Max’s hit series The Last of Us raises the intensity to new heights in Season 2. Here’s Michael Benavente, Christopher Battaglia, and Chris Terhune on how the sound team designed massive hordes of infected using only three voice actors, kept rain interesting using bespoke water recordings, re-created the Seraphites’ whistle-based communication, and so much more!
MAGIC – ALCHEMY is a professional sound effects library built from real chemical reactions and elemental forces. It delivers short, character-rich magic sound effects perfect for spellcasting, magical UI design, and fantasy storytelling. Designed to sit cleanly in a mix and shimmer with personality, these spell sounds are ideal for games, trailers, audio dramas and more. Real reactions, recorded with obsessive detail.
No digital fakery here. Every sound in MAGIC – ALCHEMY began as a live experiment — alcohol burning in jars, butane growling through pipes, fuses igniting, water swirling in glass. These are true-to-life textures, captured in a lab-grade recording setup. The result? Magical sound with depth, realism, and spark..
These are not long, cinematic flourishes. This library is about immediacy — short, dry, punchy magic effects that are easy to slot into your project. Ideal for game asset design, magical feedback sounds, and trailer moments where clarity counts.
Need a healing chime, a cursed hex, or something more ambiguous? The Designed section is grouped into Holy, Cursed, and Neutral categories — giving you emotional options that match your scene’s intent, whether you’re crafting a fantasy RPG or a subtle magical interaction.
Whether you’re layering magic for a fantasy film, adding interactive audio to a mobile game, or creating rich textures for audiobooks or theatre, MAGIC – ALCHEMY fits right in. It’s mix-ready, flexible, and full of sonic character.
David Acord (Re-Recording Mixer/Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor and Margit Pfeiffer (Dialogue & ADR Supervisor/Supervising Sound Editor) at Skywalker Sound break down their sound work scene by scene on Ep. 208 “Who Are You?” — up for Emmy consideration for both Sound Editing and Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour):
Lighters is a collection of daily lighter and cigarette pack sounds, featuring:
2 Zippos, 1 Zippo Slim, 1 Trench Lighter
5 Metal Pocket Lighters (4 with lid open/close sounds only)
2 Jet Lighters
1 BIC Flint Lighter
2 Disposable Button Lighters
1 Disposable Flint Lighter (sparking and flame sounds only)
1 Soft Pack Cigarettes and 2 Hard Pack Cigarettes
Lighter sounds include:
Sparking and flame, opening and closing the lid, placing and picking up lighters (both with the lid open and closed) from wooden and glass tables (both flat and vertical placement), and dropping lighters on concrete.
Cigarette pack sounds include:
Placing and picking up Zippo, Trench Lighter, and BIC Flint Lighter on cigarette packs, as well as placing the packs themselves on wooden tables.
Recording Equipment:
Microphones: Neumann KM 184, Sennheiser MKH 8040, DPA 4060
Recorded at 24bit/96kHz using Grace Design M101 mic preamps and RME Babyface Pro FS interface.
Total:
231 WAV files / 974 sounds
https://youtu.be/U1MzRDpGDbY
The ‘Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’ sound team talks all things audio about their approach to music, designing weapons, creatures, and ambiences, creating systems for interactive music, foley and breaths, working with UE5’s audio pipeline, dynamic mixing, and much, much more!
The Boring Doors Library Vol. 1 is a collection of everyday door sounds, recorded and edited with an unusually high level of precision and care. Over the course of two years, we’ve captured a wide variety of opens, closes, creaks, and mechanical movements of classic doors, using top-tier equipment in highly controlled environments.
As a post-production studio, we record doors all the time — because no matter how boring they seem, you can never have enough. That’s the spirit behind this collection: essential, consistent, and endlessly useful in real-world post workflows.
Each sound has been recorded with minimal background noise and treated using the best noise reduction tools available, always preserving the natural character of the source. All files include multiple variations and come in two versions in the stereo file:
– A lightly mastered version, ready to drop into your timeline.
– A raw, unprocessed version, with no EQ or dynamic treatment.
On top of that, the library features meticulous metadata, structured to the highest standards of sound effects organization. It fully adheres to the UCS system, but goes further — incorporating custom subcategories within UCS for even clearer, more intuitive search and categorization.
Clean, reliable, and designed by professionals who use this material every day — The Boring Doors Library Vol. 1 is the definitive toolbox for any sound editor working with doors.
We recorded around 80 beautiful tracks, 96Khz and 24 bits HD. As always, top quality recordings specially designed for film audio projects.
In this pack you will find a great DOORS sound collection in order to use it in your films, TV, VR & multimedia projects.
Total Runtime:+30m
> 82 Ambiences / +1,3Â GB
> 24 bit / 96 kHz
> Soundminer and BWAVÂ extended metadata
> Mastered & Raw Options
All the files have metadata embebed for Soundminer and similar programs. They both include Spanish and English description.
Have you ever heard a material that sounds like nothing else? Listen to the magical timbre of obsidian needles. Obsidian is a volcanic stone that, in very rare places on earth, solidifies into needle shape that produces a very unique sound, purer than metal and smoother than glass.
I collected hundreds of these needles and I built 3 chimes with the needles that sounded best. Sound effects were recorded both with Sanken CO-100K and Sennheiser MKH 8040. All recordings and processed sounds contain a lot of ultrasonic frequencies, thus can be pitched with a great flexibility.
Have a listen to the unheard and create magic, ice, glass or any new sound effect you want.
• Dozens of chime recordings
• 200 needles individually sampled
• 40 ready-to-use processed sound effects
• 192 KHz/24 bit
• Metadata UCS-compliant
