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Twit-twoo, it’s Vol. 2!
Bird Whistles Vol. 2 brings you even more sounds made by bird call-making whistles and toys. Enjoy this dawn chorus of crazy and quirky squeaks, slides, glissandos, tweets, hoots and more!
This entertaining collection is ideal for injecting a sense of whimsy, humour and energy to your cartoons and animated projects. You can layer and mix these sounds to build your own choruses, or manipulate them further to generate truly unique calls and effects..
Sounds have been separated into the following categories:
Chicken Or Turkey: Featuring long, low groaning and lots of idle clucking.
Cuckoo: For highlighting a loose screw, or creating your own woodland ambiences.
Owl: Even more hoots and kooky, mysterious bird calls.
Sliding Chirps & Tweets: The gliding whistles of eccentric songbirds and warblers.
Squeaky Chirps: Very high-pitched, sometimes strident calls. Can also be used for birds of prey.
Water Whistle: Energetic warbles and whistles accompanied by the drops and splashes of a water whistle toy.
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.
The first volume of the Useful Sound Effects Wind collection contains designed and synthesized winds. 56 Files give you the freedom to go from deep and dark sci-fi winds to natural sounding polar storms. Sandstorms, wooing and gusts are also included. Ranging from 1 minute to over 4 minutes, these files are fast and easy to use. Some files are indicated as looped, the others can easily be looped in a DAW.
Metatagged and UCS compliant, all files indicate a possible use, but sounds can be placed anywhere in a project, whether it is in a film, a game, a dialogue setting, or any media presentation.
Since these wind sound effects are made from scratch, no disturbing sounds can be found, so no animals, no distant traffic… You get clean wind, applicable for any geographic location, anywhere in time, on earth or elsewhere in the universe!
You can find the following libraries in this collection >
Dam sound recordings from several positions: top, bottom, side, and a view from top to bottom.
The points are recorded from various distances: close, 1m, 2m, 5m, 10m, and 15m.
Consist of close-up water splashing, rippling surges, gurgling and falling streams from the concrete blocks, and moderately distant recordings from a dam.
En garde!
This Historical Weapons library features all the clashes, rings, snicks, taps, whooshes and scrapes you need for your next battle-based project! Our Audio Craftsmen recorded two professional swordsmen engaging in duels with an array of authentic swords, including an 18th century court/small sword, Victorian infantry sabre, High Medieval long sword, Renaissance rapier and more!
This useful collection also includes recordings of medieval weaponry (battle axe, hand axe, warhammer) hitting and scraping the the edge, front and boss of Medieval wooden shields. The same weapons were further utilised in flesh impact sounds (where their contact made with a juicy watermelon is captured).
Our multi-mic configuration (comprising the Sennheiser MKH50, Røde NTG-3 and Line Audio CM4 Stereo Pair) provide additional perspectives to the sounds and offer a multitude of layering options. Perfect for film, TV, game or documentary projects requiring action and historical accuracy!
Sound have been separated into the follow categories:
Flesh Impacts: Gory impacts and movement made with Medieval weapons. MKH50 and NTG-3 perspectives.
Shield Impacts: Medieval weapons hitting various parts of shields. Recorded with the MKH50.
Swords: With sub-folders General Swords, Long Sword, Medieval Sword, Rapier, Sabre and Small Sword. Contains single hits and performed swordfights. Perfect for your Inigo Montoya moments! MKH50 and CM4 perspectives.
Whooshes: Performed with a wooden stick and Renaissance rapier for representing both light and heavy weapons.
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.
This small sound library includes recordings from one of the most popular English seaside resorts – Brighton. Located on the south coast of England, it a has long pebbled beach and a famous pier with an amusement arcade. Join a short weekend trip and explore the shingle beach and British crowds on a sunny day.
The port city of Valencia is Spain’s third-largest city. It has its own language (a dialect of Catalan and unique culture. Stroll along the urban beaches, promenades, alleys and main roads. Discover the soundscapes of El Carmen, Cabanyal and Russafa neighbourhoods. Visit the Gothic cathedral, museums, art galleries, parks and buzzy markets.
