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Tanks & Artillery Sounds Tanks and Jet Play Track 30+ sounds included, 34 mins total
Rated 4.00 out of 5
$25

Tanks and jet was recorded during a real military drill in Sweden featuring a variety of tanks, and a JAS 39 Gripen.

From the creaking and clanking of the tanks to the glorious and soaring JAS, and all the way to the brutal tank cannon and machine guns. This pack contains all ingredients for nasty machine warfare. All of the files were recorded during a military drill performed in front of a live audience.

All files are meta-data tagged with keywords and a description.

Tanks and Jet includes:

• Tank Driving (18 files, 18:22 in duration)
• Tank Battle (7 files, 04:27 in duration)
• Jas Gripen Flyover (7 files, 12:09 in duration)

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Environments & Ambiences Ocean Ambience: Rocky Coastline, vol 1 Play Track 50+ sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$39

This library delivers a diverse collection of waves on rugged beaches; crashes on boulders, churns in stone basins, sizzles on pebbles, gentle laps in coves, and trickles in tidepools.

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Sports Sound Effects Essential – Football Stadium Crowds Play Track 53 sounds included, 64 mins total $45

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Welcome to the Essential Stadium Crowd sound effects library: All the crowds, back room ambience and practice tracks were recorded at the Phoenix Cardinals Stadium, pre/during and post game. I had the opportunity to have a press pass and free reign in the stadium.

Some of the recordings were recorded way up high in the upper bleachers, and some behind the end zones, as well as other interesting places. There are significant differences in the locations and the ‘thickness’ of the crowds. With this library, you should be able to fill out any sort of large sports arena ambience, as I’ve edited out most of the PA Announcer to give more of a general stadium feel that could be anywhere, and any major arena sporting event. The PA that is left in can easily be edited out.

All the sounds were mastered in Pro Tools, with very transparent processing going on. My signal chain consisted of a C4 Compressor, DMG Equality EQ, and a L1 Limiter. All reverb is natural.

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Travel & Transportation Brazilian Airports & Plane Journeys Play Track 14+ sounds included, 127 mins total $49

Brazillian Airports & Plane Journeys is a comprehensive collection of various ambiences and environments. All of the main areas of the airports are covered, including check-in, baggage check, food halls and departure gates. In addition to this, all of the major interior plane phenomena such as coasting, take off, landing and in flight are also included.

The majority of sound files in the library are over ten minutes in length, giving you a huge pool to source your audio from.

With Brazilian Airports & Plane Journeys you will never be left wanting for airport or passenger ambiences again.

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Materials & Texture Sound Effects Water Volumes Play Track 335+ sounds included, 74 mins total $40

The Water Volumes SFX library gets you over 300 sounds of natural hot-springs, bubbles, and liquids of various densities boiling under the effect of dry ice.

A large amount of content was recorded during two weeks spent in the city of Furnas, Azores, where volcanic hot-springs of all kinds are active. Other recordings were gathered with the use of dry ice.
Most recordings will contain energy up to 96 KHz as they were recorded with a Sanken CO-100K at a 192KHz sample rate. Others were gathered with the use of an Acquarian H2A, Sennheiser MKH8040, 416, a Sony D100 and a Tascam DR-05.

The collection was recorded over a trip to Sao Miguel, Azores, and several other recording sessions in the UK.

Bonus: Two extra libraries included for free: This library also includes two additional releases from Mattia Cellotto - for free: Crunch Mode delivers 230 crunchy sounds made with a variety of vegetables, fresh bread, pizza crust and a selection of frozen goods. The Borax Experiment gets you 158 squishy, gory, slimy and gooey sounds.

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Sports Sound Effects Basketball Game Ultra Play Track 334 sounds included $59
Basketball Game Ultra is a huge sound effects library for, well, basketball. It includes both an international match field recording (with over 5,000 people attending the game) and isolated sounds of backboard hoops, basket swish nets, metal bars, shoe squeaks and dribbles on various hard surfaces, as well as other related sounds – all performed by a professional basketball player in indoor and outdoor courts as well as inside the studio.

Οur aim with this collection is to give you choices to:
- Create realistic soundscapes of world class basketball games or other sports events
- Design from scratch your own unique sound frames
- Foley the character in your audiovisual production
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Mechanical Sound Effects Inner Ambience Play Track 60 sounds included, 85 mins total $33

The Inner ambience sound effects library is a collection of high definition sounds recorded inside various spaces using matched stereo contact microphones.
Each ambience has its own unique character and natural frequency modulation.

