New Sound Effects This Week: Sword Fights, Shotguns, Sci-fi Weapons, Explosions, Toys And More

Posted January 24, 2016 by Asbjoern Andersen in New sound effects libraries

Once again a wild week for independent sound effects, as no less than 9 interesting SFX libraries have been added to A Sound Effect!

They range from fierce sword fights, shotguns, sci-fi sounds to natural-sounding whooshes, foley, mopeds, toys and more. And once again, I’ve included a highlight of 3 of most popular libraries from the past 7 days. Happy listening :)

Swordfighter

Cold Weapon Sound Effects Swordfighter Play Track 479 sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$25

Swordfighter is a robust package with sharp sounding swords, heaps of variations and all the extras you need to make a fight come alive. Build unique sword swings with various hits, swooshes, schings, different fighter vocals and impacts on various surfaces. All up there are 137 sword sounds, 93 surface impact sounds, 15 knife throwing sounds, 48 swooshes and 180 fighter vocals.

This version includes two sub-folders: one optimised for a film & TV workflow and the other optimised for video games workflow. Plus a few bonus sounds of a charging army.

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Swordfighter is the 2nd release from Australia-based Squeaky Fish, and it gets you a ton of sword fight SFX – including 137 sword sounds, 93 surface impact sounds, 15 knife throwing sounds, 48 swooshes and 180 fighter vocals.

Toy

Funny / Comedy / Cartoon Toys Play Track 673+ sounds included $28

Toys is a package with a huge collection of toy sound effects, including rattles, squeaking, pops, shakes, bounces, slides, drops, rings, clicks, crankings, spins and much more. More than 650 fun, festive sound effects in total.

The perfect package to design anything with a touch of cartoon!

Each sound has been meticulously edited individually, All files were recorded and are delivered in 24bit 96kHz Broadcast Wave files, all embedded with metadata information for easy import and ensure a fast and easy workflow.

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Mechanical Wave recorded a huge number of toy sound effects for this library – so if you need SFX that squeak, rattle, pop, shake, bounce, slide, drop, ring, click, crank or spin, this one’s worth checking out.

Indecent Machines

Drones & Mood Sound Effects Indecent Machines Play Track 347 sounds included $37

Indecent Machines is a sci-fi sample pack inspired by a concept of mechanical disrepair and emergent AI consciousness. It features 1.7 gigabytes of 24-bit/96khz samples and bundled Kontakt kits, created by producer/sound designer Chad Glenn.

These sounds originated from field and studio recordings of various machines which were then processed through custom DSP algorithms using Kyma and other sound design tools.

The result is a unique set of mutant robotics, mechanical snippets, evolving textures, rhythmic artifacts and menacing atmospheres appropriate for music and sound design projects of all kinds. Features 347 .wav files and 5 Kontakt kits (full version of NI Kontakt required for the Kontakt files).

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A classic SFX library from The Coil, finally available on A Sound Effect; it’s inspired by a concept of mechanical disrepair and emergent AI consciousness, and comes with both WAV files and Kontakt instruments.

12 Gauge Shotgun

Firearms Sound Effects 12 Gauge Shotgun Play Track 29 sounds included $20

A collection of shots fired using a 12 Gauge Remington 870 Wingmaster shotgun. This library also includes a few bonus tracks of shots fired using a Thompson Rifle muzzleloader and a Barnett Crossbow.

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Looking for shotgun sounds? This library gets you shots fired from a 12 Gauge Remington 870 Wingmaster shotgun + bonus tracks of shots fired using a Thompson Rifle muzzleloader and a Barnett Crossbow.

Cybernetic Weapons

Firearms Sound Effects Cybernetic Weapons Play Track 1211 sounds included $29

Cybernetic Weapons brings forth a new era of hyper-sonic weaponry. With over 1,200+ custom designed and source sounds, this library comes packed with Cybernetic fire power. Perfect for games, video, film, TV, it’s all in 96k/24bit format so you can probably end the arms race right here and now.

