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Scary, creepy, nasty horror sound effects and gore sounds
In this Kit all “Dark SciFi Drones” were carefully split in logical frequency Layers. So you have better control and you can do your own mix of these elements.
Also you can combine and mix the different layers across the ambiences by drag&drop to create nearly endless variations. Or easily do creative up-mixes to surround.
The duration of each Drone is 1:00 minute with very versatile variations in each file.
Use the layers in “Playlists” (Pro Tools) or “Track Versions” (Nuendo) for best flexibility and easy access.
Each layer of the same Drone is named after the Drone plus a letter for the layer. Starting at “A” (low frequency)…
Each Drone is separated in 2-5 layers.
Haunting Ambiences Bundle Vol. 2 includes three more libraries from our series of horror-genre atmospheres: Haunting Ambiences Vol. 4, 5 & 6.
The bundle comprises 19.99 GB worth of sounds recorded and designed by our Audio Craftsmen. Each of the 18 featured ambiences have been separated into individual stems, providing you with multi-layered kits for constructing your own horror backgrounds. Bangs on doors, swamp creature screeches, sewer screams, rattling chains, sacrificial chanting and many more can be endlessly mixed and matched in this customizable collection.
Use this bundle to experiment with layering, tone, and other sonic parameters when building atmosphere in your horror scenes. Sounds can be used for both digital and real-life projects, including Film, TV and Game productions, and live horror events and escape rooms.
The entire bundle is delivered at 24Bit 192kHz and tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.
Phantasmal Ambiences Bundle comprises unnerving horror ambiences designed to make audiences recoil and shake! Distant noises of poltergeists, demons, aliens and other deranged beings create a sense of insecurity and tension in the listener, and are thus ideal for intensifying other-worldly spaces in your horror Film, TV and Game projects.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded a variety of spine-tingling props and movements at 344 headquarters and a Neo-Gothic Nottingham church. These were all chosen and manipulated with the intention of alluding to a supernatural presence somewhere in the near-distance. Further design processes were then applied to form blood-curdling, chilling soundscapes sure to maximise the fear in your audiences!
Phantasmal Ambiences Bundle comprises unnerving horror ambiences designed to make audiences recoil and shake! Distant noises of poltergeists, demons, aliens and other deranged beings create a sense of insecurity and tension in the listener, and are thus ideal for intensifying other-worldly spaces in your horror Film, TV and Game projects.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded a variety of spine-tingling props and movements at 344 headquarters and a Neo-Gothic Nottingham church. These were all chosen and manipulated with the intention of alluding to a supernatural presence somewhere in the near-distance. Further design processes were then applied to form blood-curdling, chilling soundscapes sure to maximise the fear in your audiences!
The entire bundle is delivered at 24Bit 96kHz and tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.
This Sound Effects library contains 633 files that feature over 1000 sounds of unsettling and unpleasant squeaking and creaking elements. It’s a great starting point for designing a vast number of different soundscapes in various genres – from just using the sounds as general Hard Effects, to Science Fiction and Horror.
All sounds are production ready: Cleaned, Edited, levelled, and come with embedded BWF Metadata.
You get heavy doors and furniture creaks, screaming dry ice, creaking leather, rubber and balloons, forks on ceramic tablets, disturbing metal squeaks and much more.
This release features 873 screams, shouts, moans, grunts, hisses from female/male humans, zombies, monsters and creatures. Fantastic for horror, suspense, thrillers, action movies and games
All sounds are 100% dry. Reverb was just applied for the demo.
A collection of spooky scary sounds, ideal for your video game, film, TV show, radio play or any other project. Mostly classic horror style.
Unsettling Creaks and Squeaks – Extension I is the first extension to the very popular “Unsettling Creaks and Squeaks” sound library.
It delivers door and furniture creaks and squeaks, creaking leather, rubber and balloons, door handles, disturbing metal on metal squeaks and much more.
This sound effects library is a composite collection of 345 files with even more single sounds of unsettling and and unpleasant squeaking and creaking elements. It’s a great starting point for designing a vast number of different soundscapes in various genres – from just using the sounds as general Hard Effects, through Science Fiction to Horror. All sounds are production ready: Cleaned, edited and leveled, and all with with embedded BWF Metadata.
Unleash the Terror: Introducing “Risers” – A Haunting Sound Effects Collection
Prepare to plunge into the depths of fear with “Risers,” a meticulously crafted sound effects album designed to elevate the tension and dread in your projects. This comprehensive collection is divided into two chilling sections: powerful Risers and unsettling Stutter Glitch Risers.
Drawing inspiration from the darkest corners of horror, “Risers” is built upon a foundation of terrifying elements. Immerse your audience in the grating sounds of grinding gears, the piercing intensity of screams, and the bone-chilling echoes of horrific groans. We’ve woven in the unsettling buzz of anxious flies, the clanging resonance of iron chains, and a pervasive undercurrent of unsettling horror symphony to create a truly atmospheric experience.