Hydrophonic Design Vol. 3 is the latest in our series water-themed libraries. This collection is overflowing with exciting sounds designed from source recordings captured with our Aquarian H2a Hydrophonic microphone.
Our audio craftsmen recorded various water underwater sounds, and then designed them using dopplers, comb filters modulators and other processes. The sounds in this collection are perfect for abstract watery soundscapes, as well as textures and layers for sci-fi and horror.
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 further manipulate these sounds as you desire.
Water Movements Vol. 3 is a new sound effect library from 344 Audio. This library features numerous aquatic sound effects captured by the legendary MKH50 Super Cardioid Microphone and our Aquarian H2a Hydrophonic microphone. Our audio craftsmen experimented dropping different objects into water, as well as producing sounds by stirring and creating waves in the water.
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.
Water Movements Vol. 2 is a new sound effect library from 344 Audio. Precisely assembled by our team of audio craftsmen, This library contains a wide range of water-based sound effects captured by the legendary MKH50 Super Cardioid Microphone and our Aquarian H2a Hydrophonic microphone. Take the plunge and design your own custom underwater soundscapes for your 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.
Water Emerge/Submerge Vol .3 Shows off some of the brilliant aquatic sounds captured by some really creative means. Use these sounds to create a more immersive underwater experience. Some of the many included sounds are: various fabrics dipped in water, water bottle, mug, coconut shell and various metals.
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.
‘Construction Site’ is a collection of recordings caught on an active building site located close to the city centre of Manchester, UK. Within the 33 sounds (74+ Minutes) you will find 15 ambiences, captured with both Stereo and Mid Side Microphones. Along with individual recordings of a range of tools, vehicles and machinery found on sites in England, such as Diggers (Large & Small), Trucks, Drills, Saws and more
Also Included in the 42 files are 9 MS-RAW recordings to allow you to create the stereo image your projects desire. Furthermore all tracks are delivered in 24bit/96kHz for the best quality, and tagged with extensive USC compliant metadata.
Remember, remember the Fifth of November!
Fireworks from all different perspectives, up close and far in the distance.
I have included stereo ambience of Guy Fawkes night with the perspective from a small residential area with general Walla and fireworks from all different distances going off.
I have also included the stronger / closer sounding fireworks in smaller Mono clips so they can be found, used and manipulated with ease.
All sounds were recorded and exported in 24Bit 192kHz ready for further manipulation.
Phantasmal Ambiences Vol. 3Â is the third in a series of nightmarish ambiences made to unnerve you and your audiences.
In this edition, we have included both perspective and close miked recordings from our large array of props captured here at our studio. These sounds were then edited, wildly manipulated and layered to create chilling tones and soundscapes, perfect for giving your audience a fright!
Maximum sonic clarity has been maintained and further enhanced with each of these sounds so they can be dropped directly into your project timeline and get down to work with minimal fuss.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Unearthly Designed Risers!
Recorded using a surprisingly wobbly Metal Sheet!
Ethereal sounds perfect for Sci-Fi and Horror projects OR for Cinematic Trailers!
Recorded and exported in 24/192Khz
This bundle contains all of our Eastern European sound effect libraries at one affordable price, bringing you real-world soundscapes captured within Europe’s most interesting and unique regions captured faithfully by Georgi Valchev from West Wolf Audio.
Experience life within the beautiful cities of Sofia, Belgrade, and Bucharest, or delve into Eastern Europe’s rural wetlands and vicious seas. 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.
INCLUDED LIBRARIES
Eastern European City Ambiences
Eastern European Urban Ambiences
Eastern European Wetlands
Boats, Buses, Trains And Planes
Water And Waves
London Ambiences Vol. 2 is the newest instalment of our collection of ambient sounds recorded in London. These candid recordings of everyday London life were captured with the aim of adding authenticity to your projects.
Included in this library are: the tranquil babble of a fountain, rowdy geese, quiet streets and busy stations, passing traffic, commuter and worker walla, a marching band and all the hubbub you’d expect of a London ambience library!
