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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Synthesized Moods Play Track 18 sounds included, 18 mins total From: $16

Synthesized Moods is a collection of 18 soundscapes, drones and textures produced by sound designer Giorgio Riolo using Native Instrument’s Massive plug-in.

All moods are “Synthesized”, imaginary and abstract.

They’ll add a bizarre layer to your ambiences sound effects and sometimes they’ll give a musical taste with a sci-fi, dark and sinister accent to your project .

Synthesized Moods is available in two versions:
Audio-Only (24bit / 96 kHz): ready to use -23Lufs and 1 minute long audio files (played at the root note indicated into the filename and tracklist).

Audio and NI Massive presets: this is the version for the sound designer and sound editors, it contains NI Massive presets to give you the opportunity to shape your own sound moving all synth controls and to play with the note you need. All Presets are implemented with Macro-control knobs to perform the layers of the soundscapes “on the fly” and NI metadata to find it into Massive browser. Note: NI Massive not included.

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Environments & Ambiences City Thunderstorm Play Track 28+ sounds included, 67 mins total $35

Need the sound of thunder in the city? City thunderstorm delivers a series of atmospheric rain and thunder effects recorded in London. Rolls, rumbles and claps, close and distant, and three long thunder and rain sequences to help create your perfect city storm, including one complete storm from start to finish. More than one hour of sounds from thunderstorms in the city – all recorded at 24 bit / 96 kHz, and embedded with full Soundminer Metadata.

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Wild Animals Sound Effects Otters Play Track 49+ sounds included $30

This Otter sound effects library was recorded by our sound recordists in Thailand in 192 kHz, 24-bit WAV format. It includes a huge variety of sounds from baby otters, including moans and other unique vocal gestures. An exciting resource for post-production or game audio sound design!

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Wild Animals Sound Effects Black Leopard Play Track 31+ sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$25

This Black Leopard SFX library was recorded by our sound recordists in Thailand in 192 kHz, 24-bit WAV format. It includes a huge variety of sounds from groans, growls, sniffs, roars and everything in-between, recorded at a pristine audio quality. If you’re looking for a definitive library for the Black Leopard for film, game audio or sound design, this is the library for you!

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Bird Sound Effects Parrots Play Track 101+ sounds included $65

This Parrot SFX library was recorded by our sound recordists in Thailand in 192 khz, 24-bit WAV format. It includes a huge variety of sounds from calls, cries and vocal gestures. A great resource for post-production or game audio sound design.

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Environments & Ambiences The Football Match Play Track 14+ sounds included, 13 mins total $30

Get the real sounds of a UK football / soccer match – including crowd reactions covering everything from applause, cheering, booing, chanting, groans, oohs!, misses, goals and more. If you're after real stadium crowd reactions, this one delivers.

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Amphibians & Reptile Sound Effects Frogs Of Quebec Play Track 24+ sounds included, 50 mins total $30

Get the sounds of 10 species of frogs, toads and treefrogs in this unique animal SFX library.

It features amphibians such as American Bullfrog, American Toad, Gray Treefrog, Green Frog, Mink Frog, Northern Leopard Frog, Pickerel Frog, Spring Peeper, Wood Frog, Western Chorus Frog as well as mixed frog chorus recordings.

The library has been recorded in Québec locations such as Laval, Knowlton, Bondville, Brome, Coaticook, St. Hubert, Sutton, and Longueuil. A total of 50+ minutes of frog recordings are included!

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Environments & Ambiences Ambiences from Vietnam Play Track 20 sounds included, 30 mins total $44.99

Vietnam – a country of many contrasts – with tranquil nature sites on one hand and polluted roads with heavy traffic on the other. Ambiences from… Vietnam is a sound library that encaptures Southeast Asian people, culture and lifestyle. It includes international airports, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Phu Quoc island and Hanoi.

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Footsteps Sound Effects Ultimate Footsteps Play Track 1176-3056+ sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
From: $160

Need footstep sound effects? Get 5 Shoes, 25+ surfaces, 15+ variations – created by Foley Supervisor Joshua Reinhardt and professional Foley walker Lara Dale.

Deep heavy metal, crunchy snow, old boat wood, crisp grass, gritty dirt, clean tile – this library has it all. Not only does this library contain walking but it's got pretty much every performance you can think of, from scuffs to jumps and lands and scrapes. With this library you can cut Foley for pretty much any film or game that comes your way.

