Household Drones contains a large array of atmospheres conjured up from the most interesting household sources. There are a variety of tonalities included that blend seamlessly together, from the positive to the downright ominous.
All included sound effects are provided in 24bit 96kHz WAV, allowing for further manipulation. Each of the drones was derived from natural sources, organic textures that fit effortlessly into Film, TV and Game soundtracks (both in a musical and sound effects context). Use them in combination with background effects to create abstract and expansive soundscapes, or with instruments to add interesting atonal flourishes.
We have also included the source recordings to give users the opportunity to develop their own sonic experiments and provided extensive metadata to help with file searching.
‘Resonance’ by Badlands Sound features 25 resonating drone sounds perfect for your projects. This library puts a different twist on drones using reverbs and processing until the original sound resonates within a space or location creating these uncomfortable sounds.
We believe ‘Resonance’ will greatly benefit sound editors and sound designers to create stylized tension filled moments and upsetting nerving scenes.
This library consists of high quality designed sound effects that are individually designed, as well as tracks that are ‘plug and play’ ready to use with any type of media including, feature film, television, video games, podcasts, trailers and commercials.
It’s a well rounded toolkit with an array of choices to create exciting transitions, risers, stingers, impacts, etc. There are many different varieties of sounds to stack against each other, as well as use singularly.
The melding of varying elements are intended to stimulate and inspire through the psychology of dynamic sound. Everything from thundering low subsonic impacts to glissful angelic overtones. Many different types of Risers, Transitions and Stingers that withstand the demand for modern and unique sounds, of today’s Sound Designers and Editors.
Bells From Hell Vol. 1 is a collection of unnerving, tonal sounds designed from the reckoning tolls of bells.
A variation of chimes, bongs and rings from clock towers and church bells were first captured by Our Audio Craftsmen. Through an array of creative processes, they then manipulated these recordings to produce eerie, foreboding and unholy sounds with extensive dynamic range.
This kinetic library is bursting with dark atmosphere, making it perfect for horror and sci-fi projects that require a distinctly unsettling edge.
Sounds have been separated into the following categories:
Bells Of Infinity: Long, evolving, enormous sounds that immerse the listener in haunting tones.
Chaos Bells: Discordant, disharmonious, atonal chimes that hint at the uncanny.
Distorted Bells: Aggressive, heavy and distorted tolls that invoke fear and darkness in the listener’s heart.
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.
Bowed cymbals are one of those sound effects that just never get old.
Perhaps it's the chilling sound of bow on bronze that puts us on the edge of our seat that we love so much. Or maybe it's the hauntingly beautiful tones that ring from a large ride cymbal with a large bow.
• Harmonic Series Drones is an extension of several of my music compositions. Over the past few years, I’ve been very interested in data sonification, writing several pieces that turn real-time weather data into music. This library was created using a drone generator that turns weather data into sound. I built this drone generator for my piece Sitka for piano and seasonal electronics.
• Instead of pulling weather data from Sitka, Alaska, as I did in the piece, I used 2016 daily temperature data from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a fragile place wrapped up in current political drama and now open to drilling. This library is a sonification of 2016 temperature data in ANWR. The highest global temperature on record was recorded in 2016 (2016 Global Climate Report). It is even worse in the Arctic where temperatures are warming at twice the rate of lower latitudes (2016 Arctic Report Card). With this library, you’ll be able to hear the warming, and I hope this library helps to draw attention to the rapidly changing environment of the Arctic.
• Each of the forty-eight drones corresponds to the average temperature of a day in 2016, with twelve drones from each of the four seasons. The drones are built from pure tones made from tightly filtered pink noise. These pure tones are then stacked in harmonic series relationships. For instance, a winter drone might consist of the fundamental and four lowest partials. A summer drone could have the fundamental and partials seven, fourteen, and thirty-two.
• The drones stand on their own without the story. If you never knew they started with weather data, you would still find a variety of pure, rich, microtonal drones with enough variety to fit the mood of any project.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT:
• 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:
• All files are sample seamless loops. So, there are no fade-ins and outs and the files are ready for looping in any DAW.
