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Over 375 sounds of creaking and cracking materials, including breaking cables, ropes under tension and about to split, wires and strings under stress, metal friction causing tension. Recorded with a combination of Sanken CO100K and Nevaton microphones for full frequency sound content. Saved as 192KHz these files allow for high resolution editing. Useful for impact sounds in cinema, games or documentary, but also for cartoon sounds or even creature sounds as many of the recordings contain vowel-like screeching and scraping.
Imagine a scene where a rope is about to break over an edge, an object being torn by a huge cable, a wooden structure about to collapse under stress and so on… Our brain is triggered by those rattling sounds or spine-breaking cracks coming from little fibers being split apart, parts of the structure creaking, wires scraping over edges…
These sounds can be perceived as delicate but have a great psychological impact as we interpret these and know what is about to happen. So suspense is built with both background and close-up sounds. Useful when building tension, when creating a sense of upcoming climax, these sonic elements will work out to amplify the details that are often important but not always visible for the eye.
All the source material and recording are acoustic, there are no digital effects applied. This guarantees natural organic harmonics, even way beyond our hearing. Pitching down the 192 KHz files will let you discover another collection of sounds!
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Unlock a new dimension of sounds with our “Modern Office Ambiences” library! Gone are the days of clunky, outdated dot matrix printers and incessant telephone rings. Step into the future with modern office environments that capture the essence of contemporary workspaces.
Featuring quiet zones, open-plan space’s, walkways, foyers, canteens and lobby’s with lively human interactions, and dynamic movements. This library immerses you in the atmosphere of today’s offices.
Get a complete arsenal of unique and original explosion sound effects. All sounds in Explosion SFX Pack are drag-and-drop ready for your project. Every audio file is easily searchable as they were meticulously organized into categories to make it easy to find the perfect sound for your project.
Discover a wide range of sounds perfect for realistic and sci-fi explosions. Acquire sounds for all your destruction needs including grenades, ripping wood, shattering glass, underwater torpedo blasts, distant explosive tails, as well as car and building demolitions among many others. Professionally recorded and designed, these sounds are a must-have to bring your game the polish you are looking for.
THE ULTIMATE WATER SOUND RESOURCE
Discover the versatile world of aquatic audio with WATER IN MOTION, a sound library designed to provide sound designers and game audio professionals with an extensive array of water sounds. This library equips you with the tools to create your very own sound effects and design water foley scenes right out of the box.
Putting sound quality and versatility at the forefront we captured every detail of the water sounds with highest precision. The result is a collection of extremely clean sounding water recordings that let you shape the sonic character to your specific needs! Every sound was recorded with a mono center microphone (MKH 8050 or Sanken co-100k) and a matched stereo pair of MKH 8040s by Sennheiser (note: only the nature-sounds and the designed tools have no mono file).
DIVE INTO THE WORLD OF WATER SOUND DESIGN
The library is split into two main sections: RECORDINGS and DESIGNED TOOLS. The RECORDING folder has every water sound you need ranging from simple bubbles to roaring waterfalls, rain, ocean waves, tons of everyday sounds, experimental water recordings, various movements and tiny to huge splashes. The DESIGNED TOOLS section comes with a vast array of pre-designed water sounds from big splashes, liquid whooshes, magic spell elements and morphing sounds to underwater ambiences and short textures.
Watch the walkthrough video to dive deeper into the world of WATER IN MOTION!
WHAT’S INSIDE (FILES / SOUNDS)
Lights, Camera… Action!
Film Crew is loaded with a vast range of authentic film crew and film production sound effects. Our team of skilled audio craftsmen recorded these sounds directly from a working film set, immersing themselves within the crew top bring you sounds as they happened on set.
This diverse collection of sounds are some of the only sound effects recorded at a working film set, making these sounds very unique and highly sought-after addition to an audio professionals sound library.
Inside this product, you will find a wide selection of genuine recordings that cover various stages of production, exterior and interior locations, on-set conversations between different crew departments, Director and 1st AD calling action, cut etc, equipment being set up, and film set ambiences at various levels of busy-ness.
Sounds have been separated into the following categories:
Ambiences – Exterior Atmos recordings taken from unique filming locations such as the Humber Bridge in Hull.
Exterior – Sounds captured from exterior shoots, Crew setting up outdoors, Crowd effects, Vehicles, Light traffic, On-set ambiences.
