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UK Big City Interiors is a distinct collection of ambient recordings focused on indoor spaces around Manchester. Unlike other libraries, our team has focused on capturing interior atmospheres and sounds, making this the most accurate representation of how a big city feels from the inside. The sounds in this library will make an excellent addition to your everyday audio collection and are perfect for use in your films, commercials, documentaries and other projects.
To bring you the most authentic feeling of an interior cityscape, our team has captured ambiences and sounds from shopping malls, book stores, technology stores, cafes, food courts, restaurants, toilets, busy train stations, trams, buses, elevators, escalators, and much, much more. We have recorded sounds at different times of the day to capture busy as well as quiet atmospheres.
All of the sounds have been precisely edited so that you can drop them into your session instantly and are available in 24Bit 96kHz for further sonic manipulation. Also, all of the files are tagged with extensive metadata and are UCS compliant to find the right sound for your scene with ease.
UK Big City Exteriors contains a varied assortment of ambient sounds captured during field recording sessions in Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield by our team of Audio Craftsmen. The effects in this library will make for a fantastic addition to your general audio collection and will be perfect for use in short films, documentaries, commercials, and video games based both in the UK and abroad.
The team has gone out of their way to bring you a range of different sounds, including tram squeaks, recordings of people passing by, crowds, street sweepers, skylines, construction and much, much more. We recorded a selection of ambiences at different times of day, covering many different central city locations to give you the most authentic & grounded representation of the UK city life to use in your projects.
The files included in this library have been meticulously edited so that you can drop them into your project timeline instantly and are provided dry in 24Bit 96kHz allowing for further sonic manipulation if required. All files are tagged with extensive metadata and are UCS compliant to allow you to search for and select the desired sound with ease.
Some of the included sounds are: Water features, Bus idling and departing, children playing, car pass bys, preachers, cityscapes and skylines.
Cymbals From Hell Vol. 2 is a haunting collection of raw and designed gong sounds, brought to you as the successor to one of our most popular horror libraries to date. Crafted from various types of gong recordings, this library brings you the creepiest stingers and harshest resonances to terrorise your audiences.
Made in collaboration with Igor Tikhonov from KEDR Audio, who captured various types of gong sounds and several performances using both Mid-Side and omnidirectional A/B microphone techniques to encapsulate an expansive stereo-field and the richest gong textures.
Our Audio Craftsmen then meticulously edited and designed them to make the most frightening and disturbing sounds including harsh, distorted gong rumbles, horror stingers, low heavy gong rumbles, mangled hits, and much, much more.
All the sounds are extensively meta-tagged and are UCS complaint so you can easily find the sound you need and are in 192kHz/24bit allowing for further sonic manipulation.
Zombie Specimens Vol. 2 is a diverse collection of zombie growls, groans and vocalisations designed from voices of multiple voice actors. This library is a sequel to one of our most popular libraries, and includes 8 different sets of zombie vocal variations.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded vocalisations from talented voice actors and creatively designed them to make variations including: breathy groans, deep grunts, groans, tired zombie growls, angry zombie voices and much, much more. Moreover, all of the files are provided in 96kHz 24Bit, tagged with extensive metadata and are UCs compliant for ease of use. Also, all of the sounds are provided without reverb, so that you can drop them straight into your mix and add your own effects. This library is perfect for adding that horrifying undead texture in Film, TV, Game and other horror projects.
KTM 250 Enduro Motorbike contains extensive exterior recordings of a 2 stroke 250cc motorcycle captured on a private dirt track in Yorkshire, England. With an amazing collection of driving away and towards, pass bys, extensive foley, extreme revving and stunt sounds in different perspectives, this library gives you that full throttle, pedal to the metal sound that you only get from an experienced rider on their own vehicle. Perfect for use in any project with dirt bikes or motorcycles, or for vehicle sound design.
Our Audio Craftsmen carefully planned and executed a recording session, capturing the essence of the motorbike with both a mono supercardiod mic and a stereo perspective mic for ultimate flexibility (these are provided as separate files). The resulting sound is full frequency, rich and textural, giving the impression of you being right there with the rider. All sounds are provided in 96kHz 24Bit and are perfect for complex vehicle design, being captured in the natural environment of the dirt track. As well as close up sounds, we also recorded some distant drive aways and approaches.
The library also includes sounds of a rider getting on the bike, putting on his helmet, moving the kickstand, pulling the vehicle, starting the engine, turning off the engine etc. and riding away. We made recordings with the rider following our instructions but also let him freestyle ride on some recordings to allow for the most natural and immersive sound effects.
