The city of Paris becomes silent during a lockdown. A new auditory experience unfolds in this urban environment. Explore the night like you’ve never heard it before.
All files are embedded with extensive UCS compliant metadata.
This classic vehicle is drawn by two horses and produces mostly clank and rattle of wood and metal. You can also hear some leather creaks and the horses’ hooves and breaths. Occasionally the driver beatboxes some cues – clucking, smacking, monosyllables.
Some of the files contain solely the rattle of the rolling carriage but no horses – these can be used for sound designing any old vehicle on a bumpy road.
This selection of onboard sounds contains a variety of speeds, horse gaits and road surfaces. They have been recorded with the Sennheiser Ambeo VR Mic, and, simultaneously, with two stereo sets. For each recording you get 10 channels:
– ambiX B-format (4 channels)
– Stereo XY (Audio-Technica BP4025)
– Wide Stereo (DPA 4060) captured at the carriage’s chassis
– Stereo Mix of all of the above
The ambiX B-format files are ready to be encoded into all spatial sound setups: like 5.1, 7.1, 4.0, VR 360 degree experience, and more.
The library is UCS compliant.
The China Ambiences 1 Sound Library, a unique collection of sound recordings from the bustling cities of Beijing, Datong and Pingyao.
Over 2,5 hours of beautifully captured ambiences that are thoughtfully described with rich UCS compatible metadata.
The Foley Vault is home to an ever-growing collection of original Foley recordings.
Each library was captured by professional Foley Artists on our in-house Foley Stage using a Sennheiser MKH50 microphone.
These sounds were originally performed for a variety of feature and short film projects. They have now been compiled and released for you to edit and implement into your own film, game and television productions.
British Police Radio Vol. 1 contains futzed male police voices captured in our acoustically treated studio.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded performances of authentic British police dialogue covering a range of on-the-job scenarios: a hostage situation, burglary, car chase, suspicious vehicle and noise complaint. These were then recorded and designed into a collection of highly immersive sounds.
Use this library to capture the feeling of riding in a patrol car or being on-the-scene. The performances cover both low-intensity and high-intensity situations, so you can apply them to tense, action-packed sequences or more casual, day-to-day policing life. They can also be used to build up backgrounds or sweeten precinct scenes.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
A collection of scientific equipment sounds handled by experienced researchers. Includes sounds of liquid nitrogen canisters, centrifuges, photometers, pipettes, timers, freezers, and more.
Rain Bundle provides a wide range of high-quality rain recordings captured in rural and urban environments. By purchasing this bundle you will benefit of a 20% discount.
The Foley Vault is home to an ever-growing collection of original Foley recordings.
Each library was captured by professional Foley Artists on our in-house Foley Stage using a Sennheiser MKH50 microphone.
These sounds were originally performed for a variety of feature and short film projects. They have now been compiled and released for you to edit and implement into your own film, game and television productions.
There’s a lot of material here – recorded and organized with a sound editor’s sensibility.
The recordings started out by chance – I’d end up in protest situations, and happened to have a recorder with me. This year I was a little more proactive, especially for the rally in Washington Square Park after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade.
Also in this collection: A Downtown Brooklyn BLM march, A 2019 Foley Square rally in response to border camps/family separation, A UFT protest at City Hall, and a couple different mics on the jubilant reaction to Biden’s presidential win on the corner of Atlantic and Court in Brooklyn. There’s not much underpinning music or other legally difficult material, but there is some. I’ve chosen to leave it in, for the most part, as this is also a historical record.
Quite a few takes are very long, and encompass changing circumstances. I’ve opted to use WAV markers, which I’m also providing as “Notes” metadata – making phrases, cheers, and other things I’ve noted searchable and findable!
Everything is UCS complaint.
*Most material was recorded on a Sony PCM-100, and originated 96k/24bit; Some material was recorded with the Sennheiser Ambeo Headset, and was upsampled to 96k/24bit from 48k/24bit
The Foley Vault is home to an ever-growing collection of original Foley recordings.
