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Dog Sound Effects Shiba Dog Play Track 500+ sounds included $45

Shiba dog is a collection of dog sounds recorded in our studio. We brought two Shibas to the studio and let them play with each other. One of them is a very vocal dog and the other one is very quiet. This allowed us to capture a wide variety of sounds, from barking to panting, without a lot of overlapping.

We recorded everything with four microphones to get the most out of this session. We included all the good takes in this collection, so each sound is covered with at least three microphones. The following microphones were used:

• Line Audio CM3 small diaphragm condenser (cardioid)
• Line Audio OM1 small diaphragm condenser (omni)
• Rode NT2000 large diaphragm condenser (cardioid)
• Rode NTG3 shotgun

A big thank you goes out to Jory Prum for helping out with planning and recording!

No animals were harmed or mistreated during the recording of this collection.

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Environments & Ambiences Chicago – Urban Atmosphere Play Track 137+ sounds included, 333 mins total $89

Get more than 5.5 hours of urban soundscapes from Chicago, Illinois. The recordings in the ‘Chicago – Urban Atmosphere’ library range from busy sidewalk ambiences, street corners, crowds, subways, skyline tones, horns, to back alley rumbles.

The library is recorded with a Sound Devices 702 recorder + a stereo pair of Schoeps CMC6s with the MK2 H capsules, and is embedded with extensive metadata.

Iconic Chicago sounds such as the El Train, Lower Wacker Drive, and Michigan Avenue are only some of the unique sounds found in this library. And although Chicago has many iconic features that create its soundscape, this library can be used for any city or urban application.

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Vehicle Sound Effects High Desert Trains Play Track 50+ sounds included, 38 mins total $35

High Desert Trains has the sounds of classic Southwestern freight trains. This library captures these monsters as they tear through the desert, rumbling past the observer and screeching to a halt when they reach their destination. These sounds were recorded at 192kHz, which offers you the freedom to stretch these sounds into new machines, monsters, and powerful droning ambiences. If you need a quick pack of train sounds with a lot of flexibility, this is the library for you!

2% for the Planet:
Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause. I view it as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
Key Features:

• Passbys (fast and slow), approaches, departures, stops, idling, braking, horns (close and distant), mountain incline climbs, whining drones, piercing screeches, thunderous wheels, and a full start from idle.
• GPS coordinates and location map included.

Gear Used:
• Sennheiser MKH 50/30 MS Rig
• Mid/Side recordings decoded to LR stereo
• Sound Devices 702

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Car Sound Effects Tesla Electric Car Play Track 146+ sounds included $119

It’s finally here: An electric car sound effects library with recordings from a Tesla!

The Tesla Electric Car SFX library gets you 146 High Definition sound effects. It features recordings of the subtle sounds of an all-electric car – with its drive motors, servos and alerts, as well as interior and exterior perspectives of doors opening and closing and the horn honking.

It also captures the interior environment at highway speeds and the tires on gravel and pavement at various speeds. Plus, it has exterior street-based perspectives of vehicle pass-bys and arrivals on different road surfaces at various speeds.

So if you need electric car sounds for your projects, this library delivers.

TESTIMONIALS & BUYERS COMMENTS

“I had a Tesla in a show and realized I had no Tesla library – This kit got the job done perfectly – Thanks Rick!

-Jonathan Lipman, MPSE
Sony Pictures: “The Good Doctor” network TV series

“Rick’s TESLA SFX library was a life-saver for us on Season 2 of HBO’s Divorce, especially since Tesla demands that ONLY authentic Tesla sounds be used whenever their vehicles appear in a scene! Rick’s FX gave us that authenticity. Very valuable resource. Thanks Rick!”

– David Briggs
Supervising Sound Editor, HBO “Divorce”

“Hey Rick! Awesome job on the Tesla library! Literally minutes after downloading, I cut one of the servos into a commercial I’m working on… I’m going to get a TON of mileage out of the wheel recordings. I feel like wheels are a really difficult sound to get a great recording of… All around great job!”

