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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
This library contains 7 steam locomotive whistles from the beginning of the last century!
These huge monsters could still announce themselves very loudly!
This library features a fine selection of Eurasian Mammals. The animals have been recorded both, in the wild and at animal care centres across Germany.
The most prominent and unique animal sounds in this library are probably squeaky juvenille garden dormice, grunting boar and sniffing hedgehog.
Also impressive recordings from deer rut are included and close up and very clean recordings from various bats, both flight calls and sounds during feeding.
There are plenty of rodents and other animals, check the list at the end of the text or the file list for an even more detailed overview.
Many of the recorded animals called in the ultra frequent range and have been recorded at 192kHz with microphones like the Earthworks QTC50, that go well beyond 90kHz. These noises are perfect for pitching and other sound design, I included some slowed down sounds as examples.
If you want to buy the library as a bundle with my libraries Eurasian Insects and Eurasian Birds, please contact me directly.
This collection is a great pool for realistic sound design as well as a source for editing monster, dragon and dinosaur sounds.
No animals have been harmed or scarred during the recording sessions.
Sound of the following animals are included:
Bechstein’s Bat, Boar, Common Pipstrelle, Common Vole, Daubenton’s Bat, Eurasian Hedgehog, Fallow Deer, Garden Dormouse, Mouflon, Nutria, Red Deer, Roe Deer, Shrew, Whiskered Bat, Wolf, Wood Mouse, and more…
Gear used: Klover 26″ Dish, Schoeps MK41, Neumann KMR81i, DPA 4060, Earthworks QTC50, Lewitt 540, SD 744t, Zoom F6
The all-time classic ARP 2600 was a synthesizer that was an immediate hit with musicians and sound designers when it was released in 1971. Most famously, it’s the very synth that Ben Burtt used to give R2D2 his unmistakeable voice.
Semi-modular in nature and with many handy features like voltage modifiers, lag control, ring modulation, a comprehensive noise generator, sample & hold, and 3 independent oscillators, it comes equipped with more features than you’ll find in many of today’s analog synthesizers.
Thanks to the Alan R. Pearlman Foundation and the non-profit studio The Record Co. I was able to access an original, mint condition ARP 2600 that is beautifully maintained and lock myself in a studio with it to capture nearly 7 hours worth of raw sound design material.
Putting the 2600’s immense sound design potential to use, I created this library to help you give robots a voice, create otherworldly ambiances, score computers with the obligatory “bleep bloops”, and craft larger than life weapons with a distinct retro SciFi flair. I also captured the physical, mechanical sounds of patching cords and moving faders on the synth using a pair of LOM UÅ¡i Pro. These sounds are included in a dedicated subfolder.
The resulting sounds range from droid chatter at various root pitches, impacts, drones, noise, and lots of other sonic source that begs to be pitch-shifted and mangled. In fact, the ARP 2600’s pristine analog circuitry and my high-end recording chain capturing it at 192 kHz means that most of the final material features high-frequency content ranging up to nearly 90 kHz!
This means that you can pitch-shift most of these sounds down by up to 2 octaves and uncover new harmonic content along the way. By recording at 32 Bit with the ultra low-noise Zoom F6 and Rheingold Music cables, these recordings are extremely clean and hold up well to intense processing.
While highly abstract in nature, these sounds are a great basis for building:
Metadata: UCS file naming, SoundMiner, Soundly, BWF
Recording Specs: 24 Bit / 192 kHz for the majority of files. 96 kHz for files with less ultrasonic content, Stereo and Mono recordings.
File Format: WAV
Gear used: Genuine ARP 2600 Model 3620 (1974), LOM Uśi Pro Mics, Zoom F6, Rheingold Music Cables, Radial Pro D2 DI Box
Processing:Â Level adjustment, crossfades, spectral noise reduction for recordings using built-in spring reverb.
This library contains dynamic, harsh, aggressive and sometimes mysterious wind sounds and strong and heavy gusts.
I took bike trips around World War II sites on the shores of France and the Netherlands. The winds on the steep rocky cliffs as well as on the long sandy beaches are one of a kind. Especially the resonances of rumbling bonkers and swirling winds inside hides and on the concrete edges of munition depots create an atmosphere of terror, that allowed me to took a glimpse inside the soundscapes of these horrific times.
The cliffs with the old war stuctures, the dunes, the swapping sand, the storms in the forests behind the shoreline all have a unique character and texture.
I picked the recordings, which created images of the battlefield inside my head and described these images in the meta data. But of course this wind library can be used for any scene, that contains a strong blow of air.
