New Sound Libraries: Binaural Instruments, Big Wheels, Gore And Horror, And More!

Posted October 28, 2018 by Adriane Kuzminski in New sound effects libraries

This week on A Sound Effect, we have more horror sound libraries, interesting textures, and peaceful ambiences for your projects.

For a little terror, you can hear squishy, smashy gore and creepy abstract sounds. We also have massive choirs of crickets, and rain from alleyways. Plus, we have sounds of powerfully intricate water movements, designed impacts, static noises and radio transmissions, authentic servos, binaural orchestral instruments, and recordings of a nostalgic Radio Flyer tricycle. Happy listening!

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Scary horror sounds (in surround), servos, binaural orchestra recordings & much more:

In this highlight:
Surrounding Horror • Signal Interferences • Human Africa • Binaural Orchestra SFX • Servos

Binaural Orchestra Sound Effects

'Binaural Orchestra Sound Effects' by Depth of Sound - Sound Design delivers 1,340 orchestral sounds from a violin, cello, tuba, double bass, contrabassoon, trombone, trumpet, musical saw, flute, piccolo, clarinet, marimba, and wind machine.

Drones & Mood Sound Effects Binaural Orchestra Sound Effects Play Track 1340+ sounds included $99

The BINAURAL ORCHESTRA SOUND EFFECTS library delivers 1340 unique orchestral sounds from 13 different instruments – including violin, cello, tuba, double bass, contrabassoon, trombone, trumpet, musical saw, flute, piccolo, clarinet, marimba, and a wind machine.

All instruments recorded in musician perspective with an binaural microphone, in listener perspective with an dummy head microphone and mono. Each instrument plays different notes of the harmonic series with three variations of each fundamental frequency. Furthermore plays each instrument three glissando or transposition variations. The recordings took place in a great-sounding concert hall.

The library is perfectly suited for sound designers, composers and musicians. All sounds are in WAV, 24 bit & 48 kHz and include metadata.

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The Biggest Big Wheel

'The Biggest Big Wheel' by NoiseFloor LTD will take you on a trip down memory lane to the time you rode your big wheel to the park with your friends or that time you decided to try and ride it to the corner store.

Bicycle Sound Effects The Biggest Big Wheel Play Track 52 sounds included $15

Big. Wheels. They are the coolest things to kids and the toughest things to ride as adults. The Biggest Big Wheel library will take you on a trip down memory lane to the time you rode your big wheel to the park with your friends or that time you decided to try and ride it to the corner store. This library includes general riding sounds on grass, gravel, pedal movement, and more! All 52 files are 96kHz /24-bit WAV and are all ready to be placed in your project!

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High Desert Ambiences 5: Crickets

'High Desert Ambiences 5: Crickets' by Thomas Rex Beverly has lively cricket choruses with 10,000 of their chirps weaved into lush blankets of sound that gently float through mountain valleys.

Nature & Countryside Ambiences High Desert Ambiences 5: Crickets Play Track 31+ sounds included, 148 mins total $45

• In High Desert Ambiences 5: Crickets, I revisit the place where my field recording journey started: West Texas. The heavy summer rains spawned a lively cricket chorus unlike anything I had heard before. Hear 10,000 cricket chirps weave into lush blankets of sound that gently float through mountain valleys. Hear the slowly sagging pitch of lush choruses as nighttime temperatures fall. Hear the joyous chirps of countless crickets that will make you want to take out your tent immediately.
• This library offers you an extensive collection of crickets from a unique slice of time in the life of a desert. Hear the rejuvenating summer rains fill a desolate desert with 10,000 tiny violins.

2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased to offset my field recording travel for this library.

KEY FEATURES:
• 27 cricket choruses containing only crickets. Some of these 27 tracks also include bats in ultrasonic frequencies or other occasional ultrasonic insect sounds.
• 4 clips of crickets with Western Screech-Owls or Great Horned Owls.
• All tracks are 3-6 minutes in length
• Recordings from 4 nights in 15 different locations.
• Recordings are ordered by night, then location, then part. Listen to nights and parts in sequence to hear the pitch drop with the falling temperature.
• This is a library of cricket choruses. Individual crickets can be hear as part of a chorus, but this library does not contain solo, single crickets.
• The pitch shifted demo is the normal demo at quarter speed. Please note: the “Pitch Shifted Demo” was made to demonstrate the potential of the sounds in this library. However, HDA5: Crickets does NOT include pitch shifted sounds, only mastered field recordings.

