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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 also available in UCS.
Enhance the realism of your project with this dynamic collection of 105 designed fighting sound effects. From powerful punches to swift swings, this pack provides a wide variety of sounds to bring action-packed scenes to life. Whether you’re working on a game, film, animation, or any other project, these high-quality effects will immerse your audience in an authentic combat experience. Each sound is carefully crafted for maximum impact, making it easy to integrate into your project.
105 sounds that you can import directly into your project.
Dive into a world of fantasy with our Creature/Monster Voices sound effects pack, designed to bring an authentic, “real” sounding experience to your project. Crafted specifically for fantasy scenarios, this collection features a wide range of terrifying and otherworldly creature vocalizations, from growls to roars, screams, and more. Perfect for games, films, or interactive media, these high-quality sound effects will add depth, tension, and immersion to your creatures, ensuring they truly come to life in the most fantastical of worlds.
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Transform your project with our designed futuristic drone soundscapes, crafted to elevate the user experience and infuse your work with a futuristic atmosphere. Perfect for games, films, or interactive media, these high-quality sounds add depth and innovation, bringing a modern, otherworldly vibe to your creative vision. Enhance the mood, captivate your audience, and immerse them in the future with these expertly designed drone soundscapes.
12 soundscapes that you can import directly into your project.
Sounds of Nature: Island Ambiences – Azores, North Atlantic library, is an inspiring collection of high-quality natural soundscapes from one of the most pristine and biodiverse regions of the North Atlantic. It features the unmistakable calls of Cory’s Shearwaters, especially their iconic cackling during the breeding season.
Immerse yourself in the unspoiled beauty of the Azores with recordings that capture the essence of its diverse habitats: tranquil mountain peaks, serene lakes, rugged coastal cliffs, and lush coastal forests. Each environment is alive with a symphony of sounds, featuring a rich variety of bird species and the harmonious croaks of Iberian Water Frogs (Perez’s Frog).
This library is a celebration of the natural world, bringing the raw, untouched beauty of the Azores to life through sound. Rather than crashing ocean waves, you’ll mostly hear the natural sounds of the inland areas. Perfect for nature lovers, sound designers, game developers and anyone seeking authentic, atmospheric audio from the heart of the unspoiled North Atlantic.
All recordings are clear and entirely devoid of external noise and human disruptions. Therefore, this library is particularly valuable for productions set in the past, such as medieval and ancient times as well as for historical and nature documentaries.
All these nature ambiences are recorded using multiple microphone setups: a Double MS Stereo setup and a spaced omni mic setup, the latter also providing extended frequency response. This results in four variations for each recording: Stereo, Wide Stereo, Wide AB Stereo, and 5-channel 5.0 surround. The variances between these options range from subtle to more pronounced, offering flexibility for crosscutting within scenes.
Get almost 15 hours of unique, royalty-free and notably high-quality recordings with this library. Recorded in 24 bit / 96 kHz. Accurately edited and mastered to sound as natural as possible. With an average duration ranging from 4 to 18 minutes per file, there’s ample time to integrate them seamlessly into longer scenes without the need for looping. For more detailed descriptions of the ambiences within this collection, please refer to the metadata provided in our file list or listen to the preview montage.
This library is UCS compliant (universalcategorysystem.com). In this new category system, all files contain extensive metadata like file description, Category & Subcategory. Metadata can be read and processed by the most common audio libraries management tools.
The Master Gun M240B Sound Effects library is recorded using a large array of various microphone configurations, we recorded shots from several distances in an open shooting range in the Nevada Desert.
Our raw shots features a total of 28 channels including 13 Stereo and 2 mono sources. All of our close and mid spaced pair Microphone options can be used as two independent mono microphones. The right side of every spaced pair will have more Mech than its left side counterpart.
