Asbjoern Andersen


This week we have sounds that will bring life and movement to your projects. We have gusting winds from the Texas desert mountains, peaceful nature atmospheres from northern Poland, all kinds of HVAC machines like air conditioners, heaters and fans, factory ambiences that include whirring Volvo robotics and a rock processing plant that strangely hums, soldiers conducting war games with AK5s and tanks, rusty freight trains traveling around the San Francisco Bay, plenty of crumbling, shattering rocky glitches, and 1920s technology that helped us count money back in the day.
Designed Rocks
 
  • Drones & Mood Sound Effects Designed Rocks Play Track 60+ sounds included, 12 mins total $10

    Designed Rocks features 60 cinematic rock sound effects, crumbling and cracking elements, shattering glitches, evolving textures, and everything in between, that range from heavily designed to basic sounds.

    Designed Rocks includes:

    60 24bit / 96kHz WAV files / UCS (Universal Category System) Meta-tagged (Soundminer)
    • 25 Sequences
    • 25 Elements
    • 10 Source Recordings

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'Designed Rocks' by Solar Audio is a set of glitchy rock elements that crumble, crack and shatter in oddly organic yet synthetic ways. This library has 70 impacting textures that are at times rhythmic and melodic as they crumble, roll, and burst. The library also includes unique atmospherics as if the rocks are under water, or in a small reverberating space, a malfunctioning holodeck and an alien world. If you are looking for synthetic crumbles, check this library out.
 
Summer Ambients
 
  • Nature & Countryside Ambiences Summer Ambients Play Track 92+ sounds included, 175 mins total $32

    Get the sounds of nature from places like forests, lakes, meadows and swamps. Many types of birds, insects, a forest during rainfall, calm and windy days. A brilliant collection of ambiences for atmospheric background sounds, and you can mix and match ambiences for an even livelier soundscape. Recorded in beautiful Masuria in Poland, a region known for its rich nature and 2000 lakes.

    Recorded with Sound Devices 702, Rode NTG3, 2x Oktava MK012 in MS and stereo XY pattern.

    Huge new update: The library now features 92 files, 175 minutes of recordings – and the total size is 5.79 GB
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The just-updated version of 'Summer Ambients' by Soundholder captures the peaceful landscapes of the lively and pristine forests, lakes, meadows and swamps of Masuria, Poland. This library features several birds such as cuckoos, crows, collared doves, seagulls, warblers, and woodpeckers, as well as crickets, frogs, and flies. You'll even find various intensities of wind and rain, plus quiet and peaceful soundscapes on which to build your own fauna. For tranquil scenes of Northern Polish nature, you should definitely listen to this library.
 
High Deserts Winds
 
  • Weather Sound Effects High Desert Winds 1 Play Track 52+ sounds included, 200 mins total $70

    In this collection, get the blustery sounds of High Desert Winds 1 recorded in the resonant mountains of west Texas. This library includes sounds of the mountain ridge tops of the David Mountains with 15-50 mph gale force gusts, low whistling drones, breezes through pinyon pines, mesquite and much more. There are also seasonal recordings with leafy gusts, pouring rain, broad spectrum wind through winter grass, and crickets at night braving the weather. If you need sounds of the blustery wide open American Southwest, this is the library to check out.

    2% for the Planet:
    Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause. I view it as an “artist royalty” for the planet!

    Key Features:

    • 80% bird and insect free
    • High altitude desert wind: 6000 ft. average elevation
    • Turbulent gale-force gusts ranging from 15-50 mph
    • Mountain ridge tops
    • Indoor window perspectives
    • Dead winter and spring grass
    • Pinyon Pine
    • Scratching Mesquite
    • Bats above 20kHz
    • Locations: Davis Mountains, Texas
    *Bowed metal sounds in demo not included

    Gear Used:
    • Sennheiser MKH 50/30 Mid/Side pair
    • Mid/Side recordings decoded to LR stereo
    • DPA 4060 A/B pair
    • Sound Devices 702
    • Rycote AG MS Blimp
    Need More Winds? Listen to High Desert Winds 2!
'High Deserts Winds' by Thomas Rex Beverly is an eclectic collection of winds from the high altitude areas of Texas. This library includes sounds of the mountain ridge tops of the David Mountains and Big Bend National Park with 15-50 mph gale gusts, low whistling drones, and breezes through the pines, mesquite and more. There are also seasonal recordings with leafy gusts, pouring rain, broad spectrum wind through winter grass, and crickets at night braving the weather. If you need sounds of the blustery wide open American South, this is the library to check out.
 
