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Shards is a sound library that's all about that (breaking) glass.
It contains glass and porcelain being smashed, rustled, trickled and dropped from two different microphone perspectives! Shard's intended use is for anything icy, glassy and porcelain-y.
This sound library has a variety of sounds and activities that come from most household bathrooms. It includes sounds of showers, sinks filling and draining, medicine cabinet items, bottles of pills, brushing hair, spraying hairspray, clipping nails, toilets flushing, lotion, cloth towels, washing hands, etc. Each track is a 2-channel stereo recording from a Mid-side mic setup from two Schoeps CMC 5Us with MK8 and MK4 capsules fed into a Sound Devices 744T.
The Yamaha YZ250 Dirt Bike SFX library from Watson Wu delivers the sounds of this 2004 motorcycle with a 250cc 2 stroke engine. Files are divided into external static sounds, external following sounds, foley sounds, and onboard sounds. Captured Onboard – from the driver's point of view. External recordings: External Static is from a fixed stereo microphone. External Following is from an MS Stereo Shotgun mic following the traveling dirt bike.
Amusement Rides & Ambiences is a unique collection of hard to access amusement park sound effects. Package includes high-quality multichannel recordings captured with a full access to the amusement rides – and a total of 8 rides are included!
Some recordings were made in an amusement park that was closed from the public. This enabled us to capture the sound effects as clean as possible without background music or people.
Ambience recordings are authentic amusement park ambiences with people and amusement rides. They include children and adults, cheering and screaming, chatter in different languages, amusement rides loading and operating, and more. All sounds were recorded in Särkänniemi amusement park, Tampere, Finland. Also available in the special Complete Amusement Park Sound Bundle.
The Mopeds SFX library delivers the sounds of no less than 7 different mopeds. Created in a collaboration between Sonicsalute, sound designer Rune Palving (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 1864, and Tordenskjold), and sound designer Peter Albrechtsen (Antichrist, The Queen of Versailles, and The Idealist).
The included mopeds range from new and non-modified models, to many characteristic-sounding (old and wrecked) models – as well as one heavily-tuned moped.
Onboard driving and maneuvering (long onboard drives) • Ambiences • Passbys • Circles • Incoming/aways • Start/stop • Revs • Horns • Fuel covers
High-quality nature ambience of wild landscapes in eastern Oregon – with a focus on bird sounds in the high desert across times of day and seasons. These are authentic western desert sounds appropriate for use in westerns, wild west, and related games and films.
Many tracks are quite long – several minutes or longer. Species include woodpeckers, meadowlarks, woodpeckers, distant owls, and more. Includes bonus clips of fly buzzes and a few bats. A number catch birds quite close to the recorder.
STUTTER MATTER delivers a fresh sound set of syncopated hi-tech stutters and ultra-triggered sound effects. Whether you work as movie trailer or game sound designer, editor, soundtrack composer or experimental musician STUTTER MATTER will add a touch of sound dementia to create a more diverse listening experience.
If you are looking for brutal syncopated bursts, head spinning dynamics shifts and industrial dyslexia this sound pack deserves a listen for anyone seeking out interesting sound design.
Categories:• Stutter Chopper
• Stutter Filter
• Stutter Reverse
• Stutter Woosh
• Stutter Sequences and Glitches
• Unprocessed/Raw Stutter elements
+ Bonus folder – 40 Hi-Tech Hits
High quality unprocessed drone/quadcopter recorded using both binaural and mid-side microphone techniques. 4 different types of quadcopters were used in this sound library.
Gear: Neumann KU-100 binaural dummy head microphone, Schoeps mid-side setup (Schoeps CMC6 MK8, Schoeps, CCM M4, Sound Devices Mix-Pre 6)
Our Gore library was recorded in the weeks preceding Halloween 2017. We decided to have some fun because we generally only have access to pumpkins this time of year and thought why not create something fun for us, and our friends and colleagues to use. Please enjoy the use of these recording in all your spooky movies and sound design.
