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The Heckler & Koch USP Expert sound effects library features firing and performed effects from a 1998 German 9×19 mm caliber pistol in 126 clips and 3.43 gigabytes of audio.
The collection includes 24 perspectives across 51 channels of audio (including an Ambisonic perspective) of firing, grabbing, handling, movement, rattling, and safety movements, and more. The gunshots were captured from close to over 150 meters distant from mono, stereo, up to 8-track Holophone recordings.
The sound library includes 18+ fields of Soundminer metadata, BWAV, and iXML metadata and MacOS Finder comments, as well as Pro Tools and Reaper sessions with all fx pre-aligned to allow editors to begin mixing and editing immediately.
Enhance your project with this collection of 156 realistic metal friction sounds. Perfect for a variety of scenarios, this pack offers a versatile selection of high-quality metal elements that can be easily manipulated and edited to suit your needs. Whether you’re working on games, films, animations, or other creative projects, these detailed friction sounds will add an authentic touch, bringing mechanical interactions and metal-on-metal moments to life. Ideal for adding depth and texture, this pack ensures your project feels more dynamic and immersive.
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Unleash the power of our recorded and designed massive-sounding mechanism sound effects. Perfectly crafted to add weight and intensity to your project, these high-quality sounds are ideal for enhancing everything from industrial, fantasy scenes to epic action sequences. Whether you’re working on games, films, or interactive media, these versatile effects can be seamlessly integrated to elevate the atmosphere and bring your vision to life with a bold, mechanical edge.
104 sounds that you can import directly into your project.
Add authenticity to your project with our collection of 123 high-quality foley recordings of drawers opening and closing. Perfect for projects that require realistic household sound effects, this pack captures the detailed, everyday sounds of drawers in action. Whether you’re working on films, games, or interactive media, these versatile sound effects will enhance your scenes with natural, lifelike audio, bringing your environment to life with every pull and push.
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123 sounds that you can import directly into your project.
Unleash the nostalgic power of retro gaming with our high-quality Retro Video Game Sound Effects Pack. Crafted to emulate “8-bit” sounds of classic video games, this collection offers a diverse range of meticulously designed audio effects perfect for video games, mobile apps, and inventory systems. Each sound is customizable, providing sound designers and editors with an excellent starting point to tweak and adapt them to fit any project. Whether you’re aiming to capture the essence of vintage gaming or add a touch of retro flair to modern projects, this pack delivers the perfect balance of authenticity and creative flexibility.
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146 sounds that sounds that you can import directly into your project.
Set the perfect eerie atmosphere with this collection of designed haunted and horror soundscapes, crafted to intensify the mood and elevate the user experience. Perfect for games, films, apps, or any project requiring spine-chilling audio, these haunting soundscapes will immerse your audience in an unsettling, creepy environment. Whether you’re creating a haunted house, a dark mystery, or a supernatural thriller, these high-quality, atmospheric sounds will help bring your horror scenes to life and leave a lasting impact on your audience.
17 sounds that you can import directly into your project.
Classic Arcade is a collection of stylized sound effects inspired by retro video games and pixel-era charm. Covering character jumps, power-ups, cartoon impacts, teleport swooshes, UI feedback, and expressive mouth-made boings, this library delivers high-energy, game-ready sounds with a nostalgic edge. Designed for platformers, brawlers, mobile titles, and stylized indie games, each asset combines vintage flair with clean modern production. A versatile toolkit for adding bold, iconic personality to any interactive project.
Elevate your project with this collection of designed futuristic sound effects, crafted to enhance the user experience and add a high-tech, modern vibe to your work. Perfect for games, apps, films, or any project , these sounds will immerse your audience in a world of innovation and advanced technology. Whether you’re designing interfaces, sci-fi environments, or futuristic scenes, these sound effects will bring your vision to life with a dynamic and captivating auditory experience.
