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Wood Sound Effects The Windmill Play Track 30+ sounds included, 84 mins total $40

The Windmill library gets you rich, organic-sounding recordings of wood, stone and metal. Crunches, grindings, rumbles, rhythm, squeaks, roars, movements, gears – it’s all there, captured in an old windmill.

The library focuses on the sounds of the wings, the main axis, the grindstone, the flour beaters and the global atmosphere – and they’re perfect for sounds of a wooden boat, wagons, structures, ropes etc.

Features both interior and exterior recordings, and gets you more than 1 hour and 20 minutes of atmospheric recordings in total.

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Magic & Fantasy Sound Effects Telepathy Play Track 28 sounds included, 97 mins total $4.50

Created using only a 1975 Fender Telecaster through a 1975 Fender Princeton Reverb (and some effect wizardry), Telepathy is SkewSound’s first drone/mood library.

Creator Steve Pardo paints an ethereal soundscape in this collection of eleven unique pieces. Telepathy will set an ominous, otherworldly mood to whatever you are creating, and we’ve included stems to some of the tracks so you can re-work to your heart’s content. It’s up to you with SkewSound’s Telepathy library.

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Car Sound Effects Race Cars Essential Play Track 29 sounds included $12

Need the sound of fast cars at an affordable price? The Race Cars Essential library features recordings from a 2009 Nissan GTR and a 2007 Lexus IS 350 – approximately 300 MB in total.

Created by Carlo Ascrizzi and Aditya J Yadav

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Human Sound Effects Battle Crowds Bundle Play Track 776 sounds included $295

Coll Anderson ‘s famed Battle Crowds library is the world’s largest collection of battle crowd sound effects, covering huge crowds as they’re deep in battle, celebrating and cheering, screaming, yelling, protesting, begging, crying and much more, as well as troop movements and marching through fields, forests, and around buildings, individual call-outs, marching and more. If you’re looking for the ultimate collection of battle crowd sounds for huge clashes, civil unrest and protests, or smaller skirmishes – captured from multiple perspectives – this is it!

This special version brings you both the Battle Crowds Core and Add-On libraries in one powerful bundle.

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Foley Sound Effects Everyday Life 01 Play Track 531 sounds included $59

There are no sounds like home sounds. Everything from slamming BOOKS and turning pages to sweeping BROOMS, humming DISHWASHERS, and the tinkling of CUTLERY, our EVERYDAY LIFE collection will have your listeners thinking the sounds are coming from the next room.

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Hum, Buzz & Glitch Sound Effects Defect – Hum, Noise and Glitches Play Track 232 sounds included $10
In „DEFECT“ you’ll find a lot of analog noises, electro-magnetic field recordings, and digital

glitches. The sound of malfunction and error. Carefully selected and edited for instant use.

The sources that were used to make this sound effect library include:
- A broken Eurorack Filter Module
- Guitar Distortion Pedals
- Analog Synths and Eurorack Modules
- An Electro Magnetic Field Recorder
- A Telephone Pickup
- A Guitar Pickup
- Various effects
Categorized into 3 Folders (01_Glitches, 02_Noise_and_broken_circuits, 03_EMF) you will find about 225 wav files.

These sounds are made for total sonic mayhem, idea for glitchy video editing and for broken transmission simulation. Video editors, Game Designers and of course Sounddesigners and experimental Musicians will find a lot of useful sounds in „DEFECT“

All Files are provided in 48kHz/24bit
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Destruction & Impact Sounds Space Divers Play Track 1000+ sounds included, 246 mins total $104
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Space Divers library kicks you right into the deep sea and to open space. This special material-resonation-based sound design has been inspired by such movies as Gravity, Interstellar and variety of scuba-diving or submarine movies.

Experience the dark and deep frequencies, vibrating through rusty submarines and errant space shuttles. Listen to your own breath and hollow noises while exploring sea bottom or repairing space-station systems.

Content highlights:
- IMPACTS – from underwater splash to huge shuttle crash
  
  VEHICLE VIBRATIONS – metal and plastic resonations, through air or without
  
  VEHICLE NOISES – including rotating gears
  
  UNDERWATER MOVES – paddle, swim, pass-by…
  
  BREATHING – through different gears and without, underwater and dry
  
  FOOTSTEPS – on different materials, space suit rustle included
  
  MECHANICAL MANIPULATION – click clacks, buttons, handles and much more
  
  TOOLS – grinding and drilling on different materials
  
  UNDERWATER BUBBLES – this category could not be missed, right?
Also available in the LT Underwater Bundle!
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City Life Sound Effects Sirens Play Track 170 sounds included $25

This library delivers a wealth of siren sounds, from police cars, ambulances, fire trucks and more. Features a range of US siren wails and yelps, arrivals, constant wailing and pass-bys, from internal and external perspectives + siren recordings from countries such as Spain, Denmark, Mexico, France and Germany. These sounds are all hand-picked from Sound Ideas General HD and General HD 2 libraries.

