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Sound effects and recordings of various surfaces, textures, objects and elements – soft, hard, organic, wooden, stone, metallic and lots more
DESCRIPTION:
• In Pacific Northwest: Quiet Nature 2, get a collection of ambiences with sparse flora and fauna from the Eastern Cascades, Washington. Hear playful croaks of a ravens perched in snow-capped canopies. Hear the counterpoint of nature’s cellos as Great Horned owls sing haunting duets. Hear the hungry knocking of woodpeckers pecking to find their dinner and the majestic sparseness of winter forests empty of all but a few species of wildlife.
• This library offers you an extensive collection of ambiences with sparse flora and fauna of winter in a coniferous forest. I hope you enjoy the sparse wildlife of this winter wonderland.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased to offset my field recording travel for this library.
• In Avalanche and Tree-alanche, get a powerful collection of sliding snow and ice from the pristine wilderness of the Eastern Cascades, Washington. Hear massive slabs of snow break free and tumble down mountains with majestic power. Hear chunky slides as refrigerator-sized chunks of ice careen down slopes and waterfalls of powder moving like rivers of sand. Hear tree-alanches as snow and ice plastered to branches is dislodged by sun-melt and wind. Hear hellacious debris clouds as gusts hit local canopies and dislodge snow hurricanes of powder, ice, and branches.
• This library offers you a collection of sounds from an awe inspiring natural event. Avalanches are dangerous and extremely difficult to record. They have the natural power akin to tornadoes or wildfires. I hope you enjoy listening to the roars of wintertime in the remote mountains of Washington.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased to offset my field recording travel for this library.
It’s lit! Become engulfed in different types of flames, fires, and torches with this immense high resolution fire sound library! Recreate the perfect fire pit or discover the remnants of a burning building with sounds captured from indoor and outdoor open and closed flames from ignition to roaring flames. Uncover the darkest depths of hidden temples or send a fireball blazing through the sky with sounds captured from handmade torches in motion. Create a thick rocket engine with sounds sourced from blue flamed butane torches. Or recreate the most earth scorching armageddon with the fine details provided by the highest quality stereo recordings at 192 kHz. Many of the larger flames were recorded using a mid-side technique to give you a huge sound making you feel engulfed in the flames. Other sources include matches, lighters, lit paper, lit pine needles, gasoline ignited flames, put out flames with snow and water, and more! Enjoy the depth and detail of Lit: Flames, Fires, and Torches!
Pair it with “You, Me, and Debris” Sound Library to create the ultimate impact and destruction pack!
• In Rock Creatures, get a visceral collection of guttural and grating vocalizations from the volcanic rocks of the Davis Mountains. Scrape rhyolite with intense pressure and hear guttural screeches with vigorous, physical energy. Hear the thick weight of boulders growling and frenetic stutters of rocks performed to sound like animals. Hear textured squeaks of small stones sliding. Hear rocks rich in titanium clattering to create otherworldly harmonics perfect for creature sound design.
• This library offers you an extensive collection of rocks painstakingly performed to bring these inanimate objects to life and transform them into intensely vocal creatures.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
On the eternal search for new sounds, here is a hefty collection of creature voices created solely through the use of a metal flexatone.
This collection brings you 2,000 original sounds at 96kHz/24-bit stereo offering 4 distinct styles of vocalization prepared to breathe life into your creatures, whether they be alien or machine. Each style has over 450 variations covering over 15 different emotions such as “arguing”, “sad”, “scared”, “excited”, “laugh”, “question” and general “talking”. These 4 vocal styles are:
1. “Voice A”: The untouched raw voice created by the flexatone, perfect for metallic creatures! (0:55-1:12 in the audio example!)
2. “Voice B”: A slightly deeper voice with additional upper harmonics for a sci-fi aesthetic, ideal for futuristic machines! (0:02-0:13 in the audio example!)
3. “Voice C”: A more mature voice with some throaty quivering, suitable for many alien creatures! (0:16-0:32 in the audio example!)
4. “Voice D”: A brighter, lively, child-like voice perfect for younger, smaller creatures! (0:35-0:52 in the audio example!)
In addition to these 4 extensive voices, there are also over 150 traditional flexatone sounds such as the iconic comedic “boing” found in classic cartoons, as well as shakes, flicks, rises, falls and quivers!
Note: The sounds in the audio example have some panning added; the sounds in the library itself are entirely centred.
Hidden Voices is a sound library series dedicated to finding the voices that are hidden in the most obscure objects. Each library offers an extensive range of sounds created entirely from that object, ready to spice up your creature’s voices and add an original flavour to your sound palette. palette.
Also included in the “2018 InspectorJ Bundle” for 50% off!
Need to create suspense, tension and mystery in your production? “UNSOLVED” is great for you.
Inspired by crime/investigation movies and series, this pack contains 141 Sound Effects (Wav, 24 Bit / 96 kHz) aimed to enhance the tension and drama of movies, games, series and trailers.
You will find atmospheric and musical elements with a powerful cinematic feel that can be used in musical context too, making this library a great addition to your collection.
