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This huge sound library has been meticulously recorded over countless hours of perusing the depths of second-hand stores and charity shops. The library contains an original set of peculiar toys and other oddities. While ideally suited for Foley, this pack is also sure to delight any sound designer or fan of original and unusual sounds. It features mechanisms, pop-ups, clicks, winding, jangles and shaking, to name just a few actions. If you’re looking for unusual sounds to mangle, then this just might be the pack for you!
All files are meta-tagged (Soundminer) and labelled.
Recorded using Neumann KMR 81i and Sound Devices field recorder. Very lightly mastered using Izotope RX8 Advanced.
It’s A Plain Phone_Pack 05 is fifth installment in the It’s A Plain Phone_Collection. This pack includes recordings of a Clarity C35 Model Phone pressing buttons, pick up, hang ups, slams, detach and reattach cable to both phone and base, switches, and more! 1694+ sounds packed in 45 sound files, recorded at 24 bit, 192kHz using the Sennheiser MKH8050, MKH30 microphone combo into a Sound Devices Mix Pre-6.
All are meta-data tagged and updated using the Universal Category System in Soundminer, Basehead, and Soundly.
Go for a ride on one of Japanese engineering’s finest motorcycles! The Honda Rebel 300 has a classic sound, classic look, and at 192 kHz sounds surprisingly heavy for a 300 cc engine. In this library you get all the options with onboard mic recordings ranging from 0 to 50 mph, engine breaking, gear shifting, slowing down, hitting turns and curves, accelerating, decelerating, and idling. You get isolated key turns, kickstand, and gear shifting. On board files are mono and pass bys and “drive aways” from 0 to 40 mph are in stereo recorded using mid-side technique for a great realistic stereo spread. You get separate left to right and right to left pass bys and drive bys at 10, 20, 30, and 40 MPH. Isolated stationary revs and idling recorded at different angles of the bike give you all the perspective you need whether you need up close and personal detail or sounds from a distance. This library gives you everything you need to recreate a good ride on this fine motorcycle! Enjoy the Honda Rebel 300 Motorcycle sound library!
Blast into the mechanical past with this vast library of fantastic antique engine sounds from Coolspring Power Museum. Over 250 sounds of clicks, pops, clacks, exhaust, cranking, gears, rhythmic pumps and chugs, air pressure releases, metal grinding, engines running, revs, and more!
Isolated sounds from different perspectives of the same running engine will serve any project needing the perfect mech sounds. These 192 kHz samples are excellent for octave lowered other worldly mechanical transformations or high fidelity crispness. Create an entire steam punk inspired mech world by combining sounds of different engines or add grinding, cranking motion to moving vehicle of the future! The world is your mechanical oyster with this extensive mech library. Enjoy Sputter! Glug! Stutter! Chug!
From creating the breath of a behemoth, to the palpable aura of an ambiance, this is a plethora of contact mic goodness providing you with frequency-deep content for layering, embellishing, bolstering, and new sound creation.
Contact mics are delicate creatures. They can give you insights into the most excitable yet unheard facets of a soundscape, and then almost immediately get destroyed by the slightest of impacts. We’re just going to forget about how many incredible captures were thrown out of the running for this library due to such slight disruptions, and instead focus on the positive: this is a huge collection of super flexible, totally malleable sounds. One of our favorite libraries to make because it satisfied the inner tinkerer’s ear, Outward Inversion is our microscope applied to the aural world.
The DIAL IT Collection collection is divided into three packs (and is available in a bundle too):
On the look out for a dial/rotary phone or a gear rotation for a robot? DIAL IT_Pack 01 is just a pitch bend away! In this pack are pick ups, hand ups, slams, detaching cable, dialing 0-9 at multiple speeds, various buttons on the phone and base, and more! Pack 01 contains over 1738 Sounds recorded over two different microphones, or over 869 takes per microphone all bundled in a total of 78 files. Pack 01 was recorded at 96 kHZ, 24 Bit using the Sennheiser MKH60 and the Rode NT5. Exported mono .wav files.
Hey there! DIAL IT_Pack 02 here. I include sound files of a Dial/Rotary phone that is meant to hang vertically. I am filled with variation of pick ups, hand ups, slams, shaking, rattling, dialing 0-9 at multiple speeds, various buttons and switches on the phone and base, and more! I top over 1998 sounds recorded using two microphones, or 999 sounds per one microphone. I am packaged in a total of 96 sound files recorded at 96 kHZ, 24 Bit using the Sennheiser MKH60 and Sennheiser MKH8050 microphones. Exported mono .wav files.
