Sound Effects

Remote field recordings, unique location sounds and raw sample libraries from Iceland

As much as I love to sit and listen to the sounds of nature – explore abandoned buildings – chase storms … I also have a definite taste for weird and experimental sounds.

I hope to bring you a selection of both.

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Metal Sound Effects Rain On Tin Foil Play Track 23 sounds included, 51 mins total $6.40

A plastic container covered with aluminium / tin foil and Stille & Klang contact mics attached to the underside of the foil.

The results were gorgeous percussive, rhythmic, metallic sounds.

Number of Sounds : 23

Number of Files : 23

Total Audio Time : 51 minutes 26 secs

Multi Recording Takes For Varying Nuances : Yes

Type : WAV Stereo

Sample Rate / Bit Rate : 192 kHz / 24 Bit

Mastered : No

Normalised : No

Looped Files : Yes

Size : 3.64 GB

Metadata : Files are stamped with detailed UCS compliant metadata in Soundminer

Documentation Included : Copyright, EULA, Images, Metadata (exported in multiple formats)

License : A Sound Effect

Recorder : Sound Devices Mix Pre 10II

Microphones : Stille and Klang block contact microphones

Microphone Configuration : Contact

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Foley Sound Effects Vintage Wall Mounted Phone Play Track 244 sounds included, 98 mins total $17.60

Sounds of a vintage Western Electric wall mounted telephone used for train dispatch.

Library includes the sounds of handle rotations, bells ringing, receiver picked up and put down in varying fashions including normal, fumbled and slammed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZNZeX0jE50

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Mechanical Sound Effects Antique Coffee Grinder Play Track 1405 sounds included, 136 mins total $20

Coffee beans ground in a 100 year old antique coffee grinder.

Library includes drawer opening and closing, coffee beans poured into hole, beans dropping and bouncing, handle and spindle movements including knocks and rattles.

Handle rotation on empty cog wheel and cog wheel. Beans ground and crushed creating textured gritty, glitching sounds.

Grouped Files for Easy Reference Included : Yes ( short files )

Total Audio Time (single files) : 1 hours 41 minutes 23 secs ( 101 minutes )

Total Audio Time (grouped files) : 35 minutes 22 secs

Combined Audio Time (Single Files and Grouped Files) : 2 hours 16 minutes 45 secs ( 136 minutes )

Multi Recording Takes For Varying Nuances : Yes

Multiple Microphone Perspectives : Yes

Type : Source Files – WAV Mono

Mastered : No

Normalised : No

Metadata : Files are stamped with detailed UCS compliant metadata in Soundminer

Documentation Included : Copyright, EULA, Images, Metadata (exported in multiple formats)

License : A Sound Effect EULA / Terms and Conditions https://asoundeffect.com/license-agreement/

Recorder : Sound Devices Mix Pre 10II

Microphones : DPA 4060’S – Sennheiser MKH 8050 – Stille and Klang contact mic

Microphone Perspective : DPA 4060’s Bottom and Top (Drawer and Pour Hole), Sennheiser 8050 (Front), Stille and Klang contact mic (Rear)

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Horror Sound Effects Wind Moves Metal on an Abandoned Truck Play Track 14 sounds included, 38 mins total $6.40

A GMC cable tool Sterdrill Keystone USA (1953) – I found one rusting away in a fjord in Iceland and attached a LOM Geofon and Stille and Klang contact microphones.

The results were varying textured breezes moving long grass and decaying loose metal to create rustling, scratching sounds, resonant knocks and also insect and gnawing rodent like sounds.

Further Library Info

This sound library is included in the Wind Born Movement Library

Multiple Microphone Perspectives : Yes

Type : Source Files – WAV Stereo

Mastered : No

Normalised : No

Looped Files : Yes

Recorder : Sound Devices Mix Pre 10II

Microphones : LOM Geofon, Stille and Klang Contact Microphones

Microphone Perspective : Magnet / Contact

Documentation Included : Copyright, EULA, Images, Metadata (exported in multiple formats)

Metadata : Files are stamped with detailed UCS compliant metadata in Soundminer

License : A Sound Effect EULA / Terms and Conditions https://asoundeffect.com/license-agreement/

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Five Litre Metal Tin Play Track 268 sounds included, 12 mins total $12

A five litre metal olive oil tin is pushed and pressed resulting in metallic bending, folding and crumpling sounds.

Excellent design source material for metallic sound effects.

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Mechanical Sound Effects Big Red Cooling System Play Track 18 sounds included, 71 mins total $4.80

The inner sounds of a Big Red Cooling System at the back of a small factory.

Metallic drones, hums and watery trickles. Perfect for sound design and sound morphing into dark atmospheric ambiences.

