The Women & Men SFX Library contains a variety of recorded adult female and male vocalizations.
The recordings in this library include breathing, cheering, coughing, crying, efforts, gasping, growling, gulping, humming, grunting, moaning, screaming, singing, sneezing, spitting, gagging, non-English walla, whistling, angry yelling, and more.
All performances are non-English. Talking, singing, yelling, babbling, etc. were performed with nonsense words so the files may be used for post-production without the need to replace in an M&E.
Barbara can say it all without (well, almost without) uttering a single word! Whether it’s passion or boredom, love or hatred, her reactions are precise, full of emotions and charmingly feminine. She will let you know she’s tired, she will laugh of your jokes or stand to fight side by side. Designing a game character or building M&E for a movie, here is your perfect companion.
Jack doesn’t need to waste time for words. He will whisper, moan, murmur, shriek or shout and you’ll know what he’s up to. Add him to your project and he will become a perfect character, silent yet emphatic, strikingly suggestive.
An ice hockey game is an exciting, dynamic and powerful sonic experience. From the thunderous crack of a puck hitting the boards at full speed to the gentle scrape of a stick on the ice, this library contains a complete range of the game’s on ice sounds, all captured with natural reverb in an indoor arena.
Included are a range of performances of skate, stick, puck, and whistle sounds, as well as rink door opens and closes, and various board, glass, and ice impacts.
The skate sounds include starts, stops, turns, and pass bys, as well as single steps and scrapes for detailed editing and layering. Stick sounds include different kinds of shots, passes, drops and scrapes, and impacts with other sticks, the boards, and the ice. Puck sounds include impacts with the ice, boards, skates, the goal metal and net, and even goalie pads. Rink sounds include the opening and closing of doors, impacts with the boards and glass, and a goal horn. Two different types of whistles were recorded, with varying durations.
Each sound effect performance was recorded from multiple perspectives – a stereo ORTF pair of Lewitt LCT 540s microphones, a closer wide XY from an Audio Technica BP4025, and a close mono Schoeps CMC6/MK41 – either stationary or following the action on a boom, depending on the type of sound. The ratio of direct to reverberant sound differs between these perspectives, offering a variety of options when editing to picture.
Also included are quad-channel room tones from two different ice rinks, and a special onboard recording of a puck, made by taping a Sony PCM-M10 to a puck and sliding it across the surface of the ice.
The actions were performed at a range of speeds and energy levels, with multiple takes for variety. Please refer to the sound list pdf below for details. Captured at a sampling rate of 96kHz, these recordings contain detailed information above 20kHz, expanding the possibilities for manipulation when slowing and pitching them down.
Recorded using only bird calls, musical instruments, voice and whistling techniques, IMAGINARY BIRDS contains over 200 different organic and realistic songs of non-existing birds. Recorded with a Sennheiser MKH 8050 with ultrasonic content, you can use the sounds as is, pitch-shift them or combine individual sounds to create new bird songs.
• 227 sounds recorded with MKH 8050
• 96KHz/24bit
• Each file contains several variations of the songs
• Recorded dry, no reverb added
• Ideal for cartoon, sci-fi, adventure films, video games, creature design, soundscapes…
This is a collection of authentic sounds from sporting events, captured in Italy.
The Italian Sports library comes with everything from soccer crowd chanting, singing, cheering, booing and whistling.
Also includes recordings of professional and amateur soccer matches on grass and concrete + more.
60 sound files (23 minutes total) are included in the pack so you can build an authentic soundscape of a sporting event.
Each sound file has been carefully named and tagged for easy search in Soundminer and is Universal Category System (UCS) compliant.
(see the full track list below).
We all make these sounds, but to save you the trouble the 344 team have recreated them ready for use in our new Library, Male Mouth Noises, so that you don’t have to. From Coughs to Kisses and Sniffs to Sneezes a whole collection of these sounds and more are now available for purchase.
All sounds were recorded in our acoustically treated Foley suite in 24Bit 96kHz allowing further sonic manipulation. We then meticulously edited and tagged the files with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
This library contains a wide selection of musical and non-musical instruments, toys and noisemakers.
You will find a wide variety of bells, whistles, cymbals, horns, blocks, drums, toys, shakers, crankers, etc. Can be utilized in a multitude of ways. For example, fill out a musical arrangement, for cartoon effects, goofy UI, etc!
Music is only heard in the demo. Downloads are high resolution and without background music.
Hear the harmonic mood of Mount Ida in Northwestern Türkiye. Mount Ida’s ancient Greek mythology extends to Homer and its “vadi” (valley) is the epic setting for “The Iliad”.
