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‘Articulated Sounds’ presents ‘Quiet Rooms’, a curated collection featuring 150 ambiences and 20 specific sounds. This library focuses on interior background ambiences, with all-new, unique recordings from over 20 countries.
The collection offers a diverse range of room tones and subtle background noises, captured at various times and in a wide variety of settings. It spans residential spaces, industrial factories, public areas, offices, and rooms of all sizes, even extending to caves and specially crafted soundscapes. You’ll also find interior recordings of rain, wind, and other invaluable elements.
Whether you’re designing a quiet environment or adding texture to an intricate scene, ‘Quiet Rooms’ provides a solid foundation for interior backgrounds.
Bedroom, Study Space, Factory, Prison, Atrium, Abandoned House, Museum, Cafe, Bathroom, Kitchen, Machine Room, Temple, Cathedral, Living Room, Hospital, Bungalow, Mountain Cabin, Restaurant, Home, Courtyard, Hallway, Old House, Submarine, Warehouse, Hostel, Mill, Office, Lounge, Metro, Staircase, Library, Hall, Conference Center, Basement, Hotel, Studio, Cave, Attic, Underground, Interior, Vehicle, Train, Bus, Airplane
We collected these interior recordings over the years, capturing the unique atmospheres of rooms and places during our travels. Our equipment varied across sessions, adapting to the setting—whether in bustling cities, quiet small towns, remote countryside, the Himalayas, the Amazon, or distant islands. Our goal was to document the essence of each space, preserving the aural footprint of every location we visited.
Some recordings feature little more than stillness, while others include traces of local wildlife heard through windows or thin walls. You may also detect ambient noises like heaters, distant hums, machinery, traffic, or neighbors, resonating differently depending on the surrounding architecture.
We meticulously selected the best recordings, refining them to remove sections with excessive variation. Each sound was carefully edited to maintain a level of noise within the ‘subtlety’ range, ensuring they work seamlessly as background atmospheres that smooth out the sonic environment of any scene.
We are proud to present this collection, featuring some of the finest indoor silences we’ve ever captured—rich with delicate, everyday sounds at the edge of human perception. These recordings will help you effortlessly recreate beautiful, immersive spaces with natural charm.
This bundle includes 8 libraries of animals and monsters from Articulated Sounds:
These naturally-sounding samples are useful for shaping expressive creature sounds.
Get ready to dive into one of the most authentic and evocative sound libraries we ever created. Take a transcendent journey across 28 countries, spanning the last 7 years.
In this exclusive library, we have meticulously curated the most enthralling and previously unreleased ambient sounds we’ve ever recorded. It showcases a diverse collection of 60 unique ambiences, spanning various locations and time periods.
These files are not in any other of our library, they are totally new releases.
With ‘Soundscape Odyssey 1,’ you’ll gain access to a truly distinctive and immersive collection of global ambiance. Experience the world through our unique perspective and discover soundscapes like never before.
Forest, Town, Swamp, Grassland, Suburb, Urban, Underground, Transportation, Tropical, Park, Lakeside, Misc, Market, Celebration, Alpine, Public Space, Seaside, Sport, Protest, Restaurant, Water,…
Stephane Fufa Dufour has been recording and traveling for the past eight years, with the last five years devoted to intense “field recording” as a digital nomad on all continents. Along the way, he has collected precious sonic gems, exploring unique, unusual, and diverse soundscapes that span a wide variety of cultures and locations, from anthropophony to pure biophony.
Introducing our new Artbits library which is all about elevators! Such a typical subject to be recorded in the world of sound effects as they generate a large range of mechanical sounds from the emblematic doors, the traction system, all the clicketing metallic parts, and the characteristic acoustic of small cubic space.
We present here the latest installment in our ongoing effort to curate unique ambiences tailored to urban and suburban scenes in movies and video games.
This collection of ambiences is intended to set the mood against the backdrop of any city scenario and act as a subtle accompaniment to dialogue lines.
Unlike the previous volume, the sounds in this library were recorded worldwide over a period of 5 years.
We have taken great care in selecting and editing them to ensure they carry evocative and rich ‘airtones’.
In fact, they go beyond simple outdoor roomtones, often incorporating sounds of fauna, insects, local culture, and delicate flavorful sonic indications of time and location.
They, however, always stay low-profile and never presents intrusive noise that would interfere unless specified as a marker.
In addition to being a great filler for urban and suburban scenes, this collection will be a great companion when attempting to convey various feelings and moods such as quietude, post-apocalyptic, romanticism, mystery, depression, calmness, poetic, abandonment, nostalgia, freedom,….
