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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.
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:
California Grassland Abandoned is a collection of 65 Stereo and 18 Quad Recordings focused on Abandoned old structures, various Int / Ext Winds, Metal Latches, Gates, Wood Creaks, and an assortment of other interesting sounds.
The recordings from this library took place in The Carrizo Plain, an open expanse of Grassland that is located West of the Mojave Desert in California’s Central Valley. Abandoned and weathered dilapidated remnants of old ranches, water tanks, barns, metal sheds, farm machinery, and corrals from a bygone era of the West can be discovered if one ventures off the beaten path.
An old rusted corral gate’s latches, hinges, locks, and ronks. A 1950 Ford Truck’s wild sound door creaks. The still quiet of morning ambiences. A very animated barn door. A water tank in the middle of no man’s land bending and booming as the elements of nature have their way. Calm, medium, and higher winds in metal sheds, small houses, barns, tall dry grass, and in some exterior locations out in the Plain.
The goal was to try to capture anything I could that had a lot of character along with providing a sense of what a lot these areas sound like. These recordings aren’t meant to be absolutely desolate so in a few of the wind and ambience tracks there is some light birds, and sometimes a few insects.
The companion library to this, California Grassland Wildlife contains a number of different bird species and a couple of other animals and insects native to the environment.
The Gear
Sound Devices MixPre-6
Mics
Sennheiser MKH 8020
Sennheiser MKH 8040
Sennheiser MKH 8040+MKH 30 MS
Sennheiser MKH 8040 Pair + MKH 30 DMS
Barcus Berry Contact Mic
A / B Spacing was used with the MKH 8020’s. ORTF with the MKH 8040, along with a MKH 30 in MS and Double MS.
MS Recordings have been decoded to Stereo and Double MS have been decoded to Quad Format.
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.
Add energy and power to your projects with more than 320 destructive glass, wood, and metal glass bursts, collapses, drops, cracks, and crash sound clips.
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.
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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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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Closeup and distant synchronous recordings of cowbells and other typical bells used on animals, in the natural acoustics of a field, surrounded by forests, but without any environmental sounds at all. This type of recording is unique and very difficult to achieve, there is no competing product at the market. Clean direct sound, beautiful early reflections and reverberation in pure silence. Perfect for diegetic animal bells, subtle atmospheric mood elements, scene punctuation elements, abstract metal sound design elements or for game UI sound design. UCS compliant and deeply implemented.
10% of the library’s revenue goes to nature preserves and wild animal shelters.
Get ready to take your UI to the next level with this massive dual library of organically recorded sounds and machine generated sounds. This is not your average UI Library.The process for creating this library was simple: record every day sounds that happen organically. That includes pen clicks, paper crinkles, wood blocks, garbage rustling, paper shuffling, elemental material impacts and movements, etc. Then take those sounds and send them through a chain of modules in a modular synthesizer that is patched specifically to mangle, tangle, distort, pitch shift, warp, and rearrange. The result is somewhere between alien and mech, familiar and unfamiliar; a treasure trove of refreshing and unique sounds at your disposal.
You might call it Future UI, Alien UI, Biotech, or Bio-Mech. Whether your project needs material, organic, clean UI sounds or futuristic, sci-fi, biotech UI sounds, this dual library gives you the freedom to pick one or the other or somewhere in between. All sounds were recorded at 192 kHz and with over 540 sounds your options are vast. Keep a clean sonic palate and choose from the Organic sounds. Build something refreshingly out of this world with the Machine sounds. The choice is yours, enjoy Organic vs Machine!
The Metal Worlds sound library is a comprehensive collection of high class metal sound effects, ranging from short hits & squeaks to long textures and ambiences.
SOUNDS FROM A BUCKET
The centerpiece of this extraordinary metal sound library is a custom built instrument. A metal bucket has been attached to various guitar strings and clamped into wooden gallows. The recordings sound as creepy as the idea and range from deep, scary vibrations to unbearable squeaks.
PLAYING A BUCKET
The bucket instrument has then been bowed, plucked and played with an Ebow, over a range of three octaves and in different styles & intensities. Different techniques have been used and abused to coax the most interesting sounds out if it.
Microphones were placed inside of the bucket for the boomy part and outside for the delicate sound content. Furthermore, a pair of contact mics had been attached to the metal surface.
After harvesting tons of interesting sound material, the crop was extensively edited and processed to create hits, transitions, ambiences & more.
ULTRASONIC FREQUENCIES
With the additional use of Sanken CO-100K microphones, ultrasonic frequency content up to 100kHz has been captured and the squeakiest sounds have been pitched down to half speed before inclusion into this 96kHz sound library. You can pitch everything down one octave without trimming the full audible frequency spectrum. Unknown soundscapes are waiting to get discovered!
METAL PROPS
A big selection of metal objects like bells, singing bowls, huge metal plates and giant gongs have been played, hit and brought to vibration. Metal bars, springs, grids and other metal items have been scraped, rubbed, dropped, shaken and struck.
DESIGNED SOUNDS
A part of the sounds already went through some heavy processing/layering, which created a selection of abstract soundscapes, haunting whooshes, unbearable horror squeaks and shocking impacts. These sounds are examples of the sound design opportunities possible with this rich audio material.
LOOPS
76 of the mysterious ambiences, continuous scrapes, neverending drones and rattles are included as seamless loopable audio files. No trimming & fading needed – just drop, duplicate, extend.
Two versions are included in your download – you can either choose one or download both of them:
1. Combined Version
Variations of a sound are combined into one file – best for Soundminer, BaseHead, etc.
240 files / 207 minutes
2. Split Version
Variations of a sound appear as individual files – best for video editors, game audio, etc.
706 files / 207 minutes
The audio content of both versions is 100% identical.
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.
NDUSTRIAL TERROR – Textures is a third and the last installment of Industrial Terror series.
It is a collection of dark, industrial textures, evolving metallic whooshes and textural hits.
The collection consists of 66 carefully designed and rendered sound effects with baked-in Soundminer’s metadata.
All soundscapes/textures loop seamlessly for quick and painless game audio integration.
Unique processing of organic field recordings combined with modular processing makes it both grounded in reality and creepy.
This collection is a perfect choice for any kind of horror genre.
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Senhheiser MKH8060 + DPA 4060
CREATED AND EDITED WITH: Pro Tools, Live 10, Reaktor, EOS2, Eventide, iZotope, Discord4, Modular
KLAP Sound took a piano and tortured it, dismembered it and finally destroyed it—and recorded the whole process. For the making of this library, they used several tools such as hammers, screwdrivers, knives, and saws, as well as props like dirt, send, gravel, forks and other sharp objects. The results are raw sounds of foley with musical rings, harmonic tails and creepy vibes that are dry yet barely edited for your own enjoyment.
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