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Environments & Ambiences Hurricane Winds Play Track 38 sounds included, 117 mins total $25

Hurricane Winds features some of the biggest and most violent winds hitting the Danish coastal area in many, many years. Both both interior and exterior recordings are included.

In hindsight, it's been crazy and stupid to be recording at some of these locations, but here they are – three years of unique storm recordings.

Key features of Hurricane Winds:

• 21 tracks of hurricane/storm recordings from a yachting and commercial harbor. Wind screaming as it flies through rigging, wires, masts etc. Plastic covers, structure, flags moving.

• 6 tracks of hurricane/storm in the city. Trees moving, wind howling, small debris passing.

• 2 tracks of storm in the forest. Trees creaking, as wind moves through tree tops.

• 9 tracks of interior recordings. Roof moving, draft from windows. Small debris hitting window.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Wind Turbines Play Track 124 sounds included, 90+ mins total $29

The Wind Turbines library introduces the sounds of fizzling propeller blades, rotating nacelles, humming transformer stations, mysterious drones and other mechanic noises gathered from inside wind turbine towers.

All these specific sounds are complemented by large-field wind farm ambiences.

The library is organised into 7 themes that include takes with a length from 19 seconds to more than 2 minutes.

The Wind Turbines library includes:

Blade Noises • Drones • Nacelle Rotation • Tower Sounds • Transformer Stations • Ventilation • Wind Farm Ambiences

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Quadcopters / Drone Sounds Quadcopter Play Track 38 sounds included, 33 mins total $49

This unique SFX library gets you the close-up engine/rotor sounds of the DJI Phantom 2 multirotor quadcopter. And whether you are working on project that needs the engine sounds of an actual quadcopter drone, or intend to use the recordings as source material for sound design of all kinds of machines – this collection will come in handy:

We recorded static sound perspectives at different speeds, intensities and rotor combinations. The collection includes long recordings at constant speeds, variations on accelerating and decelerating, various maneuvers and random rotor movements.

For even more variety we recorded all of the above with a mix of contact and coil microphones giving you a less realistic, more futuristic sound perspective to the drone’s engine itself, rather than the air movement caused by the rotors. Mix those recordings with the MKH 8040 recordings to create your own blend of engine sounds: be it a drone, spaceship or other types of futuristic vehicles.

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Environments & Ambiences Planets Play Track 20 sounds included, 40 mins total $49

The Planets SFX library delivers 40 minutes of designed atmospheres from 20 imaginary, extraterrestrial locations. Different perspectives, sometimes close to the ground, sometimes far away. Some locations are buzzing with geological and biological activity others seem distant, cold and lifeless. All sounds are constant, ranging from one to three minutes in duration and can be easily combined to create unique variations, allowing you to dial in your own planets soundscape.

Library features:

•Designed planet atmospheres
•20 extraterrestrial locations
•Descriptive filenames
•96 kHz / 24 bit WAV files
•Embedded Soundminer metadata

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Funny / Comedy / Cartoon Laughs Play Track 380 sounds included $69

What’s so funny? This library is!

Featuring 380 files, including a large group of more than 200 people laughing, cheering, applauding and generally having a great time, as well as several smaller groups and individuals laughing.

Fantastic for comedy shows, sitcoms – and anywhere where you need to add the sound of people having some real fun:

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Travel & Transportation Air Travel Play Track 62+ sounds included, 240 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$99

Need the ambience of airports, security areas or on-board a commercial airliner during an international flight?

This library delivers: Getting you 4 hours of crowds and atmospheres recorded at 10 different international airports – and on-board multiple airliners with different seat perspectives in-flight, landing, taxi and crew announcements included.

Update: 16 recordings of 6 new airports now included, as well as two new, long airliner on-board recordings – a total of 1h 23 minutes of additional audio!

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Environments & Ambiences Nature’s Fury: Rain, Wind, Thunder Play Track 197 sounds included, 300 mins total $135

Nature’s Fury: Rain, Wind, Thunder is a massive collection of storm sounds to help you build your environments.

