New Sound Effects: The Tube, Icy Impacts, Ambisonic Cities - And Lots More!

Posted January 2, 2018 by Adriane Kuzminski in New sound effects libraries

Welcome to the year's first look at exciting new indie SFX libraries - and for this one, we have quite a few new libraries that will give you distinct elements for your soundscapes.

We have sounds of London's famous metro system, a concise pack of Ambisonic city recordings, more lush ambiences from the Rocky Mountains, and sounds of ice being obliterated.

We also have a rowdy jet ski, cybernetic weapons, and interesting EMF recordings, too! Happy listening, and happy new year!

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Sounds of the London Underground

Travel & Transportation Sounds of the London Underground Play Track 189+ sounds included $40

Anybody familiar with travelling on the London Underground will be aware of the distinct soundscapes beneath the streets of London; from the clatter of the ticket hall barriers to the eerie rumbles from the tunnels, waiting in anticipation for the next train to come rushing past before stopping with the squeal of the brakes.

Each type of train on the network has its own distinct characteristics such as the moaning of the electric traction motors or the peculiar sound of the 1996 Stock used on the Jubilee Line.

All of these sounds have been beautifully captured in 24-bit 48KHz quality- recorded both with XY stereo microphones and binaurally- creating a highly realistic experience for headphone users.

Note to users:
As many of you will know, like many urban transit systems, the London Underground is littered with pre-recorded public announcements.
These recordings have been extensively edited to the highest quality to ensure that these pre-recorded announcements have been removed where possible.

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'Sounds of the London Underground' by Infrastructure Recordings gets you sounds from The Tube, London's famous underground transportation system. You'll hear the familiar sounds of the cars clattering and whooshing by, plus their squeaky breaks, doors opening and closing, and interior recordings. You'll even know if the train car is a Class 172 Turbostar, 1972 Stock, Class 317, etc., and you'll get platform ambiences with conversing travelers and faraway sirens. For authentic details in your city sounds, give this one a listen.

CyberTroops 2040

Firearms Sound Effects Sci-Fi Weapons, Futuristic Laser Guns Play Track 513 sounds included $45

The CyberTroops 2040 sound library features 500+ high quality sci-fi weapons sound effects perfect for video games, film and tv, but also very useful for many other applications! If you’re looking to expand your sound collection with different types of cutting edge sci-fi shots, bursts and blasts, this is the sound library for you. With this collection of futuristic sonic ammo at your disposal you’ll have a powerful audio arsenal for immersing your audience in a cybernetic combat experience!

CyberTroops 2040 contains 520MB of high definition 24bit/96khz sounds, embedded with metadata to speed up your workflow and separated into twelve categories.

Sci-fi Weapon sound categories included:

1. Sniper Rifles
2. Assault Rifles
3. Electric Guns
4. Plasma Guns
5. Bio Guns
6. Heavy Pistols
7. Light Pistols
8. Shotguns
9. Machine Guns
10. Submachine Guns
11. Grenades
12. Source Sound Accessories

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'CyberTroops 2040' by Sound Response gets you over 500 sound effects from 12 newly designed sci-fi guns. This collection packs some futuristic punch with rifles, guns, pistols, SMGs, grenades, and more that have a cybernetic feel for your 22nd-century battles. And these guns don't just fire standard 5.56mm rounds - they are electric, plasmic, and biological, too! Whether you need heavy firepower or a pistol at your side, this library has you covered for your high-tech warfare.

Northern Rockies: miNiATURE

Nature & Countryside Ambiences Northern Rockies: Miniature Play Track 15+ sounds included, 101 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$35

• In Northern Rockies: Miniature, get a mini-nature collection of ambiences from the mountains of Montana. Hear hallowed halls carved by glacial sculptors. Hear quaking Aspens and Ruffed grouse drumming on hollow logs. Hear euphoric dawn choruses, merry songbirds, sacred stillness, and stately woodpeckers knocking on forest doors. This library gives you a small collection of both “quiet” and “active” nature sounds from the continental divide of North America.
• Only 26 glaciers (of the 150 in 1850) remain in Glacier National Park and all are predicted to melt within 30 years. Hear the sounds of this stunning natural cathedral while the glaciers remain. The ecosystem won’t sound the same when they’re gone.

