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Horror Sound Effects Metal Friction Play Track 161 sounds included $24

Metal friction recordings shine when using a rosined cello bow on a thin sheet of metal or a drum cymbal. Dragging a heavy metal cabinet across a floor creates a wild ronk; pulling a gritty old wheelbarrow over concrete is a hell of a sound; and pulling a rusty metal drawer through an uncooperative space is pure gold.

With this massive metal friction SFX library, you’ll be able to either design your own unique material using the included raw source sounds of scrapes, deep bows, slicers and grinders, or start by grabbing ready-to-go designed metallic sounds that are perfect for trailers, horror, games, and more.

This library contains 132 detailed recordings of various source metal friction + 29 designed cinematic metallic textures. All recordings captured on a Sound Devices MixPre 6 using a Sennheiser MKH 8040 Stereo Pair.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Guitar Designed Play Track 34 sounds included $28

Guitar Designed originated from source recordings of an expert guitarist playing a variety of articulations across the instrument. Our Audio Craftsmen used a variety of tools to then mangle, distort and transform these into ground-breaking, futuristic sonic elements.

This library includes everything from deep, hypnotic low drones to fast and reactive cinematic stingers, all designed from this players hand-crafted, custom shop instrument. Furthermore, we have also prepared a strong selection of accustomed guitar riffs, licks and phrases ready to be dropped into whatever project you wish!

All sounds were recorded and have been brought to you here at the music industry sample rate standard of 48kHz, and 24 bit-depth. Whether you’re working on your latest film, designing the soundscape for a video game or producing a great new track; this library has something for all.

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Insect Sound Effects Psychedelic Cicadas Bundle Play Track 55+ sounds included, 165 mins total $62

The Psychedelic Cicadas Bundle contains all three libraries of our unique cicada ambiences. Immerse your audiences in the strange, fascinating tones of this unusual insect, as captured by César Rodriguez Pulido and Guile Martins in Cerrado, Brazil. The bundle offers 165 minutes and 2.77 GB of exclusive content perfect for your natural and abstract atmosphere designs.

All sounds included were carefully captured and meticulously edited for maximum sonic quality, enabling to you drop each sample into your projects with no need for further enhancement or modification.

The entire bundle is delivered at 24Bit/48kHz, and tagged with extensive Metadata.

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Environments & Ambiences Film Crew Play Track 61 sounds included $58

Lights, Camera… Action!

Film Crew is loaded with a vast range of authentic film crew and film production sound effects. Our team of skilled audio craftsmen recorded these sounds directly from a working film set, immersing themselves within the crew top bring you sounds as they happened on set.

This diverse collection of sounds are some of the only sound effects recorded at a working film set, making these sounds very unique and highly sought-after addition to an audio professionals sound library.

Inside this product, you will find a wide selection of genuine recordings that cover various stages of production, exterior and interior locations, on-set conversations between different crew departments, Director and 1st AD calling action, cut etc, equipment being set up, and film set ambiences at various levels of busy-ness.

Sounds have been separated into the following categories:

Ambiences – Exterior Atmos recordings taken from unique filming locations such as the Humber Bridge in Hull.

Exterior – Sounds captured from exterior shoots, Crew setting up outdoors, Crowd effects, Vehicles, Light traffic, On-set ambiences.

Interior – Sounds captured from interior, Crew setting up lighting and camera etc, Crew conversations, Director and 1st AD talking with actors and extras etc.

Extras – Crowd effects from extras on set, Crowds clapping and cheering, Crowd celebrating at a wedding scene.

Vintage Car Props – Sound effects captured from a genuine vintage car that featured heavily in the production where we recorded these effects.

All sounds were recorded in 24Bit 96kHz, and have been tagged with extensive UCS metadata for ease of use.

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Environments & Ambiences West Coast America Vol. 1 Play Track 23 sounds included $25

West Coast America features both urban and rural sounds of Washington and Oregon state. Venture into Pacific rainforests to hear raindrops, frogs, exotic birds, waterfall and rivers. Take a trip to the farm to experience a creaky squeaky wagon ride and a grunting pig. Journey to the ocean to surround yourself with peaceful lapping water, squawking seagulls and the bassy engine of a ship. Listen to sci-fi traffic pass-bys, car locks, and the activity of Portland city at night.

