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Tortured Metal Cabinet is a collection of disturbing metal scrapes, low groans, cinematic booms, menacing drones, ear piercing squeals, spooky stingers etc… all performed on and with an old storage metal cabinet.
This library is a nice addition to your library if you need to add tension, suspense or weirdness to any project, not restricted to horror.
Various exciters were used to create friction and make the cabinet sing such as glasses of different sizes, large pieces of metal, hangers, spoons, my hands, etc…
The sounds were recorded with a pretty cool and unconventional setup that gave me a lot of flexibility during the mastering process :
For more convenience, I’ve premixed the different mics and sonic perspectives into 26 long ” raw ” files, both in Stereo and 5.1 Surround.
These Source files were mastered in a way (minimal EQ / dynamic processing / ultrasonic denoise on the MKH 8000 mics) that will let you manipulate them extensively and create your own designed sounds with them.
You also get 41 stereo designed files / 300+ individual sounds that are ready to use in your project.
These designed assets have been creatively processed to give you an idea of what type of sounds you can create from the source material, the possibilities are pretty much endless… I’ve paid attention not to over compress the sounds and keep some of the natural dynamics of the raw recordings, because who like overly crushed and loud sounds that blast your ears when browsing through your library ?
In addition to the source and designed folders, you’ll find 16 Radium Presets ready to use in Soundminer Radium sampler, these presets basically let you create an infinite amount of random new sounds different than the ones in the library itself. (thanks to Kai Paquin for the help with the presets)
Like all aXLsound collections, this sound library includes detailed, comprehensive, UCS compliant metadata. (see below)
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“Worldwide Church Bells” by SpillAudio is an SFX library with 186 unique sounds from 47 different church bells from all over the world.
All the sounds are gathered from the Bulgarian “The Bells Monument”, built in Sofia to commemorate a communist event in 1979. In the beginning, there were only 77 bells, but as time passed and more events took place, more bells were brought to the monument and in the present, there are nearly a hundred. Most of the bells were set by children’s delegations that participated in the assembly. A copy of a bell from the IV century B.C can also be seen in the collection.
This SFX pack contains sounds from the surviving 47 bells, from which single hits were recorded, as well as various sequences of ringing.
All bells:
Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, Palestine, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania, San Marino, Senegal, Seychelles, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UK, USA, Yemen, Zimbabwe
All sounds were recorded and edited at 192kHz / 24it.
This release features 110 recordings of a high-end, hand-built Italian espresso machine and commercial-grade coffee grinder. All functions of the machines were recorded including brewing coffee, steaming milk, steam/hot water wands, water boiler, pump, grinder and other coffee prep accessories.
The library is great for traditional coffee prep/cafe ambience, and also easy to turn into experimental steam punk mechanical type sounds.
All content was captured with a Sanken CSS-5 Stereo Shotgun mic in both mono and 120 degree stereo mode. The microphone was mounted in a full Rycote windshield kit and connected to a Sound Devices 702 recorder.
This library contains various metal impacts, hits, clanks, drops. More than 700 individual sounds and 30 metal objects types. From tiny to bigger. Source material for great variety of uses. Recorded in stereo/mono 24 Bit/96 kHz. Due to big number of individual sounds they are represented in form of sets that contains several sounds but grouped via type of a sound.
This library contains a huge number of sounds of empty gun shells and machine-gun belt links (22 calibers and 3 types of links). This is the first part in this series with sounds on concrete and granite stone surfaces only. This library includes a vast amount of sound variations (fall, roll, drop, collisions, bursts, etc.), more than 8500 sounds.
In addition, you can choose the most appropriate sound for your project, since each sound is provided in three distance options (close, middle and distant). This is useful when working with movies and video games. Recording was made in the studio. All files have metadata on the caliber used by the weapon as well as some other details.
The library also has a selection of images of all these calibers. Track list (.XLS and .PDF) is also attached to it. This gun shells library will certainly bring more details to the action and shooting scenes of your projects.
Vibrations Bowed Materials 1 is a construction kit library composed of various plastic, metal and paper materials vibrated with a cello bow! These sounds are meant to be manipulated and mangled to oblivion for further creative purposes. These sounds are highly flexible and can easily be pitch-shifted -48 semitones or more. They remain remarkably useful and clean giving each sound multiple “dimensions”.
I’ve found particularly strong potential in using these for creature sound design. One of the metal props recorded was also used to produce my Electric Arcs and Energy designed sound library. The array of how they could be used or transformed is quite possibly endless!
Great care was taken during the recording and editing process to ensure maximum flexibility of these sounds. The recording was done at 24 Bit / 192 kHz using the Sennheiser MKH 8050 mic which captures frequencies up to 50kHz. Any processing or editing was then performed at 192kHz.