TEXT MARKERS:
• Named markers are included in each file to help find interesting events in an otherwise uniform waveform.
• Markers are included in the Soundminer and BWAV description fields starting with the prefix “Marker Text”.

FILE LIST & METADATA:
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MORE INFO:
• Read 40+ user reviews for Thomas Rex Beverly Audio
• Read my Field Recording Mastering Rules and learn more about how these recordings were mastered.
• Browse the Library Info Master List to compare specs on all my libraries.
• Browse the Metadata Master List to search my entire catalog.
• MD5 and SHA 256 Checksums are included for each zip file in my catalog. Use these hashes to check the integrity of your downloaded files.

GEAR USED:
• Sennheiser 8040s in ORTF
• Sound Devices 702
• Rycote ORTF Blimp

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Gore (SSP)

'Gore (SSP)' by Sound Spark LLC contains 257 sounds of squishes, smashes, squelches melee weapon attacks, zombies, and more that have been crafted into flexible variations.

Gore Sound Effects Gore (SSP) Play Track 257 sounds included, 13 mins total $19.99
The Gore library contains 257 total sounds of squishes, smashes, squelches melee weapon attacks, zombies and more. All effects have been thoughtfully named and crafted into multiple variations making them extremely flexible and easy to use. This library will work well if you need ready to use sounds for your game or if you’re a sound editor needing some extra material for your latest project. Sounds are well rounded and simple enough to fit Sci-Fi, Horror, Fantasy and any other genre where you might need some blood and guts.

Sound types include:
- General Gore Attacks
- Melee Weaponry
- Basic Smashes, Hits and Slaps (Yeah Slaps).
- Squishes and Squelches
- Bonus Zombie Growls and Horror Ambience!
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Servos

'Servos' by surroundsoundlibrary.com is your library for authentic servo sounds used for robotics, motors or sci-fi with over 70 servo motor sounds in stereo.

Mechanical Sound Effects 70 Servo Sounds Play Track 70 sounds included $29

This is your library for authentic servo sounds used for robotics, motors or sci-fi. It features over 70 servo motor sounds in stereo. Only professional servos from rc-planes were recorded. Finish your next project in lightning speed. Simply drag and drop the sounds into your DAW.

Key features:

• More than 70 servo motor sounds (100 MB)
• Slow, medium and fast servo movements + buzz and hum sounds
• One sound per file for easy and fast workflow
• No contact mic recordings, only condenser mics were used for natural sounding files
• 24 Bit / 96 kHz / WAV / stereo / low noise recording – perfect for pitching
• EBU/BWF and WAV-Metadata made with Soundminer for use in any DAW
• All sounds are royalty free and instantly downloadable

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Surrounding Horror - Prologue

'Surrounding Horror - Prologue' by SoundBits is a terrifying, creepy and mind mangling sonic experience with weird and abstract sounds from all around you.

Horror Sound Effects Surrounding Horror – Prologue Play Track 22 sounds included, 95 mins total $8.80

Make the first step into the terrifying, creepy and mind mangling sonic experience of “Surrounding Horror“, with weird and abstract sounds from all around you.

You get 22 Horror Ambiences / Soundscapes created and mixed in 5.1 Surround (SMPTE) to give an instant horrifying setting for your productions.
Additionally, you get Stereo Downmixes of the surround versions.

Now available: ANGST | Surround Horror Series

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Back Alley Rain

'Back Alley Rain' by PM:SFX consists of 20 carefully mastered and rendered rain ambiences that loop seamlessly, making them perfect for games, meditation apps, etc.

Weather Sound Effects Back Alley Rain Play Track 20 sounds included, 15 mins total $14.99

Back Alley Rain is a collection of 20 rain & thunder sound effects.
Light/medium/downpour rain, aftermath, drips, muffled thunder and more

The collection consists of 20 carefully mastered and rendered rain ambiences with baked-in Soundminer’s metadata.
All sounds (with one exception – see metadata) loop seamlessly which makes them perfect for games, meditation apps etc.
All sounds have been created and processed using top tier gear in order to deliver crisp, modern, error free sound.

RECORDED WITH: Sony PCM D100
EDITED WITH: iZotope RX, Pro Tools.

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Final Impact

'Final Impact' by 3MAZE is a comprehensive collection of 300 designed impacts, smashes and hits that are carefully layered to meet your game, animation, and film sound needs.

