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Tokyo Tourist is more than 2.5 GBof sound from different locations in Tokyo and beyond.
34 recordings/79 minutes of stereo recordings featuring temples, trains, religious processions and much more – this library takes you to some of the locations a tourist might visit, all in 24bit/96kHz quality. All files are UCS-compliant.
Recording with the same setup as Tokyo – Outdoor Ambiances, I went to Shinjuku station and Gyoen Park. I recorded the Kanda festival procession in the streets of Akihabara, captured the infernal sound in a video game arcade – just to name a few of the sounds in this library.
• Clean, realistic ambient recordings of interesting locations
• Traffic, temples, parks, trains, people, people, people…
• All sounds recorded with the same microphones – in the same setup (spaced-omni)
• BWAV metadata embedded with even more included in CSV and ODS (OpenOffice) formats
Are you looking for skid sounds for your next action movie? Well, this sound library is made for you.
“Skid and Drift” is the result of 4 years of recording work. It is a complete collection of skids from various vehicles, recorded from multiple perspectives, on all types of surfaces, and in high quality (dirt, dry and wet concrete, gravel, etc.).
You will find skids from race cars recorded during the French National Drift Championship, skids from go-karts, motocross bikes, bicycles, skateboards, ice skates, rollerblades, as well as foot skids.
These sounds were recorded in both stereo (XY and ORTF position) and mono, depending on the case, using the following microphones: Schoeps CCM4, Neumann U87, DPA4061, Lom MikroUsi. All sounds are recorded in 24-bit. The sampling frequency is 48kHz for scuffing footsteps sounds, and 96kHz and 192kHz for other recordings.
The metadata is precise and complete. All sounds are in UCS format.
192KHZ 24BIT • 214 MB • 310 FILES • UCS
Old Wood Floor is a meticulously curated sound effects library capturing the essence of footsteps and creaks on the ancient hardwood floors of an over 100 year old village house.
This collection consists of 310 sound effects, including the nuanced variations of footsteps with different intensities—regular, light, and fast—on seasoned hardwood, both floors and stairs.
Additionally, it features the distinct creaks of the same hardwood, offering a diverse range of sounds that bring the character of old wooden floorboards to life.
Perfect for projects requiring the authentic sound of vintage wood in its natural environment.
This library embodies the spirit and history embedded in the creaks and footsteps of time-worn floors.
For more details check the SFX LIST
EDITED AND MASTERED WITH: Acon Acustica, Pro Tools
RECORDED WITH: DPA 4060, ZOOM F3
Recorded using only bird calls, musical instruments, voice and whistling techniques, IMAGINARY BIRDS contains over 200 different organic and realistic songs of non-existing birds. Recorded with a Sennheiser MKH 8050 with ultrasonic content, you can use the sounds as is, pitch-shift them or combine individual sounds to create new bird songs.
• 227 sounds recorded with MKH 8050
• 96KHz/24bit
• Each file contains several variations of the songs
• Recorded dry, no reverb added
• Ideal for cartoon, sci-fi, adventure films, video games, creature design, soundscapes…
Stadium Crowd Vol. 1 captures an immersive symphony of emotions reverberating around a UK stadium packed with over 80,000 people. The library includes a cacophony of cheers, jeers, groans, and moans, giving a genuine sense of the passionate energy in the stands.
This library was recorded during a professional wrestling event, making it an ideal choice for productions featuring exhilarating sports scenes filled with heightened excitement. Experience the resonant thuds of body slams, the distinct chime of bell dings, and the vibrant chorus of crowd chants.
These sound effects are not only suitable for productions infused with pro wrestling themes, but can also elevate any scene with an enthusiastic stadium crowd.
Combine these sounds with our Football SFX Bundle Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 to build a myriad of enthusiastic fanfares.
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.
A meticulously crafted sound library that offers a plethora of workplace ambiences and sounds, transporting your audience to bustling offices, serene lobbies, humming server rooms, and much more. Immerse your audience in the essence of bustling urban workspaces.
A must-have for game developers, filmmakers, and media creators, this library contains the sounds of extraordinary doors found in fantasy, sci-fi, and hi-tech fiction.
All aboard!
Steam Train Vol. 1 delivers authentic sounds of a British steam locomotive.
Whistles, chugging, wheels on railway tracks, steam hissing, passenger voices, engine clicks and more were captured in the heart of the industrial revolution – the North West of England.
These field recordings were carefully captured and edited by our Audio Craftsmen, resulting in a concise collection of mechanical, industrial steam train sounds – complete with rattles, clanks and chugga-chugga-choo-choos!
Use this library to enhance period settings, design steam train scenes, and reference an age gone-by. Ideal for TV, Film, Documentary and Game projects alike.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation, and have been tagged with extensive UCS-compliant metadata for ease of use.
Want the SUBSCRIPTION version instead? Find it here
Introducing a bold new take on Wood and Metal Creak SFX that will help you bring your project to the next level.
