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Feel the power of a 200cc quadbike with onboard perspective: 200cc quadbike sound effects library.
Featuring 69 stereo recordings captured at 96kHz/32bit, this collection brings over 28 minutes of on board audio from a 200cc 4stroke quadbike captured from the rider’s point of view at various speeds, carefully labelled for easy editing.
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Perfect for sound designers, filmmakers, and game developers, Onboard Perspective – 200cc ATV Quadbike delivers the sounds you need to enhance POV and close perspective shots, action scenes, and off-road adventures.
Sounds Captured using a Clippy EM272Z1 stereo pair into a ZoomF3 recorder.
Get up close and personal with the sounds of a 4stroke 50cc moped in onboard perspective: 50cc moped sound effects library. With 42 stereo recordings captured at 96kHz/32bit, this collection provides a wide range of authentic moped sounds recorded directly from the rider’s point of view. The moped had a side luggage rack attached which rattles quite prominently in some recordings, whilst this adds some texture/character please note this – it’s ensured this can be heard clearly in the demo.
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Designed for sound editors, designers, game developers, and filmmakers, Onboard Perspective – 50cc Moped gives you a set of sounds to bring any moped POV and close perspective shots to life. Perfect for creating realistic urban environments, vehicle sequences, or light motor scenes.
Sounds Captured using a Clippy EM272Z1 stereo pair into a ZoomF3 recorder.
Railway Rides: Sri Lanka is a thorough collection of 67 high-quality railway-related sounds, a bulk of which were curated from a 5 hour train journey through Sri Lanka’s Coastal line from Ahangama to Colombo.
The main interior train recordings are from an S9 diesel-electric multiple unit (DMU) train, which has all the clacking-characteristics you’d expect from a less modern open windowed train.
The 67 sounds included cover all major aspects of train travel and station activity, from exterior pass-bys and the bustling platforms of Ahangama and Colombo station, to the clattering and rocking interiors of the train itself at various speeds and stages in the journey. File lengths range from 6 second pass-by’s to lengthy 14 minute interiors.
Each sound has been precisely edited and labelled to represent the specific speed, dynamics and stage of the journey to allow for easier cutting in the edit. Some sounds are also labelled with differing levels of walla and background chatter, some having clearly localised dialogues with others being indistinct or at times not present at all.
The library was captured using a Stereo matched pair of Clippy EM272Z1 mics into a Zoom F3 recorder recorded at 96khz/32bit and is available at 96khz/24bit.
Our personal favourite sound in this library is
TRNClak_Short Train Horn And Pass By Loud Carriage Clack Sounds Medium Speed With Crossing Warning Bell Exterior_Decal Audio_RailwayRidesSriLanka
Simply because of the memory recording this sound and how (scarily) close I was able to get to the train and the track. The power and sound I felt when stood by the tracks is truly captured in the recording!
This library provides an authentic auditory experience of Sri Lankan and south asian train travel, making it an ideal resource for enhancing films, video games, and other creative productions with realistic and evocative railway sounds.
Synthetic Bounces features 246 unique sound effects, created using a range of soft synthesizers and then refined through further editing and processing all in 96kHz/24-bit.
The Synthetic Bounce library is packed with a wide range of bounces, splats, springs, and impacts and is perfect for animations, games, and sound design that calls for unique, high-energy collision and bouncy effects.
From aggressive, phasey deflections to bubbly cartoonish bonks and resonant echoey splashes, this collection offers a diverse set of synthetic sound effects that will add a lively characterful touch to any project be it for a playful scene or a more complex, futuristic environment.
Twisted Zither introduces you to the haunting allure of the zither, a complete kit of sounds drawn from the resonant tones of this unique stringed instrument, characterised by its flat, wooden body and horizontal strings.
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All captured in stereo 24-bit, 96kHz resolution.
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to add an extra layer of haunt and horror to your projects with ‘Twisted Zither’. This is an excellent addition to your arsenal for horror and haunting sounds. With a diverse range of meticulously crafted gestures, textures, and custom-designed effects, this library is your key to creating spine-chilling atmospheres and immersive soundscapes.
Step into the heart of English lower league football with “Close Crowds: Football Terrace” — a collection of 233 high-quality sounds recorded at a small EFL League 2 game*. This diverse library captures the essence of small football stadiums in the English Football League, ranging from close reactions and individual shouts to smaller group dynamics and large crowd chants, all meticulously labelled with unique names for quick and easy integration into your project.
The smaller setting allowed for the capturing of more nuanced shouts and reactions, which can often be drowned out in larger stadiums. A personal favourite sound of ours is the CRWDSprt_English Football EFL League Fans Angry What Is He Doing Reaction_Decal Audio_ClsCrwdsFtbl file, you can hear the pain and frustration in their voice that us football fans are all too familiar with!
Ideal for sports-related productions, podcasts, audiobooks, documentaries, video games and more this library ensures that the excitement and intensity of English Football is brought to life with exceptional detail.