Includes Forge/Reaktor Sample Maps
7 Different Bowed Metal Prop Recordings
6 Different Bowed Paper Prop Recordings
7 Different Bowed Plastic Prop Recordings
1000 sounds total
If you own the Forge Sound Design Toolkit this library also comes with a specially curated sample map. The sample map can be loaded into the sampler for randomization and the creation of more complex sounds.
I went there, so you don't have to. The nerv wrecking sounds of a fork scraped across a plate, the annoying scratches of fingernails on a coated pot are as well part of this library as many similar and sometimes less unpleasant sounds.
The major part of this library has been recorded in 192kHz with Earthworks QTC 50 microphones. Frequencies up to over 90 kHz are captured with plenty of the noises and allow for decent pitch and bend fun. Plastic, wood, metal, glass, porcelaine, syntetic leather and rubber has been used to perform squeaks, screeches, squeals, creaks, groans and scratches. Each material has been dragged and rubbed against each other in different speed and with varying pressure to make sure to get multiple variations of each sound.
This versatile library is a rich resource and a starting point for creature sound design, iron weapon action, robotic and machine movements and many more. Also great for music production – check the demo. Anything that should make the audience goose bumps or sound old an tortured will profit from “QUEETSH”.
Caution: some sounds might be considered unpleasent / annoying.
This library recorded a creepy, old, metallic, and huge storage door. It contains metal impacts, creepy metal squeaks, creeks and rattles. Use this SFX to create crazy sound design, especially for horror movies.
The library was recorded with:
Zoom F8 device, and Ntg3 Rode Mic
Get ready for the most sonically satisfying library of piano destruction sounds! We give you every sledge hammer, every axe hit, every plier pinch, and every grinder that went into the demise of this Wurlitzer Upright Piano.
With this truly unique library you get smashes followed by short, medium, and long tails of the strings and body (or what’s left) of the piano. You also get out of tune and buzzy strings that can be used as the source material for something really dark and ominous. Use the impact sounds for one of a kind impacts or sample the tails to create tension, strange atmospheres, and more!
The axe and body files range from attacks on the wood, strings, keys, hammers, legs, frame, metal, and more. A grinder was taken to the strings and pliers were used to snap, bend, and pop the strings out of their places as well as general string play. Whether you need something unique to add character to your project or some really great source material of impacts that come pre baked with extra harmonic material this library will suite your needs. Enjoy the Destroyed Piano Sound Library!
Cylindrical Gong is a collection of high quality, 24bit/96kHz, UCS-compliant stereo recordings from a strange, cylindrical, gong-like sheet metal object I came across once. I use the word gong, but there is none of the cymbal-like sheen in this object. Instead, you get more of a ring-modulated, atonal texture – perhaps more like a broken bell. Definitely not your typical gong sound effect.
The 27 different gong sound recordings included provide loads of nuance of sound from this object – I used mallets, knuckles and fingernails to play it! Load them into different velocity ranges on your favorite sampler, pitch them up and down, add effects, etc.
Use them for musical effects, for layering with other sounds, or perhaps mangle them beyond recognition.
Demolition Aftermath is the perfect sound library if you’re looking to add a cinematic and realistic edge to your project. Featuring a total of 6 categories and 299 high-quality sounds, this collection provides a wide range of impactful, ready-to-use sound effects.
Inside the library, you’ll find carefully organized sounds across the following categories:
– Buildings collapsing
– Vehicle crashes
– Glass: impacts, cracks, and shattering in various intensities
– Metal: twisting, impacts, and bending
– Rocks: avalanches, impacts, and crunching textures
– Wood: creaks and impacts in multiple intensity levels
Each category is structured into separate folders, with multiple variations for each type of sound, giving you maximum creative flexibility and precision when selecting the perfect sound for any moment.
As with nearly all of our libraries, each sound has been recorded, edited, and mastered at 192 kHz / 32-24 bit, ensuring exceptional audio quality and top-tier adaptability — ideal for professional sound designers and anyone seeking a fast, drag & drop workflow.
We had a blast creating this library: we were able to collaborate with several companies that allowed us to break, manipulate, and record a wide variety of materials in real-world conditions, ensuring you get the most authentic and powerful sounds possible.
Recording equipment used:
– Sound Devices MixPre-6 II
– Sanken CO-100K
– Sennheiser MKH8050
– Zoom H6
– Tascam Portacapture X8
More about the pack
– Intuitive file naming
– All you’ll ever need regarding demolition sounds [Use them again & again
– Use the sound effects over and over, in any of your projects or productions, forever without any additional fees or royalties. Use the SFX in your game, in your trailer, in a Kickstarter campaign, wherever you need to, as much as you want to.
– Totally mono compatibility
– All sounds have several variations.
– Use your imagination and feel free to use any sound for a creature other than the one described, remember that the world of sound is totally subjective.
