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  • Need high-quality volcanic audio from a film featured by National Geographic? You can hear it pop and snap, and occasionally rocks forming, shearing, and breaking apart. Thankfully – I didn’t melt the recorder!

     

  • • In Pacific Northwest: Roosevelt Elk, get a mini-nature collection of ambiences from the Hoh Rainforest, a temperate rainforest on the Olympic Peninsula in Olympic National Park. Hear Roosevelt Elk clack antlers and bugle as they fight for the chance to mate. Hear Pacific Wrens joyous chirps as they dance on rotten logs. Hear the massive sparseness of forests filled with 200-300 foot douglas fir and spruce. Hear haunting reverberations as ravens caw in groves of titans and the Hoh River’s soothing wash, the perfect sound to lull you off to peaceful dreams.
    • This library offers you a small collection of both quiet and active nature sounds from one of the wettest forests in North America. Some places on the Olympic Peninsula get over 200 inches of precipitation per year, and that abundance of moisture makes for a magical fern and moss filled ecosystem brimming with soothing ambiences.

    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!
    • Carbon offset credits were purchased for the Pacific Northwest Series. Field Recording travel for these libraries was carbon neutral!

    KEY FEATURES:
    • Recorded near the One Square Inch of Silence
    • Featuring Roosevelt Elk
    • Hear two full grown Roosevelt Elk clacking antlers and bugling!
    • Distant elk trumpeting deep in the forest.
    • Varied ambiences from the Hoh Rainforest in Olympic National Park
    • Sparse ambiences with minimal wildlife
    • Active ambiences with twittering songbirds
    • One extended 35-minute quiet nature ambience
    • This library is a portrait of the Hoh Rainforest. The rainforest is in a long river valley, so the distant soothing wash of the Hoh River can be heard in all recordings.
    TEXT MARKERS:


    • Named markers are included in each file to help find interesting events in an otherwise uniform waveform!
    • Marker text included in the Soundminer description and BWAV description fields.

    FILE LIST & METADATA:
    • View in Browser or Download CSV
    • Flora (plants) and Fauna (animals) are described in these terms:
    • fauna sparse
    • fauna constant
    • flora sparse
    • flora constant
    • flora and fauna sparse
    • flora and fauna constant
    • Included wildlife: Roosevelt Elk, American Crow, Common Raven, Pacific Wren, Brown Creeper, Barred Owl, chipmunks, and various other distant murmuring songbirds
    BLOG POST:
    • Read the full story on the A Sound Effect Blog – Sounds from the Quietest Place in the Continental US 
    MORE INFO:
    • Read 30+ user reviews for Thomas Rex Beverly Audio
    • Read my Field Recording Mastering Rules and learn more about how these recordings were mastered.
    • Browse the Library Info Master List to compare specs on all my libraries.
    • Browse the Metadata Master List to search my entire catalog.
    • MD5 and SHA 256 Checksums are included for each zip file in my catalog. Use these hashes to check the integrity of your downloaded files.
    ***Note – the name of this library was changed from Pacific Northwest: Miniature to Pacific Northwest: Roosevelt Elk on 9/28/2018. This was a name change only. No audio files were updated.
    GEAR USED:
    • Sennheiser MKH 8040 Matched Pair in ORTF
    • Sound Devices 702
    • Rycote ORTF Blimp
  • Environments & Ambiences Wind Harp Play Track 41+ sounds included, 154 mins total $85

    • In Wind Harp, get an expansive collection of musical winds from the mountains of the American Southwest. Hear singing wires brought to life by 30 mph gusts and desert winds meshing perfectly with musical drones. Hear blustery blasts whipping through mountain valleys and scrappy desert foliage rustling frantically. Hear dancing grasses strike fretboard strings, pinging rich melodies with each swaying stalk. 
    • To record this library an acoustic guitar was transformed into an aeolian harp. I hope this library gives you a chance to hear the wind in a way you haven’t heard it before. Enjoy listening to the natural music of the wind as it sings on long thin wires

    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!

