This week we have several treats for you: Hzandbits has released three new urban libraries with construction, city wind, and Tokyo life. The Endorphin Sound Library offers memorable shoreline ambiences. Sound Ex Machina captures the romantic set of a Mediterranean holiday. The Sound Keeper has released the most in-depth everyday door library you’ll find anywhere. And finally, The Red Libraries once again captures their sources’ fine exquisite details — this time with mid-millennial apparatus.
'World of Secrets’ by The Red libraries is a mechanical artisan/sound designer’s dream. This library has the Neo-Victorian sounds of delightful contraptions designed by 15th to 19th century craftsmen. With sounds of hidden doors, bookcases, desks, cupboards, cases, sarcophagi, grimoires, a cane with a retractable blade and more, this library covers much more than common household furniture. It has sounds of rubbing wood and stone, clicking and sliding gears, mechanical ticking, rolling metal balls, and thousands of other textures that are so distinct and magical, you will easily invent new machines with this complex and unforgettable library.
The same old waves hitting the same old rocks is not what you'll find in 'Ocean Ambience: Rocky Coastline, Vol 1’ by Endorphin Sound Library. This library proves just how much satisfaction can be found in the character of unique shoreline crashes and sizzles. With rocks dragged by waves, thick immersive coastal winds, blubbering slaps to rocky shores, sizzling pebbles, gentle laps, and more, these sounds transport you to the rocky beach. It also has several perspectives from extreme close-ups of coarse sand to distant reflections along the shore. For more than just 'whoosh' in your waves collection, give this library a listen.
'Shakes and Rattles’ by Antisample is a library dedicated to its titular motion. With 37 files, this collection features all the household items you’d find rattling in an earthquake—tables, tupperware, nails and screws, keys, handles, bottles, drawers, locks, doors, chairs, and more. It also features designed sounds, plus you can hear some of them pitch-bent on their Soundcloud. If you are looking for 'household oscillation', this is your library.
‘Normal Doors’ came out of the frustration The Sound Keeper founder Jeremy Roger felt when needing an appropriate household door sound for Uncharted 4 - with a strict ship date to uphold. Seeing a lack of variety, he decided to publish this film and game-ready door SFX library which contains a MASSIVE 1400+ sounds from over 120 doors. I doubt he’ll ever be caught needing a door sound in crunch time again - and with this library, neither will you!
'Urban Winds II’ extends this inner-city wind concept by hzandbits. While some wind libraries have no more personality and distinguishment than procedural generation, this library features the physical effects of wind in urban environments. There are whistling steel wires, resonating pipes, howling wind through traffic, clattering flagpoles, leaves and debris being violently thrown around, and more. These 29 tracks will not only give your scenes more natural detail, they will give your project life.
'Construction Ambiances II’ by hzandbits is 78 minutes of excavators, trucks, cranes, pile-drivers, drilling concrete, cutting re-bar, shoveling rubble, and more. Though it was record in Denmark, any intelligible words have been removed to make this library fit any B-roll. While some of these sounds are recorded outside the work zone—capturing long concrete and metal reverberations—many are also up close and personal, featuring tasks such as grinding and earthmoving. For construction ambiences that are ready to be designed into debris, crashes, and more, check out this library.
‘Tokyo Tourist’ by hzandbits is a huge 80-minute library that features the flavors of Tokyo. With the urban nature of Gyoen Park, crowds in Shinjuku station, arcade noises in the famous streets of Akihabara, ambiences in the Narita Airport, happy train announcements, peaceful temples, and so much more from this eclectic country, this library will give you everything you love about the world's largest metropolitan city.
'Mediterranean Summertime’ by Sound Ex Machina is the modern day soundtrack of an Audrey Hepburn film. This library contains ambiences of crowded beaches, ports, ferries, restaurants, taverns, street sellers and musicians, village life, and the boardwalk. Much like the late actress, who could cross international and economic barriers with her disarming charm, this library intimately captures these joyful crowds. With 320 minutes and over 11 GB of content, you will find an endless supply of tourists celebrating life.
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Nature & Countryside High Desert Ambiences 2: Dawn and Morning Choruses Play Track 94+ sounds included, 287 mins total$79$39.50Explore a large collection of beautiful, tranquil sounds from remote desert locations across the American southwest and enjoy listening to the morning sun awaken desert wildlife. This serene collection features sounds that will make you fall in love with the harmonious desert dawn. Sounds include doves cooing, woodpeckers hammering, White-throated Swifts in swirling flocks, and much more. Featured like never before are recordings of Swainson’s hawks so close you can hear the whoosh as their powerful wings cut through the air. For the second installment of my extensive nature sounds from the heart of the American Southwest, here is High Desert Ambiences 2 – Dawn and Morning Choruses.
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!One Year Anniversary Sale:
• A huge THANK YOU to all customers who purchased my sound libraries this past year! Sale ends Monday 8/21.
KEY FEATURES:
• Swainson’s Hawks – a male and female recorded near their nest in a 200-foot cliff. Recordings are from below the nest and include close, distant, circling, diving, and soaring perspectives.
