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Universal Category System (UCS)

Sound effects libraries where the file names and metadata follow the Universal Category System (UCS), championed by renowned sound supervisor Tim Nielsen & more

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    Wild Animals Sound Effects Roosevelt Elk Herd in Fall Play Track 30 sounds included $17.50

    In this library you will find recordings made by tracking a herd of wild Roosevelt Elk in the Pacific Northwest and recording them in the fall at the beginning of the “rut” when the males begin competing for attention of the females. Recording this library I quickly found that searching for a single target species to record is quite different than choosing a location and recording whatever happens to be there. New challenges were presented and a great deal of planning went into finding where the herd was likely to be at the time. With a brilliant stroke of luck all that planning paid off on the first attempt!

    Included are 30 sounds of:

    • Bull elk bugling
    • Bull elk sparring and clashing antlers
    • Calves calling

     

    All the recordings were made in the same morning, meaning they can be plugged into the same game with a minimal amount of ambience matching. Note that although I made use of a parabolic mic during the recording, because these are wild animals I kept distance and hid behind a bush, staying out of sight of the elk so as not to disturb them. This introduces some extra “air” or ambience into the recording which I have chosen not to remove in order to preserve the integrity of the sound of the elk and to leave this option for you to decide.

     

    I’ve already done the hard part of finding the elk and recording them for you, now you can focus on the creativity of your project.

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  • Nature & Countryside Ambiences Nature Play Track 86 sounds included, 250 mins total $29.95

    Nature library is a collection of background ambiences covering lots of terrain from seas and lake shores, rivers, desert, grasslands, forests with birds, swamps, mountains and tropical areas all recorded in the North and Central Americas and Pacific Islands.

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  • Nature & Countryside Ambiences Eastern European Wetlands Play Track 18+ sounds included $18

    Eastern European Wetlands is our new sound effects library, made in collaboration with our friend and acclaimed field recordist Georgi Valchev from West Wolf Audio.

    This outstanding collection of sound effects contains stunning ambient recordings from a variety of rural locations within Eastern Europe, such as Bulgaria and Romania. These real-world locations include wetlands, marshes, swamps, forests and city outskirts, and features a diverse line-up of wildlife local to each area.

    Our team of audio craftsmen have edited and processed each sound with the upmost precision, so that you can drop your sounds straight into your project timeline and get down to work with minimal fuss.

    All files in this library come at a sample rate of 24Bit 96kHz allowing for further sonic manipulation, and have been tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.

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  • Human Sound Effects Screams – Female Play Track 27 sounds included $17

    Female Screams to enhance your projects, whether game or film!

    Agonising screams, Fearful shrieks and aggressive battle cries

    All Recorded in 24/192khz so they can be easily manipulated if needed

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  • Ambisonic Sound Effects Immersive Industries Play Track 400 sounds included, 360 mins total $175

    The First Industrial Revolution, which arised in the second half of the 18th century, meant a series of industrial and socioeconomical transformations and a turning point on sound: the end of silence.

    Asturian sound editor and designer Oscar de Avila is the main recordist of this Library. He begins his career in the mid 90s as a music composer and sound editor for audiovisual media, carrying out numerous projects for several institutions and film production companies in the Principality of Asturias.

    SSL40 Immersive Industries

    This large compilation of registers formed by forced sounds, dark and electrical textures and industrial-themed backgrounds have been registered in 2019 at the most important and strategic areas (they had difficult access and permits were hard to get) around some industrial locations in the Principality of Asturias,Spain, which is my home place, as I was working for a documentary website on Asturian industrial historic heritage as the only responsible for sound design and editing (patrimoniuindustrial.com).

    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!

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  • City Life Sound Effects Shopping Mall Of Hong Kong Play Track 27 sounds included, 115 mins total $80

    This library features ambience and crowd recordings captured inside Hong Kong shopping malls. Each recordings reflects a specific venue acoustics, crowd dynamics and perspectives. The primary language found in these recordings are Cantonese and Mandarin.

    All recordings are recorded, edited and processed to broadcast standard , ready for all types of media use, such as animations, films, games, advertisements and other aspiring creative projects.

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  • City Life Sound Effects MWS Indonesian Ambiences Play Track 60 sounds included, 245 mins total $68

    From the busy streets of Jakarta to the deep jungles of Borneo MWS Indonesian Ambiences is providing a diverse snapshot of Indonesia soundscape.

    Carefully recorded over a 40 days trip it covers many islands of the Indonesian archipelago.

