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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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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Silentscapes Play Track 36 sounds included, 72 mins total $40

SILENTSCAPES is a collection of 36 high quality recorded and fully mastered romtoones, ambiences and background sounds.

The sound library contains both indoor and outdoor sounds and the sound editing was done to obtain constant and quiet ambiences.

All sounds can be used as the first and neutral sounding layer of your projects, to give support and consistency to dialogue and sfx tracks. Otherwise they can be used as sound sweeteners for existing background ambiences or sound sources for new sound shaping.

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Mechanical Sound Effects Transformation Play Track 879+ sounds included $49

Are you looking for robot and transformation sounds?

You're in luck! This library gets you sounds like complex impacts, hydraulic movements, robotic vocal manipulation, breathtaking atmos, drills, shutdowns, startups, UI sounds and much more.

Transformation is produced by Oliver Schmitt aka SOUNDS OF REVOLUTION

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Mechanical Sound Effects Exosuit – Hybrid Exoskeleton Play Track 250 sounds included $35

Exosuit contains a large number of armored sound FX ready to use. Inside this turbocharged bio-suit you will find an arsenal of mechanized pieces of equipment noises and mechanical sequences.

Also included are sampled organic sounds, metallic impacts, chain sounds, pneumatic and hissing air sounds, whooshes, explosions, electric arcs and surges and diverse ranges of alien weapons (grenade launcher, a variant of the ARC Gun and missiles). All files are named and sorted thematically.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Evil Twin Play Track $99

Evil Twin is a Reaktor 5 and 6 ensemble for creating cinematic sound design, BPM synced rhythmic loops, intense impacts, whooshes, glitches, drones, and special effects.
Evil Twin is sample-based and contains a custom 128 sample library from SoundMorph. You can also load your own samples easily. If you own the new Reaktor 6, Evil Twin is a must have.

Evil Twin Key Features:

• Presets by Richard Devine, Ivo Ivanov, Jason Cushing, Yan David and more
• 3 LFOs
• Drawable envelopes
• Complete knob modulation
• Load up to 6 samples
• 3 effects
• Filter
• Grain, Jitter, and Pitch controls
• BPM synced loops
• Included Touch OSC template
• Note: This library requires a full version of Reaktor 5 or 6

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Destruction & Impact Sounds War Zone – Designed Explosion Sound Effects Play Track 170+ sounds included $18.50

The War Zone sound effects library gets you whooshes, debris, cannon shots, beeps, countdown, explosions – ready to be used as they are in your projects, or layered to create complex war ambiences. A total of 170 sound effects are included, categorized into beeps, explosions, beeping mine explosions, debris, low whooshes, whooshes, shots and whooshes + debris.

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Environments & Ambiences Windy Forest Play Track 22 sounds included, 87 mins total $40

Windy forest is a collection of forest ambiences with wind ranging from soft to strong. We spent two stormy days out in the deep forests of Norway and managed to capture a wide variety of wind sounds. The recordings are nearly 100% bird free so they are very usable internationally.

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Mechanical Sound Effects Clink Play Track 46+ sounds included $15

Clink gets you the sound of of clicks, latches and whirrs generated from a little found Herschede Starville clock mechanism.

Each take is loaded up with unique performances that explore the mechanism’s unique character from up-close.

Recorded in a quiet space with an MKH50 through a John Hardy preamp, this libary is small but mighty. Also included is a NI Battery 4 kit that is programmed to enhance the best characteristics of the source material by doing transient enhancement, eq, delay and compression that can be dialed in to taste.

Note: NI Battery 4 is required to use the kit – not included. You don’t need any version of Battery to use the audio files as a standalone sample library.

These recordings are excellent for adding character and complexity to your next mechanical element design.

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Bird Sound Effects High Desert Hummingbirds Play Track 290+ sounds included $90

Get the stunningly detailed sounds of one of nature’s tiniest aerial acrobats flapping and fluttering in one of the quietest outdoor places in the continental United States. With their ultrasonic chirps, mesmerizing flight abilities and evolution-exhibiting beaks, this library captures the sounds of these rarely heard creatures from a mere two inches away.

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!