This varied selection of ambiences and spot effects can be used for a range of exterior settings. Ideal for building up backgrounds for your scenes, or further manipulation to create your own designed effects.

All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation, and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.

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Universal Category System (UCS) Interior Vibrations Vol. 1 Play Track 38+ sounds included $33

Interior Vibrations is a collection of raw contact microphone recordings of dynamic movements made across materials and surfaces found in interior locations. Inside you will find scraping static, ringing metal, oscillating tones, hissing violins, crackling rocks and more.

Our Audio Craftsmen utilised two contacts mics to create a stereo configuration, allowing for an affecting, immersive listening experience.

The organic nature of these sounds means they’re perfect for designing or inclusion in abstract projects. Their more unsettling qualities, meanwhile, make them ideal for horror and science fiction productions.

Texturise unusual moments or craft evolving ambiences with this experimental treat of a library!

All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 192kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation, and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Haunting Ambiences Vol. 4 Play Track 39 sounds included, 117 mins total $14

Haunting Ambiences Vol. 4 is the fourth instalment in one of our most popular series of horror sound effects libraries. This product contains dense, multi-layered construction kits, giving you the tools craft harrowing atmospheres for your terrifying

Haunting Ambiences Vol. 4 is the fourth instalment in one of our most popular series of horror sound effects libraries. This product contains dense, multi-layered construction kits, giving you the tools to craft harrowing atmospheres for your terrifying projects.

Our Audio Craftsmen recorded and designed unusual, unnerving sounds – including screaming voices, chair creaks, bangs, dripping water, bug movement and more – to elicit maximum unease in your audiences. The result is a series of construction kits comprising abandoned sewer, haunted living room, breeding chamber, ghost rider, engine room and eerie forest ambiences.

Also included are split stems with the same running length to encourage experimentation and allow mixing and matching across the library.

This library can be used for constructing unsettling backgrounds for both digital and live horror projects, including films, games and escape rooms.

All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 192kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Silentscapes Play Track 36 sounds included, 72 mins total $40

SILENTSCAPES is a collection of 36 high quality recorded and fully mastered romtoones, ambiences and background sounds.

The sound library contains both indoor and outdoor sounds and the sound editing was done to obtain constant and quiet ambiences.

All sounds can be used as the first and neutral sounding layer of your projects, to give support and consistency to dialogue and sfx tracks. Otherwise they can be used as sound sweeteners for existing background ambiences or sound sources for new sound shaping.

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Mechanical Sound Effects Transformation Play Track 879+ sounds included $49

Are you looking for robot and transformation sounds?

You're in luck! This library gets you sounds like complex impacts, hydraulic movements, robotic vocal manipulation, breathtaking atmos, drills, shutdowns, startups, UI sounds and much more.

Transformation is produced by Oliver Schmitt aka SOUNDS OF REVOLUTION

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Mechanical Sound Effects Exosuit – Hybrid Exoskeleton Play Track 250 sounds included $35

Exosuit contains a large number of armored sound FX ready to use. Inside this turbocharged bio-suit you will find an arsenal of mechanized pieces of equipment noises and mechanical sequences.

Also included are sampled organic sounds, metallic impacts, chain sounds, pneumatic and hissing air sounds, whooshes, explosions, electric arcs and surges and diverse ranges of alien weapons (grenade launcher, a variant of the ARC Gun and missiles). All files are named and sorted thematically.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Dreamscapes vol.1 Play Track 44 sounds included, 43 mins total $20

A collection of versatile, carefully crafted, seamless looping drones and textures, that would take you away into the unknown realms. The pack includes all kinds of moods: from low-rumbling environmental ambiences and spacey drones, to the divine and transparent textures.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Dreamscapes vol.2 Play Track 21 sounds included, 22 mins total $10

Dreamscapes is a collection of versatile, carefully crafted drones and textures, that would take you away into the deep unknown realms. The pack includes all kinds of moods: from low-rumbling environmental ambiences and spacey drones, to the divine and transparent textures. All sounds are seamless loops, thus will fit perfectly in any project including games, with no additional tailoring required.

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Firearms Sound Effects Modern Combat Play Track 239+ sounds included, 54 mins total $50

Do you want to make some realistic firefights? Do you want the sound of the Swedish Carl Gustav anti-tank rocket? Got a sudden need for tanks and explosions?

