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Need crunchy, creaking, crackling sounds of ice cubes? This library delivers 98 sounds of ice creaking, ice cubes clinking and squeaking, ice moving, melting ice, and many other really cold sound effects in 24bit / 96 kHz quality.
PROJECTOR | A thorough sound collection of film projection equipment.
Power switches and breakers, buttons and catches, shunts and clunks from many sources including 35mm lens turrets, powering up and down processes, threading up 35mm and 16mm film projectors by experienced projectionists, extraction fans, intermittent sprocket clicks and errors, film handling and splicing, operational projection room ambiences and many more.
All sounds are royalty free and equipped with comprehensive Soundminer metadata for rapid access.
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The LAX Aircraft library features descending aircraft flyovers at Los Angeles International Airport. One advantage of LAX is that it’s nestled in the city, making it easy to stand directly under very low flying airplanes to capture a great sound.
A range of aircraft was recorded for this release, including the Airbus A330, Boeing 737, 747, and Bombardier 800.
Two different microphone positions were used: One facing the oncoming aircraft, and the other pointing in the opposite direction to capture the flyover and further decent as the aircraft lands.
Get the sounds of the classic 1970’s era Roland Space Echo RE-201 – captured in high resolution audio.
75 samples are included in this library, featuring a wide range of sounds emitted from a mint condition RE-201. The samples are collected from the space echo self oscillation, as well the triggered delay from various sound sources. Use these samples for the classic Space Echo sound or chop up and manipulate them for new sound creation/design.
A selection of recordings of things that go clunk, click, or creak! Switches, Doors, Latches, Bolts, Mechanisms, Creaky Metal and more.
The ‘Footsteps Bundle’ combines ‘Footsteps One‘ and ‘Footsteps Two‘ libraries together and brings you over 3800+ high quality footstep sounds on 19 unique surfaces to enrich the audio of your next project.
Dirt • Dry Sand • Dry Swamp • Forest Plain • Forest Plain II • Frozen Stairs • Grass • Grass Long • Grass Short • Gravel • Pine Needle Ground • Snow Deep • Snow Packed • Snow Scrape • Water Deep • Water Shallow • Wet Swamp • Wood Scrap • Wooden Stairs
The second library in the ‘Footsteps’ series brings you even more of those high quality footstep sounds on unique surfaces to enrich the audio of your next project.
‘Footsteps Two’ nicely compliments the ‘Footsteps One‘ library by adding 10 new unique surfaces that were recorded in quiet rural locations in Northern Finland with a Sony D100 handheld recorder.
Surfaces included:
Dirt • Dry Sand • Dry Swamp • Forest Plain II • Grass Long • Grass Short • Water Deep • Water Shallow • Wet Swamp • Wooden Stairs
Each surface comes at least with walk, scuff and stomp sounds with a lot of variations.
These sounds are very useful in more ways than just using them as footstep sounds. For example the wet swamp sounds are full of gurgles and squishes that will definitely add that special flavour to your gore and horror sounds.
You get the sounds in two formats: 96 kHz, 24 bit and in 44.1 KHz, 16 bit, for more convenient ways of utilizing the sounds in games and other media.
Don’t forget to check out the ‘Footsteps Bundle’ which gives you both of the libraries with a special bundle discount price!
Get almost 2.4 GB of loud, lively recordings of modern construction sites in Construction Ambiances. All files are UCS-compliant.
This sound effects collection is packed with clean, ambient recordings of excavators, trucks, cranes, pile-drivers, drilling concrete, cutting re-bar, shoveling rubble, etc, etc. Recorded in Denmark, but with intelligible Danish words edited out, so should be very clean. Many individual sounds are over 3 minutes in length and recorded from more than one perspective, giving you more flexibility in your productions.
You get:
• Clean, lively ambient recordings of construction sites – internal and external
• Bonus pile-driver recordings!
• UCS-compliant, searchable file names
• BWAV metadata embedded with even more included in CSV and ODS (OpenOffice) formats
Get the sound of the Baltic Sea with this sound effect library recorded in Poland, featuring both location sound and additional foley, including walking, running in the water and swimming. The Baltic Sea is located in Northern Europe, and is surrounded by Scandinavia, Finland, the Baltic countries, and the North European Plain.
A total of 153 minutes of ocean and water foley sounds are included in this atmospheric SFX library.
