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A special collection of snow and ice sound effects, winter ambiences and cold environments
Moscow, Russia in winter and spring time
Streets, covered with melting snow; people, hurrying with their business; street, cleaning from ice; whistling wet traffic; quiet and loud residential neighborhoods; children playing in the snow; windy parks; cold nights and, then, saving spring; water, dropping from the roofs; singing birds and babbling brooks.
How to convey these things without violating their nature?
One of the ways is a stealth binaural recording using miniature microphones DPA 4060. It gave the sense of naturalness and created a presence effect, that you wouldn’t find in any other library about Russia.
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Need the sounds of a snowmobile / snow scooter? The Ski-doo library gets you the sound of no less than 6 different snowmobiles. It comes with a selection of sounds such as engine start, engine loop, acceleration, speed loop and much more.
A unique collection of engine sounds, for when you need snowmobile sounds specifically, as well as for other creative sound design purposes!
• 1977 El Tigre 5000
• 1978 Yamaha ET250
• 1979 Yamaha ET250
• 2003 Bombardier MXZ 600
• 2003 Bombardier Rotax 800RS
• 2004 Bombardier Arctic 4
Prepare for shivers! Frozen Footsteps is a huge library of winter footstep & foley sounds recorded on 8 expressive and cold surfaces in real -20 °C (and below) temperatures.
Containing over 2400 sounds in 81 files, Frozen Footsteps foley sfx library is created for game and film sound design. If your game needs winter footstep sounds, or you are missing some authentic source material to take your studio foley tracks to the next level, this is the library for you.
All surfaces were recorded in real movement with multiple walking and running velocities. Frozen Footsteps library includes also real jumping and landings sounds. Jumping sounds are often missing from other foley libraries, but are extremely useful for creating character movement sounds for games. This package gets you covered.
7 surfaces were recorded during two freezing winter nights in a quiet rural area in Finland. Everything from ground to trees was totally frozen and covered in frost. However, snow hadn’t fallen yet. This special moment allowed recording footsteps on unique surfaces that are usually under snowpack. To make the package complete, the frozen snow sounds were recorded later, with real crusty snow. In freezing temperatures, as well.
All sounds were carefully edited in iZotope RX and Pro Tools 12 removing the background and clothing noise. This was quite a task, but it was worth it. This makes the sounds extremely clear, versatile, and easy to use.
Library highlights:- 8 frozen surfaces
– 2400+ sounds in 81 sound clips
– Sneak, walk, run, jump, slide, scuffs, and more
– 96 kHz, 24-bit stereo WAV files
– 1.20 GB
– Carefully edited & noise-free
– Soundminer & BWAV metadata
The next stop in our sound journey is Prague, Czech Republic
This old city of beautiful churches, narrow streets, ringing trams, echoey squares, cobblestones and bridges has an incredibly attractive atmosphere. And we, as always, will not disturb this natural environment and capture it with stealth recording using DPA 4060 mics.
Take the chance and dive into the attractive sonic atmospheres of Eastern Europe!
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This library is ideal for anyone looking for sounds of skiing, snowboarding or a ski resort, whether on the slopes, facilities or surrounding towns. We have put together a diverse mix of sounds to make sure you have coverage of all the different elements you might need in a ski resort environment.
For the slopes you will find things like passing by skiers/boarders, sitting on lifts, lift rollers, and of course lots of detailed skiing and snowboarding both on-board and off-board, carving turns, hard stops, etc. (not all snow is the same so we have recorded in different consistencies of snow). For specific sounds there are snowmobiles, dog sleighs, and closeups of sounds of bindings, sticks, putting on gear, crunchings, amongst others. And for environments you will find things like lift station backgrounds, small ski town, mountain restaurants, and terraces.
49 unique winter sounds with over 55 minutes of playtime – including sounds such as footsteps, wind, winter sports and many other like glacier sounds or flowing stream in the snow. The library is perfectly suited for post production, audio books, radio broadcasts and other audio channels. All sounds are in WAV, 24 bit & 96 kHz and include metadata.
Our planet has a fascinating sonic spectrum, and every season, nature offers us an impressive and unique sound composition. We have recorded the most interesting and iconic landscapes the only way that truly reflects the sonic character of earth as precisely as possible: Using the unparalleled Schoeps ORTF3D Surround Set. Harness these first-rate sounds to shape your projects in the most authentic and multi-faceted way possible, from the ground up in 3D Surround or Stereo.
As the sun retreats to lend vast landscapes their spectacular appearance, an equally astounding sonic world emerges.
Now available in immersive 3D Surround.