Provided are 750 MB of LR and MS Recordings. LR is decoded from the MS and has the approximate stereo width as an XY recording. On the MS tracks the mid mic is on the left and the side mic on the right.
The LR can be encoded back into MS or if panned center, cancels out the side mics to just play the mid mic. Alternately in the provided MS file, the right side channel can be dropped so you can use the mono center. The 2 files are mastered the same. Occasionally the levels vary on the MS track as these are the levels set to keep the the tracks phase coherent. All tracks are edited to be M&E friendly, and monitored through a phase scope to again, keep the tracks phase coherent.
All recordings were recorded In a foley studio at 192kHz with a Fostex FR-2 recorder, Project Studio C4 mic, and Ambient Emesser ATE-208 bi-directional mic and mastered in Pro Tools.
All recordings are recorded in Toronto, Ontario Canada, by Ryan Macneill and Steven Ejbick of Textures Sound.
This library has an unmistakable Orcish character! And with over 50 vocalizations, this library caters to all the expressions needed for your Orc characters. Designed specifically with game audio use in mind.
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.
Impacts, friction, and destruction of large objects on wood, various metals, dirt, leaves, glass, plastic, brick, and concrete! There’s no shortage of destruction and debris in this library with over 350 sounds to choose from.
These files were recorded at a destination of a heaping pile of debris waiting to be hauled to a landfill. Whether you need smashes, thuds, heavy falls, glass breaking, shingles scraping, shovels digging, wood and metal bending and creaking, and hoisting large objects followed by destruction this library has got your back. Combine these files to create the most epic destructions or use them by themselves for direct impacts or friction of materials. Enjoy You Me & Debris!
The sounds were recorded in stereo at 96 kHz 24 bit. The equipment used was a Sony PCM-M10 and the files were processed, edited, and mastered in Reaper.
From the Moons of Saturn to the internal workings of a warp engine. These ambiances will set the tone for all types of futuristic soundscapes. These textures are blended phase modulations and distant radio waves that will drop right into your DAW and transport you to outer space!
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.
Medieval Battle contains a wide variety of sounds taken straight from the battlefield. Unleash the full force of your army with effects from a diverse range of medieval weaponry, crowds, horses and battle charges. There are also battle cries, screams and shouts to make the audience feel like they are right there on the frontlines. To bring you the most organic and natural battle sounds, we recorded actors performing in a quiet exterior location. All sounds were recorded in 24Bit 96kHz, allowing for further sonic manipulation.
If you think your sound collection is in need of some reinforcements then this is the library for you! Medieval Battle is ideal for use in Film, TV and Game projects, and will make a perfect addition to your sound design arsenal.
Here are the included folders:
Crowds: Crowd rushes and static battle cries in a natural exterior location make these effects perfect for building the bed of a huge Medieval warzone.
Female Voices: 4 individual female actors perform multiple vocalisations including screams, grunts and efforts.
Sword & Shield Hits: A variety of sword and shield hits performed by weapons and combat experts.
Male Voices: 4 individual male actors perform multiple vocalisations including screams, grunts and efforts.
Household Drones contains a large array of atmospheres conjured up from the most interesting household sources. There are a variety of tonalities included that blend seamlessly together, from the positive to the downright ominous.
All included sound effects are provided in 24bit 96kHz WAV, allowing for further manipulation. Each of the drones was derived from natural sources, organic textures that fit effortlessly into Film, TV and Game soundtracks (both in a musical and sound effects context). Use them in combination with background effects to create abstract and expansive soundscapes, or with instruments to add interesting atonal flourishes.
We have also included the source recordings to give users the opportunity to develop their own sonic experiments and provided extensive metadata to help with file searching.
Conspiracy Theory contains a wide selection of dynamic and varied sound effects that are inspired by the sonic trends found in contemporary documentaries on streaming services. These sounds include low booms, rhythmic ticks, radio voices, singing, pads, stabs, whistles, rumble whooshes, and production elements. They were crafted from both organic and digital sources to provide maximum versatility and variation. Our award-winning Sound Designers recorded and edited the sounds from string instruments, ethnic winds, percussion, digital/analogue synthesizers, and male vocalists.