Destruction & Impact Sounds Final Impact Play Track 723 sounds included $29.40

FINAL IMPACT is an extremely detailed and comprehensive collection of 300 designed impacts, smashes and hits. Carefully layered and designed with game audio, animators and filmmakers in mind, we believe that this could be the last impact sound collection you will ever need.

Each impact has been layered multiple times to create rich, full sounds, composed of recorded hits and synthetic blasts. This collection contains a wide variety of sounds to accent every possible on-screen action imaginable: from simple knock sounds and small hits, to massive wide impacts designed with 50+ layers of material.

This collection is divided into 10 folders, according the type of sound:

– Animated Impacts (45): Big, colorful, super-real impacts.
– Deep Impacts (22): Low end, dark and bassy impacts.
– Designed Knocks (10): Simple designed knock sounds.
– Dry Impacts (29): Hard hits, multi-layered, with no processing.
– Hard Impacts (24): Designed for maximum destruction.
– Junk (43): Imagine piles of junk falling from the sky.
– Layered Material Hits (93): Multi-layered with dry and processed hits.
– Metal Hits (8): Metal based hits.
– Other (9): Various materials, including plastic and water.
– Synthetic Wrecks (17): Synthesized, chaotic impacts.

BONUS MATERIAL:
The 3Maze ‘IMPACTUS’ collection is included free in this package. An additional 423 designed and recorded impacts, bringing this collection to 723 impacts!

Included formats: 24-bit / 96kHz wav, 16-bit / 44.1kHz and 320k Mp3.

All sounds were designed, processed and edited at 24-bit / 96kHz, with embedded meta data and accompanying spreadsheet.

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Submersion

'Submersion' by Spectravelers delivers over 1,800 sounds of bubbles, impacts, whooshes, ambiences, propellers sounds, and more to help you create an exciting underwater audio experience.

Environments & Ambiences Submersion – Underwater Library Play Track 377+ sounds included, 383 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$70

Submersion is a sound effect library delivering over 1800 high quality sounds in 377 files (more than 10Gb), from bubbles and impacts over whooshes to ambiences, propellers sounds and many more, this collection has all you need to create an exciting underwater audio experience.
From raw recordings to ready-to-use sound effects, all the content has been recorded and designed at 24bit, 96 KHz, all fully tagged with metadatas, by sound designers Arnaud Noble and Benoît Marsalone.
This library is split in two different sections:

The Raw section:
Captured with the Aquarians H2a Hydrophone in different locations (pool, river or inside several props), the raw section allows you to sculpt, create, and edit your own sounds with more than 1300 individuals sounds, with many variations.
This is your toolkit for all your underwater scenes and projects.

The Designed Section:
This section provides you ready-to-use sounds (over 593 individuals sounds in 172 files), all created and designed from the Raw section materials.
From huge to tiny, this collection delivers Cinematic Impacts, Ambiences, Whooshes, Explosions, Propellers, Lava sounds, Sci-fi sounds and many more.

Included sounds / Keywords
Ambience – Impact – Explosion – Movement – Whoosh – Swim – Bubble – Propeller – Air release – Stream – Scrape – Squeak – Creak – Crack – Waves – Ice – Lava – Hot – Embers – Sizzle – Crackle – Acid – Soak – Quench – Combustion – Organic – Fizz – Pulses – Plunger – Bottle – Drip – Boil – Drain – Pour – Rattle – Bounce – Slide – Hollow – Crush – Plonk – Snap – Metal – Plastic – Wood – Realistic – Sci-fi – Abstract – Alien

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Signal Interferences

'Signal Interferences' by Sound Response features 224 glitch sound effects, radio and transmission-like sounds with evolving static noises, malfunctions, signal interferences, and short bursts.

Hum, Buzz & Glitch Sound Effects Signal Interferences Play Track 224 sounds included, 68 mins total $25

Signal Interferences sound library features 224 sound effects including various glitch sound effects, radio and transmission-like sounds, evolving and static noises, malfunctions, long signal interferences as well as short bursts for use in movies, games and other applications!

All sounds are created with synthesizers, sound generators and samplers in order to offer you more diverse range of interferences sounds than those generated with telephone pickup coils and similar devices.

If you’re looking to expand your sound collection with various distorted glitchy sounds and electromagnetic-like buzzing, humming and crackling sound effects this sound library will provide you with plethora of sounds to choose from!