Every single gun has been recorded using the same gain settings on the same recorders, and we have level matched each microphone option between the same calibers so your 50ft microphones will be the same or similar across all libraries that share the same calibers. This makes mixing large amounts of weapons easier as the loudness and character of each gun is predictable.
Our foley features a total of 4 audio channels with 1 Stereo and 2 mono sources, including the Sanken CO-100k which captures frequencies above 100kHz for extreme pitch shifting workflows.
In addition to the unsuppressed shot recordings, we’ve also sampled the M240B with a suppressor attachment. The suppressed M240B was sampled right after the unsuppressed recordings using the exact same microphone setup as the unsuppressed version. This provides you a seamless transition between the unsuppressed and the suppressed recordings.
The suppressed recordings also have the added benefit of muting the shot layers which helps bring out the intricate details of the mechanism (mech layers).
Because adding a suppressor to the firearm increases the weapons muzzle velocity, the fire rate of the suppressed weapon is slightly faster than its unsuppressed counterpart.
Created from the ground up we’ve designed a collection of game-ready mixes for your next project. If you are creating your own custom weapons system and would like to use our designed mixes in your project, you can use our no-tail options which are our realistic designed mixes without our tail layers. Just drag, and drop.
All files contain extensive metadata to provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible. Metadata can be read and processed by audio management tools. Some digital audio workstations feature an included search tool that can also read embedded metadata.
What sets this collection apart is its origin: over 90% of the fire movement sounds were synthesized in Bitwig Studio’s GRID, where analog-style synthesis, FM, distortion, and spectral shaping were combined with macro-modulated dynamics and convolution layering. The result? Fire that doesn’t just sound real – it sounds scorching hot!
Perfect for sound designers working on:
From fast-passing flame whips and pressure-heavy blasts to longer, smoky, and textured burn trails — this pack offers a versatile range of fire movement textures ready for layering or as stand-alone assets.
DESIGNED IN: Bitwig
EDITED AND MASTERED WITH: Bitwig, Pro Tools
Elevate your project with this collection of designed futuristic sound effects, crafted to enhance the user experience and add a high-tech, modern vibe to your work. Perfect for games, apps, films, or any project , these sounds will immerse your audience in a world of innovation and advanced technology. Whether you’re designing interfaces, sci-fi environments, or futuristic scenes, these sound effects will bring your vision to life with a dynamic and captivating auditory experience.
20 Palermo street ambiences includes recordings of construction, parks, streets, and city life from the Italian town of Palermo.
The Heckler & Koch USP Expert sound effects library features firing and performed effects from a 1998 German 9×19 mm caliber pistol in 126 clips and 3.43 gigabytes of audio.
The collection includes 24 perspectives across 51 channels of audio (including an Ambisonic perspective) of firing, grabbing, handling, movement, rattling, and safety movements, and more. The gunshots were captured from close to over 150 meters distant from mono, stereo, up to 8-track Holophone recordings.
The sound library includes 18+ fields of Soundminer metadata, BWAV, and iXML metadata and MacOS Finder comments, as well as Pro Tools and Reaper sessions with all fx pre-aligned to allow editors to begin mixing and editing immediately.
The Vehicle Stone Chip Hits sound effects library showcases a wide variety of stone, rock, pebble, and gravel hits. Totalling 53 sounds and 1.34 gigabytes of audio, the collection shares multi-take impact performances on a car (roof, door, panels, body) as well as tire rims and wheel wells.
Each take documents the hits with 5 perspectives from both inside and outside the vehicle with mono, stereo, and an interior Ambisonic perspective.
The collection includes 18+ fields of Soundminer metadata, BWAV, and iXML metadata and MacOS Finder comments.
The NSL Metal Bundle includes 3 New Sound Lab sound libraries.
401 high resolution WAV files – 8 GB
Elevate your project with Mountain Streams Field Recordings – a collection of high-quality, authentic audio specifically for game developers and creators. Capturing the pure, natural sounds of mountain streams, this library offers a diverse range of immersive water flows, from tranquil babbling brooks to powerful rushing currents. Each recording is carefully captured in pristine mountain environments, ensuring maximum realism and atmosphere.
