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UK Football Vol. 3 is a concise collection of five-a-side football gameplay sounds recorded from the goalkeeper’s perspective. Hear players kick and catch balls, score goals, hit the goal post, practice drills, groan in frustration, swear, cheer each other on and more!
These candid recordings are full of energetic male voices, athletic enthusiasm, North West English accents and football impacts.
This quintessentially English yet versatile library can also be used for any global Game, TV or Film project requiring a dose of athletic excitement. Included sounds will allow you to sweeten spectator sports scenes with background passes, focus on team dynamics with spirited shouts, or enhance winning goals with football shoot-outs!
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.
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.
North East England Bundle includes three of our libraries that were recorded in the North East of England.
The bundle comprises a multitude of urban, suburban and rural sounds that were captured in Newcastle, Durham, Darlington and other North Eastern locations. This dynamic collection features local recordings ranging from creaky museum footsteps, to cafe walla, Geordie accents, pig squeals and more!
This bundle is ideal for setting authentically Northern scenes in your Film, TV & Game productions; use them to craft full, immersive backgrounds that ground your projects in British realism.
The entire bundle is delivered at 24Bit 96kHz and tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.
Recorded at 4 different factories in Denmark.
Sounds range from plastic foundries, casting machines, and machinery alarms, to giant textile processing units, and medical equipment manufacturing, clean-rooms and robotics.
All very loud environments. All recordings are several minutes long.
Motherships delivers a variety of mind-blowing interstellar mothership drones, transmission noises, inspiring indoor and outdoor ambiences.
It also features detailed computer room sounds with modern beeps and buttons, disturbing mechanical devices, machine room atmospheres, sci-fi radars, laser pulse and energy beams, heavyweight reactor rumbles and many more.
Get the sounds of the Hindustan Contessa Classic, a sedan built by Hindustan Motors in the eighties.
The Hindustan Contessa Classic featured is a 1985 model, and the library includes everything from pull ups, pull aways, revs, breaking, ignition sounds, engine idle, pass-by's, onboard driving, doors, windows, interior and exterior perspectives. More than an hour of recordings are included for a great range of car sounds.
The Motorboat 2 library gets you recordings of a motor boat with a Honda BF 5A 5-HP 4-Stroke engine. Includes starts, idling, forward speeds, false starts, and engine shutoffs.
Get the hums of a big electric station, a small buzz of an electrical substation’s transformer and also synthesized sounds. All synthesized sounds were re-recorded with the “Worldizing” technique initially conceived by legendary sound designer Walter Murch.
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
Want weapon sounds that stand out? With Steampunk Weapons, we mixed the old with the new to make this uniquely diversified collection of weapons. Combining modern recording techniques with metal, rusted objects, and synthesis, if you need some more weapons that break the mold of traditional weapons, this is the collection for you!
No Input Feedbacks is a library of tones, drones, noises, and oddities generated with a matrix mixer and a series of guitar and bass stomp effects.
Virtual UI is a library of over 500 high-tech user interface sounds. Using a combination of digital and analogue gear, sound designer Daniel Mumford has created super-usable wipes, beeps, notifications, menus, power-ups and downs, errors, buttons, data, malfunctions, switches, alarms, atmospheres and drones.
• In Northern Rockies: Miniature, get a mini-nature collection of ambiences from the mountains of Montana. Hear hallowed halls carved by glacial sculptors. Hear quaking Aspens and Ruffed grouse drumming on hollow logs. Hear euphoric dawn choruses, merry songbirds, sacred stillness, and stately woodpeckers knocking on forest doors. This library gives you a small collection of both “quiet” and “active” nature sounds from the continental divide of North America.
• Only 26 glaciers (of the 150 in 1850) remain in Glacier National Park and all are predicted to melt within 30 years. Hear the sounds of this stunning natural cathedral while the glaciers remain. The ecosystem won’t sound the same when they’re gone.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause. I view it as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased for the Northern Rockies Series. Field Recording travel for this library was carbon neutral!
Let’s step into the wonderful world of classic hardware reverbs. The Lexicon legends; the 960, the 480L, the PCM90 and so forth used in thousands of tracks across tens of thousands of albums, and a number of the world’s’ greatest hits. Everyone knows what’s special about them, and how good they sound. We just love the natural beauty of the “Lexicon 960”, “Lexicon 480L” and “Lexicon PCM90”.
However, instead of giving you our sampled Impulse Responses from those marvelous pieces of audio engineering, we decided to step up the game and combine them into one new device. All three of them were combined into one product, thanks to the use of FFT algorithms and complex audio processing aimed for precision and sound quality.
The final result is just astonishing, we named it “Lexi”; a new hybrid with a natural and richer sound that keeps the warm tonal character of the classics. Our team also couldn’t resist to the temptation to push our audio-processing scripts to the limits, so you not only get the great sounding regulars, but also a few of the modern (both brighter and way deeper) Impulse tones that those original devices couldn’t produce. Now it’s your turn to decide which way you use them. Will it be the remaster of a classic rock song or the new EDM club hit? The decision is truly yours.
A retro sound designer’s dream, featuring 251 video game sound effects in an 8 and 16-bit style. All sounds crafted lovingly with authentic sources, tools, and techniques. No ‘real’ foley effects! Everything has been designed from scratch to lovingly emulate the charm of legendary games such as Final Fantasy 6, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana and other classics of the 90s.
This collection of quirky and cartoonish sounds is perfect to create the next prank for your colleagues.