Highlights:

• 17 different Performances – From slow walk to RUN, 5 scrapes, bodyfall/land, stomps and more
• Every file is labeled with a description of the shoe, surface and performance type.
• Every folder has a picture of the shoe and surface plus a description of the distance of the mic from the Foley walker.
• Combine wood creak sweeteners with Ultimate Interiors wood for scary creaky wood or add grit to a clean interior to give character.
• Same recording studio mics and preamps used in over 50 major motion pictures
• Same boots that were used for Sylvester Stallone in The Expendable
• Mix and match shoes, surfaces and sweeteners to make your own custom characters
• Can be used as a stereo or separated and mixed/matched as a mono depending which mic works best for your project

Specs:

Foot wear type:
Boots, Dress Shoes, Flats, Heels, Sneakers.

Performances:
Extremely Slow Walk, Medium Slow Walk, Walk, Jog, Run, Stairs Slow, Stairs Fast, Stomp, Land, Scuff, Scrape 1, Scrape 2, Scrape 3, Scrape 4, Scrape 5.

Surface Types:
Asphalt, Carpet 1, Carpet 2, Concrete, Hardwood, Hardwood house, Hardwood deep, Hardwood parquet, Hardwood boat wood, Hardwood Dock, Lino, Marble, Tile, Dirt, Grass, Metal grate, Diamond plate Metal, Metal Slab, Wood Creak 1 old, Wood Creak 2, Gravel, Rocks, SNOW!!, Puddle, Water shallow, Water Deep.

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Foley Sound Effects Ultimate Prop and Cloth Collection Play Track 769-1585+ sounds included, 500+ mins total From: $90

You get a huge amount of cloth and prop foley sounds in this one: 16 types of cloth and 15 surfaces with 15+ variations – captured by Foley Supervisor and sound designer Joshua Reinhardt, and professional Foley walker Lara Dale.

Crunchy leather, crisp gun movement, trendy purses, big chains, smooth cloth, great sounding bags, and coats, this library has it all. This is hands down the most extensive cloth and prop library anywhere. Note: Does not contain embedded metadata, but features descriptive file names.

Not only does this library contain walking but it’s pretty much every performance you can think of from scuffs to jumps and lands and scrapes. With this library you can cut foley for pretty much any film or game that comes your way. And EVERY PERFORMANCE SYNCS UP PERFECTLY TO ULTIMATE FOOTSTEPS! These recordings were recorded using the same tempo and performances as our first popular Ultimate Footsteps Library so this will add even more depth to your characters and project!

Highlights:
• Every file is labeled with a description of the shoe, surface, performance type and microphone.
• Combine cloth with different props and footsteps to get great sounds.
• Same recording studio mics and preamps used in over 50 major motion pictures
• Same boots and army gear that was used in THE EXPENDABLES
• Mix and match shoes, surfaces and sweeteners to make your own custom characters.
• Can be used as a stereo or separated and mixed/matched as a mono depending which mic works best for your project

Library details:

Props used: Rifle, hand gun, backpack school, backpack leather, heavy chains, dog tags, duffle bag, paper bags, plastic bags, keys, purse, purse cloth, small chains.

Cloth Used: Heavy coat, coat wool, Denim, heavy denim, fringe suade, fringe, leather heavy, leather crunch, leather biker, sequin, shirt, shirt light, shirt heavy, silk, tutu, wind breaker.

Performances: Extremely Slow Walk, Medium Slow Walk, Walk, Jog, Run, Stairs Slow, Stairs Fast, Stomp, Land, Scuff, Scrape 1, Scrape 2, Scrape 3, Scrape 4, Scrape 5.

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Nature & Countryside Ambiences Surround in The Night 5.1+Stereo Play Track 25 sounds included, 108 mins total $59

Surround In the Night features 25 HD 24bit/48khz 5.1 Surround Sound Effects with a large selection of urban crickets and cicada recordings in parks and residential areas. Recorded with discrete Quad microphones, and mastered in 5.1 surround (L-C-R-Ls-Rr-Lf Embeded .WAV format).

Recording locations are all from center perspective – captured in the middle of a park or residential area, to create the widest possible sound. A stereo version of each cue is included, as well as embedded metadata. From veteran Hollywood Sound Designer Lenny Jones.

Want a taste of what's included? Download the 5.1 Surround Demo file here and try it out on your own system!

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Game Audio Packs - Game Sound Effects Libraries Ancient Game Play Track 1508 sounds included, 72 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$63.20

Get ready for adventure: Ancient Game gets you 1500+ designed and source MMO / game-ready audio assets. Step into a world of fantasy with Ancient Game – The Legendary RPG Adventure Game Sound Library by Epic Stock Media! Includes Magic, Warfare, Gore, Treasures, Mechanisms, Monsters, Loop-able ambiences and more! All in 96k / 24 Bit for optimum clarity and supernatural sound.

