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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
Enter the bowels of Paris, where metro passages shake the walls, and machines and ventilations echo down the corridors and platforms.
All files are embedded with extensive UCS compliant metadata.
The Cute Casual Game Music & SFX Pack offers a delightful collection of fun and friendly tunes specifically designed to add charm and whimsy to your casual game. This gem offers a total of 15 minutes of playful and enchanting themes in the form of ten loopable music tracks giving you the perfect creative setting for your ideas. Generate a light and happy ambience for puzzle games, card and board games and anything that’s casual and fun. Cuteness overload!
Foley sounds of brick toys, like Lego, Duplo, Gobriks, Sluban, Playmobil, Abrick, Minibricks, Mega, Nanoblock, Cobi, Mould King, Wange, CaDA, Nifeliz, JMBricklayer, Fun Little Toys, Fischertechnik, Burgkidz, Unico, BlueBrixx, Zurus, Light Stax, Cutedeer, Feleph, Artor Bricks… All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with Sonorous Objects SO.3 microphone & Zoom F3 recorder. Library is also available in UCS.
Get the authentic sounds of West Africa with over 6 hours field recordings from Gabon.
This library features a broad range of unique field recordings covering tropical thunderstorms, vibrant markets, walla, bustling city/beach soundscapes, a selection of unique industrial ambiences and even some rainforest atmospheres. The sounds were all recorded over a two week period in 2023 in the capital Libreville and the surrounding areas.
All sounds were recorded using a Sound Devices Mixpre6ii with either a Rode NT5 stereo pair or a more covert DPA 4060 stereo pair, as well as 3 bonus mono sounds.
All sounds are UCS compliant with burnt in metadata and PDF spreadsheet with sound list.
Experience the french countryside of Cantal in the summer. Immerse yourself in the mountains, meadows, hamlets, and villages bustling with agricultural activity, the chirping of crickets, the buzzing of grasshoppers, and the presence of cows.
All files are embedded with extensive UCS compliant metadata.
Presenting the recipe for the USER INTERFACE: Sci-Fi PRO Sound Pack – a blend of meticulously recorded objects, skillfully programmed synthesizers, seamlessly combined elements, and an intensive processing of those hybrid sources. It’s a feast for the ears. Bon appétit! From button clicks, warnings, alerts, and notifications to holograms, devices, and interface settings, everything you need for a Sci-Fi UI Sound Pack is right here.
Indian forest tribe percussion, rainforest sourced textures & more!
641 audio recordings and synthesized sound effects carefully processed and edited to fit with any retro style UI visuals.
UI RetroGaming Sound Pack can be used for any kind of UI buttons, including clicks, beeps, drones, slides, glitches, etc. It is also fit for spaceship engines, laser blasts etc.
Perfect for video games, trailers and films.
45 carefully recorded stereo ambiences of rain and thunder.
The sound pack includes weather variations from a calm rainy atmosphere to a strong thunderstorm.
The collection comes with one shot and looping sound effects with various lengths from 10 seconds to 1 minute 30.
Features 45 stereo wav files divided in 5 folders:
Check out Vadi Sound Library’s amazing collection of cowbell and sheep bell sounds! Recorded in our studio, these bells come in various sizes, and you’ll even find some cool, rusty ones. Listen to them ding, ring, and get handled from different angles with top-notch mic techniques.
Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
Bells Galore!
This set includes 107 top-quality files, clear and powerful, featuring just about every cowbell and sheep bell sound you can think of. What’s handy about these sounds is their crystal-clear quality and variety. They’re good for both real-life settings and sound design, offering loops, richness, and atmosphere.
Expect to hear bells ringing fast, medium, slow, being handled, all in different lengths and distances – close, medium, and far. The names are easy to figure out, and they’re UCS compatible. All recorded in crisp 24bit-96kHz.WAV format using our best gear: Sennheiser MKH 8040, DPA 4060, and Zoom F3, in both A/B and ORTF settings.
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.
