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Animals & Creatures Screams & Shouts 2 – Monsters Play Track 940 sounds included $45

The “Screams & Shouts 2 – Monsters” sound effects library brings you over 940 shouts of pain and death, disturbing roars plus grunts of anger, struggle and attack from several monsters and zombies.
Additionally you get 250 clean untreated vocalized human monster sound to create your own designed monsters with it.

This is the go-to sound effects library to give your monsters an unpleasantly threatening, disgustingly haunting and ferocious voice
All sounds have been edited precisely and cut clean for instant use in your projects. These sounds fit very well in any scifi, horror, action, fighting or fantasy game, movie or any other audio-visual production.

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Horror Squelch, Squish and Splat Play Track 454 sounds included, 8 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$10

Squelch, Squish and Splat consists of 455 beautifully recorded and edited sounds, tagged with rich metadata. From squishing tomatoes and plunging mangos to mashing melons and more.

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Materials & Texture Outward Inversion Play Track 593+ sounds included, 151 mins total $38

From creating the breath of a behemoth, to the palpable aura of an ambiance, this is a plethora of contact mic goodness providing you with frequency-deep content for layering, embellishing, bolstering, and new sound creation.

Contact mics are delicate creatures. They can give you insights into the most excitable yet unheard facets of a soundscape, and then almost immediately get destroyed by the slightest of impacts. We're just going to forget about how many incredible captures were thrown out of the running for this library due to such slight disruptions, and instead focus on the positive: this is a huge collection of super flexible, totally malleable sounds. One of our favorite libraries to make because it satisfied the inner tinkerer's ear, Outward Inversion is our microscope applied to the aural world.

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Horror Industrial Terror Play Track 210 sounds included $24.99

INDUSTRIAL TERROR is a collection of dark, distorted, rumbling, ear-piercing, evolving industrial impacts and whooshes, designed to unsettle.

Collection consists of 108 designed sound effects and 102 source field recordings.

Unique processing of organic field recordings makes it sound rooted in reality and fits perfectly into horror genre.
Ready to be used on their own or as a part of a more complex sound design.

RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Senhheiser MKH8060 + DPA 4060
CREATED AND EDITED WITH: Pro Tools, Live 10, Reaktor, EOS2, Discord4

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Horror Crepitus Play Track 200+ sounds included $23

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. Update: Now comes with 3x more sounds than before!

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Drones & Moods AXmos_Cinematic Guitars Play Track 150 sounds included, 68 mins total $30

Need to create suspense, tension and movement in your production? AXmos Cinematic Guitars is great for you.

Atmospheric elements, crazy chords, impacts, movements, reverses, soundscapes, distorted melodies, musical sound design and transitions are some of the things you will find in this collection, produced using a stratocaster type electric guitar. For that reason the sounds have a deep and musical feeling with such versatility that you can use them as effects or to enhance musical productions, generate a sound design musical moment and even compose tracks.

Apart of being a great library for Horror or Sci-fi games and movies, this collection is great for trailers too.

Sounds included:

Atmospheric elements (designed, distortion, high, low and tremolo) • Chords (evocative chords, dark arpeggios and fantasy) • Impacts • Melodies • Movements • Pads • Reverses • Soundscapes (surreal and tension) • Transitions

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Drones & Moods DRONEA Play Track 238 sounds included, 810 mins total $39

DRONEA gets you over 13 hours of drones, pads, underscores and atmospheres.

A collection of 238 drones, designed at 24-bit. Light to dark, clean to dirty, low to high, moving transitioning and pulsating. Many of these audio atmospheres were naturally processed by playback through a huge concrete tunnel and vintage guitar amplifiers.

All sounds were recorded or designed at 24-bit, 96 kHz, with embedded meta data.

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Horror Dark Materials Play Track 775 sounds included $46

Dark Materials is a SFX library dedicated to horror sound effects. It comes with a big collection of crunching, breaking, twisting bones and juicy impacts – more than 770 sounds are included in total!

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Animals & Creatures The Undead Play Track 102 sounds included $30

These are no ordinary zombies, they’re not your mindless, shuffling, flesh craving human husks. An evil runs through what remains of these creatures’ bodies. Flesh has all but decayed from their bones and whatever humanity they had in life has long since departed.

This library is dedicated to the chilling vocal sounds of the zombie. It is ideal for films and games, TV or trailers and includes 102 bespokely designed zombie vocal assets, including breaths, idle grunts and groans, attacks, pains, death, war cries and more.

Whilst this library caters primarily for the more aggressive variant of the undead, it wouldn’t sound out of place when used on other terrifying abominations.

All assets are delivered in 96kHz, 24-bit stereo files and include full Soundminer metadata.