The bountiful waterways and wildlife that we recorded surrounded the ancient city of Troy – at the verge of the Mediterranean.
An extensive collection of birdsong, wind, woodland, waterways, and animals in pure untouched nature. Different intensities and times of the day were meticulously captured with close and distant perspectives.
36 high-resolution files and 2 hours duration. All files in 96 kHz / 24 bit format. Includes detailed and easy-to-navigate metadata. Recorded with our favorite gear: DPA 4060s, Sennheiser MKH 8040s, Zoom F3.
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Keywords
Ambience, Mount Ida, Soundscape, Nature, Rural, Woodland, Water, Leaves, Rustle, Flow, Nightingale, Blackbird, Insect, Bee, Wind, Dawn, Dusk, Evening, Morning, Birdsong, Gurgle, Whistle, River, Stream, Frog, Dawn Chorus, Cricket, Jackal, Bird, Birdsong, Bubble, Waterfall, National Park, Field Recording.
What else you may need
Reach us to get access to more and longer nature and urban soundscapes.
You may also want to check out the City Perspectives & Ambiences for access to many urban ambience essentials. Room Tones and Interior Ambiences is another option for quieter spaces in 84 pristine sounds.
Nature Bundle includes fifteen different sound libraries, covering a great variety of natural sounds. By purchasing this bundle you will benefit of a 30% discount.
This is a collection of recordings of industrial/farming make-and-break engines from the end of the 19th beginning of the 20th century.
It features small clockwork type clinks and clicks, larger gears and pistons, and huge exhaust pipe chugs and blasts.
Sounds for this library were recorded over 5 sessions – in a private zoo and in the field, all in cooperation with professional birds trainers. All of them were recorded outdoor (and just a few in an outdoor aviary). Trainers helped us to get variety of bird calls and vocalisations, like: shriek, cry, squawk, screech, whistle, scream.
Three sessions, were recorded extremely close to birds on very quiet big field. The intention was to grab very isolated and rich sounds, useful for sound design. For this sessions we used Sanken CO-100k and Sennheiser MKH-8060, which were super close (just a few centimeters away from brids beaks) and Schoeps CMC-6XT MK41 a bit wider for more natural/open sound. Although sometimes Sanken and Sennheiser sound very similiar (they were in similar position), we left both files. Sanken recordings (@192kHz) are amazing for pitch shifting, yet sounds recorded by Sennheiser are very natural in neutral pitch.
When pitch shifted, all sounds become very evocative and emotional sound design sources.
All files contain natural sequences and rhythms of calls. There are also close wing flaps, movements and even sounds of birds eating recorded in macro close POV.
The library is extensively metatagged in Soundminer.
Please note: Pitch shifted files in the demo are presented only to show potential of those recordings and aren't included in the library.
Introducing a dynamic sound effects library that captures the intense atmosphere of urban protests.
This collection features 14 high-quality recordings, including the raw, organic sounds of people whistling and using actual protest whistles to express dissent. You’ll also find powerful boos and chants, applause and cheers echoing through city streets, perfect for creating an immersive protest scene.
The sounds are rich in detail, with varying crowd sizes and intensities, offering versatile options for your projects with the authentic sounds of civil unrest and public outcry.
100% royalty-free – comes with intuitive naming and detailed descriptions – UCS compatible.
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In the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025, the whole Serbia was protesting against the current government, organizing the largest protests in the history of the country. Every city center was full of unsatisfied citizens, they brought drums, sirens, whistles and horns to create the noise of disappointment. I created this library not just to help others use these sounds for their future projects, but also to preserve a sound of one time, a historical event and, hopefully, changes for the better. All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with FEL Pluggy XLR EM272 microphones, Zoom F3 recorder.
The download includes two versions (UCS and non-UCS).
Capture that Looney Tunes-like feeling and find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Retro Toons
Retro Toons brings the tone of the Looney Tunes-like sound effects to you.
153 files include wacky sounds, funny whistles, horns sounds, cartoony transition sounds, and so on! You can capture the atmosphere of Cuphead and can make games and videos like this.
You’ll have access to cartoon sound effects, birds sound effects, whistle sound effects, horns sound effects, and designed sound effects that you need for your projects.
The sounds are designed to have room for further sound design with the flexible texture for customization. Plus, you get the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!
Go ahead and create that great cartoony atmosphere that you need!
Keywords including Actions, Parts, Equipment and Style
Toy, animation, cartoon, toon, retro, bird, blip, glide, magic, melody, movement, jump, whoop, water, bubble, animal, designed, elephant, billiards, boing, clang, crystal, melodic, drop, coin, fan, funny, duck, glide, machine, loop, whistle, horn, harmonica, impact, question, answer, pop, run, shake, step, swish, tiny, voice, speedy, weird, wobble, zip, music, digital, mechanical, game, instrument, child, toy-box, toy.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Toys SFX Pack for 215 royalty-free sounds of Toy Story-like sounds. These are plastic and wooden toy sounds, stones, button sounds, various instruments such as shakers, bells, and xylophone sounds, and so on.
