In the summer of 2021 I spent about a month in Seattle and did a lot of field recording. One of the most successful sessions was a round trip to Winslow on the Washington State Ferry. The ship is huge and just about everything vibrates sympathetically with the engine pulse. This library includes all of those vibration recordings (Shock-mounted Sony PCM-100; 96k/24bit) To keep things interesting, and somewhat on point, I’ve scoured my personal library for other unique sounds – real and synthetic – which I’ve gathered or created over 30+ years that have some sort of vibration (or vibration-adjacent) element. I was pretty liberal in how I defined it: Quantum foam (Organic or Performed) The result is an eclectic mix – vibration being the through-line.
All sounds have UCS compliant metadata.
87 files • 96 kHz/32 Bit • 2.92Go • 42:47 mins
The trees that were cut on the recording of the Lumberjack library have been meticulously chosen because they were sick or to give space for other trees to grow better, to preserve the health of the forest.
On the bundle you can hear Chainsaw motor, cranking, starting, cutting and stopping.
And of course, it also contains multiple trees cracking, breaking, falling and impacting the ground.
We used several perspectives and microphones to bring many tones and make each file unique.
The bundle includes 87 files recorded at 96khz – 32bits for a total of 2.92Go.
Each sound has been recorded with high-quality equipment and meticulously edited individually.
Delivered in Broadcast Wave files, all embedded with metadata informations for easy import and ensure fast and easy workflow.
Respecting all complaints from the UCS system.
Do you need to break something? Game Breakables includes over 530+ designed game sound effects for all those moments where things need to break & shatter. It houses a curated selection of highly practical audio assets that will fill out almost any type of game where collecting, crafting, building, demolition, breaking is needed. Inspired by games such as Angry Birds, Bejeweled, and Temple Run, the Game Breakables sound pack won’t let you down & covers an extensive range of realistic & highly processed sounds in the form of wood, metal, ice, rock, ceramics, magic as well as other popular destruction sound effects types.
Metal can be very tonal and used as an muscial instrument. For this library I used different metalic object and hit them, rubbed them, stressed them, bowed them, plucked them or made them spin.
Among the objects that I worked with were steel wires, iron gates, a saw blade, daggers, cloth stands, aluminium boxes, bells, humming top and much more.
You can hear the metal shring, clang, groan, purr, scream, squeak, scratch, doing, pling, wronk, bang, moo and sing.
The inital idea for this library evolved from a sound art object in Essen, a big hollow tree trunk with some iron strings on the back. I played it many times when walking past it and eventually started a decent recording session.
The sounds can be used to sonify bending iron gates, bridges or other objects but also as samples for producing music. Both tonal or percussive. Lots of them are also very expressive and can be used as a layer in voice design for creatures, monsters, dinosaurs or other giant living beings.
And of course if you want to add character to any weapon (from sword to gun), a tonal element can give it a unique and recognizable audio mark.
Most recordings were made with multiple mics, with one mic being the Earthworks QTC50, catching high frequencies and making the sfx perfect for pitching down fun.
Other mics: Neumann 81i, Schoeps MK41, Shertler Contact, Lewitt 540s, SM57
The Psychedelic Cicadas Bundle contains all three libraries of our unique cicada ambiences. Immerse your audiences in the strange, fascinating tones of this unusual insect, as captured by César Rodriguez Pulido and Guile Martins in Cerrado, Brazil. The bundle offers 165 minutes and 2.77 GB of exclusive content perfect for your natural and abstract atmosphere designs.
All sounds included were carefully captured and meticulously edited for maximum sonic quality, enabling to you drop each sample into your projects with no need for further enhancement or modification.
The entire bundle is delivered at 24Bit/48kHz, and tagged with extensive Metadata.
Warm Countryside is a collection of countryside recordings taken from late April until early September across several locations of Spain.
This library features recordings of vehicle pass bys on bumpy road surfaces, more specify, bridge joints.
There are compact vehicles which give smooth, clean yet robust whooshes. In contrast, heavy vehicles, likes trucks and trailers, give bold, intense clanging and rattling sound. These characterful pass bys, whooshes, are perfect raw material for further cinematic sound design, for example, trailer hits, transitions and more.
Content:
Location A consists of:
26x Compact Car Pass By
13x Multiple Vehicle Pass By
22x Truck Pass By
Location B consists of:
15x Light Truck Pass By
23x Medium Truck Pass By
26x Heavy Truck Pass By
Male Fighting (Vocals)
Expertly crafted Male fighting Vocals to make sure your project packs a punch!
Including:
Male Attacking
Male Fighting
Male grunts
Make attacked/ punched sounds
Male Pain sounds
and War cries
each with 3 different pitches for deeper pitched, averaged pitch and higher pitched Men.
all individual and edited so they can be used easily and effectively
Recorded and exported in 24/192khz so can be modified to suite your project.
Perfect for all forms of projects.