Signal Interferences sound library contains 2.2GB of high definition 24bit/96khz Stereo WAV files, embedded with metadata to speed up your workflow.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects CIRCUS Horror Strings Play Track 180 sounds included $7.80

Strident and Demonic

Expand the timbre of your horror violins and cellos with CIRCUS, a sinister sample pack featuring 180 WAV sounds of screeching or high-pitched string noises, perfect for horror music and dark sound design.

Creative Tension

This collection offers a curated selection of screeches, high-tension tremolo, heavy jeté strokes, dark demonic textures, finger patterns, chaotic string elements, clock loops and bow accents.

Haunting and Experimental

Create haunting atmospheres, perfect for horror, thriller or experimental soundtracks. Every element has been designed to unsettle and disturb, blurring the line between music and noise.

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Bird Sound Effects Seagulls Play Track 28+ sounds included $35

The Seagulls sfx library includes 28 tracks of both single, isolated seagull screams, and bigger flocks of nesting seagulls, calling out to each other and their chicks. There are plenty of classic call sounds, but also some weird throaty and raspy screaming, and what could sound like seagull laughing sounds.

All tracks are recorded with the very useful zoom function of the Telinga microphone and dish.
Library includes both untreated tracks, and noise reduction processed tracks in two separate folders. Noise reduction processed tracks have carefully been cleaned up with a CEDAR NR system.

Though these birds are in an abundance around most harbours and industry around here, they are not always easy to record. You mostly hear them from a distance, or from places not easy to access. When you try to get close to them, they will usually fly away.

Many hours have been spent on rooftops, gardens, backyards, a junkyard, and different harbours to get this material.

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Animal Sound Effects Collections Animal Hyperrealism Vol IV Play Track 2096 sounds included, 78 mins total $153

⏰ For a very limited time:
Add this library to the cart and enter ah4launch in the cart coupon field – to sprinkle an extra launch discount, on top of the current discount!

Animal Hyperrealism Vol IV is a sound library containing animal vocalisations, from real to designed creatures totaling more than 2000 individual sounds in 294 files. The sounds were recorded in zoos, and wildlife centers.

The asset list includes but is not limited to: hippos, hyenas, vultures, dwarf mongooses, elephants, African cranes, parrots, tigers, pigmy hippos, rhea ostriches, brown bears, pheasants, wildebeests, African wild dogs and many more. The content has been recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K, an Avisoft CMPA and a Sennheiser 8050 for center plus two Sennheiser MKH8040 for stereo image.

The resulting ultrasonic spectrum is rich and allows for truly extreme manipulation of the content.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects CIRCUS Horror Strings Play Track 180 sounds included $7.80

Strident and Demonic

Expand the timbre of your horror violins and cellos with CIRCUS, a sinister sample pack featuring 180 WAV sounds of screeching or high-pitched string noises, perfect for horror music and dark sound design.

Creative Tension

This collection offers a curated selection of screeches, high-tension tremolo, heavy jeté strokes, dark demonic textures, finger patterns, chaotic string elements, clock loops and bow accents.

Haunting and Experimental

Create haunting atmospheres, perfect for horror, thriller or experimental soundtracks. Every element has been designed to unsettle and disturb, blurring the line between music and noise.

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Firearms Sound Effects Handguns & Pistols Play Track 75 sounds included $34.99
Stockpile your arsenal of HANDGUNS with this mini pack of cutting edge sounds of modern warfare, designed by our team of AAA-industry veterans and huge fans of games like Gears of War, Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, Battlefield, Killzone, Command & Conquer, Red Alert and many more.

From PISTOLS, HANDGUNS, and SILENCERS to GUNSHOTS, ZAPS, and BULLET RICOCHETS, quiet WEAPONS HANDLING, this mini pack of sounds will give you everything you need for any HANDGUN-wielding SOLDIERS or AGENTS!

KEY FEATURES:
- Huge variety of big and small weapons, mechanical industrial and modern clean sounds, different types and intensity variants
- Ready to use – requires no editing, labeling or splicing
- Categorized, organized and individually labeled files for maximum use efficiency
- All files are included in Hi-Rez WAV, SD WAV and HQ MP3 formats
GET THE MODERN WARFARE WEAPONS SOUND PACK NOW!
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Creature Sound Effects STOMPS – Creature Footsteps Play Track 8500+ sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
From: $299

We’re incredibly excited to introduce the ‘STOMPS – Creature Footsteps’ sound effects library – these are footsteps like you’ve never heard them before!