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Horror Ghostly Air Play Track 33 sounds included $9.99

GHOSTLY AIR is a collection of 33 horror-inducing, voice whooshes, tremolo stutter, soundscapes
and diabolic vocalizations.

Perfect for all kinds of horror projects.

All SFX have baked-in Soundminer’s meta data

RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Senhheiser MKH8060 + ATE 208
EDITED AND CREATED WITH: iZotope RX, Reaktor, Adaptiverb, Eventide, Soundtoys, Waves, Pro Tools.

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Horror The Metal Shelf Play Track 134 sounds included $20

This library features recordings of a metal shelf being shaken, slammed, scraped, and other torturous things.

In this library, you’ll find metal slams, moans, squeals, shakes, taps, and sounds of rocks being poured over it.

There are lots of nice resonant sounds filled clangorous textures. Great for creating creepy tones for suspense and tension.

This library was recorded with a Barcus Berry Contact Mic going into a Barcus Berry 4000 preamp and a Sound Devices 702.

Bonus:
This library includes the Suburb Rain SFX collection at no extra cost - featuring almost 50 minutes of rain recordings

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Horror Just Gore | Add On Play Track 793+ sounds included $36
Welcome to the Just Gore | Add On – more than 790 goregeous bone-breaking, blood-soaking and flesh-slicing splatter sound effects.

This huge hard-gore construction kit contains all extra-disgusting sounds for a breaking bone, a punch to the guts or a brutal dismemberment.
The library is split in the following categories:

Bone

Breaks and Snaps

Crunch and Ripping

Cut and Slice

Blood

Squeeze and Drip

Splatter and Splats

Stabbing, Punches and Hits

Swoosh and Swish
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Audio plugins & tools Dehumaniser 2 $399

Dehumaniser 2 is a powerful vocal processing tool perfect for creature sound design. Utilising incoming live or pre-recorded signals, the software allows you to dynamically tailor effects while creating multi-layered sound instantly.

Perfect for audio professionals, this versatile tool makes a strong addition to any film, TV or video game post-production process. Its flexibility also makes the plugin ideal for use in live environments, including theatre performances, Halloween attractions or voiceover/dialogue sessions.

Ships with over 100 monstrous presets and 133 high-quality animal recordings, including Tigers, Leopards, Pigs, Parrots and more.

System requirements:
Dehumaniser is a VST/AU/AAX Plugin – requires a supported host/DAW. Covered under the Dehumaniser 2 EULA. An iLok account (available for free at ilok.com) is required to activate and use the software. A dongle is not required, but if you want to use one, an iLok 2 or later is the one to use.

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Drones & Moods Endless Drones Play Track 100 sounds included, 67 mins total $39

Endless Drones is a diverse set of 100 multi-layered atmospheres and mangled drone textures, that will help you portray an unsettling sense of mood or establish a unique sense of location in your projects.

All sounds are formed from field recordings and organic sound elements that are spliced, mixed and merged with synthetic tones and low-end rumble sources, using extensive processing and advanced production techniques.

Some of the most interesting real-world elements that have been used are city hum noises, roaring factory ambiences, radio statics, cicadas, water flows, howling winds, spooky waves of laughter, horse galloping sounds, nasty metal scrapes, and slides, tape wrapping sounds around the gears and rainscapes.

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Destruction & Impact Effective Trailer Downers Play Track 115 sounds included, 10 mins total $34.99

Selection of immersive downers and powerful dramatic sub falls featuring slow-motion bass, low-frequency drops, futuristic glitches, and epic cinematic booms. This original library is from the personal collection of trailer music composer Federico Soler Fernández (“Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” – “Middle Earth: Shadow of War” – “Halloween – 2018” – “The Predator 2018”)

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Destruction & Impact Vaeyan II Play Track 202+ sounds included, 58 mins total $23

The second volume of assorted recording sessions and design fragments from Eiravaein Works.

Libraries in the Vaeyan series will be produced over time as new library concepts are explored and researched.

A second helping of intriguing sonic flavor for any sound designer's archive!

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Drones & Moods Cloud Piano Play Track 20 sounds included, 20 mins total $10

This small, highly focused sound library features drones and textures created solely with sounds from a 1950’s Cable upright piano.

These sound effects range from low, dark, and pulsating, to high and shimmering and could easily work in sci-fi, suspense, thrillers, or fantasy. While they can sound otherworldly, the sounds are actually quite organic. The sounds were made with looped and layered tone clusters and ambience recorded inside the piano – no granularization, synthesis, or additional processing like reverb were employed.

They can be used alone or mixed with other sounds to great effect.

