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Mid-/Side-Stereo recordings of the beautiful Dutch city Groningen.
City ambiences recorded by day and night in the historic downtown.
All files are carefully edited and comes with detailed metadata. Ready to use left/right decodings are also included.
Dinosaurs Vol. 2 is the second edition of our popular Dinosaurs sound effects series.
This library contains a wealth of pre-historic sound effects, covering a range of different dinosaur types. Inside we have carnivores, herbivores, scavengers, flyers and even baby dinosaurs, allowing you to craft your own custom Jurassic soundscape.
To create this collection, our audio craftsmen unleashed their inner Dinosaur, recording a diverse array of sounds that includes roars, growls, sniffs, breathing, eating, and eggs hatching.
This library is perfect for use in monster movie projects such as Godzilla, King Kong, Jurassic Park, and is also well suited to covering video game creatures and enemies.
All files are supplied in 24Bit 96kHz allowing for further sonic manipulation and have been tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Bubbles Vol. 2 is our next underwater library featuring unique recordings captured with our dual-mic set-up. Our Audio Craftsman have used an overwater-underwater microphone configuration using the Sennheiser MKH50 for the overwater mic and the Aquarian H2a Hydrophone for the underwater recordings. With both mic options available as separate files, there are multiple options for layering up each sound effect.
Bubbles Vol. 2 brings you medium to large-sized bubbles: perfect for larger underwater movement and submerging.
All files are named with detailed descriptions, along with the microphone that was used to capture them. 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.
Ultimate Smoking SFX is an extensive collection of almost every conceivable smoking sound effect, covering cigarettes, roll ups and pipes, as well as lighters and matches.
Our skilled Audio Craftsmen recorded a large range of different smoking sounds, including puffing, taking drags, cigarette pack handling, tapping out in an ashtray, rolling up a herbal cigarette, packing a pipe, smoking a pipe, and lighting with a lighter and matches.
All  effects were recorded in our acoustically treated Foley Suite and have been edited with meticulous detail, so that you can use them straight away in your films, games and other  projects containg smoking characters. All files are provided dry in 24Bit/96kHz allowing for further manipulation.
Lets light up!
Here are the 4 included folders:
Cigarette: Sounds of traditional cigarettes from a packet.
Herbal Cigarette: Sounds of “Roll your own” and alternative herbal cigarettes.
Matches and Lighters: Sounds of matches and lighters being struck and lit.
Pipe: Sounds of a traditional pipe being packed and puffed.
including:
– External recording
– 5 Spots, 8 mics
– AK74 5.45, Glock 17 gen 4 + silencer, Sako TRG m10 7.62×51, PKMN (Kalashnikov’s) machine gun 7.62, Hk mp 5 9×19 silencer
– Single, flash, auto
– 48 KHz, 24 bit
– 6 x schoeps ccm4 (card), AKG C414 XLS (card+pad), AKG C460 (pad), sys AB, Zoom F8 with lim
Little Boxes is a curated collection of four unique sound sets designed to compliment one another sonically and texturally. These textures move from acoustic to electroacoustic to analog synthesis – all programmed into beautiful Kontakt 4 instruments (full NI Kontakt
4.2.3 or later required).
A small device meant to be hung flat on the wall, the balls will swing and strike the strings if the ground begins to move.
This box was shaken, plucked, strummed, performed and ebowed to produce a beautiful palette of acoustic string textures.
In Kontakt those sounds evolved into a group of instruments that ran from folksy, zither like patches to lush, shimmering pads.
This is a special assortment of design fragments from Eiravaein Works.  Libraries in the Vaeyan series will be produced over time as new assorted concepts are explored and designed.  A welcome addition of flavor for any sound designer’s archive!
Looking to blow stuff up? The EFX EXPLOSIONs Collection features a selection of grenade explosion & blast sounds – closeups, distant and muted/muffled explosion recordings included.
In this sound pack I’ve included an in-depth selection of active ambiences. This library is focused more on the natural ambience of both busy main streets and calmer side streets.
Most sounds were captured below 110 St. and prominently in the Lower East and West Village. There are a multitude of police and firetruck sirens at varying distances as well as some not so common areas like the Intrepid Pier and the Hudson River Heliport ambience.
I’ve also included some extensive subway rides. All boring bits were edited out for a strong final product. There are multiple train rides with various levels of walla and PA announcements.
One thing that is very common in NYC during the summer months are the rain and thunderstorms. I’ve included a number of wet traffic, distant thunderstorms and heavy rains.
