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Human sound effects and recordings – includes vocal, non-vocal and body sounds
Swordfighter is a robust package with sharp sounding swords, heaps of variations and all the extras you need to make a fight come alive. Build unique sword swings with various hits, swooshes, schings, different fighter vocals and impacts on various surfaces. All up there are 137 sword sounds, 93 surface impact sounds, 15 knife throwing sounds, 48 swooshes and 180 fighter vocals.
This version includes two sub-folders: one optimised for a film & TV workflow and the other optimised for video games workflow. Plus a few bonus sounds of a charging army.
The ‘Footsteps Bundle’ combines ‘Footsteps One‘ and ‘Footsteps Two‘ libraries together and brings you over 3800+ high quality footstep sounds on 19 unique surfaces to enrich the audio of your next project.
Dirt • Dry Sand • Dry Swamp • Forest Plain • Forest Plain II • Frozen Stairs • Grass • Grass Long • Grass Short • Gravel • Pine Needle Ground • Snow Deep • Snow Packed • Snow Scrape • Water Deep • Water Shallow • Wet Swamp • Wood Scrap • Wooden Stairs
Welcome to the Bloodfeast. Welcome to 496 files containing over 820 goregeous bone breaking, blood soaking and flesh slicing Splatter SoundFX.
This huge hardgore, construction kit contains all the sounds of gore you need for your horror-, action-, thriller-, slasher-, monster-, martial-arts-, zombie- or fantasy-, movie or video-game.
…and, there is a chainsaw too, of course.
Ready for some hard-hitting punch sounds? This combat sound library from The Sound Keeper is sure to leave a mark! When reviewed in The Audio Spotlight, the quality was described as staggering. The Punch library is available in available in three versions:
Key features:
• Most Extensive Punch Library on the market
• 750+ Sounds
• Punches, Kicks, Hits, Grabs, Blocks and Whooshes
• Processed “Hollywood” Punches including:
– Classic Style (Indiana Jones, Bruce Lee, etc.)
– Matrix Style
– Modern Style (John Wick, Daredevil. etc.)
– And Much More!
• Processed Element Sounds
• The Processed “Hollywood” punches broken down into individual elements so you can mix and match for creative freedom!
• Raw Unprocessed Sounds
• New David Morgan Indy Whip Recordings
• All files at 96Khz, 24 bit
• Metadata included for programs like Soundminer
Key features:
• Includes only designed sounds and designed elements
• 250+ Sounds
• Punches, Kicks, Blocks, Impacts, Grabs and Whooshes
• All files at 96Khz, 24 bit
• Metadata included for programs like Soundminer
Key features:
• Includes only Raw Unprocessed Sounds
• 450+ Sounds
• Punches, Kicks, Blocks, Impacts, Grabs and Whooshes
• All files at 96Khz, 24 bit
• Metadata included for programs like Soundminer
GAF SFX02 – Cartoon Materials is a sound effects library dedicated to cartoon Foley sounds.
Recorded by talented sound designers Marie Doyeux & Arnaud Roy, with high experience in the animation industry (animation series, short and long films), this library is a must have for anyone dealing with cartoon sounds! If you are fed up with the overused old cartoon sound libraries from the 80s, it is time to refresh your assets with these 2,68 Go of 352 wav files, containing more than two thousands cartoon SFX recorded in 96KHz, 24bit in our studios, with top end gear (Focusrite preamp, 4041 DPA and Shoeps MK4 microphones.
The Cartoon Materials SFX library contains everything from balloons, creaks, squeaks, skids, springs and slide whistles to toys, boings, pops, gurgles, crazy impacts – and much more!
Nb Files: 352 wavs
Nb SFX: 2059
Size: 2,68Go (zip archive of 1,64Go)
UCS Naming and Classification
G4F SFX03 – Small Crowds Outdoor is a sound effects library dedicated to outdoor voice samples, recorded with small audiences (from solos to 15 actors).
If you are looking for outdoor crowds with a sizable audience, then this library will definitely help.
