Sound Effects

Audio Shade is run by Michael O’Connor, a sound editor and designer for tv and film.
These sound effects are meticulously recorded, edited, and embedded with rich metadata.
Approaching each library with the sound designer in mind, there is always a wide variety of coverage and takes to choose from.

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Environments & Ambiences Symphonic Ambiences: Volume 1 Play Track 283 sounds included, 1092 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$150

The world’s first modular ambience library. Themes include cities, suburbs, public places, fictional locations, and more.

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Dishwasher Destruction Play Track 164 sounds included, 21 mins total $30

Dishwasher Destruction is literally just me destroying a dishwasher. Big heavy crashes that are great for crunchy car wrecks and super heroes causing lots of property damage.

Description:
Once upon a time I was walking my dog when I found this dishwasher on the side of the road. Next thing I knew I was up in the mountains doing the very violent tango with this dishwasher. We made a lot of smashes, drops, and scrapes together.

Post-Processing:
Great care was taken to cut out the bloat. A tasteful amount of limiting was utilized to bring out the meat and heftiness of this hunk of metal without overdoing it. This enables you to add extra compression to your liking to craft even bigger crashes.

Methodical Metadata:
Metadata has been thoroughly fleshed out for all files which makes searching for sounds a breeze. This library is UCS compliant.

Recordist:
Michael O’Connor is a recordist, FX editor and sound designer for television and feature films [IMDb]

Number of Files: 30
Individual Sounds: 164
Size Unpacked: 762 MB (Total run time 21 minutes)
Sample Rate/Bit Depth: 96khz/24bit
Gear Used: Sennheiser MKH40/30 in MS setup, DPA4060BL Pair, Sony PCM-D100, Sound Devices 744t, SD 422

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Gore Sound Effects Brutality – Gore and Combat FX Toolkit Play Track 2,381 sounds included, 144 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$150

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.

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Human Sound Effects Bravo! Dramatic Audiences Play Track 303 sounds included, 85 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$125

Ladies and gentleman, please put your hands together for the most dramatic crowd library you’ve ever heard!
Bravo! Dramatic Audiences places you front and center with laughs, reactions, quietudes, cheers, and applause that will bring your project to life. A wide range of crowds were captured for this library, including those attending live theater, stand-up comedy, music concerts, and more. Venue sizes vary from small to large, interior and exterior, offering great flexibility while matching to picture. The size of the crowds range from as few as 30 people, all the way up to 200, allowing you to mix and match sounds for easy scalability depending on the project at hand.

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Mechanical Sound Effects Clicks Play Track 3774 sounds included, 118 mins total $45
Clicks is busting at the seams with a wide variety of buttons, switches, dials, pumps, and more. Whether you’re in need of realistic buttons for a dramatic movie scene, or designing mechanical sounds for the next AAA video game, these clicks are bound to have you covered. Both near and distant perspectives were captured for (nearly) all recordings in this library, which adds flexibility when matching these sound effects to picture.

Some of the objects in this library include but are not limited to:
- AK-47 Rifle
- Apple Laptop
- Boombox
- Computer Mice (3 types)
- Electric Blender
- Electric Iron
- Flashlight
- Food Chopper
- Guitar Amplifier
- Lamp
- Power Strip
- PS4 Game Controller
- Pen
- Vinyl Player
- Underwood Portable Typewriter From 1926
- Old Door Knob Parts (Sweetener)
- Kitchen Oven (Sweetener)
- Much Much More!
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Human Sound Effects Encore! Concert Audiences Play Track 155+ sounds included, 72 minutes mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$100

Encore! Concert Audiences is packed with vibrant cheers, applause, and walla to bring your concert crowds to life. The variation from small lounges to outdoor music festivals allows you to cover a multitude of projects. We wanted to put you “in the audience” with this library, so we got nice and close to all the emotion emanating from these crowds. In addition, there are plenty of distant perspectives to give you more general sounding crowds.