    MWS Indonesian Ambiences includes urban scenes like squares, markets, small streets and avenue with bustling life and many calls to prayer singing through PAs. Suburban and villages scenes for quieter purposes, sea sides from near to desert Islands, a floating market and deep jungles ambiences at various time of the day.

    The sounds are fully Meta-Tagged and are UCS compliant.

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  • Household Sound Effects Champagne & Wine Commercials Play Track 28 sounds included $20

    Born from our own adventures in crafting captivating ads, this library is a collection of sounds that brings “Champagne and Wine” commercials to life! Perfectly crafted for those exquisite slow-motion pack shots and the hyper-real sounds of liquid pours, this library is designed to elevate your projects with elegance and flair. Don’t miss the chance to speed up your production process while ensuring that every pop and pour resonates with your audience.

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  • Cloth and Fabric Sound Effects Cloth Rip 2: Household Play Track 510 sounds included $25

    Cloth Rip 2: Household is a collection of over 500 ripping, tearing, and shredding sound effects.  While the title is “Cloth Rip”, the materials range from common household cloths like curtains and towels to common household sheet-plastic, such as tarp and a heavy duty plastic garment bags used for storing clothes in a closet or attic.  But wait!  There’s more!  In addition to the rip sounds, we have included some plastic movement sounds for both the tarp and garment bag.

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  • City Life Sound Effects Urban Underground Play Track 111+ sounds included, 190 mins total $43

    Urban Underground consists of 111 files that will help you recreate the soundscape of an underground area in an urban environment. Quiet room tones, muffled noises, distant impacts, water through pipes, hums, buzzes, HVACs, fans, elevators and many more sounds are included.

    • 41 underground ambiences, featuring empty basements and garages, with more or less activity; as well as different rooms located in a basement, such as bathrooms, kitchens, boiler rooms, meter rooms or even a gym.
    • 70 recordings focused on that machinery that we commonly find in an underground location: HVACs, fluorescent lights, fans, water pumps, engines, elevators, etc.
    • Usable both for industrial locations and household environments.
    • Recordings are completely clear and free from any birds, people, traffic and unwanted noises in the background, unless it’s specified in the file name.
    • Gear used: Sound Devices MixPre 6-II, Zoom F8, Sennheiser MKH 8040s in ORTF, Sennheiser MKH 8040/8050 + MKH 30 in M/S, LOM Geofon, Sennheiser Ambeo and Sony D100.
    • All files are in 96 kHz / 24 bit and come with exhaustive embedded Soundminer metadata.
    • UCS compliant metadata. Fields included CatID, Category, Subcategory, FX Name, Filename, Description, BWDescription, Library, RecType, RecMedium, Microphone, Designer, Manufacturer, Keywords.
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  • Ambisonic Sound Effects Spatial Rain & Thunders Play Track 20 sounds included, 100 mins total $49

    Spatial Rain & Thunders is an immersive collection of audio ambiences for cinema, VR, videogames and any audiovisual or creative purposes.

    The audios provided in this library are high quality recordings with Zoom H2n recorder in Spatial Audio mode, horizontal-only ambisonic alike mic layout stored in an AmbiX format. W, X, Y channels of AmbiX provide immersive audio through the horizontal plane and they allow to decode the recording into Mono, Stereo, Binaural, Quad, 5.0, 5.1, 7.1 and more layouts with dedicated Ambisonic processors. Z channel is empty.

    The library comes with 5.0 and Stereo version of the AmbiX original recordings.

    Now UCS Compliant!

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  • Bundles Weather Bundle Play Track 469+ sounds included, 2220 mins total $271

    Weather Bundle includes eight different sound libraries, featuring rain and wind both in urban and rural environments, at 30% discount.

    This bundle brings together an incredible collection of rain and wind sounds hitting and blasting different surfaces at several intensities.

    • Empty streets howling and whistling, vegetation rustling, plastic and cloth flapping, interior perspectives.
    • From turbulent winds to long sweeping gusts and light breezes.
    • Rain in terraces, backyards, parking lots, tunnels, rooftops, patios, inside cars, or even in a stadium.
    • Rain falling on surfaces such as leaves, bushes, dirt, mud, puddles, metal roofs, patio tiles, cars, concrete, plastic and so on.
    • Drops against plastic, metal, pavement, puddle and marble.
    • Free of unwanted sounds. Unless it is specified, you will only hear either wind or rain.
    • Gear used: Sound Devices Mix Pre 6-II, Zoom F8, Zoom F3, Sony D100, Sennheiser 8040s and MKH30 in DMS, Sennheiser 8040s, Sennheiser 8050, Senhheiser MKH30, Sennheiser Ambeo, LOM Usis.
    • All files are in 96 kHz / 24 bit and come with exhaustive embedded Soundminer metadata.
    • UCS compliant metadata. Fields included CatID, Category, Subcategory, FX Name, Filename, Description, BWDescription, Library, RecType, RecMedium, Microphone, Designer, Manufacturer, Keywords.
    • Libraries included: Wind Textures, Wind Textures II, Wind Textures III, Wind Textures IV, Urban Rain, Urban Rain II, Rural Rain, Rural Rain II
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  • City Life Sound Effects London 2020 Play Track 195 sounds included, 609 mins total $90

