One hundred ambiences. From English pubs and cafes to Charles Bridge in Prague to a rooftop on Madison Avenue and the pastoral city ambience of Central Park. Great background ambiences for film, TV, games and many other uses.
Seat Ibiza III 1.2 12V sound library features 42 high-quality files recorded with multi mic setup. Engine was recorded in sync with cabin interior ambients, and you can expect different styles of driving. From casual city driving, through accelerations on a highway up to rpm ramps and constant rpm loops for game audio. In addition to engine recordings, this sound effects library features exterior passes, whooshes and other road-related sounds recorded in mono and stereo.
Do you have bush or tree which needs some sounds?
With 483 sounds, BRANCHES & GRASS has got you covered!
Everything from hits, shakes, to rustles and breaks.
29 Categories of lush greens from the outdoors!
Extensive recording session of a 1970 Ford Mustang ” Mach 1 ” . The Mach 1 is a performance-oriented model of the Ford Mustang, its 351 cu in (5.8 L) Cleveland V8 produces 300 HP.
This library contains onboard ( up to 8 mics ) , exterior and all the spot effects and foley you’ll need ( doors, windows, seatbelt, trunk, indicators… )
For greater edit possibilities, the exterior tracks were recorded with various microphones setups :
– static wide AB array
– static Cinela LCR array ( ORTF + Center )
– Neumann KMR81 shotgun mic following the car
For the onboard setup, here’s what you’ll find:
– 2 mics in the engine ( static omni + dynamic cardioïd )
– 3 mics on the exhaust ( lavalier + static cardioïd + dynamic omni )
– MKH 8040 ORTF + a hidden lavalier inside the cabin
Foley and spot FX were recorded with the Neumann KMR81 and Sennheiser 80XX LCR setup
All the sounds are 96 kHz / 24 bits and most importantly embedded with exhaustive metadata for improved search results, including a detailed description, microphone names/setup, etc…
Metadata compatible with Soundminer, Basehead, etc…
Transport features dozens of vehicles recordings – cars, trains, trucks, planes, motorbikes, etc., – that have taken place in a urban environment, covering your needs for background transportation. The goal of this library is to help sound editors quickly find that background traffic that is often needed. All the recordings are ready to be used in a non-intrusiveness way in any media where vehicles play a remote or central role.
Key features:
53 ambience recordings of traffic: avenues, streets, freeways, cobblestone roads, roundabouts, wet asphalt, state highways, tunnels, distant and diffuse traffic, parking lots. Some are loopable. 7 of them are in Ambisonics.
43 recordings of cars passes by. In roads, state highways, tunnels, with wet asphalt, from several perspectives and at different speeds.
61 recordings of commuter trains, regional trains, express trains, high speed trains, freight trains, underground. Departures, arrivals, passes by and interior sounds. Even a toilet flushing.
18 tracks of planes overflying and roaring.
Several recordings of buses, trucks, vans, tractors, bicycles, ferries, motorcycles and Formula 1 race cars.
99% of the recordings are completely clear and free from any birds and unwanted noises in the background.
Gear used: Zoom F8, Sennheiser MKH 8040s in ORTF, Sennheiser MKH 8040/8050 + MKH 30 in M/S, Sennheiser 418, Sennheiser Ambeo and Sony D100.
All files are in 96 kHz / 24 bit and come with exhaustive embedded Soundminer metadata, including description, category, subcategory, microphone setup, manufacturer.
• In Metal Corral, get a visceral collection of metallic screeches from a corral on a working cattle ranch. Wail on the paddock sections with a t-post and hear guttural resonances from 50 interlocking sections. Hear latches clacking with frenetic vigor and clanging metallic booms. Hear thick, tonal growls resonating like fog horns and single squeaks stuttering with real grit. Hear gates grating with the visceral sound of an iceberg tearing through the Titanic.
• This library offers you an extensive collection of metals painstakingly performed to bring these inanimate objects to life and transform them into intensely gritty living textures.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased to offset my field recording travel for this library.
KEY FEATURES:
• Grating gates
• Gritty tonal squeals
• Short high squeaks
• Thick, tonal growls
• Clattering latches
• Massive booms
• Please note: the “Pitch Shifted Demo” was made to demonstrate the potential of the sounds in this library. However, Metal Corral does NOT include pitch shifted sounds, only mastered field recordings.
FILE LIST &METADATA:
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• A spectrogram is included for each audio file. Double click on the photo to enlarge.
