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:
• View larger version or Download CSV

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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Destruction & Impact Sounds Matter Mayhem Play Track 1397+ sounds included $249

Need the sound of utter destruction, debris, bomb blasts, and chaos – recorded in high definition sound, with multiple perspectives and tons of different materials? That's what you get right here:

As sound designers, we always need these types of highly useable sounds, and with the creation of Matter Mayhem, we've gone above and beyond. Spanning 5 months of recording out in the field and designing in the studio, SoundMorph is very proud to bring you one of our largest produced libraries ever! If you need debris and destruction, Matter Mayhem is a solid choice to add to your collection!

Matter Mayhem was created in collaboration with Frederic Devanlay (Sinematic, Solar Sky) and Cedric Denooz (Future Weapons), and contains 1,500+ sounds / 5.75Gb of 24bit/96khz .WAV files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata.

The library includes sounds like Big Blow Ups – Stoney Structures • Big Blow Ups – Wood Structures • Near, Mid, and Far Perspectives • Bomb Blasts • Blow Ups – Stone, Pebble, Metal, Wood • Debris – Stone, Wood, Glass, Plastic • Collapses • Scaffold Impacts • Whoosh Objects • Designed Debris • First Person Debris • Metal Objects.

So if you're looking for the sound of destruction, this one delivers!

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Magic & Fantasy Sound Effects Magic – Arcane Forces Play Track 3700 sounds included From: $135

MAGIC SOUND EFFECTS REDEFINED

Enter the world of MAGIC – ARCANE FORCES, where supernatural entities can be heard raging with ultimate power and fury. The distinctly forceful and kinetic character of this comprehensive sound effects library and its designs is supported by countless pristine source recordings of the elements being pushed to their limits. Whether in post production or sound design for games, MAGIC – ARCANE FORCES gives you the edge on the other side.

WHAT’S INSIDE:
INCLUDED SOUNDS – KEYWORDS
ACID, ARCANE, BARRIER, BREATH, BUFF, CURSED, DEBUFF, DIVINE, ELECTRIC, ENERGY, FIRE, GLASS, ICE, IMPACT, LIGHT, LIQUID, METAL, PROCESSED, PROJECTILE, RUMBLE, SEQUENCE, SUMMON, SWEETENER, SWISH, TELEPORT, TEXTURE, VOICE, WATER, WHOOSH, WIND

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Firearms Sound Effects Weapons of World War II – Designed Play Track 133 sounds included $40

Weapons of World War II is Super Thumps first of many sound libraries recorded and designed by film and video game industry veterans!

This library features 14 different weapons, some of them quite rare, that were commonly used in World War II between German and American forces. The weapons were recorded at various distances, perspectives, and firing modes with a wide array of microphones. They have been compiled together and designed with a punch at 96,000 Hz, 24-bit, ready for you to easily drop into your project! Each weapon contains multiple variations and versions.

Weapons included:
M1919 Browning Machine Gun – Single Shots, Burst, Full Auto
M1911 Colt 45 Pistol – Single Shots
BAR M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle – Single Shots
Gewehr 43 Rifle – Single Shots
M3 Grease Gun Submachine Gun – Single Shots, Burst, Full Auto
Karabiner K98 Rifle – Single Shots
Luger Pistol – Single Shots
M1 Carbine Rifle – Single Shots
M1 Garand Rifle – Single Shots and Empty “Ping!” Shots
MG42 Machine Gun – Burst, Full Auto
MP40 Submachine Gun – Single Shots, Burst, Full Auto
P38 Walther Pistol – Single Shots
M1 Thompson Submachine Gun – Single Shots, Burst, Full Auto
M1903 Springfield Sniper Rifle – Single Shots

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City Life Sound Effects City & Suburbs Ambiences Play Track 135+ sounds included, 340 mins total $22

City ambiences, downtown ambiences, suburbs, residential area, harbor, industrial area.. traffic, people in background, urban birds, nocturnal-quiet ambiences etc.

Check the sound list for additional info.

High quality recordings recorded in MS, XY, AB; NOS, etc., mostly with Sennheiser MKH microphones and Sound Devices recorder/mixer. Files are without any dynamic manipulation (compression) with max. peak around -5dBFS.