Whether you need a light rain ambience all the way up to heavy rain, howling winds, and cracking and rumbling thunder blowing through your scene – we have you covered. We even isolated some low rumbling thunder to be used in your sound design.

Consider this a storm toolkit that comes with three 4-minute long 5.1 surround designed thunderstorms to get you started!

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Shadowscapes Play Track 100+ sounds included, 148 mins total $69

Join us as we embrace the decay of the human psyche with Shadowscapes. This anxiety-inducing 2.6GB sound effects suite features 100 soundscapes inspired by all things maddening, and is intended to add bleak, atmospheric tension to projects in the horror, sci-fi, fantasy, surrealism and music production.

Come, have a listen to the textures of Shadowscapes and get ready to lead your audience down the path of pure melodic mental mayhem!

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Creature Sound Effects Robot Voices Play Track 1000+ sounds included $66.33

“Robot Voices” is a collection of designed vocal expressions of 50 friendly and very talkative robotic creatures. If Wall-E and R2D2 were throwing a cocktail party this is probably what you would hear! A total of 50 robotic creatures are included.

Robot Voices highlights:

• 50 Robotic creatures speaking
• Many expressions per robot (25 – 65 individual words and sentences for each robot character)
• Descriptive filenames
• Embedded Soundminer metadata

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects unEarthly Ambience Play Track 74 sounds included, 82 mins total $39

UnEarthy Ambience features 74 designed ambiences ranging from eerie organic textures, thick industrial machine rooms, and futuristic sci-fi atmospheres.

Add a polished layer of subtle tension, evolving textures, otherworldly roomtones, complex soundscapes or natural environments twisted into new spaces. UnEarthy Ambience gets you 2.8 GB of dark, futuristic, organic, designed drones and soundscapes from original field recordings and modular synth sampling in total.

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Game Audio Packs 8-Bit Games Play Track 507 sounds included $32.83

Ready for some retro game sounds? The 8-Bit Games SFX library includes more than 500 designed sounds and music elements, paying homage to the sonic world of Tetris, Super Mario, Space Invaders and other classics.

Authentic 8-bit blips, explosions, hits, jumps, lasers, coins, power-ups, and many other sound effects and music elements will cover your retro gaming needs. All sounds delivered as single files in 48 kHz / 16 bit WAV format with embedded Soundminer metadata.

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Car Sound Effects Everyday Cars Play Track 1250+ sounds included $309

Buckle up for 20+ gigabytes of high quality car sound effects. 10 everyday cars. Drive-bys, handling sounds, ignitions, honks, engines, doors and trunks. Get this SFX library and you will no longer look for high quality sounds of everyday cars.

We completely wired 10 everyday cars, rented a super-quiet test track for our recordings and are now proud to deliver really great and pristine long takes of drive-bys, car engine sounds, exhaust sounds and stereo interior recordings. We also give you a great selection of close handling sounds like switches, indicators, ventilation, handbrakes, basically everything we could find.

Cars Included:

• Mercedes Benz 300SE 3.0 (1991) – gasoline
• BMW 318i 1.8 (1991) – gasoline
• VW Polo 6N1 (1996) – gasoline
• Peugeot 307 SW (2004) – gasoline
• Subaru Forester 2.5 XS (2006) – gasoline
• Opel Corsa C 1.4 (2007) – gasoline
• Audi A3 (2007) – gasoline
• BMW 1 series (2009) – gasoline
• Fiat Panda 1.2 (2011) – gasoline
• Audi A5 3.0 TDI V6 (2011) – diesel

All files contain extensive metadata to provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible.

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Weapon Sound Effects Black Powder Play Track 72 sounds included $65

This library makes the walls shake! Massive cannon shots, ancient hand mortars and large saluting guns let you revive the old days of gun battles.

