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Sound effects libraries where the file names and metadata follow the Universal Category System (UCS), championed by renowned sound supervisor Tim Nielsen & more
Static Space is a collection of 155 UCS-compliant space or Sci-Fi sound effects, focused on continuous, seamless loops. Instead of fly-by’s and accelerations, you get the sounds of space ships going at cruise speeds or idling. If you need motion, just add panning, fades and doppler as you like.
Here are plenty of loops for designing alien environments, including engine rooms, general room tones, strange transmissions and more. Additionally, I have made sure to add plenty of variety; both in terms of moods, frequency content and tonality. Some of these are unmistakably space sound effects, while others are more ambiguous, and could be used for other high tech environments as well.
You will find both low- and high end sweeteners, so when ever you see the words “rumble” or “low end” in a file name; watch that master fader! Furthermore, I went for a strong, almost musical tone, in some sounds, while others are much more noise-based and abrasive.
Sci-Fi Electric is a collection of sparks, static, drones, hums, zaps and textures! The library features 64 files with over 80 audio clips. Here you’ll find a wealth of processed sounds for your Sci Fi adventure. Source material ranges from beard scratching to lap steel pickup interference.
Through processing they end up as “alienistic” textures, sparks, static, drones, hums, zaps, ambiences, and whatever else your imagination can come up with! Other sounds include raw microphone feedback, streetlight buzz, and electrical static.
The source material ranged from beard scratching to lap steel pickup interference… This one was fun to make, and it will be even more fun for you to play with!
Construction/Demolition is a collection of standard tools as well as a TON of hospital demolition and home demolition ambiences.
These ambiences are chalk full of heavy equipment sounds, grinding, gears, i-beams being chopped in half by 8-foot long demolition scissors, rubble falling, roofs caving in… It’s … AWESOME!
Futuristic Weapons Vol. 2 – Modular Sound System
This collection offers you 695 sounds in 192 kHz / 24-bit, designed for complete flexibility. With a modular approach, you can break down and personalize each weapon to create unique and dynamic shots.
In this version, we have included two types of weapons:
🔹 Pulse Rifle (438 sounds)
🔹 Trace Rifle (257 sounds)
Each weapon features multiple versions:
✔️ Pre-designed, ready-to-use versions (just drag and drop).
✔️ Variations to avoid repetitive and monotonous shots (organized numerically: 01, 02, 03, etc.).
✔️ Completely different alternative versions (labeled as V1, V2, etc.).
Maximum flexibility with individual layers
In addition to full weapon sounds, we’ve included hundreds of individual layers used in the design process. This allows you to mix, combine, and modify each sound element, giving you a fully customizable sound design toolkit.
🎯 Included layers for each weapon:
🔸 Pulse Rifle: Muzzle, long & short tail, thump, discharge, reload, equip, and more.
🔸 Trace Rifle: Reload part 1, reload part 2, reload without tech, reload tech layer, tail only, discharge, and others.
Unmatched quality and versatility
All sounds were recorded and edited in 192kHz – 96kHz / 32-24 bit, delivered in 192 kHz / 24-bit. This high resolution allows you to stretch, attenuate, distort, or manipulate them without losing clarity or detail.
Our goal is not just to provide a sound library, but to offer a complete creative sound design kit with unlimited possibilities.
More about the pack
– Intuitive file naming
– All you’ll ever need regarding katana, Pulse Rifle & Trace Rifle[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 other than the one described, remember that the world of sound is totally subjective.
