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Our highly recommended catalogue of HD sound effects offers specialised sound groups designed for use in visual and interactive media. To date, our effects have been used by a community of sound professionals and audio editors on a huge range commercial media, films, TV and video games.
Its tool time! with this extensive collection of power tools that contains a full set of recordings for featured tools. Each set includes revving, running, idling and working. Complete with close and medium distance microphones, clearly labeled for easy editing and matching to camera perspectives. Trust in your tool… Let the home improvement and zombie dismemberment begin!
This extensive collection of vehicle recordings contains a full work up from a 2017 Land Rover Discovery Sport HSE, 2.0L. Complete with onboard and external recordings made at different speeds and performing different manoeuvres. Hear the distinctive sound of this Land Rover engine roar into action as its put through its paces in Dirt & Asphalt Vol.3.
This library features 6 channel HD onboard recordings, with 2 microphones placed inside the engine bay, a stereo microphone placed inside the interior and individual microphones placed by each exhaust outlet pipe on the rear of the vehicle. A pro tools session is provided that takes all the effort out of arranging and preparing these recordings for mixing. Just launch the session, add your favourite DSP and render your own mix in minutes.
Stationary revving, speed runs, slow driving, stopping and starting are all included in this collection with onboard and external recordings. The vehicle has been driven in both standard ‘drive’ mode and performance based ‘sports’ mode. Takes are included from both modes to give sound editors extra choice and a broad range to select from.
Ambience Vol.1 is the first library in our Film, TV & Game Essentials range. If you are a working sound effects editor, sound designer, film maker or game designer… this really is content for everyday usage! And we say that with some experience working across multiple film, TV and video game productions. This library covers all of the practical, go-to sound categories that sound editors use on a daily basis working with fiction, factual, animation and interactive world design.
Urban and suburban areas. This library contains a broad selection of city and suburban recordings, featuring activity from people in exterior and interior settings, clearly audible footsteps and movement on exterior surfaces like pavements, alleyways and walla at different densities. Sirens, street sounds and signature city environments are all included in this selection.
Interiors and Room Tones. One of the staples of sound effects editing, the background room tone. Useful for ADR editors and sound effects editors alike, this library features a number of tones, background hums and ambience that will provide the perfect bed for set dialogue, ADR and replacing missing interior shots from set. Our room tone content also makes the perfect edition for sound editors looking to enhance the audio from set or create a realistic environment scene. From perfectly still rooms to interior weather recordings, this selection can bring your interior scenes to life in any genre or story.
Nature. Vol.1 wildlife and natural environment selection includes ambiences from Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, England, Wales and Thailand. Featuring dense rainforests, jungle trails, native villages, hillsides, farmland and fields. From pristine natural environments to rural countryside shared with people, there are options to cover exotic and European exterior spaces that will prove useful across multiple genres and most everyday applications. Wide spread bird species are featured in these nature recordings that remain common across Europe and North America, such as guls, pigeons, ducks and more. The rural recordings included also contain common farm animals like sheep in fields.
Water. With so many textures and possible settings for water, this selection aims to provide some common use cases. Various intensities of sea waves, tidal sounds, waves against man made features and natural shorelines are included along with inland rivers, streams and water features. Elements like dripping, trickling and splashing all add detail and enhance any background mix or ambience design that contains these visual attributes.
Whatever the Weather… we’ve got you covered! This library contains multiple selections for rain and wind, along with enhanced detailed elements like howling, whistling, rain on specific surfaces, interior weather, exterior suburban weather and thunder. Nothing soaks the ground and sounds quite like tropical rain, thats covered too… with contextual weather recordings from Brazil and Mexico. Springtime rain from England and close reflections from rain splashing down in urban areas, the choice and flexibility featured in this set is not often seen in a single collection and represents great value for sound professionals to use again and again on productions.
From industry veterans to first time designers, this collection will prove useful on almost any production and add value to even the most established of sound effects collections. Recorded using Tascam, Sound Devices, DPA, AKG and Sennheiser equipment… and more than a decade in the making!
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Antique Rifles is a comprehensive selection of historic long barrel black powder firearms. This library features heavy weight military and civilian weapons commonly used throughout the 1800s into the mid 1900s.