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Drones & Moods Surreal Play Track 100 sounds included, 36 mins total $25

“SURREAL” is a collection of 100 Sound Effects for creating surreal moments in your productions and allows you to generate a bizarre experience to mess up with the listener mind.

The sounds were created using a great variety of sources such as: transverse flutes, kalimbas, thunder drums and electric guitars to give the effects a more meaningful and emotive feeling.

But if you are looking sounds to induce tension and suspense, this library is great for you too.

Sounds included:

Crazy atmospheres • Drones • Detuned piano: Atmosphere, rarities and reverses • Atmospheric guitars • Atmospheric kalimbas • Glitches • Whooshes • And much more

The sounds are great for any kind of production (games, trailers, movies).

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Sci-Fi Sci-Fi Atmospheres Play Track 92 sounds included, 92 mins total $18

This library is a collection of 60 Sci-Fi atmospheres, all loop seamlessly, which can be used to represent alien worlds, drones ambiences, spacecrafts, futuristic engines, nuclear facilities, celestial spaces, generators, dark elements and from outer space. Mainly inspired by the Alien saga.

Each file has a duration of one minute with subtle changes over time. Ideal sounds to use as a layer in your sound design or for those project where music and sound design are pretty close.

Files have been designed on the basis of two different TVs buzzing, making a total of 32 buzz files, which have also been included in the collection. Calibrated to -24 LUFS. You can experiment with them to create more sounds, or use them as what they are, a TV buzz.

All files come in 96 kHz/24 bit, with a very descriptive metadata, based on what the sounds represent and which kind of feeling and mood they suggest to the listener.

Soundcloud preview includes all the designed sounds.

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Destruction & Impact Custom Tools Play Track 575 sounds included $107

SampleTraxx continues to cross the border between music and sound design with “Custom Tools” a new collection of 570+ new sound effects and 15 categories for true cinematic lovers.

Custom Tools is made to design high definition cinematic sci-fi horror trailer and soundtracks with a variety of production-ready sonic elements, noises and tension. This sound pack is a modern cinematic tool for shocking industrial horror sound design with a sci-fi aesthetics.

Featuring 1.5Gb of content, 570+ sound effects and 15 categories in Wav format 48/24 meticulously named and organised for fast workflow to be immediately dragged in every DAW or sampler.

Categories:
• Stingers Whoosh Ramp Up
• Atmospheric Low Ping
• Larsen Feedback
• Musical Ping and Tonal SoftHits
• Megakicks Cinematic Hits Slam Impacts
• Blast Blow Up
• Sub Shadow Sequences – Sub Sonic Elements
• Reverse
• Braams Intros SynthBend
• Rise
• Ambience Sonic Aura
• Field Recording
• Noise Burst Sparks – Grounded Electric Impacts
• Filters and Tones
• Abstract Glitch Stutters Choppers

BONUS: Get an additional Sampletraxx library – for free:
For a limited time, when you purchase a license for this library, you also get to pick an additional Sampletraxx library for free. Instructions will be included with your order.

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Destruction & Impact Cinematic Gore Play Track 600+ sounds included $55

If you need sounds of gore, this SFX collection is truly something special. Delivering more than 600 sounds of blood, guts, bone breaks, sword and knife stabs and cuts, splatters, spurts, flesh tears, impacts – and sawing – its gets you a brutally effective collection of sounds to work with, both raw and designed.

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Drones & Moods Reverse_Production Elements Play Track 32 sounds included, 15 mins total $22

“REVERSE” is a collection of 32 Sound Effects created using reversed sounds processed with extreme changes in speed and pitch.

You will find atmospheric and surrealistic production elements that works on their own to induce time, tension and mystery, or you can combine them with your current collection of production elements to create a more rich and complex sound.

These sounds have a cinematic feeling and are great for any kind of Sci-Fi or horror production (games, trailers, movies).

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Drones & Moods High Frequency Feedback Loops Play Track 57 sounds included $12

High Frequency Feedback Loops is a 57 sound collection of harsh, piercing analogue noise sourced from a No-Input Mixer being pushed to its limits. With constant ringing tones, random oscillations and lots of signal screaming in the higher frequency range, this library is a useful addition for your audio toolkit.

Think situations where a character's hearing is impaired, for constructing glitching communications and old school computers loading or to heighten the tension in horror and science fiction scenes. Whatever the requirement, if your next project calls for some seriously intense high-register noise, this one's got you covered.

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Foley Haunted Doors – Designed and Source Play Track 209 sounds included $24.99

Haunted Doors [D&S] is a collection of 209 old doors sound effects.