STOMPS is a massive collection of more than 8,500 files to boost your creativity and help you add special footstep sounds to your new project.

The library is organized into 3 categories –
Source, Textures, Design:

In the Source category you’ll find the “best of” several hours worth of our recordings sessions, with more than 7,500 files (with lots of variations) organized into 83 folders. Every single sound is the product of a new recording.

You’ll find the sequences that include: 2 Legs WALKING, 2 Legs RUNNING, 4 Legs GALLOPING, 4 Legs TROTTING, and 4 Legs WALKING.

We used all kinds of weird props to record original, versatile sounds with lot of character, different textures, and in very different frequency ranges.

These sounds form the DNA of your future footsteps. You’ll have lots of different sound colours to play with, ranging from very small and harsh sounds to very low and bold ones, and all the ranges in between.

In the Texture category, you’ll find more than 600 sounds with different textures to help you customize your footsteps. These textures are also a very valuable sonic material that will help you construct lots of varying sound design work.

Finally, we have the Design category. Here you’ll find more than 500 processed sounds created by veteran sound designer Michel Marchant, covering a wide range of characters like Robots, Snow Creatures, Distant Dinosaurs, Rock Golems, Armies, Colossus and many, many more!

Update: Glued version also included

STOMPS now also features a special GLUED version, with the exact same content but with variation files edited together to reduce the number of single files in the collection, and making search through all sounds easier.

With “STOMPS, Creature Footsteps,” you’ll have anything you’ll need to create everything from small creature footsteps to big, out-of-this-world ones.

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Woodpile Chaos Play Track 82 sounds included $10

Woodpile Chaos is a gritty collection of 82 wooden hits, creaks, and scrapes — a wild mix of organic textures born from raw timber and controlled destruction.

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Animal Sound Effects Collections Dark Environment Sounds and Loops Play Track 120 sounds included, 63 mins total $29.99

This is big set of scary sound effects, that will make your game, or any other project performance much more impressive!

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Car Sound Effects Ford Puma 1997 sports car Play Track 206 sounds included, 48 mins total $65

All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, Line Audio Omni1 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is only available in UCS.

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Ambisonic Sound Effects Red Deer Play Track 13+ sounds included $80

A small collection of High quality, close up red deer recordings.

Red Deer Roars and Moans and other vocalisations from different habitats. (mountainous areas and forest)

Recorded over the years during the rutting season, varying distances but mostly up close and face to face with this loud and scary mammal.

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Game Audio Packs - Game Sound Effects Libraries Ultimate UI Click & Select SFX Bundle Play Track 1054 sounds included, 9 mins total $60
Take full control of your interface sound design with the Ultimate UI Click & Select SFX Bundle — a massive collection of 1,054 professional-grade UI sound effects across seven expertly crafted libraries by RawAmbience.

From crisp button clicks and smooth menu transitions to RPG-style selects, denies, and toggles, this all-in-one bundle gives you everything needed to design intuitive and immersive UI audio for games, apps, web, or interactive media.

Packs included:
Click and Select UI RPG SFX
Click And Select UI RPG SFX 2
Click Menu Sound Effects
Click Menu Sound Effects 2
Click Sound Effects
Essential Menu Click Sounds
Essential Menu Select Sounds

Your complete UI sound design toolkit.

The Ultimate UI Click & Select SFX Bundle delivers a polished collection of responsive interface sounds, including:
- Click & Select UI RPG SFX 1 & 2 – Over 456 sounds tailored for RPG and interactive UI: selects, hovers, alerts, cancels, access-denied, and more.
- Click Menu Sound Effects 1 & 2 – 281 high-quality menu interaction sounds for toggles, clicks, opens, closes, and confirmations.
- Click Sound Effects – 110 versatile UI clicks designed for modern app and game interfaces.
- Essential Menu Click Sounds – 107 precise and minimal click sounds, ideal for clean, modern UIs.
- Essential Menu Select Sounds – 100 select-focused sound effects, delivering clean, modern UI feedback for toggles, confirms, menu navigation, and precise user selections.
Perfect For:
- Game menus and HUDs (RPGs, mobile, indie, AAA)
- Web and app UI feedback
- Interactive experiences (VR, AR, touchscreen)
- UI prototyping and UX testing
- Accessibility-focused sound design
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