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Game Audio Packs - Game Sound Effects Libraries Game Jingles & 8-bit SFX Play Track 174 sounds included $15

This pack consists of 86 Positive/Neutral/Negative Jingles, 29 UI SFXs, 6 Coins SFX, and 53 other SFXs (Consist of impacts, alarm, swells, explosion, and jump sounds!)

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Environments & Ambiences Italian People Play Track 190+ sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$32

Get the voices of Italy in this library, covering Italians in the streets, at concerts, amusement parks, schools, markets, at home and more – it even covers chanting at a gladiator fight at the Colosseum. Features men, women and children – solo and in crowds of various sizes.

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: 73 new sounds just added, bringing the total to 196 sounds included!

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Designed Rocks Play Track 60+ sounds included, 12 mins total $10

Designed Rocks features 60 cinematic rock sound effects, crumbling and cracking elements, shattering glitches, evolving textures, and everything in between, that range from heavily designed to basic sounds.

Designed Rocks includes:

• 60 24bit / 96kHz WAV files / UCS (Universal Category System) Meta-tagged (Soundminer)
• 25 Sequences
• 25 Elements
• 10 Source Recordings

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Drones and Tones Play Track 50+ sounds included $12

Drones and Tones gets you recordings of a brass Tibetan singing bowl – massively processed with granular synthesis for some haunting, otherworldly soundscapes.

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Just Impacts – Extension 1 Play Track 237 sounds included $17.50

The ‘Just Impacts – Extension I’ sound effects library features 237 sound effects of mainly metal and wood impacts, metal armor hits, crashes, door slams, heavy metal drops, shield blocks and metal wall hits.

All sounds are were recorded with RODE NTG-3 and a NT55 microphones into a Sound Devices 702 recorder. Each sound was edited and cleaned, so there’s no noise or other unwanted sounds. The sounds were EQ’ed and compressed for that extra punch.
You can use the sounds right away – no further editing needed. But you could, of course…

All sounds are delivered as BWF tagged, 24Bit, 96kHz wav-files

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Car Sound Effects Ford Prefect Play Track 19 sounds included
Rated 3.00 out of 5
$10

A selection of recordings of a 1960 Ford Prefect, including starts, stops, passes and ride.

The first mini-library from Immersive FX – all you need for a nice old UK car scenario:

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Universal Category System (UCS) Computer & Interface SFX Play Track 650 sounds included $14

Computer Sound FX from SoundBits features 650 computer noises, glitches, digital distortions, stutters, bleeps, signals, interfaces, buttons, loading and feedback

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City Life Sound Effects Hospital Ambiences Play Track 35+ sounds included, 103 mins total From: $50

If you're after hospital sounds, here's a beautiful suite of surround sound hospital ambiences.

Access to hospitals can be tricky. Credentials are required, and different rules must be followed for every step one takes deeper into the building. It's not as simple as just grabbing a rig and walking in the front door.

Our hospital ambiences were recorded during one extensive day long shoot where we were granted access to one of the nation's top medical campuses. There are surprisingly few “hospital machines” making beeping noises at any given location within the building, which gives these sounds the flexibility to be used in any large institutional building.

Both public and non-public areas are covered, including:
– exterior traffic with a helicopter taking off
– large 3 story lobby area
– multiple nurse's stations
– the family waiting room
– the cafeteria
– the pathology lab
– an operating room prep

Each location was recorded in dual MS and decoded using the excellent Schoeps double MS decoding tool.

The end result is an immersive set of recordings that show off the reality of what a hospital really does sound like. Pick up a copy and cover your hospital scenes the right way.

Two versions are available:

Full version:
• 24 bit, 96kHz quadraphonic split wav files
• soundminer and bwav metadata tags
• photography
• 9 Gigabytes of sound
• 103 minutes of sound

Lite version:
• 24 bit, 48kHz stereo interleaved wav files
• soundminer and bwav metadata tags
• photography
• 3.6 Gigabytes of sound
• 103 minutes of sound

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Footsteps Sound Effects Wood Stairs Footwork Play Track 245 sounds included $10

Wood Stairs Footwork by Badlands Sound features footsteps on wooden stairs. A lot of recording and editing has went into every footstep thus each one is its own individual file. You can hear the subtle wooden creaks, pops, and groans of the staircase sometimes before and / or after each step allowing you to time each step perfectly. This sound library was recorded with high quality professional equipment and software including the sound devices 702t, Sennheiser MKH 8040, Pro Tools Ultimate, Izotope RX7 Advance, as well as high quality eq and compressor plug-in’s.

