New Sound Effects: Zombies, Sports, Splashes, Hot Springs, Airports - And Tanks

Posted October 30, 2016 by Asbjoern Andersen in New sound effects libraries

This week we have sounds of activities that we love to do as humans. We have summer pastimes like going to football games, basketball games and swimming, sounds of travel with airport and airplane ambiences and the hot springs of a Portuguese island, sounds of war with tanks and jets, and sounds of human mythology with sadistic zombies. Whether the characters in your project are enjoying their time off or running for their lives, we’ve got some libraries for you.

The Undead

Creature Sound Effects The Undead Play Track 102 sounds included $30

These are no ordinary zombies, they’re not your mindless, shuffling, flesh craving human husks. An evil runs through what remains of these creatures’ bodies. Flesh has all but decayed from their bones and whatever humanity they had in life has long since departed.

This library is dedicated to the chilling vocal sounds of the zombie. It is ideal for films and games, TV or trailers and includes 102 bespokely designed zombie vocal assets, including breaths, idle grunts and groans, attacks, pains, death, war cries and more.

Whilst this library caters primarily for the more aggressive variant of the undead, it wouldn’t sound out of place when used on other terrifying abominations.

All assets are delivered in 96kHz, 24-bit stereo files and include full Soundminer metadata.

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Just in time for Halloween is 'The Undead' by ShotgunMike. This library features zombies, but not the kind you'll find in movies like 'Shaun of the Dead'. Instead of simple moans and groans, these zombie growl, hiss and roar, causing the decayed, tattered skin in their esophaguses to rattle. You will also find sounds of the walking dead breathing, biting, attacking, shrieking, and dying. The library is even organized for interactive use with metadata tags such as idle, taunt, war cry, pain and more. For sounds of zombies and other bloodthirsty creatures, check out 'The Undead'.

Cannonball!

Water & Ocean Sounds Cannonball! Play Track 365 sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$49

Get over 350 splashes and complimentary water movements/textures with the “Cannonball!” water splash/movement SFX library. There’s dives, lunges, emerges, swishes, and drips.

Then there’s some more unique elements like these really cool percussive splashes using axes and hammers, water whooshes and sweeps recorded in quad, all to give you more than just your typical splash. Except for one session in the foley studio, all of this material was recorded outside which means no tub reflections.

A toolbox of sounds that you will come back to over and over.

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'Cannonball!' by Big Room Sound Inc has 365 sounds of splashes and water effects. In this library you will find dives, lunges, emerging, swishes, and drips recorded in a quiet outdoor pool with soft natural reverb. It also includes unique elements like percussive splashes created with axes and hammers and water whooshes and sweeps for more creative water sound design. Whether you're looking for sounds for your pool scene or water foley for your magic creatures, check out 'Cannonball!'.

Tanks and Jet

Tanks & Artillery Sounds Tanks and Jet Play Track 30+ sounds included, 34 mins total
Rated 4.00 out of 5
$25

Tanks and jet was recorded during a real military drill in Sweden featuring a variety of tanks, and a JAS 39 Gripen.

From the creaking and clanking of the tanks to the glorious and soaring JAS, and all the way to the brutal tank cannon and machine guns. This pack contains all ingredients for nasty machine warfare. All of the files were recorded during a military drill performed in front of a live audience.

All files are meta-data tagged with keywords and a description.

Tanks and Jet includes:

• Tank Driving (18 files, 18:22 in duration)
• Tank Battle (7 files, 04:27 in duration)
• Jas Gripen Flyover (7 files, 12:09 in duration)

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'Tanks and Jet' brings you more sounds of war by Double Trouble Audio. This library features a variety of Swedish tanks as they drive, idle, rev and stop, capturing all the close-up details of their creaking metal, wobbling plates and exhaust. The collection even includes sounds of cannon fire and machine guns as well as a flyover from a JAS Gripen, which seems to split the sky in half. For sounds that will make you feel like you're holding onto the side of tank, you won't find a better or more detailed tank library for this modest price!

Essential Football Stadium Crowds

Sports Sound Effects Essential – Football Stadium Crowds Play Track 53 sounds included, 64 mins total $50

Welcome to the Essential Stadium Crowd sound effects library: All the crowds, back room ambience and practice tracks were recorded at the Phoenix Cardinals Stadium, pre/during and post game. I had the opportunity to have a press pass and free reign in the stadium.

Some of the recordings were recorded way up high in the upper bleachers, and some behind the end zones, as well as other interesting places. There are significant differences in the locations and the ‘thickness’ of the crowds. With this library, you should be able to fill out any sort of large sports arena ambience, as I’ve edited out most of the PA Announcer to give more of a general stadium feel that could be anywhere, and any major arena sporting event. The PA that is left in can easily be edited out.

All the sounds were mastered in Pro Tools, with very transparent processing going on. My signal chain consisted of a C4 Compressor, DMG Equality EQ, and a L1 Limiter. All reverb is natural.