Perfect for creating realistic outdoor settings, immersive landscapes, or enhancing environmental sound design, these recordings seamlessly blend into any game, film, or multimedia project. With ready-to-use tracks and a variety of dynamic water sounds, you can effortlessly bring nature’s soothing flow into your creations. Whether you’re designing peaceful wilderness scenes or intense survival experiences, Mountain Streams Field Recordings delivers the soundscapes you need to bring your world to life.
22 ambiences that you can import directly into your project.
When we think of spaceships in science fiction, we might picture massive hulking vessels moving slowly across the cosmos… Or we might think of small nimble fighter crafts darting in and out of battle…
But there’s another kind of spaceship that is just as popular as the first two mentioned, but is under represented by most sound effect libraries out there… Until now!
Cinematic Spaceships, is our latest sci-fi designed sound-set specializing in mid-sized spaceship sound effects!
These mid-sized space craft usually have multiple engines and thrusters and are large enough to hold maybe a dozen people or crew.
Think of the troop-ships or shuttle-crafts seen in many movies, video games, Anime, TV & Streaming shows over the last 30 years…
They’re everywhere across media -and now you can have this robust library focusing on these bad-ass spaceships!
***If you would like to hear every sound from this set, watch our Deep Dive video for Cinematic Spaceships!
What you get in Cinematic Spaceships are three unique spaceship classes that feature various exterior sequences, flybys and more. And as a bonus, there’s a whole bank of Sweeteners that include rocket thruster sounds, hypersonic thunder claps, mech builds, and more!
Here is a breakdown of the sound-set:
Here’s a link for a more in depth audio-demo that reveals more of the actual sounds found in Cinematic Spaceships! Enjoy!
Check out Cinematic Spaceships today and drop us a line if you have any questions! [email protected]
We can’t wait to hear how you use our sounds!
Happy sound building!
A versatile collection of meticulously recorded interactions with real-world materials: clay, glass, metal, paper, plastic, vocal, and wood. Captured with minimal processing to preserve their raw texture and flexibility, these sounds are ready to use straight out of the box or layered to enhance existing UI audio.
The library features clicks, hits, whooshes, swipes, and slides, tailored for buttons, toggles, switches, transitions, notifications, and navigation. Whether you’re shaping a mobile app, fine-tuning game UI, or crafting interactive installations, these sounds add organic depth and tactile realism to digital experiences. The recordings were made with two Sennheiser MKH 8040 microphones and an RME Babyface interface, ensuring pristine, high-detail audio quality.
Ideal for UI/UX designers, game developers, and sound artists seeking to create grounded, sensory-rich interactions.
A digital collection of immersive soundscapes captured from diverse natural environments. Perfect for filmmakers, game developers, meditation practitioners, and sound designers. This library features recordings of forests, rivers, bird calls and more. Each track is professionally recorded to deliver an authentic and immersive experience, making it ideal for enhancing creative projects, relaxation, or background ambience. Let the pure sounds of nature transport you to a place of peace and tranquility.
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Engage your audience in a thrilling auditory experience with our Spaceship Pass-By Sound Effects. Perfect for futuristic, sci-fi, or space-themed projects, these high-quality sound effects capture the dynamic transition of a spaceship moving through space at high speeds.
Whether you’re designing a dramatic space battle scene, enhancing a sci-fi video game, or adding a realistic touch to a film or animation, these sound effects provide the perfect audio to accompany rapid spaceship movements, smooth transitions, or intense atmospheric changes. The collection includes a variety of passes, from sleek, quiet spacecraft to roaring, heavy-hitting vessels, each designed to create an immersive and otherworldly feeling.
Whoosh intense sound effects for transitions in motion design, perfect for video games, infographics, animations.
