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Clocks is a small unique sound library – not recorded from traditional clocks but of edited sounds that tick tock. These recordings come from items such as a tape measure, door locking, screwdriver, and much more.
Recorded in 96kHz / 24 bit – All sounds are one minute long, loopable files.
Disclaimer: Music in the audio demo is not included in the product.
Introducing the ultimate roller coaster sound library: Roller Coaster Sound Builder includes high-quality recordings from 5 different roller coasters, from classic steel coasters to aggressive impulse coaster. This huge collection includes clean roller coaster passbys, onboard recordings, and classic roller coaster screams.
Roller coaster pass by sounds were recorded without background noise in an amusement park that was closed to the public. A great amount of natural screams with different intensities is also included, recorded during a regular summer day in the amusement park.
This collection provides unique, hard-to-access source material in high-quality, with a large amount of takes for creative sound design. We worked hard to capture as much useful material as we could when we had full access to the rides. All sounds were recorded in Särkänniemi amusement park, Tampere, Finland. Also available in the special Complete Amusement Park Sound Bundle.
Get the sounds of crazy accelerations, drifting, wild breaking, screechy tires and more – captured from several different perspectives on a race track.
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.
• In Pacific Northwest: Storm Waves, get an expansive collection of storm waves from Rialto Beach, a driftwood filled shoreline of Olympic National Park. Hear massive 25 ft swells breaking and sea foam froth sloshing on rounded pebbles. Hear violent slurping as water is sucked out after each massive wave. Hear wave resonance tuned to perfection by driftwood logs a millennium old. Hear distant storm buoys droning their ominous warning and bats circling with ultrasonic clicks. Hear a coastline gradually eroded by Pacific waves. A place where massive spruce stumps are still rooted in the beach, desperately holding to the earth as the soil is stripped from their roots. Press a contact mic to one of those stumps and hear the heartbeat of the ocean. The vibrations from crashing waves move through rocks and roots to create stunning resonances in the wood! I hope this library gives you a chance to hear the ocean in a way you haven’t heard it before. Enjoy listening to a large collection of storm waves from one of the most iconic beaches in North America.
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!
20 classic card sounds used in games, cherry-picked from Sonic Worlds' larger comprehensive “Playing Cards” library.
The library was recorded with the most commonly-used card deck used by casinos, magicians and hobbyists alike.
The library uses a close Mic perspective for that “in your face” sound used in games or film scenes where you want focus and create an impact.
Alien Atmospheres is a sound effects library that suggests alien presence, covering wildlife, weather, vehicles and ambiences.
These effects are perfect for use as backgrounds in sci-fi films, but can be used elsewhere.
We captured recordings at 4 exotic locations, layered tracks with analogue & digital synthesizers, human and animal voices to bring you 3GB of the most interesting sound effects.
Loading Sounds is a collection of various VCRs, CDs, Cassettes and Game console recordings focused on their mechanical requirements to play music or movies. There are even Printers loading paper and car CD players loading damaged CDs. The sounds are useful for the beginning of tracks, youtube video or sound effects for a movie, game or multimedia project.
Get up close and personal with British engineering in this superb motorcycle sound library!
This library is sampled from a brand new 2017 Triumph Street Twin 900 cc motorcycle. It combines classic motorcycle engineering with modern technology to create a truly unique sound.
In this library you get a large variety and perspectives of revs, idles, drive bys up to 50 mph, drive ups, drive aways, engine breaking, onboard driving, accelerating and more! Enjoy feeling like you’re riding this brand new modern vintage motorcycle!
Binaural and Ambisonic ambiences from Cromer Beach on the Norfolk North Coast. No people, mixture of Sandy and Stony beach, lovely crisp ambiences. Variety of distances will make this very useful for anyone working with VR work.
All recorded with the Sennheiser AMBEO VR and a Zoom F8.
Combination of Heavy and Light Waves
B-Format Ambisonics and Binaural Stereo Files.
SMOOTH is a collection of 140 24-bit/48khz wave sound effects.
I’ts delicate, soft, deep, eerie, cinematic. Its sounds are crafted for slow motion shots, abstract film sequences, motion design shots and mysterious, not aggressive, evocative and ethereal projects.
All sounds are organized into 8 categories:
They are total wet and 100% reverbered, designed with a “light touch”, definitely the opposite of big distorted and punchy sounds.
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.
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.
Hydrophonic Design Vol. 3 is the latest in our series water-themed libraries. This collection is overflowing with exciting sounds designed from source recordings captured with our Aquarian H2a Hydrophonic microphone.
Our audio craftsmen recorded various water underwater sounds, and then designed them using dopplers, comb filters modulators and other processes. The sounds in this collection are perfect for abstract watery soundscapes, as well as textures and layers for sci-fi and horror.
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 further manipulate these sounds as you desire.
Feedback Loops brings you a versatile pack full of different loops. In this pack you will find a plethora of analogue and digital sounds. By routing the output to the input of an analogue synth, our Audio Craftsmen were able to design a huge range of volatile feedback loops that continuously evolve over time. Digital synths were also used to create more complex sounds. They can be used for scenes involving live equipment and electricity. Their unique character allows for more complex sound design.
Our Audio Craftsmen have developed 3 different categories to be used individually, or as a basis for further sonic manipulation.
Sounds have been separated into the following categories:
Analogue: These feedback loops were created using an analogue synth to create more natural sounds.
Digital: These loops sound more harsh in comparison to the analogue sounds, and therefore are more complex
Simple: These loops don’t have any recorded manipulation so they can be used a low hums.