– For any questions or problems: [email protected]
Features
– 695 sounds
– Number of Audio Waves: 695
– Format: 192KHz / 24 bits
– Do Sound FX loop: Yes
– Win/Mac: Yes
– Minutes of audio provided: 15 minutes and 45 seconds
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – GOAT & SHEEP
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – CROWING ROOSTER
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – LOVEBIRD
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – WHITE HANDED GIBBON
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – MEERKAT
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – WATUSI
Product description:
“The Animal Symphony – Donkey” offers a collection of 69 high-quality audio tracks, each with multiple sounds (between 3 and 6 variations). The audios are organized with an intuitive nomenclature, allowing you to easily swap the different microphone jacks, so you can choose which microphone to use or combine them all. Using two high-end microphones, the Sennheiser MKH 8050 and an EM258 capsule microphone, along with a Zoom H6 recorder for stereo sound, we have captured every detail and nuance of these sounds. Recordings were made at 24-bit and 192kHz/96kHz, ensuring professional clarity and depth.
This collection offers a wide variety of braying, growling, donkeys eating, etc… these sounds are perfect for adding realism and authenticity to your projects. With multiple takes and variations, this library provides the flexibility needed for any type of production requiring sounds from these animals. All recordings have been carefully edited to eliminate external noises, such as birds, wind or people. Furthermore, thanks to the ultrasonic microphones used, it is guaranteed that whoever decides to lower the tone will continue to obtain frequency richness.
Ideal applications:
– Video games: Add realism and depth to the natural environments of your games.
– Cinema and Documentaries: Enrich your audiovisual productions with authentic sounds.
– Educational Applications: Use these sounds in educational projects to teach about wildlife and animal behavior.
– Multimedia Projects: Ideal for any project that seeks to enrich the user’s listening experience.
Technical details:
– Total audios: 69 (Each audio contains between 3 and 6 variations)
– Format: 192kHz – 96kHz/24bit
– Equipment used: Zoom F6 recorder with Sennheiser MKH 8050 microphone and EM258 capsule microphone, plus a Zoom H6 recorder for stereo sound.
License:
The sounds from “The Animal Symphony – Donkey” are available under a royalty-free license, allowing them to be used in multiple projects at no additional costs. You can use these sound effects in your games, trailers, Kickstarter campaigns, and more, as many times as you like.
Neighbors: Sounds Behind Walls is a unique collection, offering over 3 hours of sounds capturing the daily activities of neighbors living next or above you. This collection can be used especially to bring life to quiet spaces/rooms.
Think about indistinct sounds from neighbors walking around, setting the table, making coffee, tea, load and unload the dishwasher, cooking, tidying up the room, flushing the toilet, using the water tap, vacuum cleaning, dry blowing their hair, brushing their teeth, taking something out of the fridge or freezer, opening and closing curtains, or even practicing an instrument. And that is not all. We’ve also covered a “noisy” neighbor walking around the room, using or slamming doors, jumping, moving furniture and walking up and down the stairs.
All recordings are clear and completely free from external noise, voices and other disruptions. No additional reverb is used for more flexibility.
Utilizing two microphone setups provides two variations for each recording, offering both more pronounced and more distant options.
Get over 3 hours of unique, royalty-free and high-quality recordings with this library. Recorded in 24 bit / 96 kHz. Accurately edited and mastered. For more detailed descriptions about the recordings in this collection see the metadata in our file lists or listen to the preview montage.
This library is UCS compliant (universalcategorysystem.com). In this new category system, all files contain extensive metadata like file description, Category & Subcategory. Metadata can be read and processed by the most common audio libraries management tools.
The Cartoon SFX Bundle features an exciting collection of sound effects perfect for adding that extra bit of whimsy to your project. Get ready for crashing, banging and walloping cartoon sounds!
Our Audio Craftsmen were able to capture a variety of unique and creative sounds such as boings, clangs, splats and zips. This was achieved with the use of toys, musical instruments and voices that were manipulated to give you a variety of dynamic and characterful sound effects.
This bundle features over 1.4 GB of energetic, exaggerated, and metaphorical sounds that reference the classic zip-crash sonic palette.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 192kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Whooshes is a sound library containing many recordings of various objects being swung. The resulting sounds are useful in a variety of places, such as for the sound of throwing, jumping, and more!
Features:
This sound library introduces reverberant aggressive metal rampage with just a hint of subtlety right before the enormous sound rushes to deliver a piercing brutal blow.