All in all this is a good representation of New York’s streets and subway systems.
Inspired by the ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) community, this collection includes 43 mono/stereo pairs of whispers, scratches, taps, rubs, breathing, buzzing, and more. The general goal of ASMR is to induce a bodily response from the auditory stimuli, much like a shiver, chill, or euphoric wave. From an auditory perspective, this is usually approached by using delicate, intimate sounds in a repetitive manner; known as ‘triggers’.
The files are all loopable, averaging ~2’20” in length, so you can leave them on repeat for a continuous ASMR experience. This also allows a sound designer to drop them into any environment where they need an indiscernible loop. The mono+stereo pairing allows for creating the appropriate stereo spread (or eliminating it all together) that a particular event requires. For some of the more common triggers, we provided a few variations.
Definitely intending to be a unique addition to your sonic anthology, this library will provide you with hours of evocative ear candy.
'Turkey' is a unique collection of 36 sounds recorded during a Turkish journey on the road last summer with an amazing meeting point between Europe and Asia through incredibly diverse landscapes, cultures and traditions. What an unusual and surprising journey from Istanbul through the plains of Anatolia and Aegean coast during Ramadan. This library includes:
This collection provides authentic and interesting sounds recorded through the western part of the country using DPA, Neumann and Audio Technica mics powered by an Atea Mixy. All Faunethic tracks include Soundminer metadata tags.
Motorcycles go fast – especially on the racetrack. Here we have the 300cc, 600cc, 1000cc and Moto 3 Classes recorded on the Hairpin Exit, Straight and Fast Turns, with riders going at it solo and some preferring a bit of group action. They sound fast and powerful, except maybe the Moto 3 class which sounds a little like a small prop plane.
The library includes 90 recordings. All files are Sound Miner metadata embedded, 24Bit/48kHz wav files
The Future Weapons sci-fi sound effects series is back with our newest and most cutting edge library yet: Future Weapons 3. We made this one huge, both in size and scope. In fact, since we are concluding the Future Weapons series, we wanted to do it with a bang, so we made this one the biggest of the 3! It has over 29 weapons and categories! Future Weapons 3 was created by SoundMorph in collaboration with Nikolay Semenov and Vedran Kapetinic.
Future Weapons 3 features more than 750+ files, 1.2 GB of 24bit/96khz .WAV files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer and Basehead metadata.
‘Smooth City Traffic’ by Badlands Sound includes 21 high-quality city traffic ambiences great for your projects. Hear the smooth sounds of traffic rushing through the city. This library was recorded by Sound Devices 702t with a pair of Line Audio CM3’s and a matched pair of Sennheiser MKH 8040’s in 96k / 24bit.
Feel the weight and the whooshing of the various vehicle passbys rushing through the city. You will also notice the unique qualities in each file like a car passing by with a flat tire, semi trucks, sports cars speeding by, as well as aggressive diesel trucks.
“Alps” includes a huge variety of Ambiences recorded in a pristine region in Switzerland which is still in its original and natural state. Through a minimum of civilisation and a base in a cabin up on the mountains, it was possible to catch super clean and natural ambiences with a minimum of noise pollution. We made sure this library includes a pure alps experience. This collection gets you a great collection of rivers, quiet forests, birds, valleys, fields and more recorded from different perspectives and heights.
Special thanks to Raimund Förnzler (pictures, moving pictures), Marvin Brand and Daniel Strübig for making this library possible!
Kitchen Foley is a collection of cookware, plates, glasses and kitchen appliances sounds.
It consist of 241 .wav files with baked-in Soundminer’s metadata
All sound have been recorded multiple times: Different microphone positions from extremely close to 1.5m away
and different microphones: DPA4060 and Sennheiser MKH8060.
RECORDED WITH:Â Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Senhheiser MKH8060, DPA4060
EDITED WITH: iZotope RX, Pro Tools.
Houses and homes are interesting places, and the sounds that they make are even more interesting. Our House Tones Sound Library brings a variety of these sounds right to your listening devices or engineering studio. Featuring more than 50 different two-minute looped room tones deliver nearly two hours of audio for sound editors to use in a variety of audio projects. The sounds included in this library are from bathrooms, basements, bedrooms, closets, garages, home offices, laundry rooms, kitchens, living rooms, showers, and more. Recorded with professional gear, each sound is carefully captured to provide a high-quality listening experience.
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.
