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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.
Wonder how it feels to be on board of a future spaceship? This pack guides you to a futuristic enviroment with several 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:
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
This library comprises ambiences recorded from inside a sea shell/conch in various settings as city streets, nature, waves, traffic, walla.
Discover distorted realities from the sea shell, the sounds are filtered, occluded by the natural shell, an organic resonator.
In addition there are few sounds that are created by blowing inside the shell and making a note, which is a traditional Inca instrument (Pututo).
WHAT’S INSIDE:
25 stereo files (15 ambiences + 10 Shell Blowing note)
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.
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.
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!
• 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%
• In Wild Turkeys, get an eccentric collection of exuberant gobbles from a flock of wild turkeys. Hear massive wings swooping in to land like helicopters. Hear antiphonal gobbles between two dueling males. Hear amazingly close vocalizations from a Sony D100 left secretly in the grass mere feet from these delightful wild birds.
• This library offers you an extensive collection of funky mating calls from one of the largest birds in North America. I hope they bring a little joy to your sound design sessions. I can’t listen to them without smiling :)
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.
‘Splash Sound Effects’ from Bluezone contains 98 meticulously recorded sounds in 24 bit / 96 kHz: All samples in this collection are ready to use and perfect for all sound design projects. Easily downloadable and affordable, you can inject these inspirational audio elements into your commercial projects without having to worry about any additional licensing fees. All sound files are named according to their content and sorted thematically: small and classic water splashes, distant perspective, impacts and drops. Note: the background ambience in the demo is not part of the product but is added free of charge.
We recorded tons of different metallic objects like wrenches, cameras, stands, microphones,etc… to create different hits and textures for the Source Material kit, everything was recorded at 192 kHz with the famous Sennheiser MKH 8040/8050 microphones in order to capture all the harmonics up to 50-60 kHz. Then we layered/edited/pitched, crushed them to create the sounds in the Designed folder.
The “Source” folder contains 91 files and hundreds individual sounds divided into these categories:
– Hit
– Scrape
– Screw
– Rattle
– Mech
– Click
– Slide
The “Designed” folder contains 20 files and many more individual sounds, all created from the “Source Material”:
– Silenced/Suppressed shots
– Reload
– Bullets
– Mechanics
– Ejections
The “Synced” folder contains multiple groups of 8 layers + 3 silencers/suppressor, all sync’ed on some of the most common guns rate of fire :
– Ak 47
– M16
– Uzi
– MP5
– M60
– M4
All the sounds are 192 kHz / 24 bits, giving you all the process flexibility you need. Most importantly the files are embedded with exhaustive metadata compatible with Soundminer, Basehead, etc…
This library is perfect to spice up “boring” real life recordings, create a whole new futuristic weapon or just to give that ” Hyper Realistic ” feel to the project you’re working on.
Audi A3 8L 1.9 TDI sound library features 51 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. Last but not least, there are foley recordings that covers interior and exterior perspectives of different activities.
Urban Passes By delivers hundreds of different vehicles passing by in an urban environment, covering all your needs for traffic scenes, especially to edit cars in the background or vehicles passing by your main character’s car during an onboard scene.
No need to search through your numerous traffic recordings to find the one “pass by”, we gathered hundreds of them from very slow to fast, dry cobblestones to very wet asphalt.
This library aims to help sound editors quickly find the whooshin’ vehicles they need, it includes passes by of cars, motorcycles, mopeds, trucks, etc…
All the sounds are 96 kHz / 24 bits and most importantly embedded with exhaustive metadatas for improved search results, including a detailed description, surface type, microphone setup, etc…
Metadata compatible with Soundminer, Basehead, etc…
The “Source” folder contains 337 files corresponding to 183 different recordings with various microphones setups :
– AB
– Cinela LCR array ( ORTF + Center )
– Some sounds are simultaneously recorded from inside and outside a car, giving you extra edit possibilities
The “ Designed” folder contains 59 stereo files with processed sounds such as :
– Interior “whoosh” passes
– Isolated wet asphalt textures
– Resonant bass vehicle textures
This bundle contain 7 horror focused libraries.
You will get a powerful collection of sounds great to induce fear, tension and panic in you horror production.
You will find tense percussive elements, oppressive sounds to evoke the sensation that someone or something is hiding and watching you, sounds with a distorted, saturated and tense feeling to grab people’s attention, zombie style sound effects, mutation sounds for bloody and creepy transformations and digital screams to evoke human sensations in a digital world.
