Sound Effects

Western Tiger Sound Co. is a post production sound company by Nikola Simikic, with a focus on film, television, and advertising. Based in Los Angeles, California, Nikola works full time as a sound designer and re-recording mixer. He has a love of sound effects recording in the field and in the studio, and has begun creating boutique sound effects libraries for sale with the goal of creating high quality libraries for an affordable price, that are easy and fast to use when sound editing and designing. For more information, visit http://westerntigersound.com

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Car Sound Effects Broken Car Engine Play Track 5 sounds included, 28 mins total $27

My car engine broke! As a result of making a huge costly mistake caused by accidentally skipping an oil change service from getting dates and miles mixed up (on top of being a higher milage car), my 2006 Volvo V50 T5’s engine starting making incredibly loud knocking, clicking and rattling sounds. Took it for one last drive before it was picked up by a junk yard, and recorded the process. I put a DPA 4061 and a Rode NT5 in the engine and drove it around the neighborhood, first on residential streets, then drove it harder on some faster streets (the engine was so loud you can’t hear any other cars in the recordings), abusing the manual mode for higher rpm recordings the whole time until it started overheating, smoking and dumping liquid (coolant I think? Oil? Both?). I Quickly took the DPA out because it was right near a section of the engine that was overheating, but I left the NT5 in. Satisfied with what I recorded but still a couple miles from home, after my car cooled a bit I continued to record my drive home, this time with the DPA inside the car to get an interior perspective (this drive is labeled “bonus drive” in the library).

This library is just 5 files, totaling 27 minutes and 28 seconds, 24/96k, 956MB. Quality Soundminer metadata and UCS compliant. Recorded with a DPA 4061 and NT5 for starts, idles, off, revving, slow to moderate driving, harder faster driving, with lots of variation. One file is just the NT5 engine recording for an additional 5 and a half minute drive, and one is just the DPA for an interior perspective of that drive.

I’ll miss that car a lot, but at least I got some great recordings out of it! I hope you find them useful.

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Mechanical Sound Effects Vintage Typewriters Play Track 568+ sounds included $27

Vintage Typewriters features five fully mechanical typewriters from the early to mid twentieth century. They were captured in great detail at 192khz with the Sanken CO-100k, as well as a stereo overhead pair, contact mic, and for full speed typing performances a room mic to easier mix into ambiences. Pre-mastered half speed and quarter speed files are included to speed up your editing and design workflow. Every keystroke, click and mechanism that makes a sound was recorded with many variations.
In addition to the sound library itself, we have included Radium instruments for all five typewriters for Soundminer users, so you can perform directly to picture.
This library is UCS compliant, and features rich, detailed Soundminer metadata with lots of sorting options to help find exactly what you need. Each file is labeled in detail the action that is happening so you can faithfully recreate the sounds of someone using a typewriter, or have an easier time designing those special mechanical sounds. Most of the library was edited on a one second grid to quickly nudge and audition other variations of a sound in your DAW. Soundminer Radium regions were added throughout to speed up your sound design process. Five bonus designed files of clocks and an office ambience are included as well.

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Supervising sound editor,
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Re-recording Mixer, Walt Disney Animation Studios:
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Supervising Sound Editor/Re-recording Mixer, The Lego Movie & Mad Max: Fury Road

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Sound designer:
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Director, Digital - Source Sound Inc.

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