This album boasts a rich tapestry of sound, incorporating both a multitude of acoustic instruments for organic texture and depth, alongside diverse synthesizer sounds for unique and unsettling sonic landscapes.
Inside “Risers,” you’ll discover:
All sounds are delivered in pristine WAV format, recorded at a high-fidelity 96000K sample rate with a 24bit depth, ensuring maximum audio quality and flexibility for professional use.
These chilling and innovative sounds are perfect for:
We’ve included three demo previews showcasing a glimpse of the terror that awaits. These are just a small sample of the unsettling sounds within “Risers.”
Here you find a composite collection of designed, frightening Whooshes, creepy Transitions and haunting Movements to spice up your Trailers, Cut Scenes, Games and Movies.
From ancient fantasy to futuristic horror projects, here you’ll find the appropriate sound that brings out the goose bumps.
Subtile haunting movent sounds, roomy squeaks, harsh disurbing noises, magical whooshes, soaking reversed horror, terryfying stingers, …
All sounds in this bundle were created by heavy sound design, layering and automation. Using hundreds recorded sounds of impacts, scrapes, swishes and anything else that has a unique motion envelope.
Even breaks, endings and transitions of all different kinds of music will get that extra kick with this sound library – it gets you the sounds that’ll bring out the goosebumps.
A collection of rending, snapping, and striking bamboo SFX + some extra added goodies.
A meditation on the most versatile audio tool with which we are biologically equipped, we have carefully crafted this collection of mouth noises to provide you with highly dynamic and almost unpredictable organic audio fare. However, we tried to explore less conventional noises and specifically avoided the usual burps, coughs, throat clears, etc. Captured from a single male voice actor, this collection includes squishy spurts, saliva smacks, guttural loops, pops, clicks, cracks, inhales, exhales, and air bursts.
A particular part of this library is the intentional use of creating soft distortion from moving air over the mic membranes in specific ways. This helped add low end and saturated elements to many of the sounds. The wide spectral coverage of this library makes it easy to blend many of the sounds together to achieve some truly diffused but balanced soundscapes. Don’t try to tame this library, unleash it! We’ve successfully used these in explosions, engine layers, organic rummaging, shots, ambient clouds, UI, and more. Enjoy!
A very lean library made to offer a quick go-to sound set for designers who need the natural popping, snapping, and cracking sounds of human joints.
This library recorded a creepy, old, metallic, and huge storage door. It contains metal impacts, creepy metal squeaks, creeks and rattles. Use this SFX to create crazy sound design, especially for horror movies.
The library was recorded with:
Zoom F8 device, and Ntg3 Rode Mic
A unique collection of 141 useful effects, created knocking, scraping and disturbing a 12-string acoustic guitar.
These sounds were recorded and processed with the intention of providing an interesting , different and unique set of audio effects.
• Clean (71 Sounds): hits, knocks, scrapes and various string sounds.
• Processed (70 Sounds): Processed and re-designed hits, drones and swells.
All sounds were recorded, edited and processed at 24-bit / 96kHz, with embedded meta data.
Drowning is a Sound Effects Library By Decal Audio Containing over 45 different Male drowning sounds, from coughs, splutters, gags and gasps plus hydrophone underwater scream sounds. This set of sounds should provide all you need for any scenario’s of an adult male drowning, with submerged bubbling, pants and gasps struggling keeping afloat and huge emerging breaths.
No one was harmed during the recording of this library – just some concerned neighbours!
Mono audio files recorded at 96kHz/24 bit with a Rode NTG-3, JRF Hydrophone and Sound Devices MixPre-6 recorder.
Hello, everyone! Today, we present to you 100 pieces of Jump Scares sound effects crafted by us. The inspiration for these creations stems from a horror film called “Terrifier” that we’ve been extremely keen on lately. In this album, we’ve employed a plethora of metallic sounds and acoustic instruments. It’s anticipated that each sound effect cover will feature a “cute” clown. These sounds can be utilized in games, short videos, and film previews. We sincerely hope you’ll enjoy them.
Bowed Mandolin Contains over 70 different bowed textures and articulations gathered from bowing a vintage Mandolin with a Cello Bow. The multiple strings on the Mandolin make for a very rich and unique sound, perfect for Horror and Thriller genres.
Bowed Mandolin contains a range of short high pitch swells and screeches, long textural movements and low deep rips recorded in Stereo (RODE NT4) at 24bit/96kHz to allow for the best manipulation and time stretching options.
Check out our other Library ‘Bowed Bass’ for the perfect dark low end accompaniment.
Make the first step into the terrifying, creepy and mind mangling sonic experience of “Surrounding Horror“, with weird and abstract sounds from all around you.
