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This ambience sound pack comprises of street recordings taken in the city of Edinburgh. Expect lots of cars driving by, traffic, distant chatter, construction works, machinery and even the occasional seagull. Perfect for use with film to add ambient realism to outdoor scenes.
– This pack contains 7 beautiful long soundscapes (5 mins+) and 18 other shorter clips
– Sounds were recorded professionally using a shock-mounted Mid-Side microphone with a windjammer
– 1 hour long
– Metadata included
This pack is a collection of recordings from the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and North Carolina. Everything from birds and bugs, to soft streams and raging rivers. Perfect for any sound designer looking to create a forest ambience full of wildlife and healthy streams.
Gone is the era of the typewriter, when the cacophony of countless typebars striking the platen could be heard emanating from every office building, but with SkewSound’s QWERTY Sound Library, you can recreate those days. We used an electro-mechanical typewriter from the 1970s to create this library.
This allowed us to get some unique sounds that simply can’t be created with an older, mechanical typewriter.
In this library you’ll find some stellar machine gun-like mechanical sounds, impacts, sweeteners, motor hums, and more mechanical switch and button effects than you’ll know what to do with.
• Recorded, edited, and delivered in full 96kHz/24bit high definition audio
• Every performance was multi-mic’d, providing you with a greater range of tonal qualities to modify to your hearts content
• Over 35 minutes of audio
• Fully embedded Soundminer metadata
Take a trip to the Caribbean with this beach resort walla and ambience library! You’ll get the sounds of the beach, various pools and poolside bars, quiet outdoor/open air balcony tones, noisy beach ambience, quiet beach ambience, birds and palm trees, dining halls, waves breaking, and people splashing and having a good time in the sun! Enjoy the Beach Resort Sound Library!
The ARP OMNI is not just a synth, it’s more of a predecessor to modern day performance keyboards with its 3 distinct sound engines: Strings, Synth, and Bass. It’s string engine utilizes a divide-down tone generator that technically gives it unlimited polyphony. Its classic string sounds will be instantly recognizable to any fans of Joy Division, The Cars, or Kraftwerk. One might even say that the OMNI’s string engine played a big part in establishing the sound of New Wave. A “hollow” waveform mode gives the strings a more synth-like touch. In either mode, OMNI’s strings are lush and beautiful sounding, especially when combined with a long reverb or even a phaser (for that classic Jean Michel Jarre string sound).
The string section features Bass, Cello, Viola, and Violin registers.
Its synth is a simple single-oscillator design with a single envelope generator, a warm sounding ARP low-pass filter, and single LFO. This synth is capable of some quirky and musical sounds and serves as a great complement to the String and Bass engines. It doesn’t boast all that much low-end and its strength really sits in the middle register.
The bass engine is somewhat of a hidden gem as it pulls off a surprisingly convincing electric bass that’s both punchy and warm sounding and mixes well with the built-in synth. Sitting in the mix, this bass provides some serious low-end without being overly in-your-face. Both the 16′ and 8′ octaves can be mixed for an extra chunky octaver-style effect.
To get the cleanest possible tone out of this pristine ARP OMNI, I recorded it using a DIYRE FE2 DI Box with CineMag transformer, high-end Rheingold Music cables, and Antelope Audio converters. The instrument’s self noise has been reduced using subtle AI-assisted spectral de-noising to make sure these sounds will still sound very clean when being heavily processed. To allow for ideal sustain behavior, the string samples are looped within at least 3 full waveform cycles.
Spaceship Interiors is a collection of spaceship interior ambience, room tones and alarms. The library weighs in at 10 GB, and contains 210 soundminer and BWAV metadata embedded files – with a total playing time of over 4 hours! Perfect for your next sci-fi, horror or fantasy project.
A collection of footsteps and movements not usually found in sound libraries: Featuring stagger, struggle, fighting, drunken steps, sudden quick movements on unusual surfaces like plastic sheet, plastic floor mat and other surfaces.
Cinematic Waves is a collection of big wave crashes captured along the southern coast of Sri Lanka.
Huge waves crashing on the shore and into rocks were captured then carefully edited and enhanced to create a useful small sound pack to add punch and power to any ocean themed projects.
This collection contains a number of ‘one shot’ designed waves plus a few longer wave ambience bed tracks where you can truly feel the force of the ocean tides.
Sounds recorded in Stereo 24bit/48kHz and UCS compatible.
Need the sound of a lawn mower? Here’s an entire sound effect library dedicated to just that!
The Lawn Mower SFX library features sounds recorded from different perspectives while using the lawn mower + on-board recordings of the engine and lawn cutting sounds. It also comes with the sound of an electrical lawn mower, as well as sound of a mower being moved/dragged with the engine turned off. Recorded with a Sound Devices 702 and 2 Oktava’s MK012 set in MS and XY mode in 96kHz and 24bit. Every WAV file was tagged in ProTools 11 for quick and easy access.
Perfect for when you’re looking for that lawn mower sound – or for more creative sound design uses.
The Lawnmower Library has just been updated with 44 new recordings – two additional lawnmowers: A Standard and an electrical lawnmower, for a total of 2.29 GB, 41+ minutes of extra content
Created using only a 1975 Fender Telecaster through a 1975 Fender Princeton Reverb (and some effect wizardry), Telepathy is SkewSound’s first drone/mood library.