Elevate your project with Mountain Streams Field Recordings – a collection of high-quality, authentic audio specifically for game developers and creators. Capturing the pure, natural sounds of mountain streams, this library offers a diverse range of immersive water flows, from tranquil babbling brooks to powerful rushing currents. Each recording is carefully captured in pristine mountain environments, ensuring maximum realism and atmosphere.
Perfect for creating realistic outdoor settings, immersive landscapes, or enhancing environmental sound design, these recordings seamlessly blend into any game, film, or multimedia project. With ready-to-use tracks and a variety of dynamic water sounds, you can effortlessly bring nature’s soothing flow into your creations. Whether you’re designing peaceful wilderness scenes or intense survival experiences, Mountain Streams Field Recordings delivers the soundscapes you need to bring your world to life.
22 ambiences that you can import directly into your project.
A digital collection of immersive soundscapes captured from diverse natural environments. Perfect for filmmakers, game developers, meditation practitioners, and sound designers. This library features recordings of forests, rivers, bird calls and more. Each track is professionally recorded to deliver an authentic and immersive experience, making it ideal for enhancing creative projects, relaxation, or background ambience. Let the pure sounds of nature transport you to a place of peace and tranquility.
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We managed to record in the amazing and stunning Main Hall of the Grand Central Station in New York whilst on our travels, capturing the ambience of the daily commuter and tourists who flock to see this amazing building.
Main Hall Ambience
Info Booth Ambience and Tannoy
A one man Public Protest
Crowd/Walla
Commuters
Tourists
People moving
People moving with Baggage
People talking close and distant
Regular tannoy announcements
When editing the ambiences, there were a variety of close mic’ed human interactions and baggage movement which may not be fitting when placing these into a projects so we’ve re-edited these samples and provided a set of “B” Samples which have these removed.
Grand Central Station will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of this amazing train station, boosting your project to the next level. Grand Central Station has been edited to allow a drop in ready and Royalty Free sample pack. These Samples can be used in a variety of projects from Sound Designing/Compositions for TV, Film, Documentaries and Video Games. UCS Compliant and Metadata is attached to the samples
Compilation of 10 different 2000s cars. Sounds are recorded with RØDE NTG1, RØDELink Lav, Line Audio Omni1, Shure KSM137, Sonorous Objects SO.3, FEL Pluggy XLR EM272 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II and Zoom F3 recorders. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.
Models: Audi A4 2000 large family car BMW 1 Series E87 2004 compact car Fiat Punto 2003 subcompact supermini car Ford Ka 2008 city car Hyundai Tiburon 2001 sports car Nissan X-Trail 2000 compact crossover SUV sport utility vehicle Opel Astra H 2004 compact car Renault Megane 2008 compact car Seat Leon 2005 compact car Volkswagen Golf 2008 compact car
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, Line Audio Omni1 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving, foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.
MINI Contact – 75 files of Contact sound effects, at varying distances and intensities. From gentle surface wipes and thud hits to water movement vibrations and machine racket to foliage friction and metallic tones. Mini Contact comes in at over 21 minutes, of contact microphone noises. Bring kinetic power and textured tension to your next project. Recorded at 192kHz and 32bit, using piezoelectric sensitive stereo contact microphones capable of recording surface vibration frequencies. Mini Contact filenames are in the Universal Category System format with additional Metadata baked-in.
Looking for a Massive amount of Contact sound effects? We offer ‘Massive’ sound effect libraries as companions for all of our ‘Mini’ sound effect libraries. All recordings are unique to each library with no overlap. Go Mini today, and upgrade to the corresponding Massive library later, when you need more of that particular sound effect.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, Line Audio Omni1 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, Line Audio Omni1 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.
Steller Sea Lions
The Steller Sea Lions library is a mini library of stereo recordings from an expedition up the coast of Vancouver Island. In this library you will find a variety of vocalizations from a colony of over 200 Steller Sea Lions.
It’s everything you’d need for any linear or game media.