You get 22 Horror Ambiences / Soundscapes created and mixed in 5.1 Surround (SMPTE) to give an instant horrifying setting for your productions.
Additionally, you get Stereo Downmixes of the surround versions.
Now available: ANGST | Surround Horror Series
DARKSCAPES is a collection of 30, seamlessly looping, dark, horror-inducing soundscapes and ambiences with total run time of 35 minutes.
All sound effects have been created using real field recordings in order to add organic feel to them and trick your brain into
perceiving them as something realistic and later edited with top of a line outboard and plugins to add dark, horror-inducing depth to them.
All SFX have baked-in Soundminer’s meta data
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Senhheiser MKH8060, DPA4060, PCM D100
EDITED WITH: iZotope RX, Wormhole, Adaptiverb, Modular, FabFilter, Waves, TC Electronics, Pro Tools.
Bowed Bass features over 30 drones and swells created from the sound of a bowed Electric Fender Jazz Bass, which was then sent through various hardware reverbs, delays and distortion all aiding to create a catalogue of developing rich textural sounds. If you’re caught short and what you really need to do is create a powerful sense of dread, bowed bass has the answer.
From chaotic scratchy swells to deep rumbling murmurs this collection of twisted bowed bass sounds is a fantastic selection to add to your sonic palette.
Bowed Bass contains 887MB (over 20 minutes total) of high quality 24bit/96kHZ Stereo WAV files, labelled in UCS format and metadata embedded.
This Double Bass & Violin sound effects library not only includes weird low double bass bow strokes, stabs, vibrating strings, drones, harsh harmonics, string scrapes, bow stroke voices, and bright violin tones and screams. It also includes the opportunity to open up a whole new set of sonic adventures.
Why? All double bass sounds have been recorded at 192K/24 bit, with an amazing stereo set of close up Sanken CO100K microphones, and a stereo set of Sennheiser Mkh 8020 microphones, capturing low end and room. All violin sounds have been recorded with a single Sanken CO100K microphone.
Common for all Sanken files is that you're able to either extreme time stretch/time compress, or pitch up and down the files, and by this discover a whole new world of sounds – without adding nasty degenerating artifacts or muffling the sound. The ultra-high frequency range of the Sanken microphones does really make a great difference!
Recordings these sounds was a pure blast. The amount of versatile organic material in the set is great. The bass instrument has been played in a very innovative way, using both regular bow on strings and bass body, but also finger cymbals attached to specific places for a vibrating ring or rattle noise, creating some really other-worldly sound effects, and almost vocal-like patterns.
While the double bass material produces a massive low end without any further processing, the violin recordings really benefit from being stretched and pitched. This makes all the non-audible bright sounds captured by the Sanken microphones come through.
Metal friction recordings shine when using a rosined cello bow on a thin sheet of metal or a drum cymbal. Dragging a heavy metal cabinet across a floor creates a wild ronk; pulling a gritty old wheelbarrow over concrete is a hell of a sound; and pulling a rusty metal drawer through an uncooperative space is pure gold.
With this massive metal friction SFX library, you’ll be able to either design your own unique material using the included raw source sounds of scrapes, deep bows, slicers and grinders, or start by grabbing ready-to-go designed metallic sounds that are perfect for trailers, horror, games, and more.
This library contains 132 detailed recordings of various source metal friction + 29 designed cinematic metallic textures. All recordings captured on a Sound Devices MixPre 6 using a Sennheiser MKH 8040 Stereo Pair.
The squeakiest of the squeaks and the creakiest of the creaks! Halloween came early!
In this library you will find everything from deep, wrenching creaks to high piercing squeaks; quiet door knobs and twisting, turning plastics. Many of these sounds were recorded in a turn of the century old victorian home with decades of wear and tear to give the most authentic, creepy sounds that your heart desires.
Here you'll find drippy, squeaky faucets, loose boards on stairwells, creaking door hinges, squealing old door coils, metal scraping on metal, rending wood and plastic, quiet, airy floorboards, bone crushing twist and turns, gripping leather and rubber and so much more! With 300+ sounds you're sure to maximize your imagination's spookiest or maybe just that perfect sound design element you needed!
The sounds were recorded in stereo at 96 kHz 24 bit. The equipment used was a Sony PCM-M10 and the files were processed, edited, and mastered in Reaper.
•In Bowed Cactus, get a visceral collection of bowed and plucked cactus from the deserts of the American Southwest. Take a violin bow to a cactus spine and hear guttural screeches with intense, physical energy. Hear plucked needles popping in rich organic granulation. Hear thick, bowed spines growling like supernatural animals and single needles stuttering with real grit.
•This library offers you an extensive collection of sounds from a unique organic sound source. Cactus sounds are incredibly soft and intimate in real life, but when recorded from two inches they morph into otherworldly creatures brimming with ultrasonic energy. I hope you are excited by their sound designing potential and I can’t wait to hear what you create!
