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SUV Dirt Track Racing contains extensive sound effects of two racing SUVs (Ford F-150 2004 and Ford Explorer 2004) recorded on a speedway in Ontario, Canada. With an amazing collection of driving, revving and racing sounds in different perspectives, this library gives you that full throttle, pedal to the metal sound that you only get from genuine racing vehicles.
Our Audio Craftsmen have sourced engine sounds of the modified SUVs from interior – exterior perspectives, exhaust nodes, and engine perspectives. We also recorded sounds of the SUV’s racing each other, including high revs, drifting through gravel, pass bys, suspension sounds and much, much more.
The library also includes sounds of a driver getting inside the car, opening doors, putting on helmets and seatbelts, starting the engine, turning off the engine etc. We captured both vehicles in isolation and racing each other – driving constantly, passing by, engine idles and explosive revs.
All of the sounds were captured using either a Sanken CS-M1 or a DPA 4060, carefully edited and ready to be used straight away in your projects. They can be used to represent many different types of Racing Vehicle, SUV, Motorbike, Muscle Car due to the nature of their engines being pushed to the limit during recording.
Screaming Bundle contains three of our most popular scream sound libraries. With a total number 424 files and file size of 3.68 GB, this bundle has everything from funny anime and crowd screams to horrifying otherworldly sound effects.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded performances of our in-house voice artists using mono and stereo microphones to give you maximum flexibility. We have captured anime screams, warrior screams, screams of a football fan, falling from height, horror screams, screams inside a tunnel, screams and shouts from TV audience, crowds at parties, gigs, sports stadiums, armies fighting battles, teens being massacred, people burnt alive, a crowd being attacked by bees, a group falling to death, people being trampled by an elephant, couples fighting each other and much, much more. We have also included the “Screaming Designed” library, which contains everything from monsters, dragons, dinosaurs and toy soldiers all the way to giants and ghostly whispers.
All of the sounds are meticulously edited, meta tagged and UCS compliant, so you can find the right sounds you need and drag them straight into your projects. In addition, all the files are available in 24 Bit 192 kHz for further sonic manipulation and design (you can pitch and time stretch these to bring further interest and put your own stamp onto the effects).
You will be saving almost 25% on the total cost of the individual libraries when purchasing the bundle, an awesome value for money addition to your general sound effects libraries.
Antiques Bundle Vol. 1 contains 4 libraries with authentic antique prop sound effects, perfect for use in projects with a historical setting.
The libraries included in this bundle are:
Antique Luggage – Suitcases and trunks, reminiscent of those seen in films like Harry Potter, Paddington, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, and Titanic.
Antique Telephone – Genuine vintage candlestick telephone, with dialling, handling and ringing sounds.
Antique Books – Old, dusty library book handling effects, through to magical spell-book elements.
Antique Typewriter – 1929 Royal Portable Typewriter Model P’s, from the re-spooling of the colour ribbon to its more essential operational writing and key-pressing tones.
With a total size of 836.6 MB and over 320 files to work with, Antiques Bundle Vol. 1 bundle gives you everything you need to create memorable and realistic antiques sound effects. By purchasing this bundle you are saving 15% when compared to buying separately, making this collection excellent value for money.
Phantasmal Ambiences Vol. 2 is the second in a series of nightmarish ambiences made to unnerve you and your audiences.
Perspective recordings of assorted props and instruments were captured in the 344 Audio headquarters and a beautifully reverberant Nottingham church. These sounds were then carefully edited, manipulated and layered to form haunting scenes for use in all your horrific creations.
Inject terror and dread into your film, TV and video game projects with this Pandora’s box of evil-doers and malevolent forces – all localised in the near distance of various other-worldly spaces.
Our Audio Craftsmen have carefully edited each sound for maximum sonic clarity so that you can drop each sound directly into your project timeline and get down to work with minimal fuss.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
The Bubbles Bundle is bursting with all three of our Bubbles libraries – recorded with our dual-mic overwater and underwater set-up. Set your underwater scenes with bubbles of various sizes and power, ideal for representing sea life, scuba divers, splashing and other underwater movement.
