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Embark on a Sonic Journey Through one of Italy’s most beautiful and striking cities
Relive the magic of Florence with an immersive collection of field recordings captured during my May 2022 trip. These authentic soundscapes will transport you to the heart of this enchanting city:
The Timeless Duomo: Experience the awe-inspiring ambiance inside and outside this iconic cathedral.
Mercato Centrale: Hear the early morning hustle and bustle of this vibrant market, captured before the doors even opened.
Evening Traffic: Feel the pulse of the city as the evening traffic fills the streets with life.
Train Station: Immerse yourself in the lively atmosphere of the train station, a gateway to adventure.
These evocative sounds will add a unique and authentic touch to your film, documentary, or creative project. As an experienced audio professional
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Zoom F3 with Audio Technica SP4025 Stereo mic
Zoom F3 with Sonorous SO.103 Stereo mics (for covert recordings)
Zoom H1n built in mics
Hello, everyone! Today, we present to you 100 pieces of Jump Scares sound effects crafted by us. The inspiration for these creations stems from a horror film called “Terrifier” that we’ve been extremely keen on lately. In this album, we’ve employed a plethora of metallic sounds and acoustic instruments. It’s anticipated that each sound effect cover will feature a “cute” clown. These sounds can be utilized in games, short videos, and film previews. We sincerely hope you’ll enjoy them.
This collection has over four hours of streams, rivers, and waterfalls, all recorded without birds or man-made noise. The 91 recordings offer a variety of perspectives, from close-up to distant, highlighting the natural gurgles and splashes. Everything was recorded in northern Norway, Belgium, and northern France.
I created this collection primarily for myself, aware of the many Rivers and Streams libraries out there, but I couldn’t resist sharing it after enjoying the recording process so much. The sounds capture everything from the intense rush of water just above the roaring rapids to the gentle flow of rivers hundreds of meters away. In quiet natural environments, the sound of flowing water can be heard from very far and this really impacts the soundscape in a beautiful way. I also designed some waterfall samples, focusing on texture to avoid the typical pink noise. These additions sound powerful yet natural. There are also low-end recordings of a large waterfall, captured between rock formations, which deliver a deep roar with minimal high frequencies—perfect for enhancing water sounds.
Many of the recordings were captured during a 30-day hiking trip through the northernmost parts of Norway. Crossing rivers without bridges was a significant part of the journey, and these sounds instantly take me back there, wet feet and all. I hope you’ll find them useful!
Dive into the nostalgic sounds of classic audio devices with 237 high-quality sounds captured from some of the most iconic audio-visual and gaming equipment of the past. Whether you’re a sound designer, producer, or game developer, this collection is a must-have for bringing the vintage audio experience to life.
You will find detailed recordings from devices like the Universum SK-2215 Portable TV, Akai 4000DB Reel to Reel Recorder, Kodak Carousel Projector, BASF Hi-fi Cassette d-6135, Panasonic VHS Video Cassette Recorder nv-j11, Sony Walkman, Microcassette recorder, Vintage car radio, Atari console, Rotary telephone, Tube TV, Boombox, along with their accessories.
Explore the rich variety of sounds including:
– Tape insertions, motor hum, tape rewinds, play, stop, and fast-forward clicks.
– Eject and insert, mechanical button presses, tape hiss, recording start/stop, and microphone pickup.
– Player cassette insertions, radio tuning, volume knob twists, and FM/AM station changes.
– Dialling sounds, receiver pick-ups and hang-ups, ringing tones, and background line noise.
– Joystick clicks, cartridge insertions, and console start-up sounds.
– Static, channel switches, power-up hum, and the warm buzz of CRT screens.
– Cassette loadings, speaker distortion at high volumes, battery changes, and radio antenna adjustments.
– Tape threading, spooling, fast forward, and record/playback mechanical movements.
– Slot insertions, ejects, and console power-up sequences.
Accessories Foley sounds include opening and closing of cassette cases, adjusting Walkman belts, rewinding reels, and handling vintage game cartridges.
All files are recorded in pristine 24bit/96kHz .wav format with intuitive file naming and thorough metadata. Compatible with all DAWs, middleware, video editing software, and completely royalty-free.
Bring the sounds of the past into the future and add authenticity and atmosphere to any project!
Find the true sound of it.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Vinyl Foley & Scratch Library, featuring 120 high-quality sounds and samples of real vinyl, scratch and Foley that are organic, creative and perfect for both sound designers and producers.
Analog and Digital Cameras Ultimate Bundle is another option with 1.000+ communication, digital, mechanical and equipment sound effects with pristine sounds of 36 wonderful cameras and their accessories.