This library is your one-stop solution to sound/musical effects for modern documentaries and films that have a twist or tension. All effects were recorded in 24Bit 96kHz, allowing for further sonic manipulation. Perfect for Sound Designers and Composers, ideal for use in Film, TV and Game projects, and will make a perfect addition to your sound design arsenal.
Here are the included folders:
Low Booms: Heavy and guttural, these booms will accent your most mysterious moments.
Pads: A range of feels and moods built into construction kits, that complement other music or work perfectly in isolation.
Production Elements: Glitchy digital effects that transition and enhance opening title sequences.
Rumble Whooshes: A set of rumble whooshes, perfect for transitioning out of different scenes/moments.
Stabs: Highlight your most shocking moments with organic and atonal instruments.
Ticks: Add tension and pace to your title sequence with a tick and a tock.
Whistles: Ethnic winds designed into unnerving and dynamic effects to fill background gaps under dialogue.
Singing Voices: Ethnic and exotic vocals add mystery to ancient history subjects, or alien landings.
Radio Voices: A suite of ‘sound-alike’ speeches/excerpts from tragic/mysterious events, processed to sound like authentic archive material.
Build the world of your story with award-winning quality sound curated from the private library of two Academy Award®-winning sound artists.
Establish the setting of any scene with the go-to recordings of The Odyssey Collection: Ambiences. Cover your needs for locations both everyday and exotic – from aircraft carriers to the Serengeti, nuclear power plants, brisk Canadian mountain air, Mexican bar walla, a Czechoslovakian office, record pressing factories, Malaysian forests, big cities, small towns and everywhere in-between.
Developed in exclusive collaboration with Academy Award®-winners Mark Mangini & Richard L. Anderson, Odyssey Ambiences delivers vibrant, diverse, high-quality recordings from around the globe – so you can focus on staying creative and delivering your best sound.
“Because Richard and I were so religious about fresh recordings, it was quite common for us to have a recorder with us everywhere we went. This allowed us to develop a rich, varied and international scope to our Ambience library without having to actually find money to fund every recording.”
– Mark Mangini (Blade Runner 2049, Mad Max: Fury Road)
Explore sounds from Odyssey Ambiences
Sound artists need a deep collection of ambiences to cover the location of any scene. Each recording in this library was captured with a dedication to gathering diverse, high-quality sounds from around the world – so you’re covered for every environment. Listen to a small sample from a variety of categories.
Optimized metadata for quicker searches and better results.
You need to actualize your creative vision in an instant. That’s why the PSE Editorial Team team has invested over 20,000 hours of library development work – eyes, ears, hands, imaginations – editing and cataloging each audio file in The Odyssey Collection. The result is a reliable wealth of professional sound effects to boost your projects – each with meticulous, rich descriptions optimized to our metadata standard for lightning-fast, pinpoint search results.
Welcome to the first in our new Element Series: FIRE. The Element series will feature highly designed sounds as well as expertly recorded raw source recordings. With FIRE we spared no expense to experiment with tons of different props and sources. From a double ended fire staff all the way to a “plasma gun” fire tube. Can you ever have enough FIRE? We don’t think so. FIRE is a collaboration between SoundMorph, Jason Cushing, Tibo Csuko & Boris Karekine. FIre contains more than 3.4GB / 675+ files.
All files are 24bit/96khz .WAV stereo files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata. FIRE contains the following folder categories:
UK Residential Room Tones is a distinct collection of ambiences captured from different types of rooms in residential areas of the UK, perfect for layering with other ambiences, or filling in natural tone under dialogue scenes.
These sound effects will make an amazing addition to your audio collection and work perfectly in documentaries, films, commercials, video games and various other projects.
Our Audio Craftsmen captured ambiences from a wide variety of rooms which differed in size, height, distance from traffic and their locations. We have covered: living rooms, bathrooms, bedrooms, hallways, stairs and more from different flats and apartments and then meticulously edited them so that you can drag them straight to your projects.
