
*Runs in Kontakt or Free Kontakt Player version 7.7.3 or higher, and in DecentSampler 1.9.13 or higher.
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Magic & Fantasy Sound Effects Sorcery Play Track 2196 sounds included, 337 mins total $14.90

Rock The Speakerbox presents Sorcery, the ultimate sound design toolkit for magic and enchantment.

Harness the forces of light with white magic. Ignite the night with the unbridled power of fire and flame.Summon the darkest of evil with black magic and necromancy. Release the fury of a million volts by mastering the electron. Lay waste to your foes with the sheer might of water and acid. Conjure the frigid and unleash the frost with the power of ice.

Recorded on stage and in the field, and designed by award winning sound designers, SORCERY contains 11.7 GB of HD quality content spread across 1992 construction kit sounds and 204 designed sounds. With spells, deflects, casts, blocks, beams and more, SORCERY provides sound designers and media content creators unrivaled wizardry at their fingertips.

The extraordinary awaits within.

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Magic & Fantasy Sound Effects Sorcery Play Track 2196 sounds included, 337 mins total $14.90

Rock The Speakerbox presents Sorcery, the ultimate sound design toolkit for magic and enchantment.

Harness the forces of light with white magic. Ignite the night with the unbridled power of fire and flame.Summon the darkest of evil with black magic and necromancy. Release the fury of a million volts by mastering the electron. Lay waste to your foes with the sheer might of water and acid. Conjure the frigid and unleash the frost with the power of ice.

Recorded on stage and in the field, and designed by award winning sound designers, SORCERY contains 11.7 GB of HD quality content spread across 1992 construction kit sounds and 204 designed sounds. With spells, deflects, casts, blocks, beams and more, SORCERY provides sound designers and media content creators unrivaled wizardry at their fingertips.

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Foley Sound Effects Snow Foley Instrument_ Play Track 214 sounds included $0
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Snow Foley Instrument, a collection of pristine snow footsteps samples recorded with the legendary Sony PCM-D100 in the remote mountains of southern France. To enhance your sound design workflow, the samples are accompanied by user-friendly Kontakt and DSsampler instruments.

Whether you’re crafting linear sound designs, immersive interactive experiences, or dynamic game environments, this versatile library has you covered.

Key Features:
- 8 Different Walking types
- More than 200 unique samples
- Recorded in real snow, in different depths
- Stereo 96Khz 24bit
- Kontakt & DSsampler
- Midi Controlled Knobs
*Runs in Kontakt or Free Kontakt Player version 7.7.3 or higher, and in DecentSampler 1.9.13 or higher.
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Materials & Texture Sound Effects Element Series – Water Play Track 1600+ sounds included $71.82

– Evolved WATER Sound Library

This isn’t just another water library, this is a professional’s dream library, and we feel you are all going to love it. Not only from all the source recordings, but also from all the incredible designed sounds. It really is an all around workhorse that will have you covered for everything WATER. With over 1600 files and over 3,000 sounds, this library is absolutely massive. Everything from rain, lakes, waterfalls, rivers, and bubbles all the way up to KYMA designed cinematic impacts. We spent over a year recording and designing this collection and are so proud to offer it to you for your toolbox!

Why make another Water library? Because here at SoundMorph we always want to push the limits and quality of what is out on the current marketplace. Elements like WATER present a huge challenge to make modern and exciting. This is what we aimed for with this collection. Watch the Behind The Scenes video by clicking on the “How’s Made Button” to find out just how much went into making this colossal release. A new standard for any working sound professional!

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Bicycle Sound Effects City Bicycles – Complete Bundle Play Track 633 sounds included, 330 mins total $120

The complete package bundles all available City Bicycles-packages and is fully UCS compliant. The ‘Various Passbys + Bicycle Handling’ package is added as a free bonus!

This is a unique bicycle library that captures four characteristic bikes in clean, quiet, nicely performed true exterior rides. Including multiple perspectives, speeds and actions. From fast passbys on asphalt to slow onboard recordings, smooth or skidding stops. This package contains everything you need to create convincing sound design for a City Bicycle.