Some of them has constant velocity like an industrial hum, power block energy field, fans and compressors, while others have weird fluctuations like road columns affected by wind and passing-by cars, bridge columns, fences, water pipes: some of the mechanical and electrical sequences were recorded as well, such as water pump, lawn mowers, automatic window rollers, pool cover mechanism and others.

The audio files could be used, as they are – for dark, eerie, confusing atmospheres or elements in your game or film projects.

It is a good source for further manipulation and designing new sounds as it is recorded in 24/96. In addition to the pack there are designed sounds of these recordings to give you an idea of how you can push them in a different creative way and of course use it in your projects as well.

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Firearms Sound Effects Gun Sound Pack Play Track 416 sounds included $15

Gun Sound Pack contains 266 gun sound effects. Guns included: Pistol, Revolver Pistol, Shotgun, Rifle, Sniper Rifle, Semi-Auto Rifle, Sub-Machine gun, Machine gun.

A perfect collection of gun sounds suitable for all types of sound designers, video editors, game developers or anyone who needs a large range of high quality gun sound effects ready to use out-of-the-box. Designed specifically for games, video and other media by award winning sound designers.

This pack also includes a variety of 150 bonus sounds effects from our full library Pro Sound Collection.

Note that ALL sounds from this package Gun Sound Pack are already included in our other premium sound packages Pro Sound Collection and WARFARE SOUNDS. So if you need more sounds including: ambiences, bullets impacts/flybys, explosions, footsteps, silenced guns and other additional weapons, death screams and MANY MORE. Be sure to check out Pro Sound Collection and WARFARE SOUNDS before purchase.

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Metal Sound Effects Metal Contact Play Track 136+ sounds included, 230 mins total $24

The Metal Contact sound library features the recordings of various metal surfaces tortured with different tools. From touching things with fingers, through hitting with metal bars and up to using blenders or magnets to cause the materials to resonate.

While recording this library my goal was to cover different needs, not only for sound designers but also editors. Scrapes and squeaks were recorded with different intensity and speeds, just like the impacts. From soft and quiet, through medium up to loud and reverberant ones.

In addition to the regular approach of just touching, hitting and scraping metal parts, I’ve decided to record few experimental sound effects. Listening to the tons of water flowing through a dam, by sticking the microphones to the building’s wall? You got it. Messing with guitar strings using a blender and magnets? It’s here. Throwing coins and different metal parts inside cast iron cooking dish? No problem!

Includes recordings such as:

Different lids, cast iron dishes, metal pots, baking forms and sheets, bullet catcher, different boxes, cooking oven, sinks, fan, pans, grills, coins, small tools, different jugs, electric guitar, buckets, washing machine, metal parts, old doors and walls, road sign, handrails, cages and much more.

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Bird Sound Effects Birds Extension Play Track 20-61 sounds included From: $21

Get the sounds of exotic birds – a huge collection of seagull recordings – with the Birds Extension SFX library:

The Birds Extension Pack

This collection of sounds contains a nice variety of birds: 18 different species spread across 41 audio tracks – including Chachalaca, Great Kiskadee, Crow, Goose, Great-tailed Grackle, Hen, Macaw Parrot, Magpie, Motmot Turquoise Sourcils, Nestor Kea Parrot, Peacock, Rooster, Snow Owl, Yucatan Woodpecker and more. The sounds have been recorded in Mexico, Finland and France. Seagulls available in a separate pack.

The sounds have been recorded in 24bit / 96 kHz Stereo or Mono, the Mono tracks have been recorded with a wide-frequency response microphone (30 Hz to 50 KHz).

Library specs: 41 tracks mono or stereo (mostly stereo) • 949 MB • 29 minutes total

