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Beef up your creature sound design with the deep intensity of the Wildlife Collection: Grizzly Bear sound effects library. With 146 expressive bear sound effects and vocalizations, these high-quality recordings contain a wide variety of grunts, roars, sniffs, mouth smacks, and purrs that are ready for naturalistic use or manipulation for sound design applications.
Recorded at 24-bit/192kHz using multiple microphones including the Sanken CO-100K, which captures and maintains up to 100kHz (rather than 20kHz from other microphones), field recordist and sound designer Chris Diebold (Spider-Man: Homecoming, Transformers: The Last Knight) captured the unique vocalizations and slimy mouth-noises of an old aged male Grizzly bear. Use the natural and characteristic recordings of deep groans, slimy chews, and heavy breaths for pitch processing and control over your sound design, to design your beasts, creatures, monsters and more.
In addition to these raw bear recordings, this collection also contains 41 designed and “hyped” sounds, ready to drag-and-drop directly into your monstrous designs and animalistic scenes. Each sound file is embedded with rich, descriptive metadata for fast, intuitive search results to help increase efficiency and sustain creativity.
The All Metal sound effects library features 765 sounds of metal clashing, clanging and resonating as metal pieces are rummaged through, dropped, and tossed. Create with the various distinct sonic properties of metal objects — from squeaky gates, rattley wires, ringing wrenches, warbling sheet metal, clattering swords and more.
Each sound was pristinely recorded at 192kHz with lots of variations for more creative freedom. Uncover the sonic treasures that await as you pitch and process the squeals, squeaks and moans of the metallic debris for limitless sound design opportunities. Strengthen your projects with the distinct buzzing, scraping and reverberation of metal impacts for both literal use and creative implementation as layers for intense sound design.
Each sound file is embedded with diligent metadata to help you find the exact sound effect you need with fast, pinpoint search. Advanced metadata fields 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.
The First Industrial Revolution, which arised in the second half of the 18th century, meant a series of industrial and socioeconomical transformations and a turning point on sound: the end of silence.
Asturian sound editor and designer Oscar de Avila is the main recordist of this Library. He begins his career in the mid 90s as a music composer and sound editor for audiovisual media, carrying out numerous projects for several institutions and film production companies in the Principality of Asturias.
This large compilation of registers formed by forced sounds, dark and electrical textures and industrial-themed backgrounds have been registered in 2019 at the most important and strategic areas (they had difficult access and permits were hard to get) around some industrial locations in the Principality of Asturias,Spain, which is my home place, as I was working for a documentary website on Asturian industrial historic heritage as the only responsible for sound design and editing (patrimoniuindustrial.com).
All our libraries are UCS compliant (universalcategorysystem.com). In this new category system all files contain extensive metadata like file description, Category & Subcategory. Metadata can be read and processed by the most common audio libraries management tools . Starting with Full support from Soundminer and more audio tools adopting this system, we are adopting metadata UCS system in our files!
Discover the serene beauty of water with SurroundSoundLab.net’s exclusive “Moving Water Collection PART 4.”
Our latest summer release features a meticulously curated selection of water recordings captured, this time, in a Valencia private swimming pool. This library offers an array of immersive soundscapes, from gentle ripples to dynamic splashes, perfect for enhancing your audio projects. Ideal for filmmakers, game developers, and sound designers, our high-quality recordings bring a touch of summer tranquility to any setting. Dive into the soothing world of aquatic sound with SurroundSoundLab.net and elevate your auditory experience with the enchanting essence of moving water.
This Library features 300 meticulously recorded water sound files. With over 3 GB of content, this collection is designed for the highest audio quality, offering 24-bit/96kHz files ideal for seamless pitch shifting and manipulation. Each recording is captured natively in 32-bit floating point audio, ensuring unparalleled dynamic range and clarity. Our expert team utilized an array of five premium microphones: 2x Neumann KM184, 2x LINE AUDIO CM4, and a Sennheiser 416. This setup guarantees a rich, immersive sound experience, perfect for all your professional audio needs.
Our recordings took place in a pristine, noise-free swimming pool environment, ensuring that every sound is free from unwanted distractions or disturbances.
