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Own the entire Studio Obsidian library, over 18 hours and 10,000 sounds recorded and sculpted by sound designer Nathan Moody. This bundle includes:
ANALOGUE ORDNANCE: Science Fiction Weapon Construction Kit
MICROMECH: Small Mechanism Manipulation
SHIPSCAPE: Shipboard Ambiences
METALMOTION: Moving Metallic Textures
ULTRASQUISH: Unique Ultrasonic Gore
AEOLUS: Dark Wind Textures
METALLITRONIC: Vibrating Metal Textures
SIGIL: Dark Electro-Acoustic Textures
HD Game Materials is made for sound design. Capturing 8,300 ultra high-quality material sounds recorded at 192kHz / 32-bit, this library gives you professional source recordings that will stand the test of time. Whether you’re designing AAA games, cinematic trailers, detailed foley, or intricate immersive audio soundscapes, these sounds are ready for extreme processing. Perfect for stretching, pitching, layering, mashing, mixing and mangling without losing fidelity.
HD Game Materials – 192k 32bit High Resolution Source for Game and Film Sound Designers is a precision-crafted source SFX library made for professionals who require uncompromising quality and efficiency. With ultra-detailed 192kHz/32-bit fidelity, it provides a permanent, reusable foundation for sound designers needing studio-grade SFX to fuel advanced interactive sound design. It’s a future-proof investment too, because all of the high-resolution source materials are meticulously engineered to preserve sonic integrity in any project and with any of today’s cutting-edge audio processing technologies. Even more, HD Game Materials eliminates the labor-intensive cycle of planning, recording, editing, cataloging, and metadata tagging, saving you time and production costs. Now you can prioritize what truly matters: delivering high impact sound design and dynamic story-driven audio experiences. Do it now and for a long long time to come with HD Game Materials – High Resolution Source for Game and Film Sound Designers.
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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.
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Also available in the LT Underwater Bundle!
Lower the sails, man the cannon and prepare yourself for an epic journey across the open sea! Dead men tell no tales so join us now before Davy Jones takes you to his locker with the perfect collection of handcrafted premium Pirate Game SFX featuring 3200 game ready audio assets made up of 555+ sound sets across over every sound type needed to completely pillage and plunder your next game audio experience! Dig for treasure, explore undiscovered islands, captain your wooden galleon, drop anchors, ignite TNT barrels, collect the ancient magic relics, and more importantly build an immersive audio experience for your projects.
Metal Atmosphere is a collection of contact microphone recordings of wire fences vibrating in the wind.
The library consists of 29 recordings ranging from 1 minute to over 10 minutes in length. These have been recorded by taping JrF contact microphones to wire fences and other structures through which sound travels easily.
Most of the sounds are made by the wind “playing” the wires as a huge stringed instrument, while a few others are recordings of submerged wooden fences. The tone is generally dark, even menacing, bringing desolate spaces to mind.
The sounds can be used as backgrounds even if they technically aren’t proper ambiences, as there is a certain degree of similarity between the two channels which creates a fake stereo field. About half of the files also include wind gusts and wind-specific dynamics which renders them easily identifiable as wind sounds, only with extra metal elements added. Additionally there are countless impacts, risers and swells included which can easily be cut out and used as spot effects. All files are recorded and mastered at 24/96 quality which makes them excellent sound design elements ripe for serious processing.
In total, more than 2 hours of metal atmospheres and resonances from unique sources – tagged with comprehensive metadata.
Imagine the visceral sensation of particles shifting and evolving, the subtle textures of organic materials swirling and twirling, and the eerie sounds of supernatural change. With “Elemental Mutation,” you’ll have access to this unique collection of SFX loops that capture these experiences in intricate detail. Inside you’ll find over 1000+ designed and organic seamlessly loop-able morphing particles, evolving textures, and organic mutations sound effects perfect for creating soundscapes, ambiences, entropy, high detail or layers in a soundtrack. This comprehensive library captures the subtle nuances of growth and evolution, as well as the uncanny and unsettling sounds of unnatural transformation.
Perfect for game developers, sound designers, and sound effects editors, HD Lock & Mechanism Sound Design Kit provides an essential arsenal of sounds for crafting intricate UI/UX interactions, immersive mechanisms, and dynamic mechanical/industrial soundscapes. Explore a wide variety of rotating gears, screeching metals, barrel bolt snaps, clatters, and button presses and switch toggles, meticulously recorded and designed in 192k 24bit resolution for next-level audio production. From subtle wobbles and light on/off switches and buttons to heavy mechanical impacts and complex lock and chain interactions, this sound library ensures you have every layer needed to build compelling, high-quality mechanical worlds. 192k 24bit .wav audio file format plus 96k and 44.1k resolution files.
