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Get the sounds of switches, buttons, knobs and handles – recorded inside an old, retired flight simulator donated to the Danish Technical Museum.
This machine used to make aspiring pilots sweat in their seats, putting them through all sorts of mechanical failures, emergency landings, and just plain flying.
There is basically a switch, button, knob or handle to start every single possible emergency situation a pilot and crew may encounter when flying.
When the sound recording started, some of them were partly broken, and others missing, some did not turn or switch, but most of them were still there and worked beautifully. The variety is surprisingly great, and very different from today's modern switch sounds.
91 tracks, recorded with a Sennheiser 416 onto a Sounddevices 702, all tracks Metadata tagged.
A larger focus on wind – with trees, brush, crickets, and other sounds often included. There are also plain wind sounds recorded on exceptionally quiet wilderness winter nights that can be layered over most every project for several minutes or longer. Additionally includes some branches breaking in high winds and rain patter.
• In Pacific Northwest: Roosevelt Elk, get a mini-nature collection of ambiences from the Hoh Rainforest, a temperate rainforest on the Olympic Peninsula in Olympic National Park. Hear Roosevelt Elk clack antlers and bugle as they fight for the chance to mate. Hear Pacific Wrens joyous chirps as they dance on rotten logs. Hear the massive sparseness of forests filled with 200-300 foot douglas fir and spruce. Hear haunting reverberations as ravens caw in groves of titans and the Hoh River’s soothing wash, the perfect sound to lull you off to peaceful dreams.
• This library offers you a small collection of both quiet and active nature sounds from one of the wettest forests in North America. Some places on the Olympic Peninsula get over 200 inches of precipitation per year, and that abundance of moisture makes for a magical fern and moss filled ecosystem brimming with soothing ambiences.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased for the Pacific Northwest Series. Field Recording travel for these libraries was carbon neutral!
• Named markers are included in each file to help find interesting events in an otherwise uniform waveform!
• Marker text included in the Soundminer description and BWAV description fields.
•In Bowed Cactus, get a visceral collection of bowed and plucked cactus from the deserts of the American Southwest. Take a violin bow to a cactus spine and hear guttural screeches with intense, physical energy. Hear plucked needles popping in rich organic granulation. Hear thick, bowed spines growling like supernatural animals and single needles stuttering with real grit.
•This library offers you an extensive collection of sounds from a unique organic sound source. Cactus sounds are incredibly soft and intimate in real life, but when recorded from two inches they morph into otherworldly creatures brimming with ultrasonic energy. I hope you are excited by their sound designing potential and I can’t wait to hear what you create!
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased to offset my field recording travel for this library.
Dakota Crickets by Badlands Sound features seven ambience files in high quality of 192k Hz. All files are three minutes long and are loopable that allows for easy editing ambiences for your projects. You will hear this library has almost no wind in the recordings allowing you to layer your ambiences. Great file names and metadata makes these a breeze to use and find.
This library contains a wide variety of modern day food packaging and wrappers. It is a variation of opening, closing, handling and tearing. This library is perfect for those close up shots of food products that require that very specific material to make it authentic. The library was recorded using the Avedis MA5 Pre, along with the Shoeps CMIT5 microphone at 96Khz 24Bit.
The Dark Woods Ambience sound effects library contains sounds of natural night ambiences, all recorded in the woods in Southwest Florida, USA (under trees, woods, etc). All 68 ready to use and loop-able stereo wave files were captured in 24 Bit, 96 kHz stereo (each in 3 or 5 minutes long). There are sounds of birds, a Coyote, frogs, insects, wild pigs, waves/water splashes from fish/wind, thunders, etc (check out the file names). See if you can identify what the two creatures are that approached my microphone. One of the creatures dragged the microphone fur a few feet away!
Dakota Wetlands by Badlands Sound features 11 three to four minute seamless loopable ambiences making these a breeze to work with. Recorded over the span of a couple months this collection of ambiences were recorded in 96k 24bit with the Sound Devices 702t and a pair of Sennheiser MKH 8040's.
In the Audio Demo for this product you will be able to hear all the sounds that are in this library. If you are looking for marsh, prairie sounds next to a lake, or specifically wetlands for a great price this library is for you.
Invigorate your animal and creature designs with the sprightly sounds of Wildlife Collection: Capuchin Monkeys. Featuring 81 exotic monkey sound effects, this library delivers a wide variety of vivacious chirps, screeches, chitters and grunts to design your wild creatures, fill out jungle scenes, and more.
These colorful capuchin monkey vocalizations were captured by recordist and sound designer Chris Diebold (Spider-Man: Homecoming, Transformers: The Last Knight) with multiple microphones, including the Sanken CO-100K, which captures and maintains up to 100kHz (rather than 20kHz from other microphones). Delivered at the high sample rate of 192kHz, these authentic, high-quality monkey recordings are ripe for pitch processing and control over your creative sound design.