Number of Sounds : 18

Number of Files : 18

Total Audio Time : 1 hours 11 minutes

Type : WAV Mono

Sample Rate / Bit Rate : 192 kHz / 24 Bit

Mastered : No

Normalised : No

Looped Files : Yes

Size : 2.48 GB

Recorder : Sound Devices Mix Pre 3 II

Microphones : LOM Geofon

Microphone Configuration : Magnet

Metadata : Files are stamped with detailed UCS compliant metadata in Soundminer

Documentation Included : Copyright, EULA, Images, Metadata (exported in multiple formats)

License : A Sound Effect EULA / Terms and Conditions https://asoundeffect.com/license-agreement/

KEYWORDS : Ambient, Bubbling, Cooling System, Dripping, Droning, Factory, Humming, Mechanical, Metal, Pipes, Tank, Watery, Whining, Workshop

FXNAME : Atmospheric, Abandoned Environment, Dark Ambience, Design Source, Drone, Dystopian, Eerie, Factory Ambience, Metal Sound Effects, Metal Textures, Post Apocalyptic, Sound Morph

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Industrial Ambiences Wind Turbines Inner Sounds Play Track 45 sounds included, 144 mins total $16

Wind turbine rotations and motor movements recorded subterraneously, through wire fences, metal steps and the body of the turbine.

The results are a selection of metallic movements, evolving eerie soundscapes, atmospheric hums, whines.

Excellent design source and sound morphing material, eerie atmospheres and dystopian environments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSGOZXKJWbc

Number of Sounds : 45

Number of Files : 45

Total Audio Time : 2 hours 22 minutes 18 secs ( 142 minutes 18 seconds)

Type : WAV Stereo

Sample Rate / Bit Rate : 192 kHz / 24 Bit

Mastered : No

Normalised : No

Size : 9.92 Gb

Metadata : Files are stamped with detailed UCS compliant metadata in Soundminer

Documentation Included : Copyright, EULA, Images, Metadata (exported in multiple formats)

License : A Sound Effect EULA / Terms and Conditions https://asoundeffect.com/license-agreement/

Recorders : Zoom F3 and Sound Devices Mix Pre 10 II

Microphones : LOM Geofon, Stille and Klang small spots, Sennheiser 8040’s and 8050

Microphone Configuration : Magnetic, Spike, Contact. ORTF and Centre Mic

KEYWORDS : Wind Turbine , Back, Wire Fence, Metal Steps, Underground, Rotate, Inner, Motor, Vibrate, Whirr, Bass, Hum, Whine, Pulse, Atonal, Disharmonious, Breeze

FXNAME : Abandoned Environment, Deserted Environment, Design Source, Dystopian, Eerie Atmosphere, Post Apocalypse, Sound Morph, Uninhabited, Wind Turbine

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Materials & Texture Sound Effects Dissonant Langspil Play Track 204 sounds included, 24 mins total $16

Experimental sounds made with an Icelandic Langspil using bows, bottleneck and fingers.

A series of dissonant, atonal drones, scrapes, scratches and squeaks played by Chris Foster.

https://www.funi-iceland.com/

Excellent source material for designing creative textures and sound morphing into alien and creature sounds. Also for adding to tense, eerie atmospheres.

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Foley Sound Effects Creaking Computer Chair Play Track 76 sounds included, 8 mins total $4.80

A person sitting in a computer chair moves and shifts their weight creating dry textured creaks, squeaks, glitches and clicks.

Number of Sounds : 76

Number of Files : 82

Grouped Files for Easy Reference Included : Yes

Total Audio Time (single files) : 4 minutes 14 seconds

Total Audio Time (grouped files) : 4 minutes 14 seconds

Combined Audio Time (Single Files and Grouped Files) : 8 minutes 28 seconds

Multi Recording Takes For Varying Nuances : Yes

Type : WAV Mono

Sample Rate / Bit Rate : 192 kHz / 24 Bit

Normalised : Yes -6 dbFS

Looped Files : No

Single Shot Files : Yes

Size : 506.3 MB

Metadata : Files are stamped with detailed UCS compliant metadata in Soundminer.

Documentation Included : Copyright, EULA, Images, Metadata (exported in multiple formats)

Recorder : Zoom F3

Microphones : Stille and Klang Small Spot

Microphone Configuration : Contact

KEYWORDS : Computer Chair, Click, Squeak, Creak, Glitch, Rub, Knock, Dry, Texture, Atmospheric, Eerie, Metallic

FXNAME : Abandoned Environment, Chair Creak, Chair Movement, Chair Sound Effects, Creaks and Squeaks, Custom Textures, Design Source, Eerie Atmosphere

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Environments & Ambiences Wind Born Movement Play Track 97 sounds included, 245 mins total $12

A collection of various objects moved by varying strengths of wind.

Textured and tonal friction, scrapes and squeaks, erratic rattles, knocks, taps and vibrations.

Perfect or adding background elements to eerie, deserted, abandoned environments and atmospheres.