VHS Glitch captures the nostalgic yet futuristic sounds of a vintage VCR and VHS tape, recorded with stereo condenser and electromagnetic mics to capture the playback mechanics. Each function—play, rewind, fast forward, and pause—has been captured, then transformed through granular effects plugins to create a unique blend of glitchy static, hums, and electro-mechanical textures. The result is a library rich in lo-fi, distorted, and otherworldly sounds, perfect for projects needing a retro-tech vibe or sci-fi edge.
Highway, Road, Traffic is a FX sound library with many “road-traffic” sound perspectives and situations. Captured in urban (city) as well as rural and remote areas. Here you can find close up recordings and recordings from mid distance and from far away of highways, roads and traffic.
Here comes the third installment of Funny Orchestra. This time, we have mainly set the theme as a cute and noisy haunted house. We have created 124 pieces of music, 15 LOOPs, and 88 cartoon phrases. These music pieces can be used in cartoon animations, games, short videos or movie trailers. During the creative process, we have referred to the musical elements of Luigi’s Mansion 3 and Ghostbusters 3. We hope these music pieces can be of help to you!
Compilation of 10 vehicles, all 9 models Zastava produced in Yugoslavia and Serbia, and a bonus van model from the same factory. All files are recorded 32bit or 24bit, 192 kHz or 96kHz, with RØDE NTG1, Shure KSM137, Line Audio Omni1, FEL Pluggy XLR EM272, FEL Clippy XLR EM272, Shure VP88, RØDELink Lav and Sonorous Objects SO.3 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II, Zoom F3 and Zoom H4n recorders. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.
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Step into the future with SciFi Doors, a huge library of 845 high-quality sound effects that will take your audio designs to a whole level when it comes to bringing futuristic environments to life.
Perfect for any sound designer, filmmaker, or game developer looking for a wide variety of sound elements for crafting immersive sci-fi scenes—from sleek space stations to high-tech laboratories.
SciFi Doors has all the building blocks that would go into creating custom door sounds, user interfaces, and even futuristic AI interactions organized into four well-curated categories.
Building Blocks (434 sounds):
With these core elements, you’ll have everything needed to create your own unique sci-fi door sounds.
This section includes raw recordings and synthesized audio to get you up and running:
Air bursts, Hydraulics, Friction, Electric motors, Real door recordings and much more.
The possibilities are endless when composing just the perfect door sequence to fit any aesthetic your project requires.
User Interface Sounds (243 sounds):
Add life to your science fiction worlds with a range of UI sounds, from subtle data streams through to more active scanning and access noises. Perfect for futuristic consoles, control panels, and other interactive elements. Includes:
Whirring, Beeping, Typing, Streaming data, Access signals, Scanning and more
Futuristic Pre-Designed Sci-Fi Doors (107 sounds):
Need ready-to-use, fully designed sci-fi door sounds? Then this category’s got you covered, with 107 pre-designed drag-and-drop door sounds. All sounds can be enacted right away and add a professional touch to it.
AI Assistant Sound Effects (61 sounds):
Give voice to your future control systems with AI Assistant Vocal Sounds. This category features both male and female AI voices that utter common phrases to bring your sci-fi doors alive and give them an extra layer of interaction.
All sounds are provided in 96kHz, 24-bit, ensuring clarity and detail. This full library is also UCS compliant and includes rich embedded metadata, which allows for easier searching, categorization, and integration into any workflow.
SciFi Doors are all about unlocking the sound of the future, where every opened door leads to new sonic possibilities.
African Desert: Sahara is a collection of stereo and quad soundscapes recorded in the barren but beautiful mountain range at the heart of the Sahara desert. This is the largest hot desert on Earth, incredibly difficult to access and explore. It’s a breathtaking place with a huge dynamic range, from dead silence to powerful winds. The soundscapes in this collection were recorded around giant rock formations, rocky outcrops, canyons and sand dune expanses.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with Shure KSM 137, Line Audio Omni1, FEL Clippy XLR EM272 and Sonorous Objects SO.3 and 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.
Dark Tales is a collection atmospheric music and musical sound effects suitable for horror and other dark settings.
Everything from safe areas to thrilling chase-music is included with this album.
All tracks have Loop versions
All tracks are Royalty Free
Composer and sound designer: Johannes Wetterbro –
Audio Brush Studio
audiobrushstudio@gmail.com
Album art: Julia Nguyen – Artstation
Experience the sounds of the daily life in Japan, captured discreetly with a pocket recorder. A sonic journey from spring to summer across diverse cities.
