Sound Effects

On The Fly Audio seeks to buzz your ears with high quality, original, inspiring recordings.

Sometimes you find the sounds you’re looking for – and sometimes you find the sounds you were longing for.

Jorgo De Groof, founder of On The Fly Audio (Belgium), works since 2005 as a sounddesigner, composer and field recordist. He likes to create sounds with both real life objects as wel as with digital sources. Besides working many years for kids television productions (animation and live action) as a sounddesigner he has a background in writing and creating hearplays and making audio documentaries for private clients.

So with a lot of playful and colorful experience On The Fly Audio aims to release sound-libraries that spark the imagination and are just yummy.

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Trucks, Buses & Van Sounds International Loadstar 1600 Fire Truck anno 1966 Play Track 100+ sounds included, 79 mins total $70
This sound collection covers a wide range of sounds produced by this rare vintage Fire Truck from 1966, with a 8 valve V-304 engine. Besides the driving sounds there are also a lot of Foley recordings to make this vehicle come to life in any production. All in high quality 96/24 BWAV-files, recorded with high end equipment. All sounds include extensive metadata.

The recordings are multitrack. For the onboard sounds you’ll find synchronized recordings of engine (mono), exhaust (mono, and only for the driving sequences), cabin ceiling (stereo), cabin dashboard center (mono) and cargo area (mono). For the roadside recordings I used a Sennheiser MKH8070 to chase the passing vehicle.

Mind you that some sounds may sound very silent. This is to preserve the relative loudness between different perspectives. Place the different perspectives in sync on separate tracks in your DAW and adjust the balance.
Equipment:

Recorder

Sound Devices Mixpre 6

Zoom H5

Onboard Mics

Engine: DPA Core 4061

Exhaust: DPA Core 4062

Cabin Ceiling: DPA Core 4060 smk

Cabin dashboard center: DPA Core 4061

Cargo area: Sennheiser MKH8040

Exterior Mics

Roadside (on stand): Sennheiser MKH8070 (chase mic, handheld in blimp)
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Car Sound Effects MG TF 1500 anno 1954 Play Track 180+ sounds included, 59 mins total $50
This sound collection covers a wide range of sounds produced by this unique vintage car from 1954, 4CC and 63HP. Not only extensive driving sounds but also some foley and horn blasts. All in high quality 96/24 BWAV-files, recorded with high end equipment. All sounds include metadata.

The recordings are multitrack. For the onboard recordings you’ll find synchronized recordings of engine, exhaust, cabin. For the roadside recordings you’ll find an ortf stereo pair.
Equipment:

Recorder

Sound Devices Mixpre 6

Onboard Mics

Engine hood: DPA Core 4061

Exhaust: DPA Core 4062

Cabin Front Seat (open roof): Sennheiser MKH8040 smk

Exterior Mics

Roadside (on stand): Sennheiser MKH8040smk
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Car Sound Effects 2CV Racing Car with Modified Engine Play Track 300+ sounds included, 206 mins total $50
This sound collection covers a wide range of sounds produced by this unique racing (kit)car from 1991. The engine is custom built and is a combination of elements of a Citroën 2CV engine and a Citroën Visa engine. Not only extensive driving sounds but also foley (doors open close, window knocks, body tapping, gear lever, blinkers…), horn blasts and engine loops. All in high quality 48/24 BWAV-files, recorded with high end equipment. All sounds include extensive metadata.

The recordings are multitrack. For the onboard recordings you’ll find synchronized recordings of engine, exhaust, cabin (back seat and front seat for open roof and back seat only for closed roof). For the roadside recordings you’ll find an ortf stereo pair (on a stand) and a long shotgun mic (handheld, tracking movement)
Equipment:

Recorder

Sound Devices Mixpre 6

Zoom H5

Onboard Mics

Engine hood: DPA Core 4061

Exhaust: DPA Core 4062

Cabin Back Seat (open and closed roof): DPA Core 4060 smk

Cabin Front Seat (open roof): Sennheiser MKH8040 smk

Exterior Mics

Roadside (on stand): Sennheiser MKH8040smk

Roadside (handheld, tracking movement): Sennheiser MKH8070
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Motorcycle Sound Effects Vespa 1962 – 125CC Play Track 100+ sounds included $70
This sound collection covers a wide range of sounds produced by the Vintage 125CC motorcycle Vespa 1962 . All sounds recorded with high end equipment – 24 bit and 96KHz
All the files are mono. The stereo impression in the demo is created by means of panning.

In this collection of high quality sound-recordings you’ll find several tandem and multitrack recordings. Please note that phasing issues between the MKH 8070 and the DPA4061’s are perfectly normal because of fluctuating time differences. The 4061’s are always onboard, fixed and in phase in contrast to the MKH8070 which was handheld on the roadside or handheld pointing at the exhaust while driving along as a passenger.

Besides that also important to note:
The 5 LOOPED SOUNDS are not unique. They
are edits from the larger driving sounds. I just put these in for your convenience should you
quickly need some loops for your project. This is also true for one of the the Revs soundfiles.
(Heavy revs) I thought I just cut this one too for your convenience to quickly have a list of all
relevant revs in this library. So those six soundfiles are the only double content.
Equipment:
Recorders

Sound Devices Mixpre 6

Zoom H5

Microphones

Sennheiser MKH8070 (handheld for tracking at roadside and handheld onboard pointing at exhaust for extra perspective in addition to 4061’s

DPA 4061 (2 x mono: exhaust and engine)
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Mechanical Sound Effects Steam Engines Real & Foley Play Track 1000+ sounds included $70
This sound collection covers a wide range of sounds produced by many different steam engines. In addition to the real engines there’s also a wide variety of Foley sounds which can be layered to make funny (steam) engines for cartoons for example. All sounds recorded with high end equipment – 24 bit and 96KHz (some in 48KHz)
The ‘MAIN’ demo gives a good taste of what’s inside. The ‘POTENTIAL KONTAKT demo gives a glimpse of what you can do with the FREE BONUS Kontakt Instruments. So the latter is just a demonstration, these sounds are not included as such!
Equipment:
Recorder / Interface

Sound Devices Mixpre 6

RME OCTAMIC XTC

Studio Mics

Mojave MA 301 FET

Sennheiser MKH8040 (top, bottom)

Audix i5 (dynamic)

Field Recording Mics

Sennheiser MKH8040smk

Sennheiser MKH8070

DPA Core 4060smk

Aquarian H2a with contact adapter
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Car Sound Effects Fiat 500 (1971) Play Track 281+ sounds included $70
This sound collection covers a wide range of sounds produced by this colorful characteristic car. Not only extensive driving sounds but also foley (doors, windows, body tapping, …), horn blasts and engine loops. All in high quality 96/24 BWAV-files, recorded with high end equipment.

The recordings are multitrack. For the onboard recordings you’ll find synchronized recordings of engine, exhaust, cabin. For the roadside recordings you’ll find an ortf stereo pair (on a stand) and a long shotgun mic (handheld, tracking movement)
Equipment:
Recorder

Sound Devices Mixpre 6

Onboard Mics

Engine hood: DPA Core 4061

Exhaust: DPA Core 4062

Cabin: DPA Core 4060smk

Exterior Mics

Roadside (on stand): Sennheiser MKH8040smk with Rycote blimp

Roadside (handheld, tracking movement): Sennheiser MKH8070 with Rycote blimp
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