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Door Sound Effects Closets Play Track 106+ sounds included $49

Meet CLOSETS_Small Doors, the first Household library from SoundFxWizard.

Closets is a collection of 106 high quality 24-bit 96khz recordings of opening/closing and locking/unlocking households.

It contains drawers, doors, washing machines, wardrobes and also small objects like chest, dvd box, cassette player.

All sounds has been recorded and edited by talented sound designer Vincenzo Bellanova and thanks to their neutral mastering are perfect to fill sound effects needs in films and videos.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Smooth Play Track 140 sounds included $39
SMOOTH is a collection of 140 24-bit/48khz wave sound effects.

I’ts delicate, soft, deep, eerie, cinematic. Its sounds are crafted for slow motion shots, abstract film sequences, motion design shots and mysterious, not aggressive, evocative and ethereal projects.
All sounds are organized into 8 categories:
- Organic Deepness
- Subtle Impacts
- Ethereal Whooshes Swells and Risers
- Droplets and Splashes
- Atmospheres and Drones
- Shine and Bright
- Tonal
They are total wet and 100% reverbered, designed with a “light touch”, definitely the opposite of big distorted and punchy sounds.
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Car Sound Effects Sonomar Collection: Speed Machine Play Track 266 sounds included $89
Sonomar Collection: Speed Machine contains 266 rich vehicle recordings of the legendary 2006 Campagna T-Rex. Featuring pass bys, gear grinds, accelerations and more, this collection contains lively vehicle sound effects and maneuvers that are full of character.

The Campagna T-Rex is a powerful three-wheeled vehicle with the ability to go from 0-60 in a staggering 4.1 seconds and reach a high speed of 140 mph. To create this library, recordist and sound designer Martin Pinsonnault (Big Little Lies, Dallas Buyers Club) and the Sonomar team utilized top-notch recording techniques to capture aggressive, expertly-handled driving maneuvers on a closed course.

Use the purring hum of a 155-horsepower engine as a stand-in for Japanese motorcycles and other high-powered vehicles. Let the distinct tone of a 1200 cc engine act as a punchy sweetener to existing vehicle sounds. Or pitch and process to create the engine quality that your project requires. Groups of synced recordings provide a variety of perspectives to maximize your optionality and adapt to your specific editing needs.

Each sound file is embedded with comprehensive metadata to help you find the exact sound effect you need with fast, pinpoint search. Enable creativity with detailed descriptions of each recording and their specific sonic qualities. Advanced metadata fields include additional info to ensure compatibility across any database search platform such as Search by PSE, Soundminer, BaseHead, Netmix, Workspace (Pro Tools), Find Tool (Media Composer), Media Bay (Nuendo), Reaper, Adobe Premiere, and beyond.

Key Features:
- 198 sound effects (1.6GB)
- 24-bit/48kHz broadcast .wav files
- Rich embedded metadata descriptions
- 100% Royalty-Free
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City Life Sound Effects Peru Play Track 7+ sounds included, 35 mins total $20

Suburbs Peru by Badlands Sound features 7 Peruvian suburbs. Hear the authentic sounds like loud birds, loud motorcycles, and more! This library will be a great addition to your projects. All of these sounds were recorded with high-quality professional equipment!

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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Bundles Geophonic Design Bundle Play Track 166 sounds included, 217+ mins total $79

Geophonic Design Bundle is a diverse collection of unique and abstract designed sounds with infrasonic frequencies which go as low as 10Hz. The bundle includes three libraries with a total runtime of 217+ mins (7.01 GB) that have strong sci-fi & horror vibes 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, hits and interactions of wood, metal, trees, soil, clay and other natural ingredients. We have also captured sounds from window glass, busy roads with vehicle pass bys, metal posts and rails with 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, underground sewers, a labyrinth of metal pipes, nuclear wastelands, research bases, boulder movement, metal ghost voices, spirits calling, subsonic water texture, tree bark connection, wind interference and many more. In addition, all the files are available in 24Bit 96kHz and with UCS compliant metadata to integrate seamlessly with your workflow.

The sounds will also make a great addition to your library as layered textures, to build a mysterious atmosphere in your projects, and will be perfect as drones and ambiences for futuristic, sci-fi and horror scenes.

You will be saving 25% of the total cost of the individual libraries when purchasing this bundle, an excellent value for money addition to your sci-fi/horror sound effects libraries.

Included libraries:

Geophonic Design – Vol.1
Geophonic Design – Vol.2
Geophonic Design – Vol.3

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City Life Sound Effects Prague – Ambisonics Play Track 41 sounds included, 194 mins total $40

Explore the beautiful soundscape of this impressive historic city.

In this soundlibrary you can hear more than just the popular tourist center. You can also explore outskirts and suburbs, trams, busses, subways and more.