-Kai Paquin
Sound Editor | Los Angeles, CA

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Human Sound Effects BURP Play Track 242 sounds included, 8 mins total $5

The BURP sound effects library brings to you a varied and expressive set of burps and belches. All from the gut of Jack Menhorn; the goal was to produce a burp library that would be great for regular belches in addition to monster and creature vocalizations.

These 21 files with 242 individual takes equaling over 140 MB of authentic burps will whisk you away to another realm of rudeness and lack of manners.

It comes with short, medium, and long versions of many performances including; harsh, airy, strained, opened/closed, and many more.

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Materials & Texture Sound Effects Whirs, Buzzes, Hums & Hiss Play Track 113+ sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$85

Sometimes you need that background sound to define the mood: The buzzy insomnia of a flickering light, a lost alien transmission, the lazy spin of a fan above, haunting radio static, the violent rush of air as you free fall into terminal velocity…

With noise sounds recorded from an incredible array of sources, if it goes hum, whir, buzz, or hiss this library has got you covered.

All natural and organic sounding makes this versatile library an outstanding resource for both film and game sound designers.

The library includes:

Generators and Compressors
• Industrial Machinery
• Radio static
• Crackles and glitches
• Ground hum and buzz
• Transformers
• Transportation cabin hums
• Gas leaks, air leaks and bursts
• Air conditioners
• Fans, from tiny to massive
• Vents
• Elevators
• Afterburners
• Voids
• Rumbles
• Force fields
• Transmissions
• Sci-Fi Machinery
• and more…

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Foley Sound Effects Coins Play Track 105 sounds included $15

‘Coins’ by Badlands Sound includes 100+ clean and high-quality coin sounds. Everything from one coin, a few, too many coins dropping on various surfaces like wood, water, metal, and other coins. Also, includes Foley sounds of grabbing coins perfect for film and video games.

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Weather Sound Effects High Desert Winds 2 Play Track 59+ sounds included, 165 mins total $70

In the second installment of the High Desert Winds Series, get the blustery sounds of High Desert Winds 2 recorded in the resonant mountains of West Texas. This library was recorded during a massive two-day wind storm with gusts up 75 mph! These extreme winds rattled and shook the house in wonderful ways. The creaking and groaning windows, doors, and walls were vibrating so much that I could record wind for the first time using a contact microphone! There are also recordings of leaf vortexes, sand blasts, tarps popping, umbrella destruction, and much more. If you need the sounds of a stunning desert storm to complement the recordings in High Desert Winds 1, this is the library to check out.

2% FOR THE PLANET:

Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause. I view it as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
KEY FEATURES:

• 90% bird and insect free
• Turbulent hurricane-force gusts ranging from 20-75 mph
• Droning and singing wind whistles
• Open plastic bottle and wine bottle wind whistles
• Mountain ridge top wind
• Desert grass, scrub oak, and pinyon pine wind
• Indoor ORTF perspectives: adobe house, wooden storage shed, and mid-sized truck
• Indoor contact mic perspectives: chimneys, windows, doors, and walls
• Plastic tarps and umbrellas whipping in 50-75 mph winds
• Locations: Davis Mountains, Texas
• Named markers included in each file to help find interesting events. Starting in Soundminer 4.5Pro_v252 you can now read text markers from within Soundminer!
• Marker text included in the Soundminer Description and BWAV description fields.

GEAR USED:
• Sennheiser MKH 8040 Matched Pair
• Aquarian Audio H2a-XLR Hydrophone – Used as contact microphone
• Sound Devices 702
• Rycote ORTF Blimp

FILE LIST:
• View in browser or Download CSV

Need More Winds? Listen to High Desert Winds 1!