SCI-FI BUNDLE consists of 4982 high-quality futuristic sound effects and was created with game devs, animators and sounds designers in mind.
Bundle covers a broad range of sound effects: UI/HUD, Robotics, Ambiences, Drones, Weapons, Doors, Objects, Misc and more.
Sound effects from this bundle were used on projects like: Archer Season 10/11/12, Robot Will Protect You, Encodya, Final Space, Soul Tolerance, Ancient Aliens and many more.
PMSFX SCI-FI Bundle consist of following libraries:
FOUNDATION SERIES SCI-FI VOL2
1.1GB • 627 FILES • MONO + STEREO • META DATA (96/24 + 44.1/16)
FOUNDATION SERIES SCI-FI VOL1
739.8MB • 164 FILES • META DATA (96/24 + 44.1/16)
FORGOTTEN NEONS
1.1GB • 415 FILES • META DATA (96/24 + 44.1/16)
ABSTRACT GUNS
86MB • 165 FILES • STEREO • META DATA (96/24 + 44.1/16)
LOFI TERMINAL
157.7MB • 195 FILES • STEREO • META DATA (96/24 + 44.1/16)
SCI-FI ATMOS
1.32GB • 30 FILES • 38MIN • STEREO • META DATA • LOOPS ↻ (96/24 + 44.1/16)
NANO TECH
180MB • 226 FILES • STEREO • META DATA (96/24 + 44.1/16)
MICROBOTS
187MB • 293 FILES • STEREO + MONO • META DATA (96-192/24 + 44.1/16)
CYBERSPHERE
1.14GB • 340 FILES • META DATA (96/24)
SCI-FI MECHANICS
636.6MB • 301 FILES • META DATA (96/24)
SCIFI PASSBY
6.8GB • 742 FILES • META DATA (96/24)
Microbots 2
720MB • 922 FILES • META DATA (96/24)
SCIFI Gunnery
404MB • 580 FILES • META DATA (96/24)
The bell collector sound library is a unique collection of 113 sounds of bells, gong and other metal percussions. These objects have been collected over the years, mainly in Asia, India and Europe.
All these sounds have been recorded and produced with high quality equipment at 24/96 khz at low noise floor.
Each bell, sorted by tonality, comes with many variations of intensity and rhythms.
This sound library offers a wide array of bells, such as:
-Hand bell
-Crotal bell
-Gong bell
-Hand drum
-Sleight bell
-Bicycle bell
-Singing bowl
-Chime
This library provides authentic and interesting sounds, recorded with Neumann and MBHO mics powered by an Aeta 4minX.
Recorded and edited in high resolution, these sounds are easy to pitch down and time stretch to create unique and surprising sounds.
All Faunethic tracks includes metadata carefully edited, compatible with Soundminer, Soundly and Basehead.
More than two years after the release of Binary Code sound library, Sound Response brings you massive (1.5GB in size) second installment – Binary Code 2, with a total of 1000 professionally designed, high quality, futuristic interface and sci-fi computer UI sound effects!
Binary Code 2 is a diverse collection of HUD and UI sound effects separated in eight different categories, that features vast selection of neutral interface hi-tech beeps, bleeps, and button sci-fi sound effects, confirmed (access granted) and negative (access denied) interface sounds, subtle sweeps and smooth futuristic hi-tech hologram sound effects, data processing and readouts, various glitch sound effects, those chirpy 8-bit retro game sounds, and typing sci-fi sound effects! With this large and versatile interface sound effects collection at your disposal you’ll be able to create that sought-after, sophisticated, futuristic sound for your next game, movie, trailer, video, app, music track, or any other project that you’re working on!
Creation of Binary Code 2 sound library involved two months of extensive sound synthesis with synthesizers and usage of noise generators in order to create the necessary source sounds, followed afterwards by hours upon hours of mangling, processing, meticulous editing and fine-tuning.
Binary Code 2 sound library contains 1.57GB (1000 sound effects) of high definition 24bit/96khz Stereo WAV files, embedded with metadata to speed up your workflow, and separated into eight categories.
If you like the sound of Binary Code 2 be sure to check out the most massive and the most diverse interface sound library from Sound Response to this date – Binary Code 3 – Interface Multiverse! The third installment features 1300 (2.3GB) professionally designed, brand new HUD & UI sound effects separated into 10 different categories and it contains everything from neutral beeps & buttons, confirmed (access granted) and negative (access denied) UI sounds, sophisticated holograms & subtle transitions, various glitches, typing sounds, and much more!
