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Car Sound Effects Electric Vehicles vol. 2: BMW i3 Play Track 211 sounds included, 162 mins total $60

Looking for electric car sounds? This library delivers 211 files / 162 minutes of stereo recordings of the BMW i3 electric vehicle.

The BMW i3 is a B-class, high-roof hatchback manufactured and marketed by BMW with an electric powertrain using rear wheel drive via a single-speed transmission. Its underfloor Li-ion battery pack is offered in two capacities as well as with an optional range-extending gasoline engine. The i3 was BMW’s first mass-produced zero emissions vehicle and was launched as part of BMW’s electric vehicle sub-brand, BMW i.

As of December 2016, the i3 ranked as the world’s third best selling all-electric car in history with more than 65,000 units sold since its inception.

This very quiet car has been recorded using onboard DPA-4060 microphones, to capture the engine and tyre sounds. The different surfaces are gravel, asphalt and rumble strips on the highway. The interior sounds have been recorded using the Zoom H5 XY microphone. There are also contact mic recordings of the wheel housing using Schaller mics.

Passby sounds have been recorded using Line Audio CM3’s in an XY setup as well as the Zoom H5 XY microphone. There are passes on dry and wet asphalt as well as gravel at different speeds.

Finally the engine has been recorded using the Elektrosluch electromagnetic microphone, resulting in 33 minutes of electromagnetic madness in 96 kHz.

I sincerely hope you will find this sound archive useful!

Best,

Morten

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Game Audio Packs 48Kilos Play Track 407+ sounds included, 300 mins total $18

48 Kilos is our all 48kHz @ 24-bit library that provides you with a 4.6 GB tempest of audio assets. Perfect for all audio needs in film, animation, interactive interface design, game design, music production, and audio branding where high quality audio is desired with no re-sampling required. This library provide a wide mix of content in a compact form.

Sound content includes breaking bulbs, mechanical gates and doors, the smashing of liquid-filled vessels, manipulating musical instruments, blades, books, ceramics, film, resonant impacts, an AC unit, and much more. They are presented in an assortment of mono and stereo recordings, recorded in a variety of settings (on location, in studio, and a few interesting creative spaces).

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Game Audio Packs 8Bit Essentials Play Track 204 sounds included $15

204 retro-themed samples for guaranteed flashbacks.

These sounds are ideal for:
Item Pickup / Drop • Unlock • UI • Weather • Weapon

Click for email support: Contact us anytime for custom sound effects, edits, or to let us know what type of pack we should make next.

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City Life Sound Effects Home Exterior Play Track 60+ sounds included, 180 mins total
Rated 4.67 out of 5
$50

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.

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City Life Sound Effects European Cities Play Track 69 sounds included $59

The loud din of an OLD TOWN SQUARE, the quiet of a tree-lined street in a RESIDENTIAL AREA and the gentle rumbling of a PLANE flying by overhead while sitting in a secret garden. Including distant fog horns at the HARBOR, trickling FOUNTAINS, and cars stuck in TRAFFIC, this collection without a doubt encapsulates all the auditory wealth of the modern urban setting.

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City Life Sound Effects Essential – Italian Cityscapes and Ambiences Play Track 60 sounds included $49

Italian Cityscapes and Ambiences is comprised of a number of different areas in Italy. Rome, Naples, Tivoli and Positano.
You can almost taste the amazing food while listening to the sounds of the back streets of distant traffic ambiences and church bells, or in the steep hills of Positano. There are scooters, church bells, and sirens that are scattered throughout.

In general, this has some great traffic dins that can be used anywhere. All tracks are mastered in Pro Tools, maximizing your listening experience.
All the plaza, church, street, train, and general ambience give a great overview of Rome and outlying areas.

All tracks have detailed metadata and are recorded in 24/48

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Weather Sound Effects Urban Rain Play Track 44 sounds included, 62 mins total $29

RICH CITY RAIN AMBIENCE

Recorded over years in different cities, this highly detailed and very usable library will satisfy your rain and stormy weather needs for urban settings for years to come. High frequency range and meticulous recording techniques makes this a must have for city rain scenes in various media formats, from film to television to games.

Contains various city rain intensities on various surfaces. Wet traffic pass-bys. Drainage systems. In-vehicle rain… and more. Check the video below!