Nb Files: 621 wavs (207 files with 3 different mic placements and setups : MS near, MS far, ORTF rear) which bring a total flexibility to the sound editor for a final mixdown in stereo, quad, 5.1 etc…
Nb SFX: 1947 (649 SFX in 3 placements each)
Size: 4,38Go (zip archive of 2,90Go)
UCS Naming and Classification
The “Screams & Shouts 2 – Humans” sound effects library brings you over 1.200 human shouts of pain and death, disturbing screams plus grunts of anger, struggle and attack from several men, women and children.
All sounds have been edited precisely and cut clean for instant use in your projects.
Human Stampede was recorded across multiple marathon races and captures the sound of footsteps of large crowds of runners. The idea was to capture long takes in stereo with minimal or non-existent crowd chatter to get stereo recordings that are useful for scenes of riots, warfare or even a plain old fun run.
This SFX library contains a wide range of reactions and emotional responses varying from quiet crowds to roared battle cries to a large selection of exclamations generated by a group of passionate theatrical actors in indoor venues.
Apart from the vocalizations, we’ve also included recordings of more unusual crowd ambiances like people walking around the mics, falling down, sitting down and getting up, jumping around, marching, or just being present in the space.
Crowds library is split into the following two parts:
Small Groups: Includes small groups of up to 30 people which you can layer together and quickly create the sound of any sized realistic groups of people.
Large Crowds: Brings pre-designed, easy-to-use sounds of medium to large crowds in various types of reactions, moods, and surroundings.
When it comes to audio projects, having a collection of readymade sounds makes a big difference. Not only does is speed up the process for sound editors, but it makes engineering simpler and more seamless. With our Tinnitus Sound Library, you can take advantage of 20 different high-quality audio sounds specifically designed to embrace some of the most bold and unique sounds you can find in today’s film and gaming industries.
It’s fast and simple with our sound library. Each sound is carefully crafted by real sound engineers who know how to produce a high-quality audio experience. It’s time for you to simplify your process and take advantage of what Badlands Sounds has to offer.
Disclaimer: Music in the audio demo is not included in the product.
This release features 873 screams, shouts, moans, grunts, hisses from female/male humans, zombies, monsters and creatures. Fantastic for horror, suspense, thrillers, action movies and games
All sounds are 100% dry. Reverb was just applied for the demo.
Human Vocalizations contains 1034 vocals sounds. A variety of: Attacking Groans, Battle Shouts, Death Screams, Painful Grunts, Various Efforts, Crying, Laughing and more. Both male and female voice actors.
ALL sounds from Human Vocalizations are included in our full sound package Pro Sound Collection. So if you need more sounds be sure to check it out before purchase.
When you need human sounds, this package gets you 483 SFX grouped into categories including Applause, Babies, Crying, Footsteps, Groaning, Kissing, Laughter, Screams & Whimpers and many more.
Applause • Babies • Breathing • Burping • Coughing • Crying • Drinking & Swallowing • Eating • Farting • Finger Snaps & Knuckle Cracks • Footsteps • Gagging & Choking • Gargling • Gasping • Groaning • Heartbeats • Hiccuping • Hygiene & Beauty • Kissing • Laughter • Pain Sounds • Screams & Whimpers • Sighing • Smoking • Sniffing & Sneezing • Snoring • Spitting • Urinating • Vomiting • Yawning • Yelling
The Foleyart Collection | Footsteps & Movements brings high quality Foley Artist footsteps to every audio production studio: offers high end recordings in different distance to adjust perfectly to your scene. All sounds in WAV and tagged with Metadata.
Key footstep features:
Footsteps & Movements gets you thousands of high quality footsteps, including different walking speeds, behaviours & surfaces.
Shoes • Business • Boots • High Heels • Slipper • Sneaker • Barefoot | Surfaces • Concrete • Carpet • Timber Floor • Hardwood Fl. • Gravel | Clothes • Light • Medium • Jeans |
Also available bundled with the Kontakt Instrument version here for a sweet 41% total discount
This idea was created with efficiency and budget in mind. On independent films we don't always have the luxury of budgeting out an extensive amount of foley. There are tons of resources for cutting cloth, props, and footsteps, but there are none for actions of the human body in every day situations. In this comprehensive library you will find touches, pats, scratches, slides, clasps, slaps, and so many other common actions involving skin that will help bring realism to your projects.