Most sounds are recorded in ORTF stereo, some were better captured in mono or with a contact mic.
If you need more specific wind sounds, my library “Tonal Wind” and this library are complementing each other to a versatile tool for a broad use of wind sounds. Contact me for bundle prices.
96KHZ 24BIT • 669MB • 585 FILES • MONO+STEREO • UCSÂ
Rocky Impacts 2 is the second installment of a premium sound effects library that delivers a comprehensive collection of meticulously crafted rock sound effects. Perfect for adding depth and impact to your audio projects, this library includes both source recordings and designed sound effects, providing versatility and flexibility for your creative endeavors.
The source recordings in Rocky Impacts 2 were captured in the great outdoors, ensuring an authentic and organic quality to the sounds. With a raw and natural palette of rock impacts, collisions, and debris movements, these source recordings can be manipulated to suit your specific needs, offering a wide range of possibilities for your audio projects.
The designed sound effects in Rocky Impacts 2 are cinematic in nature, providing a dramatic and immersive auditory experience. From rumbling rockslides and intense rock impacts to gritty debris movements and epic collisions, these meticulously crafted sound effects are perfect for adding impact and depth to your projects, whether it’s for film, video games, or other multimedia applications.
Packed with a whopping 585 sound effects, Rocky Impacts 2 is a must-have tool for sound designers, composers, and audio professionals looking to elevate their projects with high-quality rock sound effects. Expand your creative possibilities with this versatile and powerful sound effects library.
EDITED AND MASTERED WITH: Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Acon Acoustica
Football Foley Vol. 1 is a concise collection of foley-esque football sound effects recorded on a grass football pitch. Hear a footballers footsteps, kicks, strikes, passes, dribbles and more!
You can combine these sound effects with our UK Football Volumes to sweeten the sports scenes in 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.
Wind Textures III highlights a new palette of wide sounding wind effects recorded over two years, from high mountain ridges to marshes and grasslands.
GOAL!!!!!!
UK Football Vol. 1 is a riot of spectator reactions and walla, encapsulating the quintessential English football match experience. It comprises the sounds of English-accented voices, cheers, chants, claps, shouts, yells, groans, jeers, boos, whistle blows, Tannoy announcements, football kick impacts, goalie saves, drumming on metal stands (AKA bleachers), and more!
To create this library, our Audio Craftsmen recorded the authentic sounds of an English football match, focusing on crowd atmosphere and reactions. The intimate, immersive nature of these recordings make them perfect for building spectator sport backgrounds or injecting a boost of energy into football scenes and games.
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 collection of 50 unique drones and beds, with evolving and loopable versions. A total of 7 different categories, covering a vast range of dark and eerie moods, including ‘Sci-Fi/ Space’, ‘Metallic Resonances’, ‘Elements’ and ‘Dark Horror’.
Dark Drones comes in 96k/24-bit and 44.1k/16-bit, giving you more felxiiblity depending on end use.
All files are UCS compliant, and metadata is included (via soundminer).
6 shades of terror in 1.300+ sounds and almost 3 hours of duration. All 6 horror SFX packs are here in Ultimate Horror Bundle – you will get access to E-bow, Monsters & Humanoids, Haunted House, Gore, Space Horror and Eerie Drones & Textures SFX Packs – and set the bar high for all horror projects! Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Ultimate Horror Bundle
With Eerie Drones and Textures, create fear inducing and mysterious spheres with the textures that are dark, bright, noisy, clean, grainy, metallic. Hear the ethereal choirs, unnerving strings, otherworldly hum and growls and run for your life! Carefully curated collection of Eerie Drones and Textures, in 71+ sounds, recorded and designed professionally.
With Space Horror, get 185+ sounds of spooky aliens, far away galaxies, terrifying malfunction noises from a distant spacecraft. Hear alien-like sound effects, UI textures, dark ambiences, sci-fi transitions, sci-fi horror sounds. It brings you the inhuman sound effects that will send chills down the spine and prepare to terrify your audience.
With Ebow Guitar Thriller, create a dark and ominous atmosphere with 152+ creepy guitar ebow – designed sound effects.
With Haunted House, come on in for 250+ sounds of mud impact, tv white noise, electricity, door slams, dark atmosphere sounds, creepy forest ambiences, footsteps, spooky winds, demonic entities, ghost vox and creaking. Create a dark and ominous atmosphere with creepy doors, windy sound effects and designed sound effects. Induce fear with textures that are dark, bright, noisy, clean, grainy, metallic.
With Monsters and Humanoids, simply terrify your audience. 351 sounds of dark ambience effects, creatures, gore and transition sound effects. Meet the horrendous monsters in attack or just idle and agitated! Hear the witches and otherworldly creatures laugh and chant! Create a dark and ominous atmosphere with creepy creatures’ designed sound effects. Induce fear and uneasiness, horror and terror!
With Gore, grab the 220+ fresh gore sounds for your toolkit; from gushing bloody flesh sounds to bone break and snap sounds, flesh, stab with knives swords sharp objects and hand.
Bringing you the inhuman sound effects that will send chills down the spine and prepare to terrify your audience. Stand out with your sci-fi, horror and thriller projects with 1.049 fresh sound files – 1300+ sounds.
All sounds are available in 24-bit / 96kHz with intuitive naming. These were designed delicately so that you have the right tone for your related projects and room for further sound manipulation. And the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Cinematic Series and Cinematic Whooshes and Transitions for further cinematic trailers and Ultimate Medieval Bundle for specific historical projects.
192KHZ 24BIT • 110MB • 119 FILES • MONO • UCS METADATA Â
STEPS: Snow & Ice is a library of 119 high-quality footstep sound effects. Whether it’s footsteps on icy snow, packed snow, or icy snow, this library offers a range of high quality recordings.
Each sound effect in the library has been carefully recorded and edited to ensure that it meets the highest standards of quality. Additionally, Soundminer’s metadata has been embedded in the library, making it easy to search, browse, and organize the sounds. The library is also USC compliant.
Library consists of:
Footsteps on icy snow
Footsteps on ice
Footsteps on packed snow
Sequences
Download includes:
192KHZ 24BIT version
RECORDED WITH: Sony PCM D100
87 files • 96 kHz/32 Bit • 2.92Go • 42:47 mins
The trees that were cut on the recording of the Lumberjack library have been meticulously chosen because they were sick or to give space for other trees to grow better, to preserve the health of the forest.
On the bundle you can hear Chainsaw motor, cranking, starting, cutting and stopping.
And of course, it also contains multiple trees cracking, breaking, falling and impacting the ground.
We used several perspectives and microphones to bring many tones and make each file unique.
The bundle includes 87 files recorded at 96khz – 32bits for a total of 2.92Go.
Each sound has been recorded with high-quality equipment and meticulously edited individually.
Delivered in Broadcast Wave files, all embedded with metadata informations for easy import and ensure fast and easy workflow.
Respecting all complaints from the UCS system.
Nature Bundle includes fifteen different sound libraries, covering a great variety of natural sounds. By purchasing this bundle you will benefit of a 30% discount.
Mind States Bundle is a collection of experimental mind-bending sounds from one our most popular library series to date.
Included is an eclectic selection of immersive drones, ambiences, tones, binaural peats, pads, solfeggio frequencies, transitions, buzzes and wails.
This bundle has been designed by our Audio Craftsmen to engage the mind and alter consciousness, and is thus ideal for any projects involving the brain. Submerge listeners in spa, relaxation and meditative environments, or add cerebral depth to superhero films, mind-reading characters, meta-narratives, sci-fi adventures and more!
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/96kHz, and tagged with extensive Metadata.
Fancy a Laugh?
Whether you need maniacal laughter for your horror project, or friendly chuckles for your comedy. This pack has what you’ll need!
Including
Calm laughter
Evil gravelly and deep laughter
Insane cackling
Or even maniacal giggling
All recorded and exported in 24/192khz so can be easily distorted and manipulated to suite your needs.
Go back in time with Antique Books, our brand new sound effects library. Everything you need to create old, dusty library book handling through to magical spell-book elements. Perfect for Film/TV/Video Game projects and a great addition to your general sound effects library.
Our Audio Craftsmen grabbed our varied collection of aged hardback books and put them through their paces with drops, handling, page turns, piling up, closing, opening and much, much more.
All sounds were captured in 24Bit 96kHz to allow for further sonic manipulation in our acoustically treated Foley suite. We then meticulously edited and UCS metadata tagged the files so that you can find them with ease and drop them straight into your projects.
Attention: Extreme Subwoofer Rumbles! After making our first volume of Bass Drops & Downers, we decided to go even lower! Handmade by our Audio Craftsmen, these 50 effects are designed to bring drama and energy to your productions. Handcrafted using analogue synthesisers and hardware effects, they are guaranteed to give your audience the excitement and suspense you’re looking for; all recorded and supplied to you at 192khz 24bit.
Each sound is individually crafted featuring it’s very own unique and sensational character, ranging from applied low-end mulit-band distortion to extreme envelope modulation, to reinforce those intense moments! Not to mention, included in this pack is all of your absolute imperative, must have, bass-drop tones, coming straight to you from our collection of eloquent, stereo analogue synths programmed by our in-house specialists.
Composers, Producers and Film-Makers alike; this pack provides you with powerful bass drops, breathtaking blasts and explosive bass rumbles for your most sensational and electrifying projects yet. Due to their inherent high resolution, you are free to further manipulate these sounds by any means you could possibly desire. Push your low-end to the next level!
Low-price. High-quality. Essential.
A collection of 50 remote-controlled car sounds, including travel loops, revvings, starts, stops, wheels turning and jamming errors.
The sounds are fully compatible with the Universal Category System (UCS) – a public domain initiative establishing a standardized category list for the classification of sound effects.
Note: All of these sounds (and more!) are included in the 96 General Library (get 3,000+ SFX for FREE!)
Sochi is a city and resort area of the Krasnodar area in the south-west of Russia.
City of palms, sea, snowy mountains and mineral springs. Its located along Black Sea coast at the foot of western part of Caucasus mountains.
Sochi is unique place because of attractive coastal and mountain landscapes, long beaches and warm (humid subtropical) climate. This combination allows, for example, to ski in the mountains and swim in the sea literally in one place!
Also, Sochi hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics, for which sports venues were built in the city and mountains.
In this library we’ll visit several areas of Sochi: urban, suburban, coastal, snowy mountains and capture those atmospheres using stealth recording technique armed with a pair of DPA 4060s in AB array.
KEY POINTS:
166 high-quality typewriter sound effects. All sounds were recorded at 32 bit 192kHz and rendered as 24 bit 192kHz, making them perfect for any further sound processing.
Library includes:
Individual strikes
Burst strikes
Special keys (Spacebar, Shift)
Bells
Mechanical (Carriage Returns, Switches, Levers, Rollers)
Download includes:
192KHZ 24BIT version
RECORDED WITH: Sennheiser MKH 8040, Sound Devices MixPre 3 MK2
EDITED AND MASTERED WITH: Pro Tools, Brusfri
SKATEBOARDING SOUND FX – POPS, GRINDS, SLIDES AND MORE
The skate park: skateboarders busting pops, grinds, and slides, while others take pictures of the scene or just hang out and have a good time. We’ve focused this collection on capturing all the noisy excitement. This pack is crammed with genuine audio atmospheres and radical FX – from WHEEL ROLLS and OBSTACLE IMPACTS to BOARD HANDLING and BAILING. Need some realism to your skate park scene or game? Look no further.
The Construction Kit for “ANGST | Surrounding Horror” also is  part of the collaboration of sound designer Bony Stoevand Saro Sahihi.
Here you’ll find some of the designed layers that were used to craft the Surround Horror Soundscapes and many newly created layers of fear.
It’s a huge conglomeration of abstract, disturbing sound layers, which can be combined to countless variations or serve as inspiration for your own dreadful sonic nightmares.
It’s a mixture of 250 stereo and 110 surround, dry and wet, loopable sound elements, each with a duration of 0:45, 1:00 or 1:30 min.
To give you both flexibility and instant usability at hand.
It’s also available as a BUNDLE containing also the “Designed Soundscapes” and “Stereo Downmixes”
Elevate your culinary projects with our captivating sound effects library, featuring an extensive collection of food “Packaging and Wrappers”. Imagine the crisp snap of a bag being opened, the satisfying crinkle of foil, and the delicate rip of paper, all meticulously recorded to bring life to your shots. Whether you’re highlighting a gourmet reveal or a cozy kitchen scene, our sound library provides the perfect backdrop to enhance your storytelling.
UCS-compliant, ambient recordings from various industrial sites, including the port of Aarhus with its bulk cargo and container terminals. Most of the sounds are quite generic though, and could be used in many different contexts. Some recordings are teeming with activity, while others feature deserted, yet humming and droning, industrial landscapes. Lots of HVAC with fans and pumps. Containers are moved, gravel is unloaded, engines are running. Very little wind, and hardly any legible speech. A few of the sounds are cut as seamless loops.
Most of the sounds were originally recorded with a Sennheiser MKH60/30 M/S setup. A few sounds appear in both mono and stereo versions, where the stereo version are X/Y derived from the M/S source files and the mono versions are simply the Mid channel. I did this, because most people seem to prefer X/Y files for post-work, rather than M/S – but a down-mix of X/Y to mono would be inferior to using the original Mid-mic signal. 4 of the sounds were recorded with a quasi binaural setup. All sounds were captured in Aarhus, Denmark.
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