2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause. I view it as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased for the Northern Rockies Series. Field Recording travel for this library was carbon neutral!

KEY FEATURES:
• Sounds in this library are NOT included in other Northern Rockies Series libraries.
• A mini-nature collection of both “quiet” and “active” nature ambiences from Glacier National Park in the Northern Rockies.
• Active – euphoric dawn choruses
• Quiet – soothing afternoons and nights
• A 42-minute evolving dawn chorus (with 2 Loon wails)
• Ruffed Grouse – drumming on hollow logs
• If you need more “active” or “quiet” nature sounds check out: NR: Quiet Nature, NR: Common Loons, and NR: Active Nature.

TEXT MARKERS:
• Named markers are included in each file to help find interesting events in an otherwise uniform waveform!
• Marker text included in the Soundminer description and BWAV description fields.

FILE LIST & METADATA:
• View in browser or Download CSV
• Flora (plants) and Fauna (animals) are described in these terms:
• stillness – close to absolute silence
• fauna sparse
• fauna constant
• flora sparse
• flora constant
• flora and fauna sparse
• flora and fauna constant
• Included Wildlife: Common Raven, Cassin’s Vireo, Chipping Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Fox Sparrow, Townsend’s Warbler, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Western Tanager, angry Chipmunks, and bats up to 90 kHz. *Bonus – two Common Loon wail calls within an extended 45-minute dawn chorus.

GEAR USED:
• Sennheiser MKH 8040 Matched Pair in ORTF
• Sound Devices 702
• Rycote ORTF Blimp

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'Northern-Rockies-miNiATURE' by Thomas Rex Beverly gets you even more peaceful sounds of the beautiful Montana mountains. In this pack, you'll get over 100 minutes of new ambiences with woodpeckers, grouses, and songbirds, as well as a 45-minute extended recording with two loon calls. You'll also get quiet sounds of swaying trees and some absolute stillness. Don't forget, if you like this pack, check out 'Northern Rockies: Quiet Nature' and 'Northern Rockies: Common Loons', too.

Ice Fury

Ice Sound Effects Ice Fury Play Track 348+ sounds included $43

“Ice Fury by Flysound” is a sound library of ice breaking to pieces in as full a variety of ways as possible. This is a thesaurus of the various ways ice gets undone, with blasts and crashes as well as scrapes and swishes and cracks and splinters too.

Ice Fury is recorded on two superb ultra low-noise Neumann D-01 digital mics at 96k/24bit in a fantastic foley studio. Our equipment and processing make it ideal for downpitching and other tweaking to match your project.

The full range of 348 sounds from the ice is thanks to a spread of massive and moderate ice blocks, that have been obliterated by a variety of implements such as a kettle bell, saws, picks, bars, drills, and a bat! If your project involves the sound of frozen water, allow us to break the ice…

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'Ice Fury' by Flysound has sounds of ice being broken into pieces in a variety of ways. You'll hear scraps, cracks, swishes, and impacts as the ice blocks are crushed by kettle bells, chisels, ice picks, saws, bats, spatulas, drills, knives, crowbars, axes, and more. All together you get 348 clean, close-up studio-recorded sounds that will give your debris, impacts, or snowy monsters a below-zero edge. If you need a flexible library featuring the destruction of ice, look no further.

Ambisonic City Life

City Life Sound Effects Ambisonic – City Life Play Track 24 sounds included, 67 mins total ~~From: $24~~ From: $19

Ambisonic City Life is a small collection of ambisonic recordings performed at various locations of different cities. The recordings took place at both internal and external locations.

This collection is great for post production, VR/AR experiences, game developers and any real-time 3D audio engine.
All files are tagged and categorized for your convenience – supporting tag filtering browsing applications.

To create this product a Sennheizer Ambeo microphone paired with Zoom H8 was used.

