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Fire Sound Effects Combustion Play Track 685 sounds included $100

Combustion is a sound effects library exploding with combustible sound design material. It encompasses explosions, chemical reactions, fires, and various other forms of combustion. It provides a vast scope of sound design elements for weapons, whooshes, vehicles, impacts, and so much more.

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City Life Sound Effects Night Cityscapes Play Track 67 sounds included, 186 mins total $65

Night Cityscapes delivers the urban sounds of a sleeping city. The collection includes more than 3 hours of night and early morning ambiences that are recorded in Sofia, Bulgaria. All recordings were made between 01:30 and 05:30 am. This collection will uncover city in a way you may not know.

You will find atmospheres of quiet and empty small streets in the city center, where can be heard some air conditioners, urban hum and light traffic in the far background.

Lonely sounds of traffic lights. One single taxi passes and disappears into the night, and then it is followed by silence. Empty streets and squares with distant voices and footsteps going somewhere. Major boulevards with light night traffic. Industrial empty streets, where electric buzz and big air conditioners can be heard.

Very, very early morning atmospheres filled with singing birds eager to foreshadow the beginning of a new day.

‘Night Cityscapes’ will fill the missing part of your nocturnal urban atmospheres.

Gear used: Sound Devices 633, Neumann KM184 in ORTF configuration

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Weather Sound Effects High Desert Thunderstorms Play Track 124+ sounds included, 137 mins total From: $45

High Desert Thunderstorms has the vast, beautiful crackling of Southwestern summer thunderstorms. These powerful storms travel for miles in all directions with rumbles that feel physically and emotionally immersive. Plus, you receive many types of Texan storms with rainstorms, dry thunder, echoing thunderclaps, and much more. If you need storm ambiences that ripple across barren valleys, listen to High Desert Thunderstorms.

2% for the Planet:
Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause. I view it as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
Key Features:

• Hand-picked sounds from over 20 summer thunderstorms
• Three-part library: Dry Thunder, Wet Thunder, and Rain and Thunderstorm Ambiences
• Thunder echoing in mountain valleys
• Unraveling explosions as close as 2,000 feet
• Sub-bass growls as far away as 20 miles
• Approaching and fading storm cells
• Descriptors: close, distant, rippling, rolling, growling, rumbling, unraveling, sonic boom, Zeus, and sub-bass
• multiple microphone perspectives for a variety of stereo images and uses
• Location: Near Marfa, Texas, summer 2016, mountain valley at an altitude of 6,000 ft.
• 95% Bird Free
• Library can be purchased in parts or as a bundle to save 20%

Dry Thunder 1:
• Specs: 690 MB – 192 kHz / 24-bit WAV – 26 stereo files, 26+ sounds – MS recordings decoded and library does not include the RAW MS files
• Duration: Approx. 10 min total
• Isolated rain-free thunderclaps from nearby supercells
• Thunder with wind in summer grass
• Clips ranging from 7 to 44 seconds

Dry Thunder 2:
• New Content – Available 10/03/2019
• Isolated rain-free thunderclaps from nearby supercells
• 15 dry thunder clips
• Long rippling booms
• Unraveling echoes bouncing between mountains
• MKH8040 – ORTF recordings

Wet Thunder:
• Specs: 2.37 GB – 192 kHz / 24-bit WAV – 67 stereo files, 67+ sounds – MS recordings decoded and library does not include the RAW MS files
• Duration: Approx. 34 min total
• Isolated thunderclaps with rain
• Heavy, medium, and light rain
• Clips ranging from 10 to 64 seconds

Rain and Thunderstorm Ambiences:
• Specs: 6.47 GB – 192 kHz / 24-bit WAV – 31 stereo files, 31+ sounds – MS recordings decoded and library does not include the RAW MS files
• Duration: Approx. 93 min total
• Dry and Wet thunderstorm ambiences, including thunderclaps
• Heavy, medium, and light rain without thunder
• Metal rooftops, storm drains, small hail stones
• Clips ranging from 1 to 20 minutes

High Desert Thunderstorm – Full Library:
• Specs: 9.54 GB – 192 kHz / 24-bit WAV – 124 stereo files, 124+ sounds – MS recordings decoded and library does not include the RAW MS files
• Duration: Approx. 137 min total
• All Dry Thunder, Wet Thunder, and Rain and Thunderstorm Ambiences included

File List & Metadata:
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Gear Used:
Sennheiser MKH 50/30 MS pair
MS recordings decoded
Sennheiser MKH8040s in ORTF
DPA 4060 A/B pair
Sound Devices 702

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Mechanical Sound Effects Mechanism Play Track 769+ sounds included $99

Get the sounds of mechanisms, Steampunk inspired gears, contraptions, metal and servos with the Mechanism sound effects library.

