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A massive electro-acoustic drone SFX library reft from a custom designed and hand-built instrument! These drones were coaxed from a unique instrument using the power of air. No harsh picking or plucking, just assorted techniques for moving air deftly across the strings.
The guitar, Yvaine, was recorded simultaneously via two tracks (one direct and another amped and mic’d) and was set to 23 different tunings to encompass the full spectrum of her voice, character, and soul. The tunings are as follows:
All5ths | B6th | Capo12th | CassianoPereiraViana | CrossnoteF | Cuba | DADGAD | DropB | Hawaiian | Koto | OpenA | OpenC | OpenD | OpenE | OpenF | OpenG | OpenPage | Orkney | Ostrich | Pentatonic | “Spira” | Standard | TheEdge
The files range from uber clean and harmonic to gritty, crackling, and distorted. For some of the overdriven amped recordings, we even experimented with creative NR settings for the modulation of artificial harmonics…and kept some of the more colorful results! Between the two different tracks, multiple takes were made per strength, per position, per recording. Depending on which takes were best, some of the DI and amped captures matched, while others were physically different. This offers unique layering capabilities for some sets while allowing for variety in others. Some of the sets are missing particular strength recordings at specific positions. But if a capture wasn’t appropriate, we didn’t include it.
This is a bountiful collection of droning goodness. Use it for good.
Get the movement noise and handling sounds of a wide range of dresses and clothes, bags, necklaces, hats and footwear. Most items include photos too, to make the items easier to identify.
Footwear includes:
Japanese clogs • training shoes • mens' and womens' sandals • leather and canvas • turkish slippers • riding boots • military boots • canvas sneakers
Necklaces include:
Bijou Wooden copper balls • wood cubes • bijou plastic pearl • classified links • metal death head • fiber micro pearl • big plastic pearl and more
Bags include:
Small women's handbag • Grandmother handbag • Mini handbag • Cane handbag • Cane shoulder bag • Braided handbag • Indian shoulder bag • Military canvas bag
Hats:
Woolen hat • summer straw panama hat • basketball cap
Belts & more:
Canvas belt • plastic belt • leather belt • classic leather belt • ties • silk sheets • leather holster
Get the authentic sounds of Lisbon, Portugal in this SFX library by Ana Monte. It includes recordings from various Lisbon neighborhoods, places such as a bakery, big market, bus ride, coffee house, construction site, airport, pub, museum bookstore, busy and quiet restaurants and more. It also features a 5.1 recording of a train ride in the world-famous Train 28 Lisboa Street Train.
This Hard Drive SFX library delivers the sounds of severely mistreated hard drives. We hit hard drives with hammers, drilled holes in them, bent them and inserted objects into them before turning them on. Power ups, shut downs, grinding, screeching, whines, and rattling are just a few of the sounds you’ll find here. Great source material for sound design and heavy processing.
This sound library is entirely based on the Victor adding machine, made in the 1920s. This machine was purely mechanical and non-electric. In this sound library you'll get individual recordings of the machine's hand crank, printer, paper, and button/keys tracks as well as six complete recordings of the adding machine in full action. The library also contains five different mic positions with two different mic techniques used.
'Fans Light Machines' is a collection of different mechanical fan and electrical sounds recorded over the last 10 years. Presented in this library are interesting machine hums and buzzes from air conditioners, vents, vending machines, heating fans, light strips, washing machines, steam engines, and more. It also includes the creator's favorite – the ping of a light turning on that was recorded in the bathroom of Bugbear Studios in 2009. To flesh out your industrial buildings with distinct and detailed sounds of lighting and appliances, this is the one you want.
Download 50 Sound Effects for $9.99 within a month from a library of more than 300,000 tracks. We give you Access to a wide variety of collections from Sound Ideas and the Hollywood Edge, including categories such as ambiance, animals, comedy, cartoon, crashes, designed sounds, foley, feature film, guns, sci-fi, production elements, sports, surround sound, transportation, and the list goes on! Instead of purchasing a boutique library, choose from an extensive library ala carte. We provide you with the massive audio library without the large cost.
The sound effects are all recorded in 24bit 96khz down to 16bit 44.1khz. These sound effects have been used in many productions such as feature films, video games and all types of broadcast.
Purchasing this offer gets you a special code that lets you download 50 sound effects from Audiohero.com within a month. The sounds you get with this purchase are covered under the Audiohero EULA.
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.
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!
• 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.
• 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!
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.
• 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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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