Each library was captured by professional Foley Artists on our in-house Foley Stage using a Sennheiser MKH50 microphone.
These sounds were originally performed for a variety of feature and short film projects. They have now been compiled and released for you to edit and implement into your own film, game and television productions.
Step into a cosy, bustling environment, surrounded by some of the world’s greatest storytellers!
British Pubs Vol. 1 features ambient recordings of pubs in Northern England, encapsulating their quintessentially warm, inviting atmosphere.
Included in this library is walla of various-sized crowds at different times of day, underscored by the sounds of bar and kitchen activity, passing footsteps, clinking cutlery and the chime of glasses as people enjoy their well-earned drink.
Use these sounds to build candid backgrounds and ground your Film, TV and Game projects in British realism.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
UK Football Vol. 4 is the third in our series of candid UK football fan recordings. Crowd reactions and walla were captured during gameplay to bring you a selection of spectator sounds brimming with unique English personality!
This library comprises a variety of activity recorded by our Audio Craftsmen from the perspective of a large crowd in the stands (AKA bleachers). Inside you will find groans, “weeey”s, “awww”s, boos, clapping and much more! This collection of football fervour is ideal for TV, Film and game scenes requiring passionate voices and performances. Use it to embellish sport backgrounds or boost tension during on-screen competitions.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation, and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
‘GEIGER COUNTER’ by Flysound is a comprehensive sound catalog for a very unique piece of kit: a Soviet era radiation measurement device.
We have captured the different beat intensities of the machine, the strength of detection signalling, and other sounds such as on/off. We were able to capture the nozzle reacting to real radiation – minimal, but still significant enough to create great sound.
The 96kHz/24bit synced recordings bring the sound of atomic danger into the 21st century production values category. The metadata has been written to adhere to the Universal Category System.
Household Textures is all about those peculiar textures that we can obtain from an everyday object that is already in our place. These sounds can become a super useful source when it comes to sweetening your sound design workflow.
Hā luō China! Travel through Shanghai, Dali, Shangri-La; the cities, farms, temples and the grasslands. Authentic high-quality ambiences in 77 pristine files will serve as ideal background tracks. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
As hard as it is to capture all of China in one library, this one offers a pleasant natural feel from some of its landmarks.
You will get fine farm atmospheres with the lakes, farms, crickets, frogs, birdsong in Dali. Listen in awe to the monks singing and chanting in Buddhist temples in Shangri-la and stroll through the ancient town.
Get the gist of Shanghai in busy intersections, constructions, cafes, walla of basketball players at the park, old people playing mahjong, Pudong airport, subways, highways and rich walla. Find peace at the grasslands with strong atmospheric sounds of yaks, cows, bees, horses, birdsong, wind and rain.
This is the toolkit to create the perfect cinematic atmospheres, with or without being in the foreground. The length of the ambiences is mostly enough to meet your needs without loops. Some can be adapted to other urban or rural ambience needs. It gives you access to varying activity levels in close, medium, and distant perspectives.
Recorded in 24bit/96 kHz .wav, comes with intuitive naming and thorough metadata. Compatible with all DAWs, middleware, video editing tools and 100% royalty free.
This is Scotland!
Scotland Ambiences Vol. 1 contains both interior and exterior field recordings of walla (featuring Scottish accents), traffic, construction, parks, pubs, trains and train stations, and general city buzz of Scotland.
This library is ideal for building authentic and immersive backgrounds and atmospheres for your Film, TV and documentary productions.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation, and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
In this library you will find features recordings of outdoor ambiences captured in the peaceful location in Ludo in the middle of Ria Formosa.
Most of this protected area corresponds to the Ria Formosa lagoon system, a string of islands and sandy peninsulas that extend parallel to the coast, thus protecting a lagoon where a labyrinth of marshes, channels, mudflats and islets develops.
These sounds are perfect for background sound design in movies, games, documentaries, art installations, etc.
These sounds were all recorded with the stereo microphone Audio-Technica BP4025.