• Consonant and dissonant drones
• Simple and complex drones
• Each of the 48 drones is between 1 and 1.5 minutes in duration
• Non-periodic undulating drones
• Each harmonic has a randomized gain, so the drones pulse non-periodically.
• Drones were made from tightly filter pink noise, so drones have a small amount of soothing and airy pink noise.
• Microtonal harmonic series relationships create beautiful beating between drone harmonics.
• All drones have a fundamental of G1 (49Hz). Transpose them as needed to fit any project.
• Partials are included in the metadata, for example, “fundamental_G1_harmonics_1_2_3_4_7_16”.
DATA SONIFICATION:
• Weather data included in the Soundminer Description and BWAV description fields.
• Temperature data was translated as a combination of lowest harmonic, number of harmonics, and highest harmonic.
• Generally, lower temperatures include bass harmonics and higher temperatures include treble harmonics. For example, the hottest day of the year only included harmonics 18 and 24.
• Location: weather data is from the NOAA station at Helmut Mountain, Alaska in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
SONIKSCAPE has been produced to create intense underscore, dark atmospheres and abstract textures.
This collection comes packed with cinematic soundscapes, vocal atmospheres, textures out of processed flutes, ghost breaths and vocal effects, dark low oscillations and subsonic frequencies, bowed cymbals, psychological screech and more.
Dedicated to the movie trailer, suspenseful film and television soundtrack, dark ambient music, audio-visual installation and sound artist.
Sonikscape is a collaboration between SampleTraxx and German sound designer Sebastian Emling who already collaborated on Cinematic Zither and Old Broken Piano.
Orbital Emitter proudly presents The Engine Room – a comprehensive sci-fi environment sound-set giving you a rich palette of sounds to design your own authentic sci-fi environments!Â
…In Science Fiction, interstellar vessels travel the galaxy at great speeds. In the heart of all these ships are massive engine rooms outputting incredible power… But what would such a space sound like? Read on for more! Â
The Engine Room sound-set contains 8 long playing audio-scenes and 29 isolated audio-stems which break down to a total of 78 sounds- which played in real time, is over 65 minutes of Royalty Free sci-fi sound! The 8 long playing audio-scenes capture this engine room environment in various states of activity, from average speeds to faster than light cruising speeds, then back down to average power output and there’s even a separate night shift scene which is relaxed and atmospheric. Two more scenes feature the sounds of a fusion reactor in different states of operation adding another rich group of sounds to this exciting sound-set!
Each scene plays in real time and is perfect for editors and sound editors who want convincing sound environments on the quick for their productions.Â
And for more creative control, our audio-stems offer the complete sound palette used in all the audio-scenes!
The 29 audio-stem files are listed below.
And many of our audio-stems files contain multiple versions of a title giving you nuanced control with those sounds. Some of the multi-version audio-stems feature different perspectives or feature different modes of a sound.
If we break down our audio-stems by category we have:
13 sub bass rumbles or low oscillating hums
15 complex textured events
7 layered atmospheresÂ
6 ascending engine risers
4 descending engine downers
5 explosive warp flash elements
8 pressurized valve releases
5 alert klaxons
7 mechanized processes
And the best part about our sound-sets is that they are so easy to use! Just drag and drop our stems or scenes into any DAW or NLE have fun creating your own fantastic environments! Orbital Emitter’s sound effects are designed to be at home in any motion picture, television show, video game or whatever sci-fi multimedia you wish to create!Â
The Engine Room Sound-Set is part of our Star Cruiser Environments Anthology Collection and delivers industry ready at 24 bit/48k WAV and each sound file contains simple meta-data to make our sound files easy to organize & find.
All of our sounds are 100% original, created in our sound-labs and designed to boldly explore the universe of sci-fi sound!
Thank you for reading and watch for more sci-fi sound from Orbital Emitter coming soon!