*AFC Wimbledon vs Forest Green Rovers F.C. – away end approx 6000 attended.
Introducing ‘Expressive Dogs,’ a canine sound effects library featuring 172 vocal expressions recorded at 96kHz/24 bit. Originating from a curated set of sounds recorded for a film project, where infusing character and emotion into the featured dog was paramount, these recordings have proven to be so versatile and impactful that we couldn’t resist sharing them with the world!
This extensive collection captures a diverse spectrum of expressive dog noises, ranging from playful grunts and impatient whines to heartwarming breaths and gentle whimpers. Whether you’re working on film projects, animations, or games, these high-quality recordings offer a great toolset of emotionally charged dog sounds to enhance and bring life and personality to your dog based projects.
As a side note rest assured that our beloved Session Dog, Paddy, was pampered and treated like the star he is during these recordings. It only takes a shake of his treat jar to get him singing – a testament to the joy and excitement behind each sound!
Unbox your creativity with Professional Boxer: Cardboard. This comprehensive library features 244 high-quality Cardboard Box sound effects with various gestures ranging from single boxes sliding, handling, rubbing, opening, closing and squeaking to multiple boxes being stacked, moved, and dropped. This collection provides a diverse range of sounds and textures and can serve as great source material for sound design work, recorded at 96kHz/24 bit for ultimate sound manipulation.
Sri Lanka Soundscapes: The Collection Vol. 1-3 features all 3 volumes of the Sri Lanka Soundscapes series.
Sri Lanka Soundscapes Vol. 1 – Urban and Walla
This library features typical sounds from Busy Streets, Road Traffic, Stations, Schools, Tourist Areas, Residential Villages and General Wallasound captured around southern Sri Lanka. The library serves as a great palette of local and unique sounds within busy crowded environments to really ground and localise any projects.
A particular highlight for me in this library was capturing the army drill commands outside the Old Army Headquarters in Galle.
Sri Lanka Soundscapes Vol. 2 – Countryside
This library features typical sounds recorded in the rice paddy’s and farms and beaches of Southern Sri Lanka. It features, ambiences containing local animals and birds (did someone say Peacock), insects, remote villages, Ocean waves all in quiet secluded environments. The library serves as a great palette of local and unique sounds within quiet countryside environments to really ground and localise any projects. Contains a mix of ambience recordings and some shorter animal specific SFX.
A particular highlight for me on this collection was capturing the sound of a duck farting as it plodded away (see movement and fart file at 00:07)- cutting edge stuff.
Sri Lanka Soundscapes Vol. 3 – Vehicles
This library features a huge range of vehicles noises captured along the unique and chaotic sounding Sri Lankan roads. The collection includes pass by’s, engine sounds and interiors from Tuk Tuk’s, HGV’s, Buses, SUV’s, Tractors, Mopeds, Motorbikes, Diesel engine and Trains at a variety of perspectives and speeds.
The library serves as a great palette of local and unique sounds for any project that involves the chaotic Asian traffic and roads.
A personal highlight on this library is the ‘ Musical Unique Bus Horn Beep Melody’, it came out of nowhere and I’ve never heard one like it!
Sounds recorded in Stereo 24bit/48kHz and UCS compatible.
Sri Lanka Soundscapes Vol.2 – Countryside is the second volume in the Sri Lanka Soundscape Library Series.
This library features typical sounds recorded in the rice paddy’s and farms and beaches of Southern Sri Lanka. It features, ambiences containing local animals and birds (did someone say Peacock), insects, remote villages, Ocean waves all in quiet secluded environments. The library serves as a great palette of local and unique sounds within quiet countryside environments to really ground and localise any projects. Contains a mix of ambience recordings and some shorter animal specific SFX.
A particular highlight for me on this collection was capturing the sound of a duck farting as it plodded away (see movement and fart file at 00:07)- cutting edge stuff.
Sounds recorded in Stereo 24bit/48kHz and UCS compatible.
Get the other collections here:
Sri Lanka Soundscape Vol. 1-3 Collection
Sri Lanka Soundscape Vol. 2 – Rural Countryside
Sri Lanka Soundscape Vol. 3 – Vehicles
Cinematic Waves is a collection of big wave crashes captured along the southern coast of Sri Lanka.
Huge waves crashing on the shore and into rocks were captured then carefully edited and enhanced to create a useful small sound pack to add punch and power to any ocean themed projects.
This collection contains a number of ‘one shot’ designed waves plus a few longer wave ambience bed tracks where you can truly feel the force of the ocean tides.
Sounds recorded in Stereo 24bit/48kHz and UCS compatible.
Football Crowds: Premier League is a collection of various crowd reactions recorded at a London Premier League stadium.
The collection features various generic reactions from cheers, chants, boos, goading, insults as well as some club specific chants unique to Crystal Palace FC – a club famed for it’s atmosphere which can be quite clearly heard in this library!