Including organic and acoustic instruments performing falls, rises and all sorts of quirky sounds. Additionally ‘Cartoon & Quirk’ gets you preproduced and ready to use combos, as well as foley and household effects and human reactions.
A collection of stereo-ambient and mono-bird recordings made in spring, at the edge of the Saharan Atlas Mountains in eastern Morocco, and reflecting the sound of the deserts and other arid habitats of North Africa and beyond into the Middle East.
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This is a collection of snowy, icy, slushy, crunchy winter traffic. Single car passes, busy city roads, distant skylines, village roads, highways. All files are 96khz 24bit with metadata, and recorded with 2 x Sennheiser mkh 8040, mkh 416, Audio Technica BP4025 and Sony D100.
The Torture Chamber puts you right into the perspective of the torture victim. Featuring screams, power tools, floor creaks, bone breaks, shackles, struggles, room tones and more. We captured and designed effects inside and outside of the studio, all in 24Bit 96kHz, allowing for further manipulation.
All vocalisations (and most of the effects) are provided without reverb, so that you can drop them straight into your mix and add your own spatial effects. Perfect for use in Film, TV, Game and horror productions.
Here are the included folders:
Foley: Sounds from both the victim and torturer, including different weapons of choice and the sounds of struggling.
Vocalisations: Screams, shouts and other terrifying vocals.
Ambiences: Roomtones and other elements to build your horrifying chamber.
Incidental Effects: Bursted pipes, distant dog barks, and rat movements to accent the world around your room of pain.
Conspiracy Theory contains a wide selection of dynamic and varied sound effects that are inspired by the sonic trends found in contemporary documentaries on streaming services. These sounds include low booms, rhythmic ticks, radio voices, singing, pads, stabs, whistles, rumble whooshes, and production elements. They were crafted from both organic and digital sources to provide maximum versatility and variation. Our award-winning Sound Designers recorded and edited the sounds from string instruments, ethnic winds, percussion, digital/analogue synthesizers, and male vocalists.
This library is your one-stop solution to sound/musical effects for modern documentaries and films that have a twist or tension. All effects were recorded in 24Bit 96kHz, allowing for further sonic manipulation. Perfect for Sound Designers and Composers, 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:
Low Booms: Heavy and guttural, these booms will accent your most mysterious moments.
Pads: A range of feels and moods built into construction kits, that complement other music or work perfectly in isolation.
Production Elements: Glitchy digital effects that transition and enhance opening title sequences.
Rumble Whooshes: A set of rumble whooshes, perfect for transitioning out of different scenes/moments.
Stabs: Highlight your most shocking moments with organic and atonal instruments.
Ticks: Add tension and pace to your title sequence with a tick and a tock.
Whistles: Ethnic winds designed into unnerving and dynamic effects to fill background gaps under dialogue.
Singing Voices: Ethnic and exotic vocals add mystery to ancient history subjects, or alien landings.
Radio Voices: A suite of ‘sound-alike’ speeches/excerpts from tragic/mysterious events, processed to sound like authentic archive material.
Nuts and Bolts contains a huge array of DIY and construction themed sound effects featuring tools that are used by tradesmen such as hammers, saws, chisels and spanners, as well as several other miscellaneous tools such as brushes, tape, filler guns and of course, nuts, bolts and screws.
As well as hand-operated tools, Nuts and Bolts gives you several power tool sound effects being operated at different intensity levels. All of the sounds in this library have been recorded in context, meaning that they reflect how you would actually use the tools, not just how they sound in a controlled studio environment. We recorded close, distant and far recordings to capture natural reverb, giving you the maximum flexibility when searching for the right sound for your projects. We also recorded dropping effects for most of the tools.
Nuts and Bolts contains a total of 145 files (with lots of variations per file) including a designed folder of 10 sounds. This library gives you everything you need to create compelling DIY and construction soundscapes, ideal for use in a range of sound design applications including building sites, mechanics garages, joinery, metalwork workshops, painting, decorating, and demolition based scenes. All sounds have been recorded in 24bit 96khz, and have been carefully edited so that you can easily drop them into your project timeline and get working right away.
Here are the included folders:
Power Tools: Lovely and disturbing drills, saws and electric sanders, perfect for becoming a noisy neighbor.
Hammers and Mallets: Hitting and dropping things as hard as possible makes a lovely sound, great for building trailer impacts.
Toolboxes: Heavy and metallic rummaging through a large toolbox.
Spanners: Turning bolts and spinning ratchets.
Saws: The seminal DIY sound effects of sawing wood.
Pliers, Grips and Screws: Micro details like these can make or break your construction scenes.
Chisels: Hitting chisels, planing wood, and scraping.
Pencils, Brushes and Tape: Drawing, brushing, measuring.
Misc Tools: Vacuuming, cutting, sanding, moving ladders and many more!
Designed Effects: A suite of heavily designed sounds which demonstrate the flexibility of the library when used for sound design.
ANALOG DRUM SHOTS is a collection of 253 drum shots from Eurorack drum modules (TipTop Audio – Noise Engineering Basimilus Iteritas) and modern analog drum machines (MFB Tanzbar – Elektron).
All samples are Wavs 24-bit mono 48 khz one shots, ready for your next 100% analog drum kits.
Simple organization of all the sounds is guaranteed by two main categories:
DRY Analog Shots: 184 total sounds:
Kicks: 31 sounds
Clap: 12 sounds
Snares: 23 sounds
Cymbals: 26 sounds
Toms: 37 sounds
Other Percussions: 55 sounds
PROCESSED and Layered: 69 total sounds
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