Lake District Ambiences comprises a variety of atmospheres and spot effects captured in the Lake Distract National Park. The District is located in the North West of England, UK, and attracts visitors from all over the world with its rural sights and sounds.
This compact collection includes both interior and exterior ambiences featuring wildlife and people. Birdsongs, sheep calls, geese, water splashes, row boat creaks, arcade games, streams, wing flaps, children playing, marina dock crowds (and more!) provide background options for a varied mix of scene types – from peaceful, rural settings to hubbubs of noise.
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.
Nature’s Fury: Rain is a collection of a wide variety of rain on various surfaces: light, heavy, splatty and more!
This portion of the library contains light, medium, and heavy rain. There are even tracks labeled “splatty” for locations where the water built up on roofs or in trees and caused a cacophony of splat sounds.
Jump scares Vol. 2 contains 101 terrifying sound effects, featuring blood boilers, hair raisers, skin crawlers and heart stoppers and disturbing synths guaranteed to make your audience leap from their seats.
Our Audio Craftsmen have hand made each sound effect with multiple layers to bring you a truly blood-curdling experience. From analogue synth manipulations to heavily distorted violins – each and every one of these atmospheric impacts will bring you a distinct, gruesome flavour to your next horror project.
Sounds have been separated into the following categories:
Blood Boilers: 20 disturbing scares made by pushing distortion plugins to their maximum limits.
Hair Raisers: 20 horrifying impacts designed to elicit a physical reaction from your audiences.
Disturbing Synths: 21 disorienting sounds built from manipulations of analogue synth recordings.
Skin Crawlers: 20 atmospheric horror sounds perfect for triggering fight or flight systems in your viewers.
Heart Stoppers: 20 varied impact sounds designed to give your audience a heavy hit to the heart.
All sounds were recorded in 24Bit 192kHz, and have been tagged with extensive UCS metadata for ease of use.
Let’s get ready to rumble!
Geophonic Design Vol. 2 is our second collection of distinctive designed sounds whose frequencies range all the way to 10Hz.
Featuring recordings captured with the coveted Lom Geofón, this bundle is erupting with 102+ mins (7.15 GB) worth of ambiences, cinematic impacts, movement, oneshots, glitches and speaker-shakers perfect for more ominous and mysterious film, TV and game projects.
These complex sounds derive from the subsonic resonances of trams, trains, bridges, sand, a gramophone and more, and are intended to produce a real sense of heavy darkness in your designs.
Our Audio Craftsmen have carefully captured and meticulously edited each sound for maximum sonic quality, enabling to you drop each sample into your projects with no need for further enhancement or modification.
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.
PANORAMA is a collection of ambience, background sound effect, recorded using a dedicated 3 channels microphone array (INA-3), specify catered for project format where there is a centre channel.
The library features recordings of harbours, empty city streets and diffused urban skylines where the three channel microphone array excels.
Recording ambience in three channels (LCR) gives a solid centre image to sound stage, without relying on “Phantom Centre”. It provides more coherence between LR and Center channel. It also gives editors or mixers the ability to adjust the width of the sound stage to suit the scene.
These recordings are perfect for background sound design in films and games.
Hydrophonic Design Vol. 2 is the next in our series of designed water recordings – captured using our dual-mic over and underwater set-up.
These sounds were simultaneously recorded with the Sennheiser MKH50 and Aquarian H2a Hydrophone for maximum sonic detail. They were then carefully designed by our Audio Craftsmen to yield a versatile collection of dopplers, whooshes, passes, tones and movements.
Layer texture onto underwater mission scenes with included explosions and low-end whooshes, or add some weight to spaceships with sci-fi pass-bys and engine tones. Bring colour to your designs with this useful library!
Our Audio Craftsmen have carefully edited each sound for maximum sonic clarity so that you can drop each sound directly into your project timeline and get down to work with minimal fuss.
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.
Hydrophonic Design Vol. 1 is the latest of our water-themed collections. This library is overflowing with sounds recorded with our dual-mic over and underwater set-up.
These recordings – captured with the Sennheiser MKH50 and Aquarian H2a Hydrophone – have been carefully designed by our Audio Craftsmen to produce a huge variety of dopplers, impacts, oneshots and ambiences. Worldise your space battle scenes with brassy hits and sci-fi gun shots, or add suspense to underwater game sequences with moody ambiences and bubbling pass-bys. Bring the fun to your sound design process with this versatile collection!
Our Audio Craftsmen have carefully edited each sound for maximum sonic clarity so that you can drop each sound directly into your project timeline and get down to work with minimal fuss.
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.
Bubble pops and textures from various sizes and assorted shapes of bubble wrap, such as the classic standard format, square, hexagonal, envelope, industrial, and large filler cells.
