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Get our amazing 3D Pacific Ambience Libraries 3D Pacific Tropical Island, 3D Pacific Waves, 3D Pacific Island Winds, 3D Volcano Eruptions in ONE Bundel with 171 unique sound Files. In times of global change it’s nearly impossible to hear places without human sounds. The majestic and old rainforests on the tropical south pacific islands creates an amazing soundscape. We recorded these soundscapes with a variety of organic sounds like exotic birds and animals, light and heavy tropical rain, wind blowing through trees, calm rivers, waterfalls and huge volcanic eruptions of the Yasur volcano on Tanna Island. We also covered day and night moods. Our microphone setup is the amazing immersive Schoeps ORTF3D System powered by the precise preamps of the Sonosax R4+ and AD8+. These systems allow us to record the incredible soundscapes of the south pacific rainforests in the most iconic way.
The Library include sounds like
AMBIENCE, TROPICAL, WATER, RAINFOREST, RAIN, EXOTIC, ANIMALS, BIRDS, INSECTS, WIND, VEGETATION, VOLCANO, RIVER, WATER, WAVES, SHORELINE, COAST, SURF, BEACH, OCEAN ROAR, GUST, BREEZE, VEGETATION, TONAL, PLAIN, VOLCANO, ERUPTIONS, EXPLOSIONS, CRISP, MUFFLED, CLOSE, DISTANT, WIND, PLAIN
Key Features 3D Pacific Tropical Island
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The sound of a volcano is an awe-inspiring symphony of raw power and untamed energy. It is a cacophony that reverberates through the air, leaving an indelible mark on anyone fortunate enough to witness it. As the molten rock churns and rises within the depths of the Earth, a rumbling bass begins to emerge, like the distant growl of a slumbering giant. We recorded the Yasur Volcano on Tanna island with the amazing immersive Schoeps ORTF3D microphone system powered by the precise preamps of the Sonosax R4+ and AD8+.
The Library include sounds like
VOLCANO, ERUPTIONS, EXPLOSIONS, CRISP, MUFFLED, CLOSE, DISTANT, WIND, PLAIN
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Get all sorts of ambisonic debris recordings in this release from Spheric Collection – perfect for earthquakes, landslides, explosions and beyond. Debris is the material you will need for a house and gallery collapsing. From very small stone and dust to large rocks, this collection is a good set of mineral sounds – covering everything from impacts, continuous falling debris, rocks poured from various heights, light and heavy falling debris sounds, a number of falling rock sounds, to rocky explosions and blasts, glass sounds and more. Always immersive all sounds are ambisonic recordings.
Fully UCS compliant
Crisp, clean various types of pebble, dust, dirt and grit debris along with smashing rock impacts.
Great for adding some subtle detail to your ‘after the explosion’ sound.
I recorded all these sounds with my brothers during a trip home to Ireland.
Close to our home (out in the middle of nowhere), there is a little quarry with a lot of sand, dust, stones, rocks and some grass. There was also a broken plough there that gave some nice stone on metal impact sounds.
Equipment:
Line Audio OM1s
Line Audio CM3s
Røde NTG3
Useful Sound Effects releases Earthquakes, a library that contains both stereo and binaural earthquake sound effects. Sounds range from complete mixes that maintain original dynamics, indoor sensations, exterior and underwater settings. Two folders have been added with assets to create or modify your own sounds with rattling metals, shaking objects, falling debris, low rumbles…
Having felt and heard earthquakes, I wanted the sounds to translate this feeling of awkward “calmness”. The seismic effects are often delicate, but nevertheless unexpected.
These are not the Hollywood-style overwhelming crushing sounds but the more mystical, delicate sounds of the earth trembling, shifting tectonic plates, seismic movements, tremors that come from deep inside our planet and that are heard from the exterior or our interior, like houses, office, urbex-type sites.
UCS compliant files with 225 sounds that can be easily edited to fit image or story.
“Earthquakes” is a sound library containing a collection of designed earthquake sounds. The library also includes a variety of additional rattling sounds to accompany the earthquakes.
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“Wilderness Americas : Geyser and Volcano” is a collection of sounds focused on geothermal phenomena of Central and North America.
We recorded geysers in the Yellowstone National Park (USA) and two very actives volcanoes: the Fuego in Guatemala, and the Masaya in Nicaragua.
To complete this sound library, we added natural sound elements which are very efficient for sound design as designed sound material:
“Super volcano” eruption sounds, magma lake ebullition sounds, lava movement, and landslide sounds.
The geyser and Masaya volcano sounds (magma lake, lava movement) were recorded with the Telinga Parabola with a Sennheiser MKH 8040. The Telinga was used for its powerful ability to focus on sound details at a reasonable distance.