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Creature Sound Effects Mouthy Play Track 302+ sounds included, 27 mins total $13

A meditation on the most versatile audio tool with which we are biologically equipped, we have carefully crafted this collection of mouth noises to provide you with highly dynamic and almost unpredictable organic audio fare. However, we tried to explore less conventional noises and specifically avoided the usual burps, coughs, throat clears, etc. Captured from a single male voice actor, this collection includes squishy spurts, saliva smacks, guttural loops, pops, clicks, cracks, inhales, exhales, and air bursts.

A particular part of this library is the intentional use of creating soft distortion from moving air over the mic membranes in specific ways. This helped add low end and saturated elements to many of the sounds. The wide spectral coverage of this library makes it easy to blend many of the sounds together to achieve some truly diffused but balanced soundscapes. Don’t try to tame this library, unleash it! We’ve successfully used these in explosions, engine layers, organic rummaging, shots, ambient clouds, UI, and more. Enjoy!

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Electricity Sound Effects Energy by SoundMorph Play Track 606+ sounds included $99

This SFX library is a complete collection of everything ENERGY, covering Electricity, Power Ups, Shockwaves, Sparks, Force Fields, Zaps, Loops, and plenty more.

ENERGY is created in collaboration with talented French sound design duo Frederic Devanlay and Cedric Denooz, and features more than 625+ sounds and 6.4GB of 24bit/96khz .WAV files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata.

Sounds include:

• Energy Loops (start, loop, end)
• Neutrons and Particles
• Electricity sparks, zaps, impacts
• Energy Weapons / Special Powers
• Whoosh and Passbys
• Energy Foley
• Ambiences
• Hums and Buzzes
• Lightning Elements
• Power Ups and Power Downs
• Source Tool Box – Create your own sounds from scratch!

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Industrial Ambiences Laundry Mangles Play Track 200+ sounds included, 110 mins total $40

Laundry Mangles is a library full of sounds from vintage machines that once where used in many public washhouses. In some locations they are in use even today.

Basically, the weight of a huge box filled with stones was used to press big pieces of linen, bed sheets or towels wound on rollers below. Early models were operated by hand which was very exhausting and soon the machines were equipped with electric motors and belt drives.

This library delivers sounds from 5 different models of various ages that are operated with a crank shaft or electrical belt drive. All machines have been extensively recorded so that any imaginable perspective and operational state is covered. This includes full runs with belt drive and crank shaft, protective grating handlings, idling motors and much more.

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Hum, Buzz & Glitch Sound Effects ACM(E) Play Track 26 sounds included $15

This small sound library contains all the original CPU fan and hard disk noises emitted by the following vintage Apple MACs, each with its own unique texture:

• Power Macintosh 4400
• Power Macintosh 6400
• Power Macintosh 7200
• Macintosh Classic
• Macintosh Mac G4
• Macintosh Mac LC 475

The material contains a lot of mechanical noises and different startup chimes, plus a lot of boot sequences with all the hard drives/fans spinning and whirring.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Abstract Ambiences Play Track 60 sounds included
Rated 3.00 out of 5
$20
The “Abstract Ambiences” is a collaboration of SoundBits and Monte Sound.

This bundle offers you a collection of abstract and surreal ambiences, ready to be used in your next production. Wether in surround or stereo, this kit will be sure to please. The bundle offers a full mix, as well as a construction kit to mix and match the stems as you wish, giving you maximum flexibility in post production.
All sounds are delivered in 96kHz / 24bit. All sounds are royalty free.

Think of movies like “Alien”, “Event Horizon” “or games like “Dead Space”, “Doom” or “Bioshock”. But you will also get the right feel and idea for other disturbing-cyberpunk and unsettling industrial dark spaces.
A symbiosis of organic original field-recordings like Room Tones, Construction Sites, Traffic, Fun-Fair, Motors, … and synthetic elements like spectral- and granular synthesis.
60 ready-to-use abstract ambiences in 5.0 surround

Stereo Downmixes of all ambiences included!

