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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.
Rocks and Pebbles is a collection of sounds recorded in 192kHz, featuring 2.4GB (422 individual sounds) of Drops, Impacts, Movements and more. Recording Gear: Sound Devices MixPre-6 II and Schoeps CMC 1 + MK4/MK8 capsules. All files are delivered in stereo, edited and UCS named.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with Shure KSM137, Line Audio Omni1, FEL Clippy XLR EM272 and Sonorous Objects SO.3 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.
54 sounds on fire! Another indispensable toolkit of fire, wood burning, flames and different fire ambiences that were recorded indoors and outdoors. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Campfire, Fireplace and Stove
From loopable fire, wood burning, fireplace and flames, bonfire, stove and campfire, this 96 kHz – 24bit collection has both organic Foley and sound design usability in stereo and mono format.
You will get lots of organic firewood crackles, sizzles, hisses, whooshes and campfire ambiences of the forest, sometimes with owls hooting, dogs barking and the crickets. Fire bursts and igniting with spray and flamethrower, matches, magneto lighters, closing and opening of metal lids are included too.
These 54 immersive sounds are windy, wild, fast or calm and peaceful and were recorded at different seasons, at night and day, indoors and outdoors and all fire burning sounds are loopable. You will get intuitive, detailed naming, UCS compatibility and the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail.
Keywords:
Fire, fireplace, stove, campfire, bonfire, flame, burn, burst, crackle, sizzle, hiss, gas, ignite, forest, night, day, indoor, outdoor, match, lighter, whoosh, air, brush, debris.
What else you may need
You may want to check out Drag and Slide Pack for 477 sounds of dragging, sliding, scraping and friction sounds of different objects made of wood, plastic, metal on various surfaces.
Lots Of Chains is another option with 450+ sounds that capture pretty much every material and action of the chain.
Blast off into a dark sci-fi world teeming with creatures and unknown wonders. Introducing the heart-pounding warfare and general FPS & Sci-fi game audio SFX pack filled with the intensity you need to start your first-person shooter game. Welcome to “Sci-Fi Shooter Game” – a game audio sound effects library featuring over 1100+ designed SFX, tailored specifically for game developers and sound designers seeking a solid foundation for their game audio. Build alien atmospheres, futuristic battlefields, UI sequences, gizmos, gadgets, doors, mechs, robots & more. Sci-fi Shooter Game covers almost all your needs, whether it’s a dark synth-wave loading screen music loop, the realistic clanks of robotic mechanical footsteps, the futuristic hum of UI elements, or the thunderous blast of weapons; every sound is expertly crafted for maximum impact and intensity. With over 78 minutes of finely tuned audio and a solid foundation of almost everything needed to complete a sci-fi shooter game, you’re in for an action-packed adventure.
Illumination Designed Bundle Vol. 1 features an experimental collection of sounds crafted from the electromagnetic signals of various light source.
This bundle offers a variety of sci-fi inspired sounds, including cinematic elemenets, drones/ambiences and explosions. Our Audio Craftsmen used a Lite2Sound photodiode amplifier to capture the electric signal lights emit. These were then meticulously edited and manipulated to create a series of unique sounds.
The 3.27GB collection includes three volumes:
Illumination Designed Vol. 1:
A series of unique cinematic elements that blend stingers, risers, impacts and low frequency rumbles.
Illumination Designed Vol. 2:
A series of unique ambiences and drones.
Illumination Designed Vol. 3:
A series of futuristic, hi-tech explosions.
This bundle is designed to enhance film, TV, and game productions or trailers with an experimental, cyberpunk, or abstract edge. The sounds are suitable for genres like sci-fi, thriller, and fantasy, adding mystery, eeriness, and tension to projects.
All sounds are delivered in a high-quality 24Bit 96kHz format, allowing for further sonic manipulation. They have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for easy organization and use.
Compilation of 10 different 2000s cars. Sounds are recorded with RØDE NTG1, RØDELink Lav, Line Audio Omni1, Shure KSM137, Shure VP88, Sonorous Objects SO.3, FEL Pluggy XLR EM272 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II and 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.
Models:
1. Fiat Bravo 2007 compact car
2. Ford C-Max 2003 MPV minivan multi purpose vehicle
3. Honda Civic Type S 2006 sport compact car
4. Land Rover Freelander 2003 compact crossover SUV sport utility vehicle
5. Mini Cooper 2006 subcompact supermini car
6. Opel Vectra C 2005 large family car
7. Renault Megane 2002 compact car
8. Skoda Fabia 2007 subcompact supermini car
9. Volkswagen Polo 2009 subcompact supermini car
10. Zastava Yugo Koral In 2002 subcompact supermini car
“Earthquakes” is a sound library containing a collection of designed earthquake sounds. The library also includes a variety of additional rattling sounds to accompany the earthquakes.