Four types of heavy, howling, whistling wind with gusts and slowly evolving intensity. Type 4 has some otherworldly and alien character. Lots of variations with around 88 recording time of howling winds. Could be used to recreate wind gusts, hurricanes, typhoons, high altitude or winter atmospheres. To have even heavier sound try to pitch it down a bit.
This library contains high adrenaline sounds of Snowboarding and Ski. You will find quality and detail in each recording. This library was designed to add production value to extreme sports videos.
Sounds from a town covered in fresh snow
I woke up on Sunday morning here in England and pulled back the curtains to see a town covered in snow. So I got my winter clothes on, grabbed my digital recorder and spent the whole day in the town, recording all the snowy wintry sounds I could find. This pack is the results. The pack consists of some general ambiences, some snowball hits, footsteps, ice in a barrel being chipped, a snowball fight, cars driving and struggling in the snow and much more.
There are WAVS and MP3s supplied.
Winter Parks by Badlands Sound features 31 ambiences of parks in or near the city recorded during the winter months. These sounds are three minutes long and are loopable allowing for easy editing while cutting ambiences for the projects you are working on. This was recorded in 96k / 24 bit with high level professional gear: Sound Devices 702t, a pair of Sennheiser MKH 8040’s and a Rycote in ORTF configuration.
Get ready to hit the slopes with this wintery gem of a sound library!
Taken from many trips up and down the slopes in Upstate New York, this library gives you in your face gliding swishes, crunching carves, turns, stops, passbys from the left and right, falls, jumps, landings, poles poking and scraping the snow, chairlift machine sounds, bindings, and more!
If you need authentic skiing sounds this library has you covered. Whether you need to create loops and insert carves in a video game or film project or if you need lengthy recordings of full trips from the top of the mountain to the bottom this library will give you it all. Enjoy Downhill Skiing!
Winter in the City features 60 beautifully and professionally recorded ambient sounds of Toronto, Canada, all recorded over the course of 4 winters, 2016 through 2020. All files are mastered in Pro Tools Ultimate and meticulously categorized in Basehead Ultra 2020 and is Universal Category System compliant. They are all checked for phase coherency.
This album features winter city airs recorded around the city in the morning, day, evening, night and vary late night.
Many tracks were recorded in parks, quiet residential streets, downtown core, downtown roof tops, the lakeshore, city squares, and parking lots. These recordings were recorded in sub-freezing temperatures so they don’t have birds or insects and are great for general air fillers and quiet scenes. The album includes Omni Spaced Pair (A/B), ORTF, MS, and XY polar patterns.
Also featured are market places, traffic driving through snow and slush, hockey being played in the park, various activities with people, and winter winds.
Please visit www.TexturesSound.com for more info
Bob Skeleton library delivers exciting action sounds of Two Men Bob and Skeleton heroes that go down the track with more than 100 kilometers/hour.
The sounds of this library were taken from 9 spots along a track in Altenberg in the south of Germany. Each take is sorted and meta-tagged by recording spot and with this content you are able to assemble a complete run from start to finish or even to extend it by easily combining start sceneries, energetic passes in different speeds and noisy brakings down in the valley.
Furthermore Bob Skeleton´s content is an inspiring resource for sound mangling experiments and artificial foley design.
Flysound presents, for the holiday season, a joyful, enchanting library of all the essential sounds of winter magic. The literal jingle of bells, and other blessed chimes; the clinking of glasses and the popping of bottles of champagne. These are the sounds of Christmas, Hanukkah, and a very special New Year’s Eve and beyond.
Flysound is proud of the work it has done in this challenging year, and we are happy to face the coming new one, with the people we love and care for, and with the colleagues we respect and cherish. So here we present a celebratory collection of triumphant professional sounds, to stimulate the holiday mood and to joyously ring in the New Year. Cheers!
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• In Pacific Northwest: Quiet Nature 2, get a collection of ambiences with sparse flora and fauna from the Eastern Cascades, Washington. Hear playful croaks of a ravens perched in snow-capped canopies. Hear the counterpoint of nature’s cellos as Great Horned owls sing haunting duets. Hear the hungry knocking of woodpeckers pecking to find their dinner and the majestic sparseness of winter forests empty of all but a few species of wildlife.
• This library offers you an extensive collection of ambiences with sparse flora and fauna of winter in a coniferous forest. I hope you enjoy the sparse wildlife of this winter wonderland.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased to offset my field recording travel for this library.
Icy Snow 2 HD is a followup to Icy Snow HD. This collection contains even more icy snow cracks, impacts, scrapes, debris and footsteps. The weather produced a foot of snow covered in a 1/2 inch of ice. Pretty unique sounds! And it comes in two formats: “Individual Clips” & “Consolidated Tracks”.
