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Old and new types of freight trains recorded with a high quality binaural dummy head. All tracks are recorded up close to capture all the characteristics of each freight train.
The Gun Shell sound effects library features a comprehensive collection of sounds made with empty gun shell casings. Including 12 different shell types, 7 surfaces, and a huge amount of takes (3600+ files in total), this library is more than just a collection of falling shell sounds. It includes shells colliding with each other, rolling, bouncing, being picked up, and more.
These expressive little sounds can add the essential detail in your project, or you can use them creatively to craft totally new sound effects layers for weapons or item/coin pick up. Ammo box handling foley and bullet belt link sounds are also included.
Included calibers / shell types:
7.62×39mm • 7.62×54mmR • 9mm • .22LR • .30-06 • .38 SPL • .44 MAG • .45 ACP • .223 REM • .308 WIN • 12-gauge Shotgun Paper Shell • 12-gauge Shotgun Plastic Shell
Included surfaces:
Concrete floor • Wooden floor • Carpet floor • Rumbling metal • Hard metal • Gravel • Dirt
Recorded in a quiet studio environment in 96 kHz / 24 bit, these well-edited and meta-tagged sound clips make it easy to add the perfect gun shell sounds in your projects. In addition to a massive amount of variations of shells falling on different surfaces, the sounds are useful for sweetening bullet impacts, creating collect/pick up sound assets, and pitch-shifting them to create totally new sci-fi weapons.
An informative PDF spec sheet is included with a lot of details about the shells. There you can easily find example firearms using the specific cartridge to accurately match the correct shell sounds with the guns in your projects.
The library comes in two versions: One with multiple takes in a single audio clip, the other has a new audio clip for each shell drop. Both versions are included with this library.
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.
Cats are remarkably expressive creatures. And capturing their voices can be a daunting task. Not anymore…
The “Meow” sound library provides all the core cat vocalizations you'll need in a single package.
Using 11 different cats cherry picked for their characters, this library provides over 272 vocalizations for your productions.
From sweet mewls, to longing cries, or vicious shrieks, this library has got you covered.
This library also includes the Sonic Worlds “CAT” sound pack.
JASPER
A lunatic Calico. A treasure trove of enraged vocalizations.
AFORI & FANGS
Sweet natured Russian Blues for that soft gentle character.
BASTARDO
A nasty mean tomcat, hence his name. A Tabby with a rich growl.
BOGART
Deep threatening growls and hisses. A Ginger in a foul mood.
GINGY & LUCIFER
Whiny sounding Ginger cats. For those hungry begging cries.
JESSICA
Classic meows that work like a charm.
MARTY
A sad sounding Tabby cat. For those longing mewls that will break your heart.
SWEETY
An absolute sweetheart black cat. Purry meows galore.
Need sound effects for your explainer videos? The EXPLNR sounds series is a collection of sfx libraries designed and produced with the classic 2d animated explainer video in mind. These sounds will give quick and useful coverage to the common moves used in this style.
Vol 1 is an excellent all-around base library that includes whooshes, clicks, pops, swells, ratchets, slides, rips, drags, flicks, crumples, and dings – all custom designed with the playfulness and clean edges required to match the explainer video style.
To help cover repetitive visual movements, multiple iterations of each sound are included. A host of designed sounds will quickly cover more complex movements.
The next time you have an explainer video in the house, you know your starting point.
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.
Introducing a collection of writing, painting, paper tearing, cutting, and carving sounds featuring tons of different pens, markers, brushes, and types of paper. You won’t have any trouble cutting together any office or classroom scene with this library. All FX were recorded on a professional Foley stage at 192kHz/24bit.
Various types of pencils, pens, permanent makers, highlighters, crayons, chalk, and paint brushes big and small.
We used many different surfaces to give you more choices when editing, plus sounds of paper cutting, crumpling, carving, erasing, label making, box cutting, taping, etc.
We hope you enjoy it!
Ambience library recorded in Marrakech, Essaouira, and the Agafay Desert. Birds, insects, wind, foliage, market/souk, prayer, etc. Recorded at 96kHz stereo/binaural.
• In Falling Rock, get a impactful collection of resonant rockfalls made from the volcanic rocks of the Davis Mountains. Throw hulking rocks down narrow ravines and hear clattering impacts with intense, extended energy. Hear miniature echoes of small stones pinging and gunshot-like reverberations from boulders thrown from clifftops. Hear the thick weight of boulders smashing and symphonies of rock careening down canyons.
• This library offers you an extensive collection of rocks, thrown with great effort, from lofty desert clifftops and down bottomless, echo-filled gullies.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
This library includes 106 sfx of exterior, interior and on-board perspectives of pass bys, shifting, and foley of the Chevy Duramax 2500HD Pickup Truck.
With different performances of each action, you can add unique detail and character to your film, commercial, show, or video game.