This package includes 24 Samples – Total 67 minutes of content.
Supported formats: First Order AmbiX B-Format and Stereo (Total of 48 files).

Download a B-Format Ambix demo here: Demo

The library is also available in a stereo only version.

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'Ambisonic City Life' by Sen6 is a quick pack of sounds from the city. With 24 recordings, you'll get the essential elements you need to infuse your soundscape with an urban flavor. You'll hear sirens, crowds, busy traffic, skate parks, parking lots, fountains, markets, and more. And of course, each sound is available in both First Order Ambix B-Format and Stereo. If you need city sounds for you VR project, check this one out.

PWC – Jet Ski – Sea Doo

Ship Sound Effects PWC – Jet Ski – Sea Doo | Volume 1 Play Track 19 sounds included, 17 mins total From: $25

High-resolution Sea Doo recordings were done from varies perspectives (driver perspective & exhaust perspective).

Jet ski performing at different techniques for use in all types of integration, including drag and drop samples, audio to picture, as well as video game implementation by use of Wwise of Fmod (utilizing the on – slow rev to full speed – slow decelerate – off), easily building an interactive PWC engine sound.

Music is only heard on demo, downloads are high resolution and without background music.

What’s included:

Power Ons / Power Offs / Gradual Accelerate / Gradual Decelerate / Medium Accelerate / Medium Decelerate / Quick Accelerate / Quick Decelerate / Joy Ridding / Passbys / Drive In / Drive Out / Floating / Wave Ambience

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'PWC – Jet Ski – Sea Doo' by The Chris Alan takes you out for some summer fun on a Sea-Doo watercraft. This library contains sounds of this vehicle as it accelerates, decelerates, passes by, float on the water, and rides around for fun. You also get wave ambiences and varying perspectives from the exhaust pipe and the driver's seat, as well as careful transitions for audio middleware use. If you're looking for the fun sounds of riding a jet ski, you'll find them here!

Electromagnetic – Field & Emissions

Fox Audio Post-Production has once again used the power of manipulation to create interesting new sounds. 'Electromagnetic – Field & Emissions' is a collection of the various machines we see in our day-to-day - such as coffee makers, washing machines, phones, WiFi routers, shavers, TVs, etc. - but you wouldn't know it from hearing the demo. These sounds have been twisted and experimented with to bring out static rhythms, buzzes, and sweeps that are perfect for your harsh transmissions or ghostly ambiences. Check out the demo and hear for yourself!

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User Interface (UI) Sound Effects Interactive Play Track 3917 sounds included, 225 mins total $149.99

Introducing ‘INTERACTIVE’ by Rock The Speakerbox: Your ultimate organic Game UI Sound Design Toolkit. Elevate your UI sound design with a comprehensive sound effects library crafted to meet the exacting demands of modern game development. ‘INTERACTIVE’ is a massive toolset designed to empower you with a diverse range of components for creating immersive, dynamic and organic sounding UI.

Structured into three packages:

Construction Kit (3151 Sounds):
Unlock a world of possibilities with a massive set of generic components like clicks, whooshes, pops, and textures, alongside elaborate recordings for specific contextual needs such as coins, paper, medieval weapons and many more. Explore elemental textures like water, wood, stone, etc for added depth and a comprehensive arsenal of percussive and tonal instruments.

Building Blocks (606 Sounds):
Streamline your workflow with pre-designed sounds of basic UI components, including impacts, clicks, whooshes, specific contextual actions and textures (clattering coins, rustling paper, igniting fires, alchemical reactions, growing vegetation) plus tonal and musical feedback for different moods (positive, negative, rewarding, warning, triumphal, holy)

Designed (160 Sounds):
Choose from four sets of ready-to-use sounds tailored for the most common UI actions in different game styles (Casual, Dark, Medieval, Modern).