    KEY FEATURES:
    •100% bird free
    •Created using an acoustic guitar in open A (E-A-C♯-E-A-E) and open D (D-A-D-F♯-A-D) tunings.
    •Don’t worry about the wind drones clashing with the music in your project. The notes are listed in the filenames for easy pitch shifting!
    •Open guitar tunings allow the strings to resonant freely in the wind as beautiful chords
    •Strong 20-40 mph winds
    •Rich overtone filled wind drones
    •Dead winter grass
    •Coniferous and deciduous wind from desert foliage
    •A violin bow was used to bow the strings in a few clips.
    MICROPHONE TECHNIQUE:
    •All recordings were made outdoors.
    •A Sennheiser MKH 50 and 30 in Mid/Side were using for most recordings
    •DPA 4060s were used under the strings of the guitar to capture more overtones. In a few cases, I combined a DPA 4060 and Sennheiser MKH 30 and matrixed it as mid/side for a unique perspective.
    •Bowed guitar clips were recorded in ORTF.
    TEXT MARKERS:
    •Named markers are included in each file to help find interesting events in files with multiple variations.
    •Markers are included in the Soundminer and BWAV description fields starting with the prefix “Marker Text”.
    FILE LIST & METADATA:
    View larger version or Download CSV
    BLOG POST:
    •Read behind the scenes stories from this field recording trip in my blog post: The Natural Music of the Wind

    MORE INFO:
    • Read 30+ user reviews for Thomas Rex Beverly Audio
    • Read my Field Recording Mastering Rules and learn more about how these recordings were mastered.
    • Browse the Library Info Master List to compare specs on all my libraries.
    • Browse the Metadata Master List to search my entire catalog.
    • MD5 and SHA 256 Checksums are included for each zip file in my catalog. Use these hashes to check the integrity of your downloaded files. 
    GEAR USED:
    •Sennheiser MKH 50 and 30 in Mid/Side
    •DPA 4060 and MKH 30 in Mid/Side
    •DPA 4060s in AB
    •Sennheiser MKH 8040 Matched Pair in ORTF
    •Sound Devices 702
    •Rycote MS Blimp
    •Rycote ORTF Blimp
  • Underwater sound effects features 200 professionally produced sound effects, ready for use in your productions. These sounds are all hand-picked from the Sound Ideas Underwater Sound Effects library.

  • Featured Sound Creators Whoosh: Leafy Foliage Play Track 350+ sounds included, 15 mins total $60

    • 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!

    KEY FEATURES:
    • Rich, crunchy maple leaves
    • Cottonwood leaves dancing
    • Slow moving sounds of rustling leaves. Use these crackling leaves to add leafy wind textures to an atmos bed.
    • Various branch sizes
    • Mostly outdoor with a few indoor recording sessions
    • Variation files with multiple similar whooshes
    • Single whooshes
    • Wild circling and spinning whooshes
    • Extended whipping gestures
    • All whooshes include fade in/outs and are aligned to the 0.5 second grid
    • 300 single whooshes
    • 50 extended whooshing gestures
    • 350+ total sounds
    • Deciduous: cottonwoods and maples
    • Evergreen: cast iron plant, sago palm, fern root, Japanase aralia
    • Please note: the “Pitch Shifted Demo” was made to demonstrate the potential of the sounds in this library. However, Whoosh: Leafy Foliage does NOT include pitch shifted sounds, only mastered field recordings.
    TEXT MARKERS:
    •Named markers are included in each file to help find interesting events in files with multiple variations.
    •Markers are included in the Soundminer and BWAV description fields starting with the prefix “Marker Text”.
    FILE LIST & METADATA:
    View larger version or Download CSV
    MORE INFO:
    • Read 40+ user reviews for Thomas Rex Beverly Audio
    • Read my Field Recording Mastering Rules and learn more about how these recordings were mastered.
    • Browse the Library Info Master List to compare specs on all my libraries.
    • Browse the Metadata Master List to search my entire catalog.
    • MD5 and SHA 256 Checksums are included for each zip file in my catalog. Use these hashes to check the integrity of your downloaded files. 
    GEAR USED:
    •Sennheiser MKH 8040 Matched Pair in ORTF
    •Sound Devices 702
    •Rycote ORTF Blimp
  • Moving Loops by Badlands Sound features 100+ sounds of different objects that rustle, rattle, or shake that is 30 seconds long and loopable.

    This library is great for creating textures or adding additional sounds to earthquakes or things moving around inside a vehicle at high speeds.

    These sounds were recorded in 96k / 24 Bit using professional equipment including Sennheiser microphones and Sound Devices 702t. The processing for this library is very minimal, only including De-Noise and minor EQ.

  • Practical Doors contains a range of interior and exterior door sound effects with common uses: open, close, creak, slam, keys, locks, latches, knocks and many more! They fit right into your tracklay, recorded at different perspectives to capture their natural reverb. Our award-winning Sound Designers recorded all sorts of doors in a variety of locations, some of which include: residential, office buildings, apartments, Victorian buildings, prisons and industrial units.

