ENTER THE WORLD OF STEAMPUNK SOUND DESIGN
STEAMPUNK GADGETS opens the gate into the intricate realm of gears, cogs and mechanisms. This collection of mechanical sound effects is an auditory passport to a Victorian-era workshop where the future meets the past through the whisper of steam-powered machinery and the rattle of small mechanical devices.
The library offers a palette of sounds ranging from the subtle clicks of lock mechanisms to the complex operations of miniature steam-powered inventions. It’s perfect for creating custom machines, enhancing the tactile feel of game environments or adding a unique mechanical touch to user interfaces and interactive designs.
A SONIC BLUEPRINT FOR GADGETS AND GIZMOS
Included are source recordings as well as pre-designed sounds. You get a variety of recordings of small mechanisms like gear wheels, springs, buttons, various handling and a big array of completely designed machine processes and mechanics. Design the locking mechanism of a puzzle box, bring mechanical gadgets to life or set the background atmosphere of a factory hall.
STEAMPUNK GADGETS isn’t just for designing small mechanisms; it’s an essential collection for anyone crafting the sounds of intricate machinery. Enhance your weapon sound design, create big industrial machines or design everyday mechanical devices. Dive into a world where the smallest sounds leave the biggest impression and let this collection of finely-crafted sound effects become the gearbox of your mechanical sound design work.
WHAT’S INSIDE (FILES / SOUNDS)
This library is loaded with some beefy, old-school, mechanical interfacing: buttons, switches, knobs and levers.
This bundle gives you a large collection of high quality sounds from clunky mechanical antique cash registers from the early 1900s as well as an electric metal cash register from the 1970. Powerful source material for designing all sorts of mechanical machinery, user interface, creatures – or simply cash registers.
Bonus: The bundle comes with two Kontakt instruments (requires full version of Kontakt 6) with several round robins and multiple microphone positions that be used to add mechanical rhythms to your music, or easily sync the sounds to pictures with MIDI notes.
Clunky mechanical sounds from a collection of antique cash registers from the early 1900s
Perfect source material for designing all sorts of odd mechanical machinery, steam punk inventions, UI sounds for points and money, or just actual cash registers in shopping scenes. ~420 sounds in 285 files.
For creating this library we had to track down old cash registers in Denmark. We recorded them all with several high quality microphones from multiple perspectives – even with a lavalier microphone hidden inside the machine for super dry mechanical sounds and contact microphone attached to the back for beefy low end that can be mixed in to make your sounds feel heavier. We even added punchy ready-to-use detailed mixes of all the microphones.
We experimented to explore all the sonic gems hiding in the machines. You’ll find sounds like the classic “money earned sound” from turning the clicking cranks and bell ring as the drawer opens, chunky mechanical sounds from pulling the levers and foley sounds from touching and handling the cash registers.
The library has been tagged with extensive metadata and has been tested in Soundminer, Basehead, Soundly and Pro Sound Effects’ Search to make it easy to find the sounds you are looking for.
The Antique Cash Registers library includes:
– Chunky rolling lever pulls in various durations
– The classic Ka-ching! sound from from turning the crank
– Performed continous mechanical sounds, perfect for machinery or creatures
– Opening and closing the wooden drawers – with and without money
– Foley and impacts from handling the registers
– Clicky mechaincal sounds from turning the cranks and smaller knobs inside the registers
– Several microphones from different perspectives as well as a punchy ready-to-use detailed mixes of all the microphones
– A Kontakt Instruments with several round robins and multiple microphone positions that be used to add mechanical rhythms to your music, or easily sync the sounds to pictures with MIDI notes
We asked Katrine Amsler (Wolfenstein 2, Control) to play around with the library, and she came up with this beautiful haunting piece:
Clicky and rolling metallic sounds from an old metallic Sweda cash register from the 1970s
Great source material for designing all sorts of odd mechanical insects, robot or machine movement, mechanical UI buttons or just actual cash registers in shopping scenes. ~270 sounds in 165 files.
We recorded the cash register with high quality microphones from multiple perspectives – even with a lavalier microphone hidden inside the machine for super dry mechanical sounds and contact microphone attached to the back for beefy low end that can be mixed in to make your sounds feel heavier. We even added punchy ready-to-use detailed mixes of all the microphones. Recorded in a professional noise free recording studio, giving you the complete freedom to shape the sounds as you please
We experimented to explore all the sonic gems hiding in the machine. You’ll find sounds of the electric number indicators rolling when pressing the payment button, creepy click-clacky insect-like movements, thin metallic movements and impacts and foley sounds from touching and handling the cash registers.