The Herring spawn (or Herring run) happens every spring along eastern Vancouver Island. Adult Pacific Herring congregate in huge numbers along the coastal shorelines.
This brings an abundance of wildlife to the coastal areas of Vancouver Island.
Nature Ambiences: Dawn Chorus
Experience the breathtaking spring morning birdsong in pristine, untouched nature. Recorded across remote woodland and mountain forests, this collection captures the pure, emotional beauty of dawn chorus of joyful birds in its most unfiltered form.
From the lyrical song of the nightingale and blackbird to the rhythmic calls of the great tit, robin, warbler, owl, and woodpecker, each recording reflects a living, breathing soundscape—almost out of this world in its stillness and clarity.
These 20 long immersive soundscapes offer rare access to approximately 1,5 hours of authentic birdsong ambiences that are increasingly hard to find—or record.
Designed with filmmakers, game studios, installation artists, and immersive audio practitioners in mind, this collection has the power to elevate beautiful scenes and evoke deep emotion.
This library reflects our deep passion for field recording and our commitment to preserving sonic environments with precision and emotional depth. Recorded using Sennheiser MKH 8040s ORTF setup
Find the true sound of nature’s richest birdsong.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, Line Audio Omni1 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.
These sound effects were recorded in small German towns, capturing the vibrant yet tranquil atmosphere of town squares during the summer season. This library features a variety of ambiences, from the gentle murmur of conversations and footsteps on cobblestone streets to the sounds of distant church bells, passing bicycles, and open-air cafés.
All recordings were captured with a Zoom H3-VR recorder, directly in AMBIX format for accurate spatial imaging. Minor editing and cleanup were done in Pro Tools, and all sessions were carefully monitored using Audio Brewers’ HOA decoder plugins to ensure clarity and immersive realism.
These sounds are ideal for background use in your projects, whether you’re designing immersive European townscapes, recreating lively public spaces, or adding depth to documentary and cinematic settings.
The Town Square has a runtime of 1 hour and 30 minutes and includes 28 long-duration files.
These sound effects have been carefully curated and edited, providing a ready-to-use and royalty-free sample pack.
These samples can be used for various applications, from sound design and compositions for TV, film, and documentaries to video game development and music creation.
They are UCS compliant, with the UCS-compliant document included in the download file.
Each sample comes with embedded metadata for easy organization.
Product Specs
• Ambisonic Files (AMBIX format, First Order Ambisonics)
• 96kHz 24-bit
• Size: 6.26 GB (After expanding)
The Heckler & Koch USP Expert sound effects library features firing and performed effects from a 2002 German .308W (7.62×51) caliber rifle in 94 clips and 2.59 gigabytes of audio.
The collection includes 23 perspectives across 49 channels of audio (including an Ambisonic perspective) of firing, grabbing, handling, movement, stock hits, and safety movements, and more. The gunshots were captured from close to over 150 meters distant from mono, stereo, up to 8-track Holophone recordings.
The sound library includes 18+ fields of Soundminer metadata, BWAV, and iXML metadata and MacOS Finder comments, as well as Pro Tools and Reaper sessions with all fx pre-aligned to allow editors to begin mixing and editing immediately.
The Master Gun NSV Sound Effects library is recorded using a large array of various microphone configurations, we recorded shots from several distances in an open shooting range in the Nevada Desert.
Our raw shots features a total of 26 channels including 12 Stereo and 2 mono sources. All of our close and mid spaced pair Microphone options can be used as two independent mono microphones. The right side of every spaced pair will have more Mech than its left side counterpart.
Every single gun has been recorded using the same gain settings on the same recorders, and we have level matched each microphone option between the same calibers so your 50ft microphones will be the same or similar across all libraries that share the same calibers. This makes mixing large amounts of weapons easier as the loudness and character of each gun is predictable.
Our foley features a total of 4 audio channels with 1 Stereo and 2 mono sources, including the Sanken CO-100k which captures frequencies above 100kHz for extreme pitch shifting workflows.