    This library is your one stop solution to sound editing for doors. All effects were recorded in 24Bit 96kHz, allowing for further sonic manipulation.

    If you need door effects with a natural, unprocessed tone, this library is for you! Practical Doors is ideal for use in Film, TV and Game projects, and will make a perfect addition to your sound design arsenal.

    Here are the included folders:

    Open, Close, Creak: Warm and full sounding doors, captured at different perspectives, gleaming with character.

    Locks, Latches, Keys, Bolts and More!: A huge variety of ornaments to your door sounds, different keys, alarms and locks to fit different doors.

    Door Knocks: Foley sounds of different knocks, rhythmic, aggressive, anxious and more.

    Designed: Our team of Audio Craftsmen built castle drawbridges, bunker doors, battering rams and more from the original recordings.

  • Deliver your best sound with award-winning quality.

    Great sound begins with quality tools. Odyssey Starter gives you instant access to go-to sound effects from the private library of two Academy Award®-winners created for over 250 Hollywood feature films and shows. Fuel your projects with dazzling design elements, devastating impacts, subtle transitions, whooshes, foley and beyond.

    Formerly the secret sonic weapon of Mark Mangini (Blade Runner 2049, Mad Max: Fury Road) and Richard L. Anderson (Batman Returns, The Lion King), these sounds are now available to you 100% royalty-free for unlimited usage.

    Selected from over 100,000 recordings, we have carefully curated and cataloged a powerful, compact general library – featuring the most useful, standard, inspiring, and surprising sound effects that will help you take your sound and stories to the next level in your film, television, game, and music projects.

    “I use this library every day. It has been instrumental to our own success, and now the sounds can live on in the hands of the next generation of filmmakers and sound designers.”Mark Mangini

     

    “These are the kind of sounds that I’m always looking for – everything has character and a great cinematic feel. I’m amazed by the variety, quality and organization.”Will Files (War for the Planet of the Apes)

    With over 4,000 sound effects curated from Odyssey Essentials, Odyssey Starter is part of the The Odyssey Collection of libraries developed by Pro Sound Effects and Academy Award®-winners Mark Mangini & Richard Anderson. The Odyssey Collection: Starter is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Creator

    Features:

      • 4,382 sound effects (40GB)
      • 280 categories
      • Native Broadcast .wav formats
        • 24/96, 24/48, 16/48, 16/44.1
      • Rich embedded metadata descriptions
      • 100% Royalty-Free use on any project
      • Delivered via download

     

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    Curated from an extensive vehicle workup of a 2001 Saleen Mustang from The Odyssey Collection by Academy Award®-winners Mark Mangini & Richard L. Anderson, this library includes a wide variety of powerful car recordings from different angles, distances, speeds, and perspectives.

     

    What is a workup? A workup is a thorough series of recordings of the same subject from many different perspectives. Having these options at your fingertips helps to quickly and intuitively cut sound effects for a scene without needing to reuse or process sounds to make them fit the picture.

    Streamline your sound editing workflow with expertly recorded car sound effects from the 2001 Saleen Mustang including ignition, engine revving, idling, driving sequences in forward and reverse on various terrains, pass bys, tire skids, door and trunk open and close, horn honks, engine rumbles, and more.

    This workup also includes a selection of multi-mono recordings, which offers the choice of different mic positions from the same recording. And each sound is embedded with rich, descriptive metadata for lightning-fast, pinpoint search results.

    Vehicle Workup: 2001 Saleen Mustang is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Standard.

    Key Features:

    • 100 sound effects (1.61GB)
    • 24-bit/48kHz broadcast .wav files
    • Descriptive embedded metadata
    • 100% Royalty-Free
    • Delivered via download

     

  • UK Canals, Parks and Forests contains a varied assortment of exterior sounds captured during field recording sessions by our team of Audio Craftsmen. The sound effects in this library will make an excellent compliment to your collection and are perfect for use in films, documentaries, commercials, and video games. They work well for projects based in the UK, but are equally at home in international projects.

    The team travelled through picturesque locations around Greater Manchester – the heart of industrial Britain, capturing some of the world’s most beautiful canals and their essence in a set of ambience recordings. We also visited some wonderful parks and forests to record some of the people and the wildlife. We recorded forest paths, various birds, crows, children playing, rivers and geese all in real-world locations to give you the most authentic & grounded representation of the UK.

