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20 Palermo street ambiences includes recordings of construction, parks, streets, and city life from the Italian town of Palermo.
The Heckler & Koch USP Expert sound effects library features firing and performed effects from a 1998 German 9×19 mm caliber pistol in 126 clips and 3.43 gigabytes of audio.
The collection includes 24 perspectives across 51 channels of audio (including an Ambisonic perspective) of firing, grabbing, handling, movement, rattling, and safety movements, and more. The gunshots were captured from close to over 150 meters distant from mono, stereo, up to 8-track Holophone recordings.
The sound library includes 18+ fields of Soundminer metadata, BWAV, and iXML metadata and MacOS Finder comments, as well as Pro Tools and Reaper sessions with all fx pre-aligned to allow editors to begin mixing and editing immediately.
The Vehicle Stone Chip Hits sound effects library showcases a wide variety of stone, rock, pebble, and gravel hits. Totalling 53 sounds and 1.34 gigabytes of audio, the collection shares multi-take impact performances on a car (roof, door, panels, body) as well as tire rims and wheel wells.
Each take documents the hits with 5 perspectives from both inside and outside the vehicle with mono, stereo, and an interior Ambisonic perspective.
The collection includes 18+ fields of Soundminer metadata, BWAV, and iXML metadata and MacOS Finder comments.
The NSL Metal Bundle includes 3 New Sound Lab sound libraries.
401 high resolution WAV files – 8 GB
Elevate your project with Mountain Streams Field Recordings – a collection of high-quality, authentic audio specifically for game developers and creators. Capturing the pure, natural sounds of mountain streams, this library offers a diverse range of immersive water flows, from tranquil babbling brooks to powerful rushing currents. Each recording is carefully captured in pristine mountain environments, ensuring maximum realism and atmosphere.
Perfect for creating realistic outdoor settings, immersive landscapes, or enhancing environmental sound design, these recordings seamlessly blend into any game, film, or multimedia project. With ready-to-use tracks and a variety of dynamic water sounds, you can effortlessly bring nature’s soothing flow into your creations. Whether you’re designing peaceful wilderness scenes or intense survival experiences, Mountain Streams Field Recordings delivers the soundscapes you need to bring your world to life.
22 ambiences that you can import directly into your project.
When we think of spaceships in science fiction, we might picture massive hulking vessels moving slowly across the cosmos… Or we might think of small nimble fighter crafts darting in and out of battle…
But there’s another kind of spaceship that is just as popular as the first two mentioned, but is under represented by most sound effect libraries out there… Until now!
Cinematic Spaceships, is our latest sci-fi designed sound-set specializing in mid-sized spaceship sound effects!
These mid-sized space craft usually have multiple engines and thrusters and are large enough to hold maybe a dozen people or crew.
Think of the troop-ships or shuttle-crafts seen in many movies, video games, Anime, TV & Streaming shows for the last 30 years…
They’re everywhere across media -and now you can have this robust library focusing on these bad-ass spaceships!
***If you would like to hear every sound from this set, watch our Deep Dive video for Cinematic Spaceships!
What you get in Cinematic Spaceships are three unique spaceship classes that feature various exterior sequences, flybys and more. And as a bonus, there’s a whole bank of Sweeteners that include rocket thruster sounds, hypersonic thunder claps, mech builds, and more!
Here is a breakdown of the sound-set:
Here’s a link for another audio-demo for Cinematic Spaceships! Promo
Check out Cinematic Spaceships today and drop us a line if you have any questions! [email protected]
We can’t wait to hear how you use our sounds!
Happy sound building!
A versatile collection of meticulously recorded interactions with real-world materials: clay, glass, metal, paper, plastic, vocal, and wood. Captured with minimal processing to preserve their raw texture and flexibility, these sounds are ready to use straight out of the box or layered to enhance existing UI audio.
The library features clicks, hits, whooshes, swipes, and slides, tailored for buttons, toggles, switches, transitions, notifications, and navigation. Whether you’re shaping a mobile app, fine-tuning game UI, or crafting interactive installations, these sounds add organic depth and tactile realism to digital experiences. The recordings were made with two Sennheiser MKH 8040 microphones and an RME Babyface interface, ensuring pristine, high-detail audio quality.