Sometimes emotion comes when you feel together as one. This is happening in stadiums, arenas, demonstrations when people are as one voice. This collection gets you the power of the crowd. People will go through various feelings, sometimes silent or very noisy, you will be able to cover a lot of situations with it. Moreover ambisonic format-B 3D recordings are great to enhance those kind of situations.
Coll Anderson ‘s famed Battle Crowds library is the world’s largest collection of battle crowd sound effects, covering huge crowds as they’re deep in battle, celebrating and cheering, screaming, yelling, protesting, begging, crying and much more, as well as troop movements and marching through fields, forests, and around buildings, individual call-outs, marching and more. If you’re looking for the ultimate collection of battle crowd sounds for huge clashes, civil unrest and protests, or smaller skirmishes – captured from multiple perspectives – this is it!
Take a journey back in time with Ultimate Medieval SFX Bundle! Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Ultimate Medieval SFX Bundle
With this collection you will have access to a carefully curated collection of Medieval Warfare, Medieval Town and Green Witch’s Cauldron sound effects. It covers your most essential historical needs with 1.200+ sounds, recorded and designed professionally.
You can find rope stressing sounds, listen to the rain on a beach from a bush perspective, bottle up potions, and hear a soldier as he gets ready for a battle. Listen to barn animals, horses, weapons and tools; town ambiences, mine, blacksmith, tavern, field, church bells; dried seeds and herbs, defensive spells and transfiguration spells. Go ahead and check out the contents of these three different collections included in the Ultimate Medieval SFX Bundle one by one and start imagining a story already!
You’ll find yourself first on a brutal battlefield, then come back to the busy town a little. Don’t be afraid to ask for some healing magic from the Green Witch! Travel back to the Middle Ages and take Ultimate Medieval SFX Bundle with you!
These sounds are available in 24-bit / 96kHz, were recorded delicately with DPA 4060s and Neumann KM184 pairs, have clarity and room for further sound design with the flexible texture of the sounds for customization.
About Medieval Town SFX Pack
400+ sound effects from a simple town’s parts such as; barn, field, grassland, tavern, blacksmith, carpenter, library, church, graveyard, mine, and many more a medieval town could offer. With the Medieval Town Sound Effects Bundle you will have access to dressage sounds, kitchenware sounds, church bells, town ambiences, medieval mechanical devices, mining sounds, animals, tools, weapons and more. Medieval Town Sound Effects Bundle was recorded and designed delicately for all your historical needs.
About Medieval Warfare SFX Pack
Medieval Warfare Sound Effects Pack brings the most realistic 350+ medieval sound effects that you may need for your game/film/creative projects. It includes sound effects of; warriors, explosions, barn animals, horse sound effects, medieval life sound effects, weapons, and tools, human voices, and many more to find out.
You will have access to weapon sound effects, animals, horse items, ambiences, medieval life items, sword hits, catapult, crossbow, arrow whooshes, battle cries, castle gates, foley sound effects and more. Medieval Warfare Sound Effects Pack is specifically designed for all your historical needs, with the texture of the sounds flexible for customization. Plus, you get the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!
Great for film, video, game, advertisements, Foley and suitable further as sweeteners outside of the medieval genre as well.
Green Witch’s Cauldron SFX Pack
Green Witch’s Cauldron brings you the 450+ sounds of healing white magic and spells of a playful and sometimes wicked witch. It includes collecting and drying herbs, bubbling boiling potions, bottling, casting spells with elemental magic, and many more you can find in a cauldron. With this pack, you will have access to cat sounds, witch reactions, dried seeds, dried herbs, defensive spells, attacks, transfiguration spells, whooshes and transitions and elements.
Green Witch’s Cauldron Sound Effects Bundle was recorded and designed exquisitely for all your magical needs and covers all sound effects needs for any white magic, potion-brewing, voices and subtle sounds of a witch’s life for the relevant projects and games that you are working on.