Modern Combat is a collection of high quality sounds recorded from a real Swedish military drill, captured with a mid side rig and two mics in XY configuration. This pack contains weapon handling and reload sounds, rockets being fired, close-up and distant machine guns, rocket launchers, explosions, flares, distant yelling and firefights. As a bonus we've also included some military jeep and tank driving sounds.

This sound pack is guaranteed to spice up any modern combat scenario!

All sounds included are meta data tagged(keywords+description) for use in soundminer/basehead etc.

Sounds included:
AT Rocket Handling (12 sounds)
AT Rocket Shots (58 sounds)
AT Rocket Talking (13 sounds)
Firefight AT (10 sounds)
Firefight Grenade (10 sounds)
Firefight Rifles Close (34 sounds)
Firefight Rifles Distant (30 sounds)
Firefight Shouting & Walking (58 sounds)
Flare Explosion (7 sounds)
Jeep Driving (1 sound)
Tank Driving (6 sounds)

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Mechanical Sound Effects Mechanism Play Track 769+ sounds included $99

Get the sounds of mechanisms, Steampunk inspired gears, contraptions, metal and servos with the Mechanism sound effects library.

Mechanism was created in collaboration with Sweet Justice Sound, Richard Devine, and SoundMorph, and we put great effort into ensuring the quality and usefulness of this unique collection. Half designed and half source recordings, Mechanism gives you a toolbox to be inspired by.

It features more than 300 files – and right now you get a bonus 400 best-of-sounds from our Robotic Lifeforms library, for a total of 2.8GB of 24bit/96khz .WAV files.

Mechanism highlights:

• Mechanical Gears
• Designed contraptions
• Steampunk rusty doors and levers
• Source recorded by Richard Devine
• All meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata
+ 400 “best of” sounds from our Robotic Lifeforms library

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Foley Sound Effects Analogue Rotary Telephone Play Track 65+ sounds included $20

This collection started as a mic test and turned into a library. What is unique about the collection is that the phone was taken apart so you get each individual element as clean as possible. It was recorded with shotgun mics, a TLM 103 to see how it sounded with something other than dialogue, and a Cold Gold contact mic at 96 khz, which was the biggest surprise as it sounds like a high definition retro mic when placed on the back of the phone's rotary dial. Skip the antique hunt and listen to these vintage sounds.

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Creature Sound Effects Bleep – Cute Robot Voice Play Track 211 sounds included $49

Meet Bleep – The adorable robot vocal library that will melt the collective hearts of your audience. With all the vocalizations you need to give your cute robotic characters a life of their own.
Includes 211 vocals spanning over an amazing array of expressions!

Expressions include:
Activation, Affection, Anger, Arousal, Confusion, Dying, Drunk, Exertion, Falling/Descending, Epiphany, Grumbling, Hurt, Jumping, Laughing, Malfunctioning, Performing Actions, Relief, Sadness, Fear, Sighing, Sneezing, Surprise, and more

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World Sounds Ambiences from Thailand Play Track 59 sounds included $44.99

Ambiences from Thailand is a collection of sounds from busy and exotic Bangkok, idyllic Railay Beach and Khao Sok with oldest evergreen rainforest in the world. You will hear tourists’ excitement, local Thais conversations, traditional gongs at world-famous temples and cricket chirps and other insects in middle of the night. Additionally you will find soundscapes generated by Asian means of transportation: boats, tuk tuks, buses and planes.

Sounds have been captured in Bangkok, Ao Namm, Railay Beach, Phra Nang Beach, Krabi, Khao Sok and Surat Thani.

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Vehicle Sound Effects DRIFTING vol 2. Car Internal Play Track $15

Get the drifting, breaking, screaming, skidding and acceleration sounds of a race car – from both interior and exterior perspectives.

Features the roaring engines of a Nissan 240SFX s13 and the BMW E46 giving it everything they've got on a racetrack. Includes microphone positions such as cabin, body, exhaust and engine, and also includes selected ambiences from the race track, captured at a distance. Includes nearly 3.5 hours of recordings.

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Fire Sound Effects Small Fires Play Track 46 sounds included, 43 mins mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$40
This library was made for the small stuff. I have always had a hard time finding small fire sounds. I work mostly in games, and trying to find a small fireplace sound, or torches on the wall in a castle, or perhaps a candle or oil lamp sound, are impossible to find in commercial libraries! I've always been unhappy with what I had to make for those elements. So, I went to work getting small and delicate fire sounds.