All of the sounds were captured using a RODE NTG3 and a Sony PCM D-100, before being carefully edited and ready to be used straight away in your projects. They can be also be used to represent many different types of racing vehicle due to the nature of the engine being pushed to the limit during recording.
Electromagnetic Design Vol. 2 contains a diverse collection of experimental ambiences gathered from a variety of sources around an Electrical Power Plant and a radio tower.
Using both condenser microphones and an electromagnetic receiver, our Audio Craftsmen captured material ranging from fences & metal coverings surrounding the power plant, to wires, generators & pylons. Our team then meticulously edited and designed these sounds, including a range of characteristics such as screaming interference, distorted glitches, sweeping electrical currents and much more to create an eclectic assortment of short ambiences. Perfect for building nerve racking intensity within your sound design in Sci-Fi, Horror or Dramatic film, game, or television projects. All files are available in 24bit 96kHz allowing further sonic manipulation, tagged with extensive metadata and are UCS compliant for ease of workflow.
Organic User Interface contains an array of vocal UI elements, bringing sentience and personality to your mechanical sidekicks.
Our Audio Craftsmen attentively recorded, edited, and manipulated a wide variety of male and female vocalizations such as grunts, sighs, ooh’s and ahh’s. All expressed using a range of emotions including happiness, sadness, anger, and disappointment to create a cache of futuristic User Interface sounds. Allowing you to turn lifeless computers or machines into communicative Artificial Intelligence, transform a clunky robotic helper into an emotional, loving character, or simply add a utopian feel to advanced computer systems. This library is perfect for Sci-Fi and Animated films, games, or television projects. All files are available in 24bit 96kHz allowing further sonic manipulation, tagged with extensive metadata and are UCS compliant for ease of workflow.
Intense Trailer Elements contains a highly curated selection of designed audio elements using the most up-to-date trends and techniques for building captivating and truly unique trailer sound design.
Made in collaboration with Matias Cervino, our Audio Craftsmen thoughtfully captured, manipulated, and designed a plethora of 250+ sounds including dramatic braams, metallic pings, colossal impacts, futuristic atmospheric events and more. Use individually or layer to create soundscapes out of this world and bring new levels of thrill and tension to your trailer sound design.
To capture such a wide array of sounds, our Audio Craftsmen and Matias used a variety of equipment ranging from typical directional microphones to experimental electromagnetic receivers, recording a weird and wonderful collection of items such as seashells, radiators, shovels, typewriters, various metal objects, hand drums, analogue synthesizers and even a thunder tube. Producing 250+ ear-opening designed sounds spanning from colossal hits to thrilling braams and much, much more. All files come in 24bit 96kHz allowing for further manipulation and can be dropped into your timeline individually or combined to create extraordinary moments of sound design for your trailers.
Singing Slates is a unique cinematic Kontakt library built from sample recordings of a rare, custom built percussion instrument, perfect for adding an African or Tribal inspired melody into your music.
The handcrafted instrument we used was built from natural Welsh slate, by carefully tuning each piece and cutting it to size. Our Audio Craftsmen experimented with different types of beaters before recording to capture the most natural sound in this one of a kind instrument.
We then meticulously edited, balanced and programmed 13 different patches and integrated them into our Kontakt interface, giving Music Producers and Film Composers an extensive set of rare sounds. We have implemented 3 octaves of tuned slate sounds, which provides a positive, uplifting sound and can be used as a replacement for a Kalimba. This exotic instrument is perfect for creating cinematic scores, percussion loops and music of different genres.
As always with our Kontakt releases, our in-house composers designed 12 additional patches including kick drums, snares, kalimba, riser, creepy alarms, monster laughter and much more to add extra tonal and atonal elements to your music.
Our user-friendly Kontakt interface provides a variety of controls that encourage experimentation with the patches. The built in Arpeggiator and Step Sequencer are great for generating hundreds of percussion/lead variations on the fly. We also dedicated ADSR controls to shape your sounds while the main view provides various effects and controls to design unique sounds.
‘Geese‘ contains a massive array of wild bird sound effects recorded from various canals, rivers, reservoirs and lakes. We are the first in the world to release a nature library with a specific, extensive collection of Goose sounds, which includes flapping wings, fighting, footsteps, paddling, swimming and jumping into water, eating various types of foods, a wide array of vocalisations including groups(gaggles), pairs, individuals and much, much more.