Steel Strained Faunethic sound library is a unique collection of 59 sounds of large metal structure under stress and pressure.
This library focuses on the musicality and the tonality of metal material, perfect to add tension and anxiety to your productions.
All these sounds have been recorded and produced with high quality equipment at 24/96 kHz at very low noise floor in nice acoustics.
This sound library offers original audio textures ready to use or to design:
-Metal resonances and vibrations.
-Metal stress, groan and scrape.
-Metal shake.
-Spring rattling and hit.
-Hit and low impact.
-Designed files.
This collection comes in two sections:
-Raw material: construction kit to create and design your own effects. Most of the sounds come with many variations.
-Designed: ready to use sound effects, tonal, scifi, bassy, saturated and modulated.
This library provides authentic and interesting sounds, recorded with Neumann, MBHO and DPA mics powered by an Aeta 4minX.
Recorded and edited in high resolution, these sounds are easy to pitch down and time stretch to create unique and surprising sounds.
All Faunethic tracks include metadata tags carefully edited, compatible with Soundminer, Soundly and Basehead.
Discover the new and complementary opus of Magic Elements sound library!
‘Magic Elements’ is a detailed collection of designed & source sounds of organic elements, actions, characters, items, spells & atmospheres in the realm of Magic.
Volume 2 is complementary to Volume 1 and comes with almost twice the sounds!
The library is meant to be modular: while being ready-to-use, it delivers useful materials and building blocks that will allow you to create your own sounds.
• DESIGNED: (772 SOUNDS)
Volume 2 of this magic saga is comprehensively focused on these 6 elements:
Energy, Liquid, Foliage, White, Cartoon/Anime, and Generic.
Each element comes with a variety of spells, actions/movements such as whoosh, impacts, atmospheres, projectiles, along with many variations in intensity and speed.
All these sounds are carefully designed, edited and meta-tagged.
The ‘generic’ category contains handy neutral go-to sounds that are useful for any project.
The ‘cartoon’ will also work well with anime, & manga.
• SOURCE: (666 SOUNDS)
The source folder is packed with`many useful files that cover a large spectrum; thoroughly edited and meta-tagged. They will support your creativity with materials such as electricity, liquids, foliage, explosion, whoosh, drones, textures, impacts, chimes, … (file list here)
Unique & Useful
This library is made to empower the sound designer’s sonic palette with high quality material but also with unique ‘never heard before’ sound effects.
A godsend for every sound artist, wether you are looking to start off with a magical toolkit, or you want to enrich your collection with new unique sounds!
Mechanical sounds from a classic vintage Studer A-80 reel-to-reel tape machine including switches, motor, magnetic tape, buttons, levers, metal and plastic spools, reels, spin-offs, and more. Full UCS Metadata.
The Porsche Cayenne 4.8 V8 sound library features 58 high quality files recorded with multi mic setup. The engine was recorded in sync with cabin interior ambients, and you’ll find different styles of driving – from casual city driving, through accelerations on a highway up to rpm ramps and constant rpm loops for game audio.
In addition to engine recordings, this sound effects library features exterior passes, whooshes and other road related sounds recorded in mono and stereo. Last but not least, there are foley recordings that covers interior and exterior perspectives of different activities.
This library is quite self explanatory, ” Planes – Takeoffs & Landings ” is a collection of various commercial jets taking off and landing on a runway.
We recorded as close as possible to the airport fences with a multi microphones setup giving you different sonic perspectives.
The “Source” folder contains 130 files corresponding to 34 different recordings :
– AB stereo (LOM Usi)
– Cinela LCR array (Sennheiser MKH8040 ORTF + MKH8050 Center)
– a shotgun mic following the plane (Neumann KMR81)
The “ Designed” folder contains 46 files / 28 processed sounds such as fast jet fly by or sonic boom.
All the files are 96kHz /24bits and embedded with rich metadata ( Soundminer, Basehead, iXML ) .
MAFX019 Volcano is a collection of unique sounds recorded in Ethiopia’s Afar region at Erta Ale volcano. Erta Ale is one of only a handful of volcanoes with lava lakes in the world, situated in the Danakil Depression, one of the hottest and most inhospitable places in the world. The name means Smoking Mountain in the local Afarigna language and Erta Ale does not disappoint in this regard, as you can see in the video. This place is also known as the Gateway to Hell, an appropriate moniker given the 47C/117F temperatures and lots of dead fauna we encountered.