This is a unique bicycle library that captures road surfaces from the perspective of super quiet bicycle. These are 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 Extra Surfaces library provides 162 sounds captured on the following road types Large Bricks, Gravel, Grit, Icy Asphalt.
The four additional ‘onboard road’ surfaces are the perfect extension for your other ‘City Bicycle’ library of taste. Just add it as a layer, mix it and voila your bicycle can move from gravel to bricks to grit or from large bricks to slippery icy asphalt roads.
Speeds and actions:
Three speeds. Departures from slow, medium to fast getaways. Arrivals from slow stops with gently brakes to smooth departures.
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.
Need more?
The Extra Surfaces 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.
Watch a video created by Zdravko Djordjevic.
Armenia Faunethic sound library is a unique collection of 37 sounds recorded in this small country landlocked in the Caucasus mountain range, right in the middle of Orient, Middle-east and Asia.
All these sounds has been recorded and produced with high quality equipment at 24 Bit / 96 kHz.
All Faunethic tracks include metadata carefully edited, compatible with Soundminer, Soundly and Basehead.
Sweeten and texture to your sound design with The Odyssey Collection: Design Elements (ODE) – your go-to versatile sound design elements library created to enhance any audio post project from film, television, trailers, and games to advertising, podcast, web and beyond.
Created in collaboration with Academy Award®-winning sound editors Mark Mangini and Richard L. Anderson, ODE includes expertly crafted hits, transitions, whooshes and other vital design elements and layers that you can consistently rely on to finish projects faster and more creatively.
Each sound file is embedded with rich, descriptive metadata for fast, intuitive search results. Heighten production quality and accentuate cuts with tasteful sweeps, metal impacts, air-ripping rumbles, magic space swells, laser fire synth blasts and more.
Like all other libraries in The Odyssey Collection, ODE will inspire you to create your best work with its renowned quality, utility, organization, and cinematic character.
The Odyssey Collection: Design Elements is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Creator.
“”I heavily leverage my library to find new sounds that I didn’t think of initially…You simply can’t record everything.””
Mark Mangini
Blade Runner 2049, Mad Max: Fury Road
Designed with innovation in mind.
Each software application we provide pushes the limits of creating in its own way:
Dust – synthesizer plugin based on a real-time particle simulation, where each particle is a separate granulating sound source.
Wave Warper – for creating your own modern whooshes, passbys, and sample mayhem.
– for morphing, bending, and stretching time and samples.
Evil Twin – for cinematic sound and music design, granular effects, impacts, glitches, and bpm synced loops.
Galactic Assistant – for creating endless user interface type sounds. The first ever UI synthesizer.
DR01D – Included for free! Retro robot voice simulator.
To learn more about each product, we encourage you to visit their individual pages, where you can watch tutorial videos, read more about them, and view the minimum system requirements.
Sprint Car Racing is a unique collection of sound effects of a sprint car driving through a speedway in Ontario, Canada. This library includes engine acceleration, drifting, high rpm revs, driving away and towards, racing other cars, slowing down, idling and much, much more. Perfect for designing those high octane, explosive, gas-guzzling engine sounds that are often needed in modern car chasing/racing scenes.
The sounds were recorded using either a Sanken CS-M1 or a DPA 4060 and were meticulously edited by our Audio Craftsmen so that you can drag them directly into your projects. They can be used to represent many different types of racing vehicles, sprint cars and motorbikes as the engine sounds are similar to high performance and tuned vehicles of other kinds.
Feed your need for speed with Sprint Car Racing!
Antiques Bundle Vol. 2 contains 5 libraries with authentic antique prop sound effects, perfect for use in projects with a historical setting. With a total size of 980.2 MB and over 280 files to work with, Antiques Bundle Vol. 1 bundle gives you everything you need to create memorable and realistic antiques sound effects. By purchasing this bundle you are saving 15% when compared to buying separately, making this collection excellent value for money.
INCLUDED LIBRARIES:
Antique Gramophone
Antique Bottles
Antique Small Metals
Antique Metal Boxes
Antique Clocks
Take a step into our new library, Footsteps! Walking, Running, Jumping sounds and more have been paired with a slew of different ground textures and environments such as Dirt Paths, Laminate Flooring and Cemented Pavements, ready for use without having to leave your room.
Film-makers, Composers and sound designers alike; each sound within this library can be utilised creatively within any film, tv or video game project.
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.
With A Sound Effect, Asbjoern has created a web site where our international community can browse, learn, and share the vast fruits of our labors. Together we are accelerating the very real potential power of sound design as a recognized art form.
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