Mechanism was created in collaboration with Sweet Justice Sound, Richard Devine, and SoundMorph, and we put great effort into ensuring the quality and usefulness of this unique collection. Half designed and half source recordings, Mechanism gives you a toolbox to be inspired by.

It features more than 300 files – and right now you get a bonus 400 best-of-sounds from our Robotic Lifeforms library, for a total of 2.8GB of 24bit/96khz .WAV files.

Mechanism highlights:

• Mechanical Gears
• Designed contraptions
• Steampunk rusty doors and levers
• Source recorded by Richard Devine
• All meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata
+ 400 “best of” sounds from our Robotic Lifeforms library

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Materials & Texture Sound Effects Movement Essentials Play Track 500+ sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$39

The most complex sound design jobs are often comprised of several intricate parts which build upon one another to create lush and captivating atmospheres.

The abstract sounds found in Movement Essentials help to create and enhance musical and cinematic soundscapes by allowing the user to layer and manipulate audio in an almost limitless number of combinations.

This 500+ sound effect library features minimal, yet intricately detailed organic and synthesized sounds that can be used to add depth, motion, or transitional effects to a plethora of film, animation, apps, video games, musical projects and more! Plus, Each sound has 5 or more variations to further assist creativity, complexity and flexibility.

KEY FEATURES

• 500+ sound effect/soundscape package
• Each sound has 5 or more variations for extra customization
• Well-grounded metadata

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Cinematic Metal Play Track 200-5096 sounds included From: $135

MASSIVE, METALLIC, MIND-BLOWING IMPACTS FOR THE SILVER SCREEN
Get ready to pound the theatres with this edgy, hard hitting collection of brazen SFX. Let your audience know you mean business with the enormous sound to back it up.

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IMPACTS, BARBELLS, METAL, HITS, HAMMERS, CRUNCHES, CLEARS, IRON, BARS, SMASHES, CRASHES, BRASSES, PENDULUM, CLOCKS, STICKS, CARS, DOORS, CHAINS, COFFERS, CONTAINERS, DISTORTED, RATTLES, HATCHES, METALBOXES, BICYCLES, SWORDS, SQUEAK, ROBOTS, SWEETENERS

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Magic & Fantasy Sound Effects Elemental Play Track 654+ sounds included, 78 mins total $199

Welcome to Elemental, a rich source of magic sound effects, focusing on the 5 elements of magic: Earth, Wind, Fire, Water, Ether, plus much more.

We worked over a year with award winning sound designers to create a magic sound library like no other. If you need both cutting edge designed magic sounds as well as raw source recordings with all the different elements and materials, than Elemental is going to be a perfect fit in your collection. Be sure to also check out the launch trailer video as well, featuring all Elemental sound effects. It's a great way to get an idea just how well the Elemental Soundpack works with magic type visuals!

Featuring tons of different spells, casts, loops, impacts, healing, breaths, and much more, we went all out to bring you plenty of options. Just look at the list below or view the full sound list further down to get an idea of all that you get. Elemental features more than 650 files, 3GB of 24bit/96khz .WAV files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer and Basehead metadata.

Includes magic sounds such as:
Acid Cast, Earth, Electricity, Evil Breath, Evil Casts, Fire, Fireballs, Good Casts, Ice, Incineration Cast, Neutral Cast, Poison, Sand Cast, Spirit Evil, Spirit Good, Spirit Neutral, Water Cast, Wind Cast, Raw Recordings, Sweetner Layers, Loops, Impacts and Throws

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Game Audio Packs - Game Sound Effects Libraries Quest Game Play Track 1316 sounds included, 164 mins total $71.20

1316 Game Ready Audio Assets! Join our sound designers and creative engineers on an epic journey across the fields of Rohan to the great Misty Mountains to discover and create the perfect alchemy of Quest Game. An entirely new collection of game ready sound effects for building your own immersive world of fantasy gameplay, action, and adventure.

Muster a hoard of orcs, create the soundscapes of village life or outfit fantasy character actions with ease. With more than 1300 mix and master ready audio assets in your cache, Quest Game is a king’s ransom of premium quality AAA game ready sound effects that turn the tides in your favor. Quest Game! FTW

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Nature & Countryside Ambiences Eerie Forest Play Track 30+ sounds included, 154 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
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Eerie Forest is a collection of subtle ambiences recorded at night in dense forests in the regions of Transylvania and Moldova, Romania over two trips in Spring and Autumn 2017. The library features soft wind, distant hum, vegetation rustles, dogs barking at various distances, church bells tolling, a variety of owl species and other birds like ravens and woodcocks. All these elements are not foreground, but rather washed-out, echoey and atmospheric.