The Air Designed Library is filled with sounds specifically manipulated by our Audio Craftsmen to simulate various aircraft noises. Some of the sounds include; engine whistles, rumbles, thrusters and much, much more. Perfect for Action & Sci-Fi set pieces, this Library can not only be used for aircrafts, but it can also be used in various other scenarios like; air conditioning, explosions and time manipulation to mention a few.
Public Spaces France is a library of high quality backgrounds, sweeteners and walla, all recorded over several years on the city streets of France.
Cafe culture, city nightlife, metro lines, rooftops, alleyways, markets, parks and town squares; the library captures a wide range of city environments at varying times of day and season.
Real French walla with discernible speech removed, creating flexible recordings that can fit a wide range of projects.
With recordings from Paris, Toulouse and Annecy, this library offers new environments, carefully selected for their quality and utility in post production.
In the heart of the Pacific Northwest, Washington State is full of natural beauty found in many different climate zones all within a day’s drive from Seattle.
Low-price. High-quality. Essential.
A collection of 50 remote-controlled car sounds, including travel loops, revvings, starts, stops, wheels turning and jamming errors.
The sounds are fully compatible with the Universal Category System (UCS) – a public domain initiative establishing a standardized category list for the classification of sound effects.
Note: All of these sounds (and more!) are included in the 96 General Library (get 3,000+ SFX for FREE!)
‘Geese‘ contains a massive array of wild bird sound effects recorded from various canals, rivers, reservoirs and lakes. We are the first in the world to release a nature library with a specific, extensive collection of Goose sounds, which includes flapping wings, fighting, footsteps, paddling, swimming and jumping into water, eating various types of foods, a wide array of vocalisations including groups(gaggles), pairs, individuals and much, much more.
Our Audio Craftsmen meticulously planned our field recording sessions considering time of day, weather conditions and different locations aiming to capture the full range of behaviour these animals display on a daily basis. We visited a variety of spots and spent time learning the behaviours of Geese, allowing us to capture their reactions as both individuals and groups of varying size. We recorded sounds during a variety of scenarios including eating food, fighting each other, and encountering ducks/other water birds. The huge difference in personalities between these birds allowed us to capture distinct vocalisations made while being fed, acting calm, aggressive or being threatened by rivals to their territory (even making sounds that could be mistaken for a dog, chicken or dinosaur!).
We also recorded sounds from different perspectives which include tunnels (both inside and from a far), a gaggle of Geese approaching from a distance, fighting, flying and swimming by as well as close up sounds of eating, pecking and more.
Moreover, all the sounds provided are dry in 192kHz 24Bit. Allowing for uses varying from nature documentaries through to excellent source sounds for creature and vocal design.
River flows recorded in Ambisonic, near, mid, far field/distance, soundscapes nearby the river.
tech note:
Ambisonic recording (3D audio, VR360 audio) – Immersive Audio, Spatial audio;
Recorded with Sennheiser Ambeo VR microphone (tripod, Rycote blimp/windjammer included) and Sound Devices recorder. All channels matched with pink noise generator.
Stereo files rendered via Reaper/Ambeo (Sennheiser), A to B format converter (Ambix) and they are ready to use.
RAW files are 4 Ch. original Sound Devices files (A format). You can import them to Reaper and with Sennheiser Ambeo plugin
 here is free download link:
https://en-us.sennheiser.com/ambeo-abconverter
you can then manipulate in 360º audio image to get sound image/source to your taste/need/application.
709 files • 32 Bit / 96 kHz • 1.37Go • 33:06 mins
Cardboard and Paper is a library with a diversity of different Books, magazines, Leaflets, Posters, maps, Little, medium and large cardboard box. The bundle includes 709 files recorded at 96khz – 24bits.
It’s a package of Manipulation of paper and cardboard. Open, Close, Page Turn, Cracking paper, Flap, page, Book impact, Crumbling paper and cardboard, Tearing and cutting.
All that you need to add and paper texture.
Each sound has been meticulously edited individually, All files were recorded and are delivered in 24bit 96kHz Broadcast Wave files, all embedded with metadata information for easy import and ensure fast and easy workflow.
Historic pistol library featuring original mono, stereo and 5.1 recordings of Foley and firing from an 1851 Navy Colt, designed effects and an antique pistol Foley collection from a WWII Webley Colt.
The 1851 model Navy Colt is an iconic six shooter pistol firing a .38 black powder cartridge. This Colt pistol was a favourite side iron of law makers and law breakers in the 1800’s wild west era of the United States. The Navy Colt was also extensively used by the British Army, Confederate States, Ottoman Empire, Dutch Empire, Russian Empire and the French Foreign Legion from its release in 1851 through to the early 1900s.
This library features 29 channel HD recordings, spread over a 250m private gun range. The recordings have been provided without dynamic processing at 96KHz 24bit, a selection of the range recordings and Foley is also included at 192KHz 32bit.
The 5.1 recordings give an excellent sense of depth and space across the 250m range as each of the shots are fired. Stereo and mono microphone positions add further detail, spread out at various distances between 1-50m away from the shooter.
The collection features designed and mixed sound effects from the black powder Colt pistol alongside all of the original recordings used.
