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Sound effects libraries where the file names and metadata follow the Universal Category System (UCS), championed by renowned sound supervisor Tim Nielsen & more
This sound library introduces reverberant aggressive metal rampage with just a hint of subtlety right before the enormous sound rushes to deliver a piercing brutal blow.
Featuring creeping evolving metal pressure and resonating rattle, gritty friction and massive rumble, explosive impacts and fierce slams, vicious screeches and nerve-racking squeaks.
Explore and layer meticulously edited source material or drag and drop high-end detailed sound effects designed for instant devastating damage.
With plenty of experimentation and unique processing, this library introduces a fresh sound palette for action adventure and horror genre, trailers and in-game cinematics.
This Sound Library is a part of the Slava Pogorelsky – Complete Bundle.
WHAT SOUND PROFESSIONALS SAY:
Victor Mercader – AAA Sound Designer (Apex Legends)
“I find myself continuously using Slava’s SFX libraries to blend it’s pristine and detailed sound designs into my own sounds. They always add that cutting edge I am missing and make my sound designs more unique and pristine.”
Enos Desjardins – Sound Designer/Sound Effects Editor (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Black Mirror)
“Slava has been creating some really cool libraries which I find myself using time and again. Really high quality recordings to start with but then the cool processing he has used for example in his cinematic whoosh libraries really stand out. They are not just your standard generic whoosh sounds but are loaded with character and have a unique feel to them that is really fresh and cuts through in the nicest of ways.”
Bjørn Jacobsen – AAA Sound Designer (CyberPunk 2077, HITMAN, DARQ)
“Slava has for several years made high quality sound effects for me to play with. I use his sound libraries across multiple projects as lego blocks of my creations.”
Ginno Legaspi – SoundBytes Music Magazine
“Slava is back with another aggressive and energetic sample library called Resonating Metal Force – a 680 strong collection of modern metal effects captured using various tools and high-end studio equipment. The source material was edited and processed professionally for instant use. These sounds are primed for experimentation – whether you add your unique processing, layer several WAV samples or slice and dice to your heart’s content, the sky’s the limit. This sound pack is another winner.”
Yarron Katz – AAA Composer and Sound Designer
“Slava makes some wonderful libraries. He’s relatively new on the scene and his libraries have come to critical acclaim. He takes some general ideas, like whooshes and he injects some extremely revolutionary and innovative ideas to them, so you’re not getting another whoosh library – you’re getting something very unique, very fresh. He brings some wonderful ideas to the table.”
THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION FOR HI-TECH USER INTERFACES
Futuristic Interface comes as your new go-to resource for futuristic UI sound design. Whether you are on track for creating high-tech HUDs, spaceship control rooms, user feedback in applications or data calculations and cyber worlds, this library will be your best choice. With more than 4300 ready-to-use sounds divided into sophisticated categories, there are no limits to design popups, scans, buttons, text notifications, malfunctions, ambiences and much more on the fly.
Included are simple sounds like user interactions, beeps, swipes, confirmations, denies and alarms, to more complex ones like display scans, futuristic computer processes and humming control room backgrounds. We put a lot of effort into producing this library for you, resulting in the largest sci-fi UI collection available on the market now.
DISCOVER A NEW SOUND ERA WITH US
Creating the sounds of Futuristic Interface took us through extensive sound synthesis and the use of complex effect chains. All files are subject to extreme digital processing and transformation, making them a perfect match for crafting the sonic environment of any advanced or futuristic technology. The immense amount of SFX in this library brings you a highly flexible use case either for game design, films, apps, presentations, radio plays or infographics.
WHAT’S INSIDE (FILES / SOUNDS)
Chris C. (Animation Producer)
The JSE Futuristic Interface sound effects package was just what I needed. It’s hard to find original-sounding futuristic effects that match the motion graphics we’ve created, but the JSE package sounds were all interesting, original and refreshing, and contained such a great variety that finding the perfect match was easy. All the filenames make searches easy and intuitive, so I can focus on sound design instead of file management. Great product!
Analog Tape Transitions contains dozens of genuine vari-fi effects created with a restored Akai 4000DS MK-II 1/4 inch tape recorder.
Get plenty of tape stops, rewinds, fast-forwards with 7 different tapes containing music, voice and noise.
Tired of using the same digital rewind sound again and again? Experience the variety and the smoothness of reel-to-reel analog sound.