The explosions and eruptions of the Fuego volcano were recorded in surround with a Sennheiser DMS setup (MKH 8040-30) and also with the Telinga Parabola + MKH 8020.
-This sound bank contains 56 sound takes recorded in 24/96 kHz, and a total of 122 files.
Not your usual house…Set the atmosphere for suspense and tension with the Haunted House! Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Haunted House
Come on in for 250+ sounds of mud impact, tv white noise, electricity, door slams, dark atmosphere sounds, creepy forest ambiences, footsteps, spooky winds, demonic entities, ghost vox and creaking.
Create a dark and ominous atmosphere with creepy doors, windy sound effects and designed sound effects. Induce fear with textures that are dark, bright, noisy, clean, grainy, metallic.
Stand out with your sci-fi, horror and thriller projects with 149 fresh sound files. And the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!
These sounds are available in 24-bit / 96kHz, recorded and designed delicately so that you have the right tone for your related projects and room for further manipulation with the flexible texture of the sounds.
Stay away from estate agents trying to sell you spooky houses for low prices!
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Eeerie Drones, Space Horror and Ebow (Guitar) Thriller for other horror and thriller projects as well as Ultimate Horror Bundle for complete horror sound effects collection.
Medieval Town takes you on a historical journey through a map of an imagined town. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Medieval Town SFX Pack
It includes 400+ sound effects from a simple town’s parts such as; barn, field, grassland, tavern, blacksmith, carpenter, library, church, graveyard, mine, and many more a medieval town could offer.
With the Medieval Town SFX Pack you will have access to dressage sounds, kitchenware sounds, church bells, town ambiences, medieval mechanical devices, mining sounds, animals, tools, weapons and more.
These sounds are available in 24-bit / 96kHz, were recorded delicately with DPA 4060s and Neumann KM184 pairs, have clarity and room for further sound design with the flexible texture of the sounds for customization. Recorded and designed delicately for all your historical needs.
What’s Inside
Medieval, town, ambience, object, church, bell, bird, animal, duck, food, drink, lake, horse, blacksmith, hammering, fire, tool, metal, nail, chest, materials, wooden, metal, fire, objects, chest, iron bell, vegetation, nail tools, bench, firewood, coin, opening, action, closing, creaking, hammering, breathing, dropping, ringing, shaping, picking, rolling, breaking, church, bell, sunny, peaceful, weather with and without animals, lake, fire castle, locations, barn, blacksmith, church, lake, campside, animals actions, birds chirping, flying, ducks quaking, cows, mooing, horse, eating, hay, from trainer’s hand, breathing, licking, chewing, bridle, clicking, perspective, texture, middle, distant close very close, heavy breaking, pile, ceramic, tress, rattling, wallet, heat, blade, shovel, sand, pebble, doorbell, saddle, cart, earthquake, farrier, book, cough, cloth, cricket, kitchen, pottery, lis, frog, mechanical, winch, copper, lock, rockaxe, mining, pouring, sailing, boat, rooster, footstep, rope, tavern, treasure, water, light, game, movie, film, video.
What else you may need
You may want to check out our Medieval Warfare and Gore SFX Packs for fierce battle scenes, Essential Magic and Green Witch’s Cauldron for dark and green magic scenes and Crafting & Survival for 1000+ gathering, movement and crafting sounds.
Moving Loops by Badlands Sound features 100+ sounds of different objects that rustle, rattle, or shake that is 30 seconds long and loopable.
This library is great for creating textures or adding additional sounds to earthquakes or things moving around inside a vehicle at high speeds.
These sounds were recorded in 96k / 24 Bit using professional equipment including Sennheiser microphones and Sound Devices 702t. The processing for this library is very minimal, only including De-Noise and minor EQ.
Over 80 spokes on an abandoned vintage hay tedder produce raw rattles, vibrations and scrapes.
Featuring geophone and contact mic recordings, the library includes detailed textures from metallic rubs and glitches to wind tones and subtle grass rustles.
Perfect for creating atmospheric metal FX, deep bass clangs, trembling impacts and earthquake-like rumbles.
Multi Recording Takes For Varying Nuances
Multiple Microphone Perspectives
Type : Source Files – WAV Stereo & WAV Mono
Mastered : No
Normalised : Yes -6 dbFS
Recorder : Sound Devices Mix Pre 10II
Microphones : Stille and Klang spot contact microphones, Organic Audio Cjossul contact microphones, LOM Geofon
Microphone Perspective : Contact / Magnet
Documentation Included : Copyright, EULA, Images, Metadata (exported in multiple formats)
Metadata : Files are stamped with detailed UCS compliant metadata in Soundminer, including pictorial references.