All sounds are metadata tagged and updated using the Universal Category System in Soundminer, Basehead, and Soundly. Also available in a bundle combining all three packs – at a nice discount.
This library features 145 sound recordings of assorted small electric motors, sourced from appliances like vacuum cleaners, power drills, air dusters, and other DC motors.
We also harnessed the Koma Elektronik Field Kit system which gives the ability to fine control the speed of the motors, allowing for a one-of-a-kind sonic palette. These sounds range from glitchy static noise and hums to electromechanical motor sounds.
All content was captured with induction coil pickups and contact mics, into the Elektronik Field Kit and finally into a Sound Devices 702 recorder.
The Master Gun Benelli M4 Shotgun contains 20 microphone perspectives delivered at 192kHz Broadcast WAV files with UCS Standard Soundminer metadata
Spaceship Pneumatic Airlock Door Sound Effect Pack – Debsound
This sound effects pack is perfect for futuristic, sci-fi or other productions where pneumatic airlock door opening and closing sounds are required.
As a huge Sci-Fi fan, I’ve always loved the sounds of such movies whatever they were. So I couldn’t leave pneumatic airlock doors out of my work.
This sound effect collection is ideal for use in game software, applications.
41 Pneumatic Airlock Door sound effect.
For games, apps or productions where Airlock Door scenes appear.
Household Textures is all about those peculiar textures that we can obtain from an everyday object that is already in our place. These sounds can become a super useful source when it comes to sweetening your sound design workflow.
“Mini Minor complete” is all you need for sonic reproduction of the amazing Morris Mini-Minor.
An 1969 Mini-Minor MK1 from, 850cc engine was captured with multiple microphones at several use-cases.
This package delivers signals for both motor granular reproduction, as well as continuous drive sequences for linear sound design. One-shots of horn, doors and turn signals are also part of the package.
The vehicle was captured using 4 microphones:
All microphones where recorded using a Zoom F8
All of these synced signals are made of mono, stereo and ambisonic and may be easily mixed to achieve your desired sound or listening perspective.
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.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with Rode NTG1 and Shure VP88 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with Rode NTG1 and Shure VP88 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds.
Ambience Colors is a surprisingly diverse, vast collection of atmosphere tracks and sound effects. Pack of unforgettable memories collected over few years and places. Let’s go deeper into the highlights:
Herde of cows on a meadow | Inside a wasp nest | Bali hindu ceremonies with crowds, brahmins and announcers | Bali Village with dogs, roosters and crickets | Cambodia village around a marketplace and calm streets | Latin church mass catholic with a quiet crowd | Diffused city noise | Distant fireworks on New Year’s Eve| Inner courtyards of old Prague houses | City streets | Crowd indoors at film shooting locations, restaurants and celebrations | Crowd outdoors around beer gardens | Industrial indoors with a meat processing factory | Huge poultry farm | Industrial outdoors on a building site or foresters machinery | International airports with crowds and announcers | Nature day in jungle, forest, swamp, pond, lake and meadow | Nature night in Asia and Europe | Ocean waves | Rain inside a tent or behind windows | Heavy rain outdoors | Roomtones and quiet places | Trains passing by and inside | Craftsmen workshops with power and hand tools
Recorded and designed by legendary film sound pioneers Ann Kroeber and Alan Splet, Industrial Sounds with Soul is a sound effects library featuring unique recordings of roaring factory ambience, hypnotic oscillating rhythmic machinery, metallic clanks, clicks, ticks and more.
Following the Cinematic Winds library, Industrial Sounds with Soul is the second exclusive release by Pro Sound Effects curated from Sound Mountain: Kroeber and Splet’s renowned private recording collection created over decades of film sound work with major directors like David Lynch, Carroll Ballard, and Peter Weir. Kroeber has since worked on or supplied sounds for film, television, and games – including 6 movies that won an Academy Award® in sound, and 7 additional nominations.
Immerse your audience in the industrial setting of your current project. Create subconscious tension and artfully steer narrative with subtle, emotive recordings of ominous mechanical humming, gurgling percolators, and hissing steam pipes.