This sound effects pack contains 200 wav files in high quality 96kHz/24Bit format.
The Master Gun M60E6 Sound Effects library is recorded using a large array of various microphone configurations, we recorded shots from several distances in an open shooting range in the Nevada Desert.
Our raw shots features a total of 28 channels including 13 Stereo and 2 mono sources. All of our close and mid spaced pair Microphone options can be used as two independent mono microphones. The right side of every spaced pair will have more Mech than its left side counterpart.
Every single gun has been recorded using the same gain settings on the same recorders, and we have level matched each microphone option between the same calibers so your 50ft microphones will be the same or similar across all libraries that share the same calibers. This makes mixing large amounts of weapons easier as the loudness and character of each gun is predictable.
Our foley features a total of 4 audio channels with 1 Stereo and 2 mono sources, including the Sanken CO-100k which captures frequencies above 100kHz for extreme pitch shifting workflows.
In addition to the unsuppressed shot recordings, we’ve also sampled the M60E6 with a suppressor attachment. The suppressed M60E6 was sampled right after the unsuppressed recordings using the exact same microphone setup as the unsuppressed version. This provides you a seamless transition between the unsuppressed and the suppressed recordings.
The suppressed recordings also have the added benefit of muting the shot layers which helps bring out the intricate details of the mechanism (mech layers).
Because adding a suppressor to the firearm increases the weapons muzzle velocity, the fire rate of the suppressed weapon is slightly faster than its unsuppressed counterpart.
Created from the ground up we’ve designed a collection of game-ready mixes for your next project. If you are creating your own custom weapons system and would like to use our designed mixes in your project, you can use our no-tail options which are our realistic designed mixes without our tail layers. Just drag, and drop.
All files contain extensive metadata to provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible. Metadata can be read and processed by audio management tools. Some digital audio workstations feature an included search tool that can also read embedded metadata.
Enter the brutal heart of cinematic terror with Cinematic Nightmares: Impacts Vol.1—a meticulously crafted sound pack designed to deliver raw, unrelenting power straight to your speakers. Packed with thunderous impacts, bone-rattling hits, and layered textures of chaos, this collection is built to elevate your horror trailers, dark cinematic cues, and intense game soundscapes. Whether you’re crafting jump scares, dramatic transitions, or tension-building moments, these sounds will hit with precision and presence, helping you shape unforgettable sonic moments that grab attention and refuse to let go.
Like its whooshing predecessor, this pack is built for flexibility and depth:
● Designed Section – 10 fully layered impact sounds, sculpted and delivered in both wet and dry versions for instant drag-and-drop power. You get 20 ready-to-use files to give your productions immediate punch.
● Layers Section – Go deeper with 49 expertly curated impact layers, each provided in both wet and dry versions. That’s 98 individual files, purpose-built for layering, tweaking, or using standalone.
Each sound includes 6 variations per file, with both wet and dry processing included. This means you’re not locked into any one sound—you can apply your own reverb, layer them with other effects, or manipulate them into entirely new sonic monstrosities. Total freedom, zero compromise.
Massive Value: 708 High-Quality Sounds
With this pack, you’re not just getting great sound—you’re getting a full arsenal of ready-to-use audio assets:
● Designed Sounds: 120 wet and dry variations (10 sounds × 6 variations × 2 formats).
● Layered Sounds: 588 wet and dry variations (49 sounds × 6 variations × 2 formats).
● Bonus One-Shots: Every variation is also provided as a pre-cut one-shot—clearly labeled and organised within its own folder, drag-and-drop ready for your DAW or sampler, making workflow fast and seamless.
Check out the sound demo here:
All sounds are provided in 24-bit / 96kHz resolution, ensuring industry-standard quality. The total pack size is 5.6 GB, and everything is embedded with full UCS-compliant metadata to keep your sound library organised, searchable, and production-ready.