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'Essential Football Stadium Crowds' by Tsunami Sound Wave gives you all the sounds you forgot to record during your stadium scene. This library has cheering and clapping that are both close-by and from a distance, plus it has unintelligible sounds of the announcer, the pounding beats of a pep band, and even backroom sounds of an excited team. It has it all! Whether you need discernible sounds for your sports game or crowd ambience while your characters sit in the bleachers, 'Essential Football Stadium Crowds' will have you covered.

Brazilian Airports & Plane Journeys

Travel & Transportation Brazilian Airports & Plane Journeys Play Track 14+ sounds included, 127 mins total $49

Brazillian Airports & Plane Journeys is a comprehensive collection of various ambiences and environments. All of the main areas of the airports are covered, including check-in, baggage check, food halls and departure gates. In addition to this, all of the major interior plane phenomena such as coasting, take off, landing and in flight are also included.

The majority of sound files in the library are over ten minutes in length, giving you a huge pool to source your audio from.

With Brazilian Airports & Plane Journeys you will never be left wanting for airport or passenger ambiences again.

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'Brazilian Airports & Plane Journeys' by Sonic Innovations has sounds of an international journey from the perspective of the traveler. This library has over two hours of sounds from a complete trip - from the check-in and baggage check to grabbing a quick bite before departing. It also has sounds of the plane as it taxis, takes off and lands, plus all the passenger ambience along the way. If you need the distinctly recognizable atmospheres of an airport or airplane, check out 'Brazilian Airports & Plane Journeys'.

Water Volumes

Materials & Texture Sound Effects Water Volumes Play Track 335+ sounds included, 74 mins total $40

The Water Volumes SFX library gets you over 300 sounds of natural hot-springs, bubbles, and liquids of various densities boiling under the effect of dry ice.

A large amount of content was recorded during two weeks spent in the city of Furnas, Azores, where volcanic hot-springs of all kinds are active. Other recordings were gathered with the use of dry ice.
Most recordings will contain energy up to 96 KHz as they were recorded with a Sanken CO-100K at a 192KHz sample rate. Others were gathered with the use of an Acquarian H2A, Sennheiser MKH8040, 416, a Sony D100 and a Tascam DR-05.

The collection was recorded over a trip to Sao Miguel, Azores, and several other recording sessions in the UK.

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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'Water Volumes' by Mattia Cellotto is a fun and intricate library featuring the huge range of sonic textures from high-quality H2O. This library features 300 sounds from both the volcanic hot-springs of the Portuguese São Miguel Island and various liquids boiling under dry ice. These gurgling and bursting sounds are close and extremely detailed, allowing them to be stretched and manipulated into larger water effects or whatever sea beast you can imagine. For something bubbling, inspirational and completely different, listen to 'Water Volumes'.

Basketball Game Ultra

Sports Sound Effects Basketball Game Ultra Play Track 334 sounds included $59
Basketball Game Ultra is a huge sound effects library for, well, basketball. It includes both an international match field recording (with over 5,000 people attending the game) and isolated sounds of backboard hoops, basket swish nets, metal bars, shoe squeaks and dribbles on various hard surfaces, as well as other related sounds – all performed by a professional basketball player in indoor and outdoor courts as well as inside the studio.

Οur aim with this collection is to give you choices to:
- Create realistic soundscapes of world class basketball games or other sports events
- Design from scratch your own unique sound frames
- Foley the character in your audiovisual production
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'Basketball Game Ultra' by Sound Ex Machina gives you a wide variety of sounds for your basketball scenes - whether you need crowd ambiences, game action, or player foley. It includes sounds of an international game attended by over 5,000 people for crowd reactions, PA announcements, referee whistles, drum beats, national anthems and more. It also has sounds of professional athletes as they play in indoor and outdoor courts and inside the studio for clean takes of backboard hoops, net swishes, shoe squeaks, dribbling on various hard surfaces, and more. For the complex sounds of a basketball game and the indubitable sounds of professional players, check out 'Basketball Game Ultra'.

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Car Sound Effects Car Pass By Interior Play Track 940 sounds included, 354 mins total $48

Description:

Car Pass By Interior features a diverse set of recordings of cars passing by heard from the interior of a car.

Recordings have been edited into wet and dry, single pass bys, groups of cars, windows up and down, close and distant pass bys. All easy to search with the UCS standard naming and meta data. With this library you should be able to cover a wide range of scenarios.

The cars recorded are misc compact to large combustion cars driving at city speeds.

Key features:

• Flexible use with various mic setups

• Wet and Dry conditions

• Windows up and down

• From clear close up pass bys to muffled distant pass bys

• Realistic traffic

Gear Setups:

• Sound Devices 10 MKII

• A DPA 4017 mono

• B DPA 4060 Mono

• C LOM Usi Stereo set with a LOM Geophone mounted on the metal door frame to catch the car wobbling.

• D Røde NT1-A Stereo set with a LOM Geophone mounted on the metal door frame.

• DPA 4017 and DPA 4060 mics are production sound mixers favorites. The 4060 presents the pass bys more soft and 4017 more dramaticly, cars feel faster, both has nice low frequencies.

Notes:

• Recording was done from a Toyota Yaris 2013, a small car that wobbles with cars passing close by. It also has a dampened car interior, that isn’t too roomy like cars with glass roofs, the recordings can be used with many car interiors.