These meticulously recorded sounds have clarity and lots of room for further usage and sound design with the flexible texture of the sounds for further customization. With 24-bit / 96kHz Wav format and easy to navigate naming, you can now set the bar higher for all your film, game, motion and video projects, advertisement, animation and all witchy projects.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Gore for warfare, Essential Magic for darker magic and spells and All About Games Master Collection for a mega collection of 23 different packs for game audio sound effects.
Bodyfall is an exhaustive multi-volume sound library, designed in collaboration with prize-winning French Foley artist Florian Fabre, and recorded in the famous Hiventy foley studio.
Each volume features 2 different falling surfaces. On each of them, sounds of different parts of the human body:
Chest (simulated with 4 textures of distinct densities, labeled M1,M2,M3 and M4), feet, knees, and hands, have been separated.
All recordings were made from 3 distances (close, mid, distant) with 3 strength levels (hard, medium, soft). Finally, this huge toolbox provides you with infinite combinations to make your own and unique bodyfalls.
Bodyfall vol 1: Generic / concrete & Hard Metal:
Files included: 972 .WAV, stereo & mono files , 24 bit / 96 kHz (416 MB)
Bodyfall vol 2: Wood / Rustic & Metal Grid:
Files included: 974 .WAV, stereo & mono files, 24 bit / 96 kHz (438 MB)
Bodyfall vol 3: Dirt & Wood / Hardfloor:
Files included: 929 .WAV, stereo & mono files, 24 bit / 96 kHz (433 MB). No distant files for Dirt soft impacts.
Bodyfall vol 4: Metal / Composite & Wood / Parquet:
Files included: 929 .WAV, stereo & mono files, 24 bit / 96 kHz (433 MB)
Bodyfall Bundle:
All files & surface variations from vol 1-4 included
If you need sounds of gore, this SFX collection is truly something special. Delivering more than 600 sounds of blood, guts, bone breaks, sword and knife stabs and cuts, splatters, spurts, flesh tears, impacts – and sawing – its gets you a brutally effective collection of sounds to work with, both raw and designed.
A large collection of crowd reactions such as cheers, applause, laughter, boo’s, heckling and more from a variety of crowd sizes. Enhance an existing concert, sports or event crowd or build one from scratch. Also included are crowds clapping to the beat for music.
Get the real sounds of a UK football / soccer match – including crowd reactions covering everything from applause, cheering, booing, chanting, groans, oohs!, misses, goals and more. If you're after real stadium crowd reactions, this one delivers.
The ‘Universal Emotes’ sound library is the largest collection of human voice reactions and emotions spanning across all ages and sexes.
This comprehensive bundle totalizes 8771 files, more than 2850 unique sounds, recorded by 20 actors through more than 40 various actions and emotions.
These sounds are meant to be as ubiquitous as possible, with no speech or actual wordings (only interjections and grunts).
Each of the 8771 files included are thoroughly edited, named and metatagged, making them easy to retrieve and ready to use!
The meticulous categorization of the emotions follows the work of the professor/psychologist Robert Plutchik on the theory of emotions and its famous wheel helping us to distinguish and classify the variety of human being emotions.
Thanks to “The Audioville” and “Vincent Fliniaux” for their support on the Edit and Metadata.
This library comes with 2 download options included : the simple version 96KHz (1 simple file per sound), and the full version 192 Khz with 2 mics variations (2 files) per sound.
Crowds by AudioHero features 200 crowd sounds recorded both indoors and outside! This collection features studio audiences, sporting events, convention halls, protests and much more. All sounds in this collection have been handpicked from the Sound Ideas General HD, Laughs, Cheers & Applause, Crowds & Applause SFX, Series 6000, Series 3000 and Series 7000 sound effects Libraries.
Need the sound of people in a wide range of settings - from large and small crowds, lively audiences, quiet groups of people, human reactions and exclamations, and walla in many different locations, to single character voices, Foley-style movement and interaction sounds, kids and adult vocalizations & emotes, as well as burps, farts & other body sounds? These human sound effects libraries give you an excellent arsenal of sounds to work with.