Introducing the world’s first snowball impact sound effect library:
In the winter of 2014 in Northern Finland, SFX creator Pasi Pitkänen threw over 250 snowballs onto thirteen different surfaces with a lot of variations. This collection has everything you need to recreate that snowball fight scene in your project or if you are just looking for some nice textures to enrich your impact sounds.
You get the sounds in two formats: 96 KHz 24 bit and in 44.1 KHz 16 bit, for more convenient ways of utilizing the sounds in games and other media.
The SKI RIDE sound effects library is a comprehensive collection of audio recordings that capture the various sounds associated with skiing. This library includes a wide range of ski sounds, recorded on the Italian Alps in the 2023.
The collection features recordings of skiers carving turns on groomed trails, as well as sounds of off-piste skiing through fresh powder and pass bys on the ski slopes.
In addition to the sounds of skiing, this library includes recordings of ski equipment like ski poles, ski boots, ski binding, ski gloves, ski jacket, backpacker, foley sounds like ski boots footsteps and ambience tracks like chair lift and ski lift stations.
All of the recordings in this library are of high quality and have been carefully edited and mastered to ensure they are ready for use in a variety of audio projects, including films, television shows, video games and podcasts. Whether you are creating a documentary about skiing or a commercial for a ski resort, the SKI RIDE sound effects library has everything you need to bring your project to life.
All the files are 24 Bit, 192 Khz, extensive embedded metadata and categorized with the Universal Category System (UCS).
Sound library full of winter soundscapes, ambiences and textures recorded in pristine nature and in urban environment.
Here you can find (separated in folders by the character) following sounds:
Sounds of snow: falling,… from trees, roof tops, blizzard, melting snow, road covered with snow blanket-traffic, etc.
Sounds of ice: cracking of the ice, ice on frozen lake cracking, ice blocks flowing on stream, etc.
Sounds of winter soundscapes: wind in background, distant village etc.
Sounds of mountain climbing in winter: snow, ice, ice axes and climbing tools and equipment.
Sounds of wind: wind in background, wind in trees, dead lives, blizzard, wind in dead winter grass, etc.
Sounds of winter Foley: walking on snow, ice, ice mountain slope, walking/moving in deep snow, running on snow etc.
And some urban sounds in winter/snow conditions.
All recordings are birds free (except those few with birds recorded intentionally) and free of (air) traffic sounds.
Recorded with pro grade recording equipment, in high resolution/sampling rate. Long recordings. Metadata tagged with detailed description of equipment and object of recording.
These are RAW files. Without any dynamic manipulation (compressors/limiters etc.). Maximum peak level is -5 dBFS .
Gear Used: Sennheiser MKH 60/30, 40/30; AKG C391b/Ck94; LOM Usi ; Primo mics…, Sound Devices 744T Recorder and Sound Devices Mix Pre field mixer (Lundahl input transformers), Sony PCM M10, Rycote blimps and windjammers, Manfrotto and Triton tripods, Mogami cables and Neutrik XLRs…
A sound library powered by Earth’s molten interior
This library contains boiling mud pits, blasting steam vents, a geothermal power station and delicate trickles of running water all recorded from multiple perspectives. The library was edited down to be compact with the game audio designer in mind. The recordings were captured with Sennheiser MKH8040s and a MKH8060 so both stereo ORTF and a more direct mono image are available.
When snow has fallen on the ground, but time, cars and temperature have made it half melted, it has transformed to ‘slush’, making this distinctive sound when cars pass by.
This Car on Slush sound library is a small collection of cars passing by on slushy roads. As a bonus you will find 2 long ambiences of snowy streets.
The gondolas lifts of Whistler are one of the most wonderful machinery pieces made by man to move them around the mountains.
This Sound Effects Library recorded the sounds of these unique vehicles during wintertime. The library shows multiple gondola perspectives, from its interiors to many Pass bys, and P.O.V’s of the cables that suspend this huge lifts. You will find different sizes and kinds of gondolas. Enjoy them and enjoy the experience of sound
Get ready to shred with this wintery gem of a sound library!
Taken from many trips up and down the slopes in Upstate New York, this library gives you in your face gliding swishes, crunching carves, turns, stops, passbys from the left and right, falls, jumps, landings, chairlift machine sounds, bindings, and more!
If you need authentic snowboarding sounds this library has you covered. Whether you need to create loops and insert carves in a video game or film project or if you need lengthy recordings of full trips from the top of the mountain to the bottom this library will give you it all. Enjoy the Snowboarding sound library!
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