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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!
Get the sounds of an old suitcase – covering everything from opening and closing sounds, packing and handling, to buckle/lock sounds, squeaks, creaks and rumbles. Features numerous takes/variations per file.
Iceland, a volcanically and geologically active island with striking landscapes is being visited by millions of tourists each year. It also inspired many creative artists such as Bjork, Olafur Arnalds, GusGus, Mum. This sound library includes sounds from Reykjavik and local areas on Golden Circle tourist route: ambiences from Gulfoss waterfall, Pingvellir national Park, Geysir and natural spas.
Oslo central station is the largest station in the Norwegian railway station and the main railway station in Oslo. This collection contains recordings from three recording sessions. This ensures plenty of variation.
Nature and ambiance recordings across Ohio, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota and Wyoming.
Including the Great Lakes, meadows, the Dakota Badlands (Both North and South) Wyoming mountains, Yellowstone geysers and mud pots, Bison, Prairie dogs, and birds.
Take a 2000 mile aural road trip across the Midwest and west.
Gear Used: Recorded with a Sound Devices 702, Tascam DR680, and Zoom H1, using Sennheiser MKH 30/40 Mid Side, Sennheiser MKH 20 spaced omnis, Sennheiser MKH8040 ORTF and XY, Sanken CSS5.
This is a unique bicycle library that captures this characteristic bike in clean, quiet, nicely performed true exterior rides. Including multiple perspectives, speeds and actions. From fast passbys on asphalt to slow onboard recordings and smooth stops.
The UglyBike is a typical old bicycle that’s working fine, but needs some TLC. It is a bicycle that’s just average, a little rattle a gentle scrape, a bike that everyone has had but got traded in for a newer one. A story of unrequited love.. :)
Speeds and actions:
Three speeds. Departures from slow, medium to fast getaways. Arrivals from slow stops with gently squeaking handbrakes to heavy stuttering skids.
Overview of perspectives and mic placement:
Onboard recordings are 2-3 minutes long depending on speed. Higher speeds > shorter duration.
All 3 onboard mics are edited in sync with one another to make layering easy.
All Passbys, Arrivals and Departures move from Left to Right.
However, we are aware that some people have different needs for different purposes, so we’ve created a Metadata Reference Guide that explains the structure. And because we’ve automated the metadata proces, you can be confident that a ‘find & replace’ command will always replace all instances.
Download our Metadata Reference Guide
Download complete metadata PDF
If you have any questions about this, contact us!
Additionally, we added Markers to some wave files, so specific sound events are easy to spot in Soundminer or other database apps.
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The UglyBike library is part of the complete ‘City Bicycles’ library package available at www.frickandtraa.com. It consists of all 4 bicycles and includes additional surfaces and extras ranging from one-off bicycle passes captured in the city and bounces and rattles. The extra bicycles surfaces and additional effects are also available seperately here on ‘a Sound Effect’. If you’ve bought a single library and want to upgrade to the full package, contact us for a reduced price on the complete City Bicycles library. Every part of City Bicycles that you paid for will get you an extra reduction on the full package.
344 AUDIO: ‘City Bicycles has a plethora of content, for a great price. The perfect balance between a great concept, great presentation and outstanding execution, lands them an almost perfect score of 4.9..‘
The Audio Spotlight: City Bicycles is worth getting if you are in need of great sounding and well edited bicycle sounds.
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Welcome sports fans to Sports Crowd Cheer sound library.
Be in the crowd up close with this mini-pack of over 40 crowd reactions including cheers, boos, your ups, your downs, down to the buzzer, score and more! Short crowd bursts to longer reactions with sirens and horns. With sounds from the arena, ballpark, stadium, and court, it’s a score from Carma Studio!
Electromagnetic Design contains a wide variety of unique and abstract designed sounds including glitches, electronic movement, ambiences, futuristic elements and more.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded sounds using electromagnetic coil pickups which capture signals and noises from devices. We used speakers, desktop monitors, computers, keyboard, mouse, room heaters, lights and even from a dehumidifier to generate the effects, all in 24Bit 96kHz allowing for further manipulation!