Eerie Forest is not suitable for foreground sound elements as the recordings are very soft and subtle. Make sure you check out the demos before you purchase.

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Aircraft - Jet/Propeller Plane Sound Effects WW2 Aircraft Play Track 59 sounds included, 96 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$150

WW2 Aircraft is a collection of recordings of rare World War 2 aircraft. It features icons such as the Supermarine Spitfire, Bucker Bu-131 Jungmann, North American P-51 Mustang, Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, Grumman F8F Bearcat and others. The library consists of 59 recordings ranging from 13 seconds to over 10 minutes in length. The sounds have been recorded with the Sennheiser MKH416, MKH8040 and the Sony PCM D100.

The library covers exterior flybys from slow to very fast, aircraft taxiing by, engines starting up, idling, revving, stopping and a few takeoffs. It also includes an on-board recording of a Bucker Bu-131 biplane as it starts up, taxies, takes off, flies, lands and then stops. The planes have been recorded at a variety of distances, from close to relatively far away. As an added bonus, one of the P-51 Mustangs recorded had had its guns removed, which caused an awesome whistling sound every time it swooped down at a certain angle.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Cinematic Hits & Transitions 2 Play Track 333 sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$22.50

SoundBits “Cinematic Hits & Transitions 2“ description:

The Cinematic Hits and Transitions 2 sound effects library from SoundBits delivers 222 cinematic, epic, heavy, impacts and hits – ranging from very deep, earthshaking hits, to brutally distorted and mangled impacts. Some are dry, some with extra huge reverbs, others get you an instant attack while some come with a build-up for that extra tension. Lots of starts and tails of the sounds can be combined with each other to give you even more.

But that’s not all. There are also 111 scary, haunting, unsettling and weird transitions and movements that instantly give you goosbumps and add that extra suspense for your productions. Lots of new sounds were recorded and got merged with existing SoundBits | Sound Effects. This fusion got mangled, crushed, edited and designed to create this cinematic experience.

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City Life Sound Effects Distant City Ambiences (3 channel) Play Track 88 sounds included, 150 mins total $50

Distant City Ambiences introduces the sounds of the ever-present noisefloor that is generated by the life in a modern city.

Several spots around the hills along Dresden/Germany have been visited in order to record these noisefloors from a distance.

All recordings are made with a 3-channel setup of Sennheiser MKH8020 / 8040 microphones that are able to capture the finest nuances which are often hidden by an aggressive compound of ever roaring engines, passing airplanes, trains and other acoustic emissions.

The library features 16 different locations that were visited several times between October and December 2015. Each place was recorded at different day and night times so that an entire 24h cycle of city ambiences is covered.

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Instruments Swell Play Track 500+ sounds included From: $18

Swell is a performable Kontakt instrument and sound effects library designed to create natural sounding cymbal swells with a variety of different cymbals and performances. Cymbals include gongs, orchestral suspended cymbals, crashes, chinas, sizzle ride, and others.

Swell is divided into 2 parts: natural and designed.

The natural collection has recordings that are unaltered from their original performances and was created to produce clean, musical, natural sounding swells.

The designed collection uses samples based on the natural recordings that have been transformed into entirely new and different sounds using heavy processing and layering. It was created to produce interesting design and transition sounds quickly and easily. Swell includes over 200 fully designed rises.

In addition to the carefully recorded sounds we have created a truly useful and flexible Kontakt instrument. This instrument ties the mod wheel to an entire matrix of effect parameters that you can manipulate in real time for instant complexity.

Swell is available in two versions

Key features for the Swell Lite Collection
• 70 unique recordings
• full res total coverage of the Zildjian A Custom 18″ cymbal
• fully functional kontakt instrument for the Zildjian A Custom 18″ cymbal
• 25 designed cymbal swells with Kontakt instrument
• option to upgrade to the full collection at any time for the difference in price
• .nki files require full version of NI Kontakt 5.3 or higher

Key features for the Swell Full Collection
• 500+ unique recordings
• The entire “Natural” collection
• The entire “Designed” collection
• 6.5 GB total
• 12 Kontakt fully programmed unlocked .nki files
• .nki files require full version of NI Kontakt 5.4.3 or higher

Note: Can be used without Kontakt too! All Kontakt instrument libraries include fully unlocked and accessible metadata tagged .wav files. You don't need any version of Kontakt to use these files as a standalone sample library.