Featuring creeping evolving metal pressure and resonating rattle, gritty friction and massive rumble, explosive impacts and fierce slams, vicious screeches and nerve-racking squeaks.
Explore and layer meticulously edited source material or drag and drop high-end detailed sound effects designed for instant devastating damage.
With plenty of experimentation and unique processing, this library introduces a fresh sound palette for action adventure and horror genre, trailers and in-game cinematics.
This Sound Library is a part of the Slava Pogorelsky – Complete Bundle.
WHAT SOUND PROFESSIONALS SAY:
Victor Mercader – AAA Sound Designer (Apex Legends)
“I find myself continuously using Slava’s SFX libraries to blend it’s pristine and detailed sound designs into my own sounds. They always add that cutting edge I am missing and make my sound designs more unique and pristine.”
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.”
Ginno Legaspi – SoundBytes Music Magazine
“Slava is back with another aggressive and energetic sample library called Resonating Metal Force – a 680 strong collection of modern metal effects captured using various tools and high-end studio equipment. The source material was edited and processed professionally for instant use. These sounds are primed for experimentation – whether you add your unique processing, layer several WAV samples or slice and dice to your heart’s content, the sky’s the limit. This sound pack is another winner.”
Yarron Katz – AAA Composer and Sound Designer
“Slava makes some wonderful libraries. He’s relatively new on the scene and his libraries have come to critical acclaim. He takes some general ideas, like whooshes and he injects some extremely revolutionary and innovative ideas to them, so you’re not getting another whoosh library – you’re getting something very unique, very fresh. He brings some wonderful ideas to the table.”
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.
THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION FOR HI-TECH USER INTERFACES
Futuristic Interface comes as your new go-to resource for futuristic UI sound design. Whether you are on track for creating high-tech HUDs, spaceship control rooms, user feedback in applications or data calculations and cyber worlds, this library will be your best choice. With more than 4300 ready-to-use sounds divided into sophisticated categories, there are no limits to design popups, scans, buttons, text notifications, malfunctions, ambiences and much more on the fly.
Included are simple sounds like user interactions, beeps, swipes, confirmations, denies and alarms, to more complex ones like display scans, futuristic computer processes and humming control room backgrounds. We put a lot of effort into producing this library for you, resulting in the largest sci-fi UI collection available on the market now.
DISCOVER A NEW SOUND ERA WITH US
Creating the sounds of Futuristic Interface took us through extensive sound synthesis and the use of complex effect chains. All files are subject to extreme digital processing and transformation, making them a perfect match for crafting the sonic environment of any advanced or futuristic technology. The immense amount of SFX in this library brings you a highly flexible use case either for game design, films, apps, presentations, radio plays or infographics.
WHAT’S INSIDE (FILES / SOUNDS)
Chris C. (Animation Producer)
The JSE Futuristic Interface sound effects package was just what I needed. It’s hard to find original-sounding futuristic effects that match the motion graphics we’ve created, but the JSE package sounds were all interesting, original and refreshing, and contained such a great variety that finding the perfect match was easy. All the filenames make searches easy and intuitive, so I can focus on sound design instead of file management. Great product!
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.
The sound enthusiast in you will love to know that we scoured around the city/internet to collect a bunch of antique mechanistic objects for this sound collection. We even scored an old classic adding machine and a working antique pedal sewing machine! The gears and mechanisms in this odd assortment of old machines is from a beautiful and rich bygone era of manual movement, of strange and fascinating ideas from inventors creating moving parts that are simply unproducible in modern day gadgets.
Your ears spring to life as you listen through, one by one through these highly detailed and engrossing audio recordings that capture brilliantly the foreground and midground layers of the small moving parts. Perfect for older weapon Foley, for steam-punk machines, period piece machines, industrial era machinery, and on and on. A small vintage gear crank, that special metallic rich clickety-clack of a dusty old mechanism, the ribbon typewriter scrolling…
To get the most out of this collection of old mechanisms, we used a multipositional close mic-ing approach for these in order to get all those tiny moving details. Of course, they required that they be captured in our smallest studio used for precisely these low-noise environment sort of recordings – key in bringing the detailed three dimentional quality of these mechanisms to life.