This Halloween, be prepared to be scared! From Carma Studio, comes the ultimate Halloween package.
With over 1500 individual sounds, this collection has something for every media artist. Whether you’re searching for vocal phrases, eerie ambiance, terrifying screams, or possessed toys, we’ve got you covered with a truly unique collection of Halloween delight!
Armenia Faunethic sound library is a unique collection of 37 sounds recorded in this small country landlocked in the Caucasus mountain range, right in the middle of Orient, Middle-east and Asia.
All these sounds has been recorded and produced with high quality equipment at 24 Bit / 96 kHz.
All Faunethic tracks include metadata carefully edited, compatible with Soundminer, Soundly and Basehead.
The Tommy Gun sound effects library features 42 recordings of the historic weapon, ready to electrify your projects with this iconic American firearm. While the Thompson Submachine Gun was used primarily in the 1920’s and ‘30’s, the firing, bullet pass-bys, and ricochet sounds from the ‘Chicago Typewriter’ can be used for guns of any time period.
Recorded to tape by renowned sound artist Andy Aaron (Scarface, Apocalypse Now, Return of the Jedi), these characterful gunshot sounds feature both single shots, bursts of various lengths, and fully automatic gun fire. The collection was recorded in a secluded forest in Woodstock, NY, complete with firing targets including cans, broken furniture, a washing machine, and glass bottles of “shooting beer” (not to be confused with “”drinking beer””) The session came to an abrupt end when a stray bullet severed an audio cable near a target.
Complemented by sounds of metal impacts, glass and dirt debris, bullet pass-bys, these gun recordings will add explosive energy to your scenes that feature old-school gangsters, mob/mafia members, World War II soldiers — as well as contemporary gun-wielders. Each sound file is embedded with rich, descriptive metadata for fast, intuitive search results to help increase efficiency and sustain creativity.
Andy Aaron
Cymbals From Hell is the seminal collection of bowed metal sound effects, crafted from recordings of both natural and broken cymbals. Bringing you the nastiest, gnarliest, and harshest set of design elements and raw recordings. Their dynamic range provides a palette that evolves and adapts over time.
All of the sounds have been recorded in a controlled studio environment and played by a professional percussionist, with the intention of providing the most dynamic range and disturbing playing style. Our Audio Craftsmen then meticulously designed and edited every included sound from the bizarre to the downright horrifying.
Cymbals From Hell contains a total of 197 files running at a huge 8.9GB. This library gives you everything you need to create compelling Horror and Sci-Fi soundscapes and add accents to your music, ideal for use in a wide range of projects. All sounds have been recorded in 24bit 96khz for further manipulation, 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:
Bowed Cymbals: Harsh and dynamic bowed cymbals, perfect for musical or sound effects accenting.
Time Bending Risers: Sharp risers that have a feeling of movement in time.
Pulsating Dread Pads: The perfect Horror backdrops, built from organic elements.
Mind Bender Stingers: Warped cymbal effects that are equally at home in a Sci-Fi or Horror tracklay.
Metallic Oscillation Pads: The direct opposite of a Meditation Bowl, these sounds oscillate and move in an unnerving way.
Head Shaker Drones: Grit your teeth and cover your ears, these sounds warn of impending doom.
Gut Rumbler Subs: How low can we go? Very low. These sounds sit nicely under your tracklay and provide some serious sub frequencies.
Disturbing Risers: Distorted and mangled, these cymbals are bound to accent any jump scare with a dose of disturbing!
Bowed Alien Metals: Otherwordly vibes fused with a classic staple Horror sound.
Glass Bottle Percussion is a cinematic instrument built from 400+ sample recordings of antique glass bottles.
Our Audio Craftsmen meticulously edited, balanced and programmed 4 round robins and 3 velocity layers for each bottle, before integrating them into our Kontakt interface, giving Film Composers and Music Producers a suite of unique textures to use in their tracks. These sounds are perfect for trailer percussion loops, rhythmic tension, electronic music and film score cues with an exotic tonality.
The Main Articulations include: Drumstick Hits, Hand Taps, Bottle Top Hits, Drum Beater Hits, Nail Taps, Rolls, Scrapes and Wobbles.
But we didn’t stop there… As always with our Kontakt library releases, our in-house Composers designed an eclectic array of designed patches. Pads, choirs, drones, oil drums, screams, plucks and even karate chops give the user both tonal and atonal material to layer with their percussion, and build a haunting, glassy texture into their sound.
The 344 Audio Kontakt interface provides a variety of controls that encourage experimentation with the patches. The built in Arpeggiator is great for generating hundreds of percussion variations on the fly, while the Main View provides a set of parameters perfect for shaping the sounds your way.
Kontakt 5.8.1 or higher is required.
NOTE: This library does not run in the free ‘Kontakt Player’
Geophonic Design contains a wide variety of unique and abstract designed sounds which include infrasonic frequencies as low as 10Hz. The effects in this library have a science fiction/horror vibe, everything from alien spaceships to underwater ambiences. These are perfect for your films, video games, documentaries and other projects that require a mysterious and ominous soundscape.
