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Atmospheric drones and ambiences – light and dark, beautiful and eerie, lively and serene
Electromagnetic Drones is a collection of 171 recordings that capture the invisible electromagnetic landscape produced by electronic devices. Using the Soma Ether, a specialized wide-band receiver, we captured hums, pulses, and static produced by phones, microwaves, fridges, TVs, computers, Wi-Fi routers, and more. Unlike traditional radios that filter out interference, Ether acts as an “anti-radio,” capturing a broad spectrum of electromagnetic activity from hertz to gigahertz, revealing the sonic textures generated by electronic equipment.
The library features both raw recordings directly from the Soma Ether device, as well as designed sounds, giving you a versatile range of textures to work with. These recordings were transformed into deep, evolving drones, ranging from gritty industrial hums and eerie, synth-like tones to rhythmic machine pulses and dissonant, unsettling tones.
Captured at 192kHz, these sounds maintain exceptional clarity, allowing for extreme pitch manipulation and creative sound processing. With its dark, atmospheric qualities, Electromagnetic Drones is well-suited for horror, suspense, drama, sci-fi, and experimental sound design in film, television, and video games. Whether you need haunting ambiences, dystopian textures, or immersive low-frequency drones, this collection provides a rich sonic palette drawn from sounds of the electromagnetic world.
The Sci-Fi Collection contains 983+ sound effects from every sci-fi sound library that we have released so far. It features ambiences, drones, textures, swooshes / wooshes, impacts, glitches, sequences, and more. Royalty-free.
Included libraries:
Akelarre is a sound library inspired by folk and cosmic horror stories that provides a unique palette of cinematic dark soundscapes and sound effects. These wicked designed sounds are divided into categories such as scary creatures and monsters, eerie strings, mysterious drones, dark soundscapes and otherworldly SFX.
Most of the sound sources are field recording based and they have been designed through granular synthesis, convolution and plate reverbs, and other effects. The uncommon sounds that compose Akelarre offer an original sound library to use on your compositions and productions for film, games, music and anything in between.
All files contain extensive metadata following UCS (Universal Category System) with file description and keywords to help you quickly find the sounds. Metadata can be read and processed by the most common audio management tools. Compatibility with Windows + Mac. All files are .wav and compatible with all the main DAWs and video editing software.
Includes
• Scary Monsters/Creatures
• Uncanny Roars
• Creepy Spells
• Dark Ambiences
• Eerie Strings
• Crispy Metallic SFX
• Metallic Smashes
• Eerie Drones
• Spooky Birds
• Ice
• Wind
Created and Manufactured by Ana Quiroga
This collaboration of the sound designers Bony Stoev and Saro Sahihi is the long awaited successor and main chapter of “Surrounding Horror – Prologue”.
It brings you a comprehensive collection of thrilling, abstract horror ambience sound effects in 5.1 surround.
Each soundscape was painstakingly handcrafted to 2:30 minute length with lots of frightening and terrifying sonic events.
It gives your horror-related production just the right amount of heart-stopping texture, leaving your audience with fear crawling up their spines to hold ’em tight.
Also available: the “ANGST | Surrounding Horror – Construction Kit” (or get the Bundle).
Strange Game Ambient Loops library is a meticulously designed & game ready ambience loop library created to help you make stunning and immersive audio environments quickly. Great for horror, fantasy, adventure, 3D, 2D mobile app games, motion graphics, film and audio productions. With over 3 hours of game locations, tension, dark moods, you’ll be well equipped to create the perfect feel and soundscape that brings your production to life.
You can now create the perfect room tone and sound environment for your next sci-fi game, film, and audio productions. Sci-fi World: Colony is an ambience loop library inspired by the human race of award-winning game ‘Starcraft’.
This loop library includes over 119 location-specific ambience loops and loopable layers which gives you the ability to accent your ambiences with sounds like air burst, air leak, wind and more.
Library highlights:
• 26 ambiences loops like an alien cave, energy lab, hangar, sub bay & more
• 45 minimal version loops
• 48 loopable layer loops like bio lab, air bursts, wind, air leak
Gain a producer’s essential movie trailer sound effects library, BRAAAM Strike 2! This sound library gives you 100, high quality, professionally designed “braaam” sound FX. Explore the depths of deep cinematic synth bass impacts, stingers, and droning hits and add a larger than life sound to your audio projects.