    London 2020 captures the unique sound of the city throughout the Coronavirus pandemic, from March all the way through to December.  It includes:

    • Parks, cemeteries and riverside paths
    • Crowds
    • Train stations (including tannoy announcements)
    • On board recordings of most underground and overground train lines
    • On board London buses
    • Traffic, passbys + sirens
    • Populated areas such as plazas, busy streets + shopping centres
    • Specific Covid-19 effects such as the clap for the NHS and Covid Tannoy Announcements in stations

    195 stereo files comprising over 10 hours of recordings, all made safely and according to the lockdown regulations in place at that time.

    All recordings fully mastered and labelled (with metadata) using the Universal Category System.

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  • Bundles SoundBits Complete Bundle Play Track 35000+ sounds included $1,074.24

    The SoundBits | Complete Bundle contains 80 sound effects libraries that are currently available here at A Sound Effect.

    LIBRARIES 80
    FILES 33420
    SIZE 317 GB

     

    With this bundle, you save 20% compared to the sum of all libraries if you purchase them separately.

    LIBRARIES IN THIS BUNDLE

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  • Destruction & Impact Sounds Swarf Play Track 53 sounds included $15.99

    A collection of RAW gritty metallic impacts, debris, movements and one shot recordings. Ideal for foley, and for sound designers and cinematic composers who wish to experiment with metallic sounds. Can also be used to design Horror UI sounds or metallic monsters in game audio.

     

    WAV + MP3 files. UCS Compatible

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  • Horror Sound Effects ANGST | Surrounding Horror – Designed Soundscapes – Stereo Play Track 160+ sounds included, 400 mins total $18

    This collaboration of the sound designers Bony Stoev and Saro Sahihi is the long awaited successor and main chapter of “Surrounding Horror – Prologue”.
    In this library you’ll find all sounds from the “Surrounding Horror Soundscapes” library downmixed to Stereo.
    Each soundscape was painstakingly handcrafted to 2:30 minute length with lots of frightening and terrifying sonic events.
    It gives your horror-related production just the right amount of heart-stopping texture, leaving your audience with fear crawling up their spines to hold ’em tight.

    Also available: “ANGST | Surrounding Horror – Construction Kit” (or get the Bundle)

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  • Destruction & Impact Sounds GlitchFX | Percussion Sounds 01 Play Track 511 sounds included $10

    This is Part 01 of the “GlitchFX Percussion Sounds 01” Sample collection It contains over hundreds of dirty, glitchy percussive sounds to spice up your tracks.
    Noisy hats, dirty percussion sounds, devestated kicks and mutilated snare drums. Everything far from clean.
    Fits perfectly for electronic music like GlitchHop, EDM, Trap, Dubstep, HipHop and many others. And of course for any kind of sound design.

    • 102 x Claps & Snares
    • 80 x Kicks
    • 45 x Hats & Noise
    • 104 x Percussions
    • 180 Glitch, Dirty & SFX
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  • City Life Sound Effects Montreal 365 Play Track 365 sounds included, 998 mins total $149

    The library ‘Montreal 365’ is the result of a long 5 years endeavour.
    These sounds were recorded through 5 years of field recording around the city of Montreal, Canada.

    It captures the wide variety of the urban facets and comprises all 4 seasons through which the soundscape is largely modified. The library has 2 main types of ambiences: interior and exterior.

    Montreal is a large North-American cosmopolitan city with a European flavour. Many different ethnicities reside there. The main language is French but English is also omnipresent. The highly varied seasons mark the landscape and influence the moods and energy of the city.

    Montreal Sounds

    What’s inside:
    • 365 ambiences from Interiors & Exteriors
    • From all the city, downtown and suburb
    • Through 5 years, 4 seasons represented
    • More than 16 hours of selected ambience (365 files)
    • HD Sounds recorded with Sound Devices recorder, and with ORTF stereo capture.