• Vari-fi, rewinds, fast-forwards
• Mechanical tape recorder sounds included
• Ultrasonic content up to 48 000 Hz for easy pitch adjustment
• 96 KHz/24 bit
• Metadata UCS-compliant
• Recorded with AKAI 4000DS MK-II and Sennheiser 8040
Immerse your projects in the sounds of “Underwater Movements”, captured to bring your aquatic scenes to life. But that’s not all – as a bonus, we’ve included an array of stunning surface ocean sound effects that evoke the rhythmic dance of waves and the gentle whispers of the sea breeze. Transport your audience beneath the waves and onto sun-kissed shores.
The Medieval Battle Bundle is the ultimate construction kit for building up Medieval scenes and backgrounds. It includes our best-selling library, Medieval Battle – used in TV and Film productions all over the world – as well as Medieval Battle Vol. 2 and Historical Battle Voices.
Together these libraries provide a huge selection of voices, crowds, lines, characters and weapons ideal for drama and fantasy alike. Whether your film scene requires more ‘epic-ness’, or your game sequences are in need of some historically-accurate flair, this useful toolkit will allow you to craft a sense of fullness and immersion in your Medieval and historical 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 (Medieval Battle is delivered at 96kHz, and Medieval Battle Vol. 2 and Historical Battle Voices are delivered at 192kHz) and tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.
The “Distant City And Morning Parks” Library has been recorded for more than a year, in about 7 different cities and 3 countries. The library is divided into 2 subsections:
1) Distant Cities: The subject of this section is large and small towns in different seasons. Respectively can be heard both classic distant city rumble sounds, as well as light burds activity, distant sirens, train, and car horns, distant traffic, church bells e.t.c.
2) Morning Parks: Mostly recorded early in the morning in spring and summer, when there is light human activity, some footsteps, few dogs, even frogs in the middle of a city park. You can hear birds activity and of course distant traffic. Several fountains, recorded from different distances, have also found their place in this library.
All files are meta-tagged with UCS format in Soundminer.
Enjoy the city from a distance.
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
Mechanical sounds from a classic vintage Studer A-80 reel-to-reel tape machine including switches, motor, magnetic tape, buttons, levers, metal and plastic spools, reels, spin-offs, and more. Full UCS Metadata.
Sci-Fi Electric is a collection of sparks, static, drones, hums, zaps and textures! The library features 64 files with over 80 audio clips. Here you’ll find a wealth of processed sounds for your Sci Fi adventure. Source material ranges from beard scratching to lap steel pickup interference.
Through processing they end up as “alienistic” textures, sparks, static, drones, hums, zaps, ambiences, and whatever else your imagination can come up with! Other sounds include raw microphone feedback, streetlight buzz, and electrical static.
The source material ranged from beard scratching to lap steel pickup interference… This one was fun to make, and it will be even more fun for you to play with!
Construction/Demolition is a collection of standard tools as well as a TON of hospital demolition and home demolition ambiences.
These ambiences are chalk full of heavy equipment sounds, grinding, gears, i-beams being chopped in half by 8-foot long demolition scissors, rubble falling, roofs caving in… It’s … AWESOME!
Rustling Winds captures the many nuances of wind as it moves through fields, grasslands, forests, and dense shrubs.
You’ll hear soft breezes brushing through tall bamboo, strong gusts sweeping across wheat and cornfields, leaves rustling high in forest canopies, and frozen branches creaking in the winter cold. Each recording reveals a different texture shaped by its environment.
Recorded in multiple countries using various microphone setups, and delivered in both stereo and surround, this library offers a rich variety of natural winds in vegetation.
Vegetation Types
Cornfield • Wheat field • Bamboo • Frozen branches • Dry & green grass • Palm tree • Dead pine • Eucalyptus • Bushes • Ferns • Poplar • Beech • Kauri • Raupo reeds • Alpine forest • Deciduous & coniferous forest
Stereo and Surround
Recorded with multiple microphone setups, this library is delivered in 5.0 (L/R/C/Ls/Rs) and Stereo.
43 Stereo files + 10 Surround files
Gear used
Zoom F3 • Zoom F6 • MixPre-6 II • Usi Pro • MKH30 • MKH8040 • H1n • mikroUsi • NT-SF1
Metadata
This sound library is UCS compliant and comes with fully embedded metadata compatible with Soundly, Soundminer and Basehead.
Neighbors: Sounds Behind Walls is a unique collection, offering over 3 hours of sounds capturing the daily activities of neighbors living next or above you. This collection can be used especially to bring life to quiet spaces/rooms.