Interior – Sounds captured from interior, Crew setting up lighting and camera etc, Crew conversations, Director and 1st AD talking with actors and extras etc.
Extras – Crowd effects from extras on set, Crowds clapping and cheering, Crowd celebrating at a wedding scene.
Vintage Car Props – Sound effects captured from a genuine vintage car that featured heavily in the production where we recorded these effects.
All sounds were recorded in 24Bit 96kHz, and have been tagged with extensive UCS metadata for ease of use.
Nature of Colombia is a unique collection of natural sounds captured in Colombia. This library provides more than 2 hours ( 9GB) of authentic sounds recorded in several regions at different times of the day.
Hear this dense wildlife recorded in unique environnements full of tropical animals such as birds, insects, frogs, monkeys, crickets or cicadas. But also other natural sounds such as Rain and Waves from the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea.
This collection will make you explore an exotic and immersive soundscape through this rich and beautiful country.
All files in this collection are in 24 bit / 192 kHz, use the Universal Category System (UCS) and are tagged with detailed Metadatas.
Gear Used: DPA4060 stereo set powered by a Sound Devices 702
A Noisy Neighborhood is one of the major problems for human health. A dog barking, neighbors moving furniture when they should not or a baby crying during your sleeping are some of the most common issues that do not allow us to get a proper sleep or being more efficient working from home. This library tries to cover that.
Suburbs of Chicago: Heavy Winds is the 5th in the Suburbs of Chicago Series. This collection takes you to the edge of a new suburban forest preserve, one that has a busy four lane road bordering the land.
Suburbs of Chicago: Heavy Winds includes 10 files of recordings during a windy day near tall straw, open fields, a busy road, and rustling leaves. Take a listen as a small flying drone passes over the small lake, bikes and rollerblades pass by, and people and dogs take a nice walk on the path.
Recorded at 24 bit, 192 kHz using the Sennhesier 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.
Introducing our “South African Sirens” sound effects library. Immerse yourself in the dynamic world of emergency response with this diverse collection that captures the essence of urgent action and safety.
Featuring a rich array of siren sounds from different vehicles, whether you’re hearing them from a distance or up close, in robust mono or detailed stereo formats, we’ve got you covered.
What makes this library truly unique? In South Africa the same three iconic siren sounds are utilised across ambulances, police cars, and fire trucks. This means you can creatively mix and match these sounds to convey urgency, authority, or emergency, bringing authenticity and drama to your productions.
Also available as part of the “South African Bundle” collection.
Kyma Ambiences [USO003] is the third sound effects bundle created by Matteo Milani.
The generation of these “Artificial Reality Ambiences” starts entirely in Symbolic Sound Kyma from the processing of white and pink noise by filtering – in the time/spectral domains – and convolving these sources with custom FM, additive, formant and granular synthesis. The composition’s resource of sound material is drawn solely from these processed stochastic sound elements: coloured noise is a raw material already full of life and can be sculpted into a variety of temporal forms, movements and textures.
The interaction with Kyma was typical of a composer who explored a device’s potential for sound transformation like a musical instrument. The goal was to obtain an organic and acoustic quality using only a restricted sound source, in order to evoke real spatial characteristics attached to each invented sound.
The “Kyma Ambiences vol.1” sound effects collection is published @ 96kHz (native) – and is also available as dual-layer separated “Elements”, suitable for recombinant stratification, varispeed and spatial positioning in the surround field (for a total of 112 files @ 96kHz).
This audio library features low-frequency drones, powerful impacts, metallic scrapes, resonant vibrations, and other rare audio textures.
All sounds were recorded using the LOM Geofón, a device that captures low-frequency surface vibrations that conventional microphones cannot detect.
The recordings were made with the TASCAM Portacapture X8 at 192 kHz/32 bit, ensuring maximum detail and sound quality.
Here’s an indispensable toolkit of more movement and handling sounds; falling, dropping, bouncing, smashing and debris sounds of different objects made of wood, plastic, metal, stone, ceramic, glass on various surfaces. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Drop & Fall
927 pristine files that are clean, impactful and capture pretty much every material, surface and action.