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Bundles Bestiary Monster Bundle Vol 1 Play Track 536 sounds included $50

Looking for the ultimate collection of monster sounds for your video game development? Look no further than “Bestiary,” the ultimate bundle of monster sound effects from Khron Studio!

Preview:
• SoundCloud playlist preview
• Monster Library Vol 1
• Monster Library Vol 2
• Monster Library Vol 3
• Monster Library Vol 4

Featuring a total of 536 high-quality sound effects, this bundle includes four unique sound packs, each designed to bring your game to life with a variety of monstrous sounds. Here’s what you can expect from each pack:

• Monster Library Vol 1 features 141 organic monster sounds inspired by famous audiovisual products, including squawks, screams, attacks, and more. This pack is perfect for adding a touch of realism to your smaller and medium-sized monsters.

• Monster Library Vol 2 contains 107 sounds with a wide variety of monster characteristics, including breathing, different types of steps, eating, and more. This library is divided into categories such as attacks, deaths, growls, and more.

• Monster Library Vol 3 offers 168 sounds covering the most important actions of 5 types of monsters, including dragons, spiders, trolls, goblins, and orcs. With a large number of variations for each sound, this pack is perfect for making your monsters feel more alive than ever.

• Monster Library Vol 4 includes 120 sounds covering the most important actions of 5 types of monsters, including behemoths, insects, skeletons, aberrations, and specters. Like the previous pack, this library also offers a large number of variations for each sound.

With “Bestiary,” you’ll have everything you need to create a truly immersive and terrifying experience for your players. Whether you’re creating an action-packed game or a spooky horror adventure, this bundle is a must-have for any game developer looking to take their sound effects to the next level.

So what are you waiting for? Add “Bestiary Monster Bundle” to your audio library today and watch your game come alive with the sounds of monstrous beasts!

More about the pack
• Intuitive file naming
• All you’ll ever need regarding magical elemental sounds [Use them again & again]
• Use the sound effects over and over, in any of your projects or productions, forever without any additional fees or royalties. Use the SFX in your game, in your trailer, in a Kickstarter campaign, wherever you need to, as much as you want to.
• Totally mono compatibility
• All sounds have several variations.
• Use your imagination and feel free to use any sound for a creature other than the one described, remember that the world of sound is totally subjective.
• For any questions or problems: [email protected]
Features
• 536 unique monster sounds
• Number of Audio Waves: 536
• Format: 44-48-96KHz / 16-24 bits
• Do Sound FX loop: Some
• Minutes of audio provided: 14 minutes & 57 seconds

Documentation:
• Monster Library Vol 1
• Monster Library Vol 2
• Monster Library Vol 3
• Monster Library Vol 4
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Drones & Mood Sound Effects DARK Play Track 15+ sounds included, 30 mins total $15

‘DARK’ by Badlands Sound delivers you 15 scary, ominous dark drones that will add an added layer to terrify the audience. You will hear low-end rumbles, sinister drones, creepy atmospheres and more! This sound library includes 15 high-quality 96k / 24-bit dark drones. All audio files are two minutes long subtly changing over time.

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Car Sound Effects Drifting vol.1: Car Action Play Track 109 sounds included, 47 mins total $20

Get the sounds of crazy accelerations, drifting, wild breaking, screechy tires and more – captured from several different perspectives on a race track.

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Mechanical Sound Effects (NSL) 3D Printer Play Track 209+ sounds included $49

Get the sounds of a Printrbot 3D printer – with four NEMA 14 stepper motors -, in this interesting SFX library by New Sound Lab.

The high torque motors connected to a pulley system control the X-Y-Z movements of the aluminum extruder and metal print bed. When printing three-dimensional objects, these fast and precise movements result in a unique barrage of percussive and rhythmic mechanical noise.

These sounds were captured using three different recording setups: Barcus Berry contact mics, RF coils, and combined contact mic / RF coil into a Sound Devices 702 recorder.

The resulting sounds are a mix of grainy, gritty atonal patterns, robotic percussive bleeps, glitchy digital beeps/clicks, low fidelity drones, and chaotic noise. Both raw recordings, and processed elements are included and ready for further sound manipulation.

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Firearms Sound Effects Handguns Play Track 56 sounds included $25

The EFX HANDGUNS collection delivers a fine selection of classic hand gun sounds, including recordings of a COLT FRONTIER 1873, GLOCK, RUGER MK2 SUPPRESSOR, SW 1911, BERETTA F92 and a JERICO 41AE

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Dog Sound Effects Epona Play Track 568+ sounds included $26

More than your average beast sound set, this library brings you a large selection of dog vocalizations, howls, growls, cries, whines, huffs, puffs, sighs, and more.