Features:
‘Shoot ‘em up’ has never been this exciting! From powerful laser and plasma blasts, to specialised sounds such as fire, rain and laser circles, Sci-Fi Weapons: Bullet Hell adds intensity to virtual battles. With our trusty Vaemi’s El-Ma electromagnetic field mic, we’ve captured some wild electronic shenanigans, blending them with our synthetic sounds to cook up weapon effects that’ll make your players go, “Whoa!”
HAL has teamed up with sound designer Raphael Sohier to create the most comprehensive hospital sound effects library to date. General Hospital has 760 files and over 2000 sounds covering all aspects of the genre.
This collection is the result of years of work and aims to set a new standard for a genre mostly neglected by independent sound libraries until now. Even old tropes need new sound ideas (no pun intended) and we think we have achieved exactly this with our library.
This is an All-in-One SFX library where you will find :
Ambiences – Whether it is a busy corridor, a bursting waiting area or the strange calm of an ICU bedroom with all its machines, you will find it in here. We have recorded in various hospitals located in France – discernible speech was edited out so the recordings could cover a broader use.
Medical Equipment – From the syncopated hissy sound of a ventilator to the disruptive power of a MRI machine or the strange hollow resonances of an hyperbaric chamber, we’ve recorded a large number of medical devices with multiple perspectives.
Activities – What would be of a medical drama without the sound of hasty fooststeps down the hallway or of a gurney descending abruptly out of an ambulance ? Typical activities such as these were recorded on real locations for this collection.
Foley – We have welcomed veteran foley artist Gilles Marsalet in order to cover some specifics such as surgical instruments and operating table gore which, to say the least, demands a certain finesse – the same delicacy that separates doctors from flesh-eating zombies.
Sirens – Wailing, whoppers, piercers, buzzers, dual-tone…we’ve got them all. Getting in and out of a hospital in style is guaranteed.
Beeps – These are perhaps the most iconic sounds related to this kind of environment. Our collection has beeps in all waveshapes and colors, recorded from real devices in pristine condition and designed for even more flexibility. Whether you are looking for realism or you just want to enhance the drama, General Hospital has got you covered.
Hospitals are often depicted in fiction because they are places inherently rich in conflict and human drama. They are the ideal setting for stories about struggle, sacrifice, strengthening of bonds, loss… As sound designers we try to enhance these feelings through the creation of dynamics and subtle sonic variations. General Hospital was crafted with this in mind and it offers a broad palette of sounds in order to give you as many options as possible while working on a scene.
Gentle drizzle to thundering rain storm
Rain ambiences is a collection of detailed dripping, splattering and pouring rain. It has a little more than four and a half hours of rain recorded in ORTF or NOS in nature preserves, rural and urban areas.
I looked for the most wet sounding spots and spent hours relaxing to the sound of rain. It was really fantastic to record!
The sounds were mostly recorded at night and the ambiences have texture and detail with a range from rain aftermath to stormy downpour on many different surfaces. All files are thoroughly and carefully tagged with metadata and have UCS-compliant file naming.
Six different previews
To make it clear what’s in this collection, I’ve split the sounds into these six categories. Have a listen!
Nature and Rural Rain
Urban Rain
Splashy Rain
Thunder
Rain Aftermath
Wet Traffic
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, RØDELink Lav, FEL Clippy XLR EM272 and FEL Pluggy XLR EM272 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.
Dive into the futuristic realms of space travel with our comprehensive sound effects library, Sci-Fi Fly Bys.
Crafted with synthetic precision, this collection is a great source for sound designers, filmmakers, and game developers seeking to elevate their projects with futuristic and otherworldly sounds.
With 351 immersive sounds carefully created and organized into three distinct sections:
Synth Building Blocks:
Unleash your creativity with a vast array of synth building blocks, providing sound designers with the tools to sculpt their own unique futuristic flybys.
Designed Vehicles:
Embark on a sonic journey through the cosmos with our collection of meticulously crafted designed vehicles, each possessing its own distinctive sound signature.
Additional Sounds:
Round off your audio arsenal with a selection of additional sounds. From impacts to whooshes, this supplementary section provides the finishing touches to the library.
So we had several types of PPE Masks laying around from the Pandemic and thought why not create a foley pack
We recorded 4 types of masks, Blue PPE, 3M, Fabric and a Plastic Face Shield all giving their own distinctive sound and characteristics
We recorded these masks being Moved/Manipulated and Roughed up from Fast to Slow, Pats and Rubs, Elastic band pull and slaps and Breathing through the mask. Giving you enough range to deal with any PPE Mask Situation you may require for your projects. The Mask Foley could be used for other Fabrics and Textures and not just for Mask Foley
Mask Foley 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 for TV, Film, Documentaries and Video Games. UCS Compliant and Metadata is attached to the samples
Neighbors: Sounds Behind Walls is a unique collection, offering over 3 hours of sounds capturing the daily activities of neighbors living next or above you. This collection can be used especially to bring life to quiet spaces/rooms.