HVAC Elements
 
  • Hvac Elements is 1.65Gb / 61 minutes of fans, heaters, coolers and things that go WHOOSH, in 49 separate files, recorded in 24bits/96kHz quality and UCS-compliant.

    Hvac Elements is a sound effects library to help you put some realistic ventilation sounds in your productions, recorded from a variety of sources at many different locations.

    From table fans to large industrial vents, as well as a multitude of cooling units. Humming, droning, whooshing hvac machinery; some well-oiled, some rattling and worn. Bathroom vents, air conditioning units and a hot water pressure pump. Even the feeding mechanism of a pellet stove.

    Recorded with a minimum of ambiance and background noises (location permitting) and many delivered as seamless loops. The perfect companion to Hvac Drones & Tones.

    Hvac Elements includes:

    • A variety of hvac elements
    • Seamless loops
    • Searchable file names
    • BWF Metadata embedded, with more included in CSV and ODS (OpenOffice) formats

'HVAC Elements' by Hzandbits has all the sounds of ventilation you need for your industrial scenes. This library has nearly fifty recordings that make up over an hour of fans, heaters, coolers and more. You can find a small fan with bad bearings that grates and squeals, a tabletop fan that flutters, a howling bathroom fan, a refrigerator cooler that drones and rattles, and much more. With so much variation, you should have an easy time implementing these ambiences and HVAC units in your factories, spaceships and general interior scenes.
 
Rusty Old Freight Trains
 
  • Train Sound Effects Rusty Old Freight Trains Play Track 10+ sounds included, 28 mins total $20

    This sound effects library is a collection of field recordings of freight trains in the San Francisco Bay area with a route along San Jose, Richmond, Oakland, Emeryville, and San Francisco. All the recorded freight trains were old, rusty, and covered in graffiti. When in motion they come alive with very unique sounds such as metal on metal scrapes, heavy thuds, clunking, and screeching noises. All trains were recorded within 15-20 feet from the mic setup of Schoeps 2 CMC 6 U mic bodies, a Schoeps MK4 and MK8 mic capsules, and a Rycote windjammer fed into a Sound Devices 744T.

'Rusty Old Freight Trains' by Kevin Durr has sounds of these giants as they travel around the San Francisco Bay. Covered in rust and graffiti, the trains clunk, screech, scrape and thud as their complex bodies - roiled by heat, constant rain and salty air - roll along the tracks to San Jose, Richmond, Emeryville and other destinations. Each recording was captured within 15-20 feet of the trains and have a sample rate of 96kHz for creative design. If you're looking for the distinct sounds of trains with more robust age characteristics, these are ones to hear.
 
Victor Adding Machine
 
  • This sound library is entirely based on the Victor adding machine, made in the 1920s. This machine was purely mechanical and non-electric. In this sound library you'll get individual recordings of the machine's hand crank, printer, paper, and button/keys tracks as well as six complete recordings of the adding machine in full action. The library also contains five different mic positions with two different mic techniques used.

    Gear:
    • Spaced pair mic setup: 2x Schoeps CMC 5U, 2x Schoeps MK4 capsules
    • Mid-side mic setup: 2x Schoeps CMC 5U, Schoeps MK4 and MK8 capsules
    • Sound Devices 744T
'Victor Adding Machine' by Kevin Durr is a library based on this machine and all its early 20th century technology. With its printer, paper, buttons, and cranking mechanism, this device used to give human minds a break from counting cash. This library features six recordings of the machine's actions from five mic positions and with two different mic techniques from a Schoeps CMC 5U pair with MK4 capsules. Whether you are going for authenticity or creating a retro-futuristic device, give this library a listen.
 
Infantry Soldiers
 
'Infantry Soldiers' by Glad Sound Libraries gives you sounds of military drills by Swedish soldiers. These grunts recreated combat scenarios using squad techniques and all the gear they could muster. The soldiers use their AK5 rifles and shout commands, plus they had access to their big guns with AT rocket launchers and tanks. The sounds are also separated into arrays as well as single shots. With all the resources to be found in this library, it is quite the rare find!
 