Gain instant access to the sounds of magic, mystery, fascination and adventure with the Fantasy Game 2 – Sound Kit for Enchanted Realms. Discover a vast collection of interactive sounds specially crafted for RPGs, open-world adventures, and epic fantasy narratives, games, film, interactive media. Experience the clash of steel of epic battles to the ethereal chime of enchanted spells. It’s all you need to make every action, spell, and encounter feel and sound truly magical. Whether you’re exploring forgotten ruins, summoning arcane forces, or waging valiant combat, Fantasy Game 2 – Sound Kit for Enchanted Realms is your instant gateway to an unforgettable fantasy soundscape.
Motion Universe is a whoosh & motion graphics sound library featuring 3611 video game sound effects, 345 sound sets across 14+ sound category types. This focused sound library gives you a hybrid mix of imaginative sound sets for common and abstract game actions like casting magic spells, fiery pass bys, ice swooshes, robotic mechanism transitions, vines growing, liquid entropy whooshes, earthy attacks, summons, unlocks, shimmering reveals, orbs, flaps, swings, slides, pop ups, enchants, swells, and granular designed textures useful in many cases where motion is needed. With game developers and sound designers in mind, we carefully handcrafted these game ready audio assets so that you can have a multitude of options. This library will cover many of your bases and needs in regards to pacing, whoosh speeds, style types, all delivered as neatly organized completed sound sets so your sounds never get old or annoying.
The NSL Metal Bundle includes 3 New Sound Lab sound libraries.
401 high resolution WAV files – 8 GB
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.
The gondolas lifts of Whistler are one of the most wonderful machinery pieces made by man to move them around the mountains.
This Sound Effects Library recorded the sounds of these unique vehicles during wintertime. The library shows multiple gondola perspectives, from its interiors to many Pass bys, and P.O.V’s of the cables that suspend this huge lifts. You will find different sizes and kinds of gondolas. Enjoy them and enjoy the experience of sound
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
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.
Steel Strings is a collection of 150 meticulously recorded sound effects, capturing the raw, resonant, and percussive sounds of a Fender Jaguar guitar—played in ways that was never intended. Inspired by the concept of a prepared piano, the strings were manipulated and played using unconventional objects, including soft mallets, drumsticks, metal rods, wooden sticks, metal plates, screwdrivers, and more. The result is a diverse palette of sounds that bear little resemblance to a traditional guitar, instead offering an array of metallic scrapes, deep impacts, resonant overtones, and rhythmic rattles.
To achieve maximum sonic depth, the strings were extremely detuned, creating deep overtones and unique textures. The guitar pickups were bypassed entirely, with the instrument recorded acoustically using high-quality contact microphones: the Lom Audio Geofón and Zeppelin Design Labs Cortado MkIII. This approach captures every nuance of the strings’ raw mechanical vibrations, and the deep resonance of the guitar’s alder wood body.
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
Resonant Metal is a sound library built around the resonant and tonal characteristics of metal. It features a wide variety of recordings—from small, high-frequency metal tones to large, heavy impacts with long sustain. The focus is on metallic sounds with rich overtones, clean transients, and tonal clarity.
The library includes both raw recordings of real-world metal objects (bowls, trays, heavy pans, rods, tools, etc.) and a selection of designed sounds. These designed elements include processed impacts, pitch-shifted scrapes, granular textures, and reversed hits.
Every sound was recorded using a Sennheiser MKH 8050 microphone and a Zoom F6 recorder and files are delivered in high-resolution 24-bit / 192kHz WAV format.
Mechanism is a collection of sound effects focused on the movement of mechanical devices. Featuring 763 meticulously recorded sounds, this library captures the tactile character of metal objects—ratchets, levers, gears, spring-loaded latches, and unique mechanical gadgets.
The collection covers a wide range of mechanical actions: sharp clicks, metallic clacks, rotating gears, sliding mechanisms, and metallic movements. It’s built to support the sound design needs for robotics, sci-fi machinery, user interface interactions, steampunk devices, and more.
Every sound was recorded using a Sennheiser MKH 8050 microphone and a Zoom F6 recorder and files are delivered in high-resolution 24-bit / 192kHz WAV format.
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.
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.
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