Pops were recorded as single pinch pops to multiple bubble burst squeezes and twists. Dry and room reverb versions were captured using close and distant microphone setups.
Bubbles Vol. 3 is our next underwater library featuring unique recordings captured with our dual-mic set-up. Our Audio Craftsman have used an overwater-underwater microphone configuration using the Sennheiser MKH50 for the overwater mic and the Aquarian H2a Hydrophone for the underwater recordings. With both mic options available as separate files, there are multiple options for layering up the sound effects.
Bubbles Vol. 3 brings you our largest collection of bubble recordings: perfect for scuba diving gear, large animal bubbles and underwater movement.
All files are named with detailed descriptions, along with the microphone that was used to capture them. 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.
Geophonic Instruments Vol. 3 is the final entry in our trilogy of Geophonic Instrument libraries.
This collection of sounds features an array of cutting-edge sounds, which have been designed from raw recordings captured with the Lom Geofon. Our audio craftsman made use of a Glockenspiel and Harmonica for this library, recording sounds such as generic hits, rumbles, scrapes, blowing’s and taps.
Geophonic Instruments Vol. 3 is perfect for sci-fi, horror and mystery projects, and will also lend itself well to Film, TV and Game productions across a variety of genres.
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.
Rain And Thunder gives you recordings from the beginnings of raindrops from the sky, through the various stages from nascent raindrops to torrential downpours, ending with the remains after the rains of splattering drop impacts, various drainage systems and settling back down into the earth.
Electromagnetic Fields is a high quality royalty-free sound library recorded to capture the invisible electromagnetic landscape that humans created.
Featuring light bulbs, computers, household devices, mobile phones, synthesisers, amplifiers, hard drives, radios, public transportations, unidentified sources, street lights.
It’s been recorded with top quality gear including Sound Devices MixPre 6 MkII, SOMA Ether and Jrf Coil Pickup.
Universal Category System compatible metadata
Phantasmal Ambiences Vol. 2 is the second in a series of nightmarish ambiences made to unnerve you and your audiences.
Perspective recordings of assorted props and instruments were captured in the 344 Audio headquarters and a beautifully reverberant Nottingham church. These sounds were then carefully edited, manipulated and layered to form haunting scenes for use in all your horrific creations.
Inject terror and dread into your film, TV and video game projects with this Pandora’s box of evil-doers and malevolent forces – all localised in the near distance of various other-worldly spaces.
Our Audio Craftsmen have carefully edited each sound for maximum sonic clarity so that you can drop each sound directly into your project timeline and get down to work with minimal fuss.
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.
Phantasmal Ambiences Vol. 1 is the first in a series of spine-tingling, hair-raising ambiences sure to unsettle your audiences and users.
Perspective recordings of assorted props and instruments were captured in the 344 Audio headquarters and a beautifully reverberant Nottingham church. These sounds were then carefully edited, manipulated and layered to form haunting scenes for use in all your horrific creations.
Spookify your film, TV and video game projects with poltergeists, demons, aliens and deranged beings – all localised in the near distance of various other-worldly spaces.
Our Audio Craftsmen have carefully edited each sound for maximum sonic clarity so that you can drop each sound directly into your project timeline and get down to work with minimal fuss.
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.
This library contains only binaural recordings which are meant to be experienced with headphones as 3D audio.
Add a sense of authenticity to any cold climate in your game or film by using recordings that were made with great effort to capture the wild nature of Denali avoiding human interference.
To help preserve the natural beauty of Alaska, 10% of each sale of this library will be donated to The Alaska Conservation Foundation. https://alaskaconservation.org
Budapest is often called the “Pearl of the Danube”, and it truly is a stunningly beautiful place.
During a small trip from Spain to Budapest & Vienna, we managed to record the most iconic places in the city in truly 360º spatial audio ambisonic format!
We choose ambisonic for our libraries as the most adaptive format in Audio Postproduction. We serve the edited and mastered AMBIX files, and decoded surround format in Dolby ATMOS, 5.1 and ST .
All our libraries are UCS compliant (universalcategorysystem.com). In this new category system all files contain extensive metadata like file description, Category & Subcategory. Metadata can be read and processed by the most common audio libraries management tools . Starting with Full support from Soundminer and more audio tools adopting this system, we are adopting metadata UCS system in our files!
Geophonic Design Vol. 3 features an eclectic array of designed sound effects, built from organic sources with infrasonic frequencies that go all the way down to 10Hz. This library has an abstract aesthetic and gives you a wide and varied palette of unique sounds that are perfect for injecting a little movement into your film, video game or documentary projects.
