New Sound Effects: Tranquil Nature, Winds, HVAC, Rocks, Calculators, Trains, Soldiers - And Robot Factories:

Posted September 25, 2016 by Asbjoern Andersen in New sound effects libraries

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 $15

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

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'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

Mechanical Sound Effects Hvac Elements Play Track 49 sounds included $26

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

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'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.

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'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

Mechanical Sound Effects Victor Adding Machine Play Track 56+ sounds included $12

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

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'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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Destruction & Impact Sounds Cataclysm Play Track 1482 sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$195

Cataclysm is a vast collection of recorded, synthesized and designed sounds created to support important destructive moments and add a stronger sense of extreme consequence to any sound.

The recorded section of library features elements such as flash powder explosions, propane cannon blasts and artillery cannons recorded in unique natural environments with violent transients and lush, long and varied tails. It also features falling trees, forge burners, large trebuchet wood groans, rock smashes as well as more ordinary items recorded and designed to feel like an over the top version of themselves such as vacuum cleaner suctions, metal vase holders, ground pounders and more.

The synthesized section of the library features equally rich textures in the form of explosion sweeteners, other-worldly environmental reflections, scorching energy risers and more.

Finally, recorded and synthesized content was employed to develop the designed section, where the hyperrealism of the recordings meets the clean yet aggressive textures of the synthesized section in catastrophic assets themed around the library’s title.

Bonus: Two extra libraries included for free: This library also includes two additional releases from Mattia Cellotto - for free: Crunch Mode delivers 230 crunchy sounds made with a variety of vegetables, fresh bread, pizza crust and a selection of frozen goods. The Borax Experiment gets you 158 squishy, gory, slimy and gooey sounds.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Cinematic Metal – Titan Play Track 4600 sounds included From: $135

CINEMATIC METAL – TITAN pushes big screen sound design beyond its comfort zone. New and unheard HITS, BRAAMS, BOOMS, IMPACTS, STINGERS and much more await you in the comprehensive Construction Kit and devastating Designed edition. Get over 12GB worth of clean, dazzling sound effects – available as individual components as well as layered, processed and ready to use.

The library is available in two versions & a special bundle:

CINEMATIC METAL – TITAN CONSTRUCTION KIT
CINEMATIC METAL – TITAN sounds massive from start to finish. This Construction Kit in particular starts off with an unusual amount of kick. While foley and other, more meticulous applications are certainly possible, the main purpose here is to bring out the big guns and stomp any hint of moderation into the ground.

LOCK AND LOAD
Supplement your designs with detailed, high-end metallic sounds. The Construction Kit allows you to build unique, multi-accent effects that not only impress in scale, but also in fidelity, rhythm and character. This library particularly shines in situations, where the visible picture doesn’t necessarily produce the envisioned sound, but warrants its own supernatural emphasis.

Files: 700 • Sounds: 4200 • Size: 10.9 GB

CINEMATIC METAL – TITAN DESIGNED:
Optimized for trailers, action scenes, in-game cinematics and special effects, the Designed edition brings fresh and exciting sounds to the table.

Discover the force of aggressive, low, soft, processed, clean and tonal HITS, BRAAMS, IMPACTS, SCREECHES, STINGERS and SLAMS.

DARK AND POWERFUL
Paint a sense of dread and awe – CINEMATIC METAL – TITAN Designed can evoke fear of the unknown but just as easily kick into rampage mode: Empowered, ready for battle and thirsty for revenge. Find your perfect blend of haunting thriller and jacked, gritty anti-hero.
Files: 100 • Sounds: 400 • Size: 1.5 GB

CINEMATIC METAL – TITAN BUNDLE:
THE BUNDLE – The best of both worlds at a discounted price.
The Bundle gives you the full sound design power as it contains both – the DESIGNED and the CONSTRUCTION KIT edition at a discounted price.