Each of the four sets gives you following UI sounds:
• Confirm
• Select
• Notification
• Purchase
• Open Menu
• Back/Close Menu
• Positive Light
• Positive Heavy
• Negative Light
• Negative Heavy

With 699 sound files, each offering more than 5 variations in average, ‘INTERACTIVE’ delivers a total of over 3900 sounds – ensuring that you’ll never run out of options to bring your creative vision to life. This library gives you everything you need to captivate your audience and create immersive UI soundscapes that truly resonate.

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Magic & Fantasy Sound Effects Anime Magical Girl Play Track 274 sounds included $59

Dive into the enchanting world of Anime Magical Girl with these 274 magical sound effects, experiencing the excitement of transforming into a dazzling, beautiful soldier!

Grab your magic wand and immerse yourself in solo or group henshin moments with sound effects ranging from shimmers, sparkles, and captivating melodies– even your enemies will pause in awe as you undergo your mesmerizing transformation.

Let the sound effects accompany you on a journey where every note is a musical and enchanting spell, and every beat is a step toward a universe filled with wonder!

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Twisted Zither Play Track 310 sounds included $28
Twisted Zither introduces you to the haunting allure of the zither, a complete kit of sounds drawn from the resonant tones of this unique stringed instrument, characterised by its flat, wooden body and horizontal strings.

Twisted Zither features:
- A rich assortment of over 130 recorded gestures, textures, bows, sweeps, hits, and scrapes, providing a comprehensive toolkit for sound design.
- Over 50 ready to go custom-designed sounds, including haunting whooshes, atmospheric drones, and powerful impacts and stingers.
- 130 individually note samples spanning 2 octaves and 3 or more velocity ranges, perfect for creating your own melodic sample instruments or sound design.
All captured in stereo 24-bit, 96kHz resolution.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to add an extra layer of haunt and horror to your projects with ‘Twisted Zither’. This is an excellent addition to your arsenal for horror and haunting sounds. With a diverse range of meticulously crafted gestures, textures, and custom-designed effects, this library is your key to creating spine-chilling atmospheres and immersive soundscapes.
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City Life Sound Effects Diffuse City Play Track 116+ sounds included, 752 mins total $75

Diffuse City is the unique urban ambience sound effects library you didn’t know you were missing. It captures the urban environment in its many forms – all based around the idea of diffuse ambience.

The Diffuse City library is purpose-built for the times an environment needs to be felt, but not be distracting.

Every track in Diffuse City was recorded with some sort of real life “filter” in mind; be it distance, elevation, time of day, physical material – Anything to provide the feeling of city life with out the specificity of many urban ambience libraries. No distracting close car pass-bys or people talking; only great natural ambience beds.

Diffuse City was recorded in big cities, suburbs, small towns, and rural settings over a span of two years. It was largely recorded over very late nights, when very few people we’re around. Occasionally, however, a car would pass by… a gun would go off… While these were edited out of the recordings, they are included as “extras” in the library. Perfect for adding some flavor to a moment that’s authentic to the environment it was recorded in.

Metadata – and markers:

In addition to thorough metadata, each ambience in Diffuse City is embedded with markers highlighting unique moments that aren’t easily visible in a waveform. Software like Soundminer v4.5 and Reaper can display these markers, making it easy to identify distinct sonic moments in an otherwise nondescript waveform.

Markers in Reaper

There are 10 areas of focus in Diffuse City:

Elevated City • Distant Highways • Underground City • Distant City • Under Bridges • City Rumble • Empty Parking Lots • Alleys • Industrial • Window Contacts

Hear examples and learn more about each one below

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Environments & Ambiences SEASIDE Play Track 16 sounds included, 50 mins total $16

Get the sounds of the sea – captured at different beaches along the Japan coast and the French Normandy coast. Recorded at the marina, pier, harbor, bridges and beaches, the SEASIDE library delivers around 50 minutes of waves, water, seagulls and more. All recordings are AB ORTF stereo, and there’s a mono center added in some cases to deliver a LCR format.