The sounds are broadly grouped as:
Action: Fall, Drop, Bounce, Debris, Smash, Shatter, Break
Material: Rock, Wood, Metal, Plastic, Cloth, Ceramic, Stone, Porcelain, Styrofoam
Object: Household Objects, Furniture, Tools, Kitchenware, Office Objects, Food, Clothes
Surface: Stone, Glass, Ceramic, Metal, Concrete
Style: Close-Up & Distance Perspective, Fast, Hard, Medium, Slow, Soft, In Intervals, Single & Multiples, Rattle, Tonal, Squeaky
What makes this collection handy is the clarity and diversity of the sounds. These meticulously recorded sounds have both practical usability and room for further sound design.
You will get intuitive, detailed naming, UCS compatibility and the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail in 927 pristine sounds. Recorded in 24bit-96kHz.WAV format on our favorite Sennheiser MKH 8040, DPA 4060 and Zoom F3 in A/B and ORTF.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out Drag and Slide Pack for 477 sounds of dragging, sliding, scraping and friction sounds of different objects made of wood, plastic, metal on various surfaces. Our bestseller Crafting and Survival Pack is another option with 1000+ survival, gathering, movement and crafting sounds.
Rain is 4 hours / 7.74Gb of rain on many surfaces.
113 separate files – recorded in 24bit/96kHz. All sounds are UCS-compatible.
Rain is a library of sounds collected since 2011. It features rain recorded as ambiances or beds and as specifics. For me, rain is the same as wind:
if it sounds like white noise, it isn’t interesting. Just like my wind recordings, I have recorded rain where it hits something that makes a distinctive
sound, something with a bit of character, rhythm or feeling.
Over the years, I have recorded rain in M/S, A-B stereo and mono. I have used condensers and contact mics. All of that is represented
in this collection.
Some of the recordings exist in both original M/S versions, as well as the decoded results (XY). In this way, you can get ready-to-use stereo,
or get more control of width (or just the mono signal) with M/S. A few of the sounds were only recorded in mono, and I have left them in as such. They are quite percussive and close-up anyway, so may be used as elements. You also get several seamless loops.
You will find rain on man-made materials, as well as vegetation, and even a couple of rain recordings from Sri Lanka and Tokyo. These have been released previously in their own libraries, but I thought they were both interesting and generic enough to do some good here as well.
Ever been stuck alone in an old creepy elevator?
Well now you can relive that experience, with this sound pack!
Including;
Movement of a service elevator
Flickering lights
Pressing lift buttons (with and without lift movement)
Opening and closing of heavy doors
Recorded and exported in 24/48khz
Suitable for and horror based projects (Game or film)
This library sounds BIG and has an impressive amount of impact.
It consists of recordings that were used to produce “Cinematic Tension” library – a set of sound design elements for trailers and intense scenes.
Doors, locks, metal tanks, fences, grills and other interesting objects were captured to get extremely interesting sounds for the source material.
Complete your production with detailed, organic sounds, recorded with a pair of high-end contact microphones: Barcus Berry Planar Wave 4000.
Scrapes, textures, impacts, rattle, hits and squeaks of different objects, from small to massive, will add serious punch to your sound design layers!
Main features:
Equipment used: Barcus Berry 4000 x 2, Sound Devices MixPre 6
Daily Doors II continues with a new series of doors that we use on a daily basis. Actions such as opening, closing, slamming, squeaking, rattling, forcing, hitting have been recorded simultaneously from a near and a distant perspective.
Keywords included:
Front Door, Kitchen, Living Room, Bathroom, Bedroom, Corridor, Fridge, Freezer, Oven, Window, Wardrobe, Cabinet, Drawer, Doorknob, Latch, Chain, Sliding Door, Roller Blind, Bin, Cupboard, Curtain, Garage, Car, Case, Gate, Fence, Wood, Metal.
This library is quite self explanatory, ” Planes – Takeoffs & Landings ” is a collection of various commercial jets taking off and landing on a runway.
We recorded as close as possible to the airport fences with a multi microphones setup giving you different sonic perspectives.
The “Source” folder contains 130 files corresponding to 34 different recordings :
– AB stereo (LOM Usi)
– Cinela LCR array (Sennheiser MKH8040 ORTF + MKH8050 Center)
– a shotgun mic following the plane (Neumann KMR81)
The “ Designed” folder contains 46 files / 28 processed sounds such as fast jet fly by or sonic boom.
All the files are 96kHz /24bits and embedded with rich metadata ( Soundminer, Basehead, iXML ) .
