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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
Cinematic Rivers Creeks Streams & Waterfalls
From across his homeland in the Pacific Northwest Nick brings you Flowing Water. A curated collection of pristine water flowing down mountains and through valleys of the Cascades, Olympic alpine, and beyond. This library is pure water and free of other creature or external sound. Recorded over years while hiking this vast wilderness these creeks, streams, rivers, and falls are carefully selected as the most musical and dynamic. Almost completely loopable, Flowing Water comes with extensive metadata and is UCS-compliant.
The focus of this collection is to include a variety of water movement sounds; a babbling brook, a rushing river, a gentle stream, building into the full cacophony of thundering waterfalls make for a diverse library. These sounds are captured from various perspectives, such as close-up recordings of individual drops or rivulets and wider recordings that portray an ambiance of a waterfall or a riverbank.
A collection of wet organic sounds of gore, bone break, flesh tear, stabs, squishes, and more. Give your horror, hack-and-slash, or action project the juicy, impactful, and crunchy sound it needs.
In this library you will find a dark ambience sounds.
These sounds are perfect to use in movies, trailers, games, documentaries, etc.
These sounds were all created by me on virtual synthesizers.
After working these sounds in post-production, this library comes with 5 dark ambiences.
Immerse yourself in the bustling sounds of the city with this collection of urban and outdoor ambience sound effects. City parks and playgrounds. Intersections and fountain areas. Backyards and rural forest areas. 88 individual WAV files, recorded at 24bit, 96kHz or 48kHz.
Get the perfect sound effect for any door or drawer with this comprehensive collection of 100 individual WAV files recorded in high quality 24bit, 96kHz.
Barbershop Vol. 1 is the first instalment in a series of candid recordings captured in a Mancunian Barbershop (Speak Easy Barber Club).
This library showcases the sounds created by the furniture inside a barbershop, such as the creaks and moans from the staircase leading up to the shop, the running taps from the hair-washing station, and the movements from a barber’s chair.
Additionally, we’ve include recordings of a hair dryer, water spray bottle, pomade tin, and more!
For the sound of groomers, hair brushes and scissors – look no further than Barbershop Vol. 2 for all your sonic trimming, clipping, and shaving needs.
These sounds provide you with natural, unprocessed sounds that can be used for barber-specific projects or manipulated further for a variety of film, TV, game, and soundscape projects.
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 collection includes some unique sounds from Penny, a cockapoo. From barks to whines, whimpers and grunts, Penny provided an outstanding canine performance. Being a puppy, her mood fluctuates from excitement to anxiety, but rest assured – she thoroughly enjoyed the recording session and was rewarded with plenty of treats.
All her dog noises were recorded at 192kHz 24bit, making them perfect for creative sound design.
This library is UCS-compliant.
Water Pours Vol. 2Â is an extensive collection of water-pouring sound effects recorded using a variety of containers. A variety of actions has been covered to assist with your SFX editing needs, from the ringing of a metallic canteen to the slaps of a large rubber tub.
To make this library, our Audio Craftsmen chose commonplace containers and recorded water pouring between them. Every container interaction includes multiple variations, such as long, slow pours or stuttering splashes. This library also features the pouring of a 3L Water Bottle for extremely long pouring effects.
This library is perfect for editing every day pouring sounds found in your Film, TV, Game and Podcast projects. They can also be manipulated and designed for textural effects.
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.
London Outskirts Vol. 1 is a diverse collection of candid recordings captured in locations across Greater London – specifically Ealing, Hounslow, Heathrow and Richmond.
Included in this library are: the rumbling of train interiors, busy roads, airport walla, distant sirens, bubbling water fountains and more! These sounds are ideal for building authentically British soundscapes into your Film, TV & Game productions.
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.
Discover the sounds of Wales – from the windy mountainous areas of Snowdonia to relaxed 19-th century pier on a Saturday morning in a seaside town, Llandudno, filled with families, children and local conversations. Explore the spectacular Aber Falls, one of Snowdonia’s most dramatic waterfalls and its surroundings.
This library is UCS-compliant.
Make any of your projects a thundering success with this Stormy Weather pack.
Beautifully dark and moody atmosphere to really add an ambience to your project.
Recorded in rural France during a storm.
Recorded and exported in 192Khz 32bit float so you can get the most out of all the textures and movement of the thunder.
Cartoon SFX Vol. 2Â features comedy sounds made for animated and cartoon productions. The included recordings can be applied to an array of on-screen action, including train or car putters, impacts, bangs, ratchets, folds, rattles, drills, squeals, squeaks, wobbles and much more!
For this library, our Audio Craftsmen emulated the sounds of classic cartoons, manipulating and interacting with an assortment of props to create expressive and nostalgic results. Inside, you’ll find rapid wooden snicks and shakes, toy pig oinks and squeals, rubber squeaks, plastic chatter teeth rattles, wind-up rhythms, clanging banging metal impacts and whimsical wobbles.
This library is perfect for cartoon or animated productions which require energetic, exaggerated, metaphorical sounds that reference the classic zip-crash sonic palette.
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.