41 georgeous ambiences, recorded carefully, professional and inconspicuous. With the 1st-order ambisonics AmbiX format you are completely free in what you want to do. For VR productions or to decode it into stereo, binaural stereo or multichannel-formats.

The ambiences are ready to use edited, detailed metadata included.

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Travel & Transportation London Train and Tube Play Track 23 sounds included, 44 mins total $19

London Train and Tube is the latest addition to our collection of ambiences recorded in London, UK.

This library features interior and exterior ambient recordings of the London Underground, a train en route to to London St. Pancras Station, and the station itself.

Discover the hustle and bustle of the London commute in these detailed recordings, including conductor announcements, platform ambience, passing footsteps, English accents, automatic tube doors, screeching rails, rolling suitcases, engine roars, beeps, bangs, bumps and more!

These sounds are perfect for crafting natural soundscapes of London or British transport and can be used in your films, documentaries and video games. Included recordings of bassy engines and moaning metal rails are also ideal for more abstract genres, such as sci-fi and horror.

Inject verisimilitude into your projects with this collection of immersive sounds!

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.

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.

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Bundles Geophonic Instruments Bundle Play Track 248 sounds included $48

The Geophonic Instruments Bundle comprises three libraries of low, moody tones produced by the unusual interaction between musical instruments and the Lom Geofón.

This unique process enabled the capture of each instrument’s super low frequencies – going all the way down to 10 Hz. Our Audio Craftsmen then designed these recordings to accentuate the rich, low resonances of each sound, resulting in an idiosyncratic, tonal quality.

Inside this bundle is a creative assortment of low frequency instrument noises, including hits, rumbles, scrapes, blowings, taps, booms, bowings and other abstract sounds – all with a foundational musical element.

Because of its intense low frequency energy, the Geophonic Instrument Bundle is perfect for sci-fi, horror and mystery projects. It will also lend itself well to Film, TV and Game productions across a variety of genres. Add a dark, timbral edge to your projects with these unique sounds!

All sounds included were carefully captured and meticulously edited for maximum sonic quality, enabling you to drop each sample into your projects with no need for further enhancement or modification.

The entire bundle is delivered at 24Bit/192kHz, and tagged with extensive Metadata.

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Bundles Historical Weapons Bundle Play Track 124 sounds included $145

The Historical Weapons Bundle is the go-to collection for swordfight and cold weapon combat sounds. Comprising the Historical Weapons Vol. 1 and 2, and Medieval Armour libraries, this bundle offers an extensive range of weapons and armour. Spears, shields, wooden poles, a warhammer, battle axe, steel helm, chainmail and sundry period swords are featured in a huge variety of solo or duel-based actions, sequences impacts.

All sounds were captured with all our multi-mic set-up (made up of the Sennheiser MKH50, Røde NTG-3 and Line Audio CM4) to provide multiple perspectives and sonic flavours.

This bundle’s versatility means you can pick and choose which sounds are right for your project or blend your own weaponry palette. Ideal for creators seeking to inject some excitement, texture and period-accuracy into their historical, Medieval and fantasy designs – for film, TV, game and documentary alike.

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 192kHz and tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.

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City Life Sound Effects People & Crowds Vol. 1 Play Track 8+ sounds included, 24 mins total $13

People & Crowds Vol. 1 brings you all the hubbub, hustle and bustle that comes with big cities during main events. Our Audio Craftsmen captured the sounds of large, dense crowds of people during the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in Manchester, UK. The result is a concise collection of walla-infused ambiences filled to the brim with passing international voices, movement and city activity.

This library is perfect for injecting a sense of liveliness and business into your projects: make sparse scenes feel fuller, or build bustling backgrounds for your Game, TV and Film productions with this useful collection!

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.

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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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Environments & Ambiences UK Football Vol. 5 Play Track 34 sounds included $36

UK Football Vol. 5 is the fourth in our series of candid UK football fan recordings. It comprises the sounds of English-accented voices, cheers, chants, songs, shouts, yells, groans, Tannoy announcements and more!

To create this library, our Audio Craftsmen recorded the authentic sounds of an English football match, focusing on large crowd atmosphere and reactions. The immersive nature of these recordings make them perfect for TV, Film and game scenes requiring passionate voices and performances.

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.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Haunting Ambiences Vol. 5 Play Track 34 sounds included, 117 mins total $14

Haunting Ambiences Vol. 5 is the fifth in our popular series of horror ambience libraries. It comprises multi-stem construction kits, allowing you to build unique horror atmospheres through custom layering, panning and mix & matching.

Featured in this library are differently themed horror ambiences, including a boiling witch’s cauldron, radioactive creature screams in an abandoned building, a mad scientist’s twisted laboratory, haunted hotel lobby movement, sacrificial chanting and synthesized nightmare sounds. To make these ambiences, our Audio Craftsmen recorded a multitude of real-world and synthesized sounds, then processed and manipulated them for the ultimate harrowing effect.