Through the development process, we gathered unique sonic materials from the scary inaudible sounds up to the piercing cry of Banshee ghosts. Included are: 14 pre-baked atmospheres, 38 designed sound, and 373 useful source sounds.
It comprises recordings of male and female ghosts, crows, miscellaneous sounds of the house, bells, extensive door knocks from various perspectives, and sounds of ghost trying to enter a room.
The atmospheres are easy and ready to use, containing haunting houses, town, forest, cemetery, thunderstorm, and eerie soundscapes.
The designed sounds are mainly focused on ghosts creature with spooky murmur, breathe, group of ghosts and creepy inhalations.
A filmic sound construction kit for teasers, trailers & promos
‘Warped Choir’ is the latest state-of-the-art sound effects library from U.S.O. which continues to cross the border between music and sound design.
Warped Choir provides a wide range of meticulously crafted stereo and 5.1 surround sound elements ready to be pumped in your trailer, video game or other audiovisual projects.
Warped Choir contains more than 200 massive dynamic impacts, transitions, soundscapes, epic vocal rises and whooshes, all designed from scratch using a choir concert recording as the unique waveform source in the Symbolic Sound Kyma workstation (many thanks to La Coral Salvé – Laredo, Cantabria | www.coralsalve.com).
When it comes to creating new musical ideas, video and sound editors, sound designers, but also composers, can find inspiration in this intriguing must-have collection.
Glass Smash HD from Soundopolis is a large collection of glass breaking sounds, glass debris, and footsteps on glass. Probably the last time you’ll ever have to buy a glass sound effect!
The Animal Symphony – Goat & Sheep Vol 2 offers a collection of 53 high-quality audio tracks, each with multiple variations carefully captured to ensure exceptional quality. The recordings are organized with consistent nomenclature, making it easy to swap or combine different microphone takes depending on the needs of the project.
For this occasion, a Sennheiser MKH 8050 and a Sanken CO-100K microphone were used, along with a Zoom H6 recorder to capture the stereo sound. In this second volume, we have gotten even closer to the animals than in the first volume, managing to capture a greater amount of ultrasonic information. This is especially useful if you want to tone down sounds to create fantastic creatures or other sound effects, providing an exceptional richness of frequencies.
The recordings were made at 24-bit and 192 kHz/96 kHz, ensuring professional clarity and depth in each track.
This collection includes a wide variety of bleats, from adult goats, mountain goats, kids and sheep, to group bleats, ideal for adding realism and authenticity to any production, be it documentary, film, video games or creative projects.
In addition, all recordings have been carefully edited to remove any external noise, such as birds, wind or people, ensuring a clean and professional experience. Thanks to ultrasonic microphones, any tonal modification will maintain a unique frequency richness, perfect for creating custom sounds.
Ideal applications:
– Video games: Add realism and depth to the natural environments of your games.
– Cinema and Documentaries: Enrichment of the audiovisual product with authentic sounds.
– Educational Applications: Use these sounds in educational projects to teach about wildlife and animal behavior.
– Multimedia Projects: Ideal for any project that seeks to enrich the user’s listening experience.
Technical details:
– Total audios: 53 (250 Individually)
– Format: 192kHz – 96kHz/24bit
– Equipment used: Zoom F6 recorder with Sennheiser MKH 8050 microphone and EM258 capsule microphone, as well as a Zoom H6 recorder for stereo.
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – GOAT & SHEEP
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – CROWING ROOSTER
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – LOVEBIRD
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – WHITE HANDED GIBBON
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – MEERKAT
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – WATUSI
Product Description:
“The Animal Symphony – Alpaca” offers a collection of 15 high-quality audio tracks, with a total of 54 individual sounds. The audios are organized with an intuitive nomenclature, allowing you to easily exchange the different microphone jacks and choose which one to use or combine them all. Using two high-end microphones, the Sennheiser MKH 8050 and an EM258 capsule microphone, along with a Zoom H6 recorder for stereo sound, we have captured every detail and nuance of these sounds. Recordings were made at 24-bit and 192kHz/96kHz, ensuring professional clarity and depth.