You're looking for a huge cannon shot to end a sea fight? That big explosion at the end of the movie is missing that one amazing crispy impact sound?

Use BLACK POWDER and your search is over!

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Environments & Ambiences Middle Eastern Ambiences Play Track 56 sounds included, 90 mins total $70

A collection of stereo urban ambiences, recorded in Cairo and Dubai, where you’ll find traffic, Arabic walla, and the Call to Prayer.

From the Spice Souk in Dubai to the back alleys of Studio Galal in Cairo, something is always moving.

The collection comes with over 50 files, ranging from 21 seconds to nearly 11 minutes in length, for a total of 90 minutes of unique ambiences to put you in the “Cradle of Civilization.”

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Sinematic Play Track 500+ sounds included $99

Introducing SoundMorph’s Sinematic – a sound pack featuring cutting edge impacts, stutters, sub sonic bass, mega horns, stingers, risers, whooshs, bowed cymbals, and source recordings.

Get this collection of cinematic sounds to cater to the most modern and cutting edge productions out there.

Sinematic Highlights:

• Stutter Risers
• Sub Sonic Bass
• Mega Horns
• Hits and Impacts
• Stingers
• Risers
• Simple Design
• Statics
• Whoosh Bys
• Bowed Cymbals
• Raw Source Recordings

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Farm & Horse Sound Effects Horses Play Track 340+ sounds included $199

Knights, the Cavalry, the Three Musketeers, Cowboys, Indians, Arnold Schwarzenegger in TRUE LIES: The cool guys sit on horses.

Bring these animals to vibrant life with our extensive HORSES SFX library.

You get 9 GB of high quality and royalty free SFX of countless horse voices, a mass of Foley sounds, pass-bys and steps in various gaits and different surfaces.

The Horses library just received a 4.8/5 rating at The Audio Spotlight!

Horses SFX library highlight:

• Library ships in 96/192 kHz, 24-bit High Definition Audio
• 9 GB of MOVEMENTS, HORSE VOICES & FOLEY
• Playable KONTAKT 5 instrument for horse steps
• Effective workflow: well-grounded Soundminer Metadata

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Wild Animals Sound Effects Wildcats – Tigers & Lions Play Track 928 sounds included $199

Need massive sounds of lions and tigers? This library features over 3.4 GB of growls, sniffs, snarls, mating calls, moans and incredible roars. The library features a single lion, lioness, groups of lions, a tiger, and cougars.

Use this library as a complete animal SFX library for all sounds related to big wildcats – or as a source for building amazing creature sounds.

Make your mixing room shake with these huge sounds!

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Firearms Sound Effects Assault Weapons Play Track 1200 sounds included From: $135

ASSAULT WEAPONS is a strong pack of 25 different weapons captured in 96kHz/24bit audio. A heavy arsenal of sounds for a myriad of purposes: sniper rifles, submachine and machine guns, assault rifles, anti-materiel rifles, grenade launcher recordings and more!

The ASSAULT WEAPONS pack delivers weapon sounds for every kind of setting and size needed, whether it's for single shots or some massive, heavy gunfire.

The DESIGNED versions is packed with more than 2GB of pre-designed, ready-to-use HD-Sounds that will instantly work in your project – perfect for tight deadlines.

The CONSTRUCTION KIT provides you with more than 14GB of plain source recordings, including 18-channel multitrack recordings, impulse responses for easy environment placing and some sweeteners like mechanics, bullet impacts and gun tails.

The BUNDLE features both versions above at a discounted price.

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Industrial Ambiences Industrial Ambiences – Night & Day Disquiet Play Track 53 sounds included $75

Industrial Ambiences – perfect for realistic industrial settings, adjacent to factories, dockyards, warehouses. Subtle intricate backgrounds, eerie man-made areas and horror ambiences. All files at least four minutes in length.