• The library is ideal for sfx editors, sound designers, editors looking for realistic car interior ambiences and pass bys to sync to picture. Because of the wobbling of the car it can be great source material for designing whooshes.

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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.

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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)

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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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Household Sound Effects Washing Machine Sound Pack 01 Play Track 37 sounds included, 15min 10sec mins total $14.90

“Washing machines are essential accessories of every household. This package contains the full range of the sound effects of this equipment.”

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Universal Category System (UCS) Hurricane Nicole Play Track 40 sounds included, 179 mins total $20

The Hurricane Nicole sound effects library from Eric Berzins captures the raw power of Hurricane Nicole as it made landfall in Florida in November 2022. You will hear strong and forceful gusts, moaning and whistling winds, and intense pouring rain. With 40 meticulously edited audio files, including three bonus recordings from Hurricane Ian in September 2022, you will have a large palette of hurricane sounds at your fingertips.

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Footsteps Sound Effects Footstep and Foley Sounds Play Track 812 sounds included $10

Footstep & Foley Sounds contains 511 high quality professionally recorded footstep sounds. Surfaces included: concrete, dirt, grass, gravel, metal, mud, water, wood, ice and snow. Plus 141 Foley sounds covering a variety of character movement sounds. A perfect addition to add realism to your footstep sounds.

This pack also includes a variety of 160 bonus sounds effects from our full library Pro Sound Collection. ALL sounds from Footstep & Foley Sounds are included in Pro Sound Collection so if you need more sounds be sure to check it out before purchase.

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Animal Sound Effects Antarctic Soundscapes Play Track 415 sounds included $50
A unique collection featuring 415 originally recorded sounds from Earth’s coldest continent.

From the majestic Emperor Penguins to the thunderous Southern Elephant Seals, the Icebreaker ship, and the serene Antarctic ambiences, this pack offers a diverse array of wild and untamed sounds.

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City Life Sound Effects Art Gallery Crowds Play Track 11 sounds included, 38 mins total $14

The Art Gallery Crowds sound library invites you into the immersive world of an art gallery. Recorded in a Los Angeles gallery across multiple spaces, from vast concrete halls to intimate wooden galleries, this collection captures the true ambiance of these cultural sanctuaries.

The primary focus of the library is the movement and chatter of small to large multilingual crowds in various spaces, and the arrhythmic footfalls on creaking wooden floors and echoing concrete paths. You’ll also hear snippets of security radios and guardians making their rounds, kids playing, laughing and crying, and camera shutters clicking.

Whether you’re crafting an immersive cinematic museum scene, composing an atmospheric soundtrack, or designing a multimedia installation, this authentic collection provides a sonic window into the living world of art galleries.

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Environments & Ambiences China: Temple Bells & Crowds Play Track 26 sounds included, 48 mins total $22

The China: Temple Bells & Crowds sound library was recorded in two locations. The first within the Yungang Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage site from the Wei Dynasty era, and the second, an ancient Taoist temple built in the Tang Dynasty in the outskirts of Beijing.

The library includes recordings of large prayer bells, Buddhist wind chimes, wooden wishing sticks adorned with twinkling bells, background and foreground crowd walla in Mandarin, Chinese, birds, and other ambient sounds captured on location in stereo. We’ve also included some bonus designed sounds made from the recordings.

These authentic recordings offer a sonic window into the atmosphere of ancient Chinese temples and shrines as they exist today. The sounds can be useful for adding realism to cinematic, game, or multimedia projects requiring an accurate representation of this cultural setting, or as fodder for creating mystical and spiritual designs.

Specs:
34 Sounds – 18 Buddhist Temple, 9 Taoist Temple, 7 Designed Sounds
Total Runtime 48:44
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Stereo – 24 bit, 96kHz

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Insect Sound Effects Insects of Central Europe Play Track 53 sounds included $50

Insects of Central Europe is a unique collection of single insect sounds.

With an array of over 50 tracks, this library offers more than 40 minutes of high-quality audio material. These recordings were captured in the heart of Central Europe, specifically in the Czech Republic.

The library predominantly features grasshoppers, bugs, and crickets, captured across a variety of locations and times of the day, providing a diverse range of audio landscapes for you to explore and utilize in your projects.

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Car Sound Effects Oval Track Racing Play Track 65 sounds included, 141 mins total $50

Cover your ears. It’s going to get loud, introducing, Oval Track Racing. This high-octane stock car racing library features cars of various makes, models and performance characteristics in nine divisions circling a quarter mile (.40 kilometer) oval ‘short’ track in Idaho. Pass-bys, overalls and on boards were captured from multiple perspectives inside, outside, and alongside the asphalt track with a variety of microphones and recorders.

Oval Track Racing features plenty of pass-bys captured right next to concrete retaining walls on straightaways and through turns. To give you options, these pass bys are broken out two ways. Use the ‘one shot’ sound files consisting of just one quick pass by (thank you Paul V. for this suggestion). Or choose to use the overall race/practice session consisting of multiple laps.

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