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Antique Metal Boxes features an array of heavy duty vintage metal box effects, recorded inside our Foley suite using authentic props. This library covers cover a large range different of antique boxes, including old toolboxes, vaults, loot crates, military equipment and ammunition boxes.
Our skilled team of audio craftsmen performed a diverse selection of moves with the boxes, giving you a collection of Impacts, knocks, locks and unlocks, scrapes, movements and rummaging sounds to work with.
All sounds were recorded in 24Bit 96kHz allowing further sonic manipulation and design if you so wish. The files in this library have been precisely edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
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Add a whole other level of realism to your scene with our collection of breaking clay pots. Each file has been meticulously recorded in a well treated studio, edited and individually mastered to fulfill the quality needs of any project. This library was recorded with a matched pair of Sennheiser 8040s to a Sound Devices Mixpre 6. Besides sounding gorgeous, these microphones have a very low noise floor and are able to withstand harsh sharp transients.
Phantasmal Ambiences Vol. 1 is the first in a series of spine-tingling, hair-raising ambiences sure to unsettle your audiences and users.
Perspective recordings of assorted props and instruments were captured in the 344 Audio headquarters and a beautifully reverberant Nottingham church. These sounds were then carefully edited, manipulated and layered to form haunting scenes for use in all your horrific creations.
Spookify your film, TV and video game projects with poltergeists, demons, aliens and deranged beings – all localised in the near distance of various other-worldly spaces.
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 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Hydrophonic Design Vol. 2 is the next in our series of designed water recordings – captured using our dual-mic over and underwater set-up.
These sounds were simultaneously recorded with the Sennheiser MKH50 and Aquarian H2a Hydrophone for maximum sonic detail. They were then carefully designed by our Audio Craftsmen to yield a versatile collection of dopplers, whooshes, passes, tones and movements.
Layer texture onto underwater mission scenes with included explosions and low-end whooshes, or add some weight to spaceships with sci-fi pass-bys and engine tones. Bring colour to your designs with this useful library!
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 192kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Anime Game Fight Voices Vol. 2 is a humongous collection of female fight vocalisations. Inspired by existing anime characters, our Audio Craftsmen performed a diversity of grunts, exhales, gasps, yells, ‘hyah!’s, ‘hmph’s, pants, strained cries and breathing and more! Perfect for layering some colour and excitement to your game, film and TV fight sequences.
Our Audio Craftsmen have developed 6 different characters to be use individually, or mixed and matched to build more complex voices.
Sounds have been separated into the following character categories:
Adult Slayer: A character who’s fighting for her life! These sounds were performed with a lower pitch in voice.
Adult Warrior: An extensive selection of grunts, breaths and attack vocalisations. These were also performed at a lower pitch to represent brave, adult characters.
Fairy Fighter: Very high-pitched exhales and gasps. For the underdog character who’s doing the best she can to help save the day!
Little Warrior: High-pitched exhales and grunts for intense combat scenes starring smaller-sized heroes.
Schoolgirl: An anime classic! Featuring squeaky, energetic feminine vocals.
Small Girl: Full of energy and attitude. For young or little characters requiring higher-register vocalisations.
Warrior Elf Princess: An adorable yet courageous character. Exploding with expression and aggression.
All sounds were recorded in 24Bit 96kHz, and have been tagged with extensive UCS metadata for ease of use.
This is Scotland!
Scotland Ambiences Vol. 1 contains both interior and exterior field recordings of walla (featuring Scottish accents), traffic, construction, parks, pubs, trains and train stations, and general city buzz of Scotland.
This library is ideal for building authentic and immersive backgrounds and atmospheres for your Film, TV and documentary productions.
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.