As sound enthusiasts, we were keen to bring something new to the table for this category of sound…and so a novel recording approach was created to produce the sounds for this library. Due to the incredibly subtle (and not so subtle!) audio details embedded in creak sounds, a recording environment is required with particularly effective sound isolation. At the same time, a high level of control over the variety of surface type and performances of the creaks themselves is needed. Our MacGyver recording engineer Phil found a solution that produced a setup within which we had isolation, control, and variety… the “Creak Box”.
The Creak Box is able to capture the most detailed essence of most resonant surface types, and has multiple stages of tension with which the performer of the creaks can play with. Happy with the source sounds that were being created – which is always the most important stage from beginning to end – we found that a multi mic rig was needed. To really get the depth and detail of these creaks we found that the best results were achieved by using a spatially tweaked-up microphone setup using the contact mic LOM Geophon, a pair of cardioid Sennheiser Mkh8040s, and a shotgun Rode NTG3. The best recordings always come from testing multiple mic positions, and experimenting with input levels and mic positions; this sound library brings you only our best takes.
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!
Wood: Old wood stairs, doors, floors, ships, houses, twisting and bending wood, chairs, tables, fences, and more.
Metal: Big and small doors, small squeaks, huge resonant duct and convector surfaces, chairs, benches, wires, bedsprings, and more.
(The video bellow contains added room tone to show some of the sounds in context.)
This sound library comes from recording water heater, washing machine, window, door, keys and shower glass with lom géofon.
After working these sounds in post production, this library comes with 14 incredible drone sounds that will bring your vídeo, trailer or movie to life.
Celebrate your independence with Fireworks!
A library of explosives featuring big, small, single shots, multi-burst and more from various fireworks novelties as well as commercial grade public display grand finales!
FRICTION – IMPACTS – RATTLE
You want to make those epic cinematic metal sounds used in every film or video game but don’t have the right tools?
METAL MOVEMENTS is a strong sound design toolkit made to create powerful impacts, massive destruction and epic transitions. This extremely versatile collection of metallic squeaks, scratches, rattles, impacts and various metallic movement sounds from different perspectives gives you the best source materials when it comes to making your own cinematic metal sounds. Let your creativity flow: pitch, stretch, layer and hugely process the sounds to their limits.
RECORDED IN AN ABANDONED FACTORY HALL
The perfect spot to capture the sounds for this library was an old factory building. The place was full of huge steel girders, rusting barrels, chains, rattling metal sheets and resonating poles. The unique sound of the former production hall provided a huge and clean reverb that makes the recordings sound really impressive. In addition to the metal sounds you will get the original impulse responses of the hall.
AVAILABLE IN STEREO AND QUAD
Because of the special sound quality of the factory hall, you can get the library in both stereo and quad. If stereo isn’t enough for you, dive into the surround sounds and create something stunningly immersive. Each version also includes near mono recordings with less reverb so you have even more options to manipulate the sound.
Skin is an essential addition to your Foley collection; featuring natural, organic recordings of delicate skin-on-skin gestures and motions, performed in-house by our Audio Craftsmen.
Raw recordings of grasps, clasps, itches, scratches, caresses, strokes, brushes, taps, flicks, finger clicks, nail filings, hands in soap – and more! – were captured with the powerful Sennheiser MKH50 and meticulously edited in post, affording realistic, detailed sounds perfect for layering texture into your film, TV and game projects.
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.
IMPACTO contains a wide variety of sound types, ranging from trailer impacts and granular clouds to drones and full-fledged melodic tracks, which can be used as music stems in movies or games.
Most of source sounds were recorded using Sanken CO-100K ultrasonic microphone, which can capture frequencies up to 100 kHz, to get the most interesting sound foundation.
For this purpose I recorded various objects and textures (metal, glass, wood), as well as traditional acoustic instruments, strings, large gongs, singing bowls, didgeridoo, percussion, female vocals, chanting and etc. These sounds were further heavily processed with plug-ins, custom Max/MSP patches and external effects to get strange and unusual results.
The library also contains Source folder with recordings that are almost not processed (apart from pitch shift).
As a bonus, all sounds are integrated into Kontakt instruments with user-friendly interface and several effects (LP filter with resonance, AR envelope, three-band equalizer, reverb, delay and chorus).
November 2020. During last year´s Covid Pandemic lockdown, we took all our gear and visited “Entorno Doñana” equestrian facility in Boalo, Madrid.
Blacktone Studio Sound Team lead by Barto Alcaine & Alvaro de Iscar recorded this amazing library in full Multi-mic method. We covered Doñana´s horses with 3 shotgun mics (MKH416, Shoeps CMIT & MKH8070). We also mounted two Lectrosonic systems to the main horse; one on the belly and another one on the mouth.
Trot, Gallop, single horse, group and pair of horses and several surfaces: Grass, dirt, asphalt and even water! We covered every posible movement the horse could perform. Also some nice neighing & buffing!
We always found it difficult to find good horse samples in our library, so now, with this new library, we think that we have recorded everything we always needed in our projects! And in 96Khz High Quality Sample Rate !!