These packs can be a great tool for horror and sci-fi games, movies and trailers.
Packs included:
Affright: A collection of 208 sounds aimed to induce tension, fear and urgency in horror productions. You will find looped percussive elements (clocks, metals, hits, alarms, musical elements and more at 75 bpm), designed rhythmic elements (75 bpm) and fx (atmospheric elements, reverses, noises, risers, drops).
Dare_Small Pack: A small pack of 50 atmospheric elements suited for horror productions to evoke the sensation that someone or something is hiding and watching you.
Distorted Perception: Abnormal melodies, strange sound movements, transitions and distorted cinematic impacts are some of the things you will find in this collection of 146 sfx; sounds with a distorted, saturated and tense feeling to grab people’s attention and provoke fear, tension and suspense in them.
Infected Zone: More than 200 zombie style sound effects. You will find ambiences, drones, musical elements, cinematic impacts, zombie hordes, bites, bone breaks, zombies eating, intestine movements, blood drips, stabs, gunshots, machine guns, vocalizations and more.
Minacious: 369 sounds suited for horror/paranormal productions. If you need to induce tension, fear and oppression in your game, movie or trailer and evoke the sensation that someone or something is hiding and watching you ready to scare or kill, this library full of textures and atmospheric elements is great for you.
Mutation: 200 mutation sound effects aimed to be used in horror/sic-fi productions. The pack is focused on bloody and creepy transformations where you can hear how the flesh, blood and bones of the subject are being transformed and reshaping into something else.
SWAP_Digital Screams: You will find 98 male Digital Screams to evoke human sensations in a digital world. If the character of your game/movie is being plugged-in to a computerized world or suffering pain in this digital terrain, this collection of unique Screams is great for you.
Kyma Ambiences vol.2 follows the traces of the original collection dated back 2013, but this time it’s bigger and immersive. It contains 100 abstract and evolving ambiences created with our beloved Kyma sound design workstation. Due to the increasing demand of spatialized content for game and VR/AR project, this inspiring collection has been entirely designed as a spherical representation of sound natively in 3rd Order Ambisonics by generating all the Sounds in Kyma and mastering them in Pro Tools through a custom analog setup (Looptrotter Sa2Rate+Elysia xfilter 500+TK Audio BC501).
Ambisonics is a multi-channel technology that lets you spherically capture the sound arriving from all directions, at a single point in space. I used state of the art tools to forge these modern and cinematic soundscapes by blending many encoders to inject different colours into the design process. Each virtual 3D sound environment has been carefully constructed by layering and placing Kyma Sounds at different locations in a virtual three dimensional field using the Audio Ease 360 pan suite. I captured real spatial sound with the AMBEO VR Mic to be encoded-transformed-decoded using Kyma Ambisonic Tookit (1st Order) and then up-mixed to 3rd Order with Harpex-X and PerfectSurround Penteo 16 Pro to extract the maximum amount of spatial information.
– Matteo
“Kyma Ambiences – vol.2” is available in three variants:
Stereo Edition:
2 channels interleaved files (100 items)
Size: 3.48 GB
1OA (first-order) B-Format AmbiX:
ACN channel order & SN3D weighting/normalisation: W/Y/Z/X
4 channels interleaved files – ready to use stereo versions are included as well (100 items)
Size: 6.94 GB
3OA (third-order) B-Format AmbiX:
ACN channel order & SN3D weighting/normalisation: W/Y/Z/X/V/T/R/S/U/Q/O/M/K/L/N/P
16 channels interleaved files – ready to use stereo versions are included as well (100 items)
Size: 27.82 GB
If you want to use the 1OA b-format file directly in your VR/AR project, simply keep only the first 4 channels (WYZX) dropping the other ones (TRSUQOMKLNP)
Audio Format: Interleaved Broadcast Wave Files (.wav)
Sample Rate: 96 kHz
Bit Depth: 24-bit
The Hand library gets you sounds of the hand on the body.
Features actions such as rub, scratch, pat, catch, hit, snap, clap, slap, punch, finger, hand check, and hand release.
Actions on the hand, the head, the face, the chest, the wrist, the arm, the back, and the shoulder.
A great collection for close combat for example. All sound are very natural and could be easily post processed for your needs.
