Welcome to the biggest independent sound effects recap we’ve ever done! The amount of new releases from the community is hugely impressive, and with twice as many new libraries as the last one, there’s lots to dig into this week. You’ll find libraries featuring heavy vehicles and aircraft, worldwide ambiences, old doors and lockers, fascinating synth sounds, and much, much more – check it out below:
Worn Out Wood Door
'Worn Out Wood Door' by Big Room Sound Inc. gets you sounds of a dying wood door that works great for old cabins, cottages, and barns with lots of creaking swings, hard bangs, and slams.
Electric Motors
'Electric Motors' by 3MAZE is a collection of 148 recordings of small and large motors performing various activities, including rotations, pulses, speed changes, and more.
Whoosh Pack 1
'Whoosh Pack 1' by 2496 Sound Effects features 385 whoosh and transition sounds with a large selection of metallic, electronic, liquid, and sci-fi sounds, and other weird and unusual transitions.
Box Abuse II
'Box Abuse II' by 3MAZE is a sequel collection to the original 'Box Abuse' sound pack with even more aggressive cuts, punches, kicks, and drops inflicted on a new batch of cardboard boxes.
Daily Doors
'Daily Doors' by GainWalkers brings you 147 household doors opening and closing, recorded simultaneously from close and distant perspectives.
BMW K100 rs Motorcycle library
'BMW K100 rs Motorcycle library' by Pete's Shop contains wild foley of clicks, gear changes, and sounds of the engine before the ignition.
Avro Lancaster
'Avro Lancaster' by Pole Position Production has unique recordings of this iconic British WWII heavy bomber with extensive recordings of two startups, throttling, taxiing, foley, taking off, fly-bys, and landing.
Bristol Blenheim Mk I 1934
'Bristol Blenheim Mk I 1934' by Pole Position Production features this 1934 British plane – also known as the Beaufort and Fairchild Bolingbroke – with recordings of its two 905 horsepower Bristol Mercury XV radial piston engines.
Curtiss C-46 Commando
'Curtiss C-46 Commando' by Pole Position Production gets you sounds of this US WWII transport aircraft as it starts up, idles, ramps, and throttles, all recorded to more than 24 channels from onboard and exterior perspectives.
Swedish-Danish Train Arrivals & Departures
'Swedish-Danish Train Arrivals & Departures' by Pete's Shop contains 17 different trains as they arrive, depart, and pass through a rural station in Sweden.
Bass Weight: Low End Elements
'Bass Weight: Low End Elements' by Glitchedtones is a small bespoke library featuring 40 sub-heavy oneshots ready to be added to impacts, braams, and trailers.
Into Abyss - Drones Sound Effects
'Into Abyss - Drones Sound Effects' by Sound Response features 200 drones perfect for creating post-apocalyptic atmospheres.
Animal Hyperrealism Vol I
'Animal Hyperrealism Vol I' by Mattia Cellotto is a library containing animal vocalisations, from real to designed creatures, with more than 1,300 individual sounds in 290 files.
Cracks
'Cracks' by Sound of Italy is a large exploration of crumbling textures with 300 sounds of cracking, crunching, breaking, and creaking.
Kitchenware
'Kitchenware' by 3MAZE is a detailed collection of 198 recordings from a large kitchen, capturing devices from simple soup bowls to electronic coffee machines and juicers.
Contacts & Hydrophones
'Contacts & Hydrophones' by SonicSalute is packed with 62 unusual sounding tracks captured with contact microphones and a hydrophone.
Comrade Tractor
'Comrade Tractor' by Mindful Audio is a 5-channel recording of a Universal 650M tractor, designed in Soviet-era Romania and virtually unchanged since the 1960s.
Oslo Central Station
'Oslo Central Station' by Norsonant features 23 recordings from a range of areas in Oslo's main railway station - captured over 3 recording sessions.
High Frequency Feedback Loops
'High Frequency Feedback Loops' by Glitchedtones comes with 57 harsh, piercing analogue noise sounds, sourced from a No-Input Mixer as it is pushed to its limits.
