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.
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.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, Line Audio Omni1and 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.
The NSL FX Bundle includes 4 New Sound Lab sound libraries. 731 high resolution WAV files – 6 GB
This sound collection covers a wide range of sounds produced by this unique racing (kit)car from 1991. The engine is custom built and is a combination of elements of a Citroën 2CV engine and a Citroën Visa engine. Not only extensive driving sounds but also foley (doors open close, window knocks, body tapping, gear lever, blinkers…), horn blasts and engine loops. All in high quality 48/24 BWAV-files, recorded with high end equipment. All sounds include extensive metadata.
The recordings are multitrack. For the onboard recordings you’ll find synchronized recordings of engine, exhaust, cabin (back seat and front seat for open roof and back seat only for closed roof). For the roadside recordings you’ll find an ortf stereo pair (on a stand) and a long shotgun mic (handheld, tracking movement)
Recorder
Onboard Mics
Exterior Mics
Ready for some retro game sounds? The 8-Bit Games SFX library includes more than 500 designed sounds and music elements, paying homage to the sonic world of Tetris, Super Mario, Space Invaders and other classics.
Authentic 8-bit blips, explosions, hits, jumps, lasers, coins, power-ups, and many other sound effects and music elements will cover your retro gaming needs. All sounds delivered as single files in 48 kHz / 16 bit WAV format with embedded Soundminer metadata.
This classic vehicle is drawn by two horses and produces mostly clank and rattle of wood and metal. You can also hear some leather creaks and the horses’ hooves and breaths. Occasionally the driver beatboxes some cues – clucking, smacking, monosyllables.
Some of the files contain solely the rattle of the rolling carriage but no horses – these can be used for sound designing any old vehicle on a bumpy road.
This selection of onboard sounds contains a variety of speeds, horse gaits and road surfaces. They have been recorded with the Sennheiser Ambeo VR Mic, and, simultaneously, with two stereo sets. For each recording you get 10 channels:
– ambiX B-format (4 channels)
– Stereo XY (Audio-Technica BP4025)
– Wide Stereo (DPA 4060) captured at the carriage’s chassis
– Stereo Mix of all of the above
The ambiX B-format files are ready to be encoded into all spatial sound setups: like 5.1, 7.1, 4.0, VR 360 degree experience, and more.
The library is UCS compliant.
Analog Days contains 390 sounds extracted from old portable cassette players, Retro WW tube radios, vintage turntable vinyl record players and retro tape machines. This is really a sound time capsule ready to send your projects back to the good old analog days and give that sense of analog imperfection that makes the sound really interesting.
Dive into the enchanting world of Anime Magical Girl with these 274 magical sound effects, experiencing the excitement of transforming into a dazzling, beautiful soldier!
Grab your magic wand and immerse yourself in solo or group henshin moments with sound effects ranging from shimmers, sparkles, and captivating melodies– even your enemies will pause in awe as you undergo your mesmerizing transformation.
Let the sound effects accompany you on a journey where every note is a musical and enchanting spell, and every beat is a step toward a universe filled with wonder!
ANIME MAN VOICE is a pack of screams, efforts, sighs, laughs and more in an exaggerated anime style.
Some sounds are open to interpretation, some efforts can be used for hits. See doc for full list.
There are two folders of sound files. One full quality VO and one with a treatment to sound 8 bit style, good for a vintage arcade fighting type game or similar.
From the start of the preview file to 18 seconds you can hear samples of the full quality VO. From 18 seconds to the end is the 8 Bit style.
96KHZ 24BIT • 343MB • 100 FILES • STEREO • UCS METADATA Â
Introducing “Anime Motion” — a mini sound effects library tailored for creators who love the classic anime sound. This collection features 100 meticulously designed sound effects that capture the essence of vintage anime, bringing animated scenes to life with dynamic motion and accent sounds. Each effect in “Anime Motion” has been crafted to resonate with the nostalgic and distinctive style of old-school anime, making them perfect for projects that require a retro touch.
All sounds are versatile and can be easily customized using pitch shifting, stretching, and plugins, allowing for endless creative possibilities.
EDITED AND MASTERED WITH: Pro Tools, Bitwig Studio
Includes 1103 Anime Sound Effects.
Anime Studio is a complete package of classic and modern anime sound effects.
We used a wide array of analog/digital synths and field recordings to recreate the iconic sounds of Japanese anime.
The library provides the perfect arsenal of charge ups, charge downs, lasers, punches, explosions, pings, mecha sounds, cute creature sounds, swishes and whooshes.