Created by award-winning film composer, David Levy, Braaam Strike 2 is the sequel to the critically-acclaimed trailer sound effects library Braaam Strike 1.
Cause some serious sonic mayhem with Iconic Film Trailer, a modern & powerful curated collection of sought after epic movie trailer styled sound effects.
This sound library features over 290+ destructive impacts, stock punchy trailer hits, tense risers, suspenseful long form drones and loops, plus has a boat load of choice transitions, cinematic whooshes, braaams & more.
Essential Dynamic Drones is intended to be used in a more emotive sense. Some of the tracks are very ‘score’ like and may be able to stand on their own, while other darker, tonal tracks are great accompanied with a full SFX soundtrack behind it (them).
This isn’t a typical Drone library. These sounds, for the most part morph and change over time. Some rise, some fall, while others are constant and dark. Creating tension and uncertainty was the direction I was headed.
There are some ‘light-hearted‘ tracks that are intended to shape a more positive feeling, while the majority of the tracks are in a sense, denser, darker and more emotive, intending on creating uneasiness, uncertainty, and most definitely tension within a scene.
The Omen music pack is a collection of 15 seamless loops of dark fantasy music, perfect for dungeon-themed games. Each track features haunting melodies, eerie soundscapes, and ominous tones that will transport players to a world of danger and mystery. Some tracks include percussion, while others offer a version without for greater flexibility in gameplay. Whether exploring ancient ruins or battling fierce monsters, The Omen music pack will set the mood and enhance the immersive experience of any dungeon game.
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Make your battle scenes more intense with our action packed War Drums music loops pack! 10 tracks that loop seamlessly, and can be used individually or perhaps combined with your choice of music drones (where there is no obvious tempo to interfere with the tempo of the drum tracks). Perfect choice for fantasy RPG battle scenes, war preparation, boss fights, or any project where intensity is required.
Enhance your game with this Sci-Fi Menu Music Pack, featuring seamless loops designed for background ambiance in space-themed interfaces. Ideal for menus and GUIs, this collection offers immersive, ambient soundscapes that elevate the sci-fi experience. Perfect for creating a captivating and futuristic game atmosphere.
The Construction Kit for “ANGST | Surrounding Horror” also is part of the collaboration of sound designer Bony Stoevand Saro Sahihi.
Here you’ll find some of the designed layers that were used to craft the Surround Horror Soundscapes and many newly created layers of fear.
It’s a huge conglomeration of abstract, disturbing sound layers, which can be combined to countless variations or serve as inspiration for your own dreadful sonic nightmares.
It’s a mixture of 250 stereo and 110 surround, dry and wet, loopable sound elements, each with a duration of 0:45, 1:00 or 1:30 min.
To give you both flexibility and instant usability at hand.
It’s also available as a BUNDLE containing also the “Designed Soundscapes” and “Stereo Downmixes”
A massive electro-acoustic drone SFX library reft from a custom designed and hand-built instrument! These drones were coaxed from a unique instrument using the power of air. No harsh picking or plucking, just assorted techniques for moving air deftly across the strings.
The guitar, Yvaine, was recorded simultaneously via two tracks (one direct and another amped and mic’d) and was set to 23 different tunings to encompass the full spectrum of her voice, character, and soul. The tunings are as follows:
All5ths | B6th | Capo12th | CassianoPereiraViana | CrossnoteF | Cuba | DADGAD | DropB | Hawaiian | Koto | OpenA | OpenC | OpenD | OpenE | OpenF | OpenG | OpenPage | Orkney | Ostrich | Pentatonic | “Spira” | Standard | TheEdge
The files range from uber clean and harmonic to gritty, crackling, and distorted. For some of the overdriven amped recordings, we even experimented with creative NR settings for the modulation of artificial harmonics…and kept some of the more colorful results! Between the two different tracks, multiple takes were made per strength, per position, per recording. Depending on which takes were best, some of the DI and amped captures matched, while others were physically different. This offers unique layering capabilities for some sets while allowing for variety in others. Some of the sets are missing particular strength recordings at specific positions. But if a capture wasn’t appropriate, we didn’t include it.
This is a bountiful collection of droning goodness. Use it for good.
CATASHHH – Tonal ambiences from industrial labs
notes
Some time ago I was asked to record some interviews in a company where they perform tests, analyses and experiments on different products for the wood and furniture industry.
