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The Foley Vault is home to an ever-growing collection of original Foley recordings.
Each library was captured by professional Foley Artists on our in-house Foley Stage using a Sennheiser MKH50 microphone.
These sounds were originally performed for a variety of feature and short film projects. They have now been compiled and released for you to edit and implement into your own film, game and television productions.
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. 4Â 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.
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Get a complete arsenal of original sci-fi weapon sound effects for your game with Sci-Fi Weapons Pack 1. All sounds are drag-and-drop ready for your project. Every audio file is easily searchable and meticulously organized into categories to make it easy to find the perfect sound for your project. Make your selection from over 100 designed weapons with 5+ shot variations so that your weapons never sound the same.
Discover sounds perfect for your futuristic shooter game including reload, mech, shots, power-ups, and power-downs among other characterful sound effects. Professionally recorded and designed, these sounds are a must-have to bring your game that polish you are looking for.
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Get a complete arsenal of original melee weapon sound effects for your game with Melee Weapons Sound Effects Pack 1. All sounds are drag-and-drop ready for your project. Every audio file is easily searchable as they were meticulously organized into categories to make it easy to find the perfect sound for your project.
Make your selection from designed categories that include multiple variations so that your weapons never sound the same. Discover a wide range of sounds perfect for melee weapons such as swords, hammers, axes, blades, daggers, maces, spears, and shields.
Acquire sounds for all your weapon needs including weapon swings, slashes, gore, sheathing and unsheathing, and impact sound effects among many others. Professionally recorded and designed, these sounds are a must-have to bring your game that polish you are looking for.
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The second volume in a series of larger-than-life monster sounds inspired by the latest films and games. Monster Sound FX Pack 2 contains carefully designed sounds filled with character to bring a new experience to the listener. Professionally designed, these sounds are a must-have for the serious sound designer and game developer!
Discover sounds perfect for dragons, beasts, aliens, orcs, goblins, giants, trolls, ogres, demons, and almost any creature of your liking. All sounds are game-ready for your project!
Strange Game Ambient Loops library is a meticulously designed & game ready ambience loop library created to help you make stunning and immersive audio environments quickly. Great for horror, fantasy, adventure, 3D, 2D mobile app games, motion graphics, film and audio productions. With over 3 hours of game locations, tension, dark moods, you’ll be well equipped to create the perfect feel and soundscape that brings your production to life.
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A massive pack of high-quality and professionally produced magic sounds. Magic Sound FX Pack 1 will give your game the edge you are looking for. Add spells to your stunning visuals. Wrap the gamer with the sound of water, frost, and electricity. Find the exact sound you need with the hundreds of audio files included. Intensify your game’s experience. Give it the sound it deserves!
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A massive pack of high-quality and professionally produced 8bit retro sounds. 8Bit Retro SFX Pack 1 will give your game the edge you are looking for. Add jump, item pickup, and weapon sounds to your classic visuals. Bring back the nostalgic golden era of video games with the sound of explosions, fire, power-ups, and power-downs. Find the exact sound you need with the hundreds of audio files included. Intensify your game’s experience. Give it the sound it deserves!
The Foley Vault is home to an ever-growing collection of original Foley recordings.
Each library was captured by professional Foley Artists on our in-house Foley Stage using a Sennheiser MKH50 microphone.
These sounds were originally performed for a variety of feature and short film projects. They have now been compiled and released for you to edit and implement into your own film, game and television productions.
The Foley Vault is home to an ever-growing collection of original Foley recordings.
Each library was captured by professional Foley Artists on our in-house Foley Stage using a Sennheiser MKH50 microphone.
These sounds were originally performed for a variety of feature and short film projects. They have now been compiled and released for you to edit and implement into your own film, game and television productions.
Ghostly Presences Vol. 2 is the second volume in a collection of ambiences created specifically for use in your horror genre projects.
Combining Synth-generated drones and manipulated voice recordings to build haunting and unsettling horror ambiences. This library comprises a variety of sounds crafted for layering or individual use. Included are ghostly chants, deep drones, pulsing synths, haunting whispers and more; a perfect selection for enhancing your horror soundscapes in Film, TV and Game Audio projects!
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.
FOREST DAY is a diverse collection of 59 isolated Forest Ambiences and Wildlife Sounds.