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Antique Luggage is our new sound effects library with a varied assortment of suitcase and trunk sounds captured in our acoustically treated Foley suite. This is the only library available online focused specifically on antique suitcases and trunks, reminiscent of those seen in films like Harry Potter, Paddington, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, and Titanic.
Our Audio Craftsmen captured different vintage suitcases including: dropping, opening and closing, rattling handles, locking and unlocking, searching inside the suitcase, tapping, and much much more. All of the sounds were then meticulously edited, meta tagged and made UCS compliant so you can find your desired sounds and drag them straight to your projects effortlessly. All the files are available unprocessed in 24Bit/96 kHz which gives you a lot of room for sonic manipulation if required.
This library is perfect for use in your films, documentaries, video games and other projects, also a great addition for sound designers to their general audio collection. The included effects are particularly relevant to scenes from historical eras.
The sound enthusiast in you will love to know that we scoured around the city/internet to collect a bunch of antique mechanistic objects for this sound collection. We even scored an old classic adding machine and a working antique pedal sewing machine! The gears and mechanisms in this odd assortment of old machines is from a beautiful and rich bygone era of manual movement, of strange and fascinating ideas from inventors creating moving parts that are simply unproducible in modern day gadgets.
Your ears spring to life as you listen through, one by one through these highly detailed and engrossing audio recordings that capture brilliantly the foreground and midground layers of the small moving parts. Perfect for older weapon Foley, for steam-punk machines, period piece machines, industrial era machinery, and on and on. A small vintage gear crank, that special metallic rich clickety-clack of a dusty old mechanism, the ribbon typewriter scrolling…
To get the most out of this collection of old mechanisms, we used a multipositional close mic-ing approach for these in order to get all those tiny moving details. Of course, they required that they be captured in our smallest studio used for precisely these low-noise environment sort of recordings – key in bringing the detailed three dimentional quality of these mechanisms to life.
As sound designers, we always need new, better, varied material. We want to feel excited by and connected to the sounds we use – enjoy and make it yours!
Travel through time with our new sound effects library, Antique Telephone. Everything you need from dialling numbers to ringing sounds, this collection is perfect for your films, documentaries, video games and other projects, especially those with historic settings.
Our Audio Craftsmen exclusively captured various sounds of a genuinely aged candlestick telephone. The recordings include: fast and normal variations of individual numbers (rotary dials), picking up, dropping ear piece, placing telephone on table, ear piece falling down, telephone ringing and much, much more. This is the most extensive and faithful capturing of a ‘Bell’s style’ vintage telephone available anywhere online.
All sounds were recorded in 24Bit 96kHz allowing further sonic manipulation in our acoustically treated Foley suite. We then meticulously edited and tagged the files with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Take your latest projects back on a journey through history with our Antique Typewriter, meticulously captured by our team of Audio Craftsmen at 96khz 24bit. Both models recorded are 1929 Royal Portable Typewriter Model P’s. All sounds within this pack exhibit each of the wanted characteristics of antique typewriters, from the respooling of the colour ribbon to its more essential operational writing and key-pressing tones.
Film-makers, Composers and Sound Designers alike; each diverse timbre and voice of the typewriter can be utilised creatively within any of your projects! All sounds have also been made UCS compliant with extensive metadata, helping to speed-up your workflow and stay on track within the organisation of your session.
Each stereo sample delivered to you is completely unprocessed, clean and raw, giving you that true timeworn, historic typewriter sound. However, the high sonic quality delivered in this pack gives you the freedom to sound design to your hearts content, let your imagination loose in the past!
While straying through several antiques shops and flea markets I unveiled a lot of very interesting and organic sounds with character. Sounds that only prop up with plenty years of service can do.
So this library is a versatile and composite collection of all those squeaky, creaky, rusty sounds with a lot of personality.
Here you will find all the little vintage sonic gems.
From mechanical cameras and rusty coffee mills, over-jammed drawers, doors and locks, to sewing machines, typewriters and malfunctioning projectors. You get over 1000+ready to use sounds. All painstakingly edited, cleaned and decently named for you.
All source sounds were recorded with Sonosax SX-R4+ with a Sennheiser MKH8050+MKH30 M/S rig, a Sound Devices MixPre-6 + MKH8060 and a Sony PCM-D100. All sounds come with embedded Metadata.
The all-time classic ARP 2600 was a synthesizer that was an immediate hit with musicians and sound designers when it was released in 1971. Most famously, it’s the very synth that Ben Burtt used to give R2D2 his unmistakeable voice.
Semi-modular in nature and with many handy features like voltage modifiers, lag control, ring modulation, a comprehensive noise generator, sample & hold, and 3 independent oscillators, it comes equipped with more features than you’ll find in many of today’s analog synthesizers.