Created from the ground up we’ve designed a collection of game-ready mixes for your next project. If you are creating your own custom weapons system and would like to use our designed mixes in your project, you can use our no-tail options which are our realistic designed mixes without our tail layers. Just drag, and drop.
All files contain extensive metadata to provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible. Metadata can be read and processed by audio management tools. Some digital audio workstations feature an included search tool that can also read embedded metadata.
The Master Gun M240B Sound Effects library is recorded using a large array of various microphone configurations, we recorded shots from several distances in an open shooting range in the Nevada Desert.
Our raw shots features a total of 28 channels including 13 Stereo and 2 mono sources. All of our close and mid spaced pair Microphone options can be used as two independent mono microphones. The right side of every spaced pair will have more Mech than its left side counterpart.
Every single gun has been recorded using the same gain settings on the same recorders, and we have level matched each microphone option between the same calibers so your 50ft microphones will be the same or similar across all libraries that share the same calibers. This makes mixing large amounts of weapons easier as the loudness and character of each gun is predictable.
Our foley features a total of 4 audio channels with 1 Stereo and 2 mono sources, including the Sanken CO-100k which captures frequencies above 100kHz for extreme pitch shifting workflows.
In addition to the unsuppressed shot recordings, we’ve also sampled the M240B with a suppressor attachment. The suppressed M240B was sampled right after the unsuppressed recordings using the exact same microphone setup as the unsuppressed version. This provides you a seamless transition between the unsuppressed and the suppressed recordings.
The suppressed recordings also have the added benefit of muting the shot layers which helps bring out the intricate details of the mechanism (mech layers).
Because adding a suppressor to the firearm increases the weapons muzzle velocity, the fire rate of the suppressed weapon is slightly faster than its unsuppressed counterpart.
Created from the ground up we’ve designed a collection of game-ready mixes for your next project. If you are creating your own custom weapons system and would like to use our designed mixes in your project, you can use our no-tail options which are our realistic designed mixes without our tail layers. Just drag, and drop.
All files contain extensive metadata to provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible. Metadata can be read and processed by audio management tools. Some digital audio workstations feature an included search tool that can also read embedded metadata.
The Master Gun M60E6 Sound Effects library is recorded using a large array of various microphone configurations, we recorded shots from several distances in an open shooting range in the Nevada Desert.
Our raw shots features a total of 28 channels including 13 Stereo and 2 mono sources. All of our close and mid spaced pair Microphone options can be used as two independent mono microphones. The right side of every spaced pair will have more Mech than its left side counterpart.
Every single gun has been recorded using the same gain settings on the same recorders, and we have level matched each microphone option between the same calibers so your 50ft microphones will be the same or similar across all libraries that share the same calibers. This makes mixing large amounts of weapons easier as the loudness and character of each gun is predictable.
Our foley features a total of 4 audio channels with 1 Stereo and 2 mono sources, including the Sanken CO-100k which captures frequencies above 100kHz for extreme pitch shifting workflows.
In addition to the unsuppressed shot recordings, we’ve also sampled the M60E6 with a suppressor attachment. The suppressed M60E6 was sampled right after the unsuppressed recordings using the exact same microphone setup as the unsuppressed version. This provides you a seamless transition between the unsuppressed and the suppressed recordings.
The suppressed recordings also have the added benefit of muting the shot layers which helps bring out the intricate details of the mechanism (mech layers).
Because adding a suppressor to the firearm increases the weapons muzzle velocity, the fire rate of the suppressed weapon is slightly faster than its unsuppressed counterpart.
Created from the ground up we’ve designed a collection of game-ready mixes for your next project. If you are creating your own custom weapons system and would like to use our designed mixes in your project, you can use our no-tail options which are our realistic designed mixes without our tail layers. Just drag, and drop.
All files contain extensive metadata to provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible. Metadata can be read and processed by audio management tools. Some digital audio workstations feature an included search tool that can also read embedded metadata.
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