Phantasmal Ambiences Bundle comprises unnerving horror ambiences designed to make audiences recoil and shake! Distant noises of poltergeists, demons, aliens and other deranged beings create a sense of insecurity and tension in the listener, and are thus ideal for intensifying other-worldly spaces in your horror Film, TV and Game projects.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded a variety of spine-tingling props and movements at 344 headquarters and a Neo-Gothic Nottingham church. These were all chosen and manipulated with the intention of alluding to a supernatural presence somewhere in the near-distance. Further design processes were then applied to form blood-curdling, chilling soundscapes sure to maximise the fear in your audiences!
Phantasmal Ambiences Bundle comprises unnerving horror ambiences designed to make audiences recoil and shake! Distant noises of poltergeists, demons, aliens and other deranged beings create a sense of insecurity and tension in the listener, and are thus ideal for intensifying other-worldly spaces in your horror Film, TV and Game projects.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded a variety of spine-tingling props and movements at 344 headquarters and a Neo-Gothic Nottingham church. These were all chosen and manipulated with the intention of alluding to a supernatural presence somewhere in the near-distance. Further design processes were then applied to form blood-curdling, chilling soundscapes sure to maximise the fear in your audiences!
The entire bundle is delivered at 24Bit 96kHz and tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.
Essential Sound Urban Background Ambience & Traffic 2 Pack Bundle
This bundle contains 80 tracks of clear and dynamic field recordings. A select collection of captured background ambiences from various locations around Southern California and Los Angeles.
Some of the locations include; West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Pasadena, Ojai, Joshua Tree, San Bernadino Forest, and much more.
There is a good mix of interior and exterior files, as well as day and night versions. This includes; light and heavy traffic, near and distant. Rainy wet traffic. Room-tone versions with light/heavy traffic. Quiet desert bird and cicada ambience, as well as active park and street ambiences.
There is a little bit of everything, and a great way to bolster your existing library.
All material has embedded Metadata. Also, where there are notable moments that stick out in a track, there are meta-tags for easy spot viewing in programs that support meta-tags, such as Soundminer.
Recordings were captured at 24bit/96Khz, with Zoom F6, H6 recorders, with Rode Shotguns and Stereo mic setups. All files are cleaned up and mastered in Pro Tools, with light compression and the necessary EQ to ensure clarity is preserved without sounding muddy.
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.
Get the sounds of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, captured by Ana Monte. It features recordings from places such as busy streets, restaurants, downtown, suburbs, markets, subway and bus rides and more.
Welcome to BLEED, a new sound effects collection designed with the modern trailer and soundtrack composer in mind. Featuring a vast array of hi-tech hits/impacts and stingers, sophisticated transition and passbys, visceral stutters, risers and more.
Features 270 metadata embedded .wav files + comes with 9 Kontakt Instruments in the Photosynthesis engine (Note: Full version of Kontakt 5.5+ required, free player not supported)
Sound Categories:
•Bass
•Impacts-Hits-Stingers
•Larsen-Feedback
•Reverse
•Risers & Stutters
•Synth
•Whoosh & Transition
•Glitcher
Get a collection of 134 impulse responses – recorded in the forest.
What if, instead of going to the forest to record the sound, we can find a way to bring the characteristics of the forest to us? Say, for example, we have recorded a sound in the studio like the sound of chopping wood or foley footsteps, but we want them to sound like they are in the forest?
There is a way to emulate this. To make our source sound like it is, in fact, in a forest. The answer is to use the impulse response of the forest and one of the convolution reverb plugins for your DAW.
An impulse response of the forest (or “forest IR”), is the sum of reflections from trees, foliage and the ground by very short signal at high volume. For this sound library, I recorded different impulses in a stereo at different locations of the forest with perfect conditions. Also, the library includes alternate versions of these impulses for use in the processing of the sounds that are far away from the listener.
For using these impulse responses, you need a convolution reverb plugin (not included). The library can be used with the built-in convolution plugins in many DAWs like ProTools, FL Studio amd Sony Vegas, and there are other commercial options on the market, but costs can be high. For starters, you can use a free convolution reverb from the following
LiquidSonics’ Reverberate LE (Win)
SIR by Christian Knufinke (Win)
A wide choice of IR’s will allow you to choose the most appropriate nuanced impulse response for your material. As you gain more experience with this forest IR, you will find that you can quickly adjust the ratio and volume level for wet and dry channels and effectively use other options of convolution reverb. This powerful forest reverb emulation will be incredibly effective for your sounds.