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Car Sound Effects HUMMER H1 At the military base EXT Play Track 95 sounds included, 50 mins total $90

including:

– External recording

– 4 Spots, 7 mics

– Eng start, idle, maneuvers, drive, shtdwn, passby

– Slow, medium and fast

– 48 KHz, 24 bit

– 7 x schoeps ccm4 (card and omni), sys ORTF, DIN, AB, Zoom F8

– RAW files only

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Horror Sound Effects Horror Ambiences Play Track 55 sounds included, 222 mins total $149.99
Immerse your audience in nightmares with your very own collection of spooky, mysterious, and chilling ambiences that will transport them to new dimensions of suspense and fear! From the dead of night to the pale light of day, from abandoned mansions to cursed graveyards, HORROR AMBIENCES is the perfect choice to raise goosebumps in any scene you require.

So pack your flashlight and take your audience on a journey through haunted houses, undead wastelands, dark forests, and the shadows of the apocalypse!

TRUE IMMERSION

HORROR AMBIENCES is the only sound bank on the market that goes beyond artificial drones, synth-generated soundscapes, or raw noises to instead use movie quality mixing to combine field recordings of rich, natural sounds into custom ambiences, immersing your users in truly dynamic environments that feel tailored to each scene.

ALL NEEDS COVERED

With every aspect of the horror genre as a foreground or background audio, multiple versions and levels of intensity for the sounds, seamless transitions, and formats from Hi-Res WAV to High-Quality MP3, you’ll be spoiled for choice! What’s more, HORROR AMBIENCES includes easy contact with our expert team for any additional, custom requests.

DRAG AND DROP READY

Each audio file has been mastered and carefully designed to seamlessly blend into any mix of sound effects, music, or dialogue in your project, with no tweaking required! With meticulous labeling and expansive use of keywords in filenames, this massive library is easy to navigate and you wll find the perfect sound in seconds.

Look no further than blockbuster films to see how crucial incredible audio is for a truly immersive horror experience. With this in mind, we have meticulously designed HORROR AMBIENCES for you to immerse your audience in maximum tension.

PERFECT FOR:
- Video Games
- Slot Games
- Film / Animation
- Ads / Trailers
- YouTube Videos
- Live Events
- Sound Design
…and all other audio-visual productions

KEY FEATURES:
- Huge variety of indoor and outdoor environments, different length and intensity variants
- Ready to use – requires no editing, labelling or splicing
- Categorized, organized and individually labeled files for maximum use efficiency
- All files are included in Hi-Rez WAV, SD WAV and HQ MP3 formats
- FREE Updates to higher versions, FOREVER!
TECHNICAL DETAILS:
- 115 Audio Files (55 original sounds)
- WAV Format: 24 Bit, 96 kHz and 16 Bit, 44.1 kHz
- MP3 Format: 320 Kbps
- Unpacked Size: 3.52 GB
- Total Run Time: 3h 42m
Thank you for your purchase!
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Destruction & Impact Sounds Glassware Foley Play Track 71 sounds included $15

What is the difference in sound is between a clink with two wine glasses vs. a wine glass and a martini glass? How about two different size wine glasses?

It can get meticulous, but attention to detail is everything in foley work… enter Glassware Foley, by Frontier Sound FX.

Glasware Foley is a comprehensive compilation of glassware and plate foley effects, recorded at 24bit/96k in a sound isolated recording studio with a stereo AKG c414 setup.

Sound effects include:

Clinks • Stirs • Set downs • Pick ups • Rattles • Crashes & Smashes

Features the following combinations of glassware:
Large-Rimmed Wine Glass • Small-Rimmed Wine Glass • Tall Wine Glass • Glass Coffee Mug • Martini Glass • Glass Plate

Perfect for foley work in party, kitchen, and dining room scenes. Get the meticulous recording in foley over with, and without the mess!

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Environments & Ambiences Water Movements Play Track 96 sounds included
Rated 4.00 out of 5
$25

Recorded by a quiet Swedish lake in late summer of 2014, the Water Movements sfx library is filled with splashes, drips, walking/running, moving, small water creature simulations, and much more.

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Cinematic/Trailer Instruments Aphelion Play Track 1500+ sounds included $59

Aphelion brings you a slew of powerful cinematic sound effects, suited for trailers, videos, film, music and games. The library comes jam-packed with 760 24 bit, 96kHz sound effects in total, processed and designed for maximum impact.

We've got a long history doing factory sounds for world-leading synth and virtual instrument developers across the globe, but this is our debut release under our own name – hope you enjoy it!

New version 1.5:

This is an updated version of Aphelion which features 842 samples, 334 loops at 110 BPM, 468 Kontakt Presets and 94 Kontakt Multi-sounds, an optional, brand-new Kontakt GUI, additional Pulses, Drones, Ambient soundscapes and more

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Motorcycle Sound Effects Tunturi Maxi Moped Play Track 57 sounds included $40

Get the sound of the Tunturi Maxi ‘Pappatunturi’, a Finnish moped model from 1974 with 2 gears and pedals. The library features external, onboard and foley recordings. OnBoard recordings feature 3 different channels: Engine1, Engine2 and Exhaust. All 3 channels of OnBoard sounds can be layered and will line up nicely in your audio editor.

