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Ringing Rocks has the chiming, beautiful tones of an ancient boulder field. As hammers strike stone, the powerful clangs resonate like church bells and bring to life a natural sonic wonder. Plus, you receive many types of melodic tones, hammering rhythms, grinding metallic stone, resonant scrapes, and much more. If you need rocks unlike any you’ve heard before, listen to Ringing Rocks.
2% for the Planet:
Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause. I view it as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
Sydney Australia Trains consists of 55 beautifully recorded and edited sounds, tagged with rich metadata. From pass bys and ins and outs, to atmos' and more.
From the snow-covered slopes of Mammoth mountain, to the ice-filled shores of Duluth, Minnesota, this library brings together some terrific subzero sounds for your next snow-themed project. With ski and snowboard bys, chairlifts, cold winds, and even melting icicles, this is surely a collection you don't want to miss. Recorded with the stunning Sennheiser Ambeo microphone, each ambience is delivered in both AmbiX and FuMa formats, as well as Stereo, 5.1, and 7.1.
What’s more- a 360 video reference is provided to offer a fully immersive image of the sound effect being captured!
Distant Traffic by Badlands Sound puts traffic ambience in a different perspective: The library features over one hour of distant traffic ambience in 23 audio files.
The library includes distant bustling traffic, sparse roadways with everything in between.
Recorded in 96k / 24 bit with Sound Devices 702t – All files are three minutes each.
CINEMATIC SHORT IMPACTS is a selection of 22 stereo 24bit/48khz powerful impacts sounds with a cinematic taste for your trailers and video productions.
All sounds are on-shot and very short, ready to be easily arranged on the timeline or inside a sample player to make a drum kit.
Iceland, a volcanically and geologically active island with striking landscapes is being visited by millions of tourists each year. It also inspired many creative artists such as Bjork, Olafur Arnalds, GusGus, Mum. This sound library includes sounds from Reykjavik and local areas on Golden Circle tourist route: ambiences from Gulfoss waterfall, Pingvellir national Park, Geysir and natural spas.
Get the sounds of an Armored Military Humvee. Metadata is included with over 26 minutes of combined recording time split into 74 ready to use wave files. There are onboard, external, and foley sounds, all in high quality 24 bit resolution, 96khz sample rate. This is the right library when you need modern military humvee sounds for your film, TV, or game projects. Note that are no Ramp recordings in this package.
Onboard multi-track recordings are in 4 separate mono wave files. Drag & drop or import each of the files into your audio editing software, then align them for creative mixing. There are also stereo mix versions of the OnBoard recordings. The External recordings are in stereo wave files. The download is a 1.5gb compressed .rar file (2.25gb Uncompressed).
External Settings:
Stereo in Left and Right Channels
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.
Carma Studio brings new characters to the party with Game Phrases 2!
Building Construction by Badlands Sound features eight long and loop able audio files of a large building being built. You will hear the roar of the concrete mixer trucks, shouting and whistles instructing crane operators, to the loud reverberant sounds of metal hammering of beams, and a lot more.
These sounds were recorded early in the morning at the same location with not many outside sounds other than construction and people working. All of these sounds were recorded with high quality professional audio equipment like Sound Devices 702t, ORTF Rycote, and a pair of Sennheiser MKH 8040’s. If you are looking construction of buildings in the city or in the distance then this library is for you. All files in this product have great file names and metadata with descriptive words with no number lists.
The follow up to SoundMorph's hit cinematic library Sinematic, Sinematic 2 is now here! We've gone all out to bring you the best of the best in designed and source files, more than doubling the size of the first release! Designed in collaboration with the same world class sound designers as Robotic Lifeforms 2 and Sinematic…we are really proud to give you even more awesome Sinematic goodness! This library was created over the last 2 years using extensive high end recording techniques, KYMA, and Euro Rack Modular setups.
Sinematic 2 was created by and in collaboration with Thibault Csukonyi and Boris Haladjian (Robotic Lifeforms 2) and Real Cardinal (BioWare, Sinematic, Microsoft).
Sinematic 2 features more than 1,000 24bit/96 kHz .wav files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata, including:
500 + designed sound effects
550 + source audio files
Deep Impacts
Synthesized Impacts
Risers
Stingers
Lowend Hits
Subtle and Iconic
Passbys
Textures – noise, grit, glitch
Booms
Reversed FX
High Pitched
Motion Graphics
Impulse Responses
This sound collection covers a wide range of sounds produced by this unique vintage car from 1954, 4CC and 63HP. Not only extensive driving sounds but also some foley and horn blasts. All in high quality 96/24 BWAV-files, recorded with high end equipment. All sounds include metadata.