In addition to the raw recordings, this collection also contains pre-designed and “hyped” sounds ready to drag-and-drop directly into your projects. Each sound file is embedded with rich, descriptive metadata for fast, intuitive search results to help increase efficiency and sustain creativity.
Cymbals From Hell is the seminal collection of bowed metal sound effects, crafted from recordings of both natural and broken cymbals. Bringing you the nastiest, gnarliest, and harshest set of design elements and raw recordings. Their dynamic range provides a palette that evolves and adapts over time.
All of the sounds have been recorded in a controlled studio environment and played by a professional percussionist, with the intention of providing the most dynamic range and disturbing playing style. Our Audio Craftsmen then meticulously designed and edited every included sound from the bizarre to the downright horrifying.
Cymbals From Hell contains a total of 197 files running at a huge 8.9GB. This library gives you everything you need to create compelling Horror and Sci-Fi soundscapes and add accents to your music, ideal for use in a wide range of projects. All sounds have been recorded in 24bit 96khz for further manipulation, and have been carefully edited so that you can easily drop them into your project timeline and get working right away.
Here are the included folders:
Bowed Cymbals: Harsh and dynamic bowed cymbals, perfect for musical or sound effects accenting.
Time Bending Risers: Sharp risers that have a feeling of movement in time.
Pulsating Dread Pads: The perfect Horror backdrops, built from organic elements.
Mind Bender Stingers: Warped cymbal effects that are equally at home in a Sci-Fi or Horror tracklay.
Metallic Oscillation Pads: The direct opposite of a Meditation Bowl, these sounds oscillate and move in an unnerving way.
Head Shaker Drones: Grit your teeth and cover your ears, these sounds warn of impending doom.
Gut Rumbler Subs: How low can we go? Very low. These sounds sit nicely under your tracklay and provide some serious sub frequencies.
Disturbing Risers: Distorted and mangled, these cymbals are bound to accent any jump scare with a dose of disturbing!
Bowed Alien Metals: Otherwordly vibes fused with a classic staple Horror sound.
Cinematic Trailer Hits is our latest Kontakt library with 400+ samples, covering everything from heavy low and mid impacts all the way to high percussion sounds, perfect for creating epic trailer music and effects for your film, tv and video game projects.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded sounds ranging from explosive drums, metallic hits and impact sounds using sledge hammers, bricks, drums, scrap metal and smaller percussion instruments. We took a variety of recorded samples and layered them with other newly and carefully crafted sounds to give you that larger than life, end of world vibe to your music with a jaw dropping collection of sounds.
Our in house Composers also built a variety of patches which include heavy ‘braams’ and bass, low impacts, reverse fx, risers, pads and several other patches covering low, mid and high frequency spectrums. This gives film composers, music producers ,sound designers and game developers a vast array of options to create epic cinematic rhythms that cover all your needs.
Like our other Kontakt instruments, the 344 Audio user interface includes a variety of controls so that you can manipulate the sounds as needed and the inbuilt Arpeggiator and Step Sequencer allow you to create variations of cinematic rhythms and melodies on the fly.
We have kept the recorded sounds natural and created huge sounds by layering up different recordings maintaining a natural feel to samples. This library contains all impact, percussion and tonal sounds you need to create an epic, mind blowing cinematic trailer, and works especially well when combined with orchestral music.
Kontakt 5.8.1 or higher is required.
NOTE: This library does not run in the free ‘Kontakt Player’.
Zombie Specimens Vol. 2 is a diverse collection of zombie growls, groans and vocalisations designed from voices of multiple voice actors. This library is a sequel to one of our most popular libraries, and includes 8 different sets of zombie vocal variations.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded vocalisations from talented voice actors and creatively designed them to make variations including: breathy groans, deep grunts, groans, tired zombie growls, angry zombie voices and much, much more. Moreover, all of the files are provided in 96kHz 24Bit, tagged with extensive metadata and are UCs compliant for ease of use. Also, all of the sounds are provided without reverb, so that you can drop them straight into your mix and add your own effects. This library is perfect for adding that horrifying undead texture in Film, TV, Game and other horror projects.
Antique Bottles is our new sound effects library with a varied assortment of glass bottle sounds captured in our acoustically treated Foley suite. Focused specifically on reclaimed bottles from old taverns, pubs and factories, reminiscent of those seen in films like Pulp Fiction, Calamity Jane and Pirates of the Caribbean.
Our Audio Craftsmen captured various sounds including; dropping, rolling, sliding, tapping with various objects and much, much more. This library is perfect for use in films, documentaries, video games and other projects, especially if it’s a period piece. It is also a great staple for sound designers to add to their general audio collection.
All sounds were recorded in 24Bit 96kHz allowing further sonic manipulation in our acoustically treated Foley suite. We then meticulously edited and tagged the files with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Witness the terrible and wondrous sounds of the long gone rulers of Earth, with our new library, Dinosaurs, containing audio brought back from 65 million years in the past.
Our Audio Craftsmen have captured the roars, rumbles and groans of a variety of Dinosaurs, from Triceratops to the King himself, T-Rex!