The library features sound effects like Plasma shooters, Weapon Mech Textures, Designed Game Single Shots, repeaters and loops, Futuristic bursts and even shell drops. + Includes embedded Soundminer meta data.

For that extra touch of reality, Cybernetic Weapons includes an exceptional cache of foley firearm discharges from our personal warehouse of ordinance and sidearms including source recordings of: WW2 Thompson, AR-10, AR 15, Shotgun Pump, Vietnam M1A1, Suppressed 556 and our favorite of close combat, the .22 caliber pistol with silencer.

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A huge new collection of futuristic weapon sounds, packing more than 1200 sound effects – including plasma shooters, weapon mech textures, designed game single shots, repeaters and loops, futuristic bursts and shell drops.

War Zone - Designed Explosion Sounds

Destruction & Impact Sounds War Zone – Designed Explosion Sound Effects Play Track 170+ sounds included $18.50

The War Zone sound effects library gets you whooshes, debris, cannon shots, beeps, countdown, explosions – ready to be used as they are in your projects, or layered to create complex war ambiences. A total of 170 sound effects are included, categorized into beeps, explosions, beeping mine explosions, debris, low whooshes, whooshes, shots and whooshes + debris.

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If you’re looking to design the sound of a warzone, here’s a library that delivers the explosion sounds. It comes with a total of 170 sound effects, categorized into beeps, explosions, beeping mine explosions, debris, low whooshes, whooshes, shots and whooshes + debris.

Fringe Elements

Sci-Fi Sound Effects Fringe Elements Play Track 225 sounds included, 46 mins total $59

Fringe Elements is an aggressive sample pack of divergent and destructive sounds designed for musicians and sound designers in need of a hard-hitting sound pallet on the periphery of normal. Each sound was built in the modular world and heavily processed through DSP algorithms to create structurally unique outcomes and ultimately highly usable samples.

Contained in this collection are 225 unique sounds designed as FX, rhythmic elements, evolving textures, noise, distortion, spectral atmospheres and other elements perfect as building blocks to new music and sound projects or to be layered into existing work to add weight, depth and dimension.

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A collection of aggressive & distorted-sounding SFX from The Coil, delivering 225 sounds such as rhythmic elements, evolving textures, noise, distortion, spectral atmospheres and more.

Everyday Actions

Foley Sound Effects Everyday Actions Play Track 87+ sounds included, 92 mins total $20

Get the sounds of everyday actions such as reading, drinking, eating, shaving, boiling water, handling glass items and much more. A total of 29 different actions are included – isolated and recorded in a studio environment. Every sound has at least two different microphone angles available from the following options: Close (mono), SemiClose (mono), MidDistant (mono), Distant (stereo).

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This library gets you the sounds of everyday actions such as reading, drinking, eating, shaving, boiling water, handling glass items and more.

Tunturi Maxi moped

Motorcycle Sound Effects Tunturi Maxi Moped Play Track 57 sounds included $40

Get the sound of the Tunturi Maxi ‘Pappatunturi’, a Finnish moped model from 1974 with 2 gears and pedals. The library features external, onboard and foley recordings. OnBoard recordings feature 3 different channels: Engine1, Engine2 and Exhaust. All 3 channels of OnBoard sounds can be layered and will line up nicely in your audio editor.

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Here are the sounds of the Tunturi Maxi ‘Pappatunturi’, a Finnish moped model from 1974 with 2 gears and pedals.

Just Whooshes 3 | Whoosh Essentials

Universal Category System (UCS) Just Whoosh 3 Play Track 575+ sounds included $38

Just Whoosh 3 brings you 575 recorded whoosh sound effects. Some of the props used include: Cloth blankets, jeans, leather and nylon jackets, fishing rods, boom poles, bamboo/wood/metal/plastic sticks + ropes with things like spatulas attached to one end (!), chains, a torch, and some cars passing by.

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This collection gets you whoosh sounds captured from sources like cloth blankets, jeans, leather and nylon jackets, fishing rods, boom poles, bamboo/wood/metal/plastic sticks + ropes with things like spatulas attached to one end (!), chains, a torch, and cars passing by.