In addition to a full workup and mixed sound set of this antique Colt pistol, the library also includes a further extension to the Foley with recordings from a WWII Webley Colt, which is a 1900s era reproduction of the same design pistol.
A Pro Tools session is included (2020.3) that takes all the effort out of arranging the content for mixing. You can drop in your own routing, processing and mixing touches according to taste and quickly establish a new sound set for the picture or video game you are working with.
Excavator Sounds is a library of a recording session during excavation work at home This bundle contains an overall recording of the work done by the excavator and many close microphones take about the Bucket scratching, pouring and digging earth and rocks, The Boom/Stick hydraulic movements, the engine idle, revs, start and stop and the squeaky metal Track rolling on the ground. The bundle includes 100 files recorded in Stereo at 96khz – 32 bits. A great tool to have for any audio production.
Excavator Sounds is a library of a recording session during excavation work at home This bundle contains an overall recording of the work done by the excavator and many close microphones take about the Bucket scratching, pouring and digging earth and rocks, The Boom/Stick hydraulic movements, the engine idle, revs, start and stop and the squeaky metal Track rolling on the ground. The bundle includes 100 files recorded in Stereo at 96khz – 32 bits. A great tool to have for any audio production.
Each sound has been meticulously edited individually. All files were recorded and are delivered in 24bit 96kHz Broadcast Wave files, all embedded with metadata information for easy import and ensure fast and easy workflow.
SKATEBOARDING SOUND FX – POPS, GRINDS, SLIDES AND MORE
The skate park: skateboarders busting pops, grinds, and slides, while others take pictures of the scene or just hang out and have a good time. We’ve focused this collection on capturing all the noisy excitement. This pack is crammed with genuine audio atmospheres and radical FX – from WHEEL ROLLS and OBSTACLE IMPACTS to BOARD HANDLING and BAILING. Need some realism to your skate park scene or game? Look no further.
“The Shoe Collection: Soft Hardwood – 3 Inch Heel“ by Periscope Post & Audio, provides 22 high quality footsteps files on soft hardwood floors with the 3 inch heel. The audio files are recorded at 24bit, 192k with mono and stereo recordings. The Sennheiser MKH-60 was used for the mono files with a slightly more distant mic placement than the stereo files, which were recorded with the Sennheiser MKH8050 and the Sennheiser MKH-30 near the shoe. From different walking speeds, to jogging, sprinting, jumping, hard stops, scuffs, and more! There are several performances with each file to fit the right action you need. That’s a whopping 468 footsteps between the mono and stereo files!
These sound files are also UCS metadata tagged
This library features 11 beautiful tracks in ambisonic format, 48Khz and 24 bits HD, with recordings of dune and desert wind, desert atmosphere, insects, distant waves, silent deserts & more captured in Namibian deserts. As always, top quality recordings specially designed for film audio projects.
Recorded by sound mixer and designer Jose Luis Alcaine Bartolome., and as always, decoded and mixed in Dolby ATMOS at AdHoc Studios.
Once again, we have mastered all the files in Ad Hoc Studios Madrid (link), Post Production sound studios certified by Avid and Dolby ATMOS, one of the best post-production facilities in Spain.
Suburbs of Chicago: Woods is the 6th in the Suburbs of Chicago Series. This pack takes us deep into another suburban forest preserve. This one drapes the sky in tall trees, providing shade and plenty of trails to walk through. Watch out for small critters jumping around as one recording in this pack caught a squirrel hopping through tall grass and weeds. There are plenty of grass and leaves rustles along with bird chirps. There is also a recording over 10 minutes at the intersection, filled with passing and idle vehicles, right out side the wooded forest preserve. Recorded at 24 bit, 192 kHz using the Sennheiser MKH8050 and MKH30 into a Sound Devices Mix Pre-6.
Over an hour and a half of recordings, all metadata tagged and updated using the Universal Category System in Soundminer, Basehead, and Soundly. As in the all the other packs in this series, you will hear distant traffic and planes throughout.
Khao Sok jungle is a unique collection of 30 sounds from Khao Sok national park in south Thailand.
This natural reserve is the oldest evergreen rainforest of the world, it contains more than 1,500 species of tree and plants and over five percent of the world's animal species.
All these sounds has been recorded and produced with high quality equipment and a lot of patience.
In addition to that, 2 bonus tracks from the Mekong delta are included to this library for free.
This library provides authentic and interesting sounds of wild nature, caught with DPA and MBHO mics powered by an Aeta 4minX at 24/96Khz in multichannel.
All Faunethic tracks includes metadata carefully edited, compatible with Soundminer, Soundly and Basehead.
Ambiences recorded during the month of March 2017 throughout a 3 weeks trip dedicated to the sonic capture.
The library comprises all aspects of the mainland Ecuadorian life, with the 3 geographical tropes: the coast, the highlands (Sierra) and the jungle (Oriente), along with diverse urban settings (in the capital city Quito, and in diverse town size, coastal, Andean and Amazonian)
The itinerary on Polar Steps:
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