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Funny / Comedy / Cartoon Cartoon & Animation Vol 2 Play Track 121 sounds included $45

‘Cartoon & Animation Vol 2’ by Cinematic Sound Design delivers the ultimate sound effects library tailored for your comedic creations, cartoons, games, and music productions. Dive into a realm of whimsical wonders with this curated collection of handcrafted sound effects, featuring an array of delightful cartoon pops, boings, jumps, crashes, impacts and a lot more.
Crafted and captured using top-of-the-line outboard equipment including the ‘Sound Devices 702’ field recorder and Neumann KM184 microphones, each sound is processed through an Apogee Symphony AD/DA for unparalleled clarity, depth, and impact. Discover an array of truly unique SFX meticulously crafted to infuse your projects with personality and charm with a selection of zany boings, energetic jumps, clumsy falls, quirky snaps, lively runs and playful mallets.

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• 121 Designed Cartoon SFX
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Foley Sound Effects Tool Bag Foley Play Track 17 sounds included $5

Unleash the full potential of your audio production with the Tool Bag Foley Sound Effects Library. Meticulously recorded with precision, this library offers an expansive collection of sounds straight from the tool shed. Whether you’re in film, television, game development, or theatre, these sounds will enhance your soundscapes and bring your scenes to life.

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Wood Destruction Play Track 166 sounds included $29

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Introducing “Wood Destruction” – a powerful sound library that brings the raw and intense sounds of wood breaking to your audio projects. This collection is designed to provide sound designers, filmmakers, and video professionals with an extensive range of wood destruction sounds. From small wooden objects to massive structures, every breaking sound is meticulously captured to deliver a sense of power and scale.

The sounds in “Wood Destruction” are presented in a clean and isolated format, allowing for seamless integration into your projects without the need for extensive editing. Each sound is carefully labeled and categorized, making it easy to find the perfect wood destruction sound for your specific scene or sequence.

From explosive demolition scenes to suspenseful moments of destruction, this library will be your ultimate resource for authentic and impactful wood destruction sound effects.

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Environments & Ambiences Natural Water Streams Play Track 10 sounds included, 30 mins total $18

This meticulously crafted sound effects library is an essential tool for professionals in film, game development, and audio production who seek authentic and high-quality water soundscapes.

Recorded using high-quality equipment such as Zoom H4N, H1, and H6, these sounds offer unparalleled clarity and realism. Whether you’re creating serene nature scenes or designing complex audio environments, ‘Natural Water Streams’ provides a versatile range of water sound effects.

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Industrial Ambiences Wind Turbines Inner Sounds Play Track 45 sounds included, 144 mins total $15

Wind turbine rotations and motor movements recorded subterraneously, through wire fences, metal steps and the body of the turbine.

The results are a selection of metallic movements, evolving eerie soundscapes, atmospheric hums, whines.

Excellent design source and sound morphing material, eerie atmospheres and dystopian environments.

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

Number of Sounds : 45

Number of Files : 45

Total Audio Time : 2 hours 22 minutes 18 secs ( 142 minutes 18 seconds)

Type : WAV Stereo

Sample Rate / Bit Rate : 192 kHz / 24 Bit

Mastered : No

Normalised : No

Size : 9.92 Gb

Metadata : Files are stamped with detailed UCS compliant metadata in Soundminer

Documentation Included : Copyright, EULA, Images, Metadata (exported in multiple formats)

License : A Sound Effect EULA / Terms and Conditions https://www.asoundeffect.com/license-agreement/

Recorders : Zoom F3 and Sound Devices Mix Pre 10 II

Microphones : LOM Geofon, Stille and Klang small spots, Sennheiser 8040’s and 8050

Microphone Configuration : Magnetic, Spike, Contact. ORTF and Centre Mic

KEYWORDS : Wind Turbine , Back, Wire Fence, Metal Steps, Underground, Rotate, Inner, Motor, Vibrate, Whirr, Bass, Hum, Whine, Pulse, Atonal, Disharmonious, Breeze

FXNAME : Abandoned Environment, Deserted Environment, Design Source, Dystopian, Eerie Atmosphere, Post Apocalypse, Sound Morph, Uninhabited, Wind Turbine

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