    The included ambiences have been carefully edited to the same running length so that you can seamlessly drop them into your project timeline and are provided dry in 24Bit 96kHz allowing for further sonic manipulation if required. All files are tagged with extensive metadata to allow you to search for and select the desired sound with ease.
    Some of the included sounds are: daytime canal with running water, geese with people passing by, under a foot bridge, ducks quacking in a canal, daytime forest birds, crows, people boxing in a park and many, many more.

  • Percussion Instruments Cymbals From Hell Vol. 2 Play Track 141+ sounds included, 102 mins total $51

    Cymbals From Hell Vol. 2 is a haunting collection of raw and designed gong sounds, brought to you as the successor to one of our most popular horror libraries to date. Crafted from various types of gong recordings, this library brings you the creepiest stingers and harshest resonances to terrorise your audiences.

    Made in collaboration with Igor Tikhonov from KEDR Audio, who captured various types of gong sounds and several performances using both Mid-Side and omnidirectional A/B microphone techniques to encapsulate an expansive stereo-field and the richest gong textures.

    Our Audio Craftsmen then meticulously edited and designed them to make the most frightening and disturbing sounds including harsh, distorted gong rumbles, horror stingers, low heavy gong rumbles, mangled hits, and much, much more.

    All the sounds are extensively meta-tagged and are UCS complaint so you can easily find the sound you need and are in 192kHz/24bit allowing for further sonic manipulation.

  • If you want to create sound design for control rooms, military, spy or radio communication scenarios, this is your perfect library.
    120 real radio transmissions, digital data streams, morse code, channel marker, time signals, interference and more. Mysterious and unique, captured by radio stations all over the world.

    Carefully preedited with detailed metadata.

  • KING OF STRINGS is the first Octobass sample library for Ni Kontakt.

    Featuring the sampling of the unique  custom made “Bohr-Moneta” Octobass.

    There are only 4 octobasses in the world, this instrument is the perfect way to add the power of a rare bass instrument to your music compositions, giving an organic flavor without sacrificing the natural rough sound of a string instrument.

    NOTE: KING OF STRINGS is an instrument for Ni Kontakt, it requires full version of Kontakt 5.8 or highter versions

  • The Water Emerge/Submerge Bundle contains our three libraries which feature the sound of a huge variety of props emerging from and submerging into water.

    Our Audio Craftsmen recorded props with an underwater-overwater microphone configuration comprising the Aquarian H2a Hydrophone and Sennheiser MKH50. Each library comes with both mic options available as separate files, providing limitless options for layering in your designs.
    This massive collection of sounds is perfect for aquatic sound design and enhancing any of your water-themed sonic projects.

    All sounds included were carefully captured and meticulously edited for maximum sonic quality, enabling to you drop each sample into your projects with no need for further enhancement or modification.

    The entire bundle is delivered at 24Bit/192kHz, and tagged with extensive Metadata.

  • West Coast America features both urban and rural sounds of Washington and Oregon state. Venture into Pacific rainforests to hear raindrops, frogs, exotic birds, waterfall and rivers. Take a trip to the farm to experience a creaky squeaky wagon ride and a grunting pig. Journey to the ocean to surround yourself with peaceful lapping water, squawking seagulls and the bassy engine of a ship. Listen to sci-fi traffic pass-bys, car locks, and the activity of Portland city at night.

    This varied selection of ambiences and spot effects can be used for a range of exterior settings. Ideal for building up backgrounds for your scenes, or further manipulation to create your own designed effects.

    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. 2 is a new sound effects library from 344 Audio, and the second volume in our Interior Vibrations collection.

    This product contains a selection of different sounds captured with a stereo pair of contact microphones, all edited to perfection by our skilled team of audio craftsmen.

    When making this library, we experimented with a range of different sound creation methods, using a variety of different objects and materials to achieve the desired effect.

    Some of the sound sources in this library include:

    Raw vibrations through metal and wooden surfaces.
    Scraping & bending metal.
    Rubbing fabrics, hair and skin.
    Drilling metal at various intensities.

    The organic nature of these sounds means they’re perfect for further sound design, and are ideal for use in horror and science fiction productions.

    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.

  • Two Typewriters. Protectograph. Adding Machine. Sewing Machine. Vintage Cigarette Machine.

    The sound enthusiast in you will love to know that we scoured around the city/internet to collect a bunch of antique mechanistic objects for this sound collection. We even scored an old classic adding machine and a working antique pedal sewing machine! The gears and mechanisms in this odd assortment of old machines is from a beautiful and rich bygone era of manual movement, of strange and fascinating ideas from inventors creating moving parts that are simply unproducible in modern day gadgets.

