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The Aircraft Ambient Sound Effects library features jets, planes, and vintage fighters flying in the distance with a sense of spaciousness.
The Metal Hit Sweetener sound effects library features metal hit sound effects, drops, bashes, and more with shovels, containers, pots and pans, and others.
The Metal Hit Sweetener Library gathers over 80 multi-sample strikes, hits, impacts, drops and other clips in 1.18 GB of 192 kHz sound-design friendly field recordings.
The metal hit sound effects include strikes with hammers, drumsticks, forks, and other implements hitting over 22 types of props: from bowls to pots and pans, oil barrels to wheelbarrows, shovels and spades, trailers, and much more. Every recording has multiple performances in each file to allow for a variety of sound design tools created to sweetener hits, blasts, bursts, breaks, and other impactful sound effects.
Includes 18+ fields of Soundminer metadata, BWAV, and iXML metadata and MacOS Finder comments.
A sound effect library of electromagnetic sound clips including buzzes, drones, crackles, pops, and more.
The Electromagnetic Sound Library is a 2.96 gigabyte bundle of 235 buzzes, drones, clicks, pops, and other EMI effects. Crafted to use in sound design, the clips are ideal for high-tech accents, bad transmissions, computing tones, magnetic buzzes, and more otherworldly technological elements.
The bundle is packed full of recordings of VLF radio frequencies using a LOM Priezor passive magnetic antenna and an electric guitar pickup box. A broad mix of subjects ranging from power tools to household appliances to motors and computers produce broad tones and drones as well as shorter clicks, pops, and pulses.
The collection is named and described with care with ample keywords to ensure these strange sounds will be found fast.
Recording of a McLaren 570S from 2016 with a V8 biturbo rear mid-engine with rear wheel drive and a 7-speed clutch.
The McLaren 570S sound effects collection gathers 235 clips in 19.73 gigabytes of audio. It features the sound of the 2016 model of the British sports car and its 8-cylinder biturbo and rear mid-engine with rear wheel drive and a 7-speed clutch.
A total of 12 synchronized takes showcase 11 onboard and 8 exterior perspectives. The exterior microphones capture driving at slow, medium, and fast speeds while the car departs, arrives, passes, as well as idles and starts and stops. The onboard microphones present driving at steady RPMs, with gearshifts, and with ramps from the interior, engine, and exhaust, with ready-to-use mixes of each perspective.
The collection includes Reaper and Pro Tools mixing sessions, full professional metadata embedded in every clip, and metadata import files for 7 languages.
Unique recording of the world’s only running Tiger II heavy tank, also known as a King Tiger II Ausf. B, Köningstiger, or Royal Tiger, equipped with a German V-12 Maybach HL 230 P30 gasoline engine with 700 PS (690 hp, 515 kW).
This plastic sound effects library includes textures, drops, movement, handling and more from over a dozen types of plastic props.
The Plastic Textures Library includes 625 clips and 12.33 GB of sound effects. Each clip includes multiple performances of drops, scrapes, movement, rattles, hits, squeaks, twists and others.
Created to help sound editors with sound design, the plastic sound effects collection shares sounds from props ranging from balloons to bubble wrap, flexible pipes to plastic bags, buckets, cups, toys, and more. Recorded in sound-design friendly 192 kHz/24-bit resolution with high-frequency microphones (including the 100 kHz-capable Sanken CO-100k), the package is ready for pitching, morphing, and other creative uses.
Includes detailed metadata in 18+ fields to help you find the sounds you need fast.
Recording of a 2017 Audi R8 with a FSI 5.2 Liter V10 engine from a German luxury car.
The 2017 Audi R8 sound bundle includes 472 clips in 25.31 gigabytes of field recordings. It features the sound of a FSI 5.2 Liter V10 engine from a German luxury car.
The collection gathers 12 synchronized takes of onboard and exterior driving. The onboard perspectives share recordings from the interior (including an Ambisonic perspective), engine, and exhaust while driving with steady RPMs, ramps, and gearshifts. The exterior microphones were arranged at 5 locations to capture slow-to-fast driving while departing, passing by, and arriving, as well as idles. Also included are performed effects of dashboard effects, levers, and doors, impulse responses, and custom mixes of the onboard perspectives.
The collection includes 18 fields of Soundminer metadata, plus BWAV metadata and MacOS Finder comments, Reaper and Pro Tools mixing sessions, and text files of translated search keywords in 7 languages, ready for import into your favourite metadata app.
Get the sounds of a Sea Doo RXT 260 RS jet-ski with a four stroke four cylinder Rotax engine. It consists of six channels, two engine, one exhaust, one engine air-filter and left and right passenger back. It contains engine start ups and stops on land and in water, steady rpms, blips, slow and fast take offs, ramps and reckless driving. The recording length is 16 min 1 s.
A sound collection showcasing the heavy bombardment sounds of war: howitzers, artillery, grenade launchers, naval guns, and much more. Includes clean effects with extremely long tails.
The wind in trees sound effects library features wind blowing through 5 tree types both from the ground and in the canopy with multiple strengths.
A sound effects library packed with a wide selection of drones, BRAAMS, hits, whooshes, stylized passes by, risers, and much more.
The Cinematic Transformation Library is a 13.92 GB sound library of 400 transition sound effects, cinematic hits, and designed accents crafted to add extra punch, emphasis, and interest to trailers, commercials, and cinematic sequences.