The “Seismic Activities” sound archive contains over 2500 different noises from vibrations, shocks and their resonances. We have taken the trouble to use a set-up of different natural sounds, such as frequency drops, thunder or the sound of deep rumbling, to control two structure-borne sound transducers.
The “Seismic Activities” sound archive contains over 2500 different noises from vibrations, shocks, and their resonances.
We have taken the trouble to use a set-up of different natural sounds, such as frequency drops, thunder, or the sound of deep rumbling, to control two structure-borne sound transducers. We have installed these converters in various locations. For example, we were at a company that produces large roller doors. There we shook all sorts of pipes, high racks, tool cabinets, gates, and the like.
In addition, we worked with many household items to create a variety of sound structures, which should make the use of “seismic activities” particularly diverse.
Almost all of the sounds were generated from a multi-channel set-up made up of Sennheiser MKH80 (ORTF), DPA 4060 (AB) and a Sony DR100. So you can expect the best sound quality. As always, a Sounddevices 744T and a Mixpre were used as recording devices.
As always, all files come with burned in metadata in open standards like iXml, BWAV, ID3 Chunk.
There's a whole lot of rattling going on in this library – from objects on a ferry to furniture, glass, plastic, vans and some serious subwoofer shakes. Oh, and the mandatory hospital bed shake, of course.
It's time to seriously shake things up, earthquake-style.
The need for these types of sounds came when we had to create various objects being shaken during an earthquake. In Shakes and Rattles you will find various objects being shaken in multiple ways. Shakes and Rattles includes 751 sounds in 37 audio files embedded with detailed metadata, and each audio file starts with short shakes and progresses toward medium and longer shakes.
The Shopping Carts SFX Library contains a wide variety of professional shopping cart sound effect recordings. These include rolls, crashes, drops, stutters, basket seat movements, skids, shakes, and more.
Here a library of one of the most active volcano in Europe: The Stromboli.
The actual sound library contains 73 sound recordings for a size of 2.6 GB.
Eruptions were recording mainly from three distances:
• at 200m of altitude and 1,3km distance from cratere
• at 400m of altitude and 1km distance from cratere
• at 850m of altitude and 500m distance from cratere
I stayed here one month to manage to have the most diversified eruptions that offer Iddu the volcano. A friend who accompanied me did beautiful shoots with cameras and drone. You can have a look to the video. This project brought us to another one, that’s coming up in the next months, a type of documentary about the whole island and his inhabitants.
So in the future I will add more sounds of Stromboli, the city, the people, the sea, the animals, the ambient etc… that you could listen and download for free on my website.
I wanted this sound library focused on the eruptions, but I put also a few recording of the waves and water because they sound particularly strong and they suggest the volcano’s sound: All the island is little made of “fresh” lava’s rock, that make every impact very resonant in the bass frequencies.
This library contains also a few ambient of the island, his city and his surrounding nature. And some roomtone corresponding to the place where I recorded the eruptions.
All recording made with the Nagra VI. Neumann mics, audio technica MS and Micromix amp for some specifics recording.
Thunder Tube offers you an extensive collection of sounds from a unique resonant source, ideal for any sound design purpose.
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6 shades of terror in 1.300+ sounds and almost 3 hours of duration. All 6 horror SFX packs are here in Ultimate Horror Bundle – you will get access to E-bow, Monsters & Humanoids, Haunted House, Gore, Space Horror and Eerie Drones & Textures SFX Packs – and set the bar high for all horror projects! Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Ultimate Horror Bundle
With Eerie Drones and Textures, create fear inducing and mysterious spheres with the textures that are dark, bright, noisy, clean, grainy, metallic. Hear the ethereal choirs, unnerving strings, otherworldly hum and growls and run for your life! Carefully curated collection of Eerie Drones and Textures, in 71+ sounds, recorded and designed professionally.
With Space Horror, get 185+ sounds of spooky aliens, far away galaxies, terrifying malfunction noises from a distant spacecraft. Hear alien-like sound effects, UI textures, dark ambiences, sci-fi transitions, sci-fi horror sounds. It brings you the inhuman sound effects that will send chills down the spine and prepare to terrify your audience.
With Ebow Guitar Thriller, create a dark and ominous atmosphere with 152+ creepy guitar ebow – designed sound effects.
With Haunted House, come on in for 250+ sounds of mud impact, tv white noise, electricity, door slams, dark atmosphere sounds, creepy forest ambiences, footsteps, spooky winds, demonic entities, ghost vox and creaking. Create a dark and ominous atmosphere with creepy doors, windy sound effects and designed sound effects. Induce fear with textures that are dark, bright, noisy, clean, grainy, metallic.