All files with 2:30 Minutes length

Perfectly balanced Surround Sounds for easy integration in games, movies and more

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Doomed Soundscapes, Dark Drones, Futuristic Dungeons, Alien Worlds, SciFi Horror, Weird Radio Messages and Interference and Disturbing and Terrifying Noises, Eerie Textures & more
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Mechanical Sound Effects Wind Turbine Play Track 28+ sounds included, 25 mins total $30

Get the recordings of a three-bladed wind turbine, captured from five different positions. The collection includes the full-length recordings from each position as well as shorter, edited files. The full-length recordings are tagged with “RAW” at the end of the file name. The shorter, edited files are tagged like this: “high intensity”, “low intensity”, “low to high intensity” and so on.

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Foley Sound Effects Wheels Play Track 250+ sounds included, 67 mins total $49.99

This library is all about wheels – and lots of them! Includes recordings of a selection of objects with wheels such as carts, transport stretchers, gurneys, rolling stands, shelves, IV stands, wooden tables, wheelchairs – and all the button clicks, slides, latches, and electronics that come with them.

All sounds were recorded in Mid/Side technique with mid on the left channel and side on the right. Recorded with Project Studio C4 mics, Sennheiser 416 Mics, Ambient Emesser, on a Fostex FR2 2 track recorder and mastered in Pro Tools.

The left side of the RAW files can be used as a MONO center effect and the encoded files as a stereo effect which has the width of an XY configuration and can be panned center for a mono compatible mix.

rMS = Raw Mid/side
MS = Decoded Mid/Side

Recorded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Steven Ejbick and Ryan Macneill of Textures Sound

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Nature & Countryside Ambiences Surround In the Park 5.1 + Stereo Play Track 25 sounds included, 130 mins total $69

Get a large selection of ambiences recorded in parks, residential areas, playgrounds and other urban areas with this SFX library. Recorded with discrete Quad microphones, and mastered in 5.1 surround (L-C-R-Ls-Rr-Lf Embeded .WAV format).

Recording locations are all from center perspective – in the middle of a park or residential area, to create the widest possible sound. A stereo version of each cue is included as well as embedded metadata. Most tracks are 2-3 minutes.

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Mechanical Sound Effects Annihilated Hard Drives Play Track 200+ sounds included, 200 mins total $45

This Hard Drive SFX library delivers the sounds of severely mistreated hard drives. We hit hard drives with hammers, drilled holes in them, bent them and inserted objects into them before turning them on. Power ups, shut downs, grinding, screeching, whines, and rattling are just a few of the sounds you’ll find here. Great source material for sound design and heavy processing.

Annihilated Hard Drives – Microphones Used:
• 1x Neumann KM130 (cardioid)
• 1x Sennheiser MKH50 (cardioid)
• 2x Barcus Berry contact microphone

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Sports Sound Effects Large Crowd Reactions Play Track 81+ sounds included, 53 mins total $75

Sometimes emotion comes when you feel together as one. This is happening in stadiums, arenas, demonstrations when people are as one voice. This collection gets you the power of the crowd. People will go through various feelings, sometimes silent or very noisy, you will be able to cover a lot of situations with it. Moreover ambisonic format-B 3D recordings are great to enhance those kind of situations.

About Ambisonics:
This is an Ambisonics sound effects library - and by using the free SoundField SurroundZone 2 plugin you can convert the B-format files into your preferred format (stereo, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0 or 7.1 surround). Note: The library also contains ready-made stereo mixdowns for your convenience.

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Environments & Ambiences Large Hall Activity Play Track 28+ sounds included $75

Often majestic, big interior spaces are beautiful sets. We created this collection to help you bring some life into them. To take full advantage of those sets, there’s nothing quite like Ambisonic and its faithful sound reproduction of its acoustics in 3D.

About Ambisonics:
This is an Ambisonics sound effects library - and by using the free SoundField SurroundZone 2 plugin you can convert the B-format files into your preferred format (stereo, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0 or 7.1 surround). Note: The library also contains ready-made stereo mixdowns for your convenience.

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City Life Sound Effects Crowds at the restaurant Play Track 25 sounds included, 57 mins total $75

Restaurants are some of the most popular film sets. They are all different and it’s impossible to be exhaustive. So, what have we got here? A large French restaurant, an American Diner, a bar, staff canteen and next-table conversation. The Ambisonic recordings will help you to adjust your sound to your picture so you can bring some life to your silent restaurant.

About Ambisonics:
This is an Ambisonics sound effects library - and by using the free SoundField SurroundZone 2 plugin you can convert the B-format files into your preferred format (stereo, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0 or 7.1 surround). Note: The library also contains ready-made stereo mixdowns for your convenience.

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Re-recording Mixer, Walt Disney Animation Studios:
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Supervising Sound Editor/Re-recording Mixer, The Lego Movie & Mad Max: Fury Road

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