    Your ears spring to life as you listen through, one by one through these highly detailed and engrossing audio recordings that capture brilliantly the foreground and midground layers of the small moving parts. Perfect for older weapon Foley, for steam-punk machines, period piece machines, industrial era machinery, and on and on. A small vintage gear crank, that special metallic rich clickety-clack of a dusty old mechanism, the ribbon typewriter scrolling…

    To get the most out of this collection of old mechanisms, we used a multipositional close mic-ing approach for these in order to get all those tiny moving details. Of course, they required that they be captured in our smallest studio used for precisely these low-noise environment sort of recordings – key in bringing the detailed three dimentional quality of these mechanisms to life.

    As sound designers, we always need new, better, varied material. We want to feel excited by and connected to the sounds we use – enjoy and make it yours!

    Antique Mechanisms Sound Effects

     

  • Haunting Ambiences Vol. 4 is the fourth instalment in one of our most popular series of horror sound effects libraries. This product contains dense, multi-layered construction kits, giving you the tools craft harrowing atmospheres for your terrifying

    Haunting Ambiences Vol. 4 is the fourth instalment in one of our most popular series of horror sound effects libraries. This product contains dense, multi-layered construction kits, giving you the tools to craft harrowing atmospheres for your terrifying projects.

    Our Audio Craftsmen recorded and designed unusual, unnerving sounds – including screaming voices, chair creaks, bangs, dripping water, bug movement and more – to elicit maximum unease in your audiences. The result is a series of construction kits comprising abandoned sewer, haunted living room, breeding chamber, ghost rider, engine room and eerie forest ambiences.

    Also included are split stems with the same running length to encourage experimentation and allow mixing and matching across the library.

    This library can be used for constructing unsettling backgrounds for both digital and live horror projects, including films, games and escape rooms.

    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.

  • Gun Mechanics – UK Police Issue contains 254 individual mechanical sounds with several performances for each action.

    Guns Included: Glock 17 Pistol, H&K MP5K, H&K G36K, H&K L104A Grenade Launcher, Tikka T3 Hunter Bolt Action Rifle and a Bennelli 12 Gauge Pump Action Shotgun.

  • Road Riders brings a new twist on what you'd normally expect to hear from a motorcycle.

    With a focus on capturing the unique sound of Ducati's higher-end motorbikes, the 2012 Ducati Panigale and the 2011 Ducati Monster.

    These titans have a unique sound that can be used for many things beyond motorcycles, including spaceships, cinematic whooshes, and a variety of other sci-fi vehicles.

    Road Riders features more than 290 24bit/96 kHz files, all embedded with Soundminer metadata, including:

    • 2012 Ducati Panigale (pass-bys, revs, idles, ignition, parts)
    • 2011 Ducati Monster (pass-bys, revs, idles, ignition, parts)
    • designed pass-bys
    • Shepard tone loops for accelerations and decelerations
    • Bonus files of the 2012 Yamaha FZ8
    • Bonus files of the 2001 Honda Shadow

  • Firearms Sound Effects Bullet Impacts Play Track 320 sounds included $35

    Prepare for impact! This EFX Bullet Impact collection features a huge number of impacts into cars, metal, walls, water, body impacts, as well as passbys, ricochets and underwater passbys.

    A must-have for for actual bullet and combat sounds – and for adding oomph to many other types of impact sounds too!

  • Mechanical Sound Effects Aldbourne Bells Play Track 98 sounds included $16

    A unique collection of antique bells of various shapes and sizes.

    The library features the House Bell, Hame Bell, Cup Bell and the Crotal Bell.

  • Drones & Mood Sound Effects Dreamscapes vol.1 Play Track 44 sounds included, 43 mins total $20

    A collection of versatile, carefully crafted, seamless looping drones and textures, that would take you away into the unknown realms. The pack includes all kinds of moods: from low-rumbling environmental ambiences and spacey drones, to the divine and transparent textures.

  • Drones & Mood Sound Effects Dreamscapes vol.2 Play Track 21 sounds included, 22 mins total $10

    Dreamscapes is a collection of versatile, carefully crafted drones and textures, that would take you away into the deep unknown realms. The pack includes all kinds of moods: from low-rumbling environmental ambiences and spacey drones, to the divine and transparent textures. All sounds are seamless loops, thus will fit perfectly in any project including games, with no additional tailoring required.

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