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  • Ambisonic Sound Effects Insectus Play Track 300 sounds included, 50 mins total $69

    Do you want to add a bit of mystery, depth, tension to your ambience stem and influence the emotional state of the listener?

    Insectus is a special Ambisonics sfx library: we’ve been through lot of experimentation in that time with different approaches regarding the best way to deliver this bizarre package of sounds.

    So what is it exactly? Just think about the sound-designed material as a background sweetener. We’ve called it Insectus not only for its Latin roots, but also because it comes from the fusion of two word: Insect+Tinnitus.

    We used the higher octave of the spectrum in an odd way, mimicking insect vocalization and biophony sounds in Symbolic Sound Kyma by layering a lot of synthesised stream of small band of very high frequencies (hence the inspireful source name Tinnitus).

    Now you can create soundscape by layering, rotating, expanding and shrinking the FuMa/ambiX file. You can also re-construct the 360° sound panorama from binaural up to 7.1 surround.

    You’ll find 100 loopable variations of FOA FuMa/ambiX interleaved files (4 channels), with a duration of 30 seconds each.

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  • Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Monsters Library Vol 5 Play Track 360 sounds included, 16 mins total $18

    Monster Library Vol. 5 – Visceral. Organic. Unleashed.

    In Monster Library Vol. 5, we dive deep into the organic and visceral side of creature sound design. This volume features three unique monster types, with a total of 360 individual high-quality sounds, all recorded, edited, and mastered at 192 kHz / 24-bit for exceptional clarity and creative flexibility.

    Meet the Monsters
    – Kraughor is a towering beast with devastating roars and deep, rumbling frequencies that make it feel like a true threat.
    – Varnok is a mid-sized, grotesque mutant. Its screams have evolved far beyond anything human, resulting in terrifying and unpredictable vocalizations.
    – Skarnil is a small insectoid creature, sharp and fast, with a unique alien-like presence.

    Each creature includes a full range of roars, growls, death sounds, and footsteps. As a bonus, we have also added egg hatching sounds and generic monster bites, ideal for enriching your creature scenes.

    To create these monsters, we combined animal recordings from our existing sound library catalog with custom textures from our personal archive, including creaking furniture, rusted metal, slime layers, and more. The result is a rich and detailed collection ready to drop into your project.

    Perfect for sound designers, game developers, and cinematic creators, this library offers drag-and-drop ease with high-end quality, designed to bring your creatures to life with impact and personality.

    More about the pack
    – Intuitive file naming
    – All you’ll ever need regarding monster 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 a creature other than the one described, remember that the world of sound is totally subjective.
    – For any questions or problems: [email protected]


    Features
    – 360 Monster sounds
    – Format: 192KHz / 24 bits
    – Do Sound FX loop: yes
    – Win/Mac: Yes
    – Minutes of audio provided: 16:33

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  • Drones & Mood Sound Effects Pipe Noise & Flow Play Track 131+ sounds included, 233 mins total $75

    Pipe Noise & Flow is a sound effects library built around the hidden voices of pipe systems, large and small. Captured over several years across industrial plants, residential buildings, factories, sewers, underground tunnels, caves and public infrastructure, this collection brings together a wide range of sonically rich material.

    You’ll hear water, gas, and air moving through pipes made of metal steel, copper, aluminium, plastic, glass, concrete, and stone. There are massive flows and subtle trickles, bursts of pressure, hollow resonances, eerie whistles, and the strange tonalities that emerge when systems crack, leak, or fail. Many recordings feature broken or deteriorating pipes, full of texture and unpredictability. While there is plenty of industrial and subterranean grit, you’ll also find more subtle sources like kitchen sinks, bathroom plumbing, and everyday interior systems; sounds that can lend realism or eeriness to intimate scenes.

    This library is designed to be flexible and inspiring. Use it to create detailed ambiences for sci-fi, horror, and post-apocalyptic settings, to build layered mechanical textures for machines and user interfaces, or to design unique elements for hybrid weapons, alien devices, strange creatures or abandoned environments. Whether you need the realism of urban infrastructure or the surreal qualities of a forgotten machine, Pipe Noise & Flow offers an unexpected toolkit full of possibility.