This library encourages you to experiment in crafting your own 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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Door Sound Effects Practical Doors Vol. 2 Play Track 99 sounds included $21

Practical Doors Vol. 2 continues our series of sound effects for common door uses. Inside is a variety of door closes, opens, slides, slams, knocks, latches, creaks and squeaks!

The library features a large range of perspectives, opening/closing actions, doors, and props, including a shower door, sliding window, bureau drawer, garage door, electronic safe door, hotel room doors, studio doors, unlocking a front door and more!

These sounds provide you with naturalistic, unprocessed options for editing doors in your Film, TV, Game and soundscape 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.

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Funny / Comedy / Cartoon Whistles & Blow Toys – Toots & Squeaks Play Track 2000+ sounds included $35

This library consists of hundreds of performances (581 files total) of toy whistles, clown and bicycle horns, slide whistles, melody pops, party blowers and squeeze toys most with distant and near recording variations.

UCS compatible Metadata has been meticulously redone ensuring searches are no longer bloated with unnecessary results, and the amount of fun is instantly forefronted in your searches.

Toots & Sqeaks highlights:

• 581 broadcast wave files
• All at 24 bit, 96kHz
• 4.81 uncompressed gigabytes of audio data
• Most takes include stereo, mono and distant microphone perspectives
• Metadata carefully added to each audio file ready for efficient searching

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Environments & Ambiences Italian Religious Ambiences Play Track 120+ sounds included, 60 mins total $32

A collection of authentic recordings from churches, ceremonies and processions, recorded in Italy. A total of 60 minutes of ambiences are included.

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).

Update 2:
We have added 65 sounds from different Italian regions and cities, including church atmospheres, bells, funereal chants, celebratory chants, processions, priests celebrating mass, rare recordings of a 104 year old woman praying in Latin, elderly women praying, Calabrian women chanting …

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Matter Mayhem Play Track 1397+ sounds included $249

Need the sound of utter destruction, debris, bomb blasts, and chaos – recorded in high definition sound, with multiple perspectives and tons of different materials? That's what you get right here:

As sound designers, we always need these types of highly useable sounds, and with the creation of Matter Mayhem, we've gone above and beyond. Spanning 5 months of recording out in the field and designing in the studio, SoundMorph is very proud to bring you one of our largest produced libraries ever! If you need debris and destruction, Matter Mayhem is a solid choice to add to your collection!

Matter Mayhem was created in collaboration with Frederic Devanlay (Sinematic, Solar Sky) and Cedric Denooz (Future Weapons), and contains 1,500+ sounds / 5.75Gb of 24bit/96khz .WAV files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata.

The library includes sounds like Big Blow Ups – Stoney Structures • Big Blow Ups – Wood Structures • Near, Mid, and Far Perspectives • Bomb Blasts • Blow Ups – Stone, Pebble, Metal, Wood • Debris – Stone, Wood, Glass, Plastic • Collapses • Scaffold Impacts • Whoosh Objects • Designed Debris • First Person Debris • Metal Objects.

So if you're looking for the sound of destruction, this one delivers!

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Falling Objects Play Track 1000+ sounds included $45

Did you drop something? Turns out recordist Mikkel Nielsen from SonicSalute dropped a LOT of objects for you, so you don't have to! The drop sound effects are divided into 4 different recording categories: Closeup interior recordings, off-screen impacts and crashes in large halls, grainy debris in large halls, and “Next Door” room recordings. The Falling Objects library comes with 89 tracks with 1000+ falling object sounds in total.

Closeup interior recordings (studio recordings):

Books and Magazines • Cables • Cameras • Cardboard Boxes • Clothes • Coins • Computer Keyboard • Cutlery • DVD Cases • Handbags • Leather Cases • Pens and Pencils • Plastic Cups • Suitcases • Tin Cans • Toys

Large Halls Impacts / Crashes / Dragging / Moving / Scraping/ Off-Screen recordings:

Metal Bars and rails • Glass • Glass Shards debris • Porcelain • Plastic • Sand debris • A bench :D

Next Door Room sound recordings
– objects being dropped:

Books • Cutlery • Plastic Toys • Empty Plastic Bottles • Pencils/Pens/Keys/Plastic

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Tension Play Track 430+ sounds included $99

Tension is a collection of atmospheres, drones, musical sound design, darkness, noise, and distortion for creating moments of anxiety, ominous soundscapes, or musical foreboding highlights. Created by Charles Maynes (sound designer) and Jason Payne (musical composer) Tension creates a balance where both sound design and musical undertones collide. Tension gets you 430+ sounds and 7.5GB of 24bit/96khz files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata.

