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Scary, creepy, nasty horror sound effects and gore sounds
Metallitronic is sound designer Nathan Moody’s latest collection of intense textures, a library of nearly three hours’ worth of metallic membranes and objects excited by electronic signals.
Metallitronic was created using advanced synthesis techniques played back through various transducers into cymbals, gongs, bowls, steel plates, prefab metal buildings, and other resonant metallic objects, close-miked in stereo with extended-frequency-range microphones. This collection radically expands a sound designer’s palette of stressed-metal sounds, horror and tension elements, crystalline creaks and groans, unsettling background atmospheres, rattling vehicular interiors, creature sound sweeteners, the sound of massive machinery, earth-shaking rumbles, and stochastic, complex rhythms.
Some textures let the complex synthesizer textures shine through – intense on their own, even if they weren’t amplified through metal – but the primary focus is on metallic drones, hits, pings, stresses, groans, wails, resonances, rattles, and unique timbres that can be layered into almost any project. The scale of the sounds ranges from detailed to overwhelmingly massive. The sounds invite aggressive filtering and extreme pitch shifting.
Every sound is recorded in stereo at 24 bits, 192 kHz, and many sounds have ultrasonic frequencies. This library includes nearly three hours of recordings, all fully tagged with metadata. Multiple articulations are ganged into single files for convenience and organization.
“Dare” is a small pack of 50 atmospheric elements (WAV, 96kHz/24bit) suited for horror productions.
Thanks to his dark tone, this library is great to induce tension, fear and oppression in your game, movie or trailer. If you want to evoke the sensation that someone or something is hiding and watching you, this library is great for you.
The following musical instruments were used to create Dare: An Ukulele, Transverse flutes, a Kalimba and a Melodica.
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.
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.
The LiquidMetal – Waterphone SFX pack contains a lot of great material for your next deep impact horror project, when you need eerie, suspenseful and deep sounds that bring the fear out in you and your audience.
We hit, rattled, bowed, snaped and swashed the real Waterphone – a unique instrument – for really formidable sounds.
BLOODBATH is a collection of 360 carefully designed and rendered horror/gore sound effects.
Stabs, chops, blood drips, flesh drips, Skinning, slicing, gush textures, cinematic flesh impacts and more!
DESIGNED 96kHz 24BIT | 110 FILES | META DATA
All DESIGNED sound effects have been put together using CLEAN sound effects.
Multiple layers (Stacked), carefully processed to achieve modern cinematic sound.
Recorded with: Sound Devices MixPre 6, Sennheiser MKH8060 and Sony PCM D100 at 192kHZ. Edited with: Pro Tools, iZotope RX, Sound Particles
Microbes is 76 minutes/2.12 Gb of microscopic life forms skittering and scurrying about in their strange world. 326 separate files – recorded in 24bit/96kHz using various microphones. UCS-compliant.
A construction kit of the sounds you need to design organisms on the microscopic level. Whether you’re making a medical animation, a nature documentary or something entirely fictional, Microbes delivers in skittering, fluttering and slithering sounds. Anything from single-cell organisms to complex insects is possible. Sounds are grouped in a variety of creature “species”, allowing you to create different voices with a good amount of nuance in performance. You also get a range of bubbling and swarming sounds, as well as wet and slimy elements. To complete your microscopic universe, there are a number of abstract and otherworldly ambiances.
Sounds were created using various physical instruments and props, such as a hardware modular synth, bowed metal springs, a cactus and good fashioned old voice acting. No actual microbes were harmed (or even consulted) during production. You can read more about the creation of Microbes here.
The human body is continuously make noise. From the sound of the heart pumping, air entering & exiting the lungs, digestion in the stomach and blood circulating through the body. This library features an extensive collection of all these elements, made possible through the creation of a stethoscope microphone.
All sounds were recorded using the Sound Devices Mix-Pre 6, a stereo pair of DPA 4060’s and a professional grade stethoscope.
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Brutality is a gore, combat, and weapon FX toolkit packed with the most gruesome and hard hitting effects that are guaranteed to make all audiences squirm. This library includes 638 carefully designed and 1,743 meticulously recorded source sound effects. This enables you to jump into any bloody fight and start chopping away, or craft all new sounds that are only limited by your imagination; the horrific possibilities are endless.
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.
Doom Drones contains more than 3Gb of eerie, doomful, dark, atmospheric field recordings, designed drones and backgrounds. Perfect for something in the realm of a David Lynch film, ambient music production, a horror film, or just to set the mood of a foreboding soundscape.