This library came out of a love for hiking and exploring Mountains and Forests and capturing the wonderful soundscapes of that world. Most of these recordings took place in California, in particular, a number of areas throughout the Angeles Forest. You’ll also come across sounds from high atop the Eastern Sierras, San Jacinto Wilderness, Los Padres Forest, as well as a few other Forests.
A variety of different bird species are included, at lower elevation settings, higher Mountains, throughout the day, some in isolation, others sometimes alongside wind.
Also included are isolated Mountain winds in different variations and with vegetation and tree creaks. There’s Cicadas and a few day crickets.
Detailed metadata and markers have been provided so they’re easily searchable. Photos are embedded in every file to give an idea of what the location was like. Checking out the Metadata Sheet will give on a better idea of everything else that’s in the library.
Anyone looking for more in depth Forest Sounds that include Rivers, Lakes, along with the Forest at night can pick up FOREST LIFE. That comes with multiple libraries at a bit of a discount along with the bonus mini library FOOTHILLS.
Bird Species
Day
Acorn Woodpecker, Black-headed Grosbeak, California Towhee, Canyon Wren, Common Raven, Cooper’s Hawk, House Finch, Hummingbird, Lawrence’s Goldfinch, Lazuli Bunting, Mountain Chickadee, Mountain Quail, Mourning Dove, Northern Flicker, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Pygmy Nuthatch, Red Shouldered Hawk, Spotted Towhee, Steller’s Jay, Yellow Warbler, Western Bluebird, Western Wood-Pewee
The Gear
Sound Devices MixPre-6 II
Sony A10
Sony PCM D100
Zoom F6
The Mics
Sennheiser MKH 8040
Sennheiser MKH 8020
Sennheiser MKH 60
Clippy EM272
Line Audio CM4
LOM microUsi Pro
FOREST LIFE is a diverse collection of 104 isolated Forest Ambiences and Wildlife Sounds. It includes all of the sounds from the FOREST DAY and the FOREST NIGHT Sound Libraries, along with the Rivers and Lakes featured in the OCEANS RIVERS LAKES library. In addition, I’ve included the free mini library FOOTHILLS.
FOREST LIFE came out of a love for hiking and exploring Mountains and Forests and capturing the wonderful soundscapes of that world. Most of these recordings took place in California, in particular, a number of areas throughout the Angeles Forest. You’ll also come across sounds from high atop the Eastern Sierras, San Jacinto Wilderness, Los Padres Forest, and the Olympic Peninsula in Washington.
A variety of different bird species are included, at lower elevation settings, higher Mountains, throughout the day and night, some in isolation, others sometimes alongside wind and when at night, insects.
Also included are isolated Mountain winds in different variations and with vegetation and tree creaks. There’s Cicadas along with different sounding Crickets throughout various times of the night and day.
In the water collection there’s everything from slow trickle creeks coming out of Abandoned Mines to the fast flow of the Hoh River to gentle lake laps high atop the glaciers of the Inyo Forest.
The FOOTHILLS bonus library includes 9 files of Winds and Birds, and a few of the wonderful sounds of an Abandoned Ranch.
Detailed metadata and markers have been provided so they’re easily searchable. Photos are embedded in every file to give an idea of what the location was like. Checking out the Metadata Sheet will give on a better idea of everything else that’s in the library.
Bird Species
Day
Acorn Woodpecker, Black-headed Grosbeak, California Towhee, Canyon Wren, Common Raven, Cooper’s Hawk, House Finch, Hummingbird, Lawrence’s Goldfinch, Lazuli Bunting, Mountain Chickadee, Mountain Quail, Mourning Dove, Northern Flicker, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Pygmy Nuthatch, Red Shouldered Hawk, Spotted Towhee, Steller’s Jay, Yellow Warbler, Western Bluebird, Western Wood-Pewee
Night
Common Poorwill, Great Horned Owl, Whiskered Screech-Owl, Western Screech-Owl.
The Gear
Sound Devices MixPre-6 II
Sony A10
Sony PCM D100
Zoom F6
The Mics
Sennheiser MKH 8040
Sennheiser MKH 8020
Sennheiser MKH 60
Clippy EM272
Line Audio CM4
LOM microUsi Pro
When the sun goes down the Forest comes alive. Well, at least a very different version of it. It’s a pretty amazing place, with the various rhythms and wildlife going about their business. FOREST NIGHT is 27 Files and includes the dense sounds of crickets all throughout the night and into dawn. You’ll hear birds making their nests, Owls and Poorwills calling out to one another. The random dogs barking in the distance, the cacophony of Tree Frogs.