Ideal for UI/UX designers, game developers, and sound artists seeking to create grounded, sensory-rich interactions.
A digital collection of immersive soundscapes captured from diverse natural environments. Perfect for filmmakers, game developers, meditation practitioners, and sound designers. This library features recordings of forests, rivers, bird calls and more. Each track is professionally recorded to deliver an authentic and immersive experience, making it ideal for enhancing creative projects, relaxation, or background ambience. Let the pure sounds of nature transport you to a place of peace and tranquility.
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Engage your audience in a thrilling auditory experience with our Spaceship Pass-By Sound Effects. Perfect for futuristic, sci-fi, or space-themed projects, these high-quality sound effects capture the dynamic transition of a spaceship moving through space at high speeds.
Whether you’re designing a dramatic space battle scene, enhancing a sci-fi video game, or adding a realistic touch to a film or animation, these sound effects provide the perfect audio to accompany rapid spaceship movements, smooth transitions, or intense atmospheric changes. The collection includes a variety of passes, from sleek, quiet spacecraft to roaring, heavy-hitting vessels, each designed to create an immersive and otherworldly feeling.
Whoosh intense sound effects for transitions in motion design, perfect for video games, infographics, animations.
This sound effects pack contains 200 wav files in high quality 96kHz/24Bit format.
The Master Gun M60E6 Sound Effects library is recorded using a large array of various microphone configurations, we recorded shots from several distances in an open shooting range in the Nevada Desert.
Our raw shots features a total of 28 channels including 13 Stereo and 2 mono sources. All of our close and mid spaced pair Microphone options can be used as two independent mono microphones. The right side of every spaced pair will have more Mech than its left side counterpart.
Every single gun has been recorded using the same gain settings on the same recorders, and we have level matched each microphone option between the same calibers so your 50ft microphones will be the same or similar across all libraries that share the same calibers. This makes mixing large amounts of weapons easier as the loudness and character of each gun is predictable.
Our foley features a total of 4 audio channels with 1 Stereo and 2 mono sources, including the Sanken CO-100k which captures frequencies above 100kHz for extreme pitch shifting workflows.
In addition to the unsuppressed shot recordings, we’ve also sampled the M60E6 with a suppressor attachment. The suppressed M60E6 was sampled right after the unsuppressed recordings using the exact same microphone setup as the unsuppressed version. This provides you a seamless transition between the unsuppressed and the suppressed recordings.
The suppressed recordings also have the added benefit of muting the shot layers which helps bring out the intricate details of the mechanism (mech layers).
Because adding a suppressor to the firearm increases the weapons muzzle velocity, the fire rate of the suppressed weapon is slightly faster than its unsuppressed counterpart.
Created from the ground up we’ve designed a collection of game-ready mixes for your next project. If you are creating your own custom weapons system and would like to use our designed mixes in your project, you can use our no-tail options which are our realistic designed mixes without our tail layers. Just drag, and drop.
All files contain extensive metadata to provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible. Metadata can be read and processed by audio management tools. Some digital audio workstations feature an included search tool that can also read embedded metadata.
Enter the brutal heart of cinematic terror with Cinematic Nightmares: Impacts Vol.1—a meticulously crafted sound pack designed to deliver raw, unrelenting power straight to your speakers. Packed with thunderous impacts, bone-rattling hits, and layered textures of chaos, this collection is built to elevate your horror trailers, dark cinematic cues, and intense game soundscapes. Whether you’re crafting jump scares, dramatic transitions, or tension-building moments, these sounds will hit with precision and presence, helping you shape unforgettable sonic moments that grab attention and refuse to let go.
Like its whooshing predecessor, this pack is built for flexibility and depth:
● Designed Section – 10 fully layered impact sounds, sculpted and delivered in both wet and dry versions for instant drag-and-drop power. You get 20 ready-to-use files to give your productions immediate punch.
● Layers Section – Go deeper with 49 expertly curated impact layers, each provided in both wet and dry versions. That’s 98 individual files, purpose-built for layering, tweaking, or using standalone.