Resonant Metal is a sound library built around the resonant and tonal characteristics of metal. It features a wide variety of recordings—from small, high-frequency metal tones to large, heavy impacts with long sustain. The focus is on metallic sounds with rich overtones, clean transients, and tonal clarity.
The library includes both raw recordings of real-world metal objects (bowls, trays, heavy pans, rods, tools, etc.) and a selection of designed sounds. These designed elements include processed impacts, pitch-shifted scrapes, granular textures, and reversed hits.
Every sound was recorded using a Sennheiser MKH 8050 microphone and a Zoom F6 recorder and files are delivered in high-resolution 24-bit / 192kHz WAV format.
We managed to record in the amazing and stunning Main Hall of the Grand Central Station in New York whilst on our travels, capturing the ambience of the daily commuter and tourists who flock to see this amazing building.
Main Hall Ambience
Info Booth Ambience and Tannoy
A one man Public Protest
Crowd/Walla
Commuters
Tourists
People moving
People moving with Baggage
People talking close and distant
Regular tannoy announcements
When editing the ambiences, there were a variety of close mic’ed human interactions and baggage movement which may not be fitting when placing these into a projects so we’ve re-edited these samples and provided a set of “B” Samples which have these removed.
Grand Central Station will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of this amazing train station, boosting your project to the next level. Grand Central Station has been edited to allow a drop in ready and Royalty Free sample pack. These Samples can be used in a variety of projects from Sound Designing/Compositions for TV, Film, Documentaries and Video Games. UCS Compliant and Metadata is attached to the samples
This is a sound library containing a wide variety of both raw and designed ceramic sounds, including porcelain and terracotta.
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In this comprehensive collection you’ll discover an extensive array of pristine, isolated recordings capturing the nuanced vocalizations of a diverse range of farm animals. Included is maybe one of the most detailed distinctions between various sheep breeds – from the weak first calls of a lamb to the breathy but historic bleating of the Soay Sheep to the more robust calls of Suffolk Sheep up to the harsh burping of Scottish Black Face Sheep (and even more sheep). Explore the intricate world of poultry with detailed recordings of div. roosters and chickens, as well as some ducks, turkey and geese, each captured with exceptional clarity.
Beyond the ovine and avian, Farm Animals extends its sonic palette to include:
Each recording within the Farm Animal library has been captured using hd recording techniques, ensuring exceptional fidelity and minimal noise. These are meticulously documented sonic portraits, offering a wealth of textural detail and emotional resonance.
On top of these close up recording, the library also includes some farm ambiences. Inside the hen house, with sleeping hens or eery industrial noises from milk farms.
As honey bees are as much an industrial worker as cows, pics or sheep, some insects are included too.
Farm Animals provides you with the raw sonic ingredients to craft immersive and believable rural environments, adding layers of authenticity that will elevate your countryside projects or give you unique source material to design alien voices or monsters, dinosaurs, zombies and more. Whether you’re working on film, television, games, or interactive installations, this library offers the depth and breadth of sounds required to truly bring your scenes to life. On top, no animals have been harmed, handled or annoyed by me, all vocals occured naturally.
Animals included: Antwerp Belgian Breed, Barnevelder Bantam, Bielefelder Kennhuhn, Brown Hen, Minorca Hen, Other Chicken, Rooster, Cows / Cattle, Highland Cattle, Donkey, Goat, Honey Bee, Bentheim Black Pied Pig, Other Pigs, Camerun Sheep, Coburg Fox Sheep, Domestic Sheep, German Heath Sheep, Scottish Blackface Sheep, Soay Sheep. Suffolk Sheep, Lamb, Horse, Pony, Shetland, Mallard, Red Crested Pochard, Rasseflügel Limburg, House Goose, Steinbacher Kampfgans, Indian Runner Duck, Black Swan, Turkey, Fantail Pigeon, Sparrows, Short toed tree creeper, dogs – for vocalization and amount of calls, check the file list
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