Industrial Disquiet highlights:

• 53 Tracks Total (25 Day time Tracks, 28 Night time Tracks)
• High Resolution Photographs of Recording Locations Included
• Thorough UCS compatible metadata included in all files
• All tracks recorded and edited at 24bit, 96kHz
• Each Track around 4 Minutes in Length
• 6.9 GB compressed download, 7.5 GB uncompressed

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Environments & Ambiences Wild Montana Winter Play Track 50+ sounds included, 69 mins total $49

Gathering clean nature recordings without man-made noise is becoming difficult in today's world due to human expansion and modern technology. Wild Montana Winter captures over an hour of material featuring the unpolluted sonic landscapes around Lost Trail National Wildlife Refuge. The exquisite sounds of the wild are delivered to you in 24 bit, 96khz audio quality to detail the beauty of natural phenomenon occurring in the desolate terrain. Well-grounded metadata is added to help you to easily navigate through this natural collection of sounds. Frozen. Vast. Untamed.

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Game Audio Packs Board Game SFX Play Track 672 sounds included $15

The Board Game SFX library features a large collection of board and tabletop game pieces on a variety of different surfaces.

Perfect for casual game sound design, UI elements, foley etc – and it’s a brilliant addition to any game audio creator’s sonic arsenal.

Piece types:

• Playing card • Coin • Felt bottomed chess piece • Glass marble • Go container (container of many small plastic pieces) • Leather bag (containing mixed small game pieces) • Metal game piece • Metal dice • Plastic game piece • Plastic dice • Poker chip • Wooden game piece • Wooden block

Surface Types:

• Wooden board • Card game board (e.g. Monopoly board) • Felt table (e.g. Poker table) • Glass table

Each collision type has around 5-15 variations and all in all the library contains 672 individual hits.

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Rock / Stone Sound Effects ROCK & Roll: Impacts/Debris Play Track 300+ sounds included $45

Need rock impacts or dirt debris for your projects? Then you're in luck:

This library offers rock impacts on iron/metal, wood, concrete + dirt & pebble debris – more than 300 files total.

Here's what you get:

• 84 files: Rocks rolling down hill
• 55 files: Concrete impacts on rock
• 37 files: Rock impacts on iron/metal
• 96 files: Rock impacts on wood (48 mono files Mkh416, and 48 mono files of Mkh8020)
• 103 files: Dirt/pebbles/bark debris impacts on Rock/wood/ground. Long rains, and short impacts

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Ship Sound Effects Boats 1: Ferry Play Track 47 sounds included $25

Vehicles: Boats 1: Ferry Sound FX is a sound library of three types of ferry boats: a 7-ton, 12,000 horsepower car and passenger ferry, a 400-person SeaBus ferry, and a small 12-person AquaBus ferry.

This collection highlights field recordings captured while riding the vehicles. There are a variety of tracks from holds and positions on the boats: upper, lower, and mid-holds, as well as recordings at the prow and stern. These tones can also work as industrial tones as well. This boat sound library also includes maneuvering and bow wash tracks. Includes over 15 fields of Soundminer metadata.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Bowed Cymbals Play Track 49 sounds included $25

Bowed cymbals are one of those sound effects that just never get old.

Perhaps it's the chilling sound of bow on bronze that puts us on the edge of our seat that we love so much. Or maybe it's the hauntingly beautiful tones that ring from a large ride cymbal with a large bow.

Add some real bronze to your project today:

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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

A Sound Effect is a great asset to have discovered.

We found the site very easy to navigate, purchasing and downloads were effortless and the effects themselves are awesome! Asbjoern has done us all a great service.

We’ll definitely be back!

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!

A Sound Effect is a great hub, and is one of the first places I visit to look for sounds by category or genre. I started coming here to see if I could find libraries that I knew I had heard, but forgot WHERE I had heard them.

And in the process discovered libraries I never would have found otherwise. Great work! Keep it up!

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Sound designer:
Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit trilogies

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The purchase experience is really smooth and quick, and delivery is almost instant.

I'll definitely come back to them again in the future!

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Director, Digital - Source Sound Inc.

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