Recorded at various locations with Sound Devices Mix Pre recorders and microphones include LOM Geofon and Usi’s / Stille and Klang Contact Mics / DPA 4060’s / Sennheiser MKH 8000 series mic’s

Files are stamped in Soundminer with detailed UCS compliant metadata.

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Door Sound Effects Squealing Dishwasher Door Play Track 85 sounds included, 25 mins total $6.40

Loading a dishwasher is a 2 minute job unless it creates disturbing, squeals …. in which case it needs recording.

Gorgeous dissonant, metallic squeals and creaks to add to atmospheric environments or for design source material.

https://www.facebook.com/audiobuzby/videos/5931432530274612

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Nature & Countryside Ambiences Trees In Motion (Bundle Pack) Play Track 275 sounds included, 629 mins total $17.60

Gorgeous sounds of the movement of various Icelandic trees and varying strengths of winds, captured through Stille and Klang contact microphones.

Strong knocks, woody rattles, subtle rustles, eerie creaks and squeaks and textured wind gushes.

Perfect for layering to create rich forest ambiences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rMS8Azof-Q

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Foley Sound Effects Big Green Recycling Bin Play Track 131 sounds included, 23 mins total $6.40

Taking the recycling out should be a 2 minute job, unless ….. the door on the recycling bin creates gorgeous, abrasive, squeaks, creaks and groans.

A variety of textured door movements on a big metal recycling bin – awesome for metallic door sound effects (of course) and design source for all sorts of material … and there’s some bottle drops and door slams for good measure.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Desolate Atmospheres Play Track 66 sounds included, 189 mins total $11.99

Wind sounds are captured through various metal objects using a LOM Geofon .

Jack Hughes, audio craftsman at 344Audio in Manchester, has designed these into Desolate Atmospheres ranging from dark, ominous, textures to haunting, etherial, tones.

Perfect for adding atmospheric background sounds to your creative projects.

30 original designed files, 6 bonus designed files, 30 source files

Files are stamped with UCS compliant metadata in Soundminer

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Environments & Ambiences Pipe in a Lava Field Play Track 392 sounds included, 154 mins total $9.60

I found a very long disused bore hole in the middle of an Icelandic lava field. I dropped rocks down it, poured water into it, vocalised into it, stroked a rasp file on a plastic bottle stuck into the top of it and other experiments.

The results were insane metallic echoes, delays and reflections.

Unique source material for sound designers and experimental sounds for musical composition

392 single files and 55 grouped files for easy reference.

Files are stamped with UCS compliant metadata in Soundminer

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Foley Sound Effects Twisted lids Play Track 384 sounds included, 29 mins total $6.40

Sometimes I get a bit carried away recording things – like these 384 sounds of metal lids twisted onto glass jars at varying speeds and pressure.

Clicking, scraping and rubbing sounds of metal on glass – excellent design source material and unusual rhythmic sounds.

Audio time : Single files – 12 minutes 32 seconds / Grouped files 16 minutes 42 seconds = 29 minutes approx total audio time

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Foley Sound Effects Whisk in a Sink Play Track 128 sounds included, 7 mins total $5.60

A metal food whisk is scraped, dragged and rotated in a metal sink.

The results are a selection of coarse, textured animalistic and alien vocal sounding textures. Perfect design source material for sound morphing into alien / creature languages.

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Horror Sound Effects Wind Through Metal Gates Play Track 77 sounds included, 156 mins total $11.99

The resonant and tonal squeaks, bangs, rattles and scrapes of 10 different metal gates in winds of varying strengths in remote countryside areas of Iceland.

Recorded with Stille and Klang contact mics and the LOM Geofon into Sound Devices Mix Pre 10ii

77 looped files of varying lengths totalling 2 hours and 36 minutes.

Perfect for ambient and atmospheric sounds for Abandoned Buildings, Castles, Cemeteries, Churchyards, Country Gates, Dungeons, Graveyards, Prisons, Security Fences and similar.

Suitable for Creepy, Dark, Eerie, Fearful, Hostile, Isolated, Lonely, Lost, Tense and Unsettling atmospheres.

Files are stamped with UCS compliant metadata in Soundminer.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Drones – Dark Ambience 01 Play Track 48 sounds included, 161 mins total $11.99

The moving inner sounds of an industrial cooling system at the back of a small factory in Iceland was recorded with a LOM Geofón into a Sound Devices Mix Pre 3II

Canadian sound designer Alex Lane has crafted these recordings into dark, ambient drone loops – perfect for adding dissonant, tense and disturbing vibes to your film, game or song.

All sounds are normalised, tagged with UCS compliant metadata in Soundminer.

Total pack content:

30 x 3 minute designed looped files at 96k/24 bit

18 source files of varying lengths (also looped) at 192k/24 bit

NB: some of the designed file content in the YouTube video is listed as 44.1 k sample rate – this applies to Unreal Engine and Unity asset uploads only.

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