All files are embedded with extensive UCS compliant metadata.
“The Animal Symphony – Lion & Leopard” was made possible through a collaboration with the wonderful people at Terra Natura.
This sound library features 83 high-quality recordings, each with multiple detailed takes. Using high-end microphones such as the Sanken CO-100K and Sennheiser MKH 8050, along with the Zoom H6 recorder for stereo capture, we were able to document every detail and nuance of these majestic animals. The recordings were made at 24-bit sample rates at 192 kHz and 96 kHz, delivering professional-quality clarity and depth.
The collection includes an extensive variety of lion and leopard sounds, ideal for adding realism and authenticity to any project. With multiple takes and variations—such as close roars, soft roars, breaths, and more—this library offers extraordinary flexibility for all types of productions that require authentic animal sounds.
Each recording has been carefully edited to remove unwanted noise, and because it was made indoors, all traces of reverberation have been eliminated. Thanks to the use of ultrasonic microphones, users who choose to turn down the volume will still enjoy exceptional richness in frequencies.
Ideal Applications:
– Video games: Add realism and depth to the natural environments of your games.
– Cinema and Documentaries: Enrichment of the audiovisual product with authentic sounds.
– Educational Applications: Use these sounds in educational projects to teach about wildlife and animal behavior.
– Multimedia Projects: Ideal for any project that seeks to enrich the user’s listening experience.
Technical details:
– Total Audios: 83
– Total number of individual sounds: 587
– Format: 192 kHz – 96 kHz/24 bit
– Equipment Used: Zoom F6 with Sennheiser MKH 8050 and Sanken CO-100K, plus a Zoom H6 recorder for stereo.
Thunder & Rain in the city: extracts from three thunderstorms in London, UK.
Ouch! These bone crushing, spinal shattering, and skull crushing sounds will leave you feeling absolutely broken on the inside. With +50 designed anatomical gore sounds, it’ll be hard to get over the traumatic sounds of this library. Added to the pain are +700 source files for you to create your own gut-wrenching sounds from scratch, including lettuce, celery, tomatoes, bell peppers, and cucumbers.
Pain never sounded so fun.
Step into the world of spine-chilling soundscapes with Cinematic Nightmares: Whooshes Vol.1—the perfect sound pack for creating tension and terror in your horror trailers and cinematic productions. Designed for producers who demand nothing but the best, this collection of dark and eerie whooshes is crafted from organic sources using premium microphones and recording equipment, ensuring the highest level of audio fidelity.
This pack offers a dual approach:
● Designed Section: Features 10 fully crafted whooshes, each provided in both wet and dry versions, giving a total of 20 cinematic sounds to drop straight into your project.
● Layers Section: Dive deeper with 30 individual layers, each also provided in wet and dry formats, for a total of 60 sounds. These layers are pre-processed for easy standalone use or to create custom whooshes (or anything else), providing unparalleled flexibility.
Each sound comes with 6 variations within a single file, plus wet and dry versions, allowing you to use them as-is, apply your own reverb, or completely reimagine them. This means you have endless creative possibilities at your fingertips.
With this pack, you’re not just getting great sound—you’re getting a treasure trove of audio assets:
● Designed Sounds: 120 wet and dry variations.
● Layered Sounds: 360 wet and dry variations.
● Bonus One-Shots: For a fast, seamless workflow, we’ve included one-shot versions, cut and ready to drag-and-drop into your DAW or sampler.
Check out the sound demo here:
All sounds are provided in 24-bit / 96kHz resolution with a total size of 3.2 GB, ensuring they meet the highest standards in the industry. Plus, every file includes comprehensive metadata and follows the Universal Category System (UCS), making it easier than ever to find and integrate the perfect sound for your project.
We follow up Vol 1-3 with the 4th instalment of the Sinister Series .
For this volume we used a noise box, which we recorded directly from its onboard contact microphone through some guitar pedals, using the Boss PS2, DD7 and the RV6 as well as the TC Electronics Quintessence, which enhanced the characteristics of the noise box giving you a variety of reverb, delay, distorted and pitched one shot hits. Creating some Eerie, Scary, Horrorfull and down right Sinister hits which can be used across horror, thriller or suspense projects to create tension, impact and jump scares.