Tension includes sound effects such as:

Ambient Experimental • Musical Sound Design • Distortion and Noise • Drones • Experimental • Stingers • Vocal Experimental • Waterphones + Bonus Original Material from the Doom Drones Soundpack!

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Animal Sound Effects Collections African Wildlife 363+ sounds included, 154 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$189

African Wildlife is an utterly unique collection of pristine wildlife and nature sounds, recorded in the wilderness of Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia over a period of 4 months, 2015. It comes in four categories, covering Mammals, Birds, Ambience and Insects recordings.

It features animals such as elephant, baboon, jackal, lion, rhino, buffalo, hippo, impala, zebra, bat and hyena, as well as insects and 45 species of birds. 50 minutes of ambience recordings are also included.

The diversity of African wildlife sounds is widely reflected in this library, with the material including but not limited to screaming, barking, growling, roaring, breathing, grunting, feeding, hooting, warbling, screeching, farting, guffawing, whooping, gurgling, rutting, yapping, snorting, tweeting, trumpeting, chattering and squeaking.

Extensive metadata including detailed information on location, species, habitat, behaviour and usage is included, formatted for Soundminer. Metadata sheets in .xls and .csv formats are also provided.

Recording equipment: Sennheiser MKH8040-ST (ORTF) / Sony D100 / Telinga MK2 / Sound Devices USBPre2 / Tascam DR-680

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Weather Sound Effects Rain in the City – by Phonophilist Play Track 70+ sounds included, 190 mins total $49

'Rain in the City' has 70 files and more than 3 hours of recordings of light rain and storms in the city. This collection includes both indoor and outdoor ambience recordings from the 9th floor of a city building, within a vehicle, and on the street. There are also recordings of rain drops from the roof and drip cap, as well as rare recordings of a hail shower, flowing rain water through drain pipes and storm drains, and rain onto umbrellas, a car, and metal surfaces.

Details:
• Unique recording of a storm in the city of Minsk from the beginning to the end.
• The storm caused a lot of thunder, heavy rain, and over 100 fallen trees in the city (24 liters of rainfall per square meter).
• Ambience rain recordings have light, moderate and heavy storm intensities.
• Indoor recordings with opened and closed window for scenes in the buildings.
• Designed short loops of diffuse rain sound with 3 levels: heavy, moderate and light.

Gear Used:
• Neumann 185 MT stereo matched microphone pair with Sound Devices 702 recorder

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Foley Sound Effects Are You Picking Up What I’m Putting Down Play Track 72 sounds included, 41 mins total $35

This library is all about picking stuff up and putting it down, whilst you rub your beard, pop pills and type with your toes. It's a collection of foley sounds that we always seem to need, but often can't find. Each track includes multiple movements of the object in question. The recordings are mono and unprocessed, so they sound natural and can be easily placed in your stereo field.

All tracks recorded with a Sennheiser 416 microphone, through a Buzz Audio – Elixer preamp.

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Whoosh Sound Effects The Rush Play Track 319+ sounds included $50

The Rush is a collection of massive rushing sounds that are perfect for use in timelapses, swirls, swarms, and any other massive movement situation. It features 319 sound rushed files that were generated from 30 lovingly curated sources and carefully rendered in Sound Particles.

Sound sources range from trains and race cars to vinyl, metal and paper frictions to gore, motorcycles and helicopters. Parameters are tweaked to yield textured and interesting results with detailed heads and tails that rush in and gently dissolve out.

Each rush has a different number of particles running, so you get every level from sparse detailed movement to overwhelming waterfalls of sound per sample set. Check it out today!

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Whoosh Sound Effects Tubular Play Track 365 sounds included, 62 mins total $28

This library is the result of tinkering with shotgun mics recording inside of different tube structures. When our initial tests produced a wide range of sonic colors, we went all in.

The tubes used include organic and man-made materials, some rigid, some flexible, some dense, some light, all with varying lengths, diameters, and thicknesses. They consist of bamboo, PVC, 2 variations of vinyl, thin plastic, copper, tin, rubber, dense foam, and a steel-coiled membrane. Each material has a different effect on the sounds passing through them. We generated turbulent drones, thick strikes, resonant scrapes, noisy bells, delicate debris, and more. The overarching characteristics are soft, insulated, and misty. Due to the behavior of the waves in the open tubes and the pickup pattern of the shotgun mics, there is a natural frequency modulation that gives the sound a slightly narrowed, hollow timbre. They work very well in simulated settings, enclosed spaces, and when there is a need to exaggerate the magnitude of tiny worlds. But they are equally as useful as raw design fodder, especially when a unique texture is needed.

This is our first library created solely for the sake of experimentation, though based on the results, it may not be the last!

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