Compilation of 10 different compact cars. Sounds are recorded with RØDE NTG1, RØDELink Lav, Line Audio Omni1, Shure KSM137, Shure VP88, Sonorous Objects SO.3 FEL Pluggy XLR EM272 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II, Zoom F3 and Zoom H4n recorders. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds.
Models:
1. Automobilwerk Eisenach Wartburg 353 1966
2. Citroen C4 2006
3. Dacia Logan 2004
4. Lada 110 1995
5. Mazda 3 2003
6. Opel Astra G 1998
7. Renault Megane 2012
8. Volkswagen Golf 1997
9. Volvo V50 2004
10. Zastava Florida In 2002
NSL – Everyday Life is a 216 Files Sound-Pack essentially composed of Backgrounds Sounds. You will have access to many samples: Forests, Cities, Transports, Amusements Park, Abandoned Places, Mountains, Room Tones and many more sounds…
In the Nomad series we’ve captured a wide variety of locations and soundscapes in remote, hard-to-reach wilderness during a six-month, 3,000-km thru hike trek across New Zealand following the Te Ararora trail ,
You’ll hear unique exotic birds and be immersed in soundscapes between the Tasman Sea and the Pacific Ocean, in the heart of primeval jungle, in the lost alpine mountains of the Richmond Range and the many Scottish-like pastures.
In this collection you’ll find rare high quality audio recordings in ambisonic Ambix format with references pictures, detailed track sheet and GPS location on both North and South Island.
NSL – Motocross Circuit Bundle is a 151 Files Sound-Pack essentially composed of MotoCross sounds. You will have access to many samples: MotorCycles, Supermot, and Quad. You will have access to many samples: Motocross Passing By, Engine Close up, KickStarts, Exhaust Pipes, and many more…
NSL – Foley Bundle First is a 200 Files Sound-Pack essentially composed of Foley sounds. You will have access to many samples: Doors, Lightswitch, Kitchen Furniture, Handles, Sinks, Tools, Sweeps, and many more…
Introducing the Gun Mechanics: Assault Rifles Sound Effects Pack, an indispensable collection of precisely captured mechanical sounds for an unparalleled warfare gaming experience. From the satisfying clicks of magazine insertion and removal to the precise clunks of weapon adjustments, this pack offers a diverse array of sounds, encompassing the most common weapons found in modern combat games and action films. Recorded with the Rode NTG4 and the Sennheiser MKH8050 microphone, capable of capturing up to 50 kHz—beyond the upper limit of human hearing—each sound has been meticulously crafted to ensure an unmatched level of detail and realism.
This library contains sound from 23 multi-miced kinetic machines and wounderous apparatus split into mixdowns and construction kits of each machinery.
The mechanisms have been designed and build by and recorded in collaboration with the kinetic artist Willi Reiche in a quiet setting at the Kunstmaschienenenhalle.
Spinning gears, squeaky leather belts, grinding metal, humming motors, tonal elements and rattling parts construct an imaginative factory ambience. It can be perfectly used to design a magical lab, an inventor workshop or a steam punk industrial complex. Of course any tiny to big gear and machines can be brought to live with these sounds. You can easily layer different parts from various machines to create the desired mood and characteristic of your visuals or story.
There are both electric machines driven by servo motors and machines that have to be handled by hand. Additional emf content has been captured from the electronic devices.
Gear used: Up to 10 microphones have been used on each machine, including Schoeps MK41 / CMC1, Dpa 4060, Neumann KMR81i, Earthworks QTC50, AKD D112, Lewitt 540s, Ambient ASF1 and EMF microphones.
Marvel at sounds of the natural world that have rarely been documented.
The first library in the Hidden Sounds Series explores the magical and unexpected sound of aquatic plants. These truly fascinating sounds have been patiently recorded in natural habitats using a selection of hydrophones. The collection features a wide variety of plant photosynthesis sounds, from intense pulses to arrhythmic percussive patterns. The delicate underwater pops and clicks are perfect for realistic documentaries, but also reminiscent of early glitch music – let your imagination go wild. Sounds have been recorded in mono or stereo and are categorised into short, medium, and long durations to fit your project requirements. This is what it’s like to hear with ears underwater!