Thanks to the Alan R. Pearlman Foundation and the non-profit studio The Record Co. I was able to access an original, mint condition ARP 2600 that is beautifully maintained and lock myself in a studio with it to capture nearly 7 hours worth of raw sound design material.
Putting the 2600’s immense sound design potential to use, I created this library to help you give robots a voice, create otherworldly ambiances, score computers with the obligatory “bleep bloops”, and craft larger than life weapons with a distinct retro SciFi flair. I also captured the physical, mechanical sounds of patching cords and moving faders on the synth using a pair of LOM UÅ¡i Pro. These sounds are included in a dedicated subfolder.
The resulting sounds range from droid chatter at various root pitches, impacts, drones, noise, and lots of other sonic source that begs to be pitch-shifted and mangled. In fact, the ARP 2600’s pristine analog circuitry and my high-end recording chain capturing it at 192 kHz means that most of the final material features high-frequency content ranging up to nearly 90 kHz!
This means that you can pitch-shift most of these sounds down by up to 2 octaves and uncover new harmonic content along the way. By recording at 32 Bit with the ultra low-noise Zoom F6 and Rheingold Music cables, these recordings are extremely clean and hold up well to intense processing.
While highly abstract in nature, these sounds are a great basis for building:
Metadata: UCS file naming, SoundMiner, Soundly, BWF
Recording Specs: 24 Bit / 192 kHz for the majority of files. 96 kHz for files with less ultrasonic content, Stereo and Mono recordings.
File Format: WAV
Gear used: Genuine ARP 2600 Model 3620 (1974), LOM Uśi Pro Mics, Zoom F6, Rheingold Music Cables, Radial Pro D2 DI Box
Processing:Â Level adjustment, crossfades, spectral noise reduction for recordings using built-in spring reverb.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, Line Audio Omni1 and FEL Pluggy 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.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, Shure KSM 137, FEL Clippy XLR EM272 and Sonorous Objects SO.3 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II & Zoom F3 recorders. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.
Barbershop Vol. 1 is the first instalment in a series of candid recordings captured in a Mancunian Barbershop (Speak Easy Barber Club).
This library showcases the sounds created by the furniture inside a barbershop, such as the creaks and moans from the staircase leading up to the shop, the running taps from the hair-washing station, and the movements from a barber’s chair.
Additionally, we’ve include recordings of a hair dryer, water spray bottle, pomade tin, and more!
For the sound of groomers, hair brushes and scissors – look no further than Barbershop Vol. 2 for all your sonic trimming, clipping, and shaving needs.
These sounds provide you with natural, unprocessed sounds that can be used for barber-specific projects or manipulated further for a variety of film, TV, game, and soundscape projects.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
The collection consists of 43 stereo recordings of 12 rare, industrial machines used many decades ago in German power plants and industrial sites. It includes the sounds of massive 10KV power switches, a Siemens exciter machine (power generator) built in 1945 and many other vintage machines.
All machines were recorded in isolation without background noise and at high sample rates (192 kHz / 24 bit) with a Sound Devices 633 recorder and the Sennheiser MKH 8040 Microphones in close ORTF, taking full advantage of the extended frequency range (30 – 50000 Hz) of the microphones. Some machines were additionally recorded with a stereo setup of Barcus Berry 4000 series contact mics.
• Ash breaker
• Ash blower
• Coal dispatcher
• Siemens exciter machine
• Gas turbine model
• Motorized throttle-Flap
• Oil atomizer
• Pneumatic power switch
• 10KV power switch
• Rotation motor
• Manual steam machine
This library is an intimate profile of a completely original 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe. It boasts a 427 ‘Big Block’ 400 HP engine, a 4-speed Muncie transmission, 3×2 tri-power carburetor, and plenty of mechanical accessories.
We recorded anything on the vehicle that made a definable noise: the handbrake, clutch, shifter, turn signal, horn, headlights, hood latch, gas cap, doors, and more. Though the primary focus, of course, was on the beasty combustion and exhaust systems. We collected multi- and single-point, interior and exterior, front to back recordings of the engine cranking, idling, and being cut. We also experimented with a wide spectrum setup for passbys and various driving maneuvers. Files pertaining to the same event are marked accordingly for easy grouping and layering. This collection was designed so that in using multiple grouped files, you can effectively dial in/out the exhaust pipes independently (driver side, passenger side), interior ambience, and direct engine sources as desired. Together with a number of alternative variations, you can use this library to bring any car in your project to life, quickly.
Don’t be afraid to give it a little gas. Enjoy!
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