All of the files are provided dry in 24 Bit 96kHz allowing you for further sonic manipulation. Furthermore, all the sounds in the library are extensively tagged with metadata and are UCS complaint making it more easier to find the right sound you need.
Victorian Pump Organ is our new steampunk-inspired Kontakt library made in collaboration with Stuart Keenan from Glitchedtones. With 50 different patches including sound design, drum kits and foley, this instrument is perfect for musicians and sound designers to make everything from sea shanties, period style music from the 1800s and early 20th-century all the way to EDM tracks and horror/atmospheric scores.
Stuart Keenan from Glitchedtones faithfully captured a Victorian Pump Organ (built-in 1865, Canada) at a studio in Newcastle with 4 different microphones positioned for treble, bass and stereo room mic perspectives. Our Audio Craftsmen meticulously edited the samples and programmed 50 patches and integrated them into our Kontakt interface giving film composers, music producers, sound designers and game developers a vast array of options to create music and compositions in various genres.
There are 9 main patches including 3 melodic patches, 4 chord patches and 2 foley patches with the organ adjusted at different stops. We also recorded genuine major, minor and complex chords helping people with less knowledge in music theory to write songs and chord progressions. We also covered foley patches with keys, squeaks and pedal sounds to add an essence of natural character.
Our in house composers built additional designed patches which include; Harp like arpeggiators, ethnic instruments such as the harmonium all the way to electro leads, game boy organs and dubstep inspired basslines. We even manipulated samples and built patches for metal and rock music.
We have included patches for a variety of circumstances like abandoned church organs, space generators and creaky room voices. We have also included low subsonic impacts and rumbles to add weight to your sounds and music. Some of the patches like glorious arp, telephone arp, tweeting birds, drunken organ, sea shanty organ, harmonica and cathedral hits are ideal for adding texture and interest.
Our user-friendly Kontakt interface provides a variety of controls that encourage experimentation within the patches. We have included a mic mixing section with ADSR where you can adjust the levels for treble, bass and stereo (multiple mics) if you need to add more width to the mix. The built-in Arpeggiator and Step Sequencer are great for generating hundreds of variations in seconds.
We hope that you will take the opportunity to try out this fascinating and timeless instrument.
Kontakt 5.8.1 or higher is required.
NOTE: This library does not run in the free ‘Kontakt Player.
Loaded with true organic whooshes that were recorded in an isolated, dead silent and well treated studio, Natural Whooshes delivers what you can expect from Silverplatter Audio: a highly usable collection of high quality whooshes, swooshes and swishes. Perfect for transitions, combat, speed sweeteners, and so much more.
As sound designers, when we need “those whoosh sound effects”, we always need more than a handful. With this library, you’ll get plenty. With 388 sounds recorded with 20 different props, this collection brings you a wide range of tones and articulations, from deep and large Whooshes to fast moving Swishes.
Recorded with a Sennheiser MKH 8040 Stereo Pair through a Sound Devices MixPre 6.
Water and Waves is our new sound effects library created in collaboration with our friends at West Wolf Audio.
This library features an inspired selection of authentic water ambiences from a range of stunning locations, including Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, as well as recordings taken from The Black Sea and The Agean Sea.
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.
Some of the sounds included in this library include rough seas with crashing waves, calm water lapping, lakeside ambiences with boat engines, various cave ambiences with dripping and rushing water, forest streams and water splashing against the hull of a sailboat.
This epic collection of sound effects gives you all the tools you need to design detailed and authentic aquatic soundscapes and is perfect for use in film, tv and video games with a seaside or lake setting.
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.
The Water Emerge/Submerge Bundle contains our three libraries which feature the sound of a huge variety of props emerging from and submerging into water.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded props with an underwater-overwater microphone configuration comprising the Aquarian H2a Hydrophone and Sennheiser MKH50. Each library comes with both mic options available as separate files, providing limitless options for layering in your designs.
This massive collection of sounds is perfect for aquatic sound design and enhancing any of your water-themed sonic projects.
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/192kHz, and tagged with extensive Metadata.
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