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Environments & Ambiences Magic Activations And Drones Play Track 206 sounds included, 59 mins total $79

Featuring 102 magical activation sound effects and 104 drone loops for magical fantasy portals, teleportation devices, magic objects, enchanted runes, magic orbs and spheres, fantasy towers, magic buildings, magic machines, treasure chests, and more! All drone loops are 30 seconds long, seamless, and perfect for all video game genres. Sound effects range from small to large, shimmery to dark to sci-fi, for every interaction in the game, whether it is an object, portal, structure, or any visual effects. Use the sounds standalone or layer them with materials like stone, wood, metal, concrete, and more—whichever fits your animation. In addition, this pack includes basic elements such as wind, water, fire, and electricity to give you the flexibility to layer over the activations or loops for extra realism.

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Funny / Comedy / Cartoon Ambient Game Play Track 603 sounds included $39.20

The soundstage is set for an immersive listening experience sending your audience adrift in the ambience of warm and colorful gameplay environments!

Like the legendary titles Spyro the Dragon and Crash Bandicoot, Ambient Game is designed to convey the popular, cozy, family-time game sounds that seasoned users recognize and new generation players love.

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Roomtones Empty School Roomtones Play Track 21+ sounds included, 53 mins total $21

Need the sounds of a deserted school? This library delivers a range of room tones from empty corridors, cellars, staircases, toilets and dining halls – featuring ventilation sounds and heaters humming in empty halls during the Christmas holidays.

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Car Sound Effects Italian Cars Play Track 454+ sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$86

Italian Cars features authentic recordings of italian speed cars such as a FERRARI, ALFA ROMEO, FIAT, LAMBORGHINI and italian vintage cars such as FIAT 500L, FIAT BALILLA, FIAT 600, ALFA ROMEO GIULIA, ALFETTA, APE CAR PIAGGIO, LANCIA FLAVIA and more. Includes starting/stopping, pass-by’s, approaches, onboard recordings, horn doppler recordings and more (see the sound list below).

So if you’re looking to add some real Italian car sounds to your project – or just great car sounds in general -, this library will come in real handy.

Each sound file has been carefully named and tagged for easy search in Soundminer and is Universal Category System (UCS) compliant.
(see the full track list below).

Update: 183 new sounds just added, bringing the total to 454 sounds included!

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Farm & Horse Sound Effects Horses Play Track 340+ sounds included $199

Knights, the Cavalry, the Three Musketeers, Cowboys, Indians, Arnold Schwarzenegger in TRUE LIES: The cool guys sit on horses.

Bring these animals to vibrant life with our extensive HORSES SFX library.

You get 9 GB of high quality and royalty free SFX of countless horse voices, a mass of Foley sounds, pass-bys and steps in various gaits and different surfaces.

The Horses library just received a 4.8/5 rating at The Audio Spotlight!

Horses SFX library highlight:

• Library ships in 96/192 kHz, 24-bit High Definition Audio
• 9 GB of MOVEMENTS, HORSE VOICES & FOLEY
• Playable KONTAKT 5 instrument for horse steps
• Effective workflow: well-grounded Soundminer Metadata

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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.

Wylie Stateman

Supervising sound editor,
The Hateful Eight, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill: Vol. 1

A Sound Effect is an excellent resource for us to keep our animated films sounding unique and exciting.

Gabriel Guy

Re-recording Mixer, Walt Disney Animation Studios:
Frozen, Big Hero 6

A Sound Effect is a great asset to have discovered.

We found the site very easy to navigate, purchasing and downloads were effortless and the effects themselves are awesome! Asbjoern has done us all a great service.

We’ll definitely be back!

Wayne Pashley

Supervising Sound Editor/Re-recording Mixer, The Lego Movie & Mad Max: Fury Road

There are many great independent sound effect libraries available these days. The main problem with having so many, is keeping track of them!

A Sound Effect is a great hub, and is one of the first places I visit to look for sounds by category or genre. I started coming here to see if I could find libraries that I knew I had heard, but forgot WHERE I had heard them.

And in the process discovered libraries I never would have found otherwise. Great work! Keep it up!

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Sound designer:
Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit trilogies

We're always looking for new sounds to mangle, so when A Sound Effect had a holiday sale, I tried them out.

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Director, Digital - Source Sound Inc.

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