A 1960’s styled bicycle riding around at a leisurely pace, wobbling to stay straight, walking along the sidewalk or being handled and chucked to the curb. Squeaky brakes, loud gears, and clumsy metal give this bike nostalgic character.
LET YOUR NOSTALGIA UNFOLD WITH THIS RETRO GOLD
The SB113 RETRO CONSOLES Sound Effects Library is a collection of retro console foley and 8-bit video game sounds.
PERFECT SOUNDS FOR YOUR PIXELATED PROJECT
We recorded foley for 9 retro consoles and handheld systems. System On/Off buttons and switches, controller button mashing, joystick and d-pad movement, start/select buttons, game cartridge handling, inserting and removing game cartridges and discs, cable unwrapping, lightgun triggers, running on a powerpad and everything else we could think to capture from these nostalgic video game systems. We also created 122 8-bit in-game sounds, including jumps, hits, alerts, damage, gun, laser, impacts and power-up sounds. Everything you need to create a realistic, royalty-free, retro video game for your project.
*Systems recorded: Gameboy Advance, Gameboy Advance-SP, N64, NES/Famicom, Playstation 2, Dreamcast, Game Gear, Sega Genesis & SNES/Super Famicom.
*Music created using Vitling / AutoTracker and is not included in library.
Go (game audio) retro with all the classic 8-bit Arcade Game sound effects! Retro Game is here to offer you the ultimate sonic stockpile to turn your old school 80’s vintage production or idea to life! Over 500 game ready audio assets, over 30 minutes of pure 8-Bit epic-ness!
Need a sound for that epic jump? Got it. How about the classic collect sound that makes you feel like you just won a jackpot on a slot machine? Yup, we’ve got that too. Retro Pixel Sound Effects PRO Pack is an extensive library of over 1200 royalty-free SFX in high resolution tailored specifically to give retro and arcade feeling. This pack features a lot of generic audio assets that audio professionals can easily adapt to their specific needs. Covering a wide range of categories including Alarm, Bleep, Bubble, Jump, Collect, Counter, Data, Fail, Success, Footstep, and more, each sound has been crafted using a blend of analog and soft synthesizers, metal sounds to evoke the iconic retro atmosphere.
Take a step back 20, 30 or 40 years in the past with this collection of vintage telephone ringing sound effects.
Recorded using a variety of techniques, this collection of 50+ sounds of 5 styles of 21st century telephones is sure to send you in the way-back machine to a time when cords were short and the phone rang LOUD.
This is a unique sound library in the sense that we recreated the most iconic retro videogame sounds of the 70s and 80s using top-of-the-line analog modular synthesizers.
ARP’s SOLUS synthesizer is a portable powerhouse synth that can produce some seriously beefy sounds that feel right at home in today’s music. Released in 1980, SOLUS was developed as a portable performance synthesizer, hence being constructed as a flight case, featuring a hardwired power cord poking out of the front panel and panel-mounted I/O. Featuring two oscillators with sync functionality, ring modulation, and a classic ARP filter, this synth boasts plenty of sonic potential.
SØLUS features super beefy basses, searing leads, sturdy synths, and so much more. All ready to be used in your favorite DAW. As always, this synth was meticulously multi-sampled to preserve its original tonality while keeping noise to the absolute minimum.
While ARP SOLUS is a synth often standing in the shadows of its legendary siblings ODYSSEY and 2600, it truly is an instrument worthy of Alan R. Pearlman‘s legacy. When it comes to cutting through a mix, it’s one tough synth to beat.
As always, this synth was sampled using pristine converters, DI, and Rheingold cables to bring the instrument’s full sonic potential to your productions. Since ARP SOLUS only accepts a limited range of CV input (somehow you can’t feasibly play below C2 via regular CV), every single one of the included samples had to be hand-played and edited on top of being meticulously looped by hand for seamless infinite sustain.
Blast into the mechanical past with this vast library of fantastic antique engine sounds from Coolspring Power Museum. Over 250 sounds of clicks, pops, clacks, exhaust, cranking, gears, rhythmic pumps and chugs, air pressure releases, metal grinding, engines running, revs, and more!