Updated version:
This sound library was updated with 37 additional files of waves crushing on the shore and rocks during different weather conditions. It was recorded with various stereo configurations like stereo XY, ORTF, MS and Sony PCM-M10.
Woodland Atmosphere is a collection of clean and immersive natural ambiences recorded in forests around Europe by George Vlad. The library is updated with new content on a regular basis, all free for existing users.
Get more than 5 hours of pristine nature recordings and birdsong with this SFX library:
Get the sounds and ambiences of London: Here are 101 authentic recordings from the English capital.
Featuring crowd sounds, traffic, general ambience, underground / tube, church bells, emergency and much more, this library is the perfect backdrop to any film / theatre project in need of that lively, living city sound. Detailed file names plus Soundminer, ID3 v2.3.0 and RIFF INFO metadata embedded.
In total, this library gets you more than 4 hours of atmospheric London sounds!
Sounds captured at famous (and some not-so-famous) London locations and landmarks such as:
Alexandra Palace • Borough Market • Bricklayers Arms • British National Gallery • Buckingham Palace • Cardington Street • Carnaby Street • Chelsea Wharf • China Town • Courtyard Gallery • Covent Garden • Euston Station • Festival Pier • Gough Square Warwick Court • Greenwich Foot Tunnel • Hyde Park • Islington Green • Joseph Grimaldi Park • King’s Cross underground station • London Eye • London Underground • Old Compton Street • Palladium Theatre • Piccadilly Circus • Pubs around London • River Thames • Royal Horticultural Halls • Seven Dials • Shaftesbury Avenue • Soho • Somerset House • Southbank • Southbank Skatepark • Southbank Tower • Southwark Street • St Paul’s Church gardens • The Strand • Theatre Royal • Trafalgar Square • Warwick Court • West End • Whitechapel
A special bundle opportunity:
Get this library on its own – or get the special bundle featuring both Sounds & Ambiences Of London Vol 1 and Vol 2 at an excellent price, for more than 590 minutes of signature London sounds
If you’re after household sound effects, this pack delivers an absolutely huge selection. More than 2500 sounds are included, and the library features recordings from places like a domestic kitchen, bathroom, office, as well as tools, gadgets, remote control cars and lots more.
Get the authentic sounds of a Volkswagen Golf II 1.6 Diesel – around 2.5 hours in total!
It comes with engine recordings from both the outside and inside, passby sounds, foley and interior sounds. The engine sounds were recorded during regular driving for film usage, and it was driven in a more demanding way – with steady RPMs and slow accelerations – for game implementation. All files are tagged with Soundminer metadata, for quick and easy access. So when you need the sounds of an everyday car, this library gets you 152 minutes of exactly that. As a bonus, there are sounds of tyres during sudden braking at very high speeds.
Get the sounds and ambiences of Jamaica in this very special sound effects library, featuring 4 hours of authentic recordings.
Recorded over three years, the Jamaican Vibrations SFX library includes walla sounds of Jamaican patois chatting, urban and village ambiences, high mountain atmospheres, forest sounds, car rides, coffee farm working sounds, wooden house sounds, Beaches, as well as cooking sounds from a wooden house kitchen. So if you’re looking for the real sounds of Jamaica, here they are:
The second library in the ‘Glassware Resonance’ series brings you more high quality glass ring and clink sounds to enrich the audio of your next project.
‘Glassware Resonance Two’ nicely compliments the first ‘Glassware Resonance‘ library by adding 22 new glass objects – closely recorded in a quiet room with the Sony D100 handheld recorder.
These sounds are really useful when you want to add that high-frequency impact layer to your user interface elements, or even experiment with the tail sounds to create otherworldly drone ambiences.
You get the sounds in both 24 bit / 96kHz + in 16 bit / 44 kHz for more convenient ways of utilizing the sounds in games and other media.
Don’t forget to check out the ‘Glassware Resonance Bundle’ which gives you both of the libraries with a special bundle discount price!
Looking for closely recorded high quality bumblebee sounds? Want to get the special buzzing sound that a bumblebee makes to loosen the pollen from the flower bud?
The ‘Bumblebee’ library provides you with the buzz and hum sounds of active bumblebees flying from flower to flower, gathering pollen. The library was recorded in a rural location in Northern Finland with a Sony D100 handheld recorder.
You get the sounds in two formats: 96 KHz 24 bit and in 44.1 KHz 16 bit, for more convenient ways of utilizing the sounds in games and other media.