Our Audio Craftsmen meticulously planned our field recording sessions considering time of day, weather conditions and different locations aiming to capture the full range of behaviour these animals display on a daily basis. We visited a variety of spots and spent time learning the behaviours of Geese, allowing us to capture their reactions as both individuals and groups of varying size. We recorded sounds during a variety of scenarios including eating food, fighting each other, and encountering ducks/other water birds. The huge difference in personalities between these birds allowed us to capture distinct vocalisations made while being fed, acting calm, aggressive or being threatened by rivals to their territory (even making sounds that could be mistaken for a dog, chicken or dinosaur!).
We also recorded sounds from different perspectives which include tunnels (both inside and from a far), a gaggle of Geese approaching from a distance, fighting, flying and swimming by as well as close up sounds of eating, pecking and more.
Moreover, all the sounds provided are dry in 192kHz 24Bit. Allowing for uses varying from nature documentaries through to excellent source sounds for creature and vocal design.
All Aboard!
Commercial Aircraft Interior contains a distinct collection of ambient recordings taken onboard commercial aircraft flights over the North Atlantic.
Our Audio Craftsman captured the various stages of an aircraft journey including general onboard ambiences, the plane idling on the runway, take off & landing and some sounds taken from the baggage claim and check-in sections of the airport.
There are also wallas in various languages and the sounds of passengers shuffling in their seats and putting on their seatbelts. We captured recordings from two different plane journeys to get a variety of sounds. This library includes over 50 minutes of audio content, giving you all the ingredients you need to design compelling aircraft and airport soundscapes.
All audio files have been carefully edited so that you can simply drop them into your project timeline and are provided dry in 24Bit 96kHz allowing for further sonic manipulation if required. All files are tagged with extensive metadata and are UCS compliant.
Step right up, step right up, UK Seaside Town & Theme Park contains a varied assortment of sounds recorded from a very popular seaside destination in the UK called Blackpool. We have covered many different areas in the town, including some of the tallest rollercoasters in Europe to close up sounds of waves lapping and interesting rail cars with unique horns. This library will be an amazing addition to sound designers looking for ambiences from a rarely recorded location and are perfect for using in films, documentaries, commercials, video games and other projects.
Our team of Audio Craftsmen went through fascinating spots around Blackpool and captured the most interesting sounds ranging from rollercoaster pass-bys, screams of people riding a rollercoaster, crowd cheering in a circus venue and rock concert, exciting revs of motorbikes and cars, trains and trams passing by, ambiences from café, town centre, fish and chips shop, arcade, train station, beaches with seagulls, close up sounds of waves hitting the shore etc. Furthermore, there are sounds of people chattering, walking by, shouting, laughing, clapping, whistling and much, much more.
All the included sounds are carefully edited and provided dry in 24 Bit, 96 kHz which allowing you for further sonic manipulation. Moreover, all the sounds are tagged with extensive metadata and are UCS complaint to effortlessly find the right sounds for your projects and drag them straight to your timeline.
Geophonic Design contains a wide variety of unique and abstract designed sounds which include infrasonic frequencies as low as 10Hz. The effects in this library have a science fiction/horror vibe, everything from alien spaceships to underwater ambiences. These are perfect for your films, video games, documentaries and other projects that require a mysterious and ominous soundscape.
Our Audio Craftsmen used a ‘Geophone’ which is a seismic measurement device used to record seismic waves and vibrations of the earth, to record low heavy vibrations and rumbles of various surfaces and materials, often using metal resonators to enhance the sound. We captured sounds from window glass, busy roads with vehicle pass bys, metal posts and rails with football impacts, water passing through pipes, metal containers, plastic buckets and much, much more.
All of the included sounds were then precisely edited and designed by our dedicated in-house team to build ambiences such as: outer space, underground bunkers, submarines, weather stations and other abstract ambiences. Moreover, all the files are available in 24Bit 96kHz and extensively tagged with metadata and are UCS compliant to simplify your workflow.
The subsonic sounds in this library will also make a great addition to your library as layered effects, to build an enigmatic mood in your projects, and will be perfect as drones and backgrounds for futuristic, sci-fi and horror scenes.
Made in collaboration with Robert Pepper from EffectsWorks, The Horrorphone is a unique and disturbing cinematic Kontakt library built from 460+ sample recordings of a custom built percussion/effects instrument. Played with a bow, beater, and hands triggering the most horrifying and uncomfortable stingers, drones, hits and much, much more.
Our Audio Craftsmen meticulously edited, balanced and programmed 48 different patches and integrated them into our Kontakt interface, giving Film Composers and Music Producers a suite of unique textures to use in their tracks. These sounds are perfect for horror scores, trailer percussion loops, rhythmic tension, electronic music and film score cues with an element of atonality.
