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Scraped Cymbal is a collection of 78 sounds, pristinely recorded, edited and mastered as 96k/24bit stereo wave files. This companion to the Bowed Cymbal series gives you more options for your stinger attacks. David took the old, slightly cracked crash cymbal, and literally cut into it with tin snips (picture below). He then took pliers, bent up some of the cut parts, and began experimenting with scraping various parts of the cymbal and adjusting the microphone position. The tonalities produced are almost nauseating! Deep rumbling lows, shimmery atonal highs, gut-wrenching mids – it’s a sound designer’s dream!
Swish is a micro-collection that contains a ton of variation of two objects swinging around, creating swishing/swooshing sounds. The first is a simple cat toy wand and string, that used to have feathers on the end. The second is a branch from a thorn bush. The collection includes individual swishes, multiple swishes, and continuous swishes (swirling around and around). Each at various speeds.
Foley Plus 2 is a smattering of sounds from the Foley and sound effects vault of owner, David Fienup.
There is cloth, footsteps, smart phones, keyboards, microphone handling, food and drink, a wide variety of props, glassware, skin, appliances, leather, metal, plastic, bottles, cans, furniture, paper, sports, water, tools, and much more. Please check out the track list, as there are far too many to name!
This collection includes both ultra-clean, in-studio Foley and sound effects, as well as field recordings.
Interior Ambiences Vol 1 is a collection of room tones, and handy sounds to help you build interior ambiences. This includes wind whipping through the trees outside, thunder, rain and hail just through a doorwall, various bathroom fans, HVAC humidifier dripping sounds, furnace pops, and even footsteps on the floor above the microphone position (separate from other sound files). There are plenty of nice, quiet, airy room tones to use as your base layer.
Printer Destruction is the result of destroying a desktop Canon MX450 printer/scanner with a 4lb Collins Axe. The collection also includes the printer being dropped from a height of 4 feet, as well as rummaging through the debris.
Fireworks is a collection of small, consumer fireworks fountains with all the fizz, zip, zap, pop, and crackling that you would expect. There are also 2x 6-minute ambience tracks from 4th of July 2014 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as people set off fireworks all around the city. You can hear fairly close, and very distant explosions from both municipal and residential displays. These two tracks were edited down from much longer recordings to remove any long pauses in the action. It was a beautifully quiet night, except for the fireworks!
Baby Robins is a selection of recordings of a Robin’s nest with 3 baby birds being fed by their parents. You can hear the whoosh and flapping of the adult Robin’s wings as they swoop in with nom-noms, the babies chirping loudly to get some of those fresh grubs and worms, and finally the deep pounding of wings as the adults swoop out of the nest in pursuit of more food.
Fine Sand Debris is a collection of fine sand being poured, dropped, thrown and cascaded across metal, plastic, and wood materials. The high sample rate of 192k makes these sounds great source material to be twisted and stretched to the heart’s desire.
Nature’s Fury: Thunder is a large collection of thunder cracks, booms, and rumbles, as well as full Thunderstorm ambiance.
Nature’s Fury: Thunder has three separate categories: Thunder, Rumble, and Thunderstorm.
Nature’s Fury: Wind contains a variety of wind ambiences including some pretty heavy winds! There is wind in late-fall forests where you can hear branches hitting each other and leaves on the ground; high gusting winds roaring through trees and houses; whipping winds blowing through leafy trees and dry cattails; and even some interior perspective with wind whistling through a window seal.
Nature’s Fury: Rain is a collection of a wide variety of rain on various surfaces: light, heavy, splatty and more!
This portion of the library contains light, medium, and heavy rain. There are even tracks labeled “splatty” for locations where the water built up on roofs or in trees and caused a cacophony of splat sounds.
Sci-Fi UI is a collection of 401 unique, futuristic, alien-technology sounds divided into 7 thematic collections. This is not just another collection of bleeps and bloops. The sounds were created by manipulating field recordings, Foley, and sound effects giving them a personality with an organic, emotional and performative feel. The types of sounds include positive, negative, and neutral alerts, alarm loops, file and program loading, power up and power down sounds, software glitches, and system failures. Also included is a collection of alien technology ambience loops called “Control Room Tones” to help you design your spaceship interiors.