It features BRAAAMS, drones and ambiences, impacts and hits, risers and drops, warped elements, and whooshes, each processed from real-world sounds of cars, jets, wrecks, tank foley and others into abstract and powerful sounds. Every production element has been designed to add tension and excitement and add dramatic weight to your projects.
Each clip is organized by category and subcategory in folders, and is complimented by more than 18 fields of embedded metadata, including extensive keywords.
Recording of a .45cal M1928A1 Thompson submachine gun from World War II, consists of about 20 channels and distances from 0 to 300 meters. Firing includes single shots, double shots, bursts of various lengths and wild foley.
A very in-depth multitrack recording of a Plymouth Road Runner 440 Sixpack from 1970.
The car has the 440cubic inches engine with the famous 3 x 2 barrel setup. The rating from factory was 390 horsepower. This car has the three geared automatic transmission.
The recording has eight onboard microphones, L+R interior, two engine, intake, L+R exhausts and finally a back center exhausts microphone. Exterior recording consists of four different stereo pairs, all in sync with the onboards.
The recording includes startup, idle, shutdown, blips, standing steady rpms, cruising, driving at steady rpms, various accelerations & decelerations, ramps, passbys, approaches, stops, aways and more.
It also contains foley recording of doors, hoods, gear shifter, switches and horn. Total recording time is 32min 7s.
The large chainsaw sound effects library features field recordings of a chainsaw working, idling, ramps, steady RPMs, and performed effects.
This collection features a Husqvarna 372 XPG chain saw with a 2-stroke engine 72 cm3 and a 28″ sword. It includes performances of idles, revs, blips, ramps, steady RPMs, and working from nearby and distant perspectives, as well as performed effects.
The collection includes Pro Tools and Reaper mixing sessions and 18 fields of embedded metadata.
37 Groningen sound effects recordings of street life, city skylines, traffic, activity, and church bells.
The Door Slam Library 2 includes 10 types of metal, wood, and plastic door sounds from a variety of domestic locations.
The Door Slam sound effects library is a small collection made from a recording of a big door in a school building hallway.
The Fizzle Sizzle sound effects library includes focused sizzles, drips, steam, and other sound design-ready clips from water, bacon, butter, eggs, and much more.
30 Alicante sound effects recordings of urban street life from a southern Spanish city.
The Colt Python 357 Magnum sound effects library includes 52 channels of multi-take gunshots, performed effects of cocking, loading, movement, and more.
The Colt Python 357 Magnum sound effects library includes 158 clips in 4.01 gigabytes of audio. It shares the sound of a .357 1955-2005 American revolver firing as well as performed effects of loading, unloading, cocking, de-cocking, movement, and handling.
The gunshots feature multiple shots in three takes from 25 perspectives ranging from close to over 150 meters distant. 52 channels of audio captured by mono, stereo, and Ambisonic microphones share recordings from Sennheiser, Sanken, DPA, Neumann and other professional microphones.
The collection includes 18+ fields of mule-format embedded metadata as well as Reaper and Pro Tools sessions with all fx pre-aligned to allow editors to begin mixing and editing immediately.
A library of Lynx 50 sniper rifle sound effects including 23 perspective of gunfire, as well as performed effects.
The Lynx 50 sniper rifle sound effects library includes 189 clips in 3.27 gigabytes of audio. It showcases the sound of a Finnish mod. 50 rifle made by Pirkan Ase Oy using 50 BMG Ammunition with A-MAX bullet and a high ballistic coefficient 1.050, made by Hornady.
The collection includes 2 takes of firing with 23 mono, stereo, Ambisonic AmbiX, and multichannel microphones from nearby up to 160 meters away. The sound library features performed effects of magazine handling, reloading, and more.
Also packaged with the collection are editing sessions in Pro Tools and Reaper formats, as well as complete embedded metadata support.
A library of Glock 17 sound effects including multiple gunshots and performed effects of handling, rack slides, magazine moves, and more.
The Glock 17 sound effects library includes 171 clips in 4.55 gigabytes of audio. It shares the sound of an Austrian Glock 17 9mm semi-automatic pistol with 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge.
Performances include 3 takes of firing from 29 mono, stereo, Ambisonic AmbiX and multichannel microphones from close to over 170 meters away. The recordings also include performances of rack movement, handling, rattles, magazine movement, and more.
Also packaged with the collection are editing sessions in Pro Tools and Reaper formats, as well as complete embedded metadata support.
The Dodge Challenger R/T sound library includes 25 takes from a 1971 American muscle car. This classic vehicle features a 500+ hp V8 440 c.i. engine with Edelbrock Performer heads, Hooker headers and Magnaflow X-pipe system, and a 3 gear automatic transmission. There are 434 clips in 15.27 gigabytes.
10 exterior perspectives (22 channels) depict the car passing, approaching, and departing at four locations and multiple distances. The 10 onboard perspectives (11 channels) include driving at slow, medium, and fast speeds from the engine, exhaust, and interior. The car is driven with gearshifts, steadies, and ramps. The collection also gathers idles, blips, horns, and various sound fx. Every clip is synchronized across all perspectives and comes with 18+ fields of Soundminer, BWAV, and MacOS spotlight metadata.
Birdsong from the countryside of the Swedish rural region of Värmland.
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