Our Audio Craftsmen used a ‘Geophone’ which is a seismic measurement device used to record seismic waves and vibrations of the earth, to record low heavy vibrations and rumbles of various surfaces and materials, often using metal resonators to enhance the sound. We captured sounds from window glass, busy roads with vehicle pass bys, metal posts and rails with football impacts, water passing through pipes, metal containers, plastic buckets and much, much more.
All of the included sounds were then precisely edited and designed by our dedicated in-house team to build ambiences such as: outer space, underground bunkers, submarines, weather stations and other abstract ambiences. Moreover, all the files are available in 24Bit 96kHz and extensively tagged with metadata and are UCS compliant to simplify your workflow.
The subsonic sounds in this library will also make a great addition to your library as layered effects, to build an enigmatic mood in your projects, and will be perfect as drones and backgrounds for futuristic, sci-fi and horror scenes.
Electromagnetic Design Vol. 3 is brought to you as a successor to one of our best selling sound effects libraries. This collection contains a vast array of experimental and designed sounds captured using electromagnetic coil pickups and receivers. Perfect for building a futuristic atmosphere for your sci-fi/thriller projects as well as a great addition for sound designers to their general audio collection.
Our Audio Craftsmen captured a varied assortment of electromagnetic signals, electrical malfunctions and disconnections from various devices like computers, speakers, plug sockets, switches, TVs and phones. All of these sounds were then meticulously edited and designed to make a wide variety of glitches, a mix of ambiences with positive, negative and neutral tonalities, disconnection impacts with glitchy thuds, and electricity infused risers.
All of the sounds are extensively meta-tagged and UCS compliant so that you can easily find the sound you need. In addition, all of the files are provided dry in 192kHz/24bit allowing for further sonic manipulation.
Meet your new best friend: our Dog Vocalisations library!
This sound effects library features unique recordings of a dog with a medical condition. Bizarre and strange vocalisations have been faithfully recorded to enhance your animal soundscape. This collection also comprises an array of adorably authentic canine sounds, including playing, drinking, eating, breathing, sighing and running.
Inside this library you will find sounds recorded from a variety of perspectives for added versatility. Perfect for realistic moments and abstract design in film, TV and games.
Our Audio Craftsmen have precisely edited each sound so that they are ready to be dropped straight into your projects.
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 Medieval Battle Bundle is the ultimate construction kit for building up Medieval scenes and backgrounds. It includes our best-selling library, Medieval Battle – used in TV and Film productions all over the world – as well as Medieval Battle Vol. 2 and Historical Battle Voices.
Together these libraries provide a huge selection of voices, crowds, lines, characters and weapons ideal for drama and fantasy alike. Whether your film scene requires more ‘epic-ness’, or your game sequences are in need of some historically-accurate flair, this useful toolkit will allow you to craft a sense of fullness and immersion in your Medieval and historical projects.
All sounds included were carefully captured and meticulously edited for maximum sonic quality, enabling to you drop each sample into your projects with no need for further enhancement or modification.
The entire bundle is delivered at 24Bit (Medieval Battle is delivered at 96kHz, and Medieval Battle Vol. 2 and Historical Battle Voices are delivered at 192kHz) and tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.
Gloucester Vol. 1 is a succinct ambient library featuring field recordings captured by our Audio Craftsmen in Gloucester, England. This collection encapsulates the sounds of natural, candid activity in a small English cathedral city. It features the bustle and walla of denizens, a church choir, traffic and vehicles, clock tower bell rings, train station barriers, the hubbub of a busy pub, a child on a scooter, and a huge variety of background movement and distant goings-on.
Use this library for building authentic interior and exterior environments, or design your own custom backgrounds through further manipulation.
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.
including:
– External recording
– Internal recording
– Road covered with concrete slabs
– 2 Spots, 4 mics
– Eng start, idle, maneuvers, drive, shtdwn, passby, door, windows, hood e t c
– Slow, medium and fast
– 48 KHz, 24 bit
– 4 x schoeps ccm (card and omni), sys AB, Zoom F8
– RAW files only
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.
This library was recorded at the commercial port of Copenhagen. The area is filled with giant cranes, trucks, and containers, and is normally closed to the public.
Introducing SoundMorph’s Sinematic – a sound pack featuring cutting edge impacts, stutters, sub sonic bass, mega horns, stingers, risers, whooshs, bowed cymbals, and source recordings.
Get this collection of cinematic sounds to cater to the most modern and cutting edge productions out there.
• Stutter Risers
• Sub Sonic Bass
• Mega Horns
• Hits and Impacts
• Stingers
• Risers
• Simple Design
• Statics
• Whoosh Bys
• Bowed Cymbals
• Raw Source Recordings
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