These recordings were then meticulously edited, designed and meta tagged, providing you with a suite of sounds suitable for Science Fiction, Horror, Abstract and Dramatic Films, Games and Television projects. The included sounds work well for machine, weapon, transition, gunshot, futuristic devices and many other types of sound effects.
Here are the included folders:
Electronic Movements: Transition, whoosh, whip and buzz fly bys to bring your scene to life.
Flowing Currents: The sounds of electricity flowing, great for design sections, animations and game audio effects.
Future Technology: The sounds of spaceships, tractor beam, neural interfaces, signals and alarms.
Glitches: Some seriously glitchy sounds, great for modern trailer design, radios, transmissions and Sci-Fi scenes.
Magnetic Ambiences: The warmth and flow of electricity, channelled into ambiences that fit both in a sound effects and musical context.
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.
Our Christmas pack brings you a range of festive recordings perfect for your Christmas scenes.
Our recordings have been captured both in the snow and studio. The bulk of our library includes Elf Tinkering and toy-making inside Santa’s factory! We also have a range of human, elf and reindeer footsteps pulling the sleigh. Finally, our talented team have recorded all kinds of vocal performances from Santa’s grotto to elves working.
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.
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.
UK Football Vol. 3 is a concise collection of five-a-side football gameplay sounds recorded from the goalkeeper’s perspective. Hear players kick and catch balls, score goals, hit the goal post, practice drills, groan in frustration, swear, cheer each other on and more!
These candid recordings are full of energetic male voices, athletic enthusiasm, North West English accents and football impacts.
This quintessentially English yet versatile library can also be used for any global Game, TV or Film project requiring a dose of athletic excitement. Included sounds will allow you to sweeten spectator sports scenes with background passes, focus on team dynamics with spirited shouts, or enhance winning goals with football shoot-outs!
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.
Ghostly Presences Vol. 2 is the second volume in a collection of ambiences created specifically for use in your horror genre projects.
Combining Synth-generated drones and manipulated voice recordings to build haunting and unsettling horror ambiences. This library comprises a variety of sounds crafted for layering or individual use. Included are ghostly chants, deep drones, pulsing synths, haunting whispers and more; a perfect selection for enhancing your horror soundscapes in Film, TV and Game Audio projects!
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.
Sound effects recorded from 17 different cameras, all analog, analog reflex cameras, or digital reflex cameras, produced from 1960 to 2010.
From simple clicks and timers, to modern time, lenses focusing, servos and shutter sounds, the sound effects library is packed with a lot of goodies.
Meet the Tasmanian devil! Recorded in the Copenhagen Zoo, this library features huffs, sniffs, growls, barks, bite and chewing – and those eerie and weird critter screams.
If you need strange animal or monster sounds, do check out this library:
Fireballs is a powerful high-definition collection of whooshing, roaring, bursting, sparking, whipping, zipping, sizzling and crackling fireballs, fire sound effects and infernos – created in collaboration with flame effects expert Cary Sparx.
Aside from the flaming staves, rope darts, fire swords, meteors and flamethrowers that you’d hope for, you’ll also get some additional, unusual, tonal flame effects.
The sounds are also great for more textured whooshes and swishes, or adding punch to impacts, or generally getting that extra bassy oomph out of your badass sound creations.
Get the sounds of a 1999 Porsche Carrera, captured by recording specialist Watson Wu. The German-made Porsche Carrera is a 6 speed manual, 3.4 liter, Flat 6, weighing in at only 2,900 pounds. The combined recorded driving time is more than 45 minutes long.
Onboard Settings:
Channel 1 = Exhaust 1, Channel 2 = Exhaust 2, Channel 3 = Engine, Channel 4 = Cab
External Settings:
Stereo in Left and Right Channels
The Motorboat 2 library gets you recordings of a motor boat with a Honda BF 5A 5-HP 4-Stroke engine. Includes starts, idling, forward speeds, false starts, and engine shutoffs.
Get the hums of a big electric station, a small buzz of an electrical substation’s transformer and also synthesized sounds. All synthesized sounds were re-recorded with the “Worldizing” technique initially conceived by legendary sound designer Walter Murch.
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