The variety, quality, and deep character captured in this small boutique sound library is sure to spark creative inspiration for sound professionals in film, television, game audio, music production and beyond. Take your sonic creation to the next level by dragging and dropping the artful work of Kroeber and Splet into your production.
Rich embedded metadata helps you find the exact sound you need with descriptions that go beyond the literal to detail the emotional power of the recordings. The sound effects are grouped within five main categories:
Industrial Sounds With Soul is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Standard.
NOTIFICATIONS, APPROVALS, DENIALS, WARNINGS, MESSAGES are all in this concise set of nearly 300 interface sound files! Each and every CHIME, DING, PLUCK, POP, TUNE, HIT, ALARM, BLEEP, ZAP, SPLASH, THUMP, WHOOSH, ALERT and much much more has been carefully constructed with a distinct MECHANICAL feel, covering all shapes, sizes and paces you’ll ever need for any MENU UI sound.
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The Leaf Blower sound library features recordings of air blowing engine machine. 14 activities were recorded from 4 different perspectives (in sync), which gives 56 files in total.
Recorded activities: turning on/off the blower, idle, gas pressing, steady rpms, rpm loops, ramps, normal usage stationary, normal usage while walking.
Recorded perspectives: onboard engine (3 microphones), external: front wide stereo XY, mono, side wide stereo XY.
The physical act of precessing is an interesting phenomenon in with world of mechanical physics. As spinning object of particular shapes, sizes, and materials rotate on an axis, the eventually shift to a specific orientation or side and actually increase in speed and pitch as they approach a static state.
In this library you will have at your disposal 5-8 takes of 21 different objects on 5 different surfaces spinning and precessing in all of their textured and intimate glory. Most containing varied harmonics, some object/surface combinations are rough and booming while others are shrill and just above a whisper. Meticulously recorded and edited, these effects are dynamic and full of character, ready to be twisted, shifted, and warped. When layered in various ways, they can create some really interesting phasing effects as well.
Interested in the physics of this library? Check out Michael Stevens’ (of Vsauce!) most excellent demonstration of Eulerian motion here!
Vaeyan IV delivers a massive set of assorted sound design ingredients for your audio alchemy. It includes assets captured from natural ambiances, vehicles, tools, cameras, slingshots, scissors, clay whistles, flutes, ceramic jars, dumpsters, kitchen appliances, deconstructed fans, toys, doors, windows, vintage furniture, fountains, projectors, and even a slap bracelet. That’s right, a slap bracelet.
As with Vaeyan I, II, and III, this is a huddling of field recordings and sound designs that do not quite form a library on their own. However, together they make up an audio FX treasure chest gleaming with gold and silver audio loot!
This library is the result of tinkering with shotgun mics recording inside of different tube structures. When our initial tests produced a wide range of sonic colors, we went all in.
The tubes used include organic and man-made materials, some rigid, some flexible, some dense, some light, all with varying lengths, diameters, and thicknesses. They consist of bamboo, PVC, 2 variations of vinyl, thin plastic, copper, tin, rubber, dense foam, and a steel-coiled membrane. Each material has a different effect on the sounds passing through them. We generated turbulent drones, thick strikes, resonant scrapes, noisy bells, delicate debris, and more. The overarching characteristics are soft, insulated, and misty. Due to the behavior of the waves in the open tubes and the pickup pattern of the shotgun mics, there is a natural frequency modulation that gives the sound a slightly narrowed, hollow timbre. They work very well in simulated settings, enclosed spaces, and when there is a need to exaggerate the magnitude of tiny worlds. But they are equally as useful as raw design fodder, especially when a unique texture is needed.
This is our first library created solely for the sake of experimentation, though based on the results, it may not be the last!
This power tool sound library will provide you with all kinds of “whizzzz”, “brrrrr” and “Bwoooooo”.
Power Tools is full of top quality recordings of different small motors and rotors, all meticulously recorded in both mono and stereo. Contains bursts, sustained operation, revving up and down, drilling and drags against different material.
Can be used for foley purposes but would also be a cool addition when making sounds for spaceships, sci-fi guns, vehicles, robots and other neat stuff.
Recorded with a Rode Large Diaphragm Condenser (NT1-A) in Mono and Oktava MK 012 in spaced stereo configuration, at 192 kHz, 24 bit.