Files: 800 • Sounds: 4600 • Size: 12.4 GB

Included sounds – keywords:
Braam, impact, rattle, squeak, rumble, clang, crunch, bell, groan, squeak, creak, cymbal, stinger, rusty, gate, container, flam, click, chain, dragging, thwack, bolt, door, train, metallic, iron, sliding, pole, oil drum, scrap, nail, gutter, break, steel, rim, scaffold, crowbar, swell, brass, hook, grate

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Cataclysm Play Track 1482 sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$195

Cataclysm is a vast collection of recorded, synthesized and designed sounds created to support important destructive moments and add a stronger sense of extreme consequence to any sound.

The recorded section of library features elements such as flash powder explosions, propane cannon blasts and artillery cannons recorded in unique natural environments with violent transients and lush, long and varied tails. It also features falling trees, forge burners, large trebuchet wood groans, rock smashes as well as more ordinary items recorded and designed to feel like an over the top version of themselves such as vacuum cleaner suctions, metal vase holders, ground pounders and more.

The synthesized section of the library features equally rich textures in the form of explosion sweeteners, other-worldly environmental reflections, scorching energy risers and more.

Finally, recorded and synthesized content was employed to develop the designed section, where the hyperrealism of the recordings meets the clean yet aggressive textures of the synthesized section in catastrophic assets themed around the library’s title.

Bonus: Two extra libraries included for free: This library also includes two additional releases from Mattia Cellotto - for free: Crunch Mode delivers 230 crunchy sounds made with a variety of vegetables, fresh bread, pizza crust and a selection of frozen goods. The Borax Experiment gets you 158 squishy, gory, slimy and gooey sounds.

Add to cart
Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Cinematic Metal – Titan Play Track 4600 sounds included From: $135

CINEMATIC METAL – TITAN pushes big screen sound design beyond its comfort zone. New and unheard HITS, BRAAMS, BOOMS, IMPACTS, STINGERS and much more await you in the comprehensive Construction Kit and devastating Designed edition. Get over 12GB worth of clean, dazzling sound effects – available as individual components as well as layered, processed and ready to use.

The library is available in two versions & a special bundle:

CINEMATIC METAL – TITAN CONSTRUCTION KIT
CINEMATIC METAL – TITAN sounds massive from start to finish. This Construction Kit in particular starts off with an unusual amount of kick. While foley and other, more meticulous applications are certainly possible, the main purpose here is to bring out the big guns and stomp any hint of moderation into the ground.

LOCK AND LOAD
Supplement your designs with detailed, high-end metallic sounds. The Construction Kit allows you to build unique, multi-accent effects that not only impress in scale, but also in fidelity, rhythm and character. This library particularly shines in situations, where the visible picture doesn’t necessarily produce the envisioned sound, but warrants its own supernatural emphasis.

Files: 700 • Sounds: 4200 • Size: 10.9 GB

CINEMATIC METAL – TITAN DESIGNED:
Optimized for trailers, action scenes, in-game cinematics and special effects, the Designed edition brings fresh and exciting sounds to the table.

Discover the force of aggressive, low, soft, processed, clean and tonal HITS, BRAAMS, IMPACTS, SCREECHES, STINGERS and SLAMS.

DARK AND POWERFUL
Paint a sense of dread and awe – CINEMATIC METAL – TITAN Designed can evoke fear of the unknown but just as easily kick into rampage mode: Empowered, ready for battle and thirsty for revenge. Find your perfect blend of haunting thriller and jacked, gritty anti-hero.
Files: 100 • Sounds: 400 • Size: 1.5 GB

CINEMATIC METAL – TITAN BUNDLE:
THE BUNDLE – The best of both worlds at a discounted price.
The Bundle gives you the full sound design power as it contains both – the DESIGNED and the CONSTRUCTION KIT edition at a discounted price.

Files: 800 • Sounds: 4600 • Size: 12.4 GB

Included sounds – keywords:
Braam, impact, rattle, squeak, rumble, clang, crunch, bell, groan, squeak, creak, cymbal, stinger, rusty, gate, container, flam, click, chain, dragging, thwack, bolt, door, train, metallic, iron, sliding, pole, oil drum, scrap, nail, gutter, break, steel, rim, scaffold, crowbar, swell, brass, hook, grate

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Play, Stop, Fast Forward and Fast Rewind. Loading and unloading. Buttons and switches!
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Recorded and edited both in stereo and mono.

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