Brand New Sci-Fi Ambiences from The Library by Empty Sea. 6+ GB, 150+ sounds, almost 3 hours of material, all 96k, all looped for easy use.
As you’ve probably guessed from the title, this SFX library is all about metal chain sound effects. Various sizes of chains were pulled, dropped, shaken, rattled, whipped, hung, dangled and jingled.
These sounds could come in handy for a wide range of purposes like morning star swings / whips, coin ringing, chain metal armor movements, hoists, addons for footstep movements and many more.
So if you’re after any kind of metal chain sounds, this SFX library is one to get!
Ready for some hard-hitting punch sounds? This combat sound library from The Sound Keeper is sure to leave a mark! When reviewed in The Audio Spotlight, the quality was described as staggering. The Punch library is available in available in three versions:
Key features:
• Most Extensive Punch Library on the market
• 750+ Sounds
• Punches, Kicks, Hits, Grabs, Blocks and Whooshes
• Processed “Hollywood” Punches including:
– Classic Style (Indiana Jones, Bruce Lee, etc.)
– Matrix Style
– Modern Style (John Wick, Daredevil. etc.)
– And Much More!
• Processed Element Sounds
• The Processed “Hollywood” punches broken down into individual elements so you can mix and match for creative freedom!
• Raw Unprocessed Sounds
• New David Morgan Indy Whip Recordings
• All files at 96Khz, 24 bit
• Metadata included for programs like Soundminer
Key features:
• Includes only designed sounds and designed elements
• 250+ Sounds
• Punches, Kicks, Blocks, Impacts, Grabs and Whooshes
• All files at 96Khz, 24 bit
• Metadata included for programs like Soundminer
Key features:
• Includes only Raw Unprocessed Sounds
• 450+ Sounds
• Punches, Kicks, Blocks, Impacts, Grabs and Whooshes
• All files at 96Khz, 24 bit
• Metadata included for programs like Soundminer
The Lethal Energies sound effects library gets you a powerful and versatile collection of designed sci-fi guns and weapons. We work as game sound designers and are huge sci-fi fans, and our aim with this SFX library was to build the ultimate, self-contained sci-fi weapon library – in the sense that it includes everything you need to create powerful weapon sounds.
It comes with a range of designed weapons, divided into Light, Medium and Heavy weapon categories. Also included in the library are weapon construction kit sound effects like aiming sounds, laser blaster shots, shot punches, electricity sounds, foley sounds, force fields, sensors, servos, transitions and more.
Rhythmical, wobbly percussive strikes from a range of liquid-filled jars and mallets.
Get the powerful sounds of Mustang Dragster Cars in this sound effect library by Watson Wu. It gets you 25 recordings of both classic and modern Ford Mustang passbys at a 1/4 mile race track.Update: Now includes metadata
GAF SFX02 – Cartoon Materials is a sound effects library dedicated to cartoon Foley sounds.
Recorded by talented sound designers Marie Doyeux & Arnaud Roy, with high experience in the animation industry (animation series, short and long films), this library is a must have for anyone dealing with cartoon sounds! If you are fed up with the overused old cartoon sound libraries from the 80s, it is time to refresh your assets with these 2,68 Go of 352 wav files, containing more than two thousands cartoon SFX recorded in 96KHz, 24bit in our studios, with top end gear (Focusrite preamp, 4041 DPA and Shoeps MK4 microphones.
The Cartoon Materials SFX library contains everything from balloons, creaks, squeaks, skids, springs and slide whistles to toys, boings, pops, gurgles, crazy impacts – and much more!
Nb Files: 352 wavs
Nb SFX: 2059
Size: 2,68Go (zip archive of 1,64Go)
UCS Naming and Classification
G4F SFX03 – Small Crowds Outdoor is a sound effects library dedicated to outdoor voice samples, recorded with small audiences (from solos to 15 actors).
If you are looking for outdoor crowds with a sizable audience, then this library will definitely help.
Nb Files: 621 wavs (207 files with 3 different mic placements and setups : MS near, MS far, ORTF rear) which bring a total flexibility to the sound editor for a final mixdown in stereo, quad, 5.1 etc…
Nb SFX: 1947 (649 SFX in 3 placements each)
Size: 4,38Go (zip archive of 2,90Go)
UCS Naming and Classification
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