How many sounds can you create with a polystyrene bodyboard? Well, here’s 1,000 to get you started!
This collection of sounds brings you 1,000 unique sounds at 96KHz/24-bit stereo created entirely from a bodyboard. From several creature sounds to computerized sounds, this library is extensive with 642 designed sounds with 11 different styles of vocalization, as well as all of the 358 base sounds that were the ingredients for the vocalizations. If you are looking to spice up your creature vocalization palette, then this library is certainly for you.
Hidden Voices is a sound library series dedicated to finding the voices that are hidden in the most obscure objects. Each library offers an extensive range of sounds created entirely from that object, ready to add a unique flavour to your sound palette.
Also included in the “2017 InspectorJ Bundle” for 50% off!
Do you want to add some tension with thunder sound effects? Are you looking for immersive rain? Do you need perfect loops of rain in your game?
'Rain and Thunder' is a collection of high-quality sounds recorded over a timespan of several years at different locations with a Mid-Side and XY rig. This sound pack contains variations of rain: soft, hard, under metal, under plastic, on top of plastic, and with and without thunder rumble.
This pack is guaranteed to immerse the listener with the pattering drips of water and the roaring thunder!
All sounds included are tagged with metadata (keywords and description) for use in Soundminer/Basehead, etc.
Hyper Thunder is a colossal collection of thunder and lightning, 100% crafted from the ground up using innovative synthesized technics and props recordings. Not a single real life thunder recording was used. using synthesis and props manipulation crafted to deliver impact far beyond natural recordings. Built entirely from innovative synthesis and props recordings, this library pushes the boundaries of weather sound design—perfect for when you need the raw energy of a storm dialed up to cinematic extremes.
Featuring over 800 files, Hyper Thunder spans everything from subtle distant rumbles and rolling thunder to razor-sharp lightning strikes and earth-shaking impacts. With both designed hits and source layers, you have full control—drop in ready-to-use power or sculpt your own stormscapes using the source recordings.
Created in collaboration with Bruits.Studio’s Vincent Fliniaux and Tibo Csuko—longtime SoundMorph contributors to acclaimed libraries like Robotic Lifeforms 2 and WATER— Hyper Thunder blends technical mastery with bold creativity.
From atmospheric detail to explosive drama, Hyper Thunder gives you thunder and lightning that are bigger, subtler, and more versatile than nature itself.
Welcome to a sonic world of steampunk machinery and mechanisms that sound huge, gritty and full of character.
This sound library features carefully designed loops and elements of steampunk machinery, rotating wheels and mechanisms, chaotic and brutal impacts, huge levers and mechanical movement, rusty textures, air pressure, transitions and whooshes, peculier clocks, as well as a very rich source material pool recorded with an ultrasonic microphones setup and a contact microphones setup, providing exciting opportunities for blending huge up-close bass-filled sounding sources with detailed ultrasonic content.
Old broken lawn mower and typewriter, vintage bench grinder and knife sharpener, rusty old gates and various garden tools, table fans and chains were recorded focusing on creating motion for creative layering and morphing. The sound library centers around steampunk machinery and mechanical elements, however it is very flexible and can be used in a variety of scenarios.
Explore and layer meticulously edited source material or drag and drop designed sound effects – with plenty of experimentation and unique processing, this library introduces a fresh sound palette for steampunk soundscape of machinery and mechanisms for video games, films, trailers and animation.
This Sound Library is a part of the Slava Pogorelsky – Complete Bundle.
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Philip Eriksson – Audio Director (It Takes Two, Battlefield V, Star Wars: Battlefront I & II)
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Victor Mercader – AAA Sound Designer (Apex Legends)
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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.”
• 12.3 Gigs of sound
• Over 46 minutes of highly designed sounds
• Over 1hr 37 minutes of curated elements
• Spells, poofs, portals, energy blasts, fireballs, freezes and more
The Rummage & Loot Sound Effects library contains 203 sound effects for looting and searching for items.
Instances include:
Search Backpack/Inventory
Search through Drawers/Cupboards
Search Trash/Rubbish Bins
Search through Bushes/Foliage
Search Toolbox/Metal Items
Search Wallet/Coin Pile
Search Corpses
Other case uses include:
Equip Clothing or Gear
Inventory Sounds
Item Collect/Pickup
Handling various objects/items
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.
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.
Recorded over an entire year, Ultrasonic Insects Volume 2 contains dozens of new insect songs recorded with love, precision and a lot of patience! More than 3 000 kilometers were traveled to get to 12 beautiful french sites sheltering common and endemic species. All insects were recorded in quiet environments with close-miking for unparalleled quality.
Want to get brand new sound material from nature? Listen to the songs of those tiny creatures, pitch them as much as you want and find inspiration for your next sound design.
• 22 species of grasshoppers, crickets, bush-crickets and cicadas
• Rare death’s head hawk-moth vocalisations
• 5 species of flying insects
• Solo insects recorded with Sanken CO-100K
• 8 bonus stereo ambiances recorded with MKH 8040
• 192 KHz/24 bit
• Metadata UCS-compliant
• Each species is identified with scientific name, common name and picture
• No insects were harmed while recording this library (except a few mosquitos!)