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects DARK Play Track 15+ sounds included, 30 mins total $15

‘DARK’ by Badlands Sound delivers you 15 scary, ominous dark drones that will add an added layer to terrify the audience. You will hear low-end rumbles, sinister drones, creepy atmospheres and more! This sound library includes 15 high-quality 96k / 24-bit dark drones. All audio files are two minutes long subtly changing over time.

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Environments & Ambiences Ocean, River, and Stream Play Track 29 sounds included, 79 mins total $49

Small trickles, to gentle streams, raging rivers, waterfalls, and the Pacific Ocean (in Hawaii and Oregon). Many are quite long and are a perfect long background to a water-related section of your film or project.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Stutter Matter Play Track 182 sounds included $19

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

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Quadcopters / Drone Sounds Curious Drone-Quadcopter Play Track 60 sounds included, 30 mins total $30

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)

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Hum, Buzz & Glitch Sound Effects Electromagnetic Fields Play Track 140+ sounds included, 195 mins total $35

In this collection you'll find EMF captured from devices like: phones, TVs, hard drives, Playstation 3s, MacBooks, printers, scanners, juicers, pencil sharpeners, frequency counters, digital sweep function generators, camcorders, VCRs, DVD players, DSLRs, network routers, mixing consoles, and MUCH MORE!

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Foley Sound Effects SKIN Play Track 3277 sounds included $25

This idea was created with efficiency and budget in mind. On independent films we don't always have the luxury of budgeting out an extensive amount of foley. There are tons of resources for cutting cloth, props, and footsteps, but there are none for actions of the human body in every day situations. In this comprehensive library you will find touches, pats, scratches, slides, clasps, slaps, and so many other common actions involving skin that will help bring realism to your projects.

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Nature & Countryside Ambiences Dark Woods Play Track 68+ sounds included, 288 mins total $49

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!

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Firearms Sound Effects Foam Gun Play Track 329 sounds included $29.95

Introducing Foam Gun fun!

Over 300 fun-filled plastic toy gun sounds to share with your friends. Featuring small to large sizes of gun cocks, dry gunshots, and bullet fires. Also featuring designed, processed or effected sounds such as rapid-fire and sci-fi blasts!

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Environments & Ambiences France Play Track 128+ sounds included, 409 mins total $75

France Faunethic sound library is a unique collection of 128 sounds recorded at different seasons in various locations.

All these sounds has been recorded and produced with high quality equipment at 24 Bit / 96 kHz.

This collection offers a wide diversity of soundscapes such as:
• Provence and Camargue landscapes in summer
• Small villages in remote locations
• Big cities such as Montpellier and Marseille
• Church, markets and many public places
• Supermarket, restaurant, gym and many other indoor places
• Forest and field from south to center of France, including the Alps mountains

This library provides authentic and interesting sounds, recorded with DPA, MBHO and Neumann mics powered by an Aeta 4minX.

All Faunethic tracks include metadata carefully edited, compatible with Soundminer, Soundly and Basehead.

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Percussion Instruments Inner Circle – Transient Foundation Play Track $39

Foundational Inner Circle drum pack, featuring 13 kits and 9 electronic genres, from house to dark electronic.

When laying down the foundations of a track, you need to start with the best. Transient Foundations was carefully designed to be the perfect starting point for both amateurs and professionals, covering a mix of several electronic genres. No matter the style, Transient Foundations, our first Inner Circle drum pack, gives you quality from square one.

Transient Foundations was created by musician and sound designer Real Cardinal, a.k.a. Comaduster (Tympanik Audio, BioWare), who has also worked on SoundMorph’s Sinematic and Bloody Nightmare libraries.

13 kits – 225+ samples – 22 loops – 24-bit 96 kHz .wav files
Pre-made templates for: Battery 4, Ableton, Maschine, Kontakt
Embedded with Soundminer and Basehead metadata

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Game Audio Packs Hunting Calls Play Track 85 sounds included $10

Hunting Calls by Badlands Sound features 85 sound effects of various sounds of calls including Turkey, predators, coyote, mallard ducks, and much more! This library will be a great addition to your projects. All of these sounds were recorded with high-quality professional equipment inside my studio.