This collection offers a wide variety of cries and other sounds made by alpacas. These sounds are perfect for adding realism and authenticity to your projects. With multiple takes and variations, this library provides the flexibility needed for any type of production requiring sounds from these animals. All recordings have been carefully edited to remove external noises, such as other birds, wind or people. Furthermore, thanks to the ultrasonic microphones used, it is guaranteed that whoever decides to tone it down will still get a rich frequency.
Ideal applications:
– Video games: Add realism and depth to the natural environments of your games.
– Cinema and Documentaries: Enrich your audiovisual productions with authentic sounds.
– Educational Applications: Use these sounds in educational projects to teach about wildlife and animal behavior.
– Multimedia Projects: Ideal for any project that seeks to enrich the user’s listening experience.
Technical details:
– Total audios: 15 (With a total of 54 individual sounds)
– Format: 192kHz – 96kHz/24bit
– Equipment used: Zoom F6 recorder with Sennheiser MKH 8050 microphone and EM258 capsule microphone, plus a Zoom H6 recorder for stereo sound.
License:
The sounds from “The Animal Symphony – Alpaca” are available under a royalty-free license, allowing their use in multiple projects at no additional costs. You can use these sound effects in your games, trailers, Kickstarter campaigns, and more, as many times as you like.
Recordings of a runabout type boat powered by a powerful Mercury engine.
Our sound pack contains multiple tracks of onboard and exterior recordings of revs, start-stops, idle, passbys and sailing at various speeds.
We also captured several ramps up and down for use in granular synthesis tools, and edited constant RPM loops for drag and drop in your audio middleware.
Specifications : 4-cylinder, 4-stroke, 60 HP.
Multiple mic perspectives
This sound pack includes 3 channels of onboard perspectives: two microphones for the engine and one in front of the boat to capture water lapping and splashes. It also comes with few exterior passbys.
Gear used
Sound Devices MixPre-6 II • LOM MikroUsi • Sennheiser MKH 8040 • Sennheiser MKH30 • Neumann Kmr81i
Metadata
This sound library is UCS compliant and comes with fully embedded metadatas compatible with Soundly, Soundminer and Basehead.
“The Sound of Survival” is a comprehensive sound library designed for survival games, inspired by the most iconic titles in the genre. It consists of 598 fully categorized sound effects, recorded at the highest possible quality in 24 bits, and available in two sampling frequencies, 192Khz and 96Khz. This extensive sound collection has been meticulously crafted with the needs of those who want practically all the sounds of a survival game in one package in mind, offering an immersive and realistic auditory experience for your game project.
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Sound categories include:
– Character: Encompasses a wide variety of sounds related to the actions and expressions of the playable character, from drinking and eating to exertion and attacks, adding depth and realism to the character.
– Construction: Contains sound effects related to the construction and demolition of objects in the game, such as building structures and destroying objects.
– Crafting: Includes sounds of crafting and object creation, from crafting neutral materials to creating food and items made of metal, stone, and wood.
– Environment: Offers sounds that immerse players in the game environment, from lighting a bonfire to the crash of a falling tree, creating an immersive experience in the game world.
– House: Includes sounds related to interactions in indoor spaces, such as opening/closing doors and drawers, contributing to the sense of exploration and inhabiting interior spaces.
– Inventory/Bag: Comprises sounds of manipulating the character’s inventory, from picking up items to moving tools and various items in the player’s bag.
– Tools/Items: Contains sounds related to various tools and items, such as lighting and extinguishing torches, repairing objects, and using tools in the game.
– Weapons: Includes sounds related to weapons and attacks, from the swish of a spear to the impact of arrows, adding realism to combat sequences.
– Pick-Up Materials: Encompasses sounds when picking up various materials, such as wood, stone, metal, and other essential resources for crafting and survival.
This library provides a complete range of sound effects to enhance immersion in survival games, from in-game action to the subtle sounds of the environment. With “The Sound of Survival,” game creators can take the survival experience to a new level.
More about the pack
– Sample rate available at 192khz and 96khz.
– Intuitive file naming
– All you’ll ever need regarding survival sounds [Use them again & again
– Use the sound effects over and over, in any of your projects or productions, forever without any additional fees or royalties. Use the SFX in your game, in your trailer, in a Kickstarter campaign, wherever you need to, as much as you want to.
– Totally mono compatibility
– All sounds have several variations.
– Use your imagination and feel free to use any sound for other than the one described, remember that the world of sound is totally subjective.
– For any questions or problems: [email protected]
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