Ambience of rural America. The beautiful sounds of nature in the forests.
Filled with sounds of insects, birds, and movement of outdoors.
Recorded in 192Khz 32bit float and exported in both 192/32 and 96/24
Perfect to fill out background ambiance for all sorts of projects
Take a journey across the sky for 170 new space anime sound effects. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Space Anime SFX Pack
Following our popular Anime 1 & Anime 2 series, we take Anime into space. From interstellar space cowboys to cosmic motion and emotion, this is the collection of 170 sounds you need for high-art projects.
It includes more fantastic and psychological elements with a wide range of weapon, fight, robot, magic, transition, motion, as well as emotion, comedic and old school sounds.
We paid attention to the richness of layers in each sound, using powerful designed sounds. All are royalty-free and compatible with all DAWs, middleware and video editing software.
This is a must-have SFX pack that has sounds of numerous actions and emotions with easy to navigate naming. It is a thoroughly researched collection capturing the core of Space Anime and designed in collaboration with Anime fans. The sounds have high definition and lots of room for further sound design with their flexible texture. All sounds are in 24bit/96khz WAV files.
Keywords including Actions, Parts, Equipment and Style
Anime, space, interstellar, Japan, Japanese, cosmic, comedic, bell, bubble, sparkle, chime, percussive, gong, metal, xylophone, pop, sweep, whistle, emotion, disappointment, disgust, happy, relieved, scared, surprised, suspect, upset, fight, block, hit, slap, slice, stab, magic, air spell, dark spell, earth spell, electric spell, fire spell, light spell, protection spell, water spell, motion, appear, blink, dodge, fly, jump, move, run, transform, turning, vanish, old school, arcade, comedic, danger, impact, pulse, riser, swoosh, transition, robot, attack, movement, transform, flashback, rewind, screen pass, time warp, weapon, explosion, gun shot, laser, melee, shockwave, impact, gun, design, game, animation, movie, film, video
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Anime 1 for more classic Anime sounds in 105 files and Ambiences from Japan for access to location ambiences of Nara, Osaka and Kyoto with bamboo forests, subways, train ambiences and motorways and exterior interior walla including tourists, school kids, pedestrians, various animals, streets, street musicians and announcements in 155 files.
Anime 2 is another option with 120 sounds of emotion, action, comedy, magic and lots of fighting, weapons, robot, old school sounds and transitions inspired by classic Japanese Anime.
SPANISH PRIMARY SCHOOL brings you interior and exterior stereo recordings of a primary school located in Cordoba, Spain.
Key features:
A collection of onboard and exterior field recordings of a Royal Hudson 4-6-4 steam train. Included are riding sound effects, exterior platform takes.
Featuring whistles, chugging, hisses, rail noise, and more.
All aboard!
Steam Train Vol. 1 delivers authentic sounds of a British steam locomotive.
Whistles, chugging, wheels on railway tracks, steam hissing, passenger voices, engine clicks and more were captured in the heart of the industrial revolution – the North West of England.
These field recordings were carefully captured and edited by our Audio Craftsmen, resulting in a concise collection of mechanical, industrial steam train sounds – complete with rattles, clanks and chugga-chugga-choo-choos!
Use this library to enhance period settings, design steam train scenes, and reference an age gone-by. Ideal for TV, Film, Documentary and Game projects alike.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation, and have been tagged with extensive UCS-compliant metadata for ease of use.
Want some excellent cartoony sound effects? BOOM to the rescue!
We sought out and recorded the most obscure toys, instruments and, uhm – for the lack of a better word – “objects” to give you more than 3.000 boings, bleeps, farts, thwacks, squishes and squeaks in over 500 files, in short: we recorded any sound your animated-character-loving-heart could ever desire. All files contain extensive metadata to provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible. Each file contains multiple variations of a sound to guarantee you and your audience a non-repetitive SFX experience.
Want to have an old-timer car honk its horn sternly at passers-by, before the tires screech off into the horizon? Your protagonist jumps off of a cliff by the sea and – suddenly in the air – we hear the tide roll back and she smacks on to the ground? Or your hero slips on a banana, swoops into a kitchen, metal crashes, bins rattle bins and, epic climax-style, the stove explodes! Don’t worry about how that sounds. BOOM TOONS! SFX are here. We’ve got you covered.