The coach gun, known as the cut-down shotgun, was made famous in the American Wild West by historical figures like Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday. Coach Guns were also used on stage coaches by shotgun messengers and were commonplace amongst homestead farmers, landowners and outlaws alike.
The Enfield 1861 Artillery Carbine with smooth bore barrel was a popular weapon during the mid 1800s with military forces in Europe and America. Enfield carbine rifles were used extensively in the American civil war.
The black powder hammer gun is manufactured by legendary gunsmiths Westley Richards. This 1864 design of breech loading shotgun was instrumental to the advancement of firearms in the 19th century.
The 1872 Snider Enfield .577 rifle was favoured by the British army and used in the Zulu war of 1879. The Snider Enfield was also used by the British Indian army until the end of the 19th century.
This library features 29 channel HD recordings, spread over a 500m private gun range. The recordings have been provided without dynamic processing at 96KHz 24bit, a selection of range recordings are also included at 192KHz 24bit. The 5.1 recordings give an excellent sense of depth and space across the 500m range as each of the shots are fired. Stereo and mono microphone positions add further detail, spread out at various distances between 1-50m away from the shooter. The collection features designed and mixed sound effects from black powder antique rifles alongside all of the original recordings used. In addition to a full workup and mixed sound set of these antique firearms, the library also includes a further extension to the Foley with recordings from a San Cristobal Americana and Valmet Sako rifles. A Pro Tools session is included that takes all the effort out of arranging the content for mixing. You can drop in your own routing, processing and mixing touches according to taste and quickly establish a new sound set for the picture or video game you are working with.
Modern Shotguns is a premium collection of game, sports and defence rifles, complete with Foley effects for each weapon. This library features traditional shotguns and pump action shotguns shooting nitroglycerine cartridges. Single and semi automatic shotguns are provided with recordings from each firing mode. Additional content has been recorded at multiple locations providing overhead wizz-bys, Foley from different brands of shotgun manufacturer and alternative tail recordings.
This library features 29 channel HD recordings, spread over a 250m private gun range. The recordings are provided without dynamic processing at 96KHz 24bit, a selection of the range recordings and Foley is also included at 192KHz 32bit.
The 5.1 recordings give an excellent sense of depth and space across the 250m range as each of the shots are fired. Stereo and mono microphone positions add further detail, spread out at various distances between 1-50m away from the shooter.
The collection features designed and mixed sound effects from a selection of shotguns alongside all of the original recordings used.
In addition to a full workup and mixed sound set from a range of shotguns, the library also includes a further extension to the Foley with recordings from a Remington 870.
A Pro Tools session is included (2020.3) that takes all the effort out of arranging the content for mixing. You can drop in your own routing, processing and mixing touches according to taste and quickly establish a new sound set for the picture or video game you are working with.
1940 Military Gear is a unique collection of vehicles and Foley recordings, captured over several sessions in a Foley studio and on location with vehicles. The library features three trucks used extensively by the allied forces in WWII and then beyond into the Vietnam war era and other historic conflicts of the mid-20th century.
Historic pistol library featuring original mono, stereo and 5.1 recordings of Foley and firing from an 1851 Navy Colt, designed effects and an antique pistol Foley collection from a WWII Webley Colt.
The 1851 model Navy Colt is an iconic six shooter pistol firing a .38 black powder cartridge. This Colt pistol was a favourite side iron of law makers and law breakers in the 1800’s wild west era of the United States. The Navy Colt was also extensively used by the British Army, Confederate States, Ottoman Empire, Dutch Empire, Russian Empire and the French Foreign Legion from its release in 1851 through to the early 1900s.
This library features 29 channel HD recordings, spread over a 250m private gun range. The recordings have been provided without dynamic processing at 96KHz 24bit, a selection of the range recordings and Foley is also included at 192KHz 32bit.
The 5.1 recordings give an excellent sense of depth and space across the 250m range as each of the shots are fired. Stereo and mono microphone positions add further detail, spread out at various distances between 1-50m away from the shooter.
The collection features designed and mixed sound effects from the black powder Colt pistol alongside all of the original recordings used.
In addition to a full workup and mixed sound set of this antique Colt pistol, the library also includes a further extension to the Foley with recordings from a WWII Webley Colt, which is a 1900s era reproduction of the same design pistol.