Equipment used: Zoom F8 and Sony PCM-M10 recorders. Aquarian Audio H2a, Aquarian Audio A5, and AquaBeat hydrophones.
All files are UCS compliant and fully meta-tagged. Recorded by internationally recognised sound recordist, David de la Haye.
Get our amazing 3D Pacific Ambience Libraries 3D Pacific Tropical Island, 3D Pacific Waves, 3D Pacific Island Winds, 3D Volcano Eruptions in ONE Bundel with 171 unique sound Files. In times of global change it’s nearly impossible to hear places without human sounds. The majestic and old rainforests on the tropical south pacific islands creates an amazing soundscape. We recorded these soundscapes with a variety of organic sounds like exotic birds and animals, light and heavy tropical rain, wind blowing through trees, calm rivers, waterfalls and huge volcanic eruptions of the Yasur volcano on Tanna Island. We also covered day and night moods. Our microphone setup is the amazing immersive Schoeps ORTF3D System powered by the precise preamps of the Sonosax R4+ and AD8+. These systems allow us to record the incredible soundscapes of the south pacific rainforests in the most iconic way.
The Library include sounds like
AMBIENCE, TROPICAL, WATER, RAINFOREST, RAIN, EXOTIC, ANIMALS, BIRDS, INSECTS, WIND, VEGETATION, VOLCANO, RIVER, WATER, WAVES, SHORELINE, COAST, SURF, BEACH, OCEAN ROAR, GUST, BREEZE, VEGETATION, TONAL, PLAIN, VOLCANO, ERUPTIONS, EXPLOSIONS, CRISP, MUFFLED, CLOSE, DISTANT, WIND, PLAIN
Key Features 3D Pacific Tropical Island
Key Features 3D Pacific Island Waves:
Key Features 3D Pacific Island Winds:
Key Features 3D Volcano Eruptions:
Recordings of a 2011 Audi Q7, the flagship SUV from the german manufacturer, with a powerful turbo diesel engine.
Our sound pack contains multiple tracks of onboard and exterior recordings of passbys, start-stops, idle, revs, driving with constant loops at various RPM and acceleration and deceleration ramps for use in granular synthesis tools.
Specifications : 3.0 TDI V6 Turbo 325HP engine.
Multiple mic perspectives
This sound pack includes 9 synchronized channels of exterior and onboard perspectives. The exterior recordings are mono and stereo, while the onboard microphones capture the engine and the exhaust.
Gear used
Sound Devices MixPre-6 II • Zoom F6 • Neumann Kmr81i • LOM MikroUsi • LOM Usi Pro • Sennheiser MKH 8040 • Sennheiser MKH30 • Oktava MK012 • Shure SM57
Metadata
This sound library is UCS compliant and comes with fully embedded metadatas compatible with Soundly, Soundminer and Basehead.
A collection of sounds from Spain’s renowned Jerez Horse Fair.
Key Features:
Rain Night Neighborhood Ambience
In this library you will find ambient sounds at rain night in a quiet neighborhood.
In these sounds you will find some variations in rain intesity, cars and motorcycles passing by in the background, among others.
After working these sounds in post production, this library comes with 16 incredible ambient rain night neighborhood sounds.
Size: 2.21 GB
Files: 20 • Including metadata
Sample Rate: 192Hz – 32 Bit WAV
Duration: Approx. 25 min
Gear: Zoom F6, Clippy Stereo Pair EM272
Delivery: Instant – blazingly-fast – digital download
License type: Royalty-Free
Scraped Cymbal is a collection of 78 sounds, pristinely recorded, edited and mastered as 96k/24bit stereo wave files. This companion to the Bowed Cymbal series gives you more options for your stinger attacks. David took the old, slightly cracked crash cymbal, and literally cut into it with tin snips (picture below). He then took pliers, bent up some of the cut parts, and began experimenting with scraping various parts of the cymbal and adjusting the microphone position. The tonalities produced are almost nauseating! Deep rumbling lows, shimmery atonal highs, gut-wrenching mids – it’s a sound designer’s dream!
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