Recorded around the world, these human sound libraries deliver a varied selection of sounds that will seamlessly blend into your game or film's soundscape and bring it to life.
Applause, burp, cough, giggle, groan, hiccup, hum, laugh, murmur, scream, sigh, sing, slurp, sniff, snore, sob, whisper, woohoo, yawn, yell
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Q: Are these sounds royalty free?
A: Yes, they're royalty free, and no attribution is required
Q: Who has recorded and designed these sounds?
A: They're created by the independent sound community, and have been recorded by some of the best recordists and sound designers on the planet. There's a constant flow of brand new sound libraries coming from the community, giving you the absolutely freshest sound effects available anywhere. Oh, and by getting sounds from the community, you support individual sound designers and sound recordists – that’s a pretty cool thing too.
Cataclysm is a vast collection of recorded, synthesized and designed sounds created to support important destructive moments and add a stronger sense of extreme consequence to any sound.
The recorded section of library features elements such as flash powder explosions, propane cannon blasts and artillery cannons recorded in unique natural environments with violent transients and lush, long and varied tails. It also features falling trees, forge burners, large trebuchet wood groans, rock smashes as well as more ordinary items recorded and designed to feel like an over the top version of themselves such as vacuum cleaner suctions, metal vase holders, ground pounders and more.
The synthesized section of the library features equally rich textures in the form of explosion sweeteners, other-worldly environmental reflections, scorching energy risers and more.
Finally, recorded and synthesized content was employed to develop the designed section, where the hyperrealism of the recordings meets the clean yet aggressive textures of the synthesized section in catastrophic assets themed around the library’s title.
Animal Hyperrealism Vol III is a library containing sounds themed animal vocalisations, from real to designed creatures totaling more than 1700 individual sounds in 279 files.
The sounds were recorded in zoos and wildlife centers. The asset list includes but is not limited to: european red deers, monkeys, reindeers, hornbills camels, crickets, tamarins, boars, frogs, red ruffed lemurs, parrots, and many more.
The content has been recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K plus a Sennheiser 8050 for center image and a couple of Sennheiser MKH8040 for stereo image.
Part of the cheats section of the library features samples recorded at 384KHz. For these sounds an additional microphone was employed, specifically the CMPA by Avisoft-Bioacoustics which records up to 200 KHz. This microphone was used to record most of the library but the 384KHz format was preserved only where energy was found beyond 96KHz not to occupy unnecessary disk space.
All files are delivered as stereo bounce of these for mics, though in some instances an additional couple of CO100K was added to the sides.
The resulting ultrasonic spectrum is rich and allows for truly extreme manipulation of the content.
This sound library was carefully recorded, processed and crafted to offer a unique toolset for your ice-cold freezing design needs.
Great for fantasy genre with ice based magic, enchantment and supernatural elements, shining motion graphics, time lapse and flow motion freeze sequences.
Bonus Aztec death whistle recordings processed by glass and icy textures.
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
“As far as the sound goes ‘Cinematic Magical Ice’ is both beautiful and mystical. I happen to like the icy textures that are oozing with coldness. Overall, this sound library boasts a good variety of effect samples ready to drop in various cinematic projects.”
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.”
Bullet Impact Sounds contains 153 bullet sound effects (23 bullet flybys and 130 bullet impacts). Bullet impacts cover 16 different surfaces. Body Flesh, Body Thump, Concrete/Brick, Dirt, Grass, Rock, Gravel, Glass, Metal Light, Metal Heavy, Wood Light, Wood Heavy, Water, Mud, Snow and Ice. Each surface has 8-9 sound variations.
A perfect collection of bullet sounds suitable for all types of sound designers, video editors, game developers or anyone who needs a large range of high quality bullet sound effects ready to use out-of-the-box. Designed specifically for games, video and other media by award winning sound designers.
This pack also includes a variety of 150 bonus sounds effects from our full library Pro Sound Collection. Note that ALL sounds from this package are already included in our other premium sound packages Pro Sound Collection and WARFARE SOUNDS. So be sure to check out Pro Sound Collection and WARFARE SOUNDS before purchase to save time and money!
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