A Pro Tools session is included (2020.3) that takes all the effort out of arranging the content for mixing. You can drop in your own routing, processing and mixing touches according to taste and quickly establish a new sound set for the picture or video game you are working with.
Fight is part of the comprehensive melee and hand combat series from Black Edge Sound Studios (formerly Output Audio). Recorded at Universal Sound, a dedicated foley stage in Amersham, UK with a wealth of experience in crafting sound for feature film, TV and video games.
The Fight sound library has an extensive collection of of punch, kick, cloth, breaks, gore, whoosh and body fall. This includes all the core elements and original recordings needed to build bone crunching fist fights and ultra realistic combat action, whilst providing polished compositions and arrangements of key combat moves in the designed section for quicker results.
The library metadata has been designed to provide a fast, efficient workflow to picture and video game, ideal for quick turn arounds.
Expanding the selection further with the original recordings means that editors can quickly create mixes and then refine and stylise. A Pro Tools session is included (2020.3) that takes all the effort out of arranging the content for mixing. The recordings have been edited and aligned with a choice of microphones. You can drop in your own routing, processing and mixing touches according to taste and quickly establish a new sound set for the picture or video game you are working with.
Content Groups Included:
Blood, gore, bone breaks, body fall, punches, kicks, cloth, whoosh, prop crashes and impacts, bat weapons, material debris, hand combat arrangements and more.
Dirt & Asphalt Volume 1 is the first addition of vehicle and transportation recordings from Output Audio. This library contains a selection of recordings from 3 road bikes, with additional bonus content from other road motorbikes. The library also contains acceleration ramps for use in granular playback engines.
Dirt & Asphalt Volume 2 is the second addition of vehicle and transportation recordings from Output Audio. This library contains a selection of recordings from two motocross events and two practise sessions, with additional bonus content provided as race atmospheres.
AMCA Motocross Classes Included:
MX1/MX2/Experts/Seniors Unlimited classes
Engine Sizes Included:
85cc/125cc/250cc/450cc engines
Ancient Armour and Weapons is the result of months of recording, editing and arranging historic prop foley and combat sounds. This library is the first in an extensive melee and hand combat series by Black Edge Sound Studios (formerly Output Audio). Recorded at Universal Sound In Amersham, UK. A dedicated foley stage with a wealth of experience in crafting sound for feature film, TV and video games.
The library has been designed to give sound editors and media creators some of the core audio elements needed to create epic sword fights, brutal melee conflicts and more; whilst proving multiple content options for editors to use either compiled sounds or original recordings from a choice of microphones. In addition to the search capabilities of the sound selection, care has been taken to arrange the recordings into a sequenced order. Multiple versions of each sound have been recorded in line so this content can be combined and layered easily.
Background foley for mass groups has been provided with a selection of layers. These tracks can be panned to create 2.0, 5.1, 7.1 and up to 7.1.4 mixes.
Content Groups Included:
Blood, gore, swords, metal shields, wood shields, spear, axe, arrows, historic armour impacts, whoosh, body fall wearing period dress, mass group foley, prop impacts, metal scrapes and more.
Dirt & Asphalt Volume 2 is the second addition of vehicle and transportation recordings from Output Audio. This library contains a selection of recordings from two motocross events and two practise sessions, with additional bonus content provided as race atmospheres.
AMCA Motocross Classes Included:
MX1/MX2/Experts/Seniors Unlimited classes
Engine Sizes Included:
85cc/125cc/250cc/450cc engines
All bikes have been recorded externally at a range of driving speeds performing stunts and manoeuvres in a competitive race environment. Jumps, pass bys and accelerations from groups and individual riders are all included so the content can be used to recreate a wide range of motorbike driving action!
Dirt & Asphalt Volume 1 is the first addition of vehicle and transportation recordings from Black Edge Sound Studios. This library contains a selection of recordings from 3 road bikes, with additional bonus content from other road motorbikes.
All 3 bikes have been recorded externally and with onboards to provide a wide range of editing options for film, TV and video game applications. Acceleration and deceleration ramps have also been provided so the content can be replayed using granular synthesis techniques most commonly used in video game applications.
Output Audio have experience in the racing game genre as part of the team that recorded a wide variety of high performance vehicles for the video game ‘Need For Speed Rivals’.
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