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Take your latest projects back on a journey through history with our Antique Typewriter, meticulously captured by our team of Audio Craftsmen at 96khz 24bit. Both models recorded are 1929 Royal Portable Typewriter Model P’s. All sounds within this pack exhibit each of the wanted characteristics of antique typewriters, from the respooling of the colour ribbon to its more essential operational writing and key-pressing tones.
Film-makers, Composers and Sound Designers alike; each diverse timbre and voice of the typewriter can be utilised creatively within any of your projects! All sounds have also been made UCS compliant with extensive metadata, helping to speed-up your workflow and stay on track within the organisation of your session.
Each stereo sample delivered to you is completely unprocessed, clean and raw, giving you that true timeworn, historic typewriter sound. However, the high sonic quality delivered in this pack gives you the freedom to sound design to your hearts content, let your imagination loose in the past!
Psychedelic Cicadas Vol. 3 is the latest edition of our cicada ambiences produced in collaboration with César Rodriguez Pulido and Guile Martins.
A diverse collection of cicada species were recorded in Cerrado, Brazil for this library, yielding wild, weird and wonderful choruses. Add texture to your soundscapes and creations with these insects’ captivating tones, pitches and rhythms – along with the sounds of other local wildlife found in the valleys of Cerrado.
Recording by César Rodriguez Pulido and Guile Martins.
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 48kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Water Movements Vol. 1, curated here at 344 Audio by our skilled in-house audio craftsmen, features water-based sound effects captured by the legendary MKH50 Super Cardioid Microphone and our real-life Hydrophonic microphone. A large array of aquatic noises and resonances are contained within this library, allowing you to fashion immersive underwater soundscapes within your latest projects!
All files have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use, and come delivered to you at a format of 24bit 192kHz; allowing you to manipulate and design these source recordings in any way you could wish.
The latest in our collection of Historical Weapons sounds is a symphony of shing-ing, clunking, thudding, clashing and ringing impacts for all your combat and battle design needs! This library focuses on shield-based sounds, with additional recordings of weapon-on-weapon fights.
Using our multi-mic configuration (comprising the Sennheiser MKH50, Røde NTG-3 and Line Audio CM4 Stereo Pair), our Audio Craftsmen recorded two professional swordsmen going head-to-head in multi-move melees using wooden shields, spears, swords and axes.
This library includes shield holds and push-offs, spear pole hits, spear scrapes to a shield edge, metallic sword clashes, axe clinks on a shield boss, a metal shield spinning on the ground and being picked up, spear hits on a wooden haft, sword slide cuts and much more! Perfect for TV, film, game and documentary projects requiring the exciting, natural tones of authentic historical weapons!
Sound have been separated into the follow categories:
Shield Groundwork: Sounds of a wooden and metal shield dropping onto the floor, spinning on the floor and being picked up.
Shield Impacts: A huge variety of sounds where a spear, sword, wooden stick and axe hit different shield parts.
Spear Fights: Recordings of spear head and pole combat sequences.
Sword Impacts: Swords sliding off each other, being pressed against each other, and clashing together.
Each file contains multiple takes of the named action.
All sounds were recorded in 24Bit 192kHz, and have been tagged with extensive UCS metadata for ease of use.
Traffic Pass Bys Vol. 3 is the third in our series of versatile vehicle pass by recordings. This collection contains a mixture of single and continuous pass bys, stops, idles and pull offs at a busy junction and on main roads.
A range of vehicles have been included to allow for maximum variation in your soundscapes or designed elements. Highlight specific vehicles, emphasise transitions, and turn buses, lorries, trucks, cars, vans and more into immersive atmospheres, sci-fi vehicles, dopplers and whooshes – all with Traffic Pass Bys Vol. 3!
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.
Recorded at 4 different factories in Denmark.
Sounds range from plastic foundries, casting machines, and machinery alarms, to giant textile processing units, and medical equipment manufacturing, clean-rooms and robotics.
All very loud environments. All recordings are several minutes long.
Motherships delivers a variety of mind-blowing interstellar mothership drones, transmission noises, inspiring indoor and outdoor ambiences.
It also features detailed computer room sounds with modern beeps and buttons, disturbing mechanical devices, machine room atmospheres, sci-fi radars, laser pulse and energy beams, heavyweight reactor rumbles and many more.
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
In films and documentaries there are often images of people in spaces speaking to other people, who are listening attentively.
The recordings of the person doing the talking are pristine from the set. The recordings of the rest of the room don’t exist. Room tones of empty spaces don’t possess movement and life that your soundtracks require for these situations.