After working these sounds in post production, this library comes with 12 incredible nature ambient sounds.
Every sound designer’s worst nightmare fully realized in Ambisonics, Next Door Construction contains 10 long takes of drilling, hammering, polishing, occasional conversations, and thuds from a ground floor apartment undergoing heavy renovations.
These audio files are perfect for roomtone soundscapes containing construction work from neighbors or, with some clever tweaking, for simulating sounds from a nearby building to set the scene for any desired VR experience.
This sound library is available in both Ambisonics FuMa (B Format) and Stereo (Binaural) formats.
Balloon sound exploration from inflation, deflation, manipulation and destruction.
Sounds of air filling, tapping, pulling, stretching, air release with squeaking, flatulence and popping. Included are designed pitched down effects for that larger than life effect.
Nature’s Fury: Wind contains a variety of wind ambiences including some pretty heavy winds! There is wind in late-fall forests where you can hear branches hitting each other and leaves on the ground; high gusting winds roaring through trees and houses; whipping winds blowing through leafy trees and dry cattails; and even some interior perspective with wind whistling through a window seal.
GT Series Pass-By compiles over an hour of sports cars racing at a private event, resulting in minimal crowd conversations or unnecessary background noise. Recorded at two distinct locations, in this library, you’ll find long takes recorded at the finish line and at the tightest corner of this particular race track, resulting in plenty of engine revving and cars driving off into the distance, ideal for media scenes set in these settings, or for creative sound design purposes, as these takes were recorded only 5 meters from the vehicles themselves
This sound library is available in both Ambisonics FuMa (B Format) and Stereo (Binaural) formats.
List of vehicles included:
* BMW M2 CS RACING
* BMW 240i RC
* Ferrari 488 GT3
* Ferrari 488 GT3 EVO
* Ferrari 458 Challenge
* Ligier JSP3
* McLaren 720S GT3
* Mercedes-AMG GT3
* Mercedes-AMG GT4
* Porsche 991.2 GT3 Cup
* Porsche 992 Cup
* Porsche 981 Cayman GT4 CS
The KTM 1290 Super Duke R with its powerful sounding V-twin engine really shows the speed and torque this amazing bike brings. If a muscle car were a bike, it would sound like this KTM. It can reach a top speed of 290 km/h and can go from 0 to 100 km/h in 2.92 seconds.
Our sound pack contains multiple tracks of onboard and exterior recordings of passbys, start-stops, idle, revs, driving, constant loops at various RPM and acceleration and deceleration ramps for use in granular synthesis tools.
Specifications : 75° V-twin, 4-stroke, 1301cc, 177 HP, 6-speed.
Multiple mic perspectives
This sound pack includes 12 synchronized channels of exterior and onboard perspectives. The exterior recordings are mono and stereo, while the onboard microphones capture the engine and the exhaust perspectives. The library also includes a custom mix of onboard mics for an easy integration.
Gear used
Sound Devices MixPre-6 II • Zoom F6 • Zoom H6 • Neumann Kmr81i • LOM MikroUsi • LOM Usi Pro • Sennheiser MKH 8040 • Sennheiser MKH30 • Oktava MK012 • Shure SM57
Metadata
This sound library is UCS compliant and comes with fully embedded metadatas compatible with Soundly, Soundminer and Basehead.
The Water Emerge/Submerge Bundle contains our three libraries which feature the sound of a huge variety of props emerging from and submerging into water.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded props with an underwater-overwater microphone configuration comprising the Aquarian H2a Hydrophone and Sennheiser MKH50. Each library comes with both mic options available as separate files, providing limitless options for layering in your designs.
This massive collection of sounds is perfect for aquatic sound design and enhancing any of your water-themed sonic projects.
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/192kHz, and tagged with extensive Metadata.
For horror, chillers, and sci-fi thrillers, Carma Studio presents the killer Gore Library!
A collection of sensory horror sure to spice up all your graphic, cringe-worthy projects.
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.
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