AGGRESSIVE SOUND ELEMENTS TO PUSH THE LIMITS
The testament of a powerful sound is in its intricate composition. Layered to perfection, a sound emerges and envelopes, shaking the foundations of our existence. With this library, use the massive impacts, rattles, and screams on their own or layer them with your sounds to make a bigger, more complex and savage sonic experience.
This library contains 410 sounds of cleanly recorded, realistic sword sounds.
Including:
• Sword impacts on swords
• Swords colliding and sliding
• Swords impacting on armour
• Swords sheathing
• Swords unsheathing
• and Whooshes
I have left in some natural rings so it can be used with the natural ring.
Or it can be cut out to allow more control.
(The example listed has background ambience and some reverb to show how the sounds can be naturally implemented into a soundscape)
Car Driving Interior aims to capture the sound of realistic, genuine everyday driving inside two selected vehicles. A Porsche Cayman GTS sport car and a Subaru Outback suv.
Car Driving Interior aims to capture the sound of realistic, genuine everyday driving inside two selected vehicles. These recordings are captured from driving on busy city streets, highways and quiet roads. One can find steady drivings as well as varieties of manoeuvres at different speeds and manner.
The two selected vehicles are a Porsche Cayman GTS sport car and a Subaru Outback suv. The Cayman has a very cosy interior and its sporty nature gives it a very robust character. The Outback in comparison sounds very spacious and deliver a lot of nuances and subtle rattling textures.
This library, recorded during a trip to the ominous Death Valley USA in February 2021, features sounds of the harsh desert being carved by winter winds, as well as sounds of life such as wetland birds from the oasis at Ash Meadows. If you listen closely to the recordings from the infamous Devil’s Hole, and inhospitable Salt Creek, you can hear the endangered pupfish bark. Many recording styles were used to capture immersive stereo images of the landscape that provides such stark contrasts being both foreboding and breathtaking in its beauty, included are surround and binaural recordings. This is by no means a comprehensive collection, if anything I learned that I have much more to discover about Death Valley than I thought I did starting out.
Sale Policy: To keep things simple, I never put any of my libraries on sale or offer any kind of discount. I sell them at a reasonable price given the effort to record and compile them, I find this is the most honest and transparent approach to the sale of sound effects.
SECLUSION is an intense collection of signature Braams and Atmospheric elements for Dystopian and Horror productions. 140 files (24 Bit / 48 kHz, WAV) of pure sonic angst!
If you are a trailer composer the Braams included in the library will inject energy and tension in your track grabbing people’s attention. But if you are an editor or sound designer the Atmospheric elements will set the right tense mood for your scene thanks to the terrifying nature of the sounds.
Features:
-140 Sound effects (73 Atmospheric elements, 67 Braams)
-24 Bit / 48 kHz, WAV
-1,2 GB
-Key information
-Universal Category System (UCS) compliant
Spatial Countryside is an immersive collection of audio ambiences for cinema, VR, videogames and any audiovisual or creative purposes.
The audios provided in this library are high quality recordings with Zoom H2n recorder in Spatial Audio mode, horizontal-only ambisonic alike mic layout stored in an AmbiX format. W, X, Y channels of AmbiX provide immersive audio through the horizontal plane and they allow to decode the recording into Mono, Stereo, Binaural, Quad, 5.0, 5.1, 7.1 and more layouts with dedicated Ambisonic processors. Z channel is empty.
The library comes with 5.0 and Stereo version of the AmbiX original recordings.
Now UCS Compliant!
Niger Sahara Desert, ambiences and sound effects library By Iben Haahr Andersen
Back in 2004 Iben Haahr Andersen travelled to Niger on an amazing journey into the Sahara desert.
Her job was to follow a large group of nomads, travelling on camels back for 10 days to the desert town of Agadez to purchase sweet dates, which they would later sell to make a living.
Through 10 days of extreme heat and hard labour, Iben recorded everything from the most beautiful and quiet starry nights, to daily life and struggle of the nomad people, sandstorms and desert wind, an interior mountain well, and grunts and cries from nomads precious desert animals, the camels.
Iben came back to Denmark with a huge amount of DAT tapes, which now have been mastered in Protools, spectral repaired in Izotope RX, and with great help from Tim Nielsen & Michal Fojcik made UCS-Compliant in Soundminer, for a very special set of audio recordings!
117 stereo tracks recorded on to a portable DAT recorder @ 48khz 16 bit. Set is about 4gb big when unzipped.
Mics used, Sennheiser Mkh416 with an ATE 208 Emesser on top.
Sounds included are:
Household Doors HD is a fresh collection of sounds spanning a modern house including heavier entryway doors, hollow interior doors, desks, dressers/wardrobes, nightstands, toilet seats, kitchen and bathroom drawers and cabinets, bifold doors, China cabinets, French doors, sliding doors, filing cabinet… the list goes on. Plus door knobs, locks, hinges, squeaks and creaks, and so much more. And variation is key: hard, soft, fast and slow opens and closes.
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