    Pipe Noise & Flow - Audio Demo Spectrogram

    What’s inside:

    • Flowing water, rushing air, and gas movement through pipes
    • Large industrial pipes, small tubing, and flexible hoses
    • Pipes made of metal, iron, copper, aluminium, plastic, glass, concrete, and stone
    • Broken, leaky, and deteriorating pipes with rich textures
    • Interior plumbing: kitchen sinks, bathroom drains, home radiators
    • High-pressure bursts, trickles, drips, and hissing valves
    • Tonal and pitched pipe resonances, drones, and hums
    • Mechanical rattles, clangs, gurgles, and thumps
    • Subterranean ambiences and underground utility spaces
    • Studio performances exploring controlled flow and resonance
    • Eerie whistles and howling vents for otherworldly design
    • Abstract textures and tonalities ideal for creature sound design
    • Inspiring source material for sci-fi, horror, fantasy, and surreal soundscapes
    • Useful elements for user interface design, machine textures, and hybrid weapons
    • Ready-to-layer assets for creating atmospheres, backgrounds, and special effects
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  • Car Sound Effects Aged Truck Play Track 100+ sounds included, 89 mins total $59

    Aged Truck features a variety of characteristic sounds from an old classic truck. From idling engines to acceleration and deceleration, as well as different perspectives of steady and casual driving, this sound library strives to capture the essence of classic trucking. It also includes detailed recordings of doors, gear sticks, pedals, and various levers and switches. Hear the metallic clatter of shifting gears during a drive, and the abrupt halt of an engine stalling mid-motion.

    This library includes total 100 files, consisting of 65 mono files and 35 stereo files recorded in ORTF at 96 kHz. Approx. 1 hour and 29 minutes total.

    Certainly, this library was carefully tagged with rich Soundminer metadata, including marks in the recordings highlighting interesting sounds.

    All the recordings were recorded, edited and mastered with love and care.

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  • Animal Sound Effects The Animal Symphoy – Laughing Kookaburra Play Track 544 sounds included, 5 mins total $15

    Experience the distinctive call of the Laughing Kookaburra with this meticulously crafted sound library, offering 30 high-quality audio tracks, each with multiple variations to suit the needs of any project.

    Organized for seamless use
    Recordings are uniformly labeled to ensure effortless integration into your workflow, allowing for easy selection, combination, or swapping of takes based on your creative vision.

    Accurate recording with professional equipment
    Captured at an intimate distance of just 20cm, these recordings deliver unparalleled clarity and detail.

    Equipment used is as follows:
    – Sennheiser MKH 8050: For direct, natural sound capture.
    – Sanken CO-100K: Ideal for capturing ultrasonic frequencies.
    – Zoom F6: Professional audio recorder that allows recording at 192Khz.
    – Zoom H6: For capturing a stereo recording.

    Ultrasonic capture ensures that even when sounds are pitched down, their depth and frequency richness is preserved, making them perfect for designing fantastical creatures or unique soundscapes.

    Professional Standards & Quality
    – Resolution: Recorded at 24-bit/192kHz and delivered at 96kHz/24-bit.
    – Editing: Tracks have been carefully cleaned of external noises such as distant birds, wind, footsteps or human activity, ensuring a pristine, professional-quality product ready for immediate use.

    With The Animal Symphony: Laughing Kookaburra, you’ll have access to a versatile, perfect for enhancing any audiovisual project or creative endeavour.

    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: 30 (544 aprox Individually)
    – Format: 192kHz – 96kHz/24bit
    – Equipment used: Zoom F6 recorder with Sennheiser MKH 8050 microphone and Sanken CO-100K microphone, as well as a Zoom H6 recorder for stereo.
    – Duration: 04:44

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  • Creature Sound Effects Friction Mallets_Pack 01 Play Track 838+ sounds included $12

    Friction Mallet_Pack 01 is a pack of friction and impact recordings using a Unlimited Soundpoet Silicone Rubber Friction Mallet against a Long Cardboard Box. Recorded with microphones directly pointing inside the opening of the 58 inch x 12 inch x 7 inch box. The long box size gives us a wide range of recording times, from less 1 second, to around 15 seconds!

    Using this Egg Shaped Friction Mallet gets you a fun combination of Groans, Tonal Rumbles, Vibrates, Impact, Bounces, Tight and Loose Slides, Swipes, and wild Pitch Bends.

    Packed in at 3.9GB, 838 single triggered sounds totaling around 40 minutes to use as a creature, sound design, vehicle layer or any other layer you can think of! (Or maybe farts?)

    These sound files were recorded at 32bit, 192kHz using the Sennheiser MKH8050, Sennheiser MKH30 and Sanken CO-100K microphones into a Sound Devices Mix Pre-10ii.
    All are metadata tagged using the Universal Category System in Soundminer, and also searchable in Soundly, and Basehead.

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