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The Foley Vault is home to an ever-growing collection of original Foley recordings.
Each library was captured by professional Foley Artists on our in-house Foley Stage using a Sennheiser MKH50 microphone.
These sounds were originally performed for a variety of feature and short film projects. They have now been compiled and released for you to edit and implement into your own film, game and television productions.
Immerse your audience in nightmares with your very own collection of spooky, mysterious, and chilling ambiences that will transport them to new dimensions of suspense and fear! From the dead of night to the pale light of day, from abandoned mansions to cursed graveyards, HORROR AMBIENCES is the perfect choice to raise goosebumps in any scene you require.
So pack your flashlight and take your audience on a journey through haunted houses, undead wastelands, dark forests, and the shadows of the apocalypse!
TRUE IMMERSION
HORROR AMBIENCES is the only sound bank on the market that goes beyond artificial drones, synth-generated soundscapes, or raw noises to instead use movie quality mixing to combine field recordings of rich, natural sounds into custom ambiences, immersing your users in truly dynamic environments that feel tailored to each scene.
ALL NEEDS COVERED
With every aspect of the horror genre as a foreground or background audio, multiple versions and levels of intensity for the sounds, seamless transitions, and formats from Hi-Res WAV to High-Quality MP3, you’ll be spoiled for choice! What’s more, HORROR AMBIENCES includes easy contact with our expert team for any additional, custom requests.
DRAG AND DROP READY
Each audio file has been mastered and carefully designed to seamlessly blend into any mix of sound effects, music, or dialogue in your project, with no tweaking required! With meticulous labeling and expansive use of keywords in filenames, this massive library is easy to navigate and you wll find the perfect sound in seconds.
Look no further than blockbuster films to see how crucial incredible audio is for a truly immersive horror experience. With this in mind, we have meticulously designed HORROR AMBIENCES for you to immerse your audience in maximum tension.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
To build the range and palate of character that we needed for this collection, we transformed community park and green-way bridges into large-scale percussive instruments. We sought out 12 very special bridges in particular locations and sampled many different performances on them to elicit the right sorts of impacts that we were looking for. Each performed impact has 3 layers, 2 mono and 1 stereo, all with different perspectives due to mic placement. These sounds are highly dynamic, containing an artful blend of the locale they were captured in, and can add some very rich color to any explosion, impact, or crushing event in your editing mix. Go ahead and do your best (or worst)!
These sounds can take a beating. Enjoy!
Need jackhammer sounds? This library delivers a broad selection, from wall drilling at various intensities, recordings from behind the wall, reverberant jackhammer sounds – and even otherworldly drilling recordings from an underground carpark.
The Chile Faunethic sound library is a unique collection of 47 sounds recorded during a month and produced with high-quality equipment.
From the north mountains above 4000 meters surrounded by lakes and deserts, to the southern wet Patagonian landscapes, this collection includes:
-Villages from desert environments to wet Patagonia.
-Shy wildlife, Flamingo and southern birds.
-City of Santiago de Chile, Puerto Montt and Valparaiso.
-Forests, always wet and rainy.
This collection provides authentic sounds recording with high-quality equipment. All Faunethic tracks includes metadata carefully edited with Soundminer. All these sounds are delivered at 24/96Khz .wav files downloadable as a zip file.
Gear Used: DPA and Neumann mics, powered by an Atea 4minX.
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.
Need sound effects for your explainer videos? The EXPLNR sounds series is a collection of sfx libraries designed and produced with the classic 2d animated explainer video in mind. These sounds will give quick and useful coverage to the common moves used in this style.
Vol 1 is an excellent all-around base library that includes whooshes, clicks, pops, swells, ratchets, slides, rips, drags, flicks, crumples, and dings – all custom designed with the playfulness and clean edges required to match the explainer video style.
To help cover repetitive visual movements, multiple iterations of each sound are included. A host of designed sounds will quickly cover more complex movements.
The next time you have an explainer video in the house, you know your starting point.
Several years in the making, and packed with 62 unusual sounding tracks, this sfx library includes very different sounds, captured with contact microphones and a hydrophone:
Included are both 48K and 96K samples. Many long takes of most of the tracks included, and a lot of diversity. Perfect for stretching and for adding a weird tone to your tracks. 2.8 GB, with all tracks metadata-tagged and named.
• 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.
INDUSTRIAL TERROR is a collection of dark, distorted, rumbling, ear-piercing, evolving industrial impacts and whooshes, designed to unsettle.
Collection consists of 108 designed sound effects and 102 source field recordings.
Unique processing of organic field recordings makes it sound rooted in reality and fits perfectly into horror genre.
Ready to be used on their own or as a part of a more complex sound design.
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Senhheiser MKH8060 + DPA 4060
CREATED AND EDITED WITH: Pro Tools, Live 10, Reaktor, EOS2, Discord4
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.
Who’s breaking? This sound library has everything you need to recreate a billiards game and more! With different table perspectives including on the table perspective recordings this library has it all.
It includes multiple breaks, misses, direct hits, combo shots, empty pocket falls, full pocket falls, close up rail bumps and pass bys, cue stick play, chalk play, racking and more! With over 200 files you’ll be sure to have the variety you need for your project.