The library contains a mixture of longer crowd ambience beds and single soundbytes of fans reacting to the action on the pitch allowing you to craft the story of an entire sports fixture.
Sounds recorded in Stereo 24bit/48kHz and UCS compatible.
Sri Lanka Soundscapes Vol.3 – Vehicles a is the third volume in the Sri Lanka Soundscape Library Series.
This library features a huge range of vehicles noises captured along the unique and chaotic sounding Sri Lankan roads. The collection includes pass by’s, engine sounds and interiors from Tuk Tuk’s, HGV’s, Buses, SUV’s, Tractors, Mopeds, Motorbikes, Diesel engine and Trains at a variety of perspectives and speeds.
The library serves as a great palette of local and unique sounds for any project that involves the chaotic Asian traffic and roads.
A personal highlight on this library is the ‘ Musical Unique Bus Horn Beep Melody’, it came out of nowhere and I’ve never heard one like it!
Sounds recorded in Stereo 24bit/48kHz and UCS compatible.
Get the other collections here:
Sri Lanka Soundscape Vol. 1-3 Collection
Sri Lanka Soundscape Vol. 2 – Rural Countryside
Sri Lanka Soundscape Vol. 3 – Vehicles
Sri Lanka Soundscapes Vol.1 – Urban and Walla is the first volume in the Sri Lanka Soundscape Library Series.
This library features typical sounds from Busy Streets, Road Traffic, Stations, Schools, Tourist Areas, Residential Villages and General Wallasound captured around southern Sri Lanka. The library serves as a great palette of local and unique sounds within busy crowded environments to really ground and localise any projects.
A particular highlight for me in this library was capturing the army drill commands outside the Old Army Headquarters in Galle.
Sounds recorded in Stereo 24bit/48kHz and UCS compatible.
Get the other collections here:
Sri Lanka Soundscape Vol. 1-3 Collection
Sri Lanka Soundscape Vol. 2 – Rural Countryside
Sri Lanka Soundscape Vol. 3 – Vehicles
Bowed Mandolin Contains over 70 different bowed textures and articulations gathered from bowing a vintage Mandolin with a Cello Bow. The multiple strings on the Mandolin make for a very rich and unique sound, perfect for Horror and Thriller genres.
Bowed Mandolin contains a range of short high pitch swells and screeches, long textural movements and low deep rips recorded in Stereo (RODE NT4) at 24bit/96kHz to allow for the best manipulation and time stretching options.
Check out our other Library ‘Bowed Bass’ for the perfect dark low end accompaniment.
Bowed Bass features over 30 drones and swells created from the sound of a bowed Electric Fender Jazz Bass, which was then sent through various hardware reverbs, delays and distortion all aiding to create a catalogue of developing rich textural sounds. If you’re caught short and what you really need to do is create a powerful sense of dread, bowed bass has the answer.
From chaotic scratchy swells to deep rumbling murmurs this collection of twisted bowed bass sounds is a fantastic selection to add to your sonic palette.
Bowed Bass contains 887MB (over 20 minutes total) of high quality 24bit/96kHZ Stereo WAV files, labelled in UCS format and metadata embedded.
Drowning is a Sound Effects Library By Decal Audio Containing over 45 different Male drowning sounds, from coughs, splutters, gags and gasps plus hydrophone underwater scream sounds. This set of sounds should provide all you need for any scenario’s of an adult male drowning, with submerged bubbling, pants and gasps struggling keeping afloat and huge emerging breaths.
No one was harmed during the recording of this library – just some concerned neighbours!
Mono audio files recorded at 96kHz/24 bit with a Rode NTG-3, JRF Hydrophone and Sound Devices MixPre-6 recorder.
The Bullroar is a ritualistic instrument and when spun, creates huge powerful gusts, whirs, growls, flutters and buzzes. It is an incredibly unique sounds and allows for the creation of characterful winds, whooshes, vehicles, drones and much more.
This library serves as fantastic source material for sound designers in Film, TV and Video Games and is a great set of sounds to have in your arsenal.
Bullroar contains over 70 sounds recorded in Stereo 96kHz/24 bit with a variety of gestures and movements and different speeds from fast flutters to slow spins, tagged with the UCS convention.
Recorded with a Rode-NT4 Stereo Mic into a Sound Devices MixPre-6 recorder.
The Decal Audio team are all too familiar with fast turn around jobs where a full foley session is sadly just not an option. We need quality, practical sounds that can be called on in a flash and dropped in with minimal editing required.
The Take a seat library from Decal Audio is here to assist and brings you over 600 individual chair, sofa and bed sounds. The library is fully organised into actions covering, pick ups, put downs, sits, stands, scrapes and sweeteners, covering multiple chairs and multiple surfaces, providing a construction kit to allow for the tracklay of any number of different seating scenarios.
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