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Own the entire Studio Obsidian library, over 17 hours’ worth of 10,000 sounds sculpted by sound designer Nathan Moody. This bundle includes:
ANALOGUE ORDNANCE: Science Fiction Weapon Construction Kit
SHIPSCAPE: Shipboard Ambiences
METALMOTION: Moving Metallic Textures
ULTRASQUISH: Unique Ultrasonic Gore
AEOLUS: Dark Wind Textures
METALLITRONIC: Vibrating Metal Textures
SIGIL: Dark Electro-Acoustic Textures
Discover one of the biggest collections of bells ever recorded with nearly 6 hours of sound.
Beautiful Bells BUNDLE contains the solo ringing of 76 swinging bells and 135 stationary bells, captured in 62 bell towers, carillons, chapels, churches, cathedrals, basilicas and clock towers across France, with unprecedented quality. Most of the sounds were recorded inside bell towers.
Swinging bells are struck by a hanging clapper. They have a natural pitch modulation due to the Doppler effect, and a timbre modulation due to varying orientation. They produce a deep and lively sound and are mostly used to announce masses, religious holidays, weddings and funerals.
Stationary bells are struck by external hammers. They have a steady and rich tone, with a long sustain. They are mostly used as musical instruments in carillons, to indicate the hour in clock chimes or to alert the population in tocsins.
Every bell size and pitch is represented in this library, from huge 10 ton bourdon to tiny carillon bells weighing a few kilograms. You will find bells founded from 14th to 21st century with a great variety of timbres and tunings, over a range of more than 5 octaves. The sounds are sorted by note from D2 to G7.
The library contains 2 carillons with 54 bells and 10 bells, available as sound files and virtual instruments (NI Kontakt and EXS24 with round robin).
You will also get 15 peals of multiple bells, called plenum.
By sorting the solo sounds by location, you can recreate authentic bell combinations. You also have the freedom to create any custom combination or use the sounds as instruments in musical scores.
All the sounds in this library were recorded in bell towers or as close as possible to provide great sonic precision and optimal signal-to-noise ratio.
Over 12,000 kilometers were traveled during six months to get you one of the most exhaustive swinging bell collection ever recorded.
• Contains BEAUTIFUL BELLS Vol 1 & BEAUTIFUL BELLS Vol 2
• A total of 227 sounds recorded in 62 locations
• Wide variety of bells (size, age, tuning)
• Contains the ringing of 10 bourdons
• 2 carillons virtual instruments
• Contains peals of multiple bells
• Contains a collection of 10 small ancient bells
• All notes from D2 to G7
• Metadata with detailed information about each bell
• 96KHz/24bit
• Very low noise
• Metadata UCS-compliant
• Mainly recorded with Sennheiser MKH 8040
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Space Divers library kicks you right into the deep sea and to open space. This special material-resonation-based sound design has been inspired by such movies as Gravity, Interstellar and variety of scuba-diving or submarine movies.
Experience the dark and deep frequencies, vibrating through rusty submarines and errant space shuttles. Listen to your own breath and hollow noises while exploring sea bottom or repairing space-station systems.
Content highlights:
Also available in the LT Underwater Bundle!
This collection offers high-quality recordings of 14 different ammunition casings falling, from shotgun gauges and handgun shells to sniper cases and artillery rounds. Captured on 20 distinct surfaces, this library provides the versatility you need for any project.
With recordings of single shell drops, multiple shells drops and rolling shells, you’ll find the perfect sound for any scene. Each action has been meticulously recorded using two microphone configurations – a Shotgun mic and a Mid-Side stereo mic setup. This ensures to delivers multiple perspectives and mono compatibility.
The library is delivered in two versions: GLUED (multiple variations in one file) and SEPARATED (one variation per file). Go check the metatada PDF to find more details about available calibers and surfaces.
Whether your project involves antique pistols, modern assault rifles, large caliber snipers, or even cannons and tanks, this sound library has got you covered.
Calibers
.22 LR • .38 Special • .44 Magnum • .50 BMG • 9x19mm • 5.56x45mm • 7.5x54mm • 20x110mm • 65x172mm • 57x438mm • 75x597mm • 20 Gauge • 12 Gauge • 25mm Armor-piercing Bullet
Surfaces
Dirt • Gravel • Grass Dry • Grass Green • Leaves • Glass Resonant • Glass Hard • Concrete • Stone • Wood Resonant • Wood Floor • Tiles • Sand • Mud • Carpet • Metal Hard • Metal Plate • Metal Grid • Ammunition Box Metal • Ammunition Box Wood
Gear used
Sound Devices MixPre-6 II • Sennheiser MKH 8040 • Sennheiser MKH30 • Sennheiser Mkh416 • Rode NTG5
Metadata
This sound library is UCS compliant and comes with fully embedded metadatas compatible with Soundminer, Soundly and Basehead.