As sound designers, we always need new, better, varied material. We want to feel excited by and connected to the sounds we use – enjoy and make it yours!
Useful Sound Effects releases Creature Wings, a library that contains Wings sound effects. Sounds range from complete mixes of creatures flying by, being hit, moving in stereo, single wing flaps, multiple wing beats recorded in foley sessions with multiple materials and various speeds. Also RAW files that allow you to edit the wing sounds to your needs… Some recorded session files with a Sanken CO100K are added in their 192KHz format.
Save hours of foley sessions and editing and get started with what you were after, or let yourself be surprised and listen to wing sounds that add more character to your creature flying movement.
Over 450 files that contain in most cases multiple recordings, offering variations in speed, texture, material, EQ, FX.
UCS compliant and Metatagged files with 458 sounds, containing over 1000 sounds. Useful for very small insect up to monster wing sounds.
The Medieval Battle Bundle is the ultimate construction kit for building up Medieval scenes and backgrounds. It includes our best-selling library, Medieval Battle – used in TV and Film productions all over the world – as well as Medieval Battle Vol. 2 and Historical Battle Voices.
Together these libraries provide a huge selection of voices, crowds, lines, characters and weapons ideal for drama and fantasy alike. Whether your film scene requires more ‘epic-ness’, or your game sequences are in need of some historically-accurate flair, this useful toolkit will allow you to craft a sense of fullness and immersion in your Medieval and historical projects.
All sounds included were carefully captured and meticulously edited for maximum sonic quality, enabling to you drop each sample into your projects with no need for further enhancement or modification.
The entire bundle is delivered at 24Bit (Medieval Battle is delivered at 96kHz, and Medieval Battle Vol. 2 and Historical Battle Voices are delivered at 192kHz) and tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.
Suburbs of Chicago: Lagoon is the second installment in the Suburbs of Chicago Series. This package contains ambiences from a suburban lagoon. There is no shortage of bird chirps, leaves and grass rustling in the wind, and bike pass bys. Canoe Paddling, both distant and close, can be heard as one of the outdoor activities. As in any suburb, there are distant cars and distant planes. There is also 20 minutes of various car passes on a side road. 18 files wrap up this small package and over 300+ sounds for a duration of over 2 hours, and exported at 48kHz, 24 Bit! All files are metadata tagged and updated using the Universal Category System in Soundminer, Basehead, and Soundly.
625 audio recordings and synthesized sound effects carefully processed and edited to fit with any fantasy style UI visuals.
UI Fantasy Sound Pack can be used for any kind of UI buttons, including clicks, beeps, drones, slides, glitches, etc.
Perfect for video games, trailers and films.
Buckle up (your harness)!
Climbing Gear Foley Vol. 1 contains textural sounds of lead-climbing paraphernalia manipulated by an experienced climber. This library emphasises the fine detail of equipment, allowing you to immerse audiences in the intensity of the sport.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded interactions with a harness, rope, carabiners, and quickdraws to create a selection of authentic, material sound effects. Sounds of metallic clip-ins, plastic straps, friction-filled rope pulls, squeaking locks, hardhat rattles (and more!) enable you to inject your climbing sequences with gritty realism.
Use this library for any mountaineering- and climbing-themed projects in the TV. Film and Game industries.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation, and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Like many of you, we found ourselves overwhelmed with the sheer volume of different wind SFX libraries out there, yet somehow always a bit underwhelmed. At Silverplatter Audio we set out to change that. We wanted to create the ultimate wind library that we would actually want to use ourselves, and hopefully you’ll feel the same way!
