Home tape recorder
Continuing the popular Videogame Foley Essentials series (Vol. I, Vol. II, Vol.III), Vol. IV offers an additional 1325 individual sound effects all mixed at the same volume level, carefully cleaned of any unnecessary background noise and artifacts. These sounds are ready to be integrated into any audio middleware solution, such as Wwise or FMOD. Recorded with videogame development in mind, all sounds are short, snappy one-shots with dozens of iterations, making them ideal for layering, stretching and bending to achieve surprising results. The goal is to streamline the workflow for editors and sound designers by providing ready-to-use sound batches for their middleware projects, avoiding auditory repetition and fatigue for gamers while keeping them fully immersed in their upcoming adventures.
You’ll find in this library the following folders with clear nomenclature and corresponding metadata related to various interactions either with environmental objects or the characters in the game:
Analog Tape Transitions contains dozens of genuine vari-fi effects created with a restored Akai 4000DS MK-II 1/4 inch tape recorder.
Get plenty of tape stops, rewinds, fast-forwards with 7 different tapes containing music, voice and noise.
Tired of using the same digital rewind sound again and again? Experience the variety and the smoothness of reel-to-reel analog sound.
• Vari-fi, rewinds, fast-forwards
• Mechanical tape recorder sounds included
• Ultrasonic content up to 48 000 Hz for easy pitch adjustment
• 96 KHz/24 bit
• Metadata UCS-compliant
• Recorded with AKAI 4000DS MK-II and Sennheiser 8040
Does your production need analog tape playback sounds?
Oh, boy, we have some!
Scratching, speeding up and down, humming, noise and crackles, feedback, distortion, wavefolding, damaged tape, spring reverb and even processed with the filter of evil Polivoks synthesizer.
All records were made with analog gear and recorded with 192KHz sample rate for further manipulations.
KEY POINTS:
Studer A80 Master recorder tape machine, analog legend , hi-end professional analog tape recorder/reproducer FX sound library.Including recordings of: tape transport, loading tape, reels spin-offs, machine commands-mechanics, electronics, powering etc.
This library contains following type of recordings : MS stereo (A); structure born/contact mic – mono (B); mono (C);They are all in sync, recorded multichannel. You can combine those A, B, C channels to get richer sound or just use any of these recordings separately.
Here you can find many working situations included like: powering machine, loading tape on deck, play, stop, FFWD short, REW short, FFWD full tape length, REW full tape length, different editing situations with slow/fast speed tape running, lock mode/tape counter or automation (finding specific spot on tape by resetting/locking the counter), 7 IPS and 15 IPS speed operation and many others. Room tones of deck operation are included too. Machine is recorded in studio, quiet environment. Machine hum and droning of motors and transport mechanism inside deck are recorded via contact microphone as well with cardioid condenser placed inside machine. Includes metadata with full equipment description. Recorded with Sennheiser MKHs, AKG C391B, JRF contact mic, Sound Devices 744T, Sound Devices MixPre,
The VHS & Betamax Sessions assembles a collection of vintage, lo-fi sounds taken from over 80 tapes from everybody’s favorite magnetic video recording formats.
Inside this collection, you’ll find over 3 hours of background ambiences taken from assorted home videos, ranging from sports crowds, outdoor ambiences, water parks, amongst other oddities; ready to be dropped onto the late 70s, early 80s flavored projects and retro-futuristic user interfaces.
Complementing the material found inside the tapes, there’s also rewind, fast forward, tape insertion and removal sounds from both players for your foley aspirations.
Design realistic, believable and immersive foley interactions with this feature complete bundle of high resolution sound effects with videogame development in mind.
Inside Videogame Foley Bundle you’ll find a plethora of sound effects such as footsteps on varied ground textures (grass, mud, wood, glass, dirt, leaves, water, amongst others) but also different shoe types on a neutral surface allowing you to mix these onto varied outcomes. Clothing and other wearable accessories are also present to truly immerse you on the character you’re inhabiting or to create believable NPCs with short and snappy sounds coming from leather jackets, denim pants, winter coats, belt buckles jiggling, rummaging on backpacks and pouches of all sizes, zippers, snow pants, you name it. Hundreds of different interactions with a BB Rifle can also be found on this library, allowing you to create foley for a weapon your character might be carrying.
A variety of pages and stationery material textures abound, ailing from books, magazines, comics, artbooks, synthetic shielding bags, cardboards and office supplies with respective actions such as crumpling, tearing and handling for all of them. No office sound pack is truly complete without a vintage typewriter, so expect close and personal recordings of all its components in addition to regular typing takes.
Over 1500 vehicle sound effects are also present, including one-shot mono sound effects taken from every component present in the cars themselves, ranging from dashboard buttons, seat adjustment levers, A/C, insertion and removal of car keys, handbrakes, pedals, doors opening and closing with both interior and exterior perspectives. Long and evolving ambisonic takes with each vehicle driving or parked revving different RPMs are perfect to edit and loop each speed or idle moment to a certain scene, wrapping up this section of the library with VR ambitions in mind.
Also assembled is a collection of vintage, lo-fi sounds taken from over 80 tapes from everybody’s favorite magnetic video recording formats: VHS and Betamax. 3 hours of background ambiences were recorded from assorted home videos, ranging from sports crowds, outdoor ambiences, water parks, amongst other oddities; ready to be dropped onto late 70s, early 80s flavored projects and retro-futuristic user interfaces. Rewind, fast forward, tape insertion and removal sounds from both players can be found for your foley aspirations.
Environmental interactions are spread through multiple folders including:
The bulk of this library is comprised of thousands of micro one-shot sound effects, all edited, mixed, cleaned up and ready to be dropped onto audio middleware solutions such as Wwise or FMOD, helping the editor/sound designer with a comprehensive workflow, concise metadata and accessible folder hierarchy. Given the variety and cheer number of sounds present, you can create completely new and original content by layering and mashing these high resolution files with one another, mangle and destroy them with samplers, use effects chains to remodel something slick and clean onto complex outcomes for any action present in the videogame you’re currently working on, avoiding auditory repetition and fatigue whilst keeping gamers totally immersed on their upcoming adventures. Your imagination is the limit.
With over 35GB of content spread through 643 minutes, you’re guaranteed to find the perfect foley sound effect for any upcoming videogame venture.
Videogame Foley Bundle contains:
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.
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