New Sound Effects: Mopeds, European Forests, Formula 1 Cars, Silenced Guns - And Much More!

Posted August 12, 2017 by Adriane Kuzminski in New sound effects libraries

This week at A Sound Effect, we have so many new libraries we’ve had to release a bi-weekly roundup! In this recap, you’ll hear sounds of the buttons and switches from a retired flight simulator, lots of buzzing mopeds, detailed boot and sneaker footsteps on concrete, tense bowed cymbal effects, rocky debris and rolling stones, zipping Formula 1 cars, explosive howitzers, an eclectic silenced gun library, and peaceful nature ambiences from the Black Forest. There is a little bit of everything this week, so enjoy your discoveries!

Flight Simulator

Mechanical Sound Effects Flight Simulator Play Track 91+ sounds included $12

Get the sounds of switches, buttons, knobs and handles – recorded inside an old, retired flight simulator donated to the Danish Technical Museum.

This machine used to make aspiring pilots sweat in their seats, putting them through all sorts of mechanical failures, emergency landings, and just plain flying.

There is basically a switch, button, knob or handle to start every single possible emergency situation a pilot and crew may encounter when flying.

When the sound recording started, some of them were partly broken, and others missing, some did not turn or switch, but most of them were still there and worked beautifully. The variety is surprisingly great, and very different from today's modern switch sounds.

91 tracks, recorded with a Sennheiser 416 onto a Sounddevices 702, all tracks Metadata tagged.

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'Flight Simulator' by SonicSalute gets you inside a retired flight simulator at the Danish Technical Museum. How cool is that? This machine has switches, buttons, knobs, and handles galore to put training pilots to the test in their flying and troubleshooting skills. You'll get all sorts of sounds in this library including the device's throttle, radio, compass, rudder, fuel handle, and much more. For a wide variety of mechanical button and switch sounds, this library is a great value!

Mopeds

Motorcycle Sound Effects Mopeds Play Track 113+ sounds included $60

The Mopeds SFX library delivers the sounds of no less than 7 different mopeds. Created in a collaboration between Sonicsalute, sound designer Rune Palving (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 1864, and Tordenskjold), and sound designer Peter Albrechtsen (Antichrist, The Queen of Versailles, and The Idealist).

The included mopeds range from new and non-modified models, to many characteristic-sounding (old and wrecked) models – as well as one heavily-tuned moped.

The Mopeds library contains:

Onboard driving and maneuvering (long onboard drives) • Ambiences • Passbys • Circles • Incoming/aways • Start/stop • Revs • Horns • Fuel covers

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'Mopeds' by SonicSalute, and sound designers Rune Palving and Peter Albrechtsen, features 7 mopeds that range from new to run down. These 50cc scooters are captured as they pass by, circle, start up, stop, rev, and honk their horns. Plus, 4 of the mopeds were recorded with onboard mics on their exhaust and motor and with a mono or MS boom mic, giving you the option for easy perspective changes! For a more detailed listen of these multi-channel recordings, check out the demo video.

Concrete Foot Work

Footsteps Sound Effects Concrete Foot Work Play Track 274 sounds included $10

‘Concrete Foot Work’ by Badlands Sound includes 274 high-quality footsteps perfect for your projects.

The library features five different types of shoes; Boots, Heels or Dress Shoes, Leather Smart Shoes, Old Shoes, and Trainers on three different surfaces – Concrete, Gritty Concrete, and Wet Concrete.

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'Concrete Foot Work' by Badlands Sound is a focused library that gives you a wide variety of footsteps from the same palette. With over 270 sounds, you'll hear steps from boots, heels, dress shoes, leather shoes and more on surfaces of dry, wet and gritty concrete. And these footsteps were performed as walking, landing, scrapes, scuffs, stomps, and running, giving you all the sounds you need for your interactive character or film scene. If you need footsteps fast, check this library out.

Bo Ho – Kontakt Edition

Whoosh Sound Effects Bo Ho – Kontakt Edition Play Track 900 sounds included $14

Bo Ho – Kontakt Edition, is a new library of weird and wonderful sounds created from a cymbal being played with a violin bow. It consists of 52 clean recordings in WAV format, plus 8 manipulated, effected versions of some of the files, also in WAV format.