Each sound includes 6 variations per file, with both wet and dry processing included. This means you’re not locked into any one sound—you can apply your own reverb, layer them with other effects, or manipulate them into entirely new sonic monstrosities. Total freedom, zero compromise.
Massive Value: 708 High-Quality Sounds
With this pack, you’re not just getting great sound—you’re getting a full arsenal of ready-to-use audio assets:
● Designed Sounds: 120 wet and dry variations (10 sounds × 6 variations × 2 formats).
● Layered Sounds: 588 wet and dry variations (49 sounds × 6 variations × 2 formats).
● Bonus One-Shots: Every variation is also provided as a pre-cut one-shot—clearly labeled and organised within its own folder, drag-and-drop ready for your DAW or sampler, making workflow fast and seamless.
Check out the sound demo here:
All sounds are provided in 24-bit / 96kHz resolution, ensuring industry-standard quality. The total pack size is 5.6 GB, and everything is embedded with full UCS-compliant metadata to keep your sound library organised, searchable, and production-ready.
Resonant Metal is a sound library built around the resonant and tonal characteristics of metal. It features a wide variety of recordings—from small, high-frequency metal tones to large, heavy impacts with long sustain. The focus is on metallic sounds with rich overtones, clean transients, and tonal clarity.
The library includes both raw recordings of real-world metal objects (bowls, trays, heavy pans, rods, tools, etc.) and a selection of designed sounds. These designed elements include processed impacts, pitch-shifted scrapes, granular textures, and reversed hits.
Every sound was recorded using a Sennheiser MKH 8050 microphone and a Zoom F6 recorder and files are delivered in high-resolution 24-bit / 192kHz WAV format.
We managed to record in the amazing and stunning Main Hall of the Grand Central Station in New York whilst on our travels, capturing the ambience of the daily commuter and tourists who flock to see this amazing building.
Main Hall Ambience
Info Booth Ambience and Tannoy
A one man Public Protest
Crowd/Walla
Commuters
Tourists
People moving
People moving with Baggage
People talking close and distant
Regular tannoy announcements
When editing the ambiences, there were a variety of close mic’ed human interactions and baggage movement which may not be fitting when placing these into a projects so we’ve re-edited these samples and provided a set of “B” Samples which have these removed.
Grand Central Station will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of this amazing train station, boosting your project to the next level. Grand Central Station 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
This is a sound library containing a wide variety of both raw and designed ceramic sounds, including porcelain and terracotta.
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In this comprehensive collection you’ll discover an extensive array of pristine, isolated recordings capturing the nuanced vocalizations of a diverse range of farm animals. Included is maybe one of the most detailed distinctions between various sheep breeds – from the weak first calls of a lamb to the breathy but historic bleating of the Soay Sheep to the more robust calls of Suffolk Sheep up to the harsh burping of Scottish Black Face Sheep (and even more sheep). Explore the intricate world of poultry with detailed recordings of div. roosters and chickens, as well as some ducks, turkey and geese, each captured with exceptional clarity.
Beyond the ovine and avian, Farm Animals extends its sonic palette to include:
Each recording within the Farm Animal library has been captured using hd recording techniques, ensuring exceptional fidelity and minimal noise. These are meticulously documented sonic portraits, offering a wealth of textural detail and emotional resonance.
On top of these close up recording, the library also includes some farm ambiences. Inside the hen house, with sleeping hens or eery industrial noises from milk farms.
As honey bees are as much an industrial worker as cows, pics or sheep, some insects are included too.
Farm Animals provides you with the raw sonic ingredients to craft immersive and believable rural environments, adding layers of authenticity that will elevate your countryside projects or give you unique source material to design alien voices or monsters, dinosaurs, zombies and more. Whether you’re working on film, television, games, or interactive installations, this library offers the depth and breadth of sounds required to truly bring your scenes to life. On top, no animals have been harmed, handled or annoyed by me, all vocals occured naturally.