It’s fast and simple with our sound library. Each sound is carefully crafted by real sound engineers who know how to produce a high-quality audio experience. It’s time for you to simplify your process and take advantage of what Badlands Sounds has to offer.

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Geophonic Design Vol. 3 Play Track 96 sounds included, 65+ mins total $36

Geophonic Design Vol. 3 features an eclectic array of designed sound effects, built from organic sources with infrasonic frequencies that go all the way down to 10Hz. This library has an abstract aesthetic and gives you a wide and varied palette of unique sounds that are perfect for injecting a little movement into your film, video game or documentary projects.

To create the sounds in this library, Our Audio Craftsmen used a ‘Geophone’ which is a seismic measurement device used to record seismic waves and vibrations of the earth. With the Geophone, we recorded low vibrations, hits and interactions of wood, metal, trees, soil, clay and other natural ingredients. You can expect to find a wide selection of unique ambiences, as well as an assortment of warm subsonic hits and dynamic movements and whooshes.

All of the included sounds were then precisely edited and designed by our dedicated in house team to build ambiences such as boulder movement, metal ghost voices, spirits calling, subsonic water texture, tree bark connection wind interference and many more. In addition, all the files are available in 24Bit 96kHz with extensive metadata and are UCS compliant to integrate seamlessly with your workflow.

The sounds will also make a great addition to your library as layered textures, to build a designed atmosphere in your projects, and are perfect as drones and ambiences for futuristic, sci-fi and horror scenes.

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Aircraft - Jet/Propeller Plane Sound Effects Air Designed Play Track 15 sounds included $14

The Air Designed Library is filled with sounds specifically manipulated by our Audio Craftsmen to simulate various aircraft noises. Some of the sounds include; engine whistles, rumbles, thrusters and much, much more. Perfect for Action & Sci-Fi set pieces, this Library can not only be used for aircrafts, but it can also be used in various other scenarios like; air conditioning, explosions and time manipulation to mention a few.

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Dog Sound Effects Dog Vocalisations Play Track 19+ sounds included $17

Meet your new best friend: our Dog Vocalisations library!

This sound effects library features unique recordings of a dog with a medical condition. Bizarre and strange vocalisations have been faithfully recorded to enhance your animal soundscape. This collection also comprises an array of adorably authentic canine sounds, including playing, drinking, eating, breathing, sighing and running.

Inside this library you will find sounds recorded from a variety of perspectives for added versatility. Perfect for realistic moments and abstract design in film, TV and games.

Our Audio Craftsmen have precisely edited each sound so that they are ready to be dropped straight into your projects.

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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Destruction & Impact Sounds Geophonic Design Vol. 5 Play Track 20+ sounds included, 60 mins total $27

Geophonic Design Vol. 5 features a unique collection of designed organic recordings captured with the Lom Geofon. These sounds include frequencies that go all the way to 10Hz, creating a darker, grittier atmosphere, ideal for your more mysterious film, TV and game designs.

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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Bundles Hydrophonic Design Bundle Play Track 248 sounds included $48

The unbeatably versatile Hydrophonic Design Bundle comprises three libraries of designed source recordings captured simultaneously with our Aquarian H2a Hydrophone and Sennheiser MKH50 microphone.

Our Audio Craftsmen designed a wide range of hydro-recordings using dopplers, comb filters and other creative processes to produce an assortment of unique sonic textures. These include whooshes, passes, tones, movements, impacts, oneshots and ambiences suitable for layering into water environments, sci-fi and space scapes, and horror projects alike.

Each sound has been carefully edited by our Audio Craftsmen 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 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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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!

David Farmer

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.

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Director, Digital - Source Sound Inc.

A Sound Effect is a wonderful resource for indie sound effects libraries. On top of that, it has some of the finest sound design, film and game audio interviews!