Our Audio Craftsman have used an overwater-underwater microphone configuration using the Sennheiser MKH50 for the overwater mic and the Aquarian H2a Hydrophone for the underwater recordings. Each library comes with both mic options available as separate files, so you’ll have have plenty of options for layering when designing your projects.
All sounds included were carefully captured and meticulously edited for maximum sonic quality, enabling to you drop each sample into your projects with no need for further enhancement or modification.
The entire bundle is delivered at 24Bit/192kHz, and tagged with extensive Metadata.
The latest in our collection of Historical Weapons sounds is a symphony of shing-ing, clunking, thudding, clashing and ringing impacts for all your combat and battle design needs! This library focuses on shield-based sounds, with additional recordings of weapon-on-weapon fights.
Using our multi-mic configuration (comprising the Sennheiser MKH50, Røde NTG-3 and Line Audio CM4 Stereo Pair), our Audio Craftsmen recorded two professional swordsmen going head-to-head in multi-move melees using wooden shields, spears, swords and axes.
This library includes shield holds and push-offs, spear pole hits, spear scrapes to a shield edge, metallic sword clashes, axe clinks on a shield boss, a metal shield spinning on the ground and being picked up, spear hits on a wooden haft, sword slide cuts and much more! Perfect for TV, film, game and documentary projects requiring the exciting, natural tones of authentic historical weapons!
Sound have been separated into the follow categories:
Shield Groundwork: Sounds of a wooden and metal shield dropping onto the floor, spinning on the floor and being picked up.
Shield Impacts: A huge variety of sounds where a spear, sword, wooden stick and axe hit different shield parts.
Spear Fights: Recordings of spear head and pole combat sequences.
Sword Impacts: Swords sliding off each other, being pressed against each other, and clashing together.
Each file contains multiple takes of the named action.
All sounds were recorded in 24Bit 192kHz, and have been tagged with extensive UCS metadata for ease of use.
Interior Vibrations Vol. 3 is the third volume in our Interior Vibrations collection.
This collection was captured by our Audio Craftsmen with a stereo pair of contact microphones, used experimentally to generate a range of unique textural sounds. It features drilling, scraping and a diversity of movement performed on various metals and a guitar.
These raw recordings are made for further design and are great for adding an abstract edge to your projects. Or try including them in horror and sci-fi projects for some unsettling sonic texture.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 192kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation, and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
A massive 496 Audio Files of detailed and balanced recordings of handwriting performances. Scribbles, erasing, check marks, blackouts, colouring, circles and crosshatches for each writing tool are in this complete Foley library.
You get mechanical pen and pencil clicks, cap pop-offs and snap-ons, squeaky pens and thick markers, crayons, ball point pens, felt pens, erasers, highlighters and sharpies.
Capturing the detail of the subtle sound with zero background noise is an art in itself! For these recordings, we found that the best results were achieved using an LCR configuration. A tightly positioned Rode NTG3 shotgun mic for the centre was used, along with a pair of slightly pulled back Sennheiser MKH 8040s to provide a gentle stereo image. The environment we used was our “dead room”, completely silent and reverb-free for this type of recording (this neat little room approaches a mini anechoic chamber) Reliably transparent and highly recommended, a Sound Devices Mix-Pre-6 was used to capture the final recordings.
UK Football Vol. 3 is a concise collection of five-a-side football gameplay sounds recorded from the goalkeeper’s perspective. Hear players kick and catch balls, score goals, hit the goal post, practice drills, groan in frustration, swear, cheer each other on and more!
These candid recordings are full of energetic male voices, athletic enthusiasm, North West English accents and football impacts.