Rock Processing Factory
 
'Rock Processing Factory' by Glad Sound Libraries was recorded at Cementa, a rock processing and cement factory in Skövde, Sweden. This library features rocks being processed and crushed by machines that rattle, hum, squeal and spin as they crush massive amounts of earth. These recordings are perfect for creepy industrial ambiences, torture devices, or even massive storms ready to tear the roof off. If you are looking for something completely new in your ambiences, give this library a listen.
 
Robot Factory
 
'Robot Factory' by Glad Sound Libraries features the interesting and weird sounds of the Volvo factory in Skövde, Sweden. It has weird robotic sounds, strange atmospheres and all the humming, whirring, creaking, moaning and hissing you could hope for. Each recording from this 22-minute library was cut into 40 seconds, so it has quite the diverse collection of sounds for building ambiences or robotic movements in your project. If you need sounds for your obsessed machinist's lab or an abandoned factory that became sentient, this is one to check out.
   

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Popular sound effects this week:

 
  • Introducing MOTION GRAPHICS, a complete Motion Graphics sound effects library from SoundMorph!

    Motion Graphics focuses on all the elements you might need for sound design on a trailer, a cinematic scene or a visual that is heavy with motion graphics, whether it be abstract or straight forward, Motion Graphics has all the elements and textures you could think of. Motion Graphics are something all of us sound designers run into at one point or another, so this library is an excellent addition to your sound effects tool box.

    Motion Graphics was created by and in collaboration with sound designer Rostislav Trifonov (SoundMorph Elemental library contributor).

    Motion Graphics features 650 24bit/96 kHz .wav files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata.

    The library features:

    • 450 + designed sound effects
    • 190 + source audio files
    • Whooshes
    • Impacts
    • Risers
    • Stingers
    • Low end and Sub Bass
    • Impulse Responses
    • Passbys
    • Textures – noise, grit, glitch
    • Ambiences
    • Buttons and Clicks
    • Mechanical Elements
    • Granular effects
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  • Strident and Demonic

    Expand the timbre of your horror violins and cellos with CIRCUS, a sinister sample pack featuring 180 WAV sounds of screeching or high-pitched string noises, perfect for horror music and dark sound design.

    Creative Tension

    This collection offers a curated selection of screeches, high-tension tremolo, heavy jeté strokes, dark demonic textures, finger patterns, chaotic string elements, clock loops and bow accents.

    Haunting and Experimental

    Create haunting atmospheres, perfect for horror, thriller or experimental soundtracks. Every element has been designed to unsettle and disturb, blurring the line between music and noise.

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  • Bloody Nightmare is a modern horror cinematic library aimed at the most cutting edge bone chilling productions out there.

    Whether you work in sound design, as a composer, trailer editor or as an electronic musician, Bloody Nightmare is a valuable new wave of Horror sounds that will surely cause visceral moments of terror and dread!

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  • Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects SpellBound Play Track 969 sounds included, 122 mins total $90

    SpellBound is premium sound effects library exploring the intersecting spaces of modern magic and science fiction energy. The result is a polished, designed, and inspiring set of cinematic magic sounds ready to bring new life to your film, game, and media projects. Brian Johnson, the creator of SpellBound and Slipstream is an award winning sound designer who after working in film, and television, has found his home designing sound for the biggest video game franchises in the world.

    SpellBound has 969 total sound effects
    Spells, explos, tails, whooshes, beds, impacts, drones, and more.

    Designed section – 202 designed multi-event show stopping full frequency sound effects.
    Elements section – 767 designed construction kit, layers, sweeteners, and single event effects.

    SpellBound can compliment your fx arsenal with traditional fantasy, modern magic, cinematic impacts, and even as an explosion sweetener. It can take over a fantasy trailer or a compliment a hybrid space magic video game.

    Thank you for licensing SpellBound. I hope it inspires you to create something exciting and magical.

    SpellBound Flyer

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  • Introducing MOTION GRAPHICS, a complete Motion Graphics sound effects library from SoundMorph!

    Motion Graphics focuses on all the elements you might need for sound design on a trailer, a cinematic scene or a visual that is heavy with motion graphics, whether it be abstract or straight forward, Motion Graphics has all the elements and textures you could think of. Motion Graphics are something all of us sound designers run into at one point or another, so this library is an excellent addition to your sound effects tool box.

    Motion Graphics was created by and in collaboration with sound designer Rostislav Trifonov (SoundMorph Elemental library contributor).

    Motion Graphics features 650 24bit/96 kHz .wav files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata.