The Main Articulations include: Percussion, Cymbals, Knockers, High Mid and Low Hits, Metal Bars, Shakes, Springs, Wood Vibrations and Various Drum Kits.
But we didn’t stop there… As always with our Kontakt library releases, our in-house Composers designed an eclectic array of designed patches. Pads, arps, drones, EDM leads, horror alarms, pulses and even screaming cymbals give the user both tonal and atonal material to layer with their percussion, and build a haunting, metallic texture into their sound.
The 344 Audio Kontakt interface provides a variety of controls that encourage experimentation with the patches. The built in Arpeggiator is great for generating hundreds of percussion/lead variations on the fly, while the Main View provides a set of parameters perfect for shaping the sounds your way.
Kontakt 5.8.1 or higher is required.
NOTE: This library does not run in the free ‘Kontakt Player’
UK Small Town Bundle contains five libraries with more than 124 sounds including ambiences, room tones, vehicles and unique sounds captured in northern England. With a total runtime of 328 mins and a file size of 10.68 GB, the libraries cover a variety of areas like canals, housing estates, shops, markets, traffic, parks, forests, industrial estates, interiors and much, much more.
UK Residential Room Tones is a distinct collection of ambiences captured from different types of rooms in residential areas of the UK, perfect for layering with other ambiences, or filling in natural tone under dialogue scenes.
These sound effects will make an amazing addition to your audio collection and work perfectly in documentaries, films, commercials, video games and various other projects.
Our Audio Craftsmen captured ambiences from a wide variety of rooms which differed in size, height, distance from traffic and their locations. We have covered: living rooms, bathrooms, bedrooms, hallways, stairs and more from different flats and apartments and then meticulously edited them so that you can drag them straight to your projects.
All of the files are provided dry in 24 Bit 96kHz allowing you for further sonic manipulation. Furthermore, all the sounds in the library are extensively tagged with metadata and are UCS complaint making it more easier to find the right sound you need.
Wind Sculpture is a Sound Effects Library with designed ambiences/drones/pads built from source recordings of the ‘Singing Ringing Tree’ located in Burnley, UK. The source recordings are also included and are provided in 24Bit 96kHz, allowing for further sonic manipulation.
Our Audio Craftsmen travelled to the top of the hills and braved the harsh, cold winds of the British countryside to capture the essence of this magnificent and ethereal singing metal structure. Not only have these sounds never been recorded and offered in an SFX library before, but our team have been the first to use them to create a set of designed ambiences, giving you some fresh material that can set your projects apart with exciting new tones and textures.
These effects are well suited to Film, TV and Video Game projects, particularly Drama, Horror and Sci-Fi genres where a otherworldly wind elements are often needed.
UK Residential & Industrial contains a diverse offering of exterior suburban sounds captured during field recording sessions by our team of Audio Craftsmen. The sound effects in this library will make a wonderful addition to your collection and are perfect for use in films, documentaries, commercials, and video games. They work well for projects based in the UK, but are equally well-suited to projects with an international setting.
The team journeyed extensively through various suburban environments, recording quiet streets and rows of houses, traffic of differing intensities, parks with children playing and dogs walking, and distant and up-close construction. All sounds were captured in real-world locations to deliver an honest sonic representation of residential areas within the UK.
The included sounds have been precisely edited so that you can simply drop them into your project timeline and are provided dry in 24Bit 96kHz allowing for further sonic manipulation if required. All files are tagged with extensive metadata to allow you to search for and select the desired sound with ease.
Some of the included sounds are: Clock tower bells tolling, birds chirping in a quiet neighbourhood, light traffic passing by, distant hums of a busy construction site, a dog barking in the park and much, much more.
UK Shops & Markets is a distinct collection of ambiences from small shops and markets recorded in England, captured during field recording sessions by our team of Audio Craftsmen. The sounds will make a great addition to your everyday audio collection and are perfect for use in your films, documentaries, commercials and video games.
Our team travelled and recorded sounds from authentic British outdoor and indoor markets, different perspectives from supermarkets and retail stores, shopping centres and much more, all in locations without music. We captured the sounds of trolleys passing, people speaking in English and other language, checkout tills, shopping bags and footsteps, essentially everything you would need to build an ambience of a shop/market in the UK.
We then carefully edited the files so that you can drop them straight to your projects effortlessly. All of the sounds are provided dry in 24Bit 96kHz allowing you for further sonic manipulation according to your requirement. Moreover, all the files are tagged with extensive metadata and are UCS compliant to search and select the desired sound with ease.