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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.

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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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.

Delivered in 24-bit 48 kHz format, and accompanied by full UCS-compliant Soundminer Metadata, integrating these sounds into your workflow is seamless. With a total runtime of 179 minutes, “Hurricane Nicole” provides a wide variety of wind and rain textures, allowing you to easily evoke the visceral experience of a major hurricane. Add Hurricane Nicole to your sound effects collection today!

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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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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.

This meticulously crafted library also features a selection of overalls captured from high in the stands, inside the pits, from the center of the infield and outside the gates. For instance, I was able to capture 48 laps (11 minutes worth) of an 85-lap race featuring eight rumbling Big 5 Late Model cars, recorded clean and free of public address announcements, 250 feet (76 meters) outside the ‘bullring.’ The crowd cheers for the winner at the end. Onboard recordings feature the growling sounds of a Street Stock car (1975 Chevrolet Nova), both in the pits and on the track.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Homemade Waterphone Play Track 350 sounds included $25

288 files • 96 kHz/32 Bit • 3.74Go • 54:29 mins

Introducing Homemade Waterphone: a daring journey into the realm of experimental sound design. Crafted from scratch, this unique instrument is the culmination of our quest to forge an otherworldly sonic experience.

Designed as the ultimate tool for crafting horror stingers, thrilling ambience, and spine-chilling sequences, Homemade Waterphone offers an unparalleled range of possibilities. By seamlessly blending contact microphone and stereo microphone recording techniques, we’ve unlocked a vast spectrum of sounds, spanning from earth-shaking sub-bass to ethereal high frequencies.

Each sound within this library has been meticulously captured using top-of-the-line equipment, ensuring unparalleled audio quality. Every detail has been painstakingly refined through individual editing, resulting in a collection of sounds that are both captivating and immersive.

Delivered in Broadcast Wave format, with embedded metadata for seamless integration, Homemade Waterphone promises a fast and effortless workflow. Whether you’re scoring a horror film, crafting a spine-tingling video game soundtrack, or exploring the depths of experimental music, this library is your key to unlocking a world of sonic possibilities. Are you ready to dive into the unknown?

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Mechanical Sound Effects Scene Shop Play Track 260 sounds included, 58 mins total $54

Scene Shop is a collection of high quality recordings of industrial machinery used in scenic construction workshops. Some machinery are in good condition, others not so much so… expect lots of metal rattling!

Machinery are not recorded during active use (not during wood cutting for example) so the recordings are very clean and lend themselves well to being used for large elevators, lifts, automatic doors and generally metal machinery of any kind and size.

There are multiple takes for most of the sounds, all complete with startup, steady phase, and shutdown.

This collection is a mixture of stereo and mono, very sensitive microphones able to pickup beyond 20khz were used, so it was produced and post-produced at 192khz (these machines are already very big, but slowed down they sound even bigger!)

There are also some extra sounds such as the switches of the machinery, bursts of compressed air, large metal doors and others.

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Whoosh Sound Effects Ultra Transitions & Impacts Play Track 171 sounds included $50

‘Ultra Transitions & Impacts’ by Cinematic Sound Design delivers a distinctive collection of transition and impact sounds meticulously crafted and primed for use in your media projects. Versatile and dynamic, these sounds are perfect for enhancing a wide range of scenarios, including cartoons, films, advertisements, presentations, logos, and more.
Inside, you’ll discover an array of effects, from powerful braams and sweeping cinematic transitions to subtle downers, eerie ghostly transitions, impactful debris impacts, and mesmerizing whooshes and swooshes.

Each sound has been carefully recorded, designed, and hand-crafted to ensure maximum impact and immersion in high resolution. With 111 expertly curated transitions, impacts, and swooshes, this pack is an essential addition to any cinematic project seeking unique soundscapes to elevate the scene.

Product Details:

• 111 Transitions, Impacts, Swooshes
• 24-Bit/96kHz
• 100% Royalty-Free

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