HD consist of of 45 designed sounds (Opens, Closes, Cinematic Door Impacts @ 96kHz 24Bit) & 164 source recordings (Door creaks, knob twists & turns, rattling, squeaking, opens, closes, locks, bolts and more! @ 192kHz 24Bit).

All audio files have been recorded at superb 192KHZ 24BIT. Multiple mic positions to capture all
the little details such as loose lock mechanisms, inner rattling, stuttering creaks and rich natural reverbs of empty corridors.

Comprehensive Soundminer's metadata. Over 25 different door knobs and handles,
over 10 pairs of hinges, 10 different doors and more! Perfect for horror movies, games and more.

LOCATION: Spain, Costa Blanca. Traditional Spanish hacienda before renovation.
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Sennheiser MKH 8060
EDITED AND MASTERED WITH: Pro Tools, iZotope RX (mildly),Fabfilter, Zynaptiq, Waves.

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Destruction & Impact Gore Toolkit HD Play Track 798 sounds included $95

A collection of over 530 96k/24bit HD Gore sound effects that comes with an additional 262 48k/24bit sounds FREE! Come and get your body damage galore. Punches, bone, blood, intestines, goops, splats, flesh movement, chewing, tearing, snapping, breaking, blade sounds… It’s BLOODY CARNAGE!

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Destruction & Impact Cinematic Hits & Transitions 2 Play Track 333 sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$45

SoundBits “Cinematic Hits & Transitions 2“ description:

The Cinematic Hits and Transitions 2 sound effects library from SoundBits delivers 222 cinematic, epic, heavy, impacts and hits – ranging from very deep, earthshaking hits, to brutally distorted and mangled impacts. Some are dry, some with extra huge reverbs, others get you an instant attack while some come with a build-up for that extra tension. Lots of starts and tails of the sounds can be combined with each other to give you even more.

But that’s not all. There are also 111 scary, haunting, unsettling and weird transitions and movements that instantly give you goosbumps and add that extra suspense for your productions. Lots of new sounds were recorded and got merged with existing SoundBits | Sound Effects. This fusion got mangled, crushed, edited and designed to create this cinematic experience.

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Drones & Moods Dark World Vol. 1 Play Track 50+ sounds included, 250 mins total $75

‘Dark World’ is a collection of 50 drones and moods (250 mins +) that explore ideas of designed spaces.

Blurring the lines between score and sound design, ‘Dark World’ combines sound effects and musical instruments to create tense, beautiful and eerie moods. Made for composers and sound designers and ideal for surround sound placement.

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Horror Industrial Terror: Hits & Transitions Play Track 145 sounds included $24.99

INDUSTRIAL TERROR – Hits & Transitions is a second installment of Industrial Terror series.
It is a collection of dark, distorted, ear-piercing, industrial hits, impacts, crashes and transitions.
IT Hits & Transitions is an expansion pack that focuses in single, sharp hits and transitions rather than evolving, textural impacts and whooshes (as heard in Industrial Terror).

Collection consists of 145 carefully designed and rendered sound effects.

Unique processing of organic field recordings combined with modular processing makes it both grounded in reality and creepy. This collection is a perfect choice for any kind of horror genre.

RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Senhheiser MKH8060 + DPA 4060
CREATED AND EDITED WITH: Pro Tools, Live 10, Reaktor, EOS2, Discord4, Modular

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Foley Squeaks & Creaks (MS) Play Track 313 sounds included, 19 minutes 29 seconds mins total $25

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.

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Wood Twisted Zither Play Track 344+ sounds included $30

Twisted Zither features recordings of an old zither being plucked, scraped, hit, and shaken. The library includes string hits, wood hits, tones, and different resonant sounds using a number of props such as mallets, african shakers, keys, coins, a metal beam, and fingers.

If you're looking for organic, wooden – and eerie – sounds, this one's not to be missed.

Bonus:
This library includes the Suburb Rain SFX collection at no extra cost - featuring almost 50 minutes of rain recordings

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Metal Unsettling Creaks and Squeaks – Extension I Play Track 350+ sounds included $30

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.

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Drones & Moods Unsolved Play Track 141 sounds included, 45 mins total $30

Need to create suspense, tension and mystery in your production? “UNSOLVED” is great for you.

Inspired by crime/investigation movies and series, this pack contains 141 Sound Effects (Wav, 24 Bit / 96 kHz) aimed to enhance the tension and drama of movies, games, series and trailers.

You will find atmospheric and musical elements with a powerful cinematic feel that can be used in musical context too, making this library a great addition to your collection.

Categories included:
Atmospheric element: Designed, High, Low, Metallic, Tremolo • Musical element: Bass, Crime scene, Melody, Percussive, Tension, Texture • Transition

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