The Exterior Vibrations Bundle contains over 400 raw contact microphone recordings of dynamic movements captured in exterior environments.
2.51 GB of tonal, textural sounds were captured by our Cudio Craftsmen using stereo-configured contact mics. Interactions with a huge range of surfaces and materials (including metal, plastic, water, wood, plants and vehicles) were made to produce an abstract collection of hits, scrapes, drags, knocks, squeaks, taps, shakes, bounces, braams, creaks and more!
This organic bundle is perfect for designing or incorporating into abstract projects. Their resonant, slightly unnerving quality also facilitates design and processing for horror and sci-fi projects.
The entire bundle is delivered at 24 Bit. Vols. 1 and 2 are delivered at 96kHz, and Vol. 3 at 192 kHz. All sounds have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Interior Vibrations Bundle contains three volumes of sonic exploration, representing the most interesting and eccentric manipulations of vibration based sound design.
It offers a huge selection of experimental sounds, sourced from electric drills, metals, instrument and much, much more.
This bundle’s versatility makes it ideal for a variety of moods, genres and projects. With it, you can build tension in scenes, design creature voices, strange, discomforting ambiences or even accentuate other sources of sound.
Explore an eclectic collection of performances captured faithfully in our acoustically treated studios.
Each library is delivered at 24Bit 192kHz. The entire bundle is tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.
One hour or various metal objects tortured with feedback resonance recording technique. Groaning, moaning, stressed and resonating metal. Large and massive low end rumble or high end squeaks and mid-freq screeches. In this edition there are raw unprocessed files and pitched down sounds with deep low end energy and massiveness.
Geophonic Design Bundle is a diverse collection of unique and abstract designed sounds with infrasonic frequencies which go as low as 10Hz. The bundle includes three libraries with a total runtime of 217+ mins (7.01 GB) that have strong sci-fi & horror vibes perfect for your films, video games, documentaries and other projects that require a mysterious and ominous soundscape.
Our Audio Craftsmen used a ‘Geophone’ which is a seismic measurement device used to record seismic waves and vibrations of the earth, to record low heavy vibrations and rumbles of various surfaces and materials, hits and interactions of wood, metal, trees, soil, clay and other natural ingredients. We have also captured sounds from window glass, busy roads with vehicle pass bys, metal posts and rails with impacts, water passing through pipes, metal containers, plastic buckets and much, much more.
All of the included sounds were then precisely edited and designed by our dedicated in house team to build ambiences such as: outer space, underground bunkers, submarines, weather stations, underground sewers, a labyrinth of metal pipes, nuclear wastelands, research bases, boulder movement, metal ghost voices, spirits calling, subsonic water texture, tree bark connection, wind interference and many more. In addition, all the files are available in 24Bit 96kHz and with UCS compliant metadata to integrate seamlessly with your workflow.
The sounds will also make a great addition to your library as layered textures, to build a mysterious atmosphere in your projects, and will be perfect as drones and ambiences for futuristic, sci-fi and horror scenes.
You will be saving 25% of the total cost of the individual libraries when purchasing this bundle, an excellent value for money addition to your sci-fi/horror sound effects libraries.
Geophonic Design – Vol.1
Geophonic Design – Vol.2
Geophonic Design – Vol.3
This gold-themed sound effects pack covers a lot of ground for any game genre that requires quality coins, nuggets, and golden bar sounds. Perfect for realistic and non-realistic scenarios in video games, podcasts, documentaries, animations and more.
This pack offers 57 sword sound effects, including 22 sheathe sounds, 25 unsheathe sounds, and 10 designed effects with subtly layered metal ringing for added detail. Perfect for medieval, fantasy, or melee weapon interactions, these SFX capture the full range of drawing and holstering actions for swords and other bladed weapons. Ideal for battle scenes, weapon handling, and any project requiring realistic or enhanced sword sounds.
Metal elements is a metal, iron, steel bonanza of hits, impacts, slams as well as mechanical sounds, levers, clicks, drops and drags. This library is especially suited for anyone looking to design sounds that are metallic in nature. The sounds contained in this library will also work fantastic as foley pieces to spice up fights, robot movement, crashes or any action scene for that matter.
Some of the sounds found in the library make use of a contact microphone to add to the lower end frequency that would simply not translate using just a shotgun microphone.