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Animal Sound Effects Marine Mammal Vocals – Dolphins, Orca, Sea Lions Play Track 110+ sounds included, 67 mins total $70

With 100+ marine mammal sound effects (a total of around 2GB!), the 'Marine Mammal Vocals – Dolphins, Orca, Sea Lions' SFX library is powered with clear and amazing vocals from sea mammals like Bottlenose Dolphins, Sea Lions, and Orca (Killer Whale). It also features unique underwater echo location sounds.

Most of the recordings feature single animal vocal sounds, for maximum flexibility for sound editors. The set comes formatted in high resolution wav files with full metadata and keywords ready, so that your search results will be more satisfying and comprehensive.

The 'Marine Mammal Vocals – Dolphins, Orca, Sea Lions' collection feature a unique and varied collection of marine sound effects that will make your Sea Life scenes sound amazing – and it's a downright treasure trove for anyone doing creature sound design.

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Electricity Sound Effects Energy by SoundMorph Play Track 606+ sounds included $99

This SFX library is a complete collection of everything ENERGY, covering Electricity, Power Ups, Shockwaves, Sparks, Force Fields, Zaps, Loops, and plenty more.

ENERGY is created in collaboration with talented French sound design duo Frederic Devanlay and Cedric Denooz, and features more than 625+ sounds and 6.4GB of 24bit/96khz .WAV files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata.

Sounds include:

• Energy Loops (start, loop, end)
• Neutrons and Particles
• Electricity sparks, zaps, impacts
• Energy Weapons / Special Powers
• Whoosh and Passbys
• Energy Foley
• Ambiences
• Hums and Buzzes
• Lightning Elements
• Power Ups and Power Downs
• Source Tool Box – Create your own sounds from scratch!

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Mechanical Sound Effects Meridian Play Track 86 sounds included, 200 mins total $23

Inspired by the ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) community, this collection includes 43 mono/stereo pairs of whispers, scratches, taps, rubs, breathing, buzzing, and more. The general goal of ASMR is to induce a bodily response from the auditory stimuli, much like a shiver, chill, or euphoric wave. From an auditory perspective, this is usually approached by using delicate, intimate sounds in a repetitive manner; known as ‘triggers’.

The files are all loopable, averaging ~2’20” in length, so you can leave them on repeat for a continuous ASMR experience. This also allows a sound designer to drop them into any environment where they need an indiscernible loop. The mono+stereo pairing allows for creating the appropriate stereo spread (or eliminating it all together) that a particular event requires. For some of the more common triggers, we provided a few variations.

Definitely intending to be a unique addition to your sonic anthology, this library will provide you with hours of evocative ear candy.

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World Sounds Morocco Play Track 39+ sounds included, 108 mins total $40

'Morocco' is a unique collection of 39 sounds recorded at 2 different seasons, winter and summer for Ramadan. Through different part of the country, this library includes:

• City: Marrakech day and night from different perspectives
• Market: souk and medina, indoor and outdoor
• Village: from Atlas mountains and palm farms close to the Sahara
• The muezzin leading the call to prayer at different hours with different perspectives

This collection provides a wide variety of authentic sounds from this beautiful country. All Faunethic tracks include Soundminer metadata carefully edited.

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City Life Sound Effects Backyards & Alleyways Play Track 35+ sounds included, 188 mins total $45

Need ambiences from backyards and alleyways? This collection delivers more than 3 hours of atmospheric ambiences from places such as cementaries, gardens, churchyards, school yards, industrial alleyways, castles, apartment complexes, small cities and more.

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Foley Sound Effects Frozen Footsteps Play Track 2400 sounds included $49

Prepare for shivers! Frozen Footsteps is a huge library of winter footstep & foley sounds recorded on 8 expressive and cold surfaces in real -20 °C (and below) temperatures.

Containing over 2400 sounds in 81 files, Frozen Footsteps foley sfx library is created for game and film sound design. If your game needs winter footstep sounds, or you are missing some authentic source material to take your studio foley tracks to the next level, this is the library for you.

All surfaces were recorded in real movement with multiple walking and running velocities. Frozen Footsteps library includes also real jumping and landings sounds. Jumping sounds are often missing from other foley libraries, but are extremely useful for creating character movement sounds for games. This package gets you covered.