In addition to this, there are 15 Kontakt Instruments made up of different effects to all 60 WAV files, mapped to 60 keys on the keyboard, creating 900 individual sounds / drones / underscores when played with the full Kontakt Player (5.6.8 or above).

The sounds range from the haunting and the subtle, to the distorted ear bleeder and everything in between. The WAV files can be used on their own, or manipulated in any way. The Kontakt Instruments are all unlocked and fully editable, making the possibilities of different versions of the files infinite.

This library is a must for theatre / film / TV sound designers and for sound artists or for anyone who appreciates and uses strange sounds for any project.

Please note that the Kontakt instruments will only play on the full, latest version (5.6.8 or above).

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'Bo Ho – Kontakt Edition' by WW Audio is a tense sound library of bowed cymbal sounds that have been distorted for maximum creepiness. It has 52 clean recordings and 8 manipulated sounds, plus 15 Kontakt instruments that map these recordings for a total of 900 combined effects, drones, and underscores! With the ability to perform these sounds, you'll become the painter of intensity for your soundscape, so if you need the dramatic atmosphere created by bowed cymbals, look no further.

Just Stones

Rock / Stone Sound Effects Just Stones Play Track 578 sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$19.50

The “Just Stones” sound effects library brings you a huge amount of sounds created with stones. Ranging from impacts, shatters and rolling stones to scrapes, slides, water hits and tickling fine derbis.
All sorted in sub folders and with embedded metadata, and recorded with Sennheiser MKH8050 + MKH30 mix setup in 24Bit and 192kHz, cleaned, edited and downmixed to stereo. Since many of the sounds are quite mono-ish you can download the complete library also as mono files from only the MKH8050 mic.

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'Just Stones' is a new library from the master of rocky impacts, SoundBits. This library features over 570 clean, natural, detailed sounds of rocks as they roll, shatter, slide, and splash into water in ways that don't sound too sterile or performed. You'll also hear impacts of bricks and gravel, as well as lots of trickling of pebbly debris. If you're looking for startling sounds of falling rocks for a scene of an intense rappelling accident, this library should have you covered!

Battlefield Howitzers

Tanks & Artillery Sounds Battlefield Howitzers Play Track 140 sounds included $44

Artillery sound fx including a M101 howitzer and a 25-pounder cannon from two perspectives.

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'Battlefield Howitzers' is an explosive library by Airborne Sound. In this library you'll hear 140 sounds of Howitzers blasting their 25-pound cannons across the field from two perspectives. These sounds of heavy artillery include all the clean blasts you could need, as well as long reverb tails and the incredibly detailed metatadata we've come to expect from Airborne Sound. If booming ordnance is what you need, this is the one you want.

Motorsports 1

Car Sound Effects Motorsports 1 Play Track 200 sounds included $57

200 field recordings of race cars from 8 races, featuring Ferrari Challenge, Formula 1600, IndyCar races, and more.

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'Motorsports 1' by Airborne Sound has over 240 sounds from 9 popular races. Featuring recordings from the Formula 1, Ferrari Challenge, Pro Mazda, Canadian Touring Car Championship, IndyCar races and more, you'll hear these vehicles fly around the racetrack with their loud revving, buzzes, and pops. Each track lasts from a few seconds to over two minutes, giving you a great selection of sounds that are easy to find, yet flexible for your needs. For sounds of high-performance vehicles, this library will get your gears going.

Silenced Gun Sounds

Firearms Sound Effects Silenced Gun Sounds Play Track 410 sounds included $25

Silenced Gun Sounds contains a total of 410 sound effects.

Including:
– 102 silenced gun sounds.
– 132 bullet sounds (flybys, bullet shells)
– 176 bonus sounds from Pro Sound Collection

Note that ALL sounds from Silenced Gun Sounds are already included in our other premium sound packages Pro Sound Collection and WARFARE SOUNDS. So be sure to check out Pro Sound Collection and WARFARE SOUNDS before purchase.