    The library features:

    • 450 + designed sound effects
    • 190 + source audio files
    • Whooshes
    • Impacts
    • Risers
    • Stingers
    • Low end and Sub Bass
    • Impulse Responses
    • Passbys
    • Textures – noise, grit, glitch
    • Ambiences
    • Buttons and Clicks
    • Mechanical Elements
    • Granular effects
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  • Khron Studio - Forged In Fury Vol 2

    Forged in Fury Vol. 2 – Modular Weapon Sound Design Kit

    Forged in Fury Vol. 2 continues the philosophy of providing fully modular sounds, allowing you to design and customize your weapon audio exactly as you need. Each element is carefully edited and organized into categories such as whooshes, retractions, impacts, blood, and more, giving you total control to adapt and layer sounds to your project.

    This volume includes 586 individual sounds at 192 kHz / 24-bit quality, ready to use as-is or to combine and shape into something entirely new.

    🎧 Featured Content:

    – Greatsword (123 sounds)
    Heavy metallic textures with more weight, blood, and impact than a standard sword.

    – Iron Staff (74 sounds)
    Inspired by the legendary staffs of Shaolin monks, offering solid strikes and metallic resonances

    – Karambit Knife (252 sounds)
    Fast, sharp, and deadly. Featuring rapid spins, swift cuts, and an ever-present sense of danger.

    – Nunchakus (137 sounds)
    Dynamic and versatile, infused with the spirit of classic martial arts films. Includes wooden hits, chain rattles, and fast whooshes.

    🔑 Key Feature:
    As in the first volume, each sound is delivered in editable layers (e.g., whoosh + impact + blood). Want a greatsword strike without blood? Just combine whoosh + hit and you’re set. You can even swap layers across different weapons to create entirely new variations.

    🎚️ Studio-Grade Quality:
    Recorded at 192 kHz / 24-32 bits and delivered at 192 kHz / 24 bits, ensuring outstanding fidelity. Perfect for pitching, distortion, and heavy processing without losing clarity.

    👉 Forged in Fury Vol. 2 is not just a sound library, it’s a true creation kit, giving you the freedom to craft weapons and scenes with maximum flexibility and realism.

    More about the pack
    – Intuitive file naming
    – Everything you need for a Greatsword, Iron Staff, Karambit Knife, or Nunchucks.
    – Use the sound effects over and over again, in any of your projects or productions, forever, with no additional fees or royalties. Use the sound effects in your game, your trailer, a Kickstarter campaign, wherever you need them, as many times as you want.
    – Fully mono support
    – All sounds have several variations.
    – Unleash your imagination and feel free to use any sound for something other than what is described; remember that the world of sound is entirely subjective.
    – For any questions or problems: khronstudio@gmail.com

    Features
    – 586 sounds
    – Format: 192KHz / 24 bits
    – Do Sound FX loop: No
    – Win/Mac: Yes
    – Minutes of audio provided: 06 minutes and 02 seconds

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Latest sound effects libraries:
 
  • This is a varied collection of sounds recorded from a vintage mechanical clock dating back to 1934. Includes chiming sounds and multiple perspectives of ticking.

     

    Features:

    • Over 30 audio files
    • 96kHz 24 bit WAV format
    • Metadata tagged (UCS compliant)
    • Available for commercial or non-commercial use, with no attribution required
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  • Car Sound Effects Lexus RC-F Play Track 15 sounds included $10

    A comprehensive mini-library collection of Lexus RC-F recordings capturing the raw power – from subtle idles to roaring accelerations and high-speed passes. This is not a large library, but a focused collection of exterior sounds.
    Perfect for film, games, and commercials.

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  • Foley Sound Effects Zastava 645 Zeta 1988 truck Play Track 140 sounds included, 52 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 only available in UCS.

  • Metal Sound Effects Military Truck Percussion Play Track 321 sounds included, 14 mins total $10

    A US Military Truck is transformed into a percussive instrument and hit with drum sticks and a variety of mallets ( gong, xylophone and timpani ) and sampled using contact microphones and geophones.

    A unique collection of 321 metallic percussive hits perfect for metal impact sound design and transient shaping.

    Type : Source Files / WAV Mono

    Normalised : -6 dbFS

    Grouped Files for Easy Reference Included

    Recorder : Sound Devices Mix Pre 10II

    Microphones : Stille & Klang Spot, LOM Geofon

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O805cKU_XrE

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  • 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 only available in UCS.


   

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