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Whoosh Sound Effects Swish and Flick – High Quality Whooshes Play Track 1992 sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$60

Swish and Flick is a sound pack featuring a collection of high-quality whooshes, designed whooshes, whoosh source, and tonal content.
This pack features 1992 sounds across 138 .wav files (20 Designed, 118 Source) exported at 192kHz/24bit. Aimed at professional sound designers and editors looking for clean, mastered, ready to use assets with plenty of variation for game audio or linear media.
Recorded on the SD 788T with Schoeps MK 4 & 8 along with the CMD42 digital preamplifiers, as well as an MKH 8040 XY pair (among others), and meticulously cleaned up in iZotope RX while persevering optimal signal to noise and frequency content.
Detailed UCS meta data is embedded.
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Animal Sound Effects Animal Hyperrealism Vol III Play Track 1711 sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$170

Animal Hyperrealism Vol III is a library containing sounds themed animal vocalisations, from real to designed creatures totaling more than 1700 individual sounds in 279 files.

The sounds were recorded in zoos and wildlife centers. The asset list includes but is not limited to: european red deers, monkeys, reindeers, hornbills camels, crickets, tamarins, boars, frogs, red ruffed lemurs, parrots, and many more.

The content has been recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K plus a Sennheiser 8050 for center image and a couple of Sennheiser MKH8040 for stereo image.
Part of the cheats section of the library features samples recorded at 384KHz. For these sounds an additional microphone was employed, specifically the CMPA by Avisoft-Bioacoustics which records up to 200 KHz. This microphone was used to record most of the library but the 384KHz format was preserved only where energy was found beyond 96KHz not to occupy unnecessary disk space.
All files are delivered as stereo bounce of these for mics, though in some instances an additional couple of CO100K was added to the sides.
The resulting ultrasonic spectrum is rich and allows for truly extreme manipulation of the content.

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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Hum, Buzz & Glitch Sound Effects Inner Sounds Of A Vintage Juke Box Play Track 60 sounds included, 230 mins total $8

Inner Sounds Of A Vintage Juke Box is a distinctive sound library that reveals the subtle mechanical noises of the NSM Nostalgia Gold juke box.
Captured using contact mics and LOM Geofon’s, this collection features deep bass sounds, low-frequency hums, clicks, clanks, soft whirrs and the watery movements of the bubble tube lighting.

Source Files Info

Mastered : No
Normalised : No
Multi Recording Takes For Varying Nuances
Multiple Microphone Perspectives
Recorder : Sound Devices Mix Pre 10II
Microphones : Stille and Klang spot contact microphones, Organic Audio Cjossul v2, LOM Geofon
Microphone Perspective : Contact / Magnetic / Suction

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Human Sound Effects Kids Vol.1: Vocalizations Play Track 239 sounds included $15

The unbridled sound of childhood.

As both a sound designer and a father of three, I know how challenging it is to capture the spontaneous sounds of children at play in a perfect studio setting. Kids Vol. 1 brings that elusive magic straight to your fingertips, featuring a meticulously curated collection of authentic kids’ sounds—laughing, grunting, playing, screaming, singing, speaking, and more—recorded in both solo and group settings.

Each file has been carefully treated to remove unwanted noise without sacrificing the character and nuance of the original recordings. The sounds are trimmed and given clear, UCS-compliant filenames and metadata, so you can easily drop them right into your films, games, commercials, or any project that needs an infusion of childlike energy.

Kids Vol. 1 captures the sound of kids at their best—having fun.

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Foley Sound Effects Oil-Paper Umbrellas Play Track 296 sounds included $7

Oil-Paper Umbrellas is a collection of sound effects recorded from three sizes of traditional oil-paper umbrellas.
 It includes various actions such as unfolding, folding, handling movements, creaking, shake-outs, lock mechanism clicks, and grabs.

Microphones & Recording Equipment:
Mic (Facing Inward): AKG C414 XLII
Mic (Facing Outward): Sennheiser MKH 8040 
Recorded at 96kHz/32bit using a Sound Devices MixPre-10 II, and bounced to 96kHz/24bit.

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Helicopter Sound Effects Airbus H125 Helicopter Play Track 44+ sounds included, 47 mins total $80

Over 28 minutes of startups, idling, takeoffs, hovering, approaches, pass-bys, and shutdowns from an Airbus three-blade helicopter, delivered in both stereo and ambisonic formats.

Also you’ll receive a processed folder containing 24 additional files featuring engine failures, whine ramps, distant fly-bys and other helicopter sound simulations. These have been crafted exclusively from the original source files, showcasing the flexibility of this library and the creative possibilities it offers.

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City Life Sound Effects Sonic Snapshot Shanghai Play Track 43 sounds included, 122 mins total $29

This library features a Sonic Snapshot into the sonic signature of Shanghai, China. Hear traffic ambiences from a city with the world’s highest EV adoption rate, street sweeper bells played by workers driving three-wheeled trucks loaded with cardboard, walla from art galleries and metro stations, and the low-frequency drones of passing ships in the Huangpu River at the Shanghai Bund.

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