Glad to let you know that our sound effects recaps are back with this extended highlight – and if you’re looking for new sound libraries, you’re in luck! This week you’ll hear early-20th century typewriters, the Ambisonic streets of Hollywood, a complete Surround Sound Lab collection, Foley pick ups for games, fauna and flora from a range of mics, a popular ’70s-’90s Fiat, turntable scratches, demonic rituals and ancient chants, rainfall from massive rain forests, sounds of beloved Italian cities, cinematic effects for AAA games, quiet ambiences from neighborhoods, all of SmartSoundFX’s 14 libraries, sounds of a Tomos moped, creative metal plate effects, next-generation sci-fi weapons, and creaky sounds from an old house. Happy listening!
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Vintage Typewriters
'Vintage Typewriters' by Western Tiger Sound Co features five fully mechanical typewriters from the early to mid twentieth century - all captured in great detail at 192khz with the Sanken CO-100k, as well as a stereo overhead pair, contact mic, and for full speed typing performances a room mic to easier mix into ambiences.
Dl0118 Downtown Los Angeles Ambisonic Library Vol 1
'Dl0118 Downtown Los Angeles Ambisonic Library Vol 1' by Herron SFX is possibly the largest Downtown Los Angeles Ambisonic Sound FX Library created to date! It covers all major districts in native B-Format ambisonic recordings for VR, sound editorial for film, and more.
Wild Rain
'Wild Rain' by Mindful Audio was recorded in 4 rainforests across 3 continents: the Amazon rainforest, the Borneo rainforest, the Congo basin rainforest and the Ethiopian cloud forest. It features rain falling on vegetation and forest floor - from sparse drops to moderate and heavy rain. Several recordings of rolling thunder are also included.
Pickups and Small Item Sounds
'Pickups and Small Item Sounds' by Essential Audio contains 280 Foley sounds designed specifically for video game sound designers who need the usual pick-up sounds and sfx for common small items, including: keys, coins, access card, pills/health, latches, locks, chains, bags, and many many more!
Fiat 126 Maluch
'Fiat 126 Maluch' by Stereotyp Sounds features the most popular car in Poland from the late 1970s until the late 1990s. This library has the idiosyncratic sounds of its 2-cylinder, 0.65-liter engine and all the basic sounds this car makes, like driving at various speeds on tarmac and dirt roads, pass-bys & even Foley of the switches, opening doors, etc.
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Back and Forth
'Back and Forth' by Unidentified Sound Object is an easy way to add real scratch and turntable performances to your musical and audiovisual projects, making them sound better then ever before. The unsurpassed sound of the needle in the groove and the cuts of the crossfader generate an unmistakable music quality and uniqueness.
Sacrificial Chants
'Sacrificial Chants' by 344 Audio has sinister and unnerving chants with professional voice actors. These recordings have then been processed and manipulated to be as unsettling as possible. The files have been edited for maximum usability and can be dropped straight into your timeline. Almost all of the sounds are provided dry (without reverb).
Surround Sound Lab Complete Collection (Perpetual Subscription)
'Surround Sound Lab Complete Collection (Perpetual Subscription)' by Foley Collection & Surround Sound LAB contains the whole Surround Sound Lab Catalog - now in UCS format. We offer it as a perpetual one-time subscription, getting you 3500+ files, 3500+ GB of audio and free updates as the catalog grows!
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Italian Cityscapes and Ambiences
'Italian Cityscapes and Ambiences' by Tsunami Sound Wave is comprised of a number of different areas in Italy: Rome, Naples, Tivoli and Positano. You can almost taste the amazing food while listening to the sounds of the back streets of distant traffic ambiences and church bells or in the steep hills of Positano.
Cinematic World
'Cinematic World' by RT Sonics was created in collaboration with several award-winning sound designers, whose credits include Disney+, Diablo 3, The Outsider, Soul, Starcraft 2, Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Mortal Shell and many others. 'Cinematic World' includes over 600 highly detailed designed, signature and source sound effects.
Suburban Ambiences
'Suburban Ambiences' by Soundopolis is full of lush, nighttime ambiences full of tree frogs and crickets; desolate winter ambiences devoid of birds and bugs; neighborhood ambiences with distant lawnmowers, traffic, dogs barking, and neighbors going about their daily routine; traffic and trains passing; morning, noon, evening and night; dense and sparse, and more!
The SmartSoundFX Bundle
'The SmartSoundFX Bundle' by SmartSoundFX is a great sound collection, covering a wide range of needs. It has musical transitions, action scenes, home videos, cinematic fiction - you name it! If 'just good' isn't good enough, make your sounds awesome with this bundle. It includes all 14 SmartSoundFX packs.
Tomos APN-4 1973 Moped Motorcycle
'Tomos APN-4 1973 Moped Motorcycle' by Krampfstadt Studio was recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with Rode NTG1 and Shure VP88 microphones and a Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. This library contains WAV files of driving, exterior Foley, and mechanical and electrical sounds.
Metal Plate
'Metal Plate' by C. A. Sound, Inc. features a hanging metal plate that was recorded with an ambient microphone and a contact microphone to produce other worldly effects. C.A Sound used a granular synthesis engine to focus on harmonics, creating lots of interesting sounds with grinders, thunder, jet pass bys and more!
Cyber Weapons
'Cyber Weapons' by BOOM Library From small sidearm-grade lasers to planet-melting beams of destruction, 'Cyber Weapons' by BOOM Library offers the whole range of next-gen futuristic, modern and sci-fi weaponry for you to pick from. Design your own creations with a construction kit of 3,600+ source sounds and nearly a thousand designed sounds.
Old House
'Old House' by aXLsound is a collection of doors, creaky wood floors, cupboards, footsteps, surround roomtones and various actions captured in natural reverb in a 1913 French traditional rural house. You'll also find creepy resonant footsteps upstairs (recorded from downstairs), distant doors, antique clocks, wooden stairs or even barn doors and windy roomtones.