Contents:

Four bikes with distinct characteristics:
1. Good bike: a smooth sounding retro bike that doesn’t rattle or squeak, really nice tire noise.
2. Bad bike: an old worn bike with severe rattles and cranking, tends to let the chain fly off.
3. Ugly bike: this bike gets you from A to B… but it won’t win awards for it’s looks.
4. Racer bike: a vintage racer that’s pre-owned but still super slick.

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.

Five perspectives:

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.

Speeds and actions:
Three speeds for every bike and every surface (see below). Departures from slow, medium to fast getaways. Arrivals from slow stops with gently squeaking handbrakes to heavy stuttering skids.

Frick and Traa · City Bicycles – Perspectives Demo – Bicycle Medium Speed Asphalt Exterior Outdoor Sound Library

Five surfaces:

We’ve recorded all Bikes on asphalt from all perspectives (onboard and roadside). Additionally, our most quiet bicycle (the Good Bike) was used to record 4 other surfaces from onboard perspectives.

Five Surfaces:
1. Asphalt: nice and clean, with smooth singing sound.**
2. Large Bricks: nicely textured surface that makes the tires purr like a cat.**
3. Gravel: a fresh crackling surface sound that you might find in a city park.
4. Grit: classic bicycle path surface sounds that layers perfectly with the other surfaces.**
5. Icy road: frozen asphalt with sparkling textures of ice crystals snapping under the wheels.

**these surfaces are also recorded from Roadside Perspectives (passby: static and tracking)

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BONUS files:
There are some sweeteners and extras to give your bike that extra layer of grit:
1. Exterior recordings of various actions in multiple takes from rattles, bounces, shakes to roll-bys. Enough to make your bike sound just a little different.
2. We also recorded 21 additional single passbys of various bicycles, from severely rattling to smooth riding bikes on small brick streets and alleys. Enough to expand your options to create a distinguished sound design.

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 to quickly navgiate to the bike you like.
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 making specific sonic events are easy to spot in Soundminer and other apps.

If you have any questions about this, please contact us info@frickandtraa.com!

Single Bicycle packages:
We also sell single packages for all the bicycles in this library.
Here’s a handy comparison table:

Reviews:
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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Animal Sound Effects Rural Ambiences and Textures vol.1 Play Track 130+ sounds included, 270 mins total $21

Rural ambiences, farm animals, pastures, rural villages, forest, meadows, tractors, farm ambiences etc. Distant villages, daytime and nighttime recordings. Barnyard, henhouse, pigsty ambiences, lumberjack works etc. Check the sound list for full info.

High quality recordings recorded in MS, XY, AB; NOS, etc., mostly with Sennheiser MKH microphones and Sound Devices recorder/mixer. Files are without any dynamic manipulation (compression) with max. peak around -5dBFS.

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Car Sound Effects Renault Scenic 2003 compact MPV minivan multi purpose vehicle Play Track 262 sounds included, 58 mins total $19.50

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.

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Ambisonic Sound Effects Ambisonic Sounds – Sea Waves Loops Vol.2 Play Track 28 sounds included, 50 mins total $25

Ambisonic Sounds – Sea Waves Loops Vol.2 – these are 16 sounds of sea waves recorded on a pebble beach at close range, 2 sounds with seagull voices, 4 sounds recorded on the beach during the beginning of a thunderstorm and 6 sounds recorded near the seashore in the early morning, in which in addition to the sound of the sea, the sounds of crickets can be heard.

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Electricity Sound Effects Massive Electric Magic Play Track 2587 sounds included, 154 mins total $34.99

MASSIVE ELECTRIC MAGIC – is an extensive sound library containing 2587 unique files of various types of electric magic. From Zaps, Cracks and Buzzing to Lightning Energy chains. All of our libraries comply with the Universal Category System naming convention standard, allowing for accurate and easy granular searches.

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