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Smart UI by Epic Stock Media is a one-of-a-kind collection of modern user interface sound effects that truly packs a punch when you need your sound to be noticed.
The ultimate sound pack featuring ambient atmosphere textures for your project. Includes 10 royalty free .WAV tracks ready to use background music. Includes light and dark melodies, evolving pad textures and other ambient themes. Great background music for videos and video games.
Get a total of 76 samples covering the hard, impactful sounds of a dystopian industrial future. A range of futuristic vehicles and weaponry, soundscapes inspired by films such as Bladrunner, Looper and The Fifth Element, perfect for use in any sci fi projects.
This library features ambience and crowd recordings captured inside Hong Kong shopping malls. Each recordings reflects a specific venue acoustics, crowd dynamics and perspectives. The primary language found in these recordings are Cantonese and Mandarin.
All recordings are recorded, edited and processed to broadcast standard , ready for all types of media use, such as animations, films, games, advertisements and other aspiring creative projects.
Markets, restaurants, metro stations, trams, sirens, airports and more
According to the Spanish National Forest Inventory, 51 % of the Spanish total surface is covered by forestlands. This collection of sounds is the biggest nature recording project we have done in Surround Sound LAB.
Sound editors and designers Oscar de Avila and Barto Alcaine, among with Surround Sound LAB main recordist, Alvaro de Iscar are the main recordists of this Library. We have covered Asturias, Leon and Segovia Forests.
This large compilation of registers is designed to perform real nature sounds in your films and postproduction projects.
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!
Budapest is often called the “Pearl of the Danube”, and it truly is a stunningly beautiful place.
During a small trip from Spain to Budapest & Vienna, we managed to record the most iconic places in the city in truly 360º spatial audio ambisonic format!
We choose ambisonic for our libraries as the most adaptive format in Audio Postproduction. We serve the edited and mastered AMBIX files, and decoded surround format in Dolby ATMOS, 5.1 and STÂ .
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!
2020 will be a historic year. COVID-19 has changed our life, and we have been locked in our homes for months. During these months we have been collaborating with crowdsource audio projects, but we have also recorded our homes!!
Here is a huge recording session of my HOUSE! recorded in Mono, with 416 Mics and zoom recorders, you have the best collection of ambiences and household elements in both RAW and Compressed format, included in a STEREO LR file. (L RAW / R COMPRESS)
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!
If you want to create sound design for control rooms, military, spy or radio communication scenarios, this is your perfect library.
120 real radio transmissions, digital data streams, morse code, channel marker, time signals, interference and more. Mysterious and unique, captured by radio stations all over the world.
Carefully preedited with detailed metadata.
The First Industrial Revolution, which arised in the second half of the 18th century, meant a series of industrial and socioeconomical transformations and a turning point on sound: the end of silence.
Asturian sound editor and designer Oscar de Avila is the main recordist of this Library. He begins his career in the mid 90s as a music composer and sound editor for audiovisual media, carrying out numerous projects for several institutions and film production companies in the Principality of Asturias.
This large compilation of registers formed by forced sounds, dark and electrical textures and industrial-themed backgrounds have been registered in 2019 at the most important and strategic areas (they had difficult access and permits were hard to get) around some industrial locations in the Principality of Asturias,Spain, which is my home place, as I was working for a documentary website on Asturian industrial historic heritage as the only responsible for sound design and editing (patrimoniuindustrial.com).
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!
– Hum & Buzz Removal & Brickwall Filtering
Combining hum removal, buzz removal, brickwall filtering, and spectrum analysis into one easy to use plug-in, MR Hum is the perfect tool to clean up recordings with any sort of hum or nasty buzz.
The hum removal section works by applying a set of notch filters spaced at multiples of the fundamental hum frequency, usually 60 Hz or 50 Hz. You select the fundamental frequency, the number of harmonics you want to eliminate (up to 10), and the width of the notches (the default works fine). There are presets for the usual cases of 60 Hz hum and 50 Hz hum. You can also select any fundamental frequency continuously from 20 to 200 Hz. Sometimes it’s necessary to use a slightly different frequency in cases where the hum has been recorded on analog tape and played back on a different machine, which will cause the hum frequency to change.
The high resolution spectrum display makes it easy to see the hum frequency and the number of harmonics that are required. The spectrum display can run before processing, to see the input signal spectrum, or after processing, to see the output signal spectrum. The monitor feature allows you to hear the signal being removed, offering another way to set the parameters.