Ambience of the streets
Walla of Salem during an average day
Easy to implement into a scene
Recorded in 192Khz 32bit float using the zoom f3
And exported in 192/32 and 96/24
96KHZ 24BIT • 2.7GB • 1494 FILES • STEREO • UCSÂ
Glitchy Circuits 2 is a cutting-edge cinematic sound effects library that offers a truly unique collection of experimental sounds, perfect for adding an innovative touch to your audio projects. As the second installment of the popular Glitchy Circuits series, this library takes sound design to new heights with its diverse and meticulously crafted experimental sound effects.
Collection features 1494 high-quality sound effects, each designed to be distinct and unconventional in their design. From glitchy circuitry noises and electronic glitches to futuristic glitches, distorted signals, screeming distorted impacts and circuit malfunctions, Glitchy Circuits 2 offers a wide array of experimental sound effects.
CREATED, EDITED AND MASTERED WITH: Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Kilohearts, Wavetable Synth, Unfiltered Audio, Morph EQ
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.
Magical spells, user interfaces and interesting film details are the main areas we thought about when making this library. The majority of the recordings are edited in a way that makes it easy to find variations, loop them or pitch them up or down.
All sounds are tagged with extensive UCS Metadata for ease of use. We hope you’ll have a ton of fun using these sounds.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, RØDELink Lav and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving, exterior foley and mechanical sounds. It is also available in UCS.
In this library you will find recordings of environments recorded in public places in Portugal such as train and bus stations, markets, supermarkets, beach and streets.
These sounds are perfect for background sound design in movies, games, documentaries, art installations, etc.
These sounds were all recorded with the stereo match pair microphone Clippy EM 272.
After working these sounds in post production, this library comes with 25 incredible pulic places ambient sounds.
Sri Lanka Ambiances 1 is 171 minutes/5.51 Gb of lively ambiances recorded in Sri Lanka in July 2017.
62 separate files – recorded in 24bit/96kHz using Primo EM172 microphones in a spaced A-B setup. All sounds are UCS-compatible.
This collection features a variety of locations in and around the small tourist town of Unawatuna, on the southern-most end of the island. The area is mix of small boutique hotels and private guest-houses, low-rise residential housing and small shops. Traffic is dominated by old busses and trucks, as well as mopeds and Tuk-tuks (basically a three-wheeled motorized rickshaw).
Animals heard include different birds, monkeys, dogs and squirrels during the day; and cicadas and frogs at night.
Most locations are covered with different angles/takes, to provide enough variation of the material to build a scene around. Included are several drive-bys of various vehicles.
Recording at Thousand Island Lake in Zhejiang Province, China. Also known as Qiandao Lake, this beautiful location consists of 1078 islands of all different shapes and sizes which naturally brings with it enchanting nature sounds! With a living and breathing landscape, this area is home to many insects, wildlife, natural water sources and remote villages.
Featuring recordings of countryside roads, large groups of insects and cicadas, Chinese town chatter, Chinese street sellers and old Chinese boats this pack captures the essence of Thousand Island lake. Includes 25 audio tracks all recorded at 24bit / 44.1 kHz with UCS metadata.
Traffic Pass Bys Vol. 3 is the third in our series of versatile vehicle pass by recordings. This collection contains a mixture of single and continuous pass bys, stops, idles and pull offs at a busy junction and on main roads.
A range of vehicles have been included to allow for maximum variation in your soundscapes or designed elements. Highlight specific vehicles, emphasise transitions, and turn buses, lorries, trucks, cars, vans and more into immersive atmospheres, sci-fi vehicles, dopplers and whooshes – all with Traffic Pass Bys Vol. 3!
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.
Phantasmal Ambiences Bundle comprises unnerving horror ambiences designed to make audiences recoil and shake! Distant noises of poltergeists, demons, aliens and other deranged beings create a sense of insecurity and tension in the listener, and are thus ideal for intensifying other-worldly spaces in your horror Film, TV and Game projects.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded a variety of spine-tingling props and movements at 344 headquarters and a Neo-Gothic Nottingham church. These were all chosen and manipulated with the intention of alluding to a supernatural presence somewhere in the near-distance. Further design processes were then applied to form blood-curdling, chilling soundscapes sure to maximise the fear in your audiences!
Phantasmal Ambiences Bundle comprises unnerving horror ambiences designed to make audiences recoil and shake! Distant noises of poltergeists, demons, aliens and other deranged beings create a sense of insecurity and tension in the listener, and are thus ideal for intensifying other-worldly spaces in your horror Film, TV and Game projects.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded a variety of spine-tingling props and movements at 344 headquarters and a Neo-Gothic Nottingham church. These were all chosen and manipulated with the intention of alluding to a supernatural presence somewhere in the near-distance. Further design processes were then applied to form blood-curdling, chilling soundscapes sure to maximise the fear in your audiences!
The entire bundle is delivered at 24Bit 96kHz and tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.
Exterior Vibrations is a collection of raw contact microphone recordings of dynamic movements made across materials and surfaces found in exterior locations. Inside you will find scraping metal, squeaking shutters, creaking rope and more.
Our Audio Craftsmen utilised two contacts mics to create a stereo configuration, allowing for an affecting, immersive listening experience.
The organic nature of these sounds means they’re perfect for designing or including in abstract projects. Their more unsettling qualities, meanwhile, make them ideal for horror and science fiction productions.
Texturise unusual moments or craft evolving ambiences with this experimental treat of a library!
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.
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