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Chachalaca Group Scream (1:13)
Crow 1 (1:12)
Crow 2 (0:23)
Crow 3 (0:06)
Crow 4 (0:02)
Crow 5 (0:03)
Crow 6 (0:02)
Crow 7 (0:01)
Goose Finland (0:12)
Great Curassow (0:09)
Great Kiskadee 1 (0:14)
Great Kiskadee 2 (1:18)
Great Kiskadee 3 (2:41)
Great Tailed Grackle, misc Yucatan exotic birds in background 1 (1:06)
Great Tailed Grackle, misc Yucatan exotic birds in background 2 (0:14)
Great Tailed Grackle, misc Yucatan exotic birds in background 3 (1:18)
Great Tailed Grackle, misc Yucatan exotic birds in background 4 (0:10)
Great Tailed Grackle, misc Yucatan exotic birds in background 5 (2:04)
Great Tailed Grackle, misc Yucatan exotic birds in background 6 (3:17)
Hen 1 (0:40)
Hen 2 (1:05)
Hen 3 (0:36)
Hen 4 (0:38)
Macaw Parrot (1:41)
Magpie (1:03)
Misc Finland (0:19)
Misc Yucatan birds 1 (0:22)
Misc Yucatan birds 2 (1:03)
Motmot Turquoise Sourcils (0:30)
Nestor Kea Parrot (0:28)
Parakeets (1:00)
Peacock Female 1 (1:13)
Peacock Female 2 (0:36)
Rooster 1 (0:47)
Rooster 2 (0:06)
Rooster 3 (0:13)
Rooster 4 (0:09)
Snow Owl France 1 (0:05)
Snow Owl France 2 (0:15)
Woodpecker (0:22)
Yucatan Woodpecker Grackle in background (0:18)

The Birds Extension Seagulls pack

This collection of sounds contains 20 seagull tracks, and a nice Tern close-up recording. You will find a nice variety of seagulls vocalizations such as calls, scream, screeches. Some single close-up recordings and some large group recordings. All the sounds have been recorded in Finland and France.

The sounds have been recorded in 24bit / 96 kHz Stereo or Mono, the Mono tracks have been recorded with a wide-frequency response microphone (30 Hz to 50 KHz).

Library Specs: 20 tracks mono or stereo (mostly mono) • 371 MB • 14 minutes total

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Seagulls and Tern Close Tern (1:03)
Seagulls Close Agitated Group 1 (0:29)
Seagulls Close Agitated Group 2 (0:36)
Seagulls Close Agitated Group 3 (0:16)
Seagulls Close Agitated Group 4 (0:12)
Seagulls Close Agitated Group 5 (0:22)
Seagulls Close Single 1 (0:43)
Seagulls Close Single 2 (0:39)
Seagulls Close Single 3 (0:30)
Seagulls Close Short Screechs (0:08)
Seagulls Close Long Screechs 1 (0:42)
Seagulls Close Long Screechs 2 (0:21)
Seagulls Close Screechs 1 (0:36)
Seagulls Close Screechs 2 (0:40)
Seagulls Close Screechs 3 (0:43)
Seagulls Close Screechs 4 (1:07)
Seagulls Close Screechs 5 (0:30)
Seagulls Large Group fight for food (2:34)
Seagulls Call (0:48)
Seagulls and Fledging (1:47)

Birds Extension Bundle

Contains both packs above, at a special price!

Bundle Specs: 61 tracks mono or stereo • 1.32 GB • 44 minutes total

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Environments & Ambiences Thunder & Rain Play Track 46+ sounds included, 23 mins total $13

Thunder & Rain is a sound library that delivers the recordings of two storms. It includes a total of 46 audio files, split into three folders: STEREO, MS and UPMIX 5.1. It also comes with 40 audio files in the AS REC MS (NO De-Noise) folder.

De-noise was applied to most of the recordings, to only preserve thunder FX, but you have the NO De-Noise folder included too.

Create your own thunder ambiences with the included Winds/Storm/Rain files (in the preview below, I used the Rain file in addition to thunder files).

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Environments & Ambiences Fairgrounds Play Track 72 sounds included $37

Over 70 fairground ambiences. Includes fun fair game area atmospheres (plate breaker, BB guns, bingo), exhibition halls, game callers and barkers, and more.

The collection also includes a handful of fair ride sound fx: The Zipper, a Ferris wheel, and bumper cars.

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Horror Sound Effects Halloween 101 Play Track 101 sounds included $25

Halloween 101 is a great collection of sounds for your spooktacular projects! Inside are eerie ambiences; ghosts and zombies; human grunts, dying, screaming, and wailing; bloody gore; blade sounds, glass breaks, squeaky floors and doors, and so much more!