Cloth Rip 2: Household is a collection of over 500 ripping, tearing, and shredding sound effects. While the title is “Cloth Rip”, the materials range from common household cloths like curtains and towels to common household sheet-plastic, such as tarp and a heavy duty plastic garment bags used for storing clothes in a closet or attic. But wait! There’s more! In addition to the rip sounds, we have included some plastic movement sounds for both the tarp and garment bag.
Cloth Rip 1: Clothing is a collection of almost 400 cloth rip sound effects, using 7 different types of standard clothing and materials, recorded, edited, and delivered as 96k/24bit audio. As usual with Soundopolis SFX libraries, there is a plethora of variation, including fast, slow, short and long rips.
Suburban Ambiences is a collection of almost 6 hours of residential ambiences that cover various times of day and year, collected over the past 8-10 years by owner, David Fienup. This collection is full of lush, nighttime ambiences full of tree frogs and crickets; desolate winter ambiences devoid of birds and bugs; neighborhood ambiences with distant lawnmowers, traffic, dogs barking, and neighbors going about their daily routine; traffic and trains passing; morning, noon, evening and night; dense and sparse… and there are even some recordings of Fienup shooting hoops and dribbling a basketball at a park, as well as some extensive recordings of David doing yard work with a push lawnmower, electric weed whip, and a gas-powered leaf blower. This is the ultimate collection to help you design your suburban soundscapes.
Foliage Sweeteners are great for characters creeping around in the bushes, running through the trees, or just walking through the park. You can add specific environmental sounds to your ambiences, such as individual leafy tree branches that dip into frame, or cattails and bushes reacting to a gust of wind. These sounds are also great for nature documentary, whether you have a squirrel climbing a tree, a bear plowing through a forest, a cheetah stalking from the underbrush, or just a cow eating grass.
Bowling is a collection of sounds recorded at a private lane, completely devoid of extraneous human and HVAC sounds. This exclusive access allowed for recording various perspectives, including deep in the guts of the machinery, up-close to the pins, bowler’s perspective, and side perspectives. This library includes all of the mechanical sounds, machinery ambiences, ball “pass-by’s”, ball return, gutter balls, pins resetting, and even some bowling sounds without any machinery noise at all.
Bowed Cymbal 2 HD is a collection of 102 bowed cymbal samples using a broken and cut up cymbal, which gives some insane tonalities.
Bowed Cymbal is a collection of 100 bowed cymbal samples using broken cymbals, which gives some very unique tonalities. Also included are 4 sequences designed in 5.1 surround to help spark your creative juices.
Household Doors HD is a fresh collection of sounds spanning a modern house including heavier entryway doors, hollow interior doors, desks, dressers/wardrobes, nightstands, toilet seats, kitchen and bathroom drawers and cabinets, bifold doors, China cabinets, French doors, sliding doors, filing cabinet… the list goes on. Plus door knobs, locks, hinges, squeaks and creaks, and so much more. And variation is key: hard, soft, fast and slow opens and closes.
Dogs is a great collection of 14 different breeds, covering all aspects of a dogs life: barking, growling, whining, whimpering, playing, eating, sleeping, and walking around. There are in-your-face sounds and subtle sounds. This collection also includes some studio-recorded Foley, and 14 ambiences with dogs barking in the background.
Burps & Farts is the perfect addition to your bodily function sound effects library! Tons of deep, resonant burps and farts included, recorded in pristine HD.
Clothing Foley HD is a collection of four different outfits performing walking Foley at various speeds without shoes. Also included are various body pats, buttons, zippers, and cloth sounds like shifting, reaching, rubbing, and pocket sounds.
Clothing Foley HD highlights:OUTFITS:
Jeans + T-shirt
Khakis + Button Down Shirt
Suit + Tie (suit pants, suit coat, button down shirt, necktie)
Snow Pants + Winter Coat
SOUNDS INCLUDED:
Walking Foley – without shoe sounds, various speeds for each outfit
Material Sounds – reaching, shifting, rubbing
Pockets – hands going in and out, rustling around, inserting and removing cell phone
Body Pats – various strengths on each material, on belly, legs, back, arms
Zippers – jeans, khakis, suit pants, winter coat
Buttons – suit coat, winter coat, button down shirt
Tie Sounds – tying, untying, adjusting
Icy Snow 2 HD is a followup to Icy Snow HD. This collection contains even more icy snow cracks, impacts, scrapes, debris and footsteps. The weather produced a foot of snow covered in a 1/2 inch of ice. Pretty unique sounds! And it comes in two formats: “Individual Clips” & “Consolidated Tracks”.
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