Being there I was captivated by all the sounds I heard in every single space I entered. Every time it was like discovering a new world.
Thus, I decided to record them.
Please, enjoy the sounds and feel free to get in touch with me for any feedback at [email protected]
tags
drones & moods, industrial environments, room tones, lab ambiences, testing machines, industrial robots, factory machines, industrial presses, hydraulic press, assembly line, industrial warehouses and factories, air conditioners, machines fans, air conditioning, heating fans, HVAC systems, box fans, ceiling fans, testing and analysis laboratories, interior perspective, laboratory ventilation, whistling and refrigerator buzzing, airy with rattling of vents or equipment
info
> tonal ambiences from industrial labs, sound patterns, room tones, tonal moods, industrial machines
> 32 sounds, 61 minutes total time running
> the number identifies the location, the letter identifies a position or a different time of the day
>all sounds recorded in a stereo ORTF configuration with Neumann KM140 (pair), Sound Devices Mixpre3, 96 kHz – 24 bit or MONO with Neumann KMR 82i
> UCS Metadata
This collection features 200 Fantasy sound effects. These sounds have been handpicked from the Sound Ideas Fantasy SFX series.
This collection features 200 Space Whooshes and Wind Science Fiction sound effects. These sounds have been hand-picked from the Sound Ideas HD – Space Whooshes and Winds library.
Looking for creepy ambiences? The Horrid delivers 4 dark ambient / industrial / horror compositions and their complete stem layers (22 files included – a total of more than 70 minutes of ambiences), for when you need to create a truly unsettling atmosphere.
Use a single track, or combine and remix your own variations. Rather than static tones, you will find significant, evolving themes here. Seamless loops, metadata included.
DRONEA gets you over 13 hours of drones, pads, underscores and atmospheres.
A collection of 238 drones, designed at 24-bit. Light to dark, clean to dirty, low to high, moving transitioning and pulsating. Many of these audio atmospheres were naturally processed by playback through a huge concrete tunnel and vintage guitar amplifiers.
All sounds were recorded or designed at 24-bit, 96 kHz, with embedded meta data.
The Isolated Ambience Loops sound effects loop library includes 99 haunting ambience loops, steady room tones, abstract loop-able soundscapes, ominous cinematic drones, game styled background loops as well as a variety of other modern ambiences that fit the dark ambient genre.
Save time and easily create background ambiences that set the tone in your production. 872.9MB of samples all royalty-free and ready to use in your next audio project.
Fantasy World Loops 2 is an all original, royalty free ambience loop library designed to help you create stunning and immersive audio environments quickly. Great for your fantasy adventure, 2D, 3D mobile app games, motion graphics, film, and audio productions. With over 1.5 hours of popular location sound loops, you’ll be well equipped to create the perfect mood and sound environments that bring your fantasy world to life!
Vaeyan IV delivers a massive set of assorted sound design ingredients for your audio alchemy. It includes assets captured from natural ambiances, vehicles, tools, cameras, slingshots, scissors, clay whistles, flutes, ceramic jars, dumpsters, kitchen appliances, deconstructed fans, toys, doors, windows, vintage furniture, fountains, projectors, and even a slap bracelet. That’s right, a slap bracelet.
As with Vaeyan I, II, and III, this is a huddling of field recordings and sound designs that do not quite form a library on their own. However, together they make up an audio FX treasure chest gleaming with gold and silver audio loot!
The “Abstract Ambiences” is a collaboration of SoundBits and Monte Sound.
This Library brings you the construction kit of the “Abstract Ambiences” Sound Effects Library to mix and match its stems as you wish, giving you maximum flexibility in post production.
Think of movies like “Alien”, “Event Horizon” “or games like “Dead Space”, “Doom” or “Bioshock”. But you will also get the right feel and idea for other disturbing-cyberpunk and unsettling industrial dark spaces.
A symbiosis of organic original field-recordings like Room Tones, Construction Sites, Traffic, Fun-Fair, Motors, … and synthetic elements like spectral- and granular synthesis.
Ethereal Risers!
Recorded using a contact mic, an electric guitar string, AND a pair of very blunt scissors!
Perfect for Sci-Fi and Horror projects OR for Cinematic Trailers!
Recorded and exported in 24/192Khz
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