For this volume, we have specifically chosen a diverse mixture of recordings from numerous countries across all continents broadening the palette of sounds delivered. These additions will enrich your main sound library and prove useful for a wide range of future projects.
All sounds in this library are in stereo. As extensive travels were involved in capturing these sounds, we decided to focus only on stereophonic capture instead of multichannel, making it more manageable throughout our journey. Nonetheless, these atmospheres embody a great sense of space and can be easily layered and spatialized in a surround space if needed.
We ‘domesticated’ planet earth and shaped it to our ideal human imaginary needs. Before that, the world belonged to nobody, wilderness was the norm! Powerful, wild and sometimes weird animals ruled the world.
Despite the current accelerating extinction of biodiversity, wildlife still exists in small pockets, and many animals are still alive and have a voice!
Naturally wild animals became the backbone of our project, but also wild sounds of animals in general. We thus literally went hunting for sounds. Though this kind of hunt gratefully does not harm Nature or animals.
With this library, we really went above and beyond. We explored all 4 corners of the world in places we wouldn’t have expected. Similar to wildlife photography, we sharpened our tools and methods to get the correct zoom with the right focus on the sounds of these animals. Along the way, we got some mishaps and misadventures which are part of the process. We thankfully are still alive; hence we can now today offer you the fruit of our quest.
Born Wild is now becoming the pinnacle of our Articulated sound journey, and we are proud to present it to you. We believe this library will give instant gratification as the content is so unique, rich, and meticulously curated.
We also hope that this library can sensitize and leverage efforts in protecting the planet where we all come from. This is why we are giving 3% of all sale revenue to ONG caring about wilderness and conservation.
Let’s keep our wild instinct alive!
Here is a collection of Sounds from a tin workshop, creating jewelry, using different kinds of tools and machinery.
These sounds were recorded in 2018, throughout the Swiss cities of Geneva, Zurich, Basel, & Bern.
This sound library features typical soundscapes from Switzerland, cow herds, pasture valley, sheep herds, cowbells, forest, mountain, tractors, … fresh air.
Humaninal Mimicry is a handy collection of human vocalizations mimicking the sound of animals.
These naturally-sounding samples are useful for shaping expressive creature sounds.
Tens of actors were involved in the process, but also one metal singer. Recorded up to 192KHz with Sanken Co-100k, or 96KHz. Included are more than 60 various animals (imitated) such as Eagle, Koala, Tiger, Whale, Seal, Crane, Gopher, Dolphin, Elephant, Lion, Crow, Goose, Camel, Bear, Horse, Frog, Platypus, Raccoon, Seagull, Honey Badger, Squirrel, Wolf, Monkey,…
The sounds delivered are well edited and meta-tagged. These are crisp, easy, and malleable sounds that will enrich your existing collection.
Alternatively, these sounds can also be used for cartoon or comical effects.
‘Traffic Tones’ will help build flavorful air tones and atmospheres in order to support urban or suburban environments.
This sound library is divided into 2 main sections
1) Traffic Loops
2) Single Event Sounds
The first part of this library comprises a wide variety of long undisturbed traffic loops;
exempt from excessive dynamic fluctuations, and without any incongruous noises (such as birds).
These are non-disruptive atmospheres that you can easily layer up.
Ready to be inserted into your project, they will help you build the foundation of your own soundscape.
The second part of this library consists of ‘single event’ sounds.
They will bring character to your sound-bed and help soundify any story/visual cues.
You will find in this section well-classified eclectic sounds such as whistles, sirens, brake squeals,
but also more than 110 individual horns, and a massive collection of 300+ pass-by of all kinds…
The diversity of sounds delivered in this library reflects the large-scale recording process that took us 5 years to gather the right material, recorded throughout 30 cities in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, from various perspectives in space and time, various weather conditions, various terrain type, and vehicle types.
***Most of the library were recorded in 192KHz, however, in the majority of the recordings, there was no reason to keep this sample rate. Hence we saved some space and converted it to 96KHz unless interesting spectral information was found in these high ranges, in this case, we kept them at 192 kHz.
The MASTER BUNDLE is the ultimate Articulated collection.
A unique tool for high-caliber sound artists!
The culmination of 7 years of passionate labor, an invaluable amount of sound curation, thousands of hours of editing and designing sounds, and more than 100,000 km traveled recording unique and rare sounds.
Get a fresh new supercharge!
The Articulated Master Bundle is one of the most inspiring sound collections on earth. It is a comprehensive tool to help you deliver incredible sound for all your projects, quickly and easily. It includes sounds used in Hollywood blockbusters such as Frozen 2, the series Archer, and other notorious productions.