Isolated sounds from different perspectives of the same running engine will serve any project needing the perfect mech sounds. These 192 kHz samples are excellent for octave lowered other worldly mechanical transformations or high fidelity crispness. Create an entire steam punk inspired mech world by combining sounds of different engines or add grinding, cranking motion to moving vehicle of the future! The world is your mechanical oyster with this extensive mech library. Enjoy Sputter! Glug! Stutter! Chug!
This sound collection covers a wide range of sounds produced by many different steam engines. In addition to the real engines there’s also a wide variety of Foley sounds which can be layered to make funny (steam) engines for cartoons for example. All sounds recorded with high end equipment – 24 bit and 96KHz (some in 48KHz)
The ‘MAIN’ demo gives a good taste of what’s inside. The ‘POTENTIAL KONTAKT demo gives a glimpse of what you can do with the FREE BONUS Kontakt Instruments. So the latter is just a demonstration, these sounds are not included as such!
Equipment:
Recorder / Interface
Studio Mics
Field Recording Mics
Two vintage heavy Funiculars in Lisbon
Tattoo Parlour Vol. 1 is an extensive collection of candid recordings captured in an artists unique tattoo studio.
This is the only in depth tattoo studio library available online.
Featuring a variety of hums, buzzes, and handling sounds created using both modern electromagnetic tattoo pens and vintage coil machines. Additionally, it includes sounds from latex gloves, tactile switches, button presses, wooden door creaks, and more!
These sounds provide you with natural, unprocessed electrical and mechanical sounds that can be used for tattoo-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.
Do you remember the phones from the 80’s and 90’s? Here they are – this collection includes 2 rotary dial-up and 7 push-button phones with associated sounds.
Get your ears around a genuine piece of film history! Introducing the Moviola UD 20 CS Film Editing machine. Countless films have been made on these iconic upright film editors including work by Kubrick and Spielberg.
We found this beast lurking in a hallway at Pinewood Studios and were shocked when she fired up. So we did the honourable thing…..miked her up and clicked, flicked and revved our way to making this library.
We ran the Moviola both with and without film performing starts, stops, wind ups, wind downs and even some pedal revs.
With a Neumann M/S setup under the belly, a Sanken CO-100K overhead and an MKH60 tight in on the mechanisms we have this covered from all angles. We also provide a beautiful mix track for when you just want to lay great stuff quickly.
Shot at 24Bit/192kHz the Sanken allows for extreme pitching and twisting, making this library the perfect set of ingredients for designing cool new mech. So if you’re tinkering with a clumsy robot or just want to lay a projector this library will get you there.
The Northern Light is a sound effects library of a one of a kind vintage schooner from Faroe Islands – Norðlýsið.
The ship has been completed in 1945 and is still operational, serving as a tourist vessel. It is one of the most recognisable watercrafts on The Faroes.
The library is organised into 9 folders:
The 315 sound effects included were recorded before the 2020 renovations of the ship and feature now replaced mechanical parts, equipment and wooden elements.
This library also includes bonus sound effects of the ship’s dock elements, such as the gangway and harbour ambiences.
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.
A collection of high-quality stereo audio recordings capturing the variety of different sounds of rail traction past and present in the United Kingdom.
Features:
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 Tommy Gun sound effects library features 42 recordings of the historic weapon, ready to electrify your projects with this iconic American firearm. While the Thompson Submachine Gun was used primarily in the 1920’s and ‘30’s, the firing, bullet pass-bys, and ricochet sounds from the ‘Chicago Typewriter’ can be used for guns of any time period.
Recorded to tape by renowned sound artist Andy Aaron (Scarface, Apocalypse Now, Return of the Jedi), these characterful gunshot sounds feature both single shots, bursts of various lengths, and fully automatic gun fire. The collection was recorded in a secluded forest in Woodstock, NY, complete with firing targets including cans, broken furniture, a washing machine, and glass bottles of “shooting beer” (not to be confused with “”drinking beer””) The session came to an abrupt end when a stray bullet severed an audio cable near a target.