7 surfaces were recorded during two freezing winter nights in a quiet rural area in Finland. Everything from ground to trees was totally frozen and covered in frost. However, snow hadn’t fallen yet. This special moment allowed recording footsteps on unique surfaces that are usually under snowpack. To make the package complete, the frozen snow sounds were recorded later, with real crusty snow. In freezing temperatures, as well.

All sounds were carefully edited in iZotope RX and Pro Tools 12 removing the background and clothing noise. This was quite a task, but it was worth it. This makes the sounds extremely clear, versatile, and easy to use.

Library highlights:- 8 frozen surfaces
– 2400+ sounds in 81 sound clips
– Sneak, walk, run, jump, slide, scuffs, and more
– 96 kHz, 24-bit stereo WAV files
– 1.20 GB
– Carefully edited & noise-free
– Soundminer & BWAV metadata

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Sports Sound Effects Sports Play Track 200 sounds included $50

This library contains 200 professionally recorded sports sound effects. Included in this collection are baseball, basketball, tennis, football, soccer, hockey, boxing and golf sound effects. These sounds are all hand-picked from Sound Ideas General HD2 and Series 11,0000 Sports sound effects libraries as well as the Hollywood Edge Sports with Balls and World Edition Sports collections.

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Water & Ocean Sounds Household Water Play Track 86+ sounds included $15

‘Household Water’ by Badlands Sound includes 86 high-quality water sounds found throughout the home that will be great for your projects. Hear the flowing sounds of water from kitchen and bathroom sinks, bathtubs, small and large fountains, drains, and much more.

This library was recorded by Sound Devices 702t with a RODE NTG3 microphone in 96k / 24bit.

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Fire Sound Effects Small Fires Play Track 46 sounds included, 43 mins mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$40
This library was made for the small stuff. I have always had a hard time finding small fire sounds. I work mostly in games, and trying to find a small fireplace sound, or torches on the wall in a castle, or perhaps a candle or oil lamp sound, are impossible to find in commercial libraries! I've always been unhappy with what I had to make for those elements. So, I went to work getting small and delicate fire sounds.

It took multiple field recording trips using a variety of different materials to find the best small fire sounds. Finally, after a lot of hard work (and smoke to the lungs), here is the Small Fire SFX Library!
- Small fires with a variety of different materials including cloth, cotton, hand sanitizer, a multitude of different woods, Vaseline, and pure alcohol
- 1.22 Gigs, 43+ mins, 46 files
- Stereo & Mono 96Khz, 24bit
- Metadata included for programs like Soundminer
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Environments & Ambiences Italian Crowds and Countrysides Play Track 28 sounds included, 66 mins total $9.99

The provided collection features over 1 hour of ambient recordings in Northern Italy, in the Trentino, Veneto, Lombardia, Piemonte, and Liguria regions and include cities, country sides, mountains, grape fields, national parks, roomtones, crowds, mornings/days/afternoon and nights. Also noted is some city ambiences and crowds are void of traffic noise as some city laws forbid traffic, they are clean and isolated calm and quiet crowds.

They are stereo recordings in decoded MS and XY. All files are mastered the same, in Protools HD, and are monitored through a phase scope to keep the files phase coherent, and edited to be M&E friendly.

Enjoy!

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Nature & Countryside Ambiences Alps Play Track 95 sounds included, 280 mins total $62

“Alps” includes a huge variety of Ambiences recorded in a pristine region in Switzerland which is still in its original and natural state. Through a minimum of civilisation and a base in a cabin up on the mountains, it was possible to catch super clean and natural ambiences with a minimum of noise pollution. We made sure this library includes a pure alps experience. This collection gets you a great collection of rivers, quiet forests, birds, valleys, fields and more recorded from different perspectives and heights.

Special thanks to Raimund Förnzler (pictures, moving pictures), Marvin Brand and Daniel Strübig for making this library possible!

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Wylie Stateman

Supervising sound editor,
The Hateful Eight, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill: Vol. 1

A Sound Effect is an excellent resource for us to keep our animated films sounding unique and exciting.

Gabriel Guy

Re-recording Mixer, Walt Disney Animation Studios:
Frozen, Big Hero 6

A Sound Effect is a great asset to have discovered.

We found the site very easy to navigate, purchasing and downloads were effortless and the effects themselves are awesome! Asbjoern has done us all a great service.

We’ll definitely be back!

Wayne Pashley

Supervising Sound Editor/Re-recording Mixer, The Lego Movie & Mad Max: Fury Road

There are many great independent sound effect libraries available these days. The main problem with having so many, is keeping track of them!

A Sound Effect is a great hub, and is one of the first places I visit to look for sounds by category or genre. I started coming here to see if I could find libraries that I knew I had heard, but forgot WHERE I had heard them.

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Sound designer:
Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit trilogies

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