Sound Effects

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I am an award-winning video game audio director and linear sound designer with a background in music production. I have two decades of experience working in sound, and have headed up audio on a number of projects, including the BAFTA winning Alien: Isolation.

I have credits on video game titles for companies such as EA, Sega and Microsoft, as well as film and television. My company, Gladestock Studios, specialises in freelance sound design for productions both large and small. If you like these sfx but need more bespoke work, get in touch!

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Environments & Ambiences Urban Decay Play Track 16 sounds included, 59 mins total $25

16 designed surround atmospheres for empty urban spaces. Abandoned houses, disused warehouses, empty industrial plots – the people have left but the buildings remain.

These ambiences are mixed in quad format, full of occasional detail and rich surround tones, and perfect loops ready for videogame use. Whether you’re fleeing from zombies in a dystopian future or chasing a serial killer through his lair, these backgrounds will fill out the empty spaces.

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Naval Warfare Play Track 85 sounds included $25

Open Fire! A collection of naval weapon reports and impacts. Cannon, mortar, chain shot… a selection of Age of Sail naval weaponry, with close, medium, and far variations. Each variation is a single file, ready for video game usage.

From full broadsides to musket reports, this boutique collection also includes impact sounds, projectile passes, and even near-miss splashes.

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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!

Charles Deenen

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!