NDUSTRIAL TERROR – Textures is a third and the last installment of Industrial Terror series.
It is a collection of dark, industrial textures, evolving metallic whooshes and textural hits.
The collection consists of 66 carefully designed and rendered sound effects with baked-in Soundminer’s metadata.
All soundscapes/textures loop seamlessly for quick and painless game audio integration.
Unique processing of organic field recordings combined with modular processing makes it both grounded in reality and creepy.
This collection is a perfect choice for any kind of horror genre.
RECORDED WITH:Â Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Senhheiser MKH8060 + DPA 4060 CREATED AND EDITED WITH: Pro Tools, Live 10, Reaktor, EOS2, Eventide, iZotope, Discord4, Modular
Performed on a experimental, custom-built rig with intense manipulation of objects and tools on a bass guitar string, the Sonomar Collection: Bass Machine sound library features 720 abstract sound design elements to serve as your go-to solution for mysterious designs. Add an otherworldly layer of depth and emotion to your projects with swirling metallic feedback, tensions, eerie engine drones, and gritty metallic vibrations.
At over 15GB, Bass Machine delivers 70 raw sound files and 650 designed sound effects. Recorded with contact mics and guitar pickups at 192kHz, the raw sounds provide uniquely organic building blocks for processing and manipulation. The acoustic isolation and high resolution of each file makes these sounds incredibly flexible for editing and ripe for imaginative sound design. The collection’s designed sounds have been expertly sculpted, pitched, and processed at 96kHz using parts of the raw files. Use these as inspiration for your own design potential, or drop straight into your projects to instantly add expressive tension, harmonic activity, and compelling dimension.
As the first exclusive Sonomar Collection release from Pro Sound Effects, Bass Machine demonstrates the sonic curiosity of sound designer and recordist Martin Pinsonnault(Big Little Lies, Dallas Buyers Club) and the Sonomar team. Together they created the contraption, recorded and performed sounds over many hours of experimentation with the instrument, and then meticulously trimmed, designed, and organized the results for a truly generous and limitless sound library.
Each sound file is embedded with rich metadata to help you find the exact sound effect you need with fast, pinpoint search. Sustain creativity with characteristic descriptions of each recording encompassing both literal sonic qualities as well as the images they invoke. Advanced metadata fields include translated French descriptions and additional info to ensure compatibility across any database search platform such as Soundminer, BaseHead, Netmix, Workspace (Pro Tools), Find Tool (Media Composer), Media Bay (Nuendo), Reaper, Adobe Premiere, and beyond.
Sonomar Collection: Bass Machine is also included in Pro Sound Effects’Â CORE: Standard.
Key Features:
720 sound effects (15GB)
70 raw recordings at 192kHz
650 designed sounds at 96kHz
24-bit broadcast .wav files
Precise, imaginative, and comprehensive embedded metadata descriptions
Feedback Loops brings you a versatile pack full of different loops. In this pack you will find a plethora of analogue and digital sounds. By routing the output to the input of an analogue synth, our Audio Craftsmen were able to design a huge range of volatile feedback loops that continuously evolve over time. Digital synths were also used to create more complex sounds. They can be used for scenes involving live equipment and electricity. Their unique character allows for more complex sound design.Â
Our Audio Craftsmen have developed 3 different categories to be used individually, or as a basis for further sonic manipulation.
Sounds have been separated into the following categories:
Analogue:Â These feedback loops were created using an analogue synth to create more natural sounds.
Digital: These loops sound more harsh in comparison to the analogue sounds, and therefore are more complex
Simple: These loops don’t have any recorded manipulation so they can be used a low hums.
All sounds were recorded in 24Bit 96kHz, and have been tagged with extensive UCS metadata for ease of use.
No Input Feedbacks is a library of tones, drones, noises, and oddities generated with a matrix mixer and a series of guitar and bass stomp effects.