Think about indistinct sounds from neighbors walking around, setting the table, making coffee, tea, load and unload the dishwasher, cooking, tidying up the room, flushing the toilet, using the water tap, vacuum cleaning, dry blowing their hair, brushing their teeth, taking something out of the fridge or freezer, opening and closing curtains, or even practicing an instrument. And that is not all. We’ve also covered a “noisy” neighbor walking around the room, using or slamming doors, jumping, moving furniture and walking up and down the stairs.
All recordings are clear and completely free from external noise, voices and other disruptions. No additional reverb is used for more flexibility.
Utilizing two microphone setups provides two variations for each recording, offering both more pronounced and more distant options.
Get over 3 hours of unique, royalty-free and high-quality recordings with this library. Recorded in 24 bit / 96 kHz. Accurately edited and mastered. For more detailed descriptions about the recordings in this collection see the metadata in our file lists or listen to the preview montage.
This library is 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.
625 audio recordings and synthesized sound effects carefully processed and edited to fit with any fantasy style UI visuals.
UI Fantasy Sound Pack can be used for any kind of UI buttons, including clicks, beeps, drones, slides, glitches, etc.
Perfect for video games, trailers and films.
Whooshes is a sound library containing many recordings of various objects being swung. The resulting sounds are useful in a variety of places, such as for the sound of throwing, jumping, and more!
Features:
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.
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.
Dog Vocalisations Vol. 2 features the unusual noises of a Wire Haired Standard Dachshund in heat. This pet’s personality shines through as she stubbornly tries to paw her way into her metal kennel.
Her frenzied behaviour makes way for bizarre whines, cries, barks, growls and mewls – all carefully captured and edited by our Audio Craftsmen. The result is a series of truly strange sounds ideal for creature sound design or enhancing character in your animal creations.
The candid quality of these sounds also makes them perfect for enhancing realistic animal moments in Film, TV and Game productions.
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
The sound enthusiast in you will love to know that we scoured around the city/internet to collect a bunch of antique mechanistic objects for this sound collection. We even scored an old classic adding machine and a working antique pedal sewing machine! The gears and mechanisms in this odd assortment of old machines is from a beautiful and rich bygone era of manual movement, of strange and fascinating ideas from inventors creating moving parts that are simply unproducible in modern day gadgets.
Your ears spring to life as you listen through, one by one through these highly detailed and engrossing audio recordings that capture brilliantly the foreground and midground layers of the small moving parts. Perfect for older weapon Foley, for steam-punk machines, period piece machines, industrial era machinery, and on and on. A small vintage gear crank, that special metallic rich clickety-clack of a dusty old mechanism, the ribbon typewriter scrolling…
To get the most out of this collection of old mechanisms, we used a multipositional close mic-ing approach for these in order to get all those tiny moving details. Of course, they required that they be captured in our smallest studio used for precisely these low-noise environment sort of recordings – key in bringing the detailed three dimentional quality of these mechanisms to life.
As sound designers, we always need new, better, varied material. We want to feel excited by and connected to the sounds we use – enjoy and make it yours!
Useful Sound Effects releases Creature Wings, a library that contains Wings sound effects. Sounds range from complete mixes of creatures flying by, being hit, moving in stereo, single wing flaps, multiple wing beats recorded in foley sessions with multiple materials and various speeds. Also RAW files that allow you to edit the wing sounds to your needs… Some recorded session files with a Sanken CO100K are added in their 192KHz format.
Save hours of foley sessions and editing and get started with what you were after, or let yourself be surprised and listen to wing sounds that add more character to your creature flying movement.
Over 450 files that contain in most cases multiple recordings, offering variations in speed, texture, material, EQ, FX.
UCS compliant and Metatagged files with 458 sounds, containing over 1000 sounds. Useful for very small insect up to monster wing sounds.
German engineering in its high performance.
I would love to introduce you to the 2019 Porsche 911 Carrera S sound library for your sound editorial and designing purposes.
The library comes in three dedicated sections: RPM Collection (incl. Idling), Drive-Bys (incl. Approaches and Drive offs) and Interior drive recordings.
After lots of thought and planning, I managed to record, clean, and edit the recording for an extensive and easily accessible editorial experience to your production.
The RPM Collection gives you a large range of multi-microphone proximate and one-meter distance recordings of the engine, as well as a broad variety of details of the exhauster. This masterpiece of engineering got recorded on a vehicle lift to gather sounds from unreachable angles, catching all the richness and details of the engine.