The library is conveniently organized and offered in formats compatible with leading audio software, making it easy to integrate into your creative workflow. All the recordings include metadata in English and Spanish, and they are compatible with software of sound library management like Soundminnner.
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.
Clinks • Stirs • Set downs • Pick ups • Rattles • Crashes & Smashes
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!
Get the sound of bomb blasts, explosions, debris and destruction in this high-impact library. The sound effects are separated into categories like falling glass debris, falling metal debris, stone debris and mixed falling rubble explosion impacts, allowing you to customize the sound and intensity of your explosion.
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.
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
Metal Bars and rails • Glass • Glass Shards debris • Porcelain • Plastic • Sand debris • A bench :D
Books • Cutlery • Plastic Toys • Empty Plastic Bottles • Pencils/Pens/Keys/Plastic
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.
This library delivers recordings of the 2005 Honda Civic EX, a 127hp, 1.7 liter, inline 4 cylinder, 4 speed automatic transmission Japanese car.
Included are ready-to-use foley recordings, external passbys, and 4 channels of onboard wave files. All 65 wave files are at 24 bit / 96khz khz and the library features more than 40 minutes of combined driving time (total duration: 197 minutes).
It took a lot of sunscreen to record this collection of ocean waves, gentle currents, and life on the Boardwalk. From Venice Beach, to Santa Monica and Malibu, Southern California boasts some of the world's greatest resources for coastal recording. This is a terrific library that features a variety of beachside sounds, including huge wave crashes on rocks, calm estuaries, and even amusement parks on the Pier. 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!
Ambiences from Thailand is a collection of sounds from busy and exotic Bangkok, idyllic Railay Beach and Khao Sok with oldest evergreen rainforest in the world. You will hear tourists’ excitement, local Thais conversations, traditional gongs at world-famous temples and cricket chirps and other insects in middle of the night. Additionally you will find soundscapes generated by Asian means of transportation: boats, tuk tuks, buses and planes.
Sounds have been captured in Bangkok, Ao Namm, Railay Beach, Phra Nang Beach, Krabi, Khao Sok and Surat Thani.
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.
All the essential high voltage electricity sounds you’ll need for your sound library. Sounds include sparks, electrical fires, fruit electrocution, electric arcs, shocks, hums, overloaded circuitboards, light bulbs, capacitors and much more. Features recordings from high voltage units such as 2 power supplies, 3 microwave oven transformers, 2 neon sign transformers, a 250k volt Tesla coil, 3 Jacob’s Ladders, an arc electric welding machine and a car battery
A collection of ambiances and street sounds recorded in ukraine between 2015-2018. With these recordings I tried to grasp the unique character of Ukraine. The distinct traffic sounds, the wonderful nature and the lively language.
You will find recordings of airport and train station with p.a announcements, street sounds with Russian walla and voices, quiet residential ambiances, Ukrainian village ambiances, supermarkets and markets, schoolyard, school corridor, parade, street traffic, trains, conversations in Russian, prayers, street player talking, pedestrian areas, and more.
This collection of sounds, include a variety of ambiences, machines, and foley sounds recorded for one of my latest TV post project in a small gym.
59 tracks recorded for my last Spanish TV project in a few Spanish gyms. 96Khz and 24 bits HD Audio. Room Tones, Designed Ambiences and Machines noises, including elliptical trainers, running machines, pilates balls, punches, weights machines, treadmills, vibrating platforms and more!
All the files have metadata embedded for Soundminer and similar programs. They both include Spanish and English description.
This collection includes 59 files, 96/24 HD Audio quality.
Temple of Asia is a unique collection of 22 sounds related to Hindu and Buddhist religions recorded through all Asia over many years.
All these sounds has been recorded and produced with high quality equipment.
This library provides authentic and interesting sounds, recorded with DPA, MBHO and Neumann mics powered by an Aeta 4minX.
All Faunethic tracks includes metadata carefully edited, compatible with Soundminer, Soundly and Basehead.
Some of these sounds are already included in the following libraries: Thailand, North India and Indonesia.
Ambience library recorded in Marrakech, Essaouira, and the Agafay Desert. Birds, insects, wind, foliage, market/souk, prayer, etc. Recorded at 96kHz stereo/binaural.