This is a large foley library with almost 700 recordings of every day props that can be applied to the types of scenes we design all the time. Sounds included are movements like writing, impacts, handling and sliding; surfaces such as wood, cloth, water, metal and skin; and props like cigarettes, glasses, vacuums, doors, flask, mattresses, car doors and more! All sounds were professionally recorded by a Foley artist on a Foley stage, and the recordings are kept raw. Enjoy!
Get ready for Christmas with this X-Mas audio package featuring sleighbell loops, bells, swoosh, oneshots, twinkle and christmas ornament sound effects. With different mix-outs in a total of 175 sound files.
04 Oneshots FX
21 Sleighbell Loops
14 Swoosh Sounds
10 X-Mas Bell Theme Sounds (81 total)
09 X-Mas Oneshots
10 X-Mas Ornament Bell Sounds
10 X-Mas Ornament FX Sounds
05 Sleighbell Sounds
04 X-Mas Swoosh
17 X-Mas Twinkle Sounds
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.
Spain and Portugal represent two countries with truly vibrant and distinct cultures. At anytime, day or night, you can expect an abundance of ambient sounds and vocalisations on every corner, except for during the afternoon siesta of course.
We roamed the streets of Seville, Granada, Lisbon, Coimbra, Porto and beyond recording everyday life in tapas bars, restaurants, markets, public transport, universities, local football matches, cultural and religious events and more to bring you an accurate sonic representation of these great countries
All tracks were recorded in high definition by Evan Buist, sound engineer and field recordist (National Geographic, DreamWorks, Paramount Pictures).
RADIO IMAGING SELECTION is a collection of 50 stereo 24-bit 44.1Khz radio ready imaging elements for CHR and HOT AC radio Jingles, StationID, Liners and Dj Drops.
All sounds are royalty free and ready to be included in your radio productions.
A perfect tone. It’s the thing that you always wonder about when you play with your guitar. We know your needs. This collection of impulse responses, will finally unlock the character of your electric guitar.
It’s a unique collection of accurately sculpted cabinet tones for electric guitars and bass, made with a truly scientific approach focused on precision.
We physically reconstructed the impulse responses of the very best studio equipment, as well as the mic coloration from mathematically-modeled high grade dynamic, condenser and ribbon microphones. It’s a great companion for your convolution engine and amp sim, for the extra vintage feel and mighty character that you as a musician require.
Several years in the making, and packed with 62 unusual sounding tracks, this sfx library includes very different sounds, captured with contact microphones and a hydrophone:
Included are both 48K and 96K samples. Many long takes of most of the tracks included, and a lot of diversity. Perfect for stretching and for adding a weird tone to your tracks. 2.8 GB, with all tracks metadata-tagged and named.
A superb collection of quiet alpine ski slopes and realistic onboard ski and snowboard recordings. The Alps pistes are known for their great snow and peaceful ambiance.
We captured the calm atmosphere and expressive whooshing and carving on these quiet ski slopes. Recordings range from high speed alpine skiers and distant voices of snowboarders, to a small class, on a variety of pistes. We also recorded onboard the ski lifts and crowds while waiting in line.
More info on how this library came together on our blog.
• In Whoosh: Desert Foliage, get an airy collection of flying foliage from the deserts of the American Southwest. Swing a 20-foot ocotillo stalk and hear the air ripped by cactus spikes. Hear buffalo grass bundles cutting the breeze like bullwhips. Hear dead winter grass flapping in breathy washing whips. Swing massive cedar, juniper, and scrub oak branches and hear the whoosh of dragon wings under moonlit desert nights.
• This library offers you an extensive collection of whooshes created exclusively from organic sources. Enjoy listening to desert foliage as it cuts through cold winter 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!
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