With a large collection of Idling, Reverse, Steady RPMs, Revs, Accelerations and Decelerations, you will be able to use these sounds as a wonderful organic layer to your vehicle sound designs and edits.
The Drive-bys, approaches, and drive-offs section can be essential to maximize the quality of your production! This package includes Mono sound source following and Stereo drives of the 2019 Porsche 911, with velocities starting at Walking Speed, 10km/h – 80km/h to Reverse.
The Interior Drive series portraits the most beautiful driving experience with its unique comforting interior and design. I am thrilled to share with you the quadraphonic interior recordings of the front and rear of the car.
Covering the sounds driving over cobblestone, uneven and normal roads (reverse drive included) at multiple speeds from Walking Speed to 160 km/h!
Side note: The engine becomes nearly silent in times, which leaves us with just a beautiful interior rumble of the car driving over cobblestones.
Let your designing imagination be the limit of your creation!
Royal Blue Audio
A Journey with Sound
Suburbs of Chicago: Lagoon is the second installment in the Suburbs of Chicago Series. This package contains ambiences from a suburban lagoon. There is no shortage of bird chirps, leaves and grass rustling in the wind, and bike pass bys. Canoe Paddling, both distant and close, can be heard as one of the outdoor activities. As in any suburb, there are distant cars and distant planes. There is also 20 minutes of various car passes on a side road. 18 files wrap up this small package and over 300+ sounds for a duration of over 2 hours, and exported at 48kHz, 24 Bit! All files are metadata tagged and updated using the Universal Category System in Soundminer, Basehead, and Soundly.
Get almost 2.4 GB of loud, lively recordings of modern construction sites in Construction Ambiances. All files are UCS-compliant.
This sound effects collection is packed with clean, ambient recordings of excavators, trucks, cranes, pile-drivers, drilling concrete, cutting re-bar, shoveling rubble, etc, etc. Recorded in Denmark, but with intelligible Danish words edited out, so should be very clean. Many individual sounds are over 3 minutes in length and recorded from more than one perspective, giving you more flexibility in your productions.
You get:
• Clean, lively ambient recordings of construction sites – internal and external
• Bonus pile-driver recordings!
• UCS-compliant, searchable file names
• BWAV metadata embedded with even more included in CSV and ODS (OpenOffice) formats
Are you looking for skid sounds for your next action movie? Well, this sound library is made for you.
“Skid and Drift” is the result of 4 years of recording work. It is a complete collection of skids from various vehicles, recorded from multiple perspectives, on all types of surfaces, and in high quality (dirt, dry and wet concrete, gravel, etc.).
You will find skids from race cars recorded during the French National Drift Championship, skids from go-karts, motocross bikes, bicycles, skateboards, ice skates, rollerblades, as well as foot skids.
These sounds were recorded in both stereo (XY and ORTF position) and mono, depending on the case, using the following microphones: Schoeps CCM4, Neumann U87, DPA4061, Lom MikroUsi. All sounds are recorded in 24-bit. The sampling frequency is 48kHz for scuffing footsteps sounds, and 96kHz and 192kHz for other recordings.
The metadata is precise and complete. All sounds are in UCS format.
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – WATUSI
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – MEERKAT
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – WHITE HANDED GIBBON
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – LOVEBIRD
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – CROWING ROOSTER
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – GOAT & SHEEP
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – DONKEY
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – PARROT
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – ALPACA
“The Animal Symphony – Cats Vol 1” offers a collection of 36 high-quality audio tracks, each with multiple sounds (between 3 and 5 variations). The audios are organized with an intuitive nomenclature, allowing you to easily exchange the different microphone jacks to choose or combine the best recordings. Using high-end microphones, such as the Sennheiser MKH 8050 and EM258, 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 meows from two different cats, 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 that requires sounds from these cats. All recordings have been carefully edited to eliminate external noises, such as birds, wind or people. Furthermore, thanks to the ultrasonic microphones used, it is guaranteed that by lowering the tone the frequency richness will be maintained.
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: 36 (Each audio contains between 3 and 5 variations)
– 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 – Cats Vol 1” 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.
Kawaii UI Bundle
Footsteps Vegetation
63,13 € incl. vat
Potion Sound Effects
21,39 € incl. vat
Power Up Sound Effects
32,09 € incl. vat
Bowling Sound Effects
21,39 € incl. vat
Motion Graphics
Modular UI
Animal Hyperrealism Vol IV
WET and SLIMY - Foley Recordings
Forests and Mountains
Horror Jumpscares
The Still Line
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