It took multiple field recording trips using a variety of different materials to find the best small fire sounds. Finally, after a lot of hard work (and smoke to the lungs), here is the Small Fire SFX Library!
- Small fires with a variety of different materials including cloth, cotton, hand sanitizer, a multitude of different woods, Vaseline, and pure alcohol
- 1.22 Gigs, 43+ mins, 46 files
- Stereo & Mono 96Khz, 24bit
- Metadata included for programs like Soundminer
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Footsteps Sound Effects Carpet Footwork Play Track 40+ sounds included $10

‘Carpet Footwork’ by Badlands Sound includes 40 high-quality footsteps, scrapes, scuffs, jumps audio files perfect for your projects. The library features two different types of shoes on two different surfaces both hard carpet and soft carpet.

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Magic & Fantasy Sound Effects Helinä Play Track 754+ sounds included, 225 mins total
Rated 4.00 out of 5
$55

“Helinä” can be translated as “the tinkling sound made by the shaking of tiny bells”. These may be wind chimes, and some are quite large, but the meaning of the name still rings true. Beautiful, glorious, and entrancing wind chimes, all stirred up for your designing and listening pleasure.

We’ve meticulously recorded and only very lightly edited 15 different sets of wind chimes composed of varying materials, shapes, and sizes. The result is a stirring array of shimmering textures from the soft dull knock of bamboo to the brilliant crystalline sparkle of obsidian.

The chimes sets and performances include:

Chimes: Bamboo, Glass Shards, Porcelain Bell, Cast iron Bell, Glass Bell, Stoneware, Obsidian, Buoy, Paper/Mixed, Copper, Aluminum, Bronze, Agate, Shells, Capiz

Performances: Flowing (Short, Med, Long), Breeze (Light), Windy (Moderate), Stormy (Heavy), Quaking, Plops, Gusts, Strikes, Grabbing, Releasing

You’ll get incredible tonal depth, preciously sustained tails, and conveniently isolated strikes and “gusts” resulting in a natural representation of each chime. All of the chime-work was recorded in 192 kHz so you can bend, stretch, and twist with the comfort of the extended harmonic content of each chime. The majority of the stereo content is presented in Mid-Side format (noted in tracklist and metadata) such that the stereo width can be dialed in as desired and a clean mono track can be had without any added processing or summing. All of the performances resulted in 50 separate files for each of the 15 chimes, making layering and matching performances a breeze. In addition to the chime sets, we’ve included four stereo wind captures, in different capacities and locations, for adding context and ambiance to any wind chime-appropriate environment you may find yourself working on.

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Footsteps Sound Effects STEPS: Dirt & Gravel Play Track 96 sounds included $9.99

STEPS Dirt & Gravel is a collection of 96 footstep sound effects.

Collection consists of 85 single, mono footsteps,
6 mono sequences and 5 designed sound effects such as stereo walk and group walk.

All footsteps were recorded outdoors.

All SFX have baked-in Soundminer’s meta data

Download includes additional 44.1kHz 16Bit version for Unreal Engine.
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre-6 + DPA 4060
EDITED WITH: iZotope RX7, Pro Tools

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Sci-Fi Sound Effects Transitions 003 Play Track 78 sounds included $14.95

Transitions 003 brings you even more specially crafted sounds for all your animation, game or film post production needs. Each sound has been carefully created using a variety of processing plugins and techniques to give you an arsenal of unique FX to use in your next productions. All files have been meta tagged so they'll be easily searchable in Soundminer.

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Electricity Sound Effects Circuit Scanners – Power Source Play Track 55 sounds included $14.95

We’ve dug deep into the circuit paths of electronic equipment using signal tracers to scan and record electronic noise and electromagnetic fields (EMF) emanating from electronic equipment.

This third installment in a series of three sound libraries focuses on the elements of power sources with noise drones of electrical power, 60Hz cycle hum, dirty ground buzz with static, glitch, pops, snaps, crackles & electronic interference including low-end & pulsing frequencies.

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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

We're always looking for new sounds to mangle, so when A Sound Effect had a holiday sale, I tried them out.

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

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Director, Digital - Source Sound Inc.

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