Most of this library came out of a few different over night recordings in the Angeles Forest. I taped a couple of mics to an Oak and Pine Tree and hoped for the best. There’s also a few others from when I was feeling a bit more adventurous and decided to roam around in the dark.
Detailed metadata and markers have been provided so they’re easily searchable. Checking out the Metadata Sheet will give one a better idea of everything else that’s in the library.
Anyone looking for more in depth Forest Sounds that include Rivers, Lakes, along with the Forest during the day can pick up FOREST LIFE. That comes with multiple libraries at a bit of a discount along with the bonus mini library FOOTHILLS.
Night Birds
Common Poorwill, Great Horned Owl, Whiskered Screech-Owl, Western Screech-Owl.
The Gear
Sound Devices MixPre-6 II
Sony A10
Sony PCM D100
The Mics
Sennheiser MKH 8040
Clippy EM272
Line Audio CM4
LOM microUsi Pro
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, RØDELink Lav and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II & Zoom F3 recorders. Library contains wav files of driving and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.
This sound library features typical soundscapes from Switzerland, cow herds, pasture valley, sheep herds, cowbells, forest, mountain, tractors, … fresh air.
Fully Universal Category System (UCS) compliant sound effects library of isolated tire skids (without any engine sounds!). This library offers detailed recordings of various drifting sounds on tarmac with both onboard and exterior microphone perspectives – 22 files, 16 min 43 sec, a total of 472mb (24bit/96khz).
The onboard recordings were captured with DPA 4060 and Sennheiser MKH 8020 microphones.
The exterior recordings have both stereo and mono perspectives and were captured with Neumann KM184 and Sennheiser MKH 8060 microphones.
Cars recorded: Porsche Taycan Turbo (2021) and Toyota GT86 (2014).
UK Parks & Petting Zoos Vol. 1 features a variety of sounds from the animals and environments in rural North-East, England.
Included are recordings of: grunting pigs; clucking hens; cawing crows; cheeping blackbirds and more! The candid quality of these sounds makes them perfect for injecting a sense of rusticism into your Film, TV and Game projects.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing for further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Wind collection Vol 2 offers gentle breezes to strong gusts, spooky drafts to rare old bamboo field wind sounds. All files are clean and contain no traffic noise or any other human made annoying sounds. This means the wind sounds can cover many productions including documentary, game sounds, movie background, and for all time periods! From medieval settings to unknown times and places, these wind recordings offer a credible background. During 3 years this collection was growing bit by bit, adding variations and useful situations. The rare presence of insects or birds is mentioned in the metadata, but they apply to less than a handful of files.
The acoustic wind collection covers over 3,5 hours of stereo recordings, binaural recordings for immersive wind sounds, and some mono files for specific use.
When Loop is indicated in the filename, the file can be looped as you would expect, but these files are unlike sample loops, or instrument loops: they are of course longer and loop after a good amount of time, sometimes several minutes. The looped files are chosen by their contents and have no moments that are too recognizable if heard a second time, so they are useful for backgrounds.
All files have UCS compliant names and include metadata with useful descriptions.
You can find a Draft folder with stereo and binaural recordings in interesting abandoned places that had a draft close to a door or window. You might hear some dark reverb or cracks in those places that deliver a great ghostly atmosphere.
The bamboo wind recordings are also very special as these were made in old bamboo fields that were not cleaned. This means there were old and broken parts between the weeping bamboo, assuring nice clunks and squeaks.
Other than that you will find many winds, through air, through vegetation, in empty villages, in a small van for specific perspectives, wind through tunnel, very bad recordings with no wind protection for typical interview fails…
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Out of ice? Please help yourself. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Breaking Ice
This cinematic ice sound effects bring you 103 files and 250+ sounds – in both basic organic and designed formats.
You will get different types of ice cracking, squeaking, and creaking that you need for your related projects and room for further sound design with the flexible texture of the sounds for customization.
Performances include single or multiple crashing, smashing, shattering, debris movements, falling on different surfaces, rolling, stabbing with different tools, tiny-medium-large ice breaking, sweeping through, scatters and more. Breaking ice can level up your projects with fresh high quality sound effects with variety and quality of recording. And the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!