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'Silenced Gun Sounds' by Gamemaster Audio is an action-packed library featuring our favorite tactical attachment. This library has 102 silenced gun sounds, 132 flybys and shell drops, and 176 bonus sounds of bullet impacts, crossbows, explosions, foley, grenade launchers and more from Pro Sound Collection - meaning you can extend your library further if you'd like! If you need sounds to get your first person shooter off and running in the prototype stage, this is a great place to start.

Sounds of Nature: FORESTS of Europe

Nature & Countryside Ambiences Sounds of Nature: Forests of Europe Play Track 21-63 sounds included, 314 mins total $69

Sounds of Nature: FORESTS of Europe features nature sounds and ambiences, captured in different forests of Central Europe at different times of day and at night.

It includes recordings in deciduous forests, pine tree forests and mixed forests. These forests are among the oldest, quietest and most beautiful pristine forests in Europe. You can hear many different birds, including cuckoos, owls and woodpeckers. All nature recordings are clear and completely free from external noise and other human disruptions. This is why this library will be especially useful for productions taking place in the past, like medieval and ancient times. As well as historical and nature documentaries.

All of these nature ambiences are recorded using three different microphone set-ups. A Stereo set-up, a wide stereo set-up and a spaced omnis set-up, which also offers extended frequency response. This brings you 3 variations of each recording. Within these variations the differences are sometimes subtle and sometimes more extreme. These three perspectives can provide flexibility for crosscutting within scenes.

Get more than 5 hours of unique, royalty-free and especially high quality recordings with this library.

Recorded in 24 bit / 96 kHz. Accurately edited and mastered to sound as natural as possible. The average length of each file is between 3-5 minutes, so enough time to use in longer scenes without looping.

For more detailed descriptions about the ambiences in this collection see the metadata in our file lists or listen to the preview montage.

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'Sounds of Nature: FORESTS of Europe' by Fennec FX is a tranquil collection that takes you deep into the forests of Central Europe. Featuring bird choruses (and the popular cuckoo), quiet night ambiences with distant red foxes and tawny owls, and piney winds sprinkled with woodpeckers, you'll get over 5 hours of purely natural 3-5 min ambiences. You'll also receive three different perspectives from a stereo, wide stereo, and spaced omni set up. For sounds of nature that are perfect for eras preceding our modern technology, check this one out.

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This volume includes 255 high-quality sound effects, organized into 27 distinct spell types, each with multiple variations (3 to 17) to ensure no spell sounds the same, even when reused across your project.

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More about the pack
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– Use your imagination and feel free to use any sound for a creature other than the one described, remember that the world of sound is totally subjective.
– For any questions or problems: khronstudio@gmail.com

Features
– 255 spell sounds
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– Format: 192KHz / 24 bits
– Win/Mac: Yes
– Minutes of audio provided: 19:21

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Animal Sound Effects Forests and Mountains Play Track 96+ sounds included, 220 mins total $110

Forest and Mountains features nature and wildlife sounds from California, Washington, and Oregon. Included are a number of bird recordings and forest ambiences, along with some insects, winds, rivers, and rain.

These were recorded over the past three years in various forests, foothills, and mountain environments. A lot of these took place in or near Southern California’s Angeles Forest and San Gabriel Mountains, an area that spans 1200 Square Miles and varies vastly in terrain.

Also included are some sounds from Northern California, along with recordings from the Pacific Northwest.

The recording techniques for this varied as sometimes I went with the recorders running unattended to capture night, dawn and early morning. Other times I’d record while being close by.

Working as a Sound Effects Editor I’ve curated this collection with Editors in mind. Background Ambiences and Spotted FX can really bring a location to life and give it so much story and character and that was a lot of the inspiration behind putting this all together.

The Locations

California (61 Files) – This is where a majority of the sounds from this library were recorded and specifically Southern California. Variety of areas and different environments, mostly around Angeles Forest, from Lower Elevation Foothills to more rugged mid-elevation Mountain Canyons and then much Higher Elevation and more remote terrain. Also included are a few recordings from the Eastern Sierras and Northern California.