BOOM TOONS! SFX is the complete package so that you can focus on your stories and characters. You have all the sounds you could possibly need at your fingertips, ready for you to use whenever you want that spark, that glitter or that long arm fart which transforms your visually appealing cartoon into a complete and fun experience.
GOAL!!!!!!
UK Football Vol. 1 is a riot of spectator reactions and walla, encapsulating the quintessential English football match experience. It comprises the sounds of English-accented voices, cheers, chants, claps, shouts, yells, groans, jeers, boos, whistle blows, Tannoy announcements, football kick impacts, goalie saves, drumming on metal stands (AKA bleachers), and more!
To create this library, our Audio Craftsmen recorded the authentic sounds of an English football match, focusing on crowd atmosphere and reactions. The intimate, immersive nature of these recordings make them perfect for building spectator sport backgrounds or injecting a boost of energy into football scenes and games.
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.
UK Football Vol. 2 is the second in our series of candid UK football fan recordings. Crowd reactions and walla were captured during gameplay to bring you a selection of spectator sounds brimming with unique English personality!
This library comprises a variety of activity recorded by our Audio Craftsmen from a pitchside and stands (AKA bleachers) perspective. Inside you will find football impacts, “weeey”s, “awww”s and boos, swearing, yelling, clapping, players shouting, Tannoy announcements, jeering, whistles, as well as encouraging, aggressive, angry, annoyed, sarcastic and fighting spectators!
This collection of football fervour is ideal for TV, Film and game scenes requiring passionate voices and performances. Use it to embellish sport backgrounds or boost tension during on-screen competitions.
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.
3 shades of Anime in 395 sounds. Our three bestseller Anime packs are bundled here in the Ultimate Anime Bundle for you to set the bar higher for new projects! Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
What’s Inside Ultimate Anime Bundle
Anime Vol.1 brings every classic Anime sound to your local sound library. Laser beams to cartoony bird calls, upwelling whistles to stuttering magic spells in 105 24bit/96khz WAV files.
Inspired by classic Japanese Anime, it gives you access to transitions, animals, arcade whooshes, fight, magic, cartoony, water, whistle sound effects and lots of room for further sound design with the flexible texture.
Anime Vol.2 includes a wide range of emotions and motion to spells, fight and weapons in 120 24bit/96khz WAV files.
Inspired again by classic Japanese Anime, it gives you access to emotion, action, comedy, magic and lots of fighting, weapons, robot, old school sounds and transitions.
Space Anime takes you on a journey across the sky. From interstellar space cowboys to cosmic motion and emotion, this is a collection of 170 sounds for high-art projects.
There are more fantastic and psychological elements with a wide range of weapon, fight, robot, magic, transition, motion, as well as emotion, comedic and old school sounds.
All 395 sound effects in the Ultimate Anime Bundle 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. We paid attention to richness of layers using powerful organic sounds and many synthesizers. And the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail is inside!
A thorough preliminary research was carried out to capture the core of Anime world, with the help of Anime fans and art collectors. All sounds are 100% royalty-free and compatible with all DAWs, middleware and video editing software.
Keywords
Anime Vol.1 :
Anime, design, transition, whistle, whoosh, wind impact, motion, animal, arcade, fight, magic, cartoon, water, air, riser, hit, power, metallic, whistle, classic, laser, noise, eagle, bird, beam, echo, glitchy, stutter, underwater, ringing, aggressive, teleport
Anime Vol.2 :
Anime, comedic, bell, bubble, sparkle, air, breath, chime, glitter, hit, percussive, pop, whistle, sweep, emotion, disgust, disappointment, surprise, fight, hit, slap, magic, spell, dark, spell, electric, motion, blink, transform, turn, vanish, dark, old school, arcade, swoosh, impact, transition, robot, weapon, explosion, laser, gun, shock, design, whoosh, wind, animal, water, riser, power, metallic, classic, noise, beam, echo, glitchy, water, ring
Space Anime :
Anime, space, interstellar, Japan, Japanese, cosmic, comedic, bell, bubble, sparkle, chime, percussive, gong, metal, xylophone, pop, sweep, whistle, emotion, disappointment, disgust, happy, relieved, scared, surprised, suspect, upset, fight, block, hit, slap, slice, stab, magic, air spell, dark spell, earth spell, electric spell, fire spell, light spell, protection spell, water spell, motion, appear, blink, dodge, fly, jump, move, run, transform, turning, vanish, old school, arcade, comedic, danger, impact, pulse, riser, swoosh, transition, robot, attack, movement, transform, flashback, rewind, screen pass, time warp, weapon, explosion, gun shot, laser, melee, shockwave, impact, gun, design
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