Animals included: Antwerp Belgian Breed, Barnevelder Bantam, Bielefelder Kennhuhn, Brown Hen, Minorca Hen, Other Chicken, Rooster, Cows / Cattle, Highland Cattle, Donkey, Goat, Honey Bee, Bentheim Black Pied Pig, Other Pigs, Camerun Sheep, Coburg Fox Sheep, Domestic Sheep, German Heath Sheep, Scottish Blackface Sheep, Soay Sheep. Suffolk Sheep, Lamb, Horse, Pony, Shetland, Mallard, Red Crested Pochard, Rasseflügel Limburg, House Goose, Steinbacher Kampfgans, Indian Runner Duck, Black Swan, Turkey, Fantail Pigeon, Sparrows, Short toed tree creeper, dogs – for vocalization and amount of calls, check the file list
MASSIVE CONTACT – 1153 files of Contact sound effects, at varying distances and intensities. From gentle surface wipes and thud hits to water movement vibrations and machine racket to foliage friction and metallic tones. Massive Contact comes in at 3 hours and 57 minutes, of contact microphone noises. Bring kinetic power and textured tension to your next project. Recorded at 192kHz and 32bit, using piezoelectric sensitive stereo contact microphones capable of recording surface vibration frequencies. Massive Contact filenames are in the Universal Category System format with additional Metadata baked-in.
Don’t need a Massive amount of Contact sound effects? We offer ‘Mini’ sound effect libraries as companions for all of our ‘Massive’ sound effect libraries. All recordings are unique to each library with no overlap. Go Mini today, and upgrade to the corresponding Massive library later, when you need more of that particular sound effect.
MINI Contact – 75 files of Contact sound effects, at varying distances and intensities. From gentle surface wipes and thud hits to water movement vibrations and machine racket to foliage friction and metallic tones. Mini Contact comes in at over 21 minutes, of contact microphone noises. Bring kinetic power and textured tension to your next project. Recorded at 192kHz and 32bit, using piezoelectric sensitive stereo contact microphones capable of recording surface vibration frequencies. Mini Contact filenames are in the Universal Category System format with additional Metadata baked-in.
Looking for a Massive amount of Contact sound effects? We offer ‘Massive’ sound effect libraries as companions for all of our ‘Mini’ sound effect libraries. All recordings are unique to each library with no overlap. Go Mini today, and upgrade to the corresponding Massive library later, when you need more of that particular sound effect.
SUPERHEROES – SPEED & STRENGTH is the definitive superhero sound effects collection, capturing the raw intensity, high-speed movements, and groundbreaking impacts of cinematic action.
Crafted for professionals, it delivers superhuman momentum and powerful action sounds ideal for film, trailers, AAA games, and post-production. Every superhero sound is engineered for precision, realism, and relentless cinematic energy.
Go beyond generic action sound effects with the first dedicated superhero sound effects library. Every superhero sound is meticulously crafted to enhance speed, strength, and impact, delivering energetic whooshes and crushing hits that feel grounded yet extraordinary.
Achieve a perfect balance of superhero energy and real-world authenticity. Expertly processed organic recordings, creating dynamic action sounds ideal for high-stakes cinematic scenes, impactful trailers, and immersive gaming experiences.
Perfect for Professional Sound Designers
Whether working on blockbuster films, action-packed trailers, or AAA game titles, SUPERHEROES – SPEED & STRENGTH is a professional-grade toolkit built for sound designers who demand powerful, cinematic, and impactful sound design at the highest quality.
Unleash pure audio carnage with OVERKILL – a brutally detailed 5.7 GB sound library featuring 3390 hyperreal gore sound effects across 607 files. Whether you’re designing subtle, skin-crawling tension or full-blown splatter mayhem, Overkill gives you the raw, visceral tools to cover the entire spectrum of gore – from nuanced realism to over-the-top brutality.
DESIGN KIT (360 Sounds – 60 Files)
A collection of brutally crafted, drag-and-drop sound effects, organized into game-ready actions and categories.
All of these categories are featured in both a realistic, organic style and an exaggerated, highly stylized, over-the-top version.
In addition the Design Kit features Projectile Impacts from Guns, Shotguns and Arrows.
BUILDING BLOCKS (384 Sounds – 64 Files)
The goal behind our Building Blocks is to provide pre-designed sound layers that streamline your workflow. We’ve created straightforward, easy-to-use categories that let you quickly build new sounds or enhance your own designs.