All sounds were recorded in our acoustically treated Foley suite in 24Bit 96kHz allowing further sonic manipulation. We then meticulously edited and tagged the files with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Phantasmal Ambiences Vol. 2 is the second in a series of nightmarish ambiences made to unnerve you and your audiences.
Perspective recordings of assorted props and instruments were captured in the 344 Audio headquarters and a beautifully reverberant Nottingham church. These sounds were then carefully edited, manipulated and layered to form haunting scenes for use in all your horrific creations.
Inject terror and dread into your film, TV and video game projects with this Pandora’s box of evil-doers and malevolent forces – all localised in the near distance of various other-worldly spaces.
Our Audio Craftsmen have carefully edited each sound for maximum sonic clarity so that you can drop each sound directly into your project timeline and get down to work with minimal fuss.
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.
Water Movements Vol. 2 is a new sound effect library from 344 Audio. Precisely assembled by our team of audio craftsmen, This library contains a wide range of water-based sound effects captured by the legendary MKH50 Super Cardioid Microphone and our Aquarian H2a Hydrophonic microphone. Take the plunge and design your own custom underwater soundscapes for your projects!
All files have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use, and come delivered to you at a format of 24bit 192kHz; allowing you to manipulate and design these source recordings in any way you could wish.
Interior Vibrations Vol. 3 is the third volume in our Interior Vibrations collection.
This collection was captured by our Audio Craftsmen with a stereo pair of contact microphones, used experimentally to generate a range of unique textural sounds. It features drilling, scraping and a diversity of movement performed on various metals and a guitar.
These raw recordings are made for further design and are great for adding an abstract edge to your projects. Or try including them in horror and sci-fi projects for some unsettling sonic texture.
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.
A massive 496 Audio Files of detailed and balanced recordings of handwriting performances. Scribbles, erasing, check marks, blackouts, colouring, circles and crosshatches for each writing tool are in this complete Foley library.
You get mechanical pen and pencil clicks, cap pop-offs and snap-ons, squeaky pens and thick markers, crayons, ball point pens, felt pens, erasers, highlighters and sharpies.
Capturing the detail of the subtle sound with zero background noise is an art in itself! For these recordings, we found that the best results were achieved using an LCR configuration. A tightly positioned Rode NTG3 shotgun mic for the centre was used, along with a pair of slightly pulled back Sennheiser MKH 8040s to provide a gentle stereo image. The environment we used was our “dead room”, completely silent and reverb-free for this type of recording (this neat little room approaches a mini anechoic chamber) Reliably transparent and highly recommended, a Sound Devices Mix-Pre-6 was used to capture the final recordings.
The Squelch sound library is a collection of 6 radios, walkie talkies, and CBs recorded both through the speakers and in some cases through the line outs. Each device served up a broad palette of static, beeps, clicks, squelches, and random idle chatter.
Comes with 93 recordings with hundreds of individual sounds + one Kontakt instrument (instrument requires the full version of NI Kontakt 4 or higher).
The Kontakt instrument is a unique performable radio device designed for experimentation and discovery of the broad palette of sounds. It also includes a classic spring reverb unit with a custom interface created from a Pioneer SR202W. See the Kontakt interface here.
These authentic radio recordings are useful in sound design/film applications and can be twisted out into musical and sound design effects.
More than your average beast sound set, this library brings you a large selection of dog vocalizations, howls, growls, cries, whines, huffs, puffs, sighs, and more.
The EFX BLACK POWDER Weapons pack is a collection of 19th Century pistol, revolver and rifle weapon sounds.
The collection includes recordings of 1777 AN IX & Lepage pistols, REMINGTON 1858 & RUGER OLD ARMY revolver, 1777 AN IX, 1822 TBIS, GIBBS, LEE ENFELD, PARKER HALE rifles – as well as a number of salvos from black powder rifles.
Travel back in time and recreate classic gunfights and shootouts with this collection of vintage weapon sounds.
Fringe Elements is an aggressive sample pack of divergent and destructive sounds designed for musicians and sound designers in need of a hard-hitting sound pallet on the periphery of normal. Each sound was built in the modular world and heavily processed through DSP algorithms to create structurally unique outcomes and ultimately highly usable samples.
Contained in this collection are 225 unique sounds designed as FX, rhythmic elements, evolving textures, noise, distortion, spectral atmospheres and other elements perfect as building blocks to new music and sound projects or to be layered into existing work to add weight, depth and dimension.
The recordings of real race car – the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 8 with 2.0 Turbo Engine on a dynapack. It features ignitions, idles, low and hi accelerations, ramps, stops and a lot of revolution sweeps.
The library delivers 9-channel recordings:
• 3 engine channels: AudioTechnika 8015, Sennheiser 416, Sennheiser 840
• 4 exhaust channels: Sennheiser 418S (MS), Shure SM 58, Octava 015
– and interior 2 channels recorded with a Neumann 185 MT stereo pair
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.
• 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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