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Electricity Sound Effects Electricity Play Track 392 sounds included, 35 mins total $60

Electricity is a collection of various types of designed electricity sounds using various props and signal processing. No actual electricity was recorded in the creation of this library, its intent is for high intensity and combat electricity sounds that would be difficult to edit with acoustically recorded elements.

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Cat Sound Effects Cat – The Basics Play Track 21 sounds included $15

If you're looking for a cat sound pack that covers all the basics, look no further.

3 cats. 21 sounds. Cherry picked for their versatility and usefulness.
Meows, Growls, Hisses, Purrs, Cries and more…

Meet the beasts:

BOGART
Deep threatening growls and vicious hisses.

JESSICA
Classic meows that fit like a charm.

LUCY
Very versatile meows, cries and purrs.

Want a larger cat pack? Check this out.

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Funny / Comedy / Cartoon Cartoon & Comedy Sounds Play Track 269 sounds included $40

‘Cartoon & Comedy Sounds’ by Cinematic Sound Design features a collection of more than 250 hand-crafted sounds. Designed & recorded at pristine 24 Bit / 96 Khz resolution using the highest quality equipment providing a discrete signal path, these unique sounds are ready to be used within your audio-visual project straight away, 100% Royalty Free.

This collection was designed & recorded using top quality equipment providing a discrete signal path: Sound Devices 702 field recorder, a pair of Neumann KM184 microphones, Access Virus Ti virtual analog synthesiser, DSI Prophet analog synthesiser, Waldorf Pulse 2. We have also used an Apogee Symphony AD/DA for additional processing and routing.

Please note: The background music heard in the product demo is for promotional purposes and is not included in this pack.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Floppy Drives Play Track 655 sounds included $49

The Floppy Drives sound effects library features recordings of seven computer disk drives: two 3.5″ floppy drives, one 5.25″ floppy drive, three Zip drives, and one SuperDisk drive.

All drives were taken apart to access and manipulate the stepper/eject motors to create unique sounds. These range from electronic percussive bleeps and glitchy noises, to electromechanical motor movements.

An Arduino UNO microcontroller board was connected to one of the 3.5″ floppy drives, allowing precise control of the drive’s stepper motor via custom software code. A midi keyboard was interfaced to the system, giving the ability to control the back-and-forth movement of the read/write heads via notes on the keyboard. This essentially turned the drive into an instrument, producing a new set of sounds not existing in the drive’s normal functions.

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Materials & Texture Sound Effects Sand & Granules Play Track 664 sounds included $15.99
Sand & Granules is a sound library containing a variety of granules being poured, handled, and manipulated in various ways.

Includes the sound of:
- Sand
- Dirt
- Rice
- Sugar
- and more!
Features:
- 600+ audio files in 24 bit 96kHz quality
- WAV format
- “Multi” and “One Shot” files provided
- All files are metadata-tagged, allowing for easy searching in sound library management tools
- UCS compliant file naming
- Available for commercial or personal use without attribution
View a summary of included sounds here

View a full list of included files here
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Nature & Countryside Ambiences Summer in The Field – Surround Crickets and Cicadas Play Track 30 sounds included, 103 mins total $40

“Summer in the fields – Crickets and cicadas” is the right Library if you are trying to create a natural sound scenario during the summer.

The library contains over 8.4 GB which exceeds 1.43 hours and a total of 30 files of high-quality material in discrete 5.0 surround format.

Atmospheres ready to be combined with other elements to create the right sound for the image you are working on.

The Library was built in Europe – Italy, in the Lazio countryside. Between the end of May and the beginning of September and the sultry heat is audible in the recordings.

The squealing of cicadas is a fundamental sound element to design the sound of a warm and dry outdoor environment.

At night the crickets are beautiful.
Each place has its crickets that emit sounds at different rates and frequencies.
Agitated, calm, psychedelic, relaxing …
Crickets are a fundamental element to create an emotional night scene.

Other animals are obviously present in the recordings; morning birds, owls, crows, geese, insects and bees, chickens, etc.

The registered natural fields are near lakes, rivers, chicken coops/farms, country houses, woods and cultivated fields.

The large part of the files have not human elements like traffic or agricular sounds, other ones have some distant traffic and are pretty for contemporary countryside.

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Environments & Ambiences Comedy Stand-Up Crowd Play Track 33 sounds included, 4 mins total $14.95

Hi folks and welcome to the Comedy Stand-Up Crowd sound library.

We’re here tonight from Carma Studio delivering you a mini pack of over 30 sounds including laughter, applause, and cheers to add comic relief to any of your production work whenever that comedic moment is desired. Try it out, it’s a laugh!

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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

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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!

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Sound designer:
Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit trilogies

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