Use some of the more close up recordings for interesting sound design or rack ’em up and recreate a sonic game from scratch! Enjoy the Billiards Sound Library!
Hi folks and welcome to the Comedy Stand-Up Crowd sound library.
We’re here tonight from Carma Studio delivering you a mini pack of over 30 sounds including laughter, applause, and cheers to add comic relief to any of your production work whenever that comedic moment is desired. Try it out, it’s a laugh!
Trailer Instruments Designed contains a variety of effects captured from abstract instruments and manipulated into impacts, drones, stingers, risers and more by our award-winning Sound Designers. We recorded our custom-built Waterphone, Dulcimer, Thunder Tube, Hand Drum, Bells, Violin, Guitar, Chimes and more.
These sounds are perfect for accentuating music tracks and adding a cinematic edge to trailers or full film scenes. All effects were recorded in 24Bit 96kHz, allowing for further sonic manipulation.
If you need some designed effects with a natural, abstract tone, this library is for you! Trailer Instruments Designed 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:
Drones: Build tension with airy and tonal drones that blend well with music and effects.
Impacts: Huge trailer impacts made from natural recordings.
LFE Rumbles: Extended recordings were manipulated to bring huge rumbles to your tracklay.
Risers: Unique and edgy riser effects will heighten the builds and drops in your project.
Stingers: A great way to add strange, tonal elements to your mix.
Sub Drops: Huge low end drops, perfect for layering with impacts and other sounds.
Sci-Fi Voices transports you to the future with 6 iconically performed and crafted character voices delivering over 800 phrases, grunts and screams. They were inspired by popular Sci-Fi Film, TV and Video Game series, and are provided without reverb to give you full flexibility. Recorded in 24Bit 96kHz, allowing for further sonic manipulation.
We worked closely with our voice talent to ensure that the most interesting performances were captured for many different scenarios. Whether you are making an alien invasion game or need voice effects for user interface systems, this library covers it all. All lines were meticulously edited and processed (without reverb) by our Audio Craftsmen.
If you think your project is in need of some fresh voice content than this library is for you!
Here are the included characters in the order that they appear in the demo track –
Male Exosuit: A voice with some serious weight. It gives the impression of size and a metallic body with moving parts.
Female Computer: Your ship’s mainframe computer has a voice, it is soothing in even the most precarious situations.
Male Alien Cyborg: Half machine, half man. This character is determined to destroy all humans.
Male Helper Robot: A slightly annoying, overly helpful robot who will follow you and narrate your surroundings.
Female Alien Queen: The Queen of a disgusting alien race, she takes pleasure when infecting humans.
Male Robot Police: There is a future in which police officers are robots; and badass.
Please note: The demo track contains third party sound effects and music, but all of the voice sound effects are included in this library.
The Tommy Gun sound effects library features 42 recordings of the historic weapon, ready to electrify your projects with this iconic American firearm. While the Thompson Submachine Gun was used primarily in the 1920’s and ‘30’s, the firing, bullet pass-bys, and ricochet sounds from the ‘Chicago Typewriter’ can be used for guns of any time period.
Recorded to tape by renowned sound artist Andy Aaron (Scarface, Apocalypse Now, Return of the Jedi), these characterful gunshot sounds feature both single shots, bursts of various lengths, and fully automatic gun fire. The collection was recorded in a secluded forest in Woodstock, NY, complete with firing targets including cans, broken furniture, a washing machine, and glass bottles of “shooting beer” (not to be confused with “”drinking beer””) The session came to an abrupt end when a stray bullet severed an audio cable near a target.
Complemented by sounds of metal impacts, glass and dirt debris, bullet pass-bys, these gun recordings will add explosive energy to your scenes that feature old-school gangsters, mob/mafia members, World War II soldiers — as well as contemporary gun-wielders. Each sound file is embedded with rich, descriptive metadata for fast, intuitive search results to help increase efficiency and sustain creativity.
Andy Aaron
Sacrificial Chants contains a vast collection of demonic chants and whispers in a range of ancient and forgotten languages. These devilish sounds will make a bone-chilling addition to your collection of horror sound effects and will be perfect for use in scenes involving demonic rituals, paranormal events, satanic worship and ancient tribal chants.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded human vocalisations (male and female) of sinister and unnerving chants with professional voice actors. These recordings have then been purposely processed and manipulated to be as unsettling as possible. The files have been edited for maximum usability and can be dropped straight into your session timeline.
All sounds were recorded in 24Bit 96KHz allowing for further manipulation and experimentation, and contain extensive metadata to make navigating and finding the right sound as simple as possible. Almost all of the sounds are provided dry (without reverb).
Sacrificial Chants is broken up into 6 separate folders, each with its own distinct character voice. These include:
Whispering Witch – An old and cruel witch whispering dark spells in an ancient language.
Dark Wizard – A dark wizard performing summoning chants in a forgotten language.
Evil Nymph – A twisted and demented water nymph that has been turned to the dark side.
Demonic Monk – A religious scholar who is possessed by an evil and cunning demon, speaking bible verses in Latin.
Tribal Shaman – A tribal witch doctor channelling dark spirits and casting a wicked curse upon the enemies of his tribe.
Reptilian – A shapeshifting extra-terrestrial being who invades the minds of her enemies through sinister whispers.
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