Featured locations: Buckingham Palace, Kensington Gardens, Greenwich Observatory, the River Thames, the Lancaster Gate Hotel and more.
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 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.
The Essentials version of this library contains 12 sounds pulled straight from the premium library and is a great value to anyone who wants a variety of sounds without the strain in storage space.
For those who need a broad palette of nature sounds without redundancy, I’m pleased to offer Sky River Sound Nature Essentials Bundle: Volume 1. This bundle contains all of the sounds of the essentials collections from Death Valley, Alaska and Spring in the Pacific Northwest.
Vienna, also described as Europe’s cultural capital, is a metropolis with unique charm, vibrancy and flair, and has all the inspiration that you could wish for in order to discover this wonderful part of Europe.
During a small trip from Spain to Budapest & Vienna, we managed to record the most iconic places in the city in truly 360º spatial audio ambisonic format!
We choose ambisonic for our libraries as the most adaptive format in Audio Postproduction. We serve the edited and mastered AMBIX files, and decoded surround format in Dolby ATMOS, 5.1 and STÂ .
We recorded around 11 beautiful tracks in ambisonic format, 48Khz and 24 bits HD. As always, top quality recordings specially designed for film audio projects.
All our libraries are 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 . Starting with Full support from Soundminer and more audio tools adopting this system, we are adopting metadata UCS system in our files!
Let’s get ready to rumble! After the success of our first two volumes, we at 344 Audio decided to return and go to even deeper depths with Bass Drops and Downers Vol. 3! Handmade by our Audio Craftsmen, these 51 effects are designed to bring drama and energy to your productions. Hand crafted 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.
The first pack of designed sound effects from Sky River Sound provides you with over 80 sound effects I’ve created taking inspiration from video games in the Sci-Fi and Fantasy genres. Types of sounds you’ll find include ranged and melee weapons, magic spells and rituals, vehicles, UI elements and creature sounds. The sound effects were designed to be ready to be used as they are now, but can also easily be used as building elements for further sound design.
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.
“The Shoe Collection: Dirt- Hard Sole Dress Shoe“ by Periscope Post & Audio, provides 22 high quality footsteps files in dirt with the hard sole dress shoe. The audio files are recorded at 24bit, 192k with mono and stereo recordings. The Sennheiser MKH-60 was used for the mono files with a slightly more distant mic placement than the stereo files, which were recorded with the Sennheiser MKH8050 and the Sennheiser MKH-30 near the shoe. From different walking speeds, to jogging, sprinting, jumping, hard stops, scuffs, and more! There are several performances with each file to fit the right action you need. That’s a whopping 272 footsteps between the mono and stereo files!
These sound files are also UCS metadata tagged
“The Shoe Collection: Soft Hardwood- Wedge“ by Periscope Post & Audio, provides 22 high quality footsteps files on soft hardwood floors with the wedge heel. The audio files are recorded at 24bit, 192k with mono and stereo recordings. The Sennheiser MKH-60 was used for the mono files with a slightly more distant mic placement than the stereo files, which were recorded with the Sennheiser MKH8050 and the Sennheiser MKH-30 near the shoe. From different walking speeds, to jogging, sprinting, jumping, hard stops, scuffs, and more! There are several performances with each file to fit the right action you need. That’s a whopping 618 footsteps between the mono and stereo files!
These sound files are also UCS metadata tagged
“The Shoe Collection: Soft Hardwood- Leather Hard Sole Sandal“ by Periscope Post & Audio, provides 22 high quality footsteps files on soft hardwood floors with the leather hard sole sandal. The audio files are recorded at 24bit, 192k with mono and stereo recordings. The Sennheiser MKH-60 was used for the mono files with a slightly more distant mic placement than the stereo files, which were recorded with the Sennheiser MKH8050 and the Sennheiser MKH-30 near the shoe. From different walking speeds, to jogging, sprinting, jumping, hard stops, scuffs, and more! There are several performances with each file to fit the right action you need. That’s a whopping 360 footsteps between the mono and stereo files!
These sound files are also UCS metadata tagged
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