The Shopping Carts SFX Library contains a wide variety of professional shopping cart sound effect recordings. These include rolls, crashes, drops, stutters, basket seat movements, skids, shakes, and more.
FREE SAMPLES of this pack HERE
A massive pack of high-quality and professionally produced magic sounds. Magic Sound FX Pack 1 will give your game the edge you are looking for. Add spells to your stunning visuals. Wrap the gamer with the sound of water, frost, and electricity. Find the exact sound you need with the hundreds of audio files included. Intensify your game’s experience. Give it the sound it deserves!
A sound library recording of cracking, hitting, scraping, sliding, and singing ice on a Swedish frozen lake.
The Frozen Lake collection includes 94 files of wintery performed sound effects in 1.12 GB of field recordings.
Captured on an iced-over lake in Sweden, a total of 5 channels share various isolated performances on the frozen surface: hits, breaks, cracks, groans, grinds, slides, scrapes, and more. Ice debris, metal hits, and rock drops were performed on the solid surface to provide a range of sounds and textures. The recordings were captured with high-resolution CO-100k and MKH 8060 microphones, as well as with dual Aquarian H2a hydrophones positioned beneath the surface.
The collection includes extensive, detailed embedded metadata, as well as Pro Tools and Reaper sessions with all fx pre-aligned to allow editors to begin mixing and editing immediately.
Our Antique Small Metals sound effects library contains various sounds from multiple antique items. The collection of used items includes; antique coins, locks, hotel bells, telescopes and much, much more. The sounds created are of a wide variety, including but not limited to; tinkering with mechanisms, placement of the item on various surfaces, rattling, scratching and even setting up a variety of the items.
Our Audio Craftsmen have created a comprehensive library that is ideal for use in films, documentaries, video games and other projects. particular those relevant to scenes from historical eras.
All sounds were recorded in our acoustically treated Foley suite in 24Bit 96kHz allowing further sonic manipulation. We then meticulously edited and tagged the files with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Over 300 sounds of electronic devices.
Static noise, working devices, beeps, glitches and much more.
Real recordings, made with an electromagnetic microphone, modified cables, devices and other things.
Sound library full of winter soundscapes, ambiences and textures recorded in pristine nature and in urban environment.
Here you can find (separated in folders by the character) following sounds:
Sounds of snow: falling,… from trees, roof tops, blizzard, melting snow, road covered with snow blanket-traffic, etc.
Sounds of ice: cracking of the ice, ice on frozen lake cracking, ice blocks flowing on stream, etc.
Sounds of winter soundscapes: wind in background, distant village etc.
Sounds of mountain climbing in winter: snow, ice, ice axes and climbing tools and equipment.
Sounds of wind: wind in background, wind in trees, dead lives, blizzard, wind in dead winter grass, etc.
Sounds of winter Foley: walking on snow, ice, ice mountain slope, walking/moving in deep snow, running on snow etc.
And some urban sounds in winter/snow conditions.
All recordings are birds free (except those few with birds recorded intentionally) and free of (air) traffic sounds.
Recorded with pro grade recording equipment, in high resolution/sampling rate. Long recordings. Metadata tagged with detailed description of equipment and object of recording.
These are RAW files. Without any dynamic manipulation (compressors/limiters etc.). Maximum peak level is -5 dBFS .
Gear Used: Sennheiser MKH 60/30, 40/30; AKG C391b/Ck94; LOM Usi ; Primo mics…, Sound Devices 744T Recorder and Sound Devices Mix Pre field mixer (Lundahl input transformers), Sony PCM M10, Rycote blimps and windjammers, Manfrotto and Triton tripods, Mogami cables and Neutrik XLRs…
Short wave radio noises
A trip through the more obscure wastelands of the short-wave airwaves, interference, static, some voices and music creeping through the noise. Good for domestic radio, military, sci-fi and more.
Please audition sounds at a low level for the sake of your ears as there are some harsh frequencies and big, periodic jumps in volume.
A collection of raw recordings of various devices and a special bonus section created in collaboration with industry designers.
This collection includes 256 raw stereo 24bit/96khz recordings of a multitude of devices including home appliances such as microwaves, washing machines, hair straighteners, face scrubber, vacuums, hand dryer and paper shredder. Recorded using a LOM Electrosluch City, Priezor and MixPre10T
This collection holds everything to create great sci-fi content like forcefields, atmospheres, UI as well as weapons, telemetry and communications. There are 1000 plus sounds contained in this library and you will find glitches, beeps, hums, buzzes, whooshes, movements, statics, clicks, pops, servos, mechanical elements and lots of tonal elements. I’ve had some luck creating Kontakt Instruments/Synths using selections of the assets conatained in this library.
Included in this library is a bonus collaboration between 4 industry designers, totaling 104 files. A big thank you to David Guinot, Andrej Smoljan and Pete Reed for taking the time to contribute to this bonus.
Bowed Cymbal 2 HD is a collection of 102 bowed cymbal samples using a broken and cut up cymbal, which gives some insane tonalities.
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