Sinister Textures 4 will give you enough audio to give your project the sound of horror, thrill or suspense boosting your project to the next level. Sinister Textures 4 has been edited to allow a drop in ready and Royalty Free sample pack. These Samples can be used in a variety of projects from Sound Designing/Compositions for TV, Film, Documentaries and Video Games. UCS Compliant and Metadata is attached to the samples
Own the entire Studio Obsidian library, over 17 hours’ worth of 10,000 sounds sculpted by sound designer Nathan Moody. This bundle includes:
ANALOGUE ORDNANCE: Science Fiction Weapon Construction Kit
SHIPSCAPE: Shipboard Ambiences
METALMOTION: Moving Metallic Textures
ULTRASQUISH: Unique Ultrasonic Gore
AEOLUS: Dark Wind Textures
METALLITRONIC: Vibrating Metal Textures
SIGIL: Dark Electro-Acoustic Textures
Immerse yourself in the breathtaking audio experience of California with our latest sound library, captured during our 2024 recording journey. This collection features high-quality field recordings from iconic locations across the Golden State, including bustling cityscapes, serene beaches, tranquil forests, and more. Every recording has been meticulously captured using our state-of-the-art Harpex SPCMIC, a third-order ambisonic microphone, ensuring unrivaled spatial accuracy and sound depth.
From the distant hum of the iconic Los Angeles traffic to the serene waves along the Pacific coastline, this library offers a rich and authentic sound palette ideal for filmmakers, sound designers, and immersive audio professionals. Whether you’re working on a cinematic project, virtual reality environment, or any audio production that demands lifelike spatial sound, this collection provides unparalleled ambisonic audio ready for your next project.
Top-notch third-order ambisonic library. It takes the immersive experience to an entirely new level, capturing sound with unparalleled precision and depth. Feel the shivers down your spine as you’re enveloped by every detail, accurately positioned.
But there’s more. In our relentless pursuit of perfection, we’re thrilled to offer 9.1.6 Dolby Atmos audio files along with 7.1.2 Atmos beds, 5.1, Stereo and First Order Ambisonic. The third-order resolution takes this format to heights previously unattainable. Picture yourself in the midst of the sound, where the line between reality and imagination blurs. It’s not just listening; it’s living the sound.
Key Features:
✨ Third-Order Ambisonic Technology: An immersive experience like never before. Sound that surrounds, captivates, and transports you.
✨ 9.1.6 Dolby Atmos: Unmatched sound precision and resolution. Step into the heart of the audio, where every nuance comes to life.
✨ Versatile Mixing Options: 16 channel Third Order Ambisonic, 9.1.6 and 7.1.2 ATMOS Bed, 5.1, First Order Ambisonic, and Stereo downmixes included in the collection. Customize your sound to perfection. Tailor the experience to your specific needs, whether you seek the enveloping embrace of high-order ambisonics or the classic simplicity of stereo.
As always, all the recordings include metadata in English and Spanish, and they are compatible with software of sound library management like Soundminer.
We have decoded all the Third Order Ambisonic recordings with Audio Brewers plugin into 9.1.6 Dolby ATMOS bed configuration, using the top channels to create totally outstanding ambiences tracks ready to use! Audio Brewers tools give use amazing control over high order AmbiX configurations with top notch CPU optimization! Ambisonics recordings are the way to go for VR and modern Film Sound Post Production workflows.
All our libraries are UCS compliant (universalcategorysystem.com). In this new category system all files contain extensive metadata like file description, Category & Subcategory. Metadata can be read and processed by the most common audio libraries management tools . Starting with Full support from Soundminer and more audio tools adopting this system, we are adopting metadata UCS system in our files!
ambiX First Order Ambisonic, Dolby ATMOS 9.1.6, 7.1.2, 5.1 and ST files have been mastered with Pro Tools 2024 Ultimate system, and are included in the purchase.
This bundle contains all 23 sound effects libraries released by Sound of Essen so far.
This is a goldmine of samples for your sounddesign needs, from obscure machines and vehicles to all kind of creatures. Here is the content:
Animals:
Eurasian Mammals – Dormouse, boar and more
More Eurasian Animals – Big Bugs To Wildcats
Wind:
Machines & Industrial:
Industry – Factory Ambiences And Machines
Art Machines – Fantasy Apparatus And Kinetic Engines
Transport & Vehicles:
German Autobahn – Highway Ambiences
Kramer KL11 Oldtimer Tractor (1955)
Texture, Gadgets, Material, Movement and more:
Tonal Metal – Groans, Clangs And Shrings
Queetsh – 192kHz Squeaks And Scrapes
Household:
Coffee – Beans, Grinders, Roaster And More
Nature & Weather:
Rivers & Brooks – Above And Underwater
Rain Designer – Int, Ext And Single Drops
Human:
Crowds & Applause: Small To Medium
If you already own any Sound of Essen library, contact us at info@itd-music.com for a discount.
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