The Electromagnetic Design Bundle brings together three Libraries of electricity infused sound design. From the might of Power Plants to far-reaching Radio Towers and abstract glitches and ambiences, our Audio Craftsmen have shaped and curated what is truly our most energetic collection of Libraries yet.
INCLUDED LIBRARIES:
Electromagnetic Design
Electromagnetic Design Vol. 2
Electromagnetic Design Vol. 3
There are few, if any, other mechanical devices that have existed more ubiquitously alongside modern humans than time pieces. They are intricate, precise, and complex, made in as many styles and designs as the mind can imagine, all of which sound incredible, making them a sound designer’s dream.
We profiled 12 clocks using a superposition technique, identifying and pinpointing specific parts and perspectives of each piece. Additionally, we’ve added an extra bonus clock that was not fully profiled, but just sounded too good to leave out. Each clock has a stereo (MidSide) capture and a series of mono channel spot recordings. Layer ’em, mix ’em, and match ’em up in whichever way you see fit.
Clocks include:
Focused mechanics and components include:
Ticking at the escapement, winding of various arbors, balance wheels and hairsprings, chimes, bells, gong wires, and hammers, fan flies, weights, action keys, locks, doors, and bellows
The detail, precision, and tactility of these assets are like sonic chamomile for the mind. Alongside the power and resonance of the gongs, chimes, and bells, the juxtaposition of these different tonal textures make for a wonderfully dynamic collection.
Sounds that activate some of the deepest parts of our brain’s functioning, the content of Clockwork is simultaneously widely utilitarian and deeply innate. No matter your project, it’s time to dive in.
‘Shoot ‘em up’ has never been this exciting! From powerful laser and plasma blasts, to specialised sounds such as fire, rain and laser circles, Sci-Fi Weapons: Bullet Hell adds intensity to virtual battles. With our trusty Vaemi’s El-Ma electromagnetic field mic, we’ve captured some wild electronic shenanigans, blending them with our synthetic sounds to cook up weapon effects that’ll make your players go, “Whoa!”
The doors are very kind, but don’t make them angry. They could lose their temper resulting in a very noisy bang.
This library enriches the sfx world with new door and gate objects, both source and designed, with variety of expressive actions and perspectives. The everyday usual noises along with fantasy stimulating sounds – e.g. deep “dungeon” metal door, high pitch squeaking wire-netting gate, heavy church gate and so on. To make the slams and smashes even more hard, heavy and dirty, wildly designed “Angry” versions have been added.
Library highlight:
• 18 door and gate objects, recorded in old, gloomy houses and a church
• 6.29 GB, 645 files, several takes for each action
• “Close-Up”, “Near”, “Middle” and “Behind” perspectives in selected cases, plus mix of them
• 192khz/24 bit including ultrasonic information- the greatest resolution for next design processes
• Sound Devices MixPre6, Sanken CO100K, Sennheiser MKH30, DPA 4007, DPA 4060, Schertler Dyn Uni P48
• Photo reference for each object
While straying through several antiques shops and flea markets I unveiled a lot of very interesting and organic sounds with character. Sounds that only prop up with plenty years of service can do.
So this library is a versatile and composite collection of all those squeaky, creaky, rusty sounds with a lot of personality.
Here you will find all the little vintage sonic gems.
From mechanical cameras and rusty coffee mills, over-jammed drawers, doors and locks, to sewing machines, typewriters and malfunctioning projectors. You get over 1000+ready to use sounds. All painstakingly edited, cleaned and decently named for you.
All source sounds were recorded with Sonosax SX-R4+ with a Sennheiser MKH8050+MKH30 M/S rig, a Sound Devices MixPre-6 + MKH8060 and a Sony PCM-D100. All sounds come with embedded Metadata.
Over 375 sounds of creaking and cracking materials, including breaking cables, ropes under tension and about to split, wires and strings under stress, metal friction causing tension. Recorded with a combination of Sanken CO100K and Nevaton microphones for full frequency sound content. Saved as 192KHz these files allow for high resolution editing. Useful for impact sounds in cinema, games or documentary, but also for cartoon sounds or even creature sounds as many of the recordings contain vowel-like screeching and scraping.
Imagine a scene where a rope is about to break over an edge, an object being torn by a huge cable, a wooden structure about to collapse under stress and so on… Our brain is triggered by those rattling sounds or spine-breaking cracks coming from little fibers being split apart, parts of the structure creaking, wires scraping over edges…
These sounds can be perceived as delicate but have a great psychological impact as we interpret these and know what is about to happen. So suspense is built with both background and close-up sounds. Useful when building tension, when creating a sense of upcoming climax, these sonic elements will work out to amplify the details that are often important but not always visible for the eye.