Creator Steve Pardo paints an ethereal soundscape in this collection of eleven unique pieces. Telepathy will set an ominous, otherworldly mood to whatever you are creating, and we’ve included stems to some of the tracks so you can re-work to your heart’s content. It’s up to you with SkewSound’s Telepathy library.
Need some motor / engine sounds from an unusual source? The Brushcutter library features everything from cutting sounds, engine starts, stops, idles and revving sounds, metallic squeaks and impacts. You’ll find files of different brushcutters working alone and at the same time recorded from different perspectives and distances.
The whole recording session took place during a special event, as five 5 volunteers were clearing some harsh terrain for mud turtles. And to make the area habitable for the turtles, all the small branches and trees had to be removed. So not only did the turtles win, so do you as you now have a unique collection of sounds at your fingertips.
Brushcutter gets you 41 high quality .wav files, with a total of 87 minutes of recording time.
Bowed Bass features over 30 drones and swells created from the sound of a bowed Electric Fender Jazz Bass, which was then sent through various hardware reverbs, delays and distortion all aiding to create a catalogue of developing rich textural sounds. If you’re caught short and what you really need to do is create a powerful sense of dread, bowed bass has the answer.
From chaotic scratchy swells to deep rumbling murmurs this collection of twisted bowed bass sounds is a fantastic selection to add to your sonic palette.
Bowed Bass contains 887MB (over 20 minutes total) of high quality 24bit/96kHZ Stereo WAV files, labelled in UCS format and metadata embedded.
Back Alley Rain II is a second installment of city rain and thunder sound effects.
This library consists of light/medium/downpour rain, aftermath, drips, muffled thunder, rumbles, drippy gutters and puddles.
All sounds loop seamlessly which makes them perfect for games, meditation apps etc.
All SFX have baked-in Soundminer’s metadata.
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + 2x Sennheiser MKH 8040 (ORTF)
EDITED AND MASTERED WITH: RX, Pro Tools, FabFilter.
132 sounds to experience the true colors of an office, everything you do on a day to day paperwork
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The Caribbean coast of Colombia is full of magical places and unique environments. Tayrona Natural Park is an indigenous reserve far from civilization and with the perfect blend of beach, forest and harmony. In the far north of the country lies “El Cabo de la Vela” where the sounds are a direct connection with nature.
This library brings you beach, desert and forest ambiences along with wave movement of 7 different beaches.
Need some sounds of water on rocks? This bite sized library could be just what you need. Close stereo recordings of waves a crashing against both rocks and beaches.
Tactical Backpack is a collection of 72 carefully recorded and mastered backpack sound effects.
Zippers, straps, buckles, handling, drops, pick ups, velcro straps and more!
All audio files have been recorded at superb 96KHZ 24BIT, multiple mic positions to capture all the wonderful sonic details.
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Sennheiser MKH 8060
EDITED AND MASTERED WITH: Pro Tools, iZotope RX (mildly).
In this bundle you will receive three libraries full of dark, glitchy and ambient textures. 'Glitch & Noise' brings abstract and interesting tones to your sound palette. 'Twelve Tones' has detailed industrial hums for your spaceship interiors. 'Sphere' has dark atmospheres made from bowing a metal bin, which were then processed and mangled using Twisted Tools Slayer. Whether your project is a sci-fi soundscape or a shredded atmosphere, this bundle has something for everyone.
GHOSTLY AIR is a collection of 33 horror-inducing, voice whooshes, tremolo stutter, soundscapes
and diabolic vocalizations.
Perfect for all kinds of horror projects.
All SFX have baked-in Soundminer’s meta data
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Senhheiser MKH8060 + ATE 208
EDITED AND CREATED WITH: iZotope RX, Reaktor, Adaptiverb, Eventide, Soundtoys, Waves, Pro Tools.
DARKSCAPES is a collection of 30, seamlessly looping, dark, horror-inducing soundscapes and ambiences with total run time of 35 minutes.
All sound effects have been created using real field recordings in order to add organic feel to them and trick your brain into
perceiving them as something realistic and later edited with top of a line outboard and plugins to add dark, horror-inducing depth to them.
All SFX have baked-in Soundminer’s meta data
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Senhheiser MKH8060, DPA4060, PCM D100
EDITED WITH: iZotope RX, Wormhole, Adaptiverb, Modular, FabFilter, Waves, TC Electronics, Pro Tools.
In honor of April Fools’ Day, SkewSound is proud to present “thefool”. This collection of comedic sounds includes party favors, slide whistles, buzzers, and whoopee cushions. We also recorded instrumental effects such as dobro slides, comedy club sax riffs, timpani glissandos, trombone slides, and even more cowbell. Vocal virtuoso, Chris Rando, contributed tons of laughter, mouth effects, and even vomit and fart noises. Who doesn’t love a little potty humor?
Only ground transportation. Sounds of cars, engines and bikes. 63 sounds to enhance your story telling
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Streams are recorded very closely.
No extraneous sounds.
They are ideal to complement games and movies.
2 omni microphones – AB Stereo.
The recording distance is about 20 cm.
All sounds with embedded metadata (Universal Category System).
A condensed library with medicine and dentist sound effects. If you need to create an ambiance of a surgery room or a dentist visit, this is your go-to. 33 different sounds to overcome or accentuate your fear to the doctor, it’s up to you
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