All sounds were recorded in 24Bit 96kHz, and have been tagged with extensive UCS metadata for ease of use.
Ultimate Medieval Bundle includes everything you need to design your own Medieval and historical characters, scenes, actions and backgrounds. Experience the sounds of crowd roars, battle cries, spears, shields, wooden poles, a warhammer, battle axe, steel helm, chainmail, sundry historical swords and more in this essential bundle!
Featuring the Historical Weapons Vol. 1 and 2, Medieval Armour, Medieval Battle Vol. 1 and 2, and Historical Battle libraries, this bundle provides a huge range of ambiences, impacts, vocalisations and weapon performances that can be mixed, matched and layered to suit your tastes.
All libraries – excluding our best-selling Medieval Battle library – were carefully captured with our multi-mic set-up (comprising a combination of at least two of the following: the Sennheiser MKH50, Røde NTG-3 and Line Audio CM4). This offers multiple perspectives and sonic flavours when crafting the sound for your project – be it a combat game character, a documentary war scene, a fantasy film battle, or a Medieval TV show fight sequence.
All sounds included were meticulously edited for maximum sonic quality, enabling to you drop each sample into your projects with no need for further enhancement or modification.
The bundle is delivered at 24Bit and 192kHz (with Medieval Battle library delivered at 96kHz) and tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.
Reverses Vol. 1 brings you a vast collection of recordings and designed sounds that have all been flipped, twisted and spun to create effects of reversal.
Our Audio Craftsmen have ventured out into the world to record sounds and flip them by 180 degrees! Voices, impacts, tools, animals and much more have been reversed to produce sound effects perfect for your next film/game project. These will be great for adding tension, excitement and flashback elements to your scene.
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.
Our Ukraine Metro Sound Library is a unique collection of thirteen ambiences recorded at Ukrainian metro stations and on Soviet subways and modern trains. Each sound is carefully recorded and crafted by professional field recordists and sound designers who know how to produce a high-quality audio experience. These unique ambiences include great detailed metadata using Universal Category System, allowing you to easily find and use these sounds.
This library includes Transitional Ambiences, which means the Field Recordist moves with microphones across a specific space within the audio file duration.
We contacted a Ukrainian Field Recordist, Dmitiry, to record ambiences throughout Ukraine. We were both excited about the upcoming sound libraries and started discussing what to record and planning the sound libraries. The first sound library we wanted to start working on is the ambience of the metro stations in Kyiv. Dmitry could go on a few field recording sessions just a week before the Russo-Ukrainian War. Thank you, Dmitiry, for your excellent and hard work.
Cartoon SFX Vol. 1 is an explosion of slapstick sounds created for your playful animated projects. Its lively recordings are fit for a variety of cartoon action, such as slips, slides, eyebrow raises, blinks, walking, dashes, impacts, falls, crushes, smooches, rattles, inflation, stretches, pokes and much, much more!
Our Audio Craftsmen channelled the organic, mickey-mousing sounds of classic cartoons while performing for this library. A selection of instruments and props were chosen and recorded to yield dynamic, expressive phrases ideal for accompanying on-screen movement. Recordings include harmonica and accordion rhythms, violin plucks and slides, glockenspiel hits, slide whistle movement, anvil hits, rattles and rubber tension.
This library is perfect for cartoon or animated productions that require energetic, exaggerated, metaphorical sounds that reference the classic zip-crash sonic palette.
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.
Essential Sound New York & Subway Bundle
This bundle includes both the top selling New York City libraries: Essential New York City, and Essential New York City – Street and Subway.
These two libraries combined give you access to the rich urban intercity, under-city and rural ambiences that keep making New York sound unique. Sirens, skyline drones, and the beating heart of NYC are all covered in this bundle.
Included sounds are: wet and dry close and distant perspective traffics, skyline dins, subway interiors, bys, through walls, etc. Pedestrians on busy sidewalks, quiet side streets, and dozens of other locations and situations.
All tracks have been meticulously recorded and mastered with Sony D10-D50 and similar field recorders and Pro Tools.
All recordings have full metadata created in Soundminer.
24bit/48Khz
This library is loaded with some beefy, old-school, mechanical interfacing: buttons, switches, knobs and levers.
The second volume of assorted recording sessions and design fragments from Eiravaein Works.
Libraries in the Vaeyan series will be produced over time as new library concepts are explored and researched.
A second helping of intriguing sonic flavor for any sound designer’s archive!
The Farm Animals SFX library represents an big selection of domestic animal and bird sounds. The sounds were primarily recorded on farms with a focus on vocalizations.
Baby Chicks: Chirps as a group and single.
Chickens: Clucking after laying eggs, squawking when scared, and clucking in a group.
Cow: Single long and short mooing, breathing recorded with close and far distances. Mooing in farm ambience recordings.
Dogs: Single medium-sized mongrel barking. Whining, yelping and aggressive growling. Big mongrel single barking.
Ducklings: Single calls to mother.
Ducks: Quacking as a group and single.
Geese: Calls in a poultry group.
Guinea Fowls: As a group and single.
Horses: Stallion neigh, grunt, breath, snort and head shake. Ambients of a stable (feeding hay, stableman working).
Peacock: Single calls.
Piglets: European piglets squeals and screams, slurping when eating.
Pigs: European big pig grunt, snort, breath, slurping when eating. Vietnam big pig squeal, scream and breath.
Roosters: Old and young rooster crowings. Recorded at close and far distances. As single and in a poultry group.
Sheep: Single sheep’s bleatings recorded at close and far distances. Also contains recordings of milking.
Turkey: Calls in a poultry group.
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