Cassette Deck is a set of sounds collected from a small group of analog cassette players. It’s filled with great mechanical buttons and switches, latches, a few motors at different speeds, and multiple microphones/perspectives per take. Great if you’re building some mechanical interfaces!
Rubber Stamps: 7 different stamps – 45 files. UCS-compliant. Great office sounds and mechanical sound design material.
You get self-inking mechanical stamps made of steel or plastic, as well as simple wooden stamps with no moving parts. Models include danish office classics Alpo 40 and 50, which make some very rich mechanical sounds – pitch them down for heavy machine sounds. Lots of interesting mechanical content – good for specifics or as sound design elements.
Rubber Stamps highlights:
• Clean and dry quality recordings – many are loopable
• Sounds ranging from glacially slow to downright busy
• Wooden stamp recordings include authentic sticky ink-pad action (yay!)
• Metadata included in CSV and ODS (OpenOffice) formats
• Just like being back in the cubicle…
There’s lots of variation in performance here; several different sounds for each stamp.
Want sounds of buttons, switches, levers or gears - and other mechanical sound elements that clink, clank, whir, squeak and grind? These mechanical sound effects libraries offer you an extraordinary toolbox of recordings - from the tiniest gears to gigantic bucket-wheels, and everything in between. Recorded from a wide range of perspectives and featuring both construction kit elements and designed sounds, these sound libraries come in handy for any project that calls for mechanical sounds, or as sonic building blocks when designing robots, motors, machines and other contraptions that call for that mechanical sound.
Clank, whir, beep, click, hiss, buzz, hum, rattle, screech, thud, squeak, crackle, pop, sizzle, grind, roar, bang, snap, creak, chime
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A: They're created by the independent sound community, and have been recorded by some of the best recordists and sound designers on the planet. There's a constant flow of brand new sound libraries coming from the community, giving you the absolutely freshest sound effects available anywhere. Oh, and by getting sounds from the community, you support individual sound designers and sound recordists – that’s a pretty cool thing too.
Polarity delivers more than 950 sounds of electricity, science and technology – captured in several locations around the world, from electricity museums to science labs. About 50% of the library is all about electricity, with various types of Jacob’s Ladders, Tesla Coils, Ruhmkorff lamp and all sorts of impactful bursts of energy.
Then we go through welders, plasma spheres, 3D printers, starting to cover a more broad technology theme – like old phones, telegraphs, dynamo wheels, rotary dials, whirling watchers, alarm, lab centrifuges, something scientists call a roller and a rocker, servo sounds, neon lights, a wimshurst machine and sparklers.
Many sounds in this section were captured from vintage equipment, from a 1928’s tram to old telephone switchboards, high voltage levers and control surfaces.
All content was recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K, a couple of Sennheiser 8040 and a Neumann 81i, translating into final assets that have plenty of ultrasonic content, ready for the most extreme manipulation.
Over 375 sounds of creaking 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!
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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:
“Old Engines Grab Bag” is a pack of numerous old, unique and characterful engines from early 1900s. It’s a massive collection of 56GB multitrack 192kHz recordings of old tractors and stationary engines, both diesel and gasoline fueled.
The intention wasn’t to cover vehicles driving, but to get isolated and very closely recorded mechanical elements of engines and exhaust pipes as a source material for sound design. There are many starts, idles, revs, offs, RPMs variations, backfires etc. Some are heavy and large sounding, some are small and funny. Tractors were captured EXT and most of stationary engines INT, but since they are very closely recorded there is just a little amount of reverb on most of them.
Most of engines are 1 or 2 cylinders and low horse power and their RPMs are also low. Thanks to this, many of those sounds aren’t tonal and can easily be used as additional layer with other design elements. They work great for adding vintage character, designing junky or funny vehicles, crazy huge steampunk machines or engines malfunction.
Sounds were recorded using multi-mic setup: Sanken CO-100k (most of the time pointing mechanical parts), Sennheiser MKH-8060 (mainly for isolated exhaust pipe), Schoeps CMC6XT mk41/mk8 (general image) and part also with Trance Audio Inducer contact mics (adding unique mechanical perspective).
The library is delivered as multitrack 192kHz files, as well as stereo mix of all microphones. Thanks to using microphones with extended frequency range, drastic pitch changes can be applied.
All files have extensive metadata created in Soundminer, including leg picker with microphone labels.
Demo files include pitched sounds, which are not delivered with library.
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