Gear used:
Avalon VT 737 • Tube Tech CL1B • MD 441 Sennheiser • Neuman U87 • Sanken Co 100K
The Red Libraries teamed up with Thibault Csukonyi and Frederic Devanlay to create this new collection called Space Battle Artillery – the first in a series of sound libraries offering sounds from a futuristic fight universe.
This first volume, Artillery, is a series of heavy weapons designed for spaceships, vehicles, robots or on a base.
A mix between Sci-Fi and Steam punk, suited for all types of Sci-Fi universes.
• 20 weapons designed with single shots and bursts (Cannons, Rocket launchers, Gun turrets, Lasers)
• Separate components of each each weapon in the form of synchronized layers, allowing you to make up your own creations by interchanging the different layers.
• A toolbox containing textures, servos, mechanisms, impacts and much more items.
Crafted with Kyma, Reaktor, Synths and with Nuendo 10
Toyota Corolla Verso 1.6 sound library features 70 high quality files recorded with multi mic setup.
The engine was recorded in sync with cabin interior ambients, and you can expect different styles of driving. From casual driving, through accelerations 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 like opening and closing doors, seat belt sounds, handbrake and more.
Lamps focuses on the buzzing/humming sound of light bulbs, lamps, fluorescent tubes, you name it… You can find a sound for any electricity driven device you can imagine.
These sounds can be used as pure effects or as a layer in your ambiances/atmos tracks to create a buzzing hallway or even to add tension in a basement scene with a fluorescent tube.
Low humming growls, aggressive and high pitched, glass resonant tubes, tiny filament lamp, fridge style hums,etc…
This library contains 44 designed textures and about 20 source material files with full and detailed metadata embedded ( Soundminer, Basehead, iXML ) , all at 96kHz / 24 bits.
COYOTES 1 – DESCRIPTION:
• In High Desert Ambiences 4: Coyotes, I revisit the place where my field recording journey started: West Texas. On my drive out, a massive wildfire was burning large parts of the Davis Mountains. The day I arrived firefighters were finally able to contain the blaze, but sadly not before 22,000 acres burned. Much of the wildlife is too slow to escape, but luckily one pack of coyotes was fast enough to climb over a ridge. Normally I hear coyotes out in the plains where they love hunting jackrabbits. That night, however, I was recording from the edge of the dead fire. I was stunned to hear howling deep in the valley! The pack had run into the mountains to escape the blaze.
• In this library, hear the angst-ridden vocals of coyotes running to escape a wildfire. Hear the howls and yips of an extremely close pack bouncing from high valley walls. Hear an echo chamber filled with the haunting howls of coyotes who has just had their home burned.
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.
The Complete Collection contains 1582+ sound effects from every sound library that we have released so far. It features Sci-Fi, Fire, Ice, Mecha, Rocks, and Plastic sound effects and field recordings, including ambiences, drones, textures, swooshes / wooshes, impacts, glitches, sequences, and more. Royalty-free.
Included libraries:
There are a lot of door sound libraries but I was missing the key sounds with variations on a project two years ago. After that, I started specifically recording key and lock sounds whenever I heared an interesting door or lid. I tried to capture the four most common performances (put the key in, remove the key, open the lock and close the lock) each at different speed (slow, medium, fast). This is a selection from these recordings. Some are captured in 192kHz with Earthworks QTC 50 to capture high frequencies, waiting to be pitched down several octaves and still remaining crispy.
There are little locks from piggy banks and caskets, wooden cabinets, metal lockers, appartment doors with plastic keys, locks on regular homes and much more.
In addition I added a few key drops on different surfaces (mats, parquet flooring, tiles, concrete…) and jingles.
Quirboilly (cuir bouilli) is in reference to the traditional state of leather before it was commonly worked to produce various components in armor. When you need that extra close, intimate boost to your leather and metal clothing/material Foley, reach for this library. Excellent at grabbing the listener’s attention and really lighting up the brain, these sounds were designed to capture the nuance and detail of various leather textures and items, decorated with metallic accessories and fallalery.
Each item was worked and re-worked in all manners of handling to pull out the crepitation and squeaks, course and fine grains, flops and rigids hits, and plenty of clanks and clacks of rivets, buckles, clasps, and other metal components knocking together. Beyond the many handling sounds, there are specific drops and light impact sounds of two different proximities. As impacts are quite commonly needed for Foley and creative designs, we were sure to capture them for these rich textured leather and metal items.
Chock full of frequency content, take your drama, historic, medieval, armor, 80’s, rockumentary, and all other leather-and-metal-bound projects to the next level.
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