Quiet Spaces is a collection of recordings of people gathered in rooms of various sizes and not talking
Libraries are a natural place to capture these environments, and so a high quality stealth kit made from a pair of Sanken CUB 01s discreetly placed from a backpack onto empty tables in various libraries. We also got access to a university campus right at the end of finals week where we recorded out in the open with a pair of MKH50s in ORTF. We captured an entire class taking a test, as well as various other lightly and sparsely populated spaces in and around campus.
The end result is a beautiful set of recordings of quiet spaces that are still filled with texture and movement.
Available in two versions:
Get the sounds of New York City, as captured by sound designer and recordist Rusty Dunn. The Essential New York City library includes recordings from locations like Manhattan, Coney Island, Brooklyn and more – and it packs recordings like ambiences from Times Square, Playgrounds, Central Park, the Subway, Sidewalks and streets around NYC and more. More than 2 hours of recordings are included.
SPACES delivers high definition ambience recordings and designed backgrounds, and is the perfect addition for your workflow or mood-inducing production. Utilizing only the best microphones, design processes, and tones, SPACES is a well-rounded collection of atmospheric quality. While excellent in the genres of Sci-Fi and Horror, SPACES would also be well suited in many other situations where film standard sound is required.
Perfect for a sound designer or musician looking to sculpt the mood and soundscape, SPACES will aid you in creating your key base layer of setting and emotion. Created in collaboration with Sebastain Emling, SPACES contains a whopping 4.84GB worth of 24bit/ 96khz .WAV files and over 120+ files, embedded with both Soundminer and Basehead metadata.
This library has 224 footsteps of all sorts. There are different type of shoes, such as boots, sneakers, sandals, slippers, flats, heels, bare feet and even a couple of wet sock recordings. It also has different type of surfaces like tile, grass, concrete, wood, dirt, carpet and rooftop recordings. Plus, you will find different types of movements with walking, running, jumping and scuffling around. The recordings are raw, with only light editing applied.
In High Desert Ambiences 1: Miniature, get a mini-nature collection of desolately beautiful sounds of the American southwest as the sun brings to life the songs of desert wildlife. This collection features sounds that will make you fall in love with the desert with the trickling of distant rivers, smooth cricket chirps, echoey caws from ravens so close you can hear the details in their wings flaps, snorts from a cautious yet curious mule deer, choruses of birds at dawn, and much more. Most recordings are well over 4 minutes, with one half-hour night-time track that will make you want to take out your tent immediately. For a mini-nature collection of lush, peaceful nature sounds from the heart of the American Southwest, here’s High Desert Ambiences 1: Miniature.
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!
• Sounds in this library are NOT included in High Desert Ambiences 2 and 3.
• This library contains a small selection of both “active” and “quiet” nature sounds from the high deserts of West Texas.
• If you need more “active” or “quiet” nature sounds check out: High Desert Ambiences 2: Active Nature or High Desert Ambiences 3: Quiet Nature.
• Featured on Designing Sound: “Our Favorite Sounds of 2016”
• Desert dawn and evening choruses
• Distant flowing river, songbirds, and insects
• Ravens soaring and squawking in a stark and resonant valley
• Lengthy night-time cricket chorus
• Partially audible and ultrasonic bat clicks up to 70kHz
• Ghostly distant animal calls
• Mule deer warning snorts and jumping movement
• Files ranging from 31 seconds to 30 minutes
• Rio Grande dawn chorus along the Texas/Mexico river border
• Locations: Near Marfa, Texas (in a mountain valley at an altitude of 6,000 ft) and Big Bend National Park along the Rio Grande River, Texas/Mexico border.
• These desert ambiences are extremely quiet, so I have included descriptive markers to signal interesting events in an otherwise featureless waveform. These markers can be read in programs such as RX, Reaper, and Soundminer. The markers are also included as .txt files in the sound files folder.
Looking for sounds that make you want to grab a warm blanket and stay inside? This collection has thunder and rain recordings collected during window-shaking storms from 2012 to 2015.
Most sounds are recorded in Helsinki, where summers contain a few weeks of hot weather accompanied by dramatic thunderstorms.
It also features a hot, violent storm captured in France that lasted several hours.
With recordings that last from 13 seconds to over a half hour, you're sure to get all the drizzling and cracking thunderclaps you're looking for!
The Philippines Faunethic sound library is a unique collection of 41 sounds recorded and produced with high quality equipment.
Through the whole island of Palawan, the rice field of Luzon and the city of Manilla, this collection includes:
-Village and rice field from Banaue, rice field in the north of Luzon
-Forest and jungle of south Palawan
-Market, small to medium.