Each artist made 60 custom loops for a total of 120 loops. With SoundMorph focusing more on field recordings and subtle tonal design and Arovane focusing more on dynamic synthetic textures and sound design. Both perfectly suitable as layers or final assets, depending on their use, Doom Drones is a great addition for anyone wanting to enhance dark ominous moments.
All field recordings were captured with a mid/side stereo setup consisting of 2 Schoeps CMC6 bodies, Schoeps mk5 & mk8 capsules housed in a Rycote AE windshield running into a Sound Devices 722.
Frustration. You’ve spent hours on a project, only to end up with a sound scape that feels incomplete. The action scene feels empty, the weapons don’t sound heavy enough, the transitions don’t pack enough of a punch, the space ship doesn’t feel large enough and the monsters aren’t sufficiently scary.
The Augmentation Elements library has been built with this problem in mind. Due to the library’s abstract nature, the Risers, Stings, Swells and Whooshes can be molded and manipulated into adding that missing element that you’re looking for, and sweetening the whole mix.
In order to save you time and help you quickly find the sounds that you need, SoundMiner metadata has been carefully created for each individual file. There are no ‘Scream, 1’ and ‘Scream, 2’ in this library! Every single file is individually described, and the use of numbers is not employed!
Have a look at the metadata list further down the page!
Now, Your futuristic energy weapons don’t sound full enough? Try layering some of the stings and swells underneath them.
That large space ship doesn’t seem large enough? Grab some whooshes and pan them to your heart’s delight.
The alien doesn’t sound scary enough? Some of the stings sound eerily close to vocalizations. Grab them and run wild.
Are crucial transitions in your film lacking punch? Drag some of those risers into your DAW and see which one fits best!
High Desert Chainsaw contains the many sounds of a chainsaw as it chews through live oak tree trunks and branches. Recorded outdoors in a high desert valley, these resonant and detailed samples capture every crunch and whine of this powerful machine, from engine ignitions, to purring idles, to splintering roars. Whether you’re designing the sound of a deadly weapon for a horror film or a spaceship engine in a video game, watch out for this small pack of dangerously sharp chainsaw sounds!
2% for the Planet:
Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause. I view it as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• 25 chainsaw audio clips
• Engine cranks, ignitions, and shutoffs
• Rumbling idles
• Small, medium, and large log cuts
Mastered Stereo + RAW Mid/Side:
• All 25 sounds included as decoded LR stereo files
• All 25 sounds included as RAW Mid/Side files
• The RAW MS audio files are the same sounds as the mastered stereo, just in their original uncut/unmastered/undecoded form.
• Specs: 2.5 GB – 192 kHz / 24-bit WAV – 50 files, 100+ sounds, approx. 36 min total
Dive down in the dark abyss and experience the cold otherworlds with sharp currents and muddy bottom…
Following the legacy of Dive Deep 1 from 2016, here comes Dive Deep 2 with a new generation of underwater ambiences. The sounds of rushing, bubbling currents have been created with more impressive details, clarity and definition. And there are other design styles at your disposal too, such as flat pads, grainy trickling, otherworldly drones or deep kicking moves.
Lots of creatures for your audiovisual project
You will get 107 with a wide variety of sounds for your monsters, we have tried to recreate some characteristics of creatures, such as breathing, deaths, different types of steps according to materials, eating, etc. This library is divided into:
Performing attacks (different intensities)
Receiving attack sounds
Deaths
Growls
Shouts
Eating
Breaths
Footsteps
Grunts
Screams
More about the pack
Intuitive file naming
All you’ll ever need regarding magical elemental sounds [Use them again & again]
Use the sound effects over and over, in any of your projects or productions, forever without any additional fees or royalties. Use the SFX in your game, in your trailer, in a Kickstarter campaign, wherever you need to, as much as you want to.
Totally mono compatibility
All sounds have several variations.
Include Dragon sounds
Features
107 unique monster sounds
Number of Audio Waves: 107
Format: 44,100 Hz / 16 bits
Do Sound FX loop: Some
Minutes of audio provided: 4 minutes and 1 second
Documentation
The resonant and tonal squeaks, bangs, rattles and scrapes of 10 different metal gates in winds of varying strengths in remote countryside areas of Iceland.
Recorded with Stille and Klang contact mics and the LOM Geofon into Sound Devices Mix Pre 10ii
77 looped files of varying lengths totalling 2 hours and 36 minutes.
Perfect for ambient and atmospheric sounds for Abandoned Buildings, Castles, Cemeteries, Churchyards, Country Gates, Dungeons, Graveyards, Prisons, Security Fences and similar.
Suitable for Creepy, Dark, Eerie, Fearful, Hostile, Isolated, Lonely, Lost, Tense and Unsettling atmospheres.