MR Hum contains a separate processor for buzz. Buzz is a periodic signal with frequency harmonics through the entire audible spectrum, which would require hundreds of notch filters to eliminate. The buzz algorithm uses a different approach which is far more efficient. Often buzz is a nasty case of hum, and hence is at 50 or 60 Hz, but sometime buzz is caused by a motor or some other kind of interference, hence the buzz processor allows any frequency from 20 to 200 Hz.
Finally MR Hum also provides brickwall filters to eliminate low or high frequency interference.
– Noise Reduction Plug-in
MR Gate is a full featured expander/gate that can be used to gate noise during quiet sections. It’s a very comprehensive gate implementation with adjustable lookahead, variable ratio, attack and decay times, etc. In addition, it has a scrolling time display that shows the level of the input signal and the gate attenuation, very handy for setting up the parameters. Also, it has a monitor feature that lets you hear the gated signal which is kind of cool for listening to the background without the foreground.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds.
During these last months we have recorded several Ambisonic room tones. This is a small selection of the best Room tones In IMMERSIVE format!
We choose ambisonic for our libraries as the most adaptive format in Audio Postproduction. We serve the edited and mastered AMBIX files, and decoded surround format in Dolby ATMOS, 5.1 and STÂ .
We recorded around 29 beautiful tracks in ambisonic format, 48Khz and 24 bits HD. As always, top quality recordings specially designed for film audio projects.
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!
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving, mechanical and electrical sounds.
Australian Rules Football or AFL is one of the most popular sports in Australia – and the crowds are incredibly enthusiastic. This library of football sports crowds was recorded at a major stadium from various perspectives – from being a part of the mob where you can hear individual voices, all the way to top level where the cheers become a massive roar of thousands of voices.
With over an hour of content, this should have all the moments and perspectives that you need. There’s elated cheers, boos, gasps, chants and everything in between. There’s even some swearing – but don’t worry, that’s in a clearly marked folder and tagged in the metadata so that you can filter those files out if you need it to be family friendly. Plus for when you need to hit the ground running, there’s a 6 minute loop-able ambience punctuated with both highs and lows.
To top it all off there’s some recordings of crowd ambiences around the venue, including hallways, turnstiles and even outside the stadium. Lastly there’s my personal favourite: several recordings of the iconic AFL siren.
This is a great package filled with authentic Australian accents audible in the close up recordings – but in the middle and far perspectives all those voices becomes a massive wash that will blend nicely with other crowd libraries from any other sport and country.
Photo by Michael Spencer.
Used under a Creative Commons 4.0 license. (Modified with colour grade, crop and text.)
This is a vintage classic and highly sought after make and model of cafe racer. It’s just enough grit to give some bite and just enough age to give it character. This library includes drive bys, static revs, city driving, straight aways, engine braking, and more! With two very different sounding and unique microphone perspectives on the exhaust and engine you get a variety of options to choose from. Enjoy this rippin’ classic!
This Suzuki SV motorcycle is modified from the original with a beefier exhaust. It sounds unique by itself but with two different perspectives on the exhaust and engine you get total control of what elements you want. Each engine and exhaust recording has a custom blend option so you don’t have to make any edits, they’re ready to go. This library includes drive bys at various speeds up to 60 MPH, static revs, moving revs, idling, engine on, engine off, engine braking, and more! Add this grizzly motorcycle to your library for some mad maxian, dystopian goodness!
Finalist – Best Sound Effects Libary – Indie Sound Awards 2022
The sound ‘Kind Creature’ made with the V7 library won the British Sound of the Year Award presented by The Museum Of Sound and The New BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Custom made sounds made with the V7 are used in the scores for Control, Wolfenstein and newer projects by award winning game composer Martin Stig Andersen.
V7 is a home-built metal spring sound-tool made from an old measurement-unit found at a flea market. Now – disassembled, rebuilt and mounted amongst other things with a 33 foot long Giant Spring that connects the measurement box to an open metal staircase and creates a natural spring reverb.
I Played with a bow, friction rubber clubs, metal slides, whipped cream gas cartridges and a souvenir Eiffel Tower.
The result is a unique sound effect library of massive metallic hits, gongs, scrapes, squeaks, friction, rumbles and rattles. From subtle, soft squeaks and harsh, brutal metal shrieks to long and deep musical metal moans.
V7 is recorded with an Ehrlund EHR-E microphone placed inside the metal box. All files are in 96 kHz/24 bit and contains the original acoustic recordings.
73 files with 700 + individual sounds – all tagged with detailed Universal Category System (UCS) metadata.