The library has been tagged with extensive metadata and has been tested in Soundminer, Basehead, Soundly and Pro Sound Effects’ Search to make it easy to find the sounds you are looking for.
– Mechanical click-clacky insect-like movements
– Beefy rolling sounds from electric number indicators rolling when pressing the payment button
– Several metallic drawer movements
– A huge variety of mechanical buton clicks
– Foley and impacts from handling the register
– Several microphones from different perspectives as well as a punchy ready-to-use detailed mixes of all the microphones
– A Kontakt Instruments with several round robins and multiple microphone positions that be used to add mechanical rhythms to your music, or easily sync the sounds to pictures with MIDI notes
192KHZ 24BIT • 2.12GB • 1392 FILES • MONO • UCS METADATA
Experience the nostalgic and iconic sounds of some of the most popular 35mm SLR cameras ever made with Timeless SLR’s. This collection of high-quality sound effects features 1392 .wav files, all of which were recorded at 192kHz/24Bit with a Sound Devices recorder, using Sennheiser MKH8040 and MKH8060 microphones.
Included in the collection are sounds from Canon A1, Canon AE-1 Program, Pentax K1000, and Praktika DTL3 cameras, offering an extensive range of mechanical sounds captured from different angles and performed differently. From motorized cannon auto winders to self-timer beeps, shutter curtains at multiple different speeds, all the cranks, dials, knobs, and switches, this library has everything you need.
With its exceptional recording quality (192/24) Timeless SLR’s offers sound designers the flexibility to pitch shift and process the sounds further, making it perfect for sound design.
Furthermore, all sound have embedded rich metadata.
Don’t miss this opportunity to add the charm and character of vintage camera sounds to your next project.
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Sennheiser MKH8040 & MKH8060
EDITED AND MASTERED WITH: RX, Pro Tools, Brusfri.
The Typewriters SFX Library features custom sound effect recordings from both manual and electronic typewriters. Models include the Smith Corona electronic typewriter, Olivetti manual typewriter, and Olympia manual typewriter. Sound effects include typing, page scroll, page return, bells, beeps, clicks, slides, levers, and more.
Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriters. Watch out for typos and find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Typewriter
Our new Typewriter sound effects pack comes with 102 files and 150+ sounds of the iconic Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter.
This SFX pack includes different speed and variations of typing, mechanical sounds, carriage slide and return as well as different types of switches and button sounds. The texture of the sounds is realistic and flexible for customization. It’s recorded organically with our favorite Neumann KM 184 stereo pair.
All sound files are in stereo 24bit/96 KHz Wav format, with easy to navigate naming.
Plus, you get the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!
We hope these sounds are good fit for your new projects – historical or contemporary – and looking forward to seeing them go live!
Yours truly,
Vadi Sound Team
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Mechanicals SFX Pack for access to 600+ mechanics, tools, Foley and equipment sound effects and Gaming Keyboards SFX Pack for 200+ premium gaming keyboard sounds of true gaming.
Cash Registers, Slot Machines and Pinball Machines – the sound of success, the sound of winning, the sound of MONEY. We’ve traveled far to record classic sounds from antique machines. 42 tracks of payout bells, alarms, beeps, chimes, clicks, coins, poker chips and more. All with the same feeling. Money, Money, MONEY!! This library is a Winner $$ From veteran Hollywood Sound Designer Lenny Jones.
Mechanical sounds from a classic vintage Studer A-80 reel-to-reel tape machine including switches, motor, magnetic tape, buttons, levers, metal and plastic spools, reels, spin-offs, and more. Full UCS Metadata.
Vintage Typewriters features five fully mechanical typewriters from the early to mid twentieth century. They were captured in great detail at 192khz with the Sanken CO-100k, as well as a stereo overhead pair, contact mic, and for full speed typing performances a room mic to easier mix into ambiences. Pre-mastered half speed and quarter speed files are included to speed up your editing and design workflow. Every keystroke, click and mechanism that makes a sound was recorded with many variations.
In addition to the sound library itself, we have included Radium instruments for all five typewriters for Soundminer users, so you can perform directly to picture.
This library is UCS compliant, and features rich, detailed Soundminer metadata with lots of sorting options to help find exactly what you need. Each file is labeled in detail the action that is happening so you can faithfully recreate the sounds of someone using a typewriter, or have an easier time designing those special mechanical sounds. Most of the library was edited on a one second grid to quickly nudge and audition other variations of a sound in your DAW. Soundminer Radium regions were added throughout to speed up your sound design process. Five bonus designed files of clocks and an office ambience are included as well.
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