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Cool stuff from C. A. Sound, Inc. As a general rule most of this is 24/96 and recorded with really good mic’s, really good pre-amps and really good recorders. From time to time we hear something so cool it stops us dead in our tracks and we madly scramble to find anything we can to capture it. Those times we use what ever is in our pocket.
Coll Anderson has compiled this special collection of music tracks in a variety of genres – recorded from actual cars passing at different speeds, with the music playing.
Coll Anderson ‘s famed Battle Crowds library is the world’s largest collection of battle crowd sound effects, covering huge crowds as they’re deep in battle, celebrating and cheering, screaming, yelling, protesting, begging, crying and much more, as well as troop movements and marching through fields, forests, and around buildings, individual call-outs, marching and more. If you’re looking for the ultimate collection of battle crowd sounds for huge clashes, civil unrest and protests, or smaller skirmishes – captured from multiple perspectives – this is it!
This special version brings you both the Battle Crowds Core and Add-On libraries in one powerful bundle.
Giant metal plate destruction for sound design.
Hanging metal plate that was recorded with an ambient microphone and a contact microphone to produce other worldly effects. I use a lot of this in a granular synthesis engine to focus on harmonics which then become just about anything.
Resonant metal impacts with movement. There is both microphone movement and swinging metal movement. In addition there are AMBISONICS recordings of the same. Great big pieces of metal being hit to produce resonant tones that then are moved in relation to the microphones. Lots of swinging metal and ringing effects. Also some great objects that resonate almost musically. Perfect for magical weapon movement.
Just add some compression and pitch around. Lots of gush.
I used a Schoeps as well as some large diaphragm microphones to create multiple layers of gore. These are not designed but instead recorded from multiple positions so they can be built into a deep bloody mess.
This is the siren out of an old ambulance I used to drive. Recorded in the woods with lots of natural movement, location and reverb.
This deer was legally hunted and then butchered (in my living room) and we recorded it from several perspectives with several recorders.
Yes this is a deer being dismembered. Peeling the hide off the carcass is an amazing sound. Some good punches into the carcass as well as real bone breaks and gory movement recorded from inside the chest cavity.
A variety of guns recorded from a bunch of different perspectives and then mastered as good guy / bad guy. Each gun, mastered two separate ways.
Easily usable big guns to supplement any shootout. Each gun is fired a multiple number of times and then mastered two completely different ways. Great for shootouts. These were all recorded at a New England shooting range in the woods with lots of forrest reflections and reverb. There is also a great collection of handling and operating each gun.
Simple additive monster vocals. For when you need more.
Teenage kids processed as zombie voices. Because who doesn’t need more zombie voices.
House 01 – A virtual grab bag of normal. A complete house as a document. Doors, windows, more doors. Lots of perspectives and various strengths and positions of just about everything.
Metal Smash – What do you get when you go to the junkyard with the best Schoeps Microphones money can buy.
Every effect is also recorded with a sub sonic microphone to add depth to the smashes. Great complicated crashes with extra metallic details.
Huge deep and textural organic whoosh by’s. These are un-altered but a total blast. Want more fun, just (again) compress and pitch to fit, and hell, maybe add a little distortion.
A great collection of organic sliding whooshes. They sound great, have lots of movement and are almost always complicated movements not just simple whoosh by’s.
Recorded in the woods, two pit bull families. These guys are all playing, but they sound totally fierce. Compress a little, pitch down a little, all fun.
These are wonderful recordings of dogs. Very scary very vocal very violent. Really good deep growling with lots of character. Just a joy to design with.
One of the best recordings I have ever done. These are 15 or so 500 – 600 Lb Pigs getting angry at me for recording them. For me, these are beautiful and for sound design, they are the best.
What else can I add to this? It’s literally WONDERFUL.
Slapstick Comedy – The three stooges when you can’t get the three stooges. Sounds in the library include clown horns, slides, sirens, whistles, squeaks, boiiiings and lots of other goofy and slapsticky sounds!
Junkyard Car Smashed. Windows, doors, lights dash, great tearing of safety glass. Maybe should have ended up in gore, sweet and gross. Good glass shatter explosion.
I purchased a car in a junkyard and we went to town smashing it up. There are metal hits and glass hits as well. There are some great safety glass explosions as well as glass debris flying around inside the car. I smashed a bunch of the engine with a sledge hammer as well as dragging metal over engine parts. One of the best sounds is grinding and tearing the windshield. As safety glass is often covered with a thin film of plastic, it made the best sharp crackly flesh peeling sound ever. Perfect for adding destruction details.
I will keep adding to this, these are the winds I always wish I had. No “huge gale force crap” here. These are all gentle lonely winds, with and without organic material.
I don’t know how else to say this is a great collection of soft deep winds. Perfect for quiet details with lots of emotion.
Coll Anderson ‘s famed Battle Crowds library is the world’s largest collection of battle crowd sound effects, covering huge crowds as they’re deep in battle, celebrating and cheering, screaming, yelling, protesting, begging, crying and much more, as well as troop movements and marching through fields, forests, and around buildings, individual call-outs, marching and more. If you’re looking for the ultimate collection of battle crowd sounds for huge clashes, civil unrest and protests, or smaller skirmishes – captured from multiple perspectives – this is it!
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