There were only a few lava pits when the library was recorded but plenty of continuous and violent toxic gas releases. Occasionally the ground would move creating low frequency rumbles and debris falling. I had to use a long boompole in order to suspend my trusty MKH8060 over the edge and I improvised a spaced omni array by taping the MikroUsi mics to a video tripod ballhead. The expedition wasn’t 100% risk-free but it was more than worth it for these beautiful sounds.
The Evolved Game Creatures monster sounds collection brings producers and sound designers a versatile and wide-ranging selection of large to medium-sized creature sounds. Includes monster vocalizations and large angry creature sound effects.
Includes over 160 distinctive, immersive, optimized creature sound effects, vocalizations, attacks, sounds of monsters dying, special SFX, growling sounds.
Creating compelling cinematic game characters and outstanding gameplay audio experiences has never been easier. Explore the possibilities for your monster and large creature character sounds thru ten inspiring sound sets in the sound library. Easily outfit mystical creatures, griffins, dinosaurs, and otherworldly critters.
Creature Character List:
Ancient Dragon – (Dinosaur Creature)
Balor – (Supernatural Creature)
Basilisk – (Lizard/Reptile Creature)
Frost Giant – (Large Humanoid Creature)
Kraken – (Water Creature)
Mammoth – (Elephant Creature)
Roc – (Dinosaur Bird Creature)
Sphinx – (Lion/Tiger Creature)
Spider Queen – (Insect Creature)
Treant – (Tree Creature)
Each monster includes multiple attacks, death, pain, special fx, character specific fx and other vocalizations. All Royalty-Free and all files are pre mixed and mastered, optimized in length and file size to reduce game distributions and memory. RTU-OTB
Bowed Cymbal is a collection of 100 bowed cymbal samples using broken cymbals, which gives some very unique tonalities. Also included are 4 sequences designed in 5.1 surround to help spark your creative juices.
This is a unique mini-library of useful rain loops, recorded in various settings, and with different level of intensity.
Get creative or just use them as is. These sounds are a nice companion to have when creating beds for rainy scenes. Evocative, emotional, rich and subtle.
WHAT’S INSIDE:
20 loops of 1 min from which:
10 recorded in real life from around the world
10 designed,
Highly focused and meticulously edited sounds
Perfectly loopeable
Easy and Ready to use in any projects
DIRT BIKES is the most comprehensive and flexible collection of dirt bike sounds squeezed into one single package. Rig your scenes or game vehicles with the crisp, authentic sound from 19 different models, motor categories and perspectives. Hop on and enjoy the ride!
TWO MAIN PERSPECTIVES
DIRT BIKES consists of two main categories: Drive By and Onboard.
Each features its own set of perspectives, models, motor categories and actions.
MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY
To make sure you have everything you need at your disposal, we included over 790 individual files, ranging from 7 to 70 seconds in duration each. Seamlessly blend between different sub perspectives or perfectly stitch different engine sounds together as your scene requires. The crisp, clean recordings of DIRT BIKES make it possible.
Included sounds – keywords:
APPROACH, AWAY, BLIP, CLOSE STEREO, CLOSE TURNING POINT STEREO, CORNERING, DISTANT STEREO, DRIVE BY, ENGINE, FOLLOWING MONO, IDLE, MOTOR, ONBOARD, PASS BY, RAMPS, REV UP, START, STOP
A diverse collection of the most evocative jet recordings I have been able to capture over ten years of recording near airports, airbases, and public flight demonstrations. Every sound is clean and meticulously edited and tagged.
The library includes recordings of the following airplanes:
737
747
747 Dreamlifter (747 Large Cargo Freighter)
777
787 Dreamliner
A-4 Skyhawk
A-10 Thunderbolt II “Warthog”
An-124 Ruslan
AV-8B Harrier II
C-5 Galaxy
C-17 Globemaster III
CM170 Magister
CT-114 Tutor
EA-6B Prowler
EA-18G Growler
F-16 Fighting Falcon
F/A-18 Hornet
HA-200 Saeta
L-29 Delfin
L-39 Albatros
MiG-29 Fulcrum
De Havilland Vampire
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
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Gabriel Guy
Re-recording Mixer, Walt Disney Animation Studios: Frozen, Big Hero 6
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Sound designer: Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit trilogies
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