– For any questions or problems: [email protected]
Features
– 299 sounds
– Number of Audio Waves: 299
– Format: 192KHz / 24 bits
– Do Sound FX loop: No
– Win/Mac: Yes
– Minutes of audio provided: 22:59
Evocative Sound and Visuals presents Abandoned Prison, featuring sounds captured at the historic Ohio State Reformatory (OSR) in Mansfield, Ohio. Included are nasty squeaks, loud bangs and deep thuds from the cavernous empty prison’s cell block doors and massive chapel door. Files are recorded from multiple perspectives with contact microphones and omnidirectional mics in a baffled-omni setup.
Discover the ‘Sword Fight’ sound effects library, a meticulously crafted collection designed for audio professionals in film, game development, and multimedia projects. This library brings the intense and dynamic world of medieval combat to life, with 40 premium-quality sound effects. Featuring a variety of sword swings, impacts, and handling noises to provide a complete auditory sword fighting experience.
Equip your audio arsenal with the ‘Sword Fight’ sound effects library – your go-to resource for authentic and high-quality medieval combat sounds.
The Push & Pull Heavy Weight Low Frequency Movements Library contains acoustic recordings that will fit the need for huge doors, large gates, heavy loads, massive objects, sliding tombstones, shifting masses and so on… All sounds are clean with no effects added for easy use and editing. Recorded at 192 KHz with Nevaton and Sanken CO100K microphone, the full spectrum allows for quality source material.
You will find variations of trembling, rattling, shoving, scraping, bouncy objects and materials being pushed or pulled.
This sound FX library is part of a series of recordings available:
The Metal Hit Sweetener sound effects library features metal hit sound effects, drops, bashes, and more with shovels, containers, pots and pans, and others.
The Metal Hit Sweetener Library gathers over 80 multi-sample strikes, hits, impacts, drops and other clips in 1.18 GB of 192 kHz sound-design friendly field recordings.
The metal hit sound effects include strikes with hammers, drumsticks, forks, and other implements hitting over 22 types of props: from bowls to pots and pans, oil barrels to wheelbarrows, shovels and spades, trailers, and much more. Every recording has multiple performances in each file to allow for a variety of sound design tools created to sweetener hits, blasts, bursts, breaks, and other impactful sound effects.
Includes 18+ fields of Soundminer metadata, BWAV, and iXML metadata and MacOS Finder comments.
A collection of RAW gritty metallic impacts, debris, movements and one shot recordings. Ideal for foley, and for sound designers and cinematic composers who wish to experiment with metallic sounds. Can also be used to design Horror UI sounds or metallic monsters in game audio.
WAV + MP3 files. UCS Compatible
Metal Smash – What do you get when you go to the junkyard with the best Schoeps Microphones money can buy.
Every effect is also recorded with a sub sonic microphone to add depth to the smashes. Great complicated crashes with extra metallic details.
Half the proceeds for this library are going to EarthPercent: the music industry’s climate foundation. This sound library includes all the royalty-free log chops, log thuds, wood splits, and manual logging sounds you could need. These logs, made from a Douglas Fir in Port Orchard, Washington, were all used as firewood after the recording session so that no resources were wasted.
These logs were recorded with a Rode NTG5 and a Mix-Pre 6 ii in Alec Viera’s backyard. Chris parker chopped these up for us. You’ll be receiving 88 24-bit/96kHz recordings that are all UCS-compliant.
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
Transient Toolbox was created to do one thing….. Make things slap!
This handcrafted collection of hard hitting sweeteners will help kick your design up a notch. Created with sound designers in mind Transient Toolbox is perfect for layering into your next design, whether it’s an explosion, weapon, impact, or title drop these curated bits of chaos will make them punch thru the mix.
Included are designed transient samples created using eurorack, synths, and various recorded material. These were meticulously mangled and edited into various types of sweeteners.
With a focus on utility these sweeteners create a versatile toolbox you can use to make your design more impactful and maybe bust a few speakers along the way.
Medieval bread oven recorded with gusto.
Latch is a collection of a wide variety of beautifully performed and perfectly captured latches to serve all of your click, slide and snap tink pop foley sound needs.
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.
Wind Chimes is a collection of meticulously captured wind chimes purposely recorded with a pair of high-end Barcus Berry 4000 (Planar Wave Piano and Harp Pickup System) contact microphones. By using this type of mic instead of traditional ones, the attack, sustain and decay of each tube struck by its clapper are experienced in ways unheard by the naked ear. Every tinkle and plink, every clang and rattle sound a bit more removed from its environment than normal. Harmonics are heard alongside fundamental frequencies. Every recording is unique to its moment in time. Each note is as random as the wind that plays it. These chimes are anything but showroom new. Some are weathered. Some are outwardly neglected. A few sound pretty, others not so much.
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