Washington (19 Files) – Southern WA in Gifford Pinchot Forest and various Northwest Forest areas near Puget Sound.

Oregon (16 Files) – Lakeside Recordings in forest and marsh at Klamath Lake in SE Oregon.

The Birds

Prominent / Specific Birds (36) (Closer Mic Perspective and more detailed) (* denotes multiple versions)

Acorn Woodpecker, Barred Owl, Black-headed Grosbeak, California Towhee, *Canadian Geese, *Fox Sparrow, *Great Horned Owl, *House Wren, Northern Flicker, Oak Titmouse, Pacific Wren, Pileated Woodpecker, *Raven, Robin, *Song Sparrow, Spotted Towhee, Swainson’s Thrush

Other Birds Featured (17) (Mixed together from various perspectives, calm to busy depending on time of day, and then closer to more medium and distant sounds.)

Acorn Woodpecker, American Coot, California Quail, California Towhee, Cassin’s Finch, Fox Sparrow, Great Horned Owl, Hose Wren, Mallard, Mountain Chickadee, Northern Flicker, Nuttall’s Woodpecker, Oak Titmouse, Pied-billed Grebe, Common Poorwill, Raven, Red-tailed Hawk, Spotted Towhee, Steller’s Jay, Western Tanager, Western Wood-Pewee, White-breasted Nuthatch, Wilson’s Warbler, Wrentit, Yellow-throated Blackbird, Zone-tailed Hawk

General Forest (9) – A mix of some wildlife (Chipmunk, Deer, Bullfrogs), and more general lighter forest ambiences.
Insects (7) – Crickets from various perspectives and different forests along with some Grasshoppers.
Rain (4) Light to heavier in a canyon with dense vegetation, some with distant birds.
Rivers (5) Smaller detailed creeks to faster moving rivers.
Wind (11) A mix of calm to heavier with gusts, vegetation, and tree creaks.

Metadata
Detailed with descriptions and markers and photos to easily navigate and allow for options when searching. UCS was used to categorize and various bird species are identified. I’ve also labeled the metadata with what I consider Lower Elevation (up to 1500 feet), Middle Elevation (2000-5000 feet), and Higher Elevation (above 5000 feet). Included are the season of the year which was mostly Spring and Summer. Using Open-Tier in Soundminer you can use these to help get a bit more specific to particular environments.

The Gear

Sound Devices MixPre-3 & 6 | Zoom F3 & 6 | Sony PCM-D100

Mics

Sennheiser MKH 8020 | Sennheiser MKH 8040 |

Sennheiser MKH 30 | Clippy EM 272

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Game Audio Packs - Game Sound Effects Libraries General UI Sounds Play Track 136 sounds included $10

Hello Creators!

Here’s my new pack: “General UI Sounds“

I wanted to create a sound pack to cover different situations in an user interface.
I hope you enjoy implementing this sounds in your project!

Making-Off

All this sounds were originally recorded with a Zoom H6 (cardiod microphone), and were processed in Logic Pro X, mainly editing the recorded material but also I used the Logix Pro X sampler.

Some considerations

1. Keep in mind this sounds can be used in a variety of situations, I put a name to the SFX but this doesn’t mean it can’t be used in other contexts.

2. The sounds are in 44.1Khz/16 bit format. I have the original files at 96khz/24bit also, if you need this format, please contact me.

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Car Sound Effects BMW Z4 E89 2009 sports car Play Track 221 sounds included, 47 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 also available in UCS.

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Universal Category System (UCS) Toy Quadcopter Play Track 10 sounds included $8

Toy Quadcopter is a focused mini library capturing the playful and high-pitched character of a toy drone in motion. Perfect for film, TV, games, and interactive media, it offers a variety of flight sounds, close fast pass-bys, slow passes, motor modulations, and essential electronic signals.
This collection includes take-off and landing sequences, beeps for syncing, calibration and low battery warnings, as well as servo engine textures and detailed proximity recordings. Recorded with precision and clarity, it’s a compact but rich toolset for designing scenes that call for small UAVs, gadgets, or sci-fi elements.

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