Key Features:
• 255 clean sounds of hummingbirds recorded in the resonant mountains of west Texas
• 35 sounds of hummingbirds with other songbirds
• Humming, buzzing, popping, fluttering, and purring drones
• Wing slaps and wing contact movement
• Ferocious territorial dogfights
• Laser-like chirps
• Ultrasonic chirps up to 30kHz
• Wild vocalizations
• Swift fly-bys, whooshes, and dive bombs
• Multiple species with a variety of fundamental “hum” frequencies
• Categorized into high, mid, bass, and sub-bass hummingbirds
• Clips ranging from solo hummingbirds to six-bird feeding frenzies
• Microphones placed 6-8 inches from hummingbird feeder with flybys as close as 2-3 inches
• HD videos at 60 fps

How It’s Made:
Get the full story behind the High Desert Hummingbirds SFX library on the – A Sound Effect Blog

National Museum of Wildlife Art:
Recordings from this library are featured as part of Iridescence: John Gould’s Hummingbirds at the Nation Museum of Wildlife Art.

GEAR:
• Sennheiser MKH 50/30 MS pair
• Mid/Side recordings decoded to LR stereo
• Rycote AG MS Blimp
• Sound Devices 702
• GoPro Hero4

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Foley Sound Effects Analogue Rotary Telephone Play Track 65+ sounds included $20

This collection started as a mic test and turned into a library. What is unique about the collection is that the phone was taken apart so you get each individual element as clean as possible. It was recorded with shotgun mics, a TLM 103 to see how it sounded with something other than dialogue, and a Cold Gold contact mic at 96 khz, which was the biggest surprise as it sounds like a high definition retro mic when placed on the back of the phone's rotary dial. Skip the antique hunt and listen to these vintage sounds.

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Synth Instruments Dust Play Track $149

The first VST/AAX/AU plug-in from SoundMorph, DUST is a synthesizer plugin based on a real-time particle simulation, where each particle is a separate granulating sound source. The motion of each particle is determined by the flow field, which determines the force applied to each particle at each point.

Just like how the flow of a river determines the path of a leaf floating down in it. This is our most ambitious software release to date, and you are going to love it! Not only is DUST addictive to play with, but it generates some of the coolest sounds you've ever created.

DUST highlights:

• Presets by Richard Divine, Ivo Ivanov, Robert Clouth, Yan David
• 8 particle emitters
• convolution reverb
• Binaural Audio Panning
• Save and recall presets
• Custom Flow Field equations
• over 60 sounds included
• import your own sounds
• 4 modulation options on parameters
• Available in VST, VST3, AAX and Audio Unit format
• Compatible with Mac and PC (32 bit and 64 bit)
• Compatible with most major Daws

System Requirements:

An Intel® Mac with Mac OS X 10.9 (or later), OR a PC with Windows 7 (or later); Multicore processor; 2 GB RAM; 1024×768 display.

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Animal Sound Effects Collections Animals Play Track 200 sounds included $50

AudioHero's Animals collection features 200 professionally recorded sound effects, ready for use in your productions. This library includes wildcats, snakes, birds, bears, baboons, wolves, horses, cats, dolphins, zebras, pigs, whales, elephants and much more! These sounds are all hand-picked from Sound Ideas Wild World of Animals and General HD collections as well as the Hollywood Edge Animal Trax libraries.

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Bicycle Sound Effects Bicycles Studio Edition Play Track 126+ sounds included, 141 mins total $45

You won't find any well-oiled, wind-tunnel-tested, aerodynamically perfect sounding bicycles in this library!

This pack of sounds has been recorded to capture the extreme creaks and those “old, busted bike” kinds of sounds.

3 bicycles, all with a special sonical personality to them, were recorded:

2 SCO gentlemen's bicycles, from 1970-1980, and 1 home trainer, a little younger than the others.

Recorded inside a studio with the bikes either being on a dynamo or suspended from the ceiling, all bikes had lavalier microphones mounted front and back, and a microphone overhead of the rider. Some takes has a contact microphone track to add to the misery.

Includes interior recordings from 3 different bicycles:

• Long rides, multiple tempos
• Gears spinning
• Extreme creaks from saddle and frame
• Chain and chain guard noises
• Pedal spins
• Brakes
• Kickstand
• Bells
• Shaking and kicking bicycle frame
• Hometrainer riding

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Foley Sound Effects EXPLNR Sounds Vol. 1 Play Track 1181+ sounds included $42

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.

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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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Foley Sound Effects SKIN Play Track 3277 sounds included $25

This idea was created with efficiency and budget in mind. On independent films we don't always have the luxury of budgeting out an extensive amount of foley. There are tons of resources for cutting cloth, props, and footsteps, but there are none for actions of the human body in every day situations. In this comprehensive library you will find touches, pats, scratches, slides, clasps, slaps, and so many other common actions involving skin that will help bring realism to your projects.

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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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