Gear Used:
Xiwi Electronics Passive Matrix Mixer, Electro-Harmonix Bass Big Muff Pi and Holy Stain, TC Electronic Flashback Mini Delay, Tech 21 SansAmp Bass Driver DI, Jim Dunlop MXR Auto Q, Moog Minifooger MF Ring, BBE Sonic Stomp Sonic Maximizer, TASCAM DR100-MKII.
Wind Sculpture is a Sound Effects Library with designed ambiences/drones/pads built from source recordings of the ‘Singing Ringing Tree’ located in Burnley, UK. The source recordings are also included and are provided in 24Bit 96kHz, allowing for further sonic manipulation.
Our Audio Craftsmen travelled to the top of the hills and braved the harsh, cold winds of the British countryside to capture the essence of this magnificent and ethereal singing metal structure. Not only have these sounds never been recorded and offered in an SFX library before, but our team have been the first to use them to create a set of designed ambiences, giving you some fresh material that can set your projects apart with exciting new tones and textures.
These effects are well suited to Film, TV and Video Game projects, particularly Drama, Horror and Sci-Fi genres where a otherworldly wind elements are often needed.
Bells From Hell Vol. 2 features even more designed bells – this time with a sci-fi synth flavour.
A collection of bell tones were captured in the field by Our Audio Craftsmen, who then applied unique methods of processing and manipulation to the raw recordings. The resulting sounds include modulated resonances, eerie distortions, alien screams, deep throbbing, metallic rings, harsh stingers, glitchy chimes and much more.
Use these intense, unnatural sounds to disturb the senses of your sci-fi and horror audiences.
Sounds have been separated into the following categories:
Aliens Bells:Â Otherworldly, indecipherable resonances produced by extra-terrestrial lifeforces.
Ambient Bells:Â Reverberant rings with a ghostly atmosphere.
Lo-Fi Bells:Â Distorted, musical hits filled with foreboding.
Sci-Fi Bells:Â Metallic echoes and tones of an infiltrated spaceship.
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.
Bloody Nightmare is a modern horror cinematic library aimed at the most cutting edge bone chilling productions out there.
Whether you work in sound design, as a composer, trailer editor or as an electronic musician, Bloody Nightmare is a valuable new wave of Horror sounds that will surely cause visceral moments of terror and dread!
Guitar Designed originated from source recordings of an expert guitarist playing a variety of articulations across the instrument. Our Audio Craftsmen used a variety of tools to then mangle, distort and transform these into ground-breaking, futuristic sonic elements.
This library includes everything from deep, hypnotic low drones to fast and reactive cinematic stingers, all designed from this players hand-crafted, custom shop instrument. Furthermore, we have also prepared a strong selection of accustomed guitar riffs, licks and phrases ready to be dropped into whatever project you wish!
All sounds were recorded and have been brought to you here at the music industry sample rate standard of 48kHz, and 24 bit-depth. Whether you’re working on your latest film, designing the soundscape for a video game or producing a great new track; this library has something for all.
The Cement Factory sound effects pack was recorded in a giant cement processing and rock crushing factory. It features perfectly looping ambiences that'll be sure to set a dark, industrial mood on anything that it's used on. Recorded with a Oktava MK 012 in MS Configuration.
The pack was recorded inside, outside and around various large machinery which gives you a lot of options when designing sounds with this pack. The sounds are also characteristically tonal and drone based and the ambiences are uninterrupted.
Sonic Warfare by Badlands Sound features 40 audio files organized in four different categories, including Deep Distortion, Glitch, Noise, and Scream – 10 audio files for each category. This is the best pack if you need all of the above noises!
I believe these sounds will greatly benefit sound editors and sound designers allowing them to skip through the process of either creating dark drones or painful high-pitch glitches. These sounds would also work perfectly in different styles of music including noise and dark industrial. All files are 96k / 24 bit, lasting one minute each.
Skillfully performed using glasses as instruments, Sonomar Collection: Crystal Sing features 46 clean, high quality recordings of ringing vibrations perfectly suited for your harmonic tonal needs. This unique collection contains sonorous ringing tones at various pitches as well as sharp squeaks and rubs. Use the raw recordings to add hypnotic resonant layers to your projects, or alter them to experience the depth of Crystal Sing’s harmonic range.