Drops ‘n’ Braams brings to the table 137 new sounds of hybrid cinematic Braams and Drops to boost your production with time-bending elements and sonic manipulation brought to the max. The SFX library is produced from scratch by Alessandro Romeo, owner and lead sound designer at SampleTraxx.
With Drops ’n’ Braams you can create massive stingers, deep impacts, trailer and score elements, morphing bass, transition woosh and much more.
A great addition for trailer cue creators, score composers and cutting-edge electronic music producers.
The library includes:
• 86 Braams _ Design, Elephant, Granular, Larsen, Raw, Textures
• 51 Hi Tech Drops/Downers/Sting/Power Down
Carma Studio is excited to bring you a library of over 260 metallic textures!
Startling you with low-end dark atmospheres to high brittle sizzle, this collection of hits & bangs, flutters & rattles, screams & moans, contact scrapes, iced fizzles, contractions, stretching, cracking and more covers the sounds of metal stressed out.
This Halloween, be prepared to be scared! From Aum Audio 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!
Bring your creature designs to life with a ferocious edge using the beastly power of Wildlife Collection: Leopards. Containing more than 200 exotic leopard sound effects, this library delivers a wide variety of recordings that are ready for naturalistic use or manipulation for sound design applications.
Featuring the sounds of both spotted leopards and black leopards, recordist and sound designer Chris Diebold (Spider-Man: Homecoming, Transformers: The Last Knight) captured this collection at 24-bit/192kHz using multiple microphones, including the Sanken CO-100K, which captures and maintains up to 100kHz (rather than 20kHz from other microphones), making these natural and characteristic leopard recordings ripe for pitch processing and control over your sound design. Use the high-quality recordings of monstrous growls, threatening snarls, and ornery groans to design your beasts, creatures, and more.
In addition to the raw recordings, this collection also contains designed and “hyped” sounds, ready to drag-and-drop directly into your projects. Each sound file is embedded with rich, descriptive metadata for fast, intuitive search results to help increase efficiency and sustain creativity. Wildlife Collection: Leopards is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Pro.
The Triumph Street Triple is a naked motorcycle made by Triumph Motorcycles, first released towards the end of 2007. The bike is closely modelled on the Speed Triple 1050 but uses a re-tuned inline three cylinder 675 cc engine from the Daytona 675 sport bike
The library include recordings on board driving, passing by, idle engine, looped engine at different rpm, foley. Microphones used near engine and exhaust for the onboard and engines sounds, 2 fixed microphones and one following for the passing by, close microphone for foley.
Microphones Used: Stereo Pair Sennheiser MKH8040 ORTF for external, Sennheiser MKH416 for foley and following, Stereo Pair DPA 4060 for onboard
Recorder: Sound Devices 744T – RME Quadmic as PRE-AMP
Audience & Crowd Reactions, a valuable addition to our ongoing commitment to delivering top-notch sound for your projects. This collection of ambisonic recordings offers an unmatched depth of authenticity, drawing from various human crowds and reactions to provide the ultimate resource for filmmakers, sound designers, and content creators.
One of the standout features of this library is our exclusive session at the Atletico de Madrid Metropolitano stadium, where we gathered a massive 150-people crowd for a recording experience like no other. This extraordinary event allowed us to capture the essence of a large-scale audience, making it a versatile resource for various projects in several sound design workflows.
The ambisonic format enhances the immersive quality of these recordings, enabling us to position and manipulate crowd reactions precisely within your 3D audio environment. This level of flexibility empowers you to create captivating, true-to-life soundscapes that captivate your audience and elevate your storytelling.
We understand the significance of realistic crowd reactions in your work, whether it’s building tension in a thriller, evoking euphoria in a sports documentary, or immersing players in a gaming experience. Our Audience & Crowd Reactions Library ensures that you have the authentic, high-quality resources needed to make your project stand out.
With this collection’s organized categorization and intuitive search features, you’ll effortlessly find the perfect crowd atmosphere for your project. This library offers an extensive range of reactions, from cheers to gasps, laughter to silence, and everything in between.
Cassette Deck is a set of sounds collected from a small group of analog cassette players. It’s filled with great mechanical buttons and switches, latches, a few motors at different speeds, and multiple microphones/perspectives per take. Great if you’re building some mechanical interfaces!
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