Files are stamped with UCS compliant metadata in Soundminer.
Harsh Noise is a collection of analog feedback loop manipulations where traditional audio equipment is pushed to extremes and sent spiralling out of control.
Featuring glitched-out signal malfunctions, huge walls of noise and piercing high-frequency tones, these sounds will really set the mood for any abstract scenes, unsettling moments or technological nightmare situations in your productions, particularly if working to a horror, science fiction, dystopian or experimental theme.
With each file coming in at 1 minute in length and recorded at a high resolution of 24/96, you are invited to go beyond the source material and explore your own sonic territory by way of editing, filtering and processing to suit your needs.
STUTTER MATTER delivers a fresh sound set of syncopated hi-tech stutters and ultra-triggered sound effects. Whether you work as movie trailer or game sound designer, editor, soundtrack composer or experimental musician STUTTER MATTER will add a touch of sound dementia to create a more diverse listening experience.
If you are looking for brutal syncopated bursts, head spinning dynamics shifts and industrial dyslexia this sound pack deserves a listen for anyone seeking out interesting sound design.
Categories:• Stutter Chopper
• Stutter Filter
• Stutter Reverse
• Stutter Woosh
• Stutter Sequences and Glitches
• Unprocessed/Raw Stutter elements
+ Bonus folder – 40 Hi-Tech Hits
Something wicked this way comes with SPOOKY HALLOWEEN HORRORS, a huge collection of high quality scary sounds. No matter what you're on working on, whether it's a horror video-game, a creepy cartoon, a spooky app for children, or even a huge Halloween party or a live event, this ghostly gathering of ready-to-use sound effects is guaranteed to send a shiver through your project!
EVERYTHING YOU NEED
Whether you’re looking for creepy CHARACTER VOICES such as GHOSTS, WEREWOLVES, ZOMBIES and SCREAMS, intense ACTION SOUNDS including BUBBLING CAULDRONS, CREAKY DOORS, KNIFE ATTACKS and GORE SPLATTERS, EVIL LAUGHTER or spooky AMBIENCES like HOWLING WINDS, CREEPY CLOCKS and CHURCH BELLS, you're sure to be spooked by the huge range of sounds to be found inside!
BETTER THAN CANDY
Immerse yourself in over 500 audio files of expertly designed sounds, supplied in high-quality MP3 + SD and HD WAV formats, meticulously labelled for effortless searching. Each and every audio file in this phantasmal collection has been expertly mixed and mastered to fit into ANY audio environment – just drag, drop, and let the spooky festivities commence!
With FREE UPDATES, FOREVER! and 35 FREE BONUS SOUNDS from our Best Sellers: Zombie Voices and Blood, Guts & Gore, there’s no better time to scare your audience with this ONE OF A KIND spooky sound pack!
Hurry! Buy now to prepare the perfect paranormal project in time for next Halloween!
PERFECT FOR:
…and all other audio-visual productions
KEY FEATURES:
TECHNICAL DETAILS:
Gore is just plain & simple great high quality bloody impacts, splatters, and weapons. You can't go wrong with this library, and it will be a work horse go to for many years! GORE features more than 875 files, 2.92 GB of 24bit/96khz .WAV files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer and Basehead metadata. GORE was created in collaboration with Michael Leaning, a UK based Triple AAA video game sound designer.
Synthetic Sphere is a collection of spatialised synthetic pads, mixed in an ambisonic format for a complete 360 interactive soundtrack. Multiple layers of pads, tones and amorphic FX are spreaded across the sphere, resulting in a truly immersive experience. These pads include gentle movement across 3D space, creating rich ambiances but without catching to much of the listener attention.
This collection is great for post production, VR/AR experiences, game developers and any real-time 3D audio engine.
All files are tagged and categorized for your convenience – supporting tag filtering browsing applications.
This package includes 10 Samples – Total 51 minutes of content.
Supported formats: First Order AmbiX and Stereo (Total of 20 files).
Download a B-Format Ambix demo here: Demo
The library is also available in a stereo only version.
Tension is a collection of atmospheres, drones, musical sound design, darkness, noise, and distortion for creating moments of anxiety, ominous soundscapes, or musical foreboding highlights. Created by Charles Maynes (sound designer) and Jason Payne (musical composer) Tension creates a balance where both sound design and musical undertones collide. Tension gets you 430+ sounds and 7.5GB of 24bit/96khz files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata.
The Cinematic Bundle contains two of RT Sonics’ most epic SFX releases: Cinematic World and Nuances of Fear. This brand new product contains over 1180 designed and source sound effects, ready to take take your projects to the AAA league!