Think about indistinct sounds from neighbors walking around, setting the table, making coffee, tea, load and unload the dishwasher, cooking, tidying up the room, flushing the toilet, using the water tap, vacuum cleaning, dry blowing their hair, brushing their teeth, taking something out of the fridge or freezer, opening and closing curtains, or even practicing an instrument. And that is not all. We’ve also covered a “noisy” neighbor walking around the room, using or slamming doors, jumping, moving furniture and walking up and down the stairs.
All recordings are clear and completely free from external noise, voices and other disruptions. No additional reverb is used for more flexibility.
Utilizing two microphone setups provides two variations for each recording, offering both more pronounced and more distant options.
Get over 3 hours of unique, royalty-free and high-quality recordings with this library. Recorded in 24 bit / 96 kHz. Accurately edited and mastered. For more detailed descriptions about the recordings in this collection see the metadata in our file lists or listen to the preview montage.
This library is 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.
Specification: Modified to 628 horse power, 486ci Dart engine block, Merlin heads, Fitech fuel injection, 3 inch Flowmaster Exhausts, 5 speed Richmond transmission.
Onboard perspective sounds are from six separate microphones.
Cabin Left, Cabin Right, Engine Left, Engine Right, Exhaust Left & Exhaust Right
External perspective sounds are from two stereo mics.
One for Tracking the moving car and the other from a fixed position.
Compilation of 10 different 2000s cars. Sounds are recorded with RØDE NTG1, RØDELink Lav, Line Audio Omni1, Shure KSM137, Shure VP88, Sonorous Objects SO.3, FEL Pluggy XLR EM272 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II and 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.
Models:
1. Alfa Romeo 156 2003 large family car
2. BMW 5 Series E60 2003 executive car
3. Citroen C3 Picasso 2008 mini MPV minivan multi purpose vehicle
4. Dacia Logan 2004 compact car
5. Fiat Grande Punto 2005 subcompact supermini car
6. Opel Meriva 2003 MPV minivan multi purpose vehicle
7. Seat Ibiza 2002 subcompact supermini car
8. Volkswagen Polo 2005 subcompact supermini car
9. Volvo V50 2004 compact car
10. Zastava Florida In 2002 compact car
We’ve bundled together
Manchester Ambience
Train Station Ambience
UK Train Interior Ambience
To give you a good all rounder for your all your commuting project needs.
The Commute gives you the authentic soundscape of the daily commuter, from waiting at the train station, to getting on the train and the sound of the big city boosting your project to the next level.The Commute 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
We wanted to record the sound of a city, the hustle and bustle, the noise, the traffic so what better place than Manchester
We recorded multiple types of ambiences in different parts of Manchester through out the day, this includes:
Crowds of people shopping, commuting and passing by
Different Languages from the Crowds
Various transportations including cars, busses, Trucks, bikes and trams with their high pitched squeaks and horns
Police sirens in the distance and up close
Car Horns
Pedestrian crossing Beeps
Distant Protesting
and
Some quieter areas of Manchester where you can hear the traffic but less crowds for a different perspective of Manchester
Manchester Ambience will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of a UK City boosting your project to the next level. Manchester Ambience 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 for TV, Film, Documentaries and Video Games. UCS Compliant and Metadata is attached to the samples
106 carefully recorded car sound effects including engine, exhaust, car braking, wiper, door or trunk opening and closing, car accelerations, etc.
Car model: Ford Mondeo from 2010 – IL4 engine.
Perfect for films, trailers and video games.
106 wav stereo files divided in 6 folders:
• FamilyCar_Door: 21 files 1mn9s
• FamilyCar_Engine_Indoor: 14 files 1mn 18s
• FamilyCar_Engine_Outdoor: 29 files 5mn
• FamilyCar_Trunk: 30 files 1mn41s
• FamilyCar_Window: 7 files 47s
• FamilyCar Wiper: 5 files 48sec
Do Sound FX loop: Looping and one shot sounds
Lawn Mower Ambience was recorded in an opportunist moment whilst recording another sample pack
We centred the Zoom H4N facing an average UK back garden on a spring ish day and recorded someone naturally mowing their lawn with an electric mower.
This sample pack has different perspectives from close to distant mowing, with different panning elements which were recorded naturally from up to down to left to right and a lawn Mower stopping.
This sample pack will be great for a lawn mower in the background of your project or wanting a natural sound palette of someone mowing a lawn. Lawn Mower Ambience 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 for TV, Film, Documentaries and Video Games. UCS Compliant and Metadata is attached to the samples
50 exterior ambiances from varios places and environments. All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with FEL Clippy XLR EM272, FEL Pluggy XLR EM272, Sonorous Objects SO.3 and Shure VP88 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II and Zoom F3 recorders. The library is also available in UCS.
I also created a map with all recorded locations: www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1KJ80IzKE7r7dllCZclECwbk9N8rz3wTa
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