All the source material and recording are acoustic, there are no digital effects applied. This guarantees natural organic harmonics, even way beyond our hearing. Pitching down the 192 KHz files will let you discover another collection of sounds!
You can find the following libraries in this collection >
The “Electro-Mechanics ToolKit 2” Sound Effects Library features a wide range of versatile electro-mechanic motors, engines, tools and toys.
All waiting to be cut up, layered, edited and mangled with FX to become spaceship engines, robot movements, sci fi doors, weapon mechanics.
This library is not meant to be a comprehensive tools library but rather a composite toolkit to bring futuristic electro-mechanic machines, devices, weapons, vehicles, … sonically to life.
All cleaned and edited for direct use in your upcoming projects.
All sounds have embedded BWF Metadata.
Air Compressor • Angle Grinder • Band Saw • Belt Sander • Bowling Alley Machinery • Buffing Machine • Turning Lathe • Buzz Saw • Chop Saw • Doors & Shutters • Electric Drill • Electric Screwdriver • Electric Wood Plane • Evacuator • Film Projector • Fine Blanking Tool • Fretsaw • Grinding Lathe • Hand Blender & Mixer • Hoist Industrial • Industrial Vacuum Cleaner • Jigsaw • Mechanic Toys • Metal Saw • Milling Machine • Stationary Drill • Strimmer • Toy Helicopter
Squeaky doors and creaky doors: is a collection of over 800 squeaky and creaky doors with natural room reverberation.
Includes light and heavy squeak from different door types and recording locations, fast, slow, long, short.
Each sound file has been carefully named and tagged for easy search in Soundminer and is Universal Category System (UCS) compliant.
(see the full track list below).
1400 meticulously processed stereo blades sound effects recorded in 96 khz and 24 bits for high audio definition.
The collection comes with hundreds of variations and many different weapon types. It also includes raw files for more flexibility for your projets and each asset has a version with and without reverb for more control.
This collection is perfect for any films, video games or trailers.
Recorded weapons: katana, kris knife, khukuri dagger, big and medium kitchen knife and hunting knife.
This sound library includes various type of sounds: blades scraping, single or multiple impacts, whooshes, designed and powerful sword sounds for trailer and cinematic, gore slashing and stabbing, blade sheathing and unsheathing, short and long combat sequences, background sword battle, and more.
FINAL IMPACT is an extremely detailed and comprehensive collection of 300 designed impacts, smashes and hits. Carefully layered and designed with game audio, animators and filmmakers in mind, we believe that this could be the last impact sound collection you will ever need.
Each impact has been layered multiple times to create rich, full sounds, composed of recorded hits and synthetic blasts. This collection contains a wide variety of sounds to accent every possible on-screen action imaginable: from simple knock sounds and small hits, to massive wide impacts designed with 50+ layers of material.
This collection is divided into 10 folders, according the type of sound:
– Animated Impacts (45): Big, colorful, super-real impacts.
– Deep Impacts (22): Low end, dark and bassy impacts.
– Designed Knocks (10): Simple designed knock sounds.
– Dry Impacts (29): Hard hits, multi-layered, with no processing.
– Hard Impacts (24): Designed for maximum destruction.
– Junk (43): Imagine piles of junk falling from the sky.
– Layered Material Hits (93): Multi-layered with dry and processed hits.
– Metal Hits (8): Metal based hits.
– Other (9): Various materials, including plastic and water.
– Synthetic Wrecks (17): Synthesized, chaotic impacts.
BONUS MATERIAL:
The 3Maze ‘IMPACTUS’ collection is included free in this package. An additional 423 designed and recorded impacts, bringing this collection to 723 impacts!
Included formats: 24-bit / 96kHz wav, 16-bit / 44.1kHz and 320k Mp3.
All sounds were designed, processed and edited at 24-bit / 96kHz, with embedded meta data and accompanying spreadsheet.
Game Footsteps is a professional foley studio recorded sound library featuring 1655 footstep sound effects across 20+ surface types and shoe aesthetics. With a focus on recording with boots and sneaker shoe styles, you’ll hear just about every surface you’d hear in games and film. Find hard surfaces like cobblestone, brick, concrete to softer surfaces like sand, wood, snow gravel & more. Most footsteps include different pacing patterns such as: walking, walking slowly, running and jumping. Any movement pace is covered.
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