All sound effects come in 24bit 96kHz, including detailed naming conventions and rigorous Soundminer-embedded metadata.
Our source sound effects were recorded with professional high-end equipment, including Sound Devices 788 with ORTF setup of Sennheiser MKH 8040’s and MKH 8050, as well as Rode NTG8, LOM Elektrosluch, DPA 4060 and Sony PCM D100.
Library Review:
“There is no doubting the quality on offer here; these samples would most certainly feel at home dropped into a high‑end blockbuster movie, action trailer, or AAA video game” … “RT Sonics’ Cinematic Bundle provides some epic ammunition for your sound effects arsenal.” –
Sound On Sound
Heavy Hits, Jump scares, Low Hits, Ominous Stingers, Pulses, Clock Loops, Dark Magic, Mech Suit Buildups and Weapons, Strings, Risers, Pings, Psychological Drones, Monster Roars, Bass Drops, Braams, Whooshes, Evil Vocal Growls, Whoosh Hits and much more.
Our Gore library was recorded in the weeks preceding Halloween 2017. We decided to have some fun because we generally only have access to pumpkins this time of year and thought why not create something fun for us, and our friends and colleagues to use. Please enjoy the use of these recording in all your spooky movies and sound design.
Provided are 750 MB of LR and MS Recordings. LR is decoded from the MS and has the approximate stereo width as an XY recording. On the MS tracks the mid mic is on the left and the side mic on the right.
The LR can be encoded back into MS or if panned center, cancels out the side mics to just play the mid mic. Alternately in the provided MS file, the right side channel can be dropped so you can use the mono center. The 2 files are mastered the same. Occasionally the levels vary on the MS track as these are the levels set to keep the the tracks phase coherent. All tracks are edited to be M&E friendly, and monitored through a phase scope to again, keep the tracks phase coherent.
All recordings were recorded In a foley studio at 192kHz with a Fostex FR-2 recorder, Project Studio C4 mic, and Ambient Emesser ATE-208 bi-directional mic and mastered in Pro Tools.
All recordings are recorded in Toronto, Ontario Canada, by Ryan Macneill and Steven Ejbick of Textures Sound.
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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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.
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You’re under deadline pressure and don’t have time to start creating your own sounds from scratch but you don’t want to lower your standards? The CINEMATIC DARKNESS DESIGNED is your creative go-to-collection if you want to pick from a full collection of evil madness.
EACH SOUND A SINISTER MASTERPIECE
CINEMATIC DARKNESS is destined to be the key library for your next dark movie, trailer or game project. It keeps ready mad noise terror, evil screams, weird glitches and much more gloom in an instant. The name says it all: these sounds come to you as pre-designed, “ready-to-use” tools. We created an impressive set of frightening and murky SFX with booms, deep hits, digital glitches, scary drones, science stutters, tension builders and much more.
Finalist – Best Sound Effects Libary – Indie Sound Awards 2022
The sound ‘Kind Creature’ made with the V7 library won the British Sound of the Year Award presented by The Museum Of Sound and The New BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Custom made sounds made with the V7 are used in the scores for Control, Wolfenstein and newer projects by award winning game composer Martin Stig Andersen.
V7 is a home-built metal spring sound-tool made from an old measurement-unit found at a flea market. Now – disassembled, rebuilt and mounted amongst other things with a 33 foot long Giant Spring that connects the measurement box to an open metal staircase and creates a natural spring reverb.
I Played with a bow, friction rubber clubs, metal slides, whipped cream gas cartridges and a souvenir Eiffel Tower.
The result is a unique sound effect library of massive metallic hits, gongs, scrapes, squeaks, friction, rumbles and rattles. From subtle, soft squeaks and harsh, brutal metal shrieks to long and deep musical metal moans.
V7 is recorded with an Ehrlund EHR-E microphone placed inside the metal box. All files are in 96 kHz/24 bit and contains the original acoustic recordings.
73 files with 700 + individual sounds – all tagged with detailed Universal Category System (UCS) metadata.
Introducing Devils Bane Trailer, a chilling symphony of horror encapsulated in 533 meticulously crafted sound files, ready to unleash terror upon your audience. Dive into a nightmare realm where every creak, whisper, and shriek is meticulously designed to send shivers down your spine.
Get the sounds of the human body with the Stethoscope sound effects library: The gurgling and murmuring of various digestion processes in the abdomen, the beating heart, blood rushing through vessels and the respiratory sounds of the lungs.
All sounds were recorded from male and female volunteers using multiple stethoscopes and a Sound Devices 633 recorder, final clean up was done with Izotope RX 4.
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