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased to offset my field recording travel for this library.
If you want to terrify your audience - whether it's for a game, movie or another project that calls for bone-chilling sounds - the horror sound effects libraries from the independent sound community are a fantastic tool for making that happen.
They give you everything from haunting ghost sounds, gruesome and gory sound effects and demonic possessions, to frightening and disturbing ambiences, screams, whispers and grotesque zombie sounds - making sure your audience will get a sonic experience that's sure to leave a mark.
Bones breaking, breathing, chains rattling, creaking doors, demonic laughter, footsteps, ghostly whispers, gore splatter, heartbeats, knife slash, monster roar, music box, screams, screeching violins, siren, stabbing, thunder, water dripping, wind howling, zombie groan
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Q: Are these sounds royalty free?
A: Yes, they're royalty free, and no attribution is required
Q: Who has recorded and designed these sounds?
A: They're created by the independent sound community, and have been recorded by some of the best recordists and sound designers on the planet. There's a constant flow of brand new sound libraries coming from the community, giving you the absolutely freshest sound effects available anywhere. Oh, and by getting sounds from the community, you support individual sound designers and sound recordists – that’s a pretty cool thing too.
Cataclysm is a vast collection of recorded, synthesized and designed sounds created to support important destructive moments and add a stronger sense of extreme consequence to any sound.
The recorded section of library features elements such as flash powder explosions, propane cannon blasts and artillery cannons recorded in unique natural environments with violent transients and lush, long and varied tails. It also features falling trees, forge burners, large trebuchet wood groans, rock smashes as well as more ordinary items recorded and designed to feel like an over the top version of themselves such as vacuum cleaner suctions, metal vase holders, ground pounders and more.
The synthesized section of the library features equally rich textures in the form of explosion sweeteners, other-worldly environmental reflections, scorching energy risers and more.
Finally, recorded and synthesized content was employed to develop the designed section, where the hyperrealism of the recordings meets the clean yet aggressive textures of the synthesized section in catastrophic assets themed around the library’s title.
Animal Hyperrealism Vol III is a library containing sounds themed animal vocalisations, from real to designed creatures totaling more than 1700 individual sounds in 279 files.
The sounds were recorded in zoos and wildlife centers. The asset list includes but is not limited to: european red deers, monkeys, reindeers, hornbills camels, crickets, tamarins, boars, frogs, red ruffed lemurs, parrots, and many more.
The content has been recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K plus a Sennheiser 8050 for center image and a couple of Sennheiser MKH8040 for stereo image.
Part of the cheats section of the library features samples recorded at 384KHz. For these sounds an additional microphone was employed, specifically the CMPA by Avisoft-Bioacoustics which records up to 200 KHz. This microphone was used to record most of the library but the 384KHz format was preserved only where energy was found beyond 96KHz not to occupy unnecessary disk space.
All files are delivered as stereo bounce of these for mics, though in some instances an additional couple of CO100K was added to the sides.
The resulting ultrasonic spectrum is rich and allows for truly extreme manipulation of the content.
Bullet Impact Sounds contains 153 bullet sound effects (23 bullet flybys and 130 bullet impacts). Bullet impacts cover 16 different surfaces. Body Flesh, Body Thump, Concrete/Brick, Dirt, Grass, Rock, Gravel, Glass, Metal Light, Metal Heavy, Wood Light, Wood Heavy, Water, Mud, Snow and Ice. Each surface has 8-9 sound variations.
A perfect collection of bullet sounds suitable for all types of sound designers, video editors, game developers or anyone who needs a large range of high quality bullet sound effects ready to use out-of-the-box. Designed specifically for games, video and other media by award winning sound designers.
This pack also includes a variety of 150 bonus sounds effects from our full library Pro Sound Collection. Note that ALL sounds from this package are already included in our other premium sound packages Pro Sound Collection and WARFARE SOUNDS. So be sure to check out Pro Sound Collection and WARFARE SOUNDS before purchase to save time and money!
Impressionism, masterfully crafted by Ni Sound, is a captivating collection of 100 textural music tracks inspired by the evocative soundscapes of Monument Valley and Journey. This cinematic anthology weaves intricate layers of string ensembles, harp, piano, synthesizers, and flute, creating immersive soundscapes that evoke themes of healing, epic grandeur, warmth, and haunting suspense. Tailored for documentaries, art games, advertisements, and projects inspired by literature, Impressionism invites listeners into a world of introspection, adventure, and profound emotional depth.
Delivered in pristine 96 kHz WAV format, every composition undergoes professional post-production mastering, ensuring exceptional clarity and impact. With a total duration of 2 hours and 26 minutes, Impressionism is the perfect choice for creators seeking to enchant audiences with sophisticated, emotionally resonant sound.
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