Complemented by sounds of metal impacts, glass and dirt debris, bullet pass-bys, these gun recordings will add explosive energy to your scenes that feature old-school gangsters, mob/mafia members, World War II soldiers — as well as contemporary gun-wielders. Each sound file is embedded with rich, descriptive metadata for fast, intuitive search results to help increase efficiency and sustain creativity.
Andy Aaron
This library delivers sounds of a vintage tractor that was manufactured in the communist part of Germany right after WWII.
The featured model is a Famulus RS1436L from 1956. It has an air-cooled 2-cylinder diesel engine that generates 36 horsepower from 3.3l displacement. Due to the low operating speed of only 1600 rpm some of these engines are still running today.
For this particular library the Famulus was recorded from 7 onboard mics attached around engine, frame, rear wheels and exhaust. The Tractor performs cold start (with the second cylinder delaying), various manoeuvres at the yard as well as uphill and downhill drives along a hilly dirt road.
The library is completed by various exterior stereo takes that encompass idles, aways, approaches, pass-bys along windy farmland plus takes from the drivers perspective.
This library presents diverse means of rail transport in Italy. I recorded it in 2020, but some trains were decades old. In these you’ll find warm sounds of old electric motors, as well as creaking, rattling, squeaking and rumbling of their weathered bodies.
In some files you’ll hear some conversations of various intensity, as well as announcements in Italian and English, in foreground or background. Some of them are about covid restrictions, masks etc., but usually just station names.
In addition to 53 files with onboard sounds you get 11 files with ambiences from stations – indoor and outdoor, busy and desolate, with or without PA announcements.
The onboard sounds are made in 10 types of rail transport:
* vintage diesel railcar
Fiat ALn 668
(made in 1980s, designed in 1950s)
* vintage electric multiple unit
ALe 724
(made in 1980s)
* vintage electric multiple unit
Sepsa ET100
(made in 1960s)
Cumana/Circumflegrea
suburban lines in Naples
* modern electric multiple unit
TFA Alfa 3 ET500
Cumana/Circumflegrea suburban
lines in Naples
* vintage electric multiple unit
FE220
(1970s-1980s)
Circumvesuviana narrow gauge
suburban line in Naples
* modern double-decker suburban
train in Rome
TAF ALe 426
* trams in Rome (modern Fiat
Cityway, and Stanga 7000 from
1940s)
* funicular in Naples
(Funicolare Centrale)
* passenger cars in various
regional trains
* metro in Naples
The library is UCS compliant.
Here we have nine different individual manual typewriters various brands and eras, recorded closely at various typing speeds and one simulated office ambience with three typewriters tapping away simultaneously. Great for period piece historical drama or scenes on stage screen or video game.
What’s your type? Well you have plenty to choose from here. Most manual typewriters sound very different to one another and here we have nine different individual manual typewriters various brands and eras, recorded closely at various typing speeds and one simulated office ambience with three typewriters tapping away simultaneously. Great for period piece historical drama or scenes on stage screen or video game.
Carriage returns, carriage bell, individual key strikes, hammer jams, paper feed, paper remove, case open and close.
This typewriter collection features 3 models, the IBM Selectrics II a 1970’s office stalwart, the Smith-Corona Pride Line also from the 70’s and a manual Olivetti Studio 44 from the 50’s. All aspects of each machine were captured with close up, room and contact mic perspectives for maximum versatility. You’re covered whether you need to cut period offices or you need a playground of mechanical source material for your futuristic designs.
Ui Two is the sequel to our overwhelming popular Ui One collection, this collection contains 377 original sounds uniquely crafted for creating user interfaces, telemetry, gadgetry and more.
Empty Sea’s Mark Camperell, carefully crafted these sounds using a variety of beepers, boopers and other sonic tools. A sample of which include synths, samplers, spectral editors and more. Each sound was recorded at 48k/24bit. Planned, processed, mangled and otherwise destroyed, every single tone was tweaked until it was something new, original, and exciting.
As usual, we meticulously edited, mastered and embedded the files with metadata. This collection is priced to move, so don’t hesitate. If you’re tired of the your same old UI inspiration, Ui Two from The Library by Empty Sea is a great addition to your library.
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