• White-throated Swifts – flocks of small barn swallow-like birds circling, darting, and whooshing in front of a desert cliff.
• Other Birds/Wildlife Included: Canyon Wren, Bewick’s Wren, Montezuma Quail, White-winged Dove, Western Screech-Owl, Aoudad Sheep, Rufous-crowned Sparrow, Eastern Meadowlark, and many more labeled as “songbirds” if not identified by species.
• Quiet Nature tracks –these filenames start with “Quiet Desert” and are sparse ambiences recorded at the threshold of hearing and normalized between -15 and -20 dBFS, with an integrated loudness of approximately -35 to -45 LUFS.
• Quiet Nature tracks have low wildlife activity and are perfect “natural roomtones” to use as the foundation of a designed environment.
• All tracks normalized between -10 and -20 dBFS. Most tracks have an integrated loudness between -25 and -45 LUFS.
• Most files are 3-6 minutes in length
• Named markers included in each file to help find interesting events in an otherwise uniform waveform. Starting in Soundminer 4.5Pro_v252 you can now read text markers from within Soundminer!
• Marker text included in the Soundminer Description and BWAV description fields.
• Recording Location – Davis Mountains, Texas
• *Note – Birds were self-identified using several iOS apps and bird identification websites, so I cannot guarantee 100% accuracy of species identification.
• Need a smaller collection of desert ambiences? Please take a listen to High Desert Ambiences 1 – Essentials ($29, 10 stereo WAVs, 6.5 GB, 94 min, 192 kHz / 24-bit).Sounds from this library were used in the upcoming movie Woman Walks Ahead starring Jessica Chastain!GEAR USED:
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Animals & Creatures High Desert Hummingbirds Play Track 290+ sounds included, Approx. 30 min total mins total$79$39.50Get the stunningly detailed sounds of one of nature’s tiniest aerial acrobats flapping and fluttering in one of the quietest outdoor places in the continental United States. With their ultrasonic chirps, mesmerizing flight abilities and evolution-exhibiting beaks, this library captures the sounds of these rarely heard creatures from a mere two inches away.
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!One Year Anniversary Sale:• A huge THANK YOU to all customers who purchased my sound libraries this past year! Sale ends Monday 8/21.
Key Features:
• 255 clean sounds of hummingbirds recorded in the resonant mountains of west Texas
• 35 sounds of hummingbirds with other songbirds
• Humming, buzzing, popping, fluttering, and purring drones
• Wing slaps and wing contact movement
• Ferocious territorial dogfights
• Laser-like chirps
• Ultrasonic chirps up to 30kHz
• Wild vocalizations
• Swift fly-bys, whooshes, and dive bombs
• Multiple species with a variety of fundamental “hum” frequencies
• Categorized into high, mid, bass, and sub-bass hummingbirds
• Clips ranging from solo hummingbirds to six-bird feeding frenzies
• Microphones placed 6-8 inches from hummingbird feeder with flybys as close as 2-3 inches
• HD videos at 60 fpsHow It’s Made:
Get the full story behind the High Desert Hummingbirds SFX library on the – A Sound Effect BlogNational Museum of Wildlife Art:
Recordings from this library are featured as part of Iridescence: John Gould’s Hummingbirds at the Nation Museum of Wildlife Art.
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Nature & Countryside High Desert Ambiences 1: Essentials Play Track 10+ sounds included, 94 mins total$29$14.50In High Desert Ambiences 1 – Essentials, get the desolately beautiful sounds of the American Southwest as the sun brings to life the songs of desert wildlife. This collection features sounds that will make you fall in love with the desert with the trickling of distant rivers, smooth cricket chirps, echoey caws from ravens so close you can hear the details in their wings flaps, snorts from a cautious yet curious mule deer, choruses of birds at dawn, and much more. Most recordings are well over 4 minutes, with one half-hour night-time track that will make you want to take out your tent immediately. For lush, peaceful nature sounds from the heart of the American Southwest, here’s High Desert Ambiences 1 – Essentials.
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!One Year Anniversary Sale:• A huge THANK YOU to all customers who purchased my sound libraries this past year! Sale ends Monday 8/21.
KEY FEATURES:
• Featured on Designing Sound: “Our Favorite Sounds of 2016”
• Desert dawn and evening choruses
• Distant flowing river, songbirds, and insects
• Ravens soaring and squawking in a stark and resonant valley
• Lengthy night-time cricket chorus
• Partially audible and ultrasonic bat clicks up to 70kHz
• Ghostly distant animal calls
• Mule deer warning snorts and jumping movement
• Files ranging from 31 seconds to 30 minutes
• Rio Grande dawn chorus along the Texas/Mexico river border
• Locations: Near Marfa, Texas (in a mountain valley at an altitude of 6,000 ft) and Big Bend National Park along the Rio Grande River, Texas/Mexico border.
• These desert ambiences are extremely quiet, so I have included descriptive markers to signal interesting events in an otherwise featureless waveform. These markers can be read in programs such as RX, Reaper, and Soundminer. The markers are also included as .txt files in the sound files folder.
GEAR USED:
Sennheiser MKH 50/30 MS pair
Mid/Side recordings decoded to LR stereo
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