Screaming is a collection of different types of scream sounds covering everything from funny anime to disturbing horror screams. Unlike other libraries out there, we have recorded a wide variety of male and female screams in specific situations which include: anime screams, warrior screams, screams of a football fan, falling from height, horror screams, screams inside a tunnel and much, much more.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded performances of our in-house voice artists from various distances. We have captured screams close-miked, from distant perspectives and even shouts and screams from a tunnel which has a haunting natural reverb. These samples were then meticulously edited, meta tagged and made UCS compliant so you can find your desired sounds and drag them straight to your projects effortlessly. All the files are available unprocessed in 192 kHz which gives you a lot of room for sonic manipulation if required (you can pitch and time stretch to create monster voices or high pitched creatures.)
We have used a variety of male and female voices and captured different variations covering almost all types of screams needed for your projects, which saves you from hiring a voice actor.
This library is a great addition to your audio collection and perfect for your anime, video games, films, and TV productions.
UK Traffic & Vehicles contains a varied assortment of traffic & vehicular sounds captured during field recording sessions by our team of Audio Craftsmen. The sound effects in this library will make for a fantastic addition to your audio collection and will be perfect for use in short films, documentaries, commercials, and video games.
The team has gone out of their way to bring you a range of different sounds, including vehicle pass-bys and ambient recordings of distant traffic. We recorded a selection of cars, buses, trams and trains from varied perspectives, and all sounds were captured in their real-world locations to give you the most authentic & grounded representation of UK traffic & vehicle sounds to use in your projects.
The 26 files included in this library have been carefully edited so that you can seamlessly drop them into your project timeline and are provided dry in 24Bit 96kHz allowing for further sonic manipulation if required. All files are tagged with extensive metadata to allow you to search for and select the desired sound with maximum ease.
Some of the included sounds are: Interior ambience of a moving bus, distant traffic passing through a tunnel, trains passing overhead, vehicle pass-bys on a wet road, siren pass bys, and a petrol station car park.
UK Canals, Parks and Forests contains a varied assortment of exterior sounds captured during field recording sessions by our team of Audio Craftsmen. The sound effects in this library will make an excellent compliment to your collection and are perfect for use in films, documentaries, commercials, and video games. They work well for projects based in the UK, but are equally at home in international projects.
The team travelled through picturesque locations around Greater Manchester – the heart of industrial Britain, capturing some of the world’s most beautiful canals and their essence in a set of ambience recordings. We also visited some wonderful parks and forests to record some of the people and the wildlife. We recorded forest paths, various birds, crows, children playing, rivers and geese all in real-world locations to give you the most authentic & grounded representation of the UK.
The included ambiences have been carefully edited to the same running length so that you can seamlessly drop them into your project timeline and are provided dry in 24Bit 96kHz allowing for further sonic manipulation if required. All files are tagged with extensive metadata to allow you to search for and select the desired sound with ease.
Some of the included sounds are: daytime canal with running water, geese with people passing by, under a foot bridge, ducks quacking in a canal, daytime forest birds, crows, people boxing in a park and many, many more.
Haunting Ambiences Vol. 2 is brought to you as the successor to one of our fastest selling Sound Effects Libraries to date, made in collaboration with recordist Georgi Valchev from West Wolf. This sequel contains a complete arsenal of every horror ambience you will need to build film, tv, escape room and video game scenes, from squealing farm animals to haunted ancient tombs. We have included an array of 20 dense, multilayered construction kits, to design the soundtrack of your deepest, darkest nightmares.
Our dedicated team of Audio Craftsmen scoured menacing shipyards, abandoned mansions and forgotten forests within some of the most frightening locations across Eastern Europe to bring you this extensive library of authentic horror textures.
All of the sound recordings have undergone meticulous editing from our in-house team, and are provided to you here as stems (many are fully dry). This allows you to fully take control of your sound design, by using plugin effects alongside further elements and processing. Perfect for horror films, escape room/live experiences and video games; all sounds are available in 96kHz, 24bit with the same running length, so that you can easily mix and match the sounds to your liking.
Sprint Car Racing is a unique collection of sound effects of a sprint car driving through a speedway in Ontario, Canada. This library includes engine acceleration, drifting, high rpm revs, driving away and towards, racing other cars, slowing down, idling and much, much more. Perfect for designing those high octane, explosive, gas-guzzling engine sounds that are often needed in modern car chasing/racing scenes.
The sounds were recorded using either a Sanken CS-M1 or a DPA 4060 and were meticulously edited by our Audio Craftsmen so that you can drag them directly into your projects. They can be used to represent many different types of racing vehicles, sprint cars and motorbikes as the engine sounds are similar to high performance and tuned vehicles of other kinds.
Feed your need for speed with Sprint Car Racing!
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