To capture these sounds, sound designer and recordist Martin Pinsonnault (Big Little Lies, Dallas Buyers Club) and the Sonomar team used six different types of glasses including Ricard, cognac and champagne flute glasses. The tonal vibrations created by rubbing a wet finger along the rim of the glass were recorded in 192kHz with MKH-8040 microphones in ORTF setup. Each glass produced its own pitch and tone dependent on its size, shape, and the amount of water added. The rich high frequency response and minimal noise make these clean harmonic tones ideal for pitching and processing.
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 translated French descriptions and additional info to ensure compatibility across any database search platform such as Soundminer, BaseHead, Netmix, Workspace (Pro Tools), Find Tool (Media Composer), Media Bay (Nuendo), Reaper, Adobe Premiere, and beyond.
Sonomar Collection: Crystal Sing is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Standard.
You would never guess these sounds are from an acoustic instrument…
Our Audio Craftsmen have used raw acoustic guitar recordings to design a variety of futuristic and horrifying sound effects including drones, stingers, risers and impacts.
Manipulate your audience’s emotions by creating creepy and uncomfortable atmospheres with this unique sound effects library!
These sounds have been separated into the following categories: Drones: 20 evolving atmospheres with a generous amount of low frequencies, perfect for designing science fiction and horror ambiences.
Impacts: 10 hits and impacts to make your audience jump, ideal for trailer sound design.
Riser & Transitions: 30 risers sound effects processed with various reverbs and delays to smoothly transition between scenes.
Stingers: 10 terrifying stingers to give goosebumps to your audience.
'Wobble' by Badlands Sound includes 30 high-quality unnerving wobbly drone sounds perfect for your projects. Each sound file is two minutes long with high quality 96k 24 bit including metadata.
Alien Atmospheres is a sound effects library that suggests alien presence, covering wildlife, weather, vehicles and ambiences.
These effects are perfect for use as backgrounds in sci-fi films, but can be used elsewhere.
We captured recordings at 4 exotic locations, layered tracks with analogue & digital synthesizers, human and animal voices to bring you 3GB of the most interesting sound effects.
With A Sound Effect, Asbjoern has created a web site where our international community can browse, learn, and share the vast fruits of our labors. Together we are accelerating the very real potential power of sound design as a recognized art form.
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.
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.
And in the process discovered libraries I never would have found otherwise. Great work! Keep it up!
David Farmer
Sound designer: Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit trilogies
We're always looking for new sounds to mangle, so when A Sound Effect had a holiday sale, I tried them out.
The purchase experience is really smooth and quick, and delivery is almost instant.
I'll definitely come back to them again in the future!
A Sound Effect is a wonderful resource for indie sound effects libraries. On top of that, it has some of the finest sound design, film and game audio interviews!
Zdravko Djordjevic
founder of The Audio Spotlight
I often need very specific types of sounds so I've become a big supporter of independent recorders.
Until now I've always had to go to their individual websites. Now I can find them all in one place.
Afghanistan
Ã…land Islands
Albania
Algeria
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola
Anguilla
Antarctica
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belau
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
British Indian Ocean Territory
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Colombia
Comoros
Congo (Brazzaville)
Congo (Kinshasa)
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Curaçao
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Falkland Islands
Fiji
Finland
France
French Polynesia
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Gibraltar
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guam
Guatemala
Guernsey
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Isle of Man
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Jersey
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macao
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Martinique
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Montserrat
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
Norfolk Island
North Korea
North Macedonia
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palestinian Territory
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Pitcairn
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
São Tomé and Príncipe
Saint Barthélemy
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin (Dutch part)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Korea
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tokelau
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom (UK)
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican
Venezuela
Vietnam
Virgin Islands (British)
Virgin Islands (US)
Western Sahara
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe
