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Flesh, Bones & Gore Vol. 3 is the third in our series of unsettling gore sound effects. This collection focuses on the slurps and growls of a creature eating flesh. General bone cracks and flesh rips have also been included to induce maximum cringe in your audiences.
Our Audio Craftsmen channelled their inner monster while tearing into various fruit and vegetables. The result is a grotesque collection of sounds ideal for unsettling viewers and users in your horror Game, TV & Film productions.
All sounds have been kept raw and are delivered in 24Bit 192kHz format, so you can drop them as-is into your timeline, or design your own monstrous creations. This library has also been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
The library contains four folders:
Bone Cracks: Heavy crunches and cracks.
Creature Slurps: Munches, slurps and chews of a creature digging into its prey.
Guts & Blood: Wet crushing of flesh, guts and bones.
Ripping Flesh: Brutal tearing and sawing of flesh.
Reverses Vol. 1 brings you a vast collection of recordings and designed sounds that have all been flipped, twisted and spun to create effects of reversal.
Our Audio Craftsmen have ventured out into the world to record sounds and flip them by 180 degrees! Voices, impacts, tools, animals and much more have been reversed to produce sound effects perfect for your next film/game project. These will be great for adding tension, excitement and flashback elements to your scene.
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.
Warehouse Bundle contains three volumes of authentic recordings of warehouse tools and machinery. It offers a huge selection of industrial sounds, sourced from electric forklifts, roller shutters, pallet trucks, gas cannisters, metals and much, much more. This bundle is ideal for crafting realistic industrial soundscapes or as source material to manipulate into designed sounds.
Each library is delivered in 24Bit 192kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation, and has been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Gloucester Vol. 1 is a succinct ambient library featuring field recordings captured by our Audio Craftsmen in Gloucester, England. This collection encapsulates the sounds of natural, candid activity in a small English cathedral city. It features the bustle and walla of denizens, a church choir, traffic and vehicles, clock tower bell rings, train station barriers, the hubbub of a busy pub, a child on a scooter, and a huge variety of background movement and distant goings-on.
Use this library for building authentic interior and exterior environments, or design your own custom backgrounds through further manipulation.
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.
Mechanical clicks dials and winding from Retro and Vintage cameras and film printing from a polaroid camera that can easily be used in any project.
I left in some movement sounds to help create a naturalistic handling of film cameras but can be easily isolated as recorded in a clean environment.
recorded and exported in 24/192khz
All metadata tagged and updated using the Universal Category System in Soundly
Warehouse Vol. 1 is the first instalment in a collection of authentic recordings of warehouse tools and machinery.
Our Audio Craftsmen captured the sounds of electric forklifts and roller shutters, providing a plethora of beeps, creaks and groans from industrial machinery.
You can use this library for building realistic industrial soundscapes or as source material to manipulate into futuristic vehicles and robots.
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.
Interior Vibrations is a collection of raw contact microphone recordings of dynamic movements made across materials and surfaces found in interior locations. Inside you will find scraping static, ringing metal, oscillating tones, hissing violins, crackling rocks and more.
Our Audio Craftsmen utilised two contacts mics to create a stereo configuration, allowing for an affecting, immersive listening experience.
The organic nature of these sounds means they’re perfect for designing or inclusion in abstract projects. Their more unsettling qualities, meanwhile, make them ideal for horror and science fiction productions.
Texturise unusual moments or craft evolving ambiences with this experimental treat of a library!
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.
Glitchy Designed Risers!
Recorded using a tambourine and patience
Glitched risers perfect for Sci-Fi and Horror projects OR for Cinematic Trailers!
Recorded and exported in 24/192Khz
For Bird Whistles Vol. 1, our Audio Craftsmen recorded the sounds of a variety of bird call-making whistles and toys. The result is a collection of owl hoots, chicken clucks, warbles, slides, squeaks, glissandos, trills, tremolos, chirps, tweets and more!
Apply these energetic and wacky sounds to a diversity of scenes and actions in your cartoons and animated projects, or embellish backgrounds with distant birdsong. This library can also be processed further to yield your own fun and strange effects!
Sounds have been separated into the following categories:
Chicken Or Turkey: For fowl clucking.
High-Pitched Whistles: Includes kooks slides to send you into a spin!
Owl: A series of calming, atmospheric hoots.
Sliding Tweets: Twirling, gliding whistles to grab your attention.
Squeaky Chirps: Ideal for representing birds of prey, small-fry characters or squeaky toys.
Warbler: Trilling birdsong made with a water-filled bird whistle.
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.
Trains recorded in Europe: Palermo, Napoli, Rome, Milan, Istanbul, Copenhagen, Malmö, Aarhus and others and towns and areas.
Recordings made since 2019 until 2022, so also during Covid’s time; has been a long process of recording, editing and efforts but there is so much interesting sound source for sound design.
There are trains hi-speed, steam train, trams (so differents in each specific town), vox futz with local announcements and crowds.
West Coast America features both urban and rural sounds of Washington and Oregon state. Venture into Pacific rainforests to hear raindrops, frogs, exotic birds, waterfall and rivers. Take a trip to the farm to experience a creaky squeaky wagon ride and a grunting pig. Journey to the ocean to surround yourself with peaceful lapping water, squawking seagulls and the bassy engine of a ship. Listen to sci-fi traffic pass-bys, car locks, and the activity of Portland city at night.
This varied selection of ambiences and spot effects can be used for a range of exterior settings. Ideal for building up backgrounds for your scenes, or further manipulation to create your own designed effects.
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.
Jump aboard and take a ride inside the interiors of plane cabins, underground metro subway trains, rail passenger train cars and various surface auto vehicles.
A range of stationary and moving interiors of transportation vessels are provided to get you and your environment going.
The latest in our collection of Historical Weapons sounds is a symphony of shing-ing, clunking, thudding, clashing and ringing impacts for all your combat and battle design needs! This library focuses on shield-based sounds, with additional recordings of weapon-on-weapon fights.
Using our multi-mic configuration (comprising the Sennheiser MKH50, Røde NTG-3 and Line Audio CM4 Stereo Pair), our Audio Craftsmen recorded two professional swordsmen going head-to-head in multi-move melees using wooden shields, spears, swords and axes.
This library includes shield holds and push-offs, spear pole hits, spear scrapes to a shield edge, metallic sword clashes, axe clinks on a shield boss, a metal shield spinning on the ground and being picked up, spear hits on a wooden haft, sword slide cuts and much more! Perfect for TV, film, game and documentary projects requiring the exciting, natural tones of authentic historical weapons!
Sound have been separated into the follow categories:
Shield Groundwork: Sounds of a wooden and metal shield dropping onto the floor, spinning on the floor and being picked up.
Shield Impacts: A huge variety of sounds where a spear, sword, wooden stick and axe hit different shield parts.
Spear Fights: Recordings of spear head and pole combat sequences.
Sword Impacts: Swords sliding off each other, being pressed against each other, and clashing together.
Each file contains multiple takes of the named action.
All sounds were recorded in 24Bit 192kHz, and have been tagged with extensive UCS metadata for ease of use.
Go around the world to 80 locations with this international ambience sound library.
We place you in different locals across the globe covering cities and villages, public gatherings and transportation locations, quiet local nature environments and recreational places.
Tools & Trades features comprises sounds of construction and destruction – performed by real contractors and their tools!
Our Audio Craftsmen followed tradesmen during a day of work to capture a vast variety of hammering, drilling, shattering glass, dropping and handling tools, pulling tape, sawing and operating power tools. These meticulously edited sounds are perfect for designing destructive elements or building up realistic soundscapes for your film, TV, documentary and game projects.
Sounds have been separated into the following character categories:
Drilling: A huge selection of drills recorded from various perspectives. Features steady drilling at various speeds and shorter, quicker bursts.
Glass: A satisfying selection of glass shattering and breaking. Perfect for literal and metaphorical use.
Hammering: Hammers being used on various surfaces with different pressures. Ranging from single impacts to successive hits.
Misc: Sounds of miscellaneous movements and tools. Includes the handling of different materials (metal, plastic, etc.) and picking up and setting down of sundry items.
Saws: Recordings of a circular saw at different speeds and perspectives, as well as the steady rhythms of a hand saw.
Scraping: Tools being used to scrape surfaces.
Tape: Perspective recordings of tradesmen pulling painter’s tape from a roll.
Tools: Clinks and clanks of tools being handled.
Wood: A short collection of wood being dropped and handled.
All sounds were recorded in 24Bit 96kHz, and have been tagged with extensive UCS metadata for ease of use.
Augment the spooky bog in your game with real sounds from drop rigs (portable recording setups) left in a wetland in the Pacific Northwest in the winter. Included are ambient sounds of rain and post rain in the wetland, as well as many animals such as Mallard Ducks, Canada Geese, Trumpeter Swans, Coyotes, Great Horned Owls, Wood Ducks and more. Also of particular interest are sounds of waterfowl flapping their wings and splashing in the water. This pack can serve as a great construction kit for creating a colder climate wetland scene in your video game as several iterations of many of the sounds are included so that the player doesn’t hear the same duck sound over and over. Take a listen to the sample sounds and hear the benefit that the sound of nature, unprovoked and uninfluenced by human presence will bring to your game. Full metadata and UCS compliance allow you to find the sounds you need, when you need them.
Feedback Loops brings you a versatile pack full of different loops. In this pack you will find a plethora of analogue and digital sounds. By routing the output to the input of an analogue synth, our Audio Craftsmen were able to design a huge range of volatile feedback loops that continuously evolve over time. Digital synths were also used to create more complex sounds. They can be used for scenes involving live equipment and electricity. Their unique character allows for more complex sound design.
Our Audio Craftsmen have developed 3 different categories to be used individually, or as a basis for further sonic manipulation.
Sounds have been separated into the following categories:
Analogue: These feedback loops were created using an analogue synth to create more natural sounds.
Digital: These loops sound more harsh in comparison to the analogue sounds, and therefore are more complex
Simple: These loops don’t have any recorded manipulation so they can be used a low hums.
All sounds were recorded in 24Bit 96kHz, and have been tagged with extensive UCS metadata for ease of use.
Bath, the largest city in the count of Somerset, England, was founded in 1AD, and is now a UNESCO World Heritage site. Explore the charming cobbled streets and visit historic sites (The Roman Baths), surrounded by British locals and visitors.
Welcome to the capital of the Netherlands, or as locals would say – ‘Welkom in Amsterdam’! Walk through the food markets and hear vendors encouraging passer-by to try their delicacies. Surround yourself with Dutch and foreigners in busy streets, sonically filled with iconic trams. Lastly, jump on a cruise boat to explore the historical canals or a train to escape the city.
Explore the deep blue and inspire a sense of wonder with the Water Movements Bundle: an ultimate collection of aquatic sound effects perfect for custom underwater designs.
Our Audio Craftsmen utilised an array of props and physical motions – captured by the legendary MKH50 Super Cardioid microphone and Aquarian H2a Hydrophone – to produce a huge range of resonant, realistic water-based sounds.
Build high-quality, immersive soundscapes by implementing your choice of sploshes, splashes, plunges, bubbling, passes, rinses, submersions, swilling, swirling, draining, surface slaps and more!
Each sound has been 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.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 192kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata.
This unique library of a classic 1962 Eicher tractor with a very mechanical and intricate sounding engine, contains multiple tracks of onboard and exterior passbys, start-stops, idle, revs, constant loops at various RPM, acceleration and deceleration ramps for use in granular synthesis tools, as well as foley.
Specifications : 1962 Eicher Tiger II EM 235, Air-cooled 3-Cylinder, 32 HP.
Multiple mic perspectives
This sound pack includes 9 synchronized channels of exterior and onboard perspectives. The exterior recordings are mono and stereo, while the onboard microphones capture the engine, the exhaust and an ambiant perspective. The library also includes a custom mix of onboard mics for an easy integration.
Gear used
Sound Devices MixPre-6 II • Zoom F6 • Sound Devices 722 • Neumann Kmr81i • LOM Usi Pro • Sennheiser MKH 8040 • Sennheiser MKH30 • Oktava MK012 • Shure SM57
Metadata
This sound library is UCS compliant and comes with fully embedded metadatas compatible with Soundly, Soundminer and Basehead.
Water Movements Vol. 1, curated here at 344 Audio by our skilled in-house audio craftsmen, features water-based sound effects captured by the legendary MKH50 Super Cardioid Microphone and our real-life Hydrophonic microphone. A large array of aquatic noises and resonances are contained within this library, allowing you to fashion immersive underwater soundscapes within your latest projects!
All files have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use, and come delivered to you at a format of 24bit 192kHz; allowing you to manipulate and design these source recordings in any way you could wish.
A collection of vocalizations and emotes from evil creatures aimed for game audio use.
The library is UCS compliant and includes full metadata to help you find the right sounds with less browsing.
Water Emerge/Submerge Vol . 2 is one of the many unique recordings captured with our dual-mic over and underwater set-up. Our Audio Craftsman have used an overwater-underwater microphone configuration comprising the Sennheiser MKH50 for the overwater mic and the Aquarian H2a Hydrophone for the underwater recordings. With both mic sources available as separate files, there are multiple options for layering up the sound effects.
Water Emerge/Submerge Vol .2 Brings the movement of water to life, perfect for use in projects that include; Small water creatures, aquatic environments as well as the sound of people moving through this marvellous environment. You can also use the source sounds for further manipulation to create unique and wonderful aquatic sound design. Some of the many included sounds are: Micro movements and various fabrics dipped in water.
Our Audio Craftsmen have carefully edited each sound for maximum sonic clarity so that you can drop each sound directly into your project timeline and get down to work with minimal fuss.
All files are named with detailed descriptions, along with the microphone that was used to capture them. 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.
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