Morocco, part of the Maghreb region of Africa, is a very unique place. With a long historical heritage, a cultural mix of Arabic, Berber, European, West Africa; a varied geographic landscape along with characterized biomes.
Recorded over a one-month field trip in 2018. You will find typical ambiences of cities, suburbs, villages, deserts, markets, birds… Mostly recorded in stealth mode and ORTF, for more authenticity in many ways. Get immersed into a country of many colors and spices.
Recorded by Stephane Fufa, Sound Xplorer
We captured one iconic facet from the cacophony of our modern world development. Building new, demolishing or renovating the old. Our human soundscape (anthropophony) is busy and noisy. The constant desire to build along with our technological advancements allows creating building structures like never before. Construction sites are omnipresent in our daily life. We thus had to create one library of these intricate ambiences, raw, industrial, and mechanical.
In this collection, you will find pure rich soundscapes of mixed sounds, authentically recorded on construction sites through many countries. You will also find more specific tools or machines that are recorded more closely to the sound source. Chainsaw, Jackhammer, Backhoe, Driller, Grinder, Truck, Sanding Machine, Hammer, Earth Driller, Debris, Welding Torch,…
‘Extinct Animals’ is a new series of Sound Effects Library by Articulated; aspiring to bring back to life creatures from the past which were never recorded before.
‘The Jurassic’, the first installment of this series, contains more than 400 sounds of various animals that were living about 100 million years ago, commonly known as dinosaurs.
Every of the sound in this collection is of the highest quality, UCS-compliant, and presented in multiple
layers and with a minimum of 5 variations.
Created for maximum usability, this exclusive library is the result of collaborations with talented designers from Bruits Studio.
XForce is a cinematic sound library featuring a variety of impact recordings & signature designed sound effects.
It contains more than 2500 UCS compliant, high-quality impact sounds like STINGERS, BASS DIVES, SYNTHETIC & ETHEREAL HITS, BOOMS.
Here is a simple sound library that can prove to be useful.
These are close perspective recordings of small click button of the real world (or some would say “analog” in differentiation from the digital world)
Only small machines button, switch, press,… see file list for details.
These sounds are well edited and ready to be used.
6 men were recorded to create this unique sound library. With various breath emotion, speed, and intensity.
Great malleable source material, recorded from up-close in 192KHz with high-end microphone in an acoustically controlled space.
Inside an airplane cockpit, we captured control manipulation sounds (knobs, levers, switch…), alarms, and ambiences.
Recorded from a 737 cabin, with the help of a certified pilot. Get maneuver sounds with original and ‘cleaned’ version (from background noise); but also ‘loopeable’ ambiences. See file list.
Rumbles and rattles from lighthouse motor recorded at every floor, from bottom to top of the tower.
Recorded in Atlantic Maritimes PEI province in Canada. The lighthouse has an electric motorized engine that makes the light rotate at 360 degree, so that the boat can be guided.
Here is a collection of car sounds recorded from the interior and the exterior.
The Nissan Versa Note is a subcompact four-door hatchback car. We focused on capturing all the functions other than driving as aeration, windows, doors, knobs, hood, light, windshield, …
Recorded in September 2018, over 1 month of travel around the Caucasian country.
Tucked between Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia; the lesser-known country Georgia is at the confluent of many cultures and has a wide variety of landscapes.
Voice of God is a versatile sfx pack that will provide you with a large selection of game phrases recorded by a deep male character.
Inside are +400 lines of text, and +1200 files; It includes useful words and functional phrases (Directives, Orders, Instructions, Helps, Commands, Comments); Along others god-like related scripts.
This sublime holy voice character will perfectly match out-of-the-screen voice-over or narratives, that requires neutral, divine, authoritative, sacred, or challenging moods.
All files are professionally edited and mastered, ready to use in any projects, meta-tagged, and available in 96KHz/24bits and 44KHz/16bits.
PRE-BAKED AND DRY
3 versions included which provide you more creative possibilities:
• Dry (the original recordings well edited)
• Wet (already applied effects that reinforce ‘god-like’ character)
• Wet Stereo (same applied effects but in Stereo)
When snow has fallen on the ground, but time, cars and temperature have made it half melted, it has transformed to ‘slush’, making this distinctive sound when cars pass by.
This Car on Slush sound library is a small collection of cars passing by on slushy roads. As a bonus you will find 2 long ambiences of snowy streets.
With A Sound Effect, Asbjoern has created a web site where our international community can browse, learn, and share the vast fruits of our labors. Together we are accelerating the very real potential power of sound design as a recognized art form.
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