Halloween 101 includes:

• Strange, haunting ambiences
• Blades – impacts, hits, chainsaw, war-hammer, battle ax
• Fighting and Gore – punches, rib cage ripping open, splats, goops
• Footsteps – glass, creaky wood
• Glass Breaks
• Human Sounds – evil laughs, screams (solo and group), grunts
• Unhuman Sounds – Groups of ghostly voices, zombies (solo and groups), speaking in tongues
• Weather – thunder & wind
• Doors – creaking, “Demons Gate”

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Horror Sound Effects Asylum Play Track 504 sounds included $41.40

Scary horror sounds inspired by Hollywood Box office Hits – The Conjuring, The Exorcist and The Shining, we present to you the psychopath’s favorite: Asylum – Epic Stock Media’s hair-raising sound library of hollywood film scare tactics. Unchained access to some of the most cutting edge designed horror production sound effects in the world derived from stunning 192k 24bit recording sessions. Be the first to unleash our best sound library yet! Check the audio preview for spine chilling inspiration.

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Bird Sound Effects High Desert Hummingbirds Play Track 290+ sounds included $90

Get the stunningly detailed sounds of one of nature’s tiniest aerial acrobats flapping and fluttering in one of the quietest outdoor places in the continental United States. With their ultrasonic chirps, mesmerizing flight abilities and evolution-exhibiting beaks, this library captures the sounds of these rarely heard creatures from a mere two inches away.

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:
• 255 clean sounds of hummingbirds recorded in the resonant mountains of west Texas
• 35 sounds of hummingbirds with other songbirds
• Humming, buzzing, popping, fluttering, and purring drones
• Wing slaps and wing contact movement
• Ferocious territorial dogfights
• Laser-like chirps
• Ultrasonic chirps up to 30kHz
• Wild vocalizations
• Swift fly-bys, whooshes, and dive bombs
• Multiple species with a variety of fundamental “hum” frequencies
• Categorized into high, mid, bass, and sub-bass hummingbirds
• Clips ranging from solo hummingbirds to six-bird feeding frenzies
• Microphones placed 6-8 inches from hummingbird feeder with flybys as close as 2-3 inches
• HD videos at 60 fps

How It’s Made:
Get the full story behind the High Desert Hummingbirds SFX library on the – A Sound Effect Blog

National Museum of Wildlife Art:
Recordings from this library are featured as part of Iridescence: John Gould’s Hummingbirds at the Nation Museum of Wildlife Art.

GEAR:
• Sennheiser MKH 50/30 MS pair
• Mid/Side recordings decoded to LR stereo
• Rycote AG MS Blimp
• Sound Devices 702
• GoPro Hero4

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Mechanical Sound Effects Cassette Tone Play Track 89+ sounds included $19

A collection of buttons and motor sounds recorded from a Sony TCM-939 cassette tape deck.

Useful for UI design, mechanical sound design and all manner of everyday switches. Recorded at 96 kHz these recordings sound amazing pitched down to become big mechanical noises.

Includes transport buttons, motor sounds, tray opens and closes, tapes in and out and the deck in operation from exterior and interior perspectives. Also present are cassette and tape case handling sounds.

Almost all the sounds were recorded using a mono DPA 4060 omni mic at very close range for details and a Sennheiser MKH 40 for a more overall sound.

The miniature size of the DPA 4060s means that there are numerous takes of the machine running recorded from inside the tape tray, which results in amazing close details of the motor and buttons.

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Motorcycle Sound Effects Victory Vegas Motorcycle Play Track 104 sounds included $37

A mixture of field recordings from the characteristic Vegas model from Victory motorcycles.

Includes onboard riding takes, as well as exterior passes by, approaches, and departures. Onboard takes are provided in a split left-right configuration as well as a mixed version.

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Vehicle Sound Effects Steam Train Play Track 39 sounds included $35

A collection of onboard and exterior field recordings of a Royal Hudson 4-6-4 steam train. Included are riding sound effects, exterior platform takes.

Featuring whistles, chugging, hisses, rail noise, and more.

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Military Sound Effects Jet Fighter Maneuvers Play Track 41 sounds included $39

A selection of 41 maneuvers from 4 military aircraft: F-22 Raptor, CF-18 Hornet, F/A-18 Hornet, F-16 Fighting Falcon (Viper).

Includes dips, dives, maneuvers, and passes by.

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Mechanical Sound Effects Tools Play Track 250 sounds included $36

The Tool Sound Effects collection from Airborne Sound includes 250 tool sound clips, totalling 5.85 gigabytes of sound.

Included are power tools, pneumatic tools, and hand tools. Each take is performed by professional tradesmen, mechanics, and carpenters. Features jig saws, abrasive saws, hammers, drills, compressors, impact drills, pneumatic ratchets and much, much more in over 60 tool types.