To accomplish this, we built a custom Jenklin Disc to create separation between our microphones, similar to how our head separates our ears. We then placed this specially designed Jenklin Disc inside a slightly modified Rode Blimp. The result was an incredibly natural-sounding wind recording that captured the true essence of the environment.
The versatility of these wind sound effects is truly remarkable. This pack offers a wide range of recordings, capturing everything from gentle breezes to powerful storms. It’s perfect for recreating the immersive atmosphere of a raging tempest or simply adding a subtle touch of tranquility with a gentle gust of wind.
A massive haunted voices collection with fully 596 audio files and 2 hours of otherworldly audio to cover all of your haunted voice needs for film, games, television and interactive web.
All files were carefully selected from hours upon hours of ultra high resolution recordings of talented vocal actors, then designed and processed using state of the art hardware and software audio manipulation tools.
Performances include ghostly moans, growls, yells, casting spells, whispers, goblins, fairies, small creepy creatures, infants, breathing, seance sfx, screeches and more!
The creepy eeriness of a soul’s voice penetrating through the borders of life and death to communicate with the living – bring your listeners into the terrors of boldly and tastefully designed otherworldly communication with… Voices From Beyond.
This project was made in mind for game developers and sound designers to put ease on creating custom gory sound effect layers within your project. This project comes with many Squishes, Squelches, Stabs, Cracks and Bone Breaks that can be layered to create the desired effects to ensure your sounds are fully unique. You can to use the sounds as is or get creative as you want with the pack to add something unique to your project.
Dog Vocalisations Vol. 2 features the unusual noises of a Wire Haired Standard Dachshund in heat. This pet’s personality shines through as she stubbornly tries to paw her way into her metal kennel.
Her frenzied behaviour makes way for bizarre whines, cries, barks, growls and mewls – all carefully captured and edited by our Audio Craftsmen. The result is a series of truly strange sounds ideal for creature sound design or enhancing character in your animal creations.
The candid quality of these sounds also makes them perfect for enhancing realistic animal moments in Film, TV and Game productions.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 192kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use
SOUNDS FOR MALFUNCTIONS AND FAILED TRANSMISSIONS
GLITCHES is made to be your “go-to sound pack” for all kinds of frame drops, transmission breaks, user interfaces or science fiction projects. A big collection of hi-tech single glitches featuring various complex pre-designed glitches brings the best glitch sounds into your studio. Build your own custom glitches by layering and processing single sounds or take profit from the pre-designed sounds when doing sound design on the fly. These hi-tech glitches are a must-have for any creative looking to expand their sonic repertoire!
A UNIQUE SCI-FI CONSTRUCTION KIT
All sounds were designed from a variety of analog and digital source materials like semi-modular synthesizers, feedback loops, recorded TVs, various analog noises and broken hardware pieces. We then processed the sounds with distortion/saturation, granular and delay effects and out came a great toolbox for all situations where you need glitch sounds.
Take a step into our new library, Footsteps! Walking, Running, Jumping sounds and more have been paired with a slew of different ground textures and environments such as Dirt Paths, Laminate Flooring and Cemented Pavements, ready for use without having to leave your room.
Film-makers, Composers and sound designers alike; each sound within this library can be utilised creatively within any film, tv or video game project.
All sounds were recorded in 24Bit 96kHz allowing further sonic manipulation in our acoustically treated Foley suite. We then meticulously edited and tagged the files with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
With A Sound Effect, Asbjoern has created a web site where our international community can browse, learn, and share the vast fruits of our labors. Together we are accelerating the very real potential power of sound design as a recognized art form.
A Sound Effect is an excellent resource for us to keep our animated films sounding unique and exciting.
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We found the site very easy to navigate, purchasing and downloads were effortless and the effects themselves are awesome! Asbjoern has done us all a great service.
We’ll definitely be back!
There are many great independent sound effect libraries available these days. The main problem with having so many, is keeping track of them!
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A Sound Effect is a well curated boutique sound effects shop and a great place to find industry interviews and learning resources.