The recordings are multitrack. For the onboard recordings you’ll find synchronized recordings of engine, exhaust, cabin. For the roadside recordings you’ll find an ortf stereo pair.
Recorder
Onboard Mics
Exterior Mics
The Urban Elements sound effects library delivers all of the sonic ingredients you need to seamlessly customize your city environments. Fill out your metropolitan soundscape with over 300 city recordings captured by sound designer Eric A. Norris (Ford v Ferrari, Spider-Man: Homecoming), including vehicles like cars, buses, and motorcycles, plus tire squeals, isolated horn honks, pedestrian vocalizations, emergency sirens, and more.
Recorded above the constant sonic energy of the iconic Hollywood & Vine intersection in Los Angeles, these pristine, indirect city sound effects were captured with a natural reverb that blends perfectly into any city background. Build your urban environment with the sounds of helicopter flyovers, street drummers, trash can clatters, car alarms, and more. Create sonically rich and realistic downtown cityscapes with the flexibility of clean, individual elements of urban life.
Descriptive embedded metadata helps you find exactly the sound you need to quickly find the components you need to start creating your bustling boroughs and active city-centers.
Urban Elements is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Standard.
Curated from the private collection of Academy Award®-winner Richard King (Dunkirk, Inception), Doors delivers 125 door sound effects for any project. Set the tone for your scenes with colorful and clean recordings for a wide variety of door types – from squeaky wooden kitchen doors to heavy Dublin castle doors.
With sounds recorded from different perspectives at various speeds and intensities, you can enhance your storytelling with sonically colorful variations. Use these distinctive glass sliding doors, French doors, metal refrigerator doors and more for both practical use and layering in sound design.
Each sound file is embedded with rich, descriptive metadata for fast, intuitive search results to help increase efficiency and sustain creativity.
Richard King
UK Big City Interiors is a distinct collection of ambient recordings focused on indoor spaces around Manchester. Unlike other libraries, our team has focused on capturing interior atmospheres and sounds, making this the most accurate representation of how a big city feels from the inside. The sounds in this library will make an excellent addition to your everyday audio collection and are perfect for use in your films, commercials, documentaries and other projects.
To bring you the most authentic feeling of an interior cityscape, our team has captured ambiences and sounds from shopping malls, book stores, technology stores, cafes, food courts, restaurants, toilets, busy train stations, trams, buses, elevators, escalators, and much, much more. We have recorded sounds at different times of the day to capture busy as well as quiet atmospheres.
All of the sounds have been precisely edited so that you can drop them into your session instantly and are available in 24Bit 96kHz for further sonic manipulation. Also, all of the files are tagged with extensive metadata and are UCS compliant to find the right sound for your scene with ease.
Attention: Extreme Subwoofer Rumbles! After making our first volume of Bass Drops & Downers, we decided to go even lower! Handmade by our Audio Craftsmen, these 50 effects are designed to bring drama and energy to your productions. Handcrafted using analogue synthesisers and hardware effects, they are guaranteed to give your audience the excitement and suspense you’re looking for; all recorded and supplied to you at 192khz 24bit.
Each sound is individually crafted featuring it’s very own unique and sensational character, ranging from applied low-end mulit-band distortion to extreme envelope modulation, to reinforce those intense moments! Not to mention, included in this pack is all of your absolute imperative, must have, bass-drop tones, coming straight to you from our collection of eloquent, stereo analogue synths programmed by our in-house specialists.
Composers, Producers and Film-Makers alike; this pack provides you with powerful bass drops, breathtaking blasts and explosive bass rumbles for your most sensational and electrifying projects yet. Due to their inherent high resolution, you are free to further manipulate these sounds by any means you could possibly desire. Push your low-end to the next level!
The Ultimate Horror Ambience bundle brings you the very best products we have to date to perfectly set your horror scene. Inspire fear in your audience with our fantastic range of ambience. Everything from Haunting Ambience to Cymbals from Hell to Ghostly presences will provide the perfect background layering to set up your next horror project.
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.
