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Need high-impact car crash sounds – captured from both the inside and outside of a car? While there are no sounds of actual monsters attacking a car, there's certainly a lot of of recordings of sound-guys jumping on car roofs, beating car doors, smashing windshields and destroying paint jobs, with a big axe, and a crowbar.
Low sense DPA 4061 microphones were placed inside a car, and different actions were performed on it, like hitting, dragging, jumping, stepping and other improvising actions.
Microphones were also placed inside and outside the car, and windshields were smashed, with crowbars. These recordings covered the massive impacts as well as the small detailed glass pieces falling inside the car.
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.
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.
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!
• 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.
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
'Indonesia' is a unique collection of 57 sounds recorded and produced with high quality equipment of DPA, Neumann and Audio Technica mics powered by an Aeta Mixy. This collection provides authentic and interesting sounds recorded on three different islands during national festivities for nice diversity! This collection includes:
If you're after the sound of construction sites, this library gets you interior and exterior recordings from construction work such as cobblestone pavers, concrete shredders, harbor cranes, forklifts, jackhammers, stonecutters, metal hammering, excavators and more. A total of more than 2 hours of construction work ambiences are included.
This is a collection of authentic sounds from sporting events, captured in Italy.
The Italian Sports library comes with everything from soccer crowd chanting, singing, cheering, booing and whistling.
Also includes recordings of professional and amateur soccer matches on grass and concrete + more.
60 sound files (23 minutes total) are included in the pack so you can build an authentic soundscape of a sporting event.
Each sound file has been carefully named and tagged for easy search in Soundminer and is Universal Category System (UCS) compliant.
(see the full track list below).
This library is a collection of cloth and sponge sounds on various surfaces at varying degrees of wetness. It’s a collection of Foley sounds that we always seem to need, but often can’t find. Each track includes multiple movements and surfaces. The recordings are mono and unprocessed, so they sound natural and can be easily placed in your stereo field.
All tracks recorded with a Neumann KMR81 microphone.
Beer & Whiskey Commercials is a library we put together after finding ourselves designing a number of commercials that all shared a similar theme. This library is a good time saver when time isn’t on your side, but is also a great way to create a base to work off.
There is a mixture of design and clean foley tracks to fit any style of commercial with all the variations we find most useful. All audio was recorded using a Senheisser MKH60 and the Avedia MA5 500.
• In Rock Creatures, get a visceral collection of guttural and grating vocalizations from the volcanic rocks of the Davis Mountains. Scrape rhyolite with intense pressure and hear guttural screeches with vigorous, physical energy. Hear the thick weight of boulders growling and frenetic stutters of rocks performed to sound like animals. Hear textured squeaks of small stones sliding. Hear rocks rich in titanium clattering to create otherworldly harmonics perfect for creature sound design.
• This library offers you an extensive collection of rocks painstakingly performed to bring these inanimate objects to life and transform them into intensely vocal creatures.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
Wood Stairs Footwork by Badlands Sound features footsteps on wooden stairs. A lot of recording and editing has went into every footstep thus each one is its own individual file. You can hear the subtle wooden creaks, pops, and groans of the staircase sometimes before and / or after each step allowing you to time each step perfectly. This sound library was recorded with high quality professional equipment and software including the sound devices 702t, Sennheiser MKH 8040, Pro Tools Ultimate, Izotope RX7 Advance, as well as high quality eq and compressor plug-in’s.
The bell collector sound library is a unique collection of 113 sounds of bells, gong and other metal percussions. These objects have been collected over the years, mainly in Asia, India and Europe.
All these sounds have been recorded and produced with high quality equipment at 24/96 khz at low noise floor.
Each bell, sorted by tonality, comes with many variations of intensity and rhythms.
-Hand bell
-Crotal bell
-Gong bell
-Hand drum
-Sleight bell
-Bicycle bell
-Singing bowl
-Chime
This library provides authentic and interesting sounds, recorded with Neumann and MBHO mics powered by an Aeta 4minX.
Recorded and edited in high resolution, these sounds are easy to pitch down and time stretch to create unique and surprising sounds.
All Faunethic tracks includes metadata carefully edited, compatible with Soundminer, Soundly and Basehead.
It’s been awhile since Doom Drones, came out, and we put another excellent collection together that is over twice the size! Enter Doom Drones 2, a collaboration between SoundMorph, Tibo Csuko (Robotic LIfeforms 2, Sinematic 2), Boris Karékine (Robotic LIfeforms 2, Sinematic 2), Real Cardinal (Sinematic 1&2). Doom Drones 2 is a great addition for anyone wanting to enhance dark ominous moments.
Doom Drones 2 contains more than 9.7Gb of eerie, doomful, dark, atmospheric field recordings, designed drones, backgrounds, and musical drones. Perfect for something in the realm of a David Lynch film, ambient music production, a horror film, or just to set the mood of a foreboding sound scape.
All files are 24bit/96khz .WAV stereo files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hello, Pass by!
Traffic Pass Bys is an assortment of single and multiple generic pass bys, featuring cars, buses and motorcycles on wet and dry British roads.
Use these sounds when building your backgrounds and exterior environments. This library also lends itself to creative transitions, and further processing into unique 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.
Flesh, Bones & Gore Vol. 3 is the third in our series of unsettling gore sound effects. This collection focuses on the slurps and growls of a creature eating flesh. General bone cracks and flesh rips have also been included to induce maximum cringe in your audiences.
Our Audio Craftsmen channelled their inner monster while tearing into various fruit and vegetables. The result is a grotesque collection of sounds ideal for unsettling viewers and users in your horror Game, TV & Film productions.
All sounds have been kept raw and are delivered in 24Bit 192kHz format, so you can drop them as-is into your timeline, or design your own monstrous creations. This library has also been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
The library contains four folders:
Bone Cracks: Heavy crunches and cracks.
Creature Slurps: Munches, slurps and chews of a creature digging into its prey.
Guts & Blood: Wet crushing of flesh, guts and bones.
Ripping Flesh: Brutal tearing and sawing of flesh.
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