-The city of Manilla
This collection provides authentic and interesting sounds recorded through 2 islands after the rainy season! All Faunethic tracks include metadata tags filled with Soundminer. All tracks are delivered as 48k/24bit .wav files. This collections come in easily downloadable zip file.
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!
• 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.
Recorded in Eastern Oregon’s Great Basin and High Desert Region – classic sounds of the American West, forest or desert.
These tracks are stripped highlights from the hundreds of hours of field recordings I use to make my films. A number of them include the birds fluttering and making deep natural calls right next to the recorder – about as close as you can hope to get of birds in the wild.
Bonjour! Welcome to the Sounds of France. This collection features a collection of high quality sounds recorded on location all around the beautiful regions of France.
From traditional bistros and cafes, to the famous Paris Metro, authentic crowds and accents, airports, church bells and so much more. Please see the tracklist below for more detailed track information.
Sounds of France was recorded with the intention to be particularly useful in post-production environments with a range of genuine and rare sounds you can genuinely expect to hear in France.
We really hope you enjoy this extensive, high-quality sound pack.
All tracks recorded by Evan Buist, sound engineer and field recordist (National Geographic, DreamWorks, Paramount Pictures).
• In Whoosh: Leafy Foliage, get an fluttering and rustling collection of flying foliage. Swing a 6-foot cottonwood branch and hear the delicate dancing of hundreds of heart-shaped leaves. Hear stringy fern root bundles cutting the breeze like bullwhips. Hear sago palms swishing with breathy whistles. Swing massive maples branches and hear the crunchy whoosh of deciduous leaves rich with ultrasonic energy up to 50 kHz.
• This library offers you an extensive collection of whooshes created exclusively from organic sources. Enjoy listening to a variety of deciduous and evergreen foliage as it cuts through cold autumn nights.
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!
Meet CLOSETS_Small Doors, the first Household library from SoundFxWizard.
Closets is a collection of 106 high quality 24-bit 96khz recordings of opening/closing and locking/unlocking households.
It contains drawers, doors, washing machines, wardrobes and also small objects like chest, dvd box, cassette player.
All sounds has been recorded and edited by talented sound designer Vincenzo Bellanova and thanks to their neutral mastering are perfect to fill sound effects needs in films and videos.
is a bizarre and unique harp for Ni Kontakt based on a custom-made musical instrument by Italy-based guitarist Paolo Balestri.
He crafted Mokarpa using guitar strings mounted on a Moka, the iconic Italian coffee pot.
The sounds is harmonically rich, delicate with metallic resonances and with a dreamy flavor.
It’s suitable for fantasy soundtracks, lo-fi hiphop, R&B, cinematic and chill tracks.
The Kontakt instrument allows you to adjust the sound with a custom scripted GUI.
MOKARPA WORKS ONLY WITH FULL KONTAKT 5.8.1 or ABOVE (NOT COMPATIBLE FREE KONTAKT PLAYER)
Listening at a distance is a wildly different experience when compared to being up close to all of the action. Our Home Exterior Sound Library is a unique collection of 60 audio samples and sounds recorded from outside of a home with all of the windows open. With more than 60 different sounds coming from outside of the home, in addition to built-in and embedded room tones, each audio recording paints a picture for an interior scene that adds a new layer of sound to your audio project.
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.
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.
Geophonic Design Bundle is a diverse collection of unique and abstract designed sounds with infrasonic frequencies which go as low as 10Hz. The bundle includes three libraries with a total runtime of 217+ mins (7.01 GB) that have strong sci-fi & horror vibes perfect for your films, video games, documentaries and other projects that require a mysterious and ominous soundscape.
Our Audio Craftsmen used a ‘Geophone’ which is a seismic measurement device used to record seismic waves and vibrations of the earth, to record low heavy vibrations and rumbles of various surfaces and materials, hits and interactions of wood, metal, trees, soil, clay and other natural ingredients. We have also captured sounds from window glass, busy roads with vehicle pass bys, metal posts and rails with impacts, water passing through pipes, metal containers, plastic buckets and much, much more.
All of the included sounds were then precisely edited and designed by our dedicated in house team to build ambiences such as: outer space, underground bunkers, submarines, weather stations, underground sewers, a labyrinth of metal pipes, nuclear wastelands, research bases, 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 and with UCS compliant metadata to integrate seamlessly with your workflow.
The sounds will also make a great addition to your library as layered textures, to build a mysterious atmosphere in your projects, and will be perfect as drones and ambiences for futuristic, sci-fi and horror scenes.
You will be saving 25% of the total cost of the individual libraries when purchasing this bundle, an excellent value for money addition to your sci-fi/horror sound effects libraries.
Geophonic Design – Vol.1
Geophonic Design – Vol.2
Geophonic Design – Vol.3
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