To create the sounds in this library, Our Audio Craftsmen used a ‘Geophone’ which is a seismic measurement device used to record seismic waves and vibrations of the earth. With the Geophone, we recorded low vibrations, hits and interactions of wood, metal, trees, soil, clay and other natural ingredients. You can expect to find a wide selection of unique ambiences, as well as an assortment of warm subsonic hits and dynamic movements and whooshes.
All of the included sounds were then precisely edited and designed by our dedicated in house team to build ambiences such as boulder movement, metal ghost voices, spirits calling, subsonic water texture, tree bark connection wind interference and many more. In addition, all the files are available in 24Bit 96kHz with extensive metadata and are UCS compliant to integrate seamlessly with your workflow.
The sounds will also make a great addition to your library as layered textures, to build a designed atmosphere in your projects, and are perfect as drones and ambiences for futuristic, sci-fi and horror scenes.
UK Big City Exteriors contains a varied assortment of ambient sounds captured during field recording sessions in Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield by our team of Audio Craftsmen. The effects in this library will make for a fantastic addition to your general audio collection and will be perfect for use in short films, documentaries, commercials, and video games based both in the UK and abroad.
The team has gone out of their way to bring you a range of different sounds, including tram squeaks, recordings of people passing by, crowds, street sweepers, skylines, construction and much, much more. We recorded a selection of ambiences at different times of day, covering many different central city locations to give you the most authentic & grounded representation of the UK city life to use in your projects.
The files included in this library have been meticulously edited so that you can drop them into your project timeline instantly and are provided dry in 24Bit 96kHz allowing for further sonic manipulation if required. All files are tagged with extensive metadata and are UCS compliant to allow you to search for and select the desired sound with ease.
Some of the included sounds are: Water features, Bus idling and departing, children playing, car pass bys, preachers, cityscapes and skylines.
Lift Me Up is a funky-freestyle collection of unique risers. The variety of organic sources were resynthed, twisted, spinned and flown away. The resulting uplifters have wide-spread flavours: generic / scifi / mechanical / cartoon / experimental / trailer.
Sci-Fi UI is a collection of 401 unique, futuristic, alien-technology sounds divided into 7 thematic collections. This is not just another collection of bleeps and bloops. The sounds were created by manipulating field recordings, Foley, and sound effects giving them a personality with an organic, emotional and performative feel. The types of sounds include positive, negative, and neutral alerts, alarm loops, file and program loading, power up and power down sounds, software glitches, and system failures. Also included is a collection of alien technology ambience loops called “Control Room Tones” to help you design your spaceship interiors.
A brand new Impulse Response pack made with 4 guitar pedals reverbs:
Professionally recorded, the pack contains wave files, Reason Refill for the RV-7000 MkII reverb and Logic’s Space Designer presets.
Sampled at 48KHz and 24 bit resolution, you can use them with any convolution reverb and\or any other software that uses IRs. And with the Logic presets you just have to copy the folders in the proper place and you’re good to go!
“The Shoe Collection: Dirt- Wedge“ by Periscope Post & Audio, provides 22 high quality footsteps files in dirt with the wedge 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 344 footsteps between the mono and stereo files!
These sound files are also UCS metadata tagged
Citroen C2 (Diesel) is a comprehensive collection of high quality, compact, city car sfx
All recordings of engine and exhaust were captured at 192kHz 32 bit with Sound Devices MixPre-3 II + DPA4062 (Extreme SPL) and later converted to 24bit.
All interior recordings were capture at 192kHz 24 bit with Sound Devices MixPre-6 + DPA4060, Sennheiser MKH8040, Sennheiser MKH8060
Pass-by were recorded with Sony PCM D100
Each recording comes with 2-4 different perspectives
Library consists of:
EXT Engine + Exhaust (32SFX 3.84GB)
EXT Pas-bys (4SFX 74MB)
FOLEY (4 perspectives: driver, passenger, front center, trunk) (348SFX 557MB)
INT Driving (4 perspectives: driver, passenger, front center, trunk) (58SFX 3.3GB)
All SFX have baked-in UCS-compliant metadata.
Download includes:
192KHZ 24BIT version
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6, Sound Devices MixPre 3 II, DPA4062, DPA4060, Sennheiser MKH8060, Sennheiser MKH8040, Sony PCM D100
EDITED, CREATED AND MASTERED WITH: Pro Tools, Brusfri.
“The Shoe Collection: Soft Hardwood- Leather Dress Shoe“ by Periscope Post & Audio, provides 22 high quality footsteps files on soft hardwood floors with the leather dress shoe. 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 448 footsteps between the mono and stereo files!
These sound files are also UCS metadata tagged
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