Rain and Water Flow
'Rain and Water Flow' by Rob Castro SFX gets you rain recorded on several surfaces - including concrete, dirt, and plastic - from a household perspective in San Francisco.
1985 Mercedes 200E 6-Cylinder Sedan
'1985 Mercedes 200E 6-Cylinder Sedan' by Pete's Shop delivers 70 recordings from a rainy day spent with this classic 80s car, giving you lots of driving, Foley, and two impulse responses.
Breakdown Elements
'Breakdown Elements' by noisecreations delivers an excellent SFX collection for your beds, builds, impacts, interference, rewinds, risers, transitions, and whooshes.
Wet North
'Wet North' by Sounds Of Norway gets you more than 5 hours of watery recordings from a staggering range of locations across Norway.
Books Alive
'Books Alive' by PM:SFX delivers 434 carefully recorded and mastered book SFX with turning and flipping pages, setting books down and picking them up, dropping, handling, sliding, and more.
Ride On Bike
'Ride On Bike' by RZ Post gets you 112 sounds of riding a mountain bike, captured from 6 perspectives while riding in the woods and on asphalt roads.
Urban Environment Guns – Fighting In Built-Up Area
'Urban Environment Guns – Fighting In Built-Up Area' by Audiobeast is a one-of-a-kind SFX library, capturing a large number of weapon sounds in an actual urban environment.
Suburbs of Chicago: Heavy Winds
'Suburbs of Chicago: Heavy Winds' by All You Can Eat Audio is the 5th installment in the 'Suburbs of Chicago Series', taking you to the edge of a new suburban forest preserve.
Manhattan Atmosphere
'Manhattan Atmosphere' by Mindful Audio is a collection of urban ambiences recorded in New York City, covering popular areas like Times Square, Broadway, Trump Tower, subway stations, train rides, sirens, and bridge traffic.
Locker Doors
'Locker Doors' by Big Room Sound Inc. is a collection of 5 different metal lockers that are opened, closed, banged, and handled for all of those school hallway situations you’ll come across.
Super FX Volume 1
'Super FX Volume 1' by Impact Soundworks is a retro sound designer’s dream, featuring 251 video game sound effects in 8- and 16-bit styles crafted lovingly with authentic sources, tools, and techniques.
Horses & More
'Horses & More' by Audiohero features 200 sounds of horses, elk, moose, and donkeys handpicked from libraries by Sound Ideas, Digiffects Library, and Hollywood Edge.
Forest Ambience 1 Central Florida
'Forest Ambience 1 Central Florida' by Sound Spark LLC focuses on the ambient sounds of Central Florida's forest ecology, giving you general ambiences with minimal focus on any one individual element.
Spring Box
'Spring Box' by hzandbits is 13 minutes of shrieking, droning, and scraping metallic sounds made from bowing a steel spring bolted to an empty steel enclosure.
Sonic Seaside
'Sonic Seaside' by The Sound Pack Tree is a selection of harbor and sea ambiences with boat and ferry rides, seagulls, and waves recorded in diverse parts of the world.
Inaccuracy
'Inaccuracy' by MatiasMacSD' is a collection of 152 digital glitches, errors, and malfunctions processed with extreme changes in time, velocity, and pitch to obtain very direct and aggressive glitches.
Piaggio Zip 49cc
'Piaggio Zip 49cc' by GainWalkers gets you the sounds of an old Piaggio Zip 49cc, a 2 stroke scooter from 1999 with 72 onboard, 36 external, and 38 foley recordings.
Liquidation
'Liquidation' by Squeaky Fish is a liquid texture library covering everything from water to slime to fizzes and bubbles with wet slimy pasta, giant water balloons, chemical baths, and more.
Old Drawers
'Old Drawers' by PM:SFX is a collection of 151 carefully recorded and mastered drawer sound effects, giving you sounds of opening, closing, sliding, rolling, creaking, and more from multiple mic positions.
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