Included Libraries:
Haunting Ambiences Vol. 1
Haunting Ambiences Vol. 2
Haunting Ambiences Vol. 3
Cymbals from Hell Vol. 1
Cymbals from Hell Vol. 2
Cymbals from Hell Vol. 3
Ghostly Presences
Phantasmal Ambiences Vol. 1
Phantasmal Ambiences Vol. 2
Water Movements Vol. 2 is a new sound effect library from 344 Audio. Precisely assembled by our team of audio craftsmen, This library contains a wide range of water-based sound effects captured by the legendary MKH50 Super Cardioid Microphone and our Aquarian H2a Hydrophonic microphone. Take the plunge and design your own custom underwater soundscapes for your projects!
All files have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use, and come delivered to you at a format of 24bit 192kHz; allowing you to manipulate and design these source recordings in any way you could wish.
We’ve dug deep into the circuit paths of electronic equipment using signal tracers to scan and record electronic noise and electromagnetic fields (EMF) emanating from electronic equipment.
This second in a series of three sound libraries focus on the elements of steady signal noise & radiation background mostly in the mid to high frequencies. Includes static noise, buzz & hum interference with pops, snaps, crackles, beeps and glitch tones.
UK Ambiences Bundle comprises rural and urban ambiences from across the UK designed to add authentic British textures to your Film, TV and Game projects. Our Audio Craftsmen, captured original recordings across Scotland, Gloucester and northern English countryside. This bundle is perfect for projects with both a rural and urban setting, or for crafting your own custom soundscapes.
The sounds in this library are supplied in both 24 bit / 192 kHz and 96 kHz format and have been tagged with extensive UCS metadata for ease of use.
A collection of rail sounds captured in Italy, including sounds of trams (cable cars), trains and subways.
The library contains sounds like arrivals, departures, pass-bys and on-board recordings. Metallic wheel sounds, pneumatic doors opening and closing, crowds / passengers, and engine sounds are also captured.
Both interior and exterior recordings are included, as well as PA announcements in Italian.
Each sound file has been carefully named and tagged for easy search in Soundminer and is Universal Category System (UCS) compliant.
(see the full track list below).
The Porsche 911 GT3 is not a typical race car.
With engine, transmission, air intake and exhaust all situated in the rear of the vehicle under a large wing, this pure driving machine has sonic characteristics very different from many familiar racing vehicles. Its exhaust note is deep and throaty and the transmission is snappy at speed.
The Porsche 911 GT3 library is a series of recordings that were made on a track just outside of Houston on media day for the Effort race team. These are 2014 Porsche 911 GT3 Rs that race on the Pirelli World Challenge series. Each car has a naturally aspirated, water cooled, four valve 4.0 liter flat six cylinder Porsche engine. These cars create 500 horse power from the factory and race with E10 fuel. The transmission is a Porsche six gear racing box with sequential shift mechanism.
With full access to the vehicles and the track, we recorded up to 13 channels on every movement.
• Onboards including Sanken CUB01, Crown PZM and Sanken COS11 mics
• Interiors captured with a Sure VP-88
• An ORTF array of Line Audio CM3s at pit row
• An array of MKH60s and a Shoeps MS rig at another straightaway on a balcony
• An ORTF array of Line Audio CM3s at a long slow turn
• A roving handheld MKH70 rig
After a full day of recording we had material ranging from idles and slow starts to whip bys and burnouts. We also got a wide variety of foley and ambient recordings that happened organically throughout the day.
Get the sounds of a real, modern-day hospital – the equipment as well as various locations. These are recordings that are not easy to access and took a lot of negotiation to capture.
Anaesthetic Machine • Automated Instrument Rinse System • Beckman Coulter Access 2 Analyzer • CT Scanner • Cardiac Monitor • Coagulation Analyzer • Dialysis Machine • Dialysis Machine • Draeger Oxylog 3000 Plus • Full Blood Count Analyzer • Geiger Counter (Berthold LB 124) • Haemoglobin A1C Analyzer • Heater Fan • Helium Cooler For MRI Scanner • Infusion Pump (Alaris Plus) • Lee Silverman Voice Treatment • METI HPS Mannequin • METI Human Patient Simulator • METI Human Patient Simulator • MRI Scanner • Ophthalmology • Orthopantomograph OP 2000 • Phacoemulsifier • Pharmacy Label Printer • SimMan Essential Mannequin • Sysmex SP1000i Automated Slide Maker • Ultrasound Scanner • Wall Mounted Suction Unit
As well as location recordings from the Robotic Pharmacy, an AGV (Automatic Guided Vehicle), the Operating Theatre and the Automated Mailroom (OPEX Mail Matrix).
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.
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