With Monsters and Humanoids, simply terrify your audience. 351 sounds of dark ambience effects, creatures, gore and transition sound effects. Meet the horrendous monsters in attack or just idle and agitated! Hear the witches and otherworldly creatures laugh and chant! Create a dark and ominous atmosphere with creepy creatures’ designed sound effects. Induce fear and uneasiness, horror and terror!
With Gore, grab the 220+ fresh gore sounds for your toolkit; from gushing bloody flesh sounds to bone break and snap sounds, flesh, stab with knives swords sharp objects and hand.
Bringing you the inhuman sound effects that will send chills down the spine and prepare to terrify your audience. Stand out with your sci-fi, horror and thriller projects with 1.049 fresh sound files – 1300+ sounds.
All sounds are available in 24-bit / 96kHz with intuitive naming. These were designed delicately so that you have the right tone for your related projects and room for further sound manipulation. And the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Cinematic Series and Cinematic Whooshes and Transitions for further cinematic trailers and Ultimate Medieval Bundle for specific historical projects.
Take a journey back in time with Ultimate Medieval SFX Bundle! Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Ultimate Medieval SFX Bundle
With this collection you will have access to a carefully curated collection of Medieval Warfare, Medieval Town and Green Witch’s Cauldron sound effects. It covers your most essential historical needs with 1.200+ sounds, recorded and designed professionally.
You can find rope stressing sounds, listen to the rain on a beach from a bush perspective, bottle up potions, and hear a soldier as he gets ready for a battle. Listen to barn animals, horses, weapons and tools; town ambiences, mine, blacksmith, tavern, field, church bells; dried seeds and herbs, defensive spells and transfiguration spells. Go ahead and check out the contents of these three different collections included in the Ultimate Medieval SFX Bundle one by one and start imagining a story already!
You’ll find yourself first on a brutal battlefield, then come back to the busy town a little. Don’t be afraid to ask for some healing magic from the Green Witch! Travel back to the Middle Ages and take Ultimate Medieval SFX Bundle with you!
These sounds are available in 24-bit / 96kHz, were recorded delicately with DPA 4060s and Neumann KM184 pairs, have clarity and room for further sound design with the flexible texture of the sounds for customization.
About Medieval Town SFX Pack
400+ sound effects from a simple town’s parts such as; barn, field, grassland, tavern, blacksmith, carpenter, library, church, graveyard, mine, and many more a medieval town could offer. With the Medieval Town Sound Effects Bundle you will have access to dressage sounds, kitchenware sounds, church bells, town ambiences, medieval mechanical devices, mining sounds, animals, tools, weapons and more. Medieval Town Sound Effects Bundle was recorded and designed delicately for all your historical needs.
About Medieval Warfare SFX Pack
Medieval Warfare Sound Effects Pack brings the most realistic 350+ medieval sound effects that you may need for your game/film/creative projects. It includes sound effects of; warriors, explosions, barn animals, horse sound effects, medieval life sound effects, weapons, and tools, human voices, and many more to find out.
You will have access to weapon sound effects, animals, horse items, ambiences, medieval life items, sword hits, catapult, crossbow, arrow whooshes, battle cries, castle gates, foley sound effects and more. Medieval Warfare Sound Effects Pack is specifically designed for all your historical needs, with the texture of the sounds flexible for customization. Plus, you get the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!
Great for film, video, game, advertisements, Foley and suitable further as sweeteners outside of the medieval genre as well.
Green Witch’s Cauldron SFX Pack
Green Witch’s Cauldron brings you the 450+ sounds of healing white magic and spells of a playful and sometimes wicked witch. It includes collecting and drying herbs, bubbling boiling potions, bottling, casting spells with elemental magic, and many more you can find in a cauldron. With this pack, you will have access to cat sounds, witch reactions, dried seeds, dried herbs, defensive spells, attacks, transfiguration spells, whooshes and transitions and elements.
Green Witch’s Cauldron Sound Effects Bundle was recorded and designed exquisitely for all your magical needs and covers all sound effects needs for any white magic, potion-brewing, voices and subtle sounds of a witch’s life for the relevant projects and games that you are working on.
These meticulously recorded sounds have clarity and lots of room for further usage and sound design with the flexible texture of the sounds for further customization. With 24-bit / 96kHz Wav format and easy to navigate naming, you can now set the bar higher for all your film, game, motion and video projects, advertisement, animation and all witchy projects.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Gore for warfare, Essential Magic for darker magic and spells and All About Games Master Collection for a mega collection of 23 different packs for game audio sound effects.
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