Orbital Emitter proudly presents The Engine Room – a comprehensive sci-fi environment sound-set giving you a rich palette of sounds to design your own authentic sci-fi environments!Â
…In Science Fiction, interstellar vessels travel the galaxy at great speeds. In the heart of all these ships are massive engine rooms outputting incredible power… But what would such a space sound like? Read on for more! Â
The Engine Room sound-set contains 8 long playing audio-scenes and 29 isolated audio-stems which break down to a total of 78 sounds- which played in real time, is over 65 minutes of Royalty Free sci-fi sound!
The 8 long playing audio-scenes capture this engine room environment in various states of activity, from average speeds to faster than light cruising speeds, then back down to average power output and there’s even a separate night shift scene which is relaxed and atmospheric. Two more scenes feature the sounds of a fusion reactor in different states of operation adding another rich group of sounds to this exciting sound-set!
Each scene plays in real time and is perfect for editors and sound editors who want convincing sound environments on the quick for their productions.Â
And for more creative control, our audio-stems offer the complete sound palette used in all the audio-scenes!
The 29 audio-stem files are listed below.
And many of our audio-stems files contain multiple versions of a title giving you nuanced control with those sounds. Some of the multi-version audio-stems feature different perspectives or feature different modes of a sound.
If we break down our audio-stems by category we have:
And the best part about our sound-sets is that they are so easy to use! Just drag and drop our stems or scenes into any DAW or NLE have fun creating your own fantastic environments!
Orbital Emitter’s sound effects are designed to be at home in any motion picture, television show, video game or whatever sci-fi multimedia you wish to create!Â
The Engine Room Sound-Set is part of our Star Cruiser Environments Anthology Collection and delivers industry ready at 24 bit/48k WAV and each sound file contains simple meta-data to make our sound files easy to organize & find.
All of our sounds are 100% original, created in our sound-labs and designed to boldly explore the universe of sci-fi sound!
Thank you for reading and watch for more sci-fi sound from Orbital Emitter coming soon!
The following is a Large Airboat single license sound effects library (with Metadata).
Specification: 1970 18 feet Airboat with a 1947 AVCO Lycoming brand v6 aircraft motor
(8.8 liters, 350 horse power)
Number of Wave Files: 70
Runtime: 3 hours and 4 minutes
Format: 32 bit, 96 kHz wave files
Library size: 19.2 GB (uncompresed), 10.9 GB (compressed .rar file)
The Onboard recordings are in 3 and 4 separate channels (Helm, Motor, Exhaust, and Prop -> propelle)r. Drag & drop or import each of the files into your audio editing software, then align them for creative mixing. There are also stereo mix versions of the OnBoard recordings. The External recording is in MS stereo (Mid-Side).
Definitions & FAQs:
This library can also be used if you need prop plane sounds (because of the aircraft engine).
Onboard: Sounds heard from driver and passenger perspectives (in or on the vehicle)
External: Sounds heard from bystander’s point of view.
If you need specific shots for your film, TV, and video game projects, Watson is available for hire to record all types of vehicles.
Special thanks to Captain Mike Reark!
Male Fighting (Vocals)
Expertly crafted Male fighting Vocals to make sure your project packs a punch!
Including:
Male Attacking
Male Fighting
Male grunts
Make attacked/ punched sounds
Male Pain sounds
and War cries
each with 3 different pitches for deeper pitched, averaged pitch and higher pitched Men.
all individual and edited so they can be used easily and effectively
Recorded and exported in 24/192khz so can be modified to suite your project.
Perfect for all forms of projects.
Unlock your culinary creativity with our “Condiments & Spices” effects library. Dive into a collection of foley sounds that bring food preparation to life, from the sizzle of fresh ingredients hitting a hot pan to the satisfying crunch of perfectly sliced vegetables. Whether you’re crafting enticing commercials or captivating shows, our library empowers you to tantalise your audience’s senses. Transform every cooking scene into a delicious auditory experience.
WE BROKE THEM FOR YOU!
Add a whole other level of realism to your scene with our collection of breaking clay pots. Each file has been meticulously recorded in a well treated studio, edited and individually mastered to fulfill the quality needs of any project. This library was recorded with a matched pair of Sennheiser 8040s to a Sound Devices Mixpre 6. Besides sounding gorgeous, these microphones have a very low noise floor and are able to withstand harsh sharp transients.
With A Sound Effect, Asbjoern has created a web site where our international community can browse, learn, and share the vast fruits of our labors. Together we are accelerating the very real potential power of sound design as a recognized art form.
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