The post process:
Great care was put into the editing phase of this library in order to maintain clean heads and tails for many of the recordings. We seamlessly sewed together multiple takes for those perfect sounding effects. We also took the time to edit out any and all extraneous noises such as stage sounds, distracting audience voices, offensive nearby claps, and more. In order to maintain the greatest dynamics, these sounds were all mastered at theatrical monitoring levels, giving you the most options in post. Metadata has been thoroughly fleshed out for this library which makes searching for these sounds quick and easy, allowing more time for your creative process.

Gear Used: Sennheiser MKH30/40 in MS setup, Sound Devices 744t, Sony PCM-D50, Tascam DR-100 mkII

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Human Sound Effects Crowds – American Protest Play Track 154 sounds included, 138 mins total $25

After the presidential election of Donald Trump in 2016, many Americans have taken to the streets to express their opposition. This library features many chants from various crowd sizes including: “Black Lives Matter” “We reject the president elect!” “Show me what democracy looks like! This is what democracy looks like!” and many more. Also included are isolated crowd cheers, walla, and distant speeches.

Recordings were made on 11-12-2016 and 1-21-2017 in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Microphone used: Sennheiser MKH40+30.

100% of the profits from this library will be donated to the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Non-Profit organizations may utilize this library free of charge. Please contact Audio Shade directly to receive a copy after verification of organization credentials.

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Quadcopters / Drone Sounds Quadcopter Flight Play Track 148 sounds included, 61 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$60

‘Quadcopter Flight’ shows off these buzzing beasts from near and far in both quiet exterior locations and the studio.

Featuring a large quadcopter and two minis, these machines were captured as they performed all possible actions, such as take-offs, flybys, revs, and sustained flight.

The library also has foley, a few crashes, and recordings from contact mics that were attached to the two smaller quads for sounds of high-tech servo/rotor sounds that can be used for sci-fi projects containing robots, sliding doors, and more.

Quadcopters recorded:

• Dromida Kodo II – Interior
• Eachine H8S – Interior
• Yuneec Typhoon G – Exterior
• Yuneec Typhoon G – Interior

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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.

Wylie Stateman

Supervising sound editor,
The Hateful Eight, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill: Vol. 1

A Sound Effect is an excellent resource for us to keep our animated films sounding unique and exciting.

Gabriel Guy

Re-recording Mixer, Walt Disney Animation Studios:
Frozen, Big Hero 6

A Sound Effect is a great asset to have discovered.

We found the site very easy to navigate, purchasing and downloads were effortless and the effects themselves are awesome! Asbjoern has done us all a great service.

We’ll definitely be back!

Wayne Pashley

Supervising Sound Editor/Re-recording Mixer, The Lego Movie & Mad Max: Fury Road

There are many great independent sound effect libraries available these days. The main problem with having so many, is keeping track of them!

A Sound Effect is a great hub, and is one of the first places I visit to look for sounds by category or genre. I started coming here to see if I could find libraries that I knew I had heard, but forgot WHERE I had heard them.

And in the process discovered libraries I never would have found otherwise. Great work! Keep it up!

David Farmer

Sound designer:
Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit trilogies

We're always looking for new sounds to mangle, so when A Sound Effect had a holiday sale, I tried them out.

The purchase experience is really smooth and quick, and delivery is almost instant.

I'll definitely come back to them again in the future!

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Director, Digital - Source Sound Inc.

A Sound Effect is a wonderful resource for indie sound effects libraries. On top of that, it has some of the finest sound design, film and game audio interviews!

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founder of The Audio Spotlight

I often need very specific types of sounds so I've become a big supporter of independent recorders.

Until now I've always had to go to their individual websites. Now I can find them all in one place.

And, Asbjoern is great to work with!

Bob Bronow, CAS, MPSE

Re-recording Mixer, Sound Designer: Deadliest Catch, Ax Men, The Wrecking Crew

A Sound Effect is a well curated boutique sound effects shop and a great place to find industry interviews and learning resources.

George Vlad

video game sound designer

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