Old Engines Grab Bag

“Old Engines Grab Bag” is a pack of numerous old, unique and characterful engines from early 1900s. It’s a massive collection of 56GB multitrack 192kHz recordings of old tractors and stationary engines, both diesel and gasoline fueled.

The intention wasn’t to cover vehicles driving, but to get isolated and very closely recorded mechanical elements of engines and exhaust pipes as a source material for sound design. There are many starts, idles, revs, offs, RPMs variations, backfires etc. Some are heavy and large sounding, some are small and funny. Tractors were captured EXT and most of stationary engines INT, but since they are very closely recorded there is just a little amount of reverb on most of them.

Most of engines are 1 or 2 cylinders and low horse power and their RPMs are also low. Thanks to this, many of those sounds aren’t tonal and can easily be used as additional layer with other design elements. They work great for adding vintage character, designing junky or funny vehicles, crazy huge steampunk machines or engines malfunction.

Sounds were recorded using multi-mic setup: Sanken CO-100k (most of the time pointing mechanical parts), Sennheiser MKH-8060 (mainly for isolated exhaust pipe), Schoeps CMC6XT mk41/mk8 (general image) and part also with Trance Audio Inducer contact mics (adding unique mechanical perspective).

The library is delivered as multitrack 192kHz files, as well as stereo mix of all microphones. Thanks to using microphones with extended frequency range, drastic pitch changes can be applied.
All files have extensive metadata created in Soundminer, including leg picker with microphone labels.

Demo files include pitched sounds, which are not delivered with library.

Diversity – General Sound FX Library

This comprehensive sound collection contains all sound effects made by The Sound Pack Tree. It includes more than 10,000 diverse sounds from a large variety of categories such as:

Ambiences, Animals, Aviation, Bells & Dings, Boats & Ships, Bubbles, Cars & Trucks, Cartoon, Chains, Clocks, Construction, Computer, Creak & Squeak, Creatures, Doors, Dropping, Electronic Devices, Electricity, Elevators, Engines, Fire, Foosball, Footsteps, Handcuffs, Handwriting, Household, Ice, Impacts, Industrial, Interface, Keyboard & Mouse, Kitchen, Machines, Magic, Marbles, Money, Motorbikes, Motors, Nature, Noise, Office, Open & Close, Paper, Pedestrians, Playing Cards, Rainforest, Ringtones & Phones, Rummage, Sci-Fi, Scissors, Shepard Tones, Spray, Starships, Static, Suction, Switches, Textures, Tools, Traffic, Travel, Trains & Stations, Transitions, Typewriter, Unreal Ambiences, Vehicles, Ventilation, Villages, Walkie-Talkie, Walla, Water, Weather, Whooshes & much more!

All sound files have been edited carefully to be as useful as possible in post production and game audio workflows. Wherever applicable, sounds are seamless loopable. All sounds have clear, catchy file names and rich metadata keywords. The duration of this library is 44 hours while all files have been edited to a meaningful, non-exaggerating length.

Two versions are included in your download – you can either choose one or download both of them:

1. Combined Version
Combined Version
Variations of a sound are combined into one file – best for Soundminer, BaseHead, etc.
3,765 files / 74 GB / 44 hours

2. Split Version
Split Version
Variations of a sound appear as individual files – best for video editors, game audio, etc.
10,417 files / 74 GB / 44 hours

The audio content of both versions is 100% identical.

All files from all 17 sound libraries yet released by The Sound Pack Tree are included – and additionally, more than 3,500 various sound FX.

This one-folder library is made for quick & easy use, not for endless searching. You will find common sounds as well as tons of rarities and practical material, so this sound library serves the novice as well as the established sound designer.

44.1 General Library

A hand-picked variety collection of designed sounds and field recordings covering numerous categories. Each volume brings you 1,000 general sound effects at 44.1kHz and 16/24-bit stereo recordings, or you can grab both volumes at once for a discounted bundle! Here are some sound categories that can be found in each volume:

Volume I:
• 75+ Seamless Loops
• 8-bit: Explosions, Hits, Lasers, Power Up
• Airplanes: A380, B777-300, CRJ900, Fly-bys
• Ambiences: Wildlife (Day and Night), Crowds, Insects, Vehicles, etc.
• Animals: Birds, Dogs, Cats, Horses
• Doors: Squeaks, Shuts, Opens, Handle Movements
• Farting
• Footsteps: Concrete, Glass, Grass, Ice, Leaves, Snow, Stone, Stones, Twigs
• Musical: Organ, Piano, Guitar, Hand Bells, Music Box
• Objects: Printer, Pressure Washer, Washing Machine
• Sci-Fi Spaceship Fly-bys
• Vehicles: Cars, Drones
• UI (Synthesized)
• Wooden Destruction
• Many, many more! (See the sound list below)

Also included in the “2018 InspectorJ Bundle” for 50% off!

Volume II:
• 85+ Seamless Loops
• Ambiences: Deep Abysses, Train Stations, Seaside Waves, etc.
• Camera: Shutter Clicks, Flash Lifts and Falls
• Dialogue: A creepy, deep male voice
• Fireworks
• Ice: Impacts (Small, Moderate, Large), Gathering
• Roller Coasters: Full Rides, Chain Hill Lift, Screaming
• Screaming: Crowds and Roller Coasters
• Toilet Flushing
• Trains: Arriving, Leaving, Passing, Idling, Doors, Clip-Clop
• UI: Dialogue Text Scrolling
• Vacuum Cleaner Hoovers
• Vinyl Record: Glitching, Needle On and Off
• Water: Streams, Bubbling, Swirling, Splashing, Movement
• Weather: Rain, Hail, Wind, Thunder
• Whooshing
• Many, many more! (See the sound list below)

Also included in the “2019 InspectorJ Bundle” for 50% off!

Aquaria

Hydrophones are the perfect source of interesting sounds and textures, especially for further manipulations with their pitch and spectrum

This library contains cool recordings of melting ice, drips, streamlets, bubbling, rain, fizz, underwater movement, submerging of hot or burning things and even heavy boiling (which destroyed my hydrophone completely). These textures sometimes sound completely out of this world and could spice up your SFX very nicely.

All recordings were made with at 96 kHz sample rate for further manipulation, and the sounds are categorized by their source for easy navigation and contains extensive metadata.

If you are looking for nice addition to your SFX production arsenal – this library is for you!

KEY POINTS:

  • 63 tracks with variations
  • Perfect source of unique textures for SFX production
  • Created for further manipulation with spectrum and pitch
  • Categorized by types of sound source: bubbles, drips, pour, ice, fire, fizz, stream, etc
  • Contains metadata for search engines