All sounds are in mono and stereo 24bit/96 KHz Wav format and they are just great for Foley, film, video, game, advertisement and music.
Breaking ice can level up your projects with fresh high quality sound effects with variety and quality of recording and the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Crafting & Survival SFX Pack for access to 1000+ sounds of drawers, electricity, fire, tactical and sports equipment, explosions, cloth, weapons, food and drink, glass, gore, mechanical gear, lots of metal impacts and movements on different surfaces, paper and other objects, robot, rifle and guns, rope and other vital tools, vegetation, vehicles, other weaponry, whoosh, wood, bags, doors, chains, destruction.
Crickets, insects, soundscapes/recordings, recorded in Ambisonic. Recorded in spring summer and early autumn. Daytime and nocturnal recordings, with wind in background or without. With birds and without birds in background. Close or distant perspectives. In nature environment, urban or in rural area. Check the sound list for additional info.
tech note:
Ambisonic recording (3D audio, VR360 audio) – Immersive Audio, Spatial audio;
Recorded with Sennheiser Ambeo VR microphone (tripod, Rycote blimp/windjammer/ included) and Sound Devices recorder. All channels matched with pink noise generator.
B-format (Ambix) – RAW files and stereo files (binaural) rendered via Reaper/Ambeo (Sennheiser plugin), A to B format converter and they are ready to use.
Newcastle & Durham Vol. 1 features ambient recordings of Newcastle upon Tyne and Durham, England.
The local environments of these historic cities were faithfully captured, bringing you a diverse collection of urban and suburban sounds. Together these comprise a sonic tapestry of one of Britain’s major regions – the North East of England.
Included are recordings of: clangs and bangs of a garbage truck; creaky footsteps in the Bowes Museum; clinking cutlery in Eldon Square food court; peaceful protest walla; pressure washer spray; evening rain; Haymarket Station bus engines; escalator squeaks; Central Station trains; Tyne Bridge traffic and more!
Use these sounds to build candid backgrounds and ground your Film, TV and Game projects in British realism.
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.
Bone Crackings Sound Pack 01
Do you like kung fu movies or fistfights where bones are breaking ?
I guarantee you’ll get your dose here !
I have always loved kung-fu, fighting, action movies and games, so there was no question that when I started working with sounds,
I would make such sounds. Even though these are not real broken bone recordings, they can be used perfectly if you are thinking about
a Stephen Seagal elbow fracture or a Mortal Kombat skull bone crush in connection with your production.
Some of them are painful even for me to listen to.
This sound effect collection is ideal for use in game software, applications, commercials, movies, TV shows,
videos,
animation, and any other entertainment industry where a high-quality audio effect is essential.
– 40 Bone crackings sound effect
– An excellent choice for fighting, bonebreaking productions
Add more horror and terror to your projects with this library packed with fear! Providing you with over 500 high-quality audio files of originally designed royalty free trailer-ready horror sounds, each featuring a unique character, intensity, speed and weight, this immense collection of scary epicness is a perfect choice for any type of media that requires cutting edge Hollywood quality dramatic transition and movement sounds.
ENDLESS FLEXIBILITY, WOLD OF POSSIBILITIES
Want to give your audience a ride of their lives by ramping up and down the feel of your project? With a dizzying selection of variant options, including DIFFERENT INTENSITY LEVELS, MULTIPLE LENGTHS, SIMPLIFIED and COMPLEX VERSIONS, FULL SEQUENCES, and many more, a whole world of possibilities is at your fingertips.
HUGE TIMESAVER, EASY TO STUNNING RESULTS
Each single sound in this collection was carefully produced for super-fast and professional results. To instantly boost your project to the next level, simply search for keywords that match the feel you wish to add to your project, drag the sounds listed by your search terms into your project, and blow away your audience by driving their speakers and subwoofers to the maximum, just like that!
Each sound effect is included in 3 different formats for your convenience:
Designed by our team of industry veterans with decades of experience in the AAA gaming industry, this meticulously crafted sound library will add massive value to you project and instantly mind-blowing results for you and your audience.
KEY FEATURES:
DOWNLOAD NOW and reward your audience with an epic scary, ground-shaking experience like no other!
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