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Foley Sound Effects Call Me! Play Track 52 sounds included $9

“Call Me!” is a collection of over 50 original, royalty-free cell phone ringtones for when you need to pick up and answer the call. These are relatively simple ding a ling’s that aren’t gonna call any more attention to themselves than needed. So they’ll sit in your tracks just right, and with some uniquely creative file names you’ll always remember your favourites to come back to while you’re cutting.

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Vehicle Sound Effects North American B-25 Mitchell Play Track 164 sounds included $449

This is a recording of the historic twin-engine World War II bomber, the B-25 Mitchell with the air-cooled 14 cylinder Wright R-2600 Cyclone radial engines. The recording covers two stationary ground runs and a flying session.

The stationary runs cover startup, idle, steady RPMs, throttle movement, and shutdown, with 22 exterior tracks and 6 onboard tracks. The flying session covers startup, taxiing, takeoff, several flybys, landing and shutdown, with 15 exterior tracks and 8 onboard tracks. The library also includes performed effects such as bomb door opening and closing, flaps, horn, brakes, and switches, and engine maintenance with mechanics pumping oil and electrically turning the propellers. Finally it includes the plane being towed.

The package also comes complete with embedded metadata, custom mixes of onboard and exterior perspectives, and editing sessions in Pro Tools and Reaper formats.

Please note: some perspectives recorded at a lower sampling rate.

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City Life Sound Effects Diffuse City Play Track 116+ sounds included, 752 mins total $75

Diffuse City is the unique urban ambience sound effects library you didn’t know you were missing. It captures the urban environment in its many forms – all based around the idea of diffuse ambience.

The Diffuse City library is purpose-built for the times an environment needs to be felt, but not be distracting.

Every track in Diffuse City was recorded with some sort of real life “filter” in mind; be it distance, elevation, time of day, physical material – Anything to provide the feeling of city life with out the specificity of many urban ambience libraries. No distracting close car pass-bys or people talking; only great natural ambience beds.

Diffuse City was recorded in big cities, suburbs, small towns, and rural settings over a span of two years. It was largely recorded over very late nights, when very few people we’re around. Occasionally, however, a car would pass by… a gun would go off… While these were edited out of the recordings, they are included as “extras” in the library. Perfect for adding some flavor to a moment that’s authentic to the environment it was recorded in.

Metadata – and markers:

In addition to thorough metadata, each ambience in Diffuse City is embedded with markers highlighting unique moments that aren’t easily visible in a waveform. Software like Soundminer v4.5 and Reaper can display these markers, making it easy to identify distinct sonic moments in an otherwise nondescript waveform.

Markers in Reaper

There are 10 areas of focus in Diffuse City:

Elevated City • Distant Highways • Underground City • Distant City • Under Bridges • City Rumble • Empty Parking Lots • Alleys • Industrial • Window Contacts

Hear examples and learn more about each one below

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Tanks & Artillery Sounds World War 2 Tanks Play Track 400+ sounds included $309

The WORLD WAR 2 TANKS sound effects library delivers a gigantic arsenal of tank sounds, recorded in collaboration with Pole Position Productions (PPP) from Sweden.

You get 8 different tanks to be super-flexible in your military sound design environment. Each tank gives you driveby and onboard maneuvers. The onboard recordings are multi-channel recordings (4x stereo) that enable you to perfectly mix the sounds as you wish.

For example: your interior scene sounds good but you need some more mechanical chain sound? Simply boost the “Tracks” channel in your mix and you’re set. You’re totally free to give your tank the character it needs.

Whether it’s a heavily damaged and slow tank or some massive crawling beasts that will – once at full speed – flatten everything that crosses their way. You’re in full control with this SFX library. But there’s more. Besides driveby and multi-channel driving sounds, we added some handling sounds and – you’ll especially love them – a fine selection of incredible cannon shots.

Included are more than 400 files in more than 27GB of data. All files contain extensive metadata to provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible.

Tanks / panzers included:

• Char B1 bis, French (France) light WWII tank
• 38t Hetzer, German light WWII tank destroyer
• M24 Chaffee, US American (USA), light WWII tank
• Sherman M4A1, US American (USA) medium WWII tank
• Panther V, German medium WWII tank
• Somua S35, French (France) medium WWII tank
• T 34, Russian (Soviet Union) medium WWII tank
• MkIII Valentine, English (Great Britain) infantry WWII tank
+ WWI Generic tank

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