All following categories are available in both Wet and Dry:
CONSTRUCTION KIT (2653 Sounds – 483 Files)
For our Construction Kit, we wanted to give you the best of both worlds to meet (or should we say meat) all your needs. You’ll get cleaned raw recordings for full flexibility in your own processing, plus pre-processed and layered sounds to spark creativity, fuel inspiration, and give you everything you need for hyperrealistic gore design.
Our Construction Kit includes:
The Master Gun NSV Sound Effects library is recorded using a large array of various microphone configurations, we recorded shots from several distances in an open shooting range in the Nevada Desert.
Our raw shots features a total of 26 channels including 12 Stereo and 2 mono sources. All of our close and mid spaced pair Microphone options can be used as two independent mono microphones. The right side of every spaced pair will have more Mech than its left side counterpart.
Every single gun has been recorded using the same gain settings on the same recorders, and we have level matched each microphone option between the same calibers so your 50ft microphones will be the same or similar across all libraries that share the same calibers. This makes mixing large amounts of weapons easier as the loudness and character of each gun is predictable.
Our foley features a total of 4 audio channels with 1 Stereo and 2 mono sources, including the Sanken CO-100k which captures frequencies above 100kHz for extreme pitch shifting workflows.
Created from the ground up we’ve designed a collection of game-ready mixes for your next project. If you are creating your own custom weapons system and would like to use our designed mixes in your project, you can use our no-tail options which are our realistic designed mixes without our tail layers. Just drag, and drop.
All files contain extensive metadata to provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible. Metadata can be read and processed by audio management tools. Some digital audio workstations feature an included search tool that can also read embedded metadata.
Swish and Flick is a sound pack featuring a collection of high-quality whooshes, designed whooshes, whoosh source, and tonal content.
This pack features 1992 sounds across 138 .wav files (20 Designed, 118 Source) exported at 192kHz/24bit. Aimed at professional sound designers and editors looking for clean, mastered, ready to use assets with plenty of variation for game audio or linear media.
Recorded on the SD 788T with Schoeps MK 4 & 8 along with the CMD42 digital preamplifiers, as well as an MKH 8040 XY pair (among others), and meticulously cleaned up in iZotope RX while persevering optimal signal to noise and frequency content.
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The Master Gun HK21E Sound Effects library is recorded using a large array of various microphone configurations, we recorded shots from several distances in an open shooting range in the Nevada Desert.
Our raw shots features a total of 28 channels including 13 Stereo and 2 mono sources. All of our close and mid spaced pair Microphone options can be used as two independent mono microphones. The right side of every spaced pair will have more Mech than its left side counterpart.
Every single gun has been recorded using the same gain settings on the same recorders, and we have level matched each microphone option between the same calibers so your 50ft microphones will be the same or similar across all libraries that share the same calibers. This makes mixing large amounts of weapons easier as the loudness and character of each gun is predictable.
Our foley features a total of 4 audio channels with 1 Stereo and 2 mono sources, including the Sanken CO-100k which captures frequencies above 100kHz for extreme pitch shifting workflows.
Created from the ground up we’ve designed a collection of game-ready mixes for your next project. If you are creating your own custom weapons system and would like to use our designed mixes in your project, you can use our no-tail options which are our realistic designed mixes without our tail layers. Just drag, and drop.
All files contain extensive metadata to provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible. Metadata can be read and processed by audio management tools. Some digital audio workstations feature an included search tool that can also read embedded metadata.
622 meticulously processed stereo electric and lightning spells sound effects recorded in 96 khz and 24 bits for high audio definition.
The collection comes with hundreds of variations, more than 1 hour of content and many different type of spells. It also includes raw files for more flexibility for your projects.
This collection is perfect for any films, video games or trailers.
The library is fully focused on electric, thunder and lightning spells. You will find simple one shot electric impacts, powerful high level thunder spells, magic weapon enchantments and so on. Spells such as lightning strike, electric blast, thunderbolt, magnetic field, thunder hammer, electric sword, lightning projectile, etc. are included in this library.
Recorded assets: Thunder, big and small adhesive tapes, inflated balloon, styrofoam, cellophane, various clothes, baseball glove, winter gloves, metal objects, aluminum foil, oven door, etc. Analog/digital synths and ultrasonic/geophone usage for more variety.
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