This quintessentially English yet versatile library can also be used for any global Game, TV or Film project requiring a dose of athletic excitement. Included sounds will allow you to sweeten spectator sports scenes with background passes, focus on team dynamics with spirited shouts, or enhance winning goals with football shoot-outs!
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation, and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Essential Sound New York & Subway Bundle
This bundle includes both the top selling New York City libraries: Essential New York City, and Essential New York City – Street and Subway.
These two libraries combined give you access to the rich urban intercity, under-city and rural ambiences that keep making New York sound unique. Sirens, skyline drones, and the beating heart of NYC are all covered in this bundle.
Included sounds are: wet and dry close and distant perspective traffics, skyline dins, subway interiors, bys, through walls, etc. Pedestrians on busy sidewalks, quiet side streets, and dozens of other locations and situations.
All tracks have been meticulously recorded and mastered with Sony D10-D50 and similar field recorders and Pro Tools.
All recordings have full metadata created in Soundminer.
24bit/48Khz
A killer antique accordion full of paper crinkles, key clacks, sick sounding wheezes and old wood creaks. The antique accordion was rescued from a local antique shop. It has a hole in the bellows that creates a distinct wheezing sound, and it is loaded up with strange squeaks, pops and paper textures.
We rolled on this instrument for about an hour, and did everything from flicking the keys to dropping and pounding it. The accordion took some abuse, but in the end what it gave back was a wealth of old sounding textures you can’t fake.
This instrument was recorded at 24 bit 96k, in dual mono – with an AT4050 for a wide perspective and a Schoeps CMC6.MK4 for a close perspective. Comes with 57 .wav files and 19 Kontakt .nki files (the .nki files require the full retail version of NI Kontakt 4.2.3 or later)
Industrial Ambiences – perfect for realistic industrial settings, adjacent to factories, dockyards, warehouses. Subtle intricate backgrounds, eerie man-made areas and horror ambiences. All files at least four minutes in length.
• 53 Tracks Total (25 Day time Tracks, 28 Night time Tracks)
• High Resolution Photographs of Recording Locations Included
• Thorough UCS compatible metadata included in all files
• All tracks recorded and edited at 24bit, 96kHz
• Each Track around 4 Minutes in Length
• 6.9 GB compressed download, 7.5 GB uncompressed
Motherships delivers a variety of mind-blowing interstellar mothership drones, transmission noises, inspiring indoor and outdoor ambiences.
It also features detailed computer room sounds with modern beeps and buttons, disturbing mechanical devices, machine room atmospheres, sci-fi radars, laser pulse and energy beams, heavyweight reactor rumbles and many more.
ARCADIA | A comprehensive selection of characterful 8-bit/retro sound effects with a modern touch.
From quivering deaths to delicate locks and intense doors, this collection takes the modernised-retro style to a whole new level. We wanted to create something more interesting and exciting than just being fully faithful to the 8-bit genre.
This collection contains sounds such as: Alarms, Ambiences, Attacks, Calculations, Damages, Deaths, Doors, Errors, Explosions, Notifications, Jumps, Falls, Footsteps, Weapons, Impacts, Item Pickups, Machines, Monsters, Projectiles, Radio Disturbances, Whooshes and Music Tracks. Take a look at our data sheet for the complete list.
All sounds are royalty free and equipped with comprehensive Soundminer metadata for rapid access.
Shards is a sound library that's all about that (breaking) glass.
It contains glass and porcelain being smashed, rustled, trickled and dropped from two different microphone perspectives! Shard's intended use is for anything icy, glassy and porcelain-y.
Get ready to get back to school – in sound. This library contains more than 350 files and over 1.500 high definition sounds.
• The backpack, pens, pencils, iron ruler, the blackboard & chalk
• Different types of files, folders, books and binders
• The staplers, scotch, scissors, eraser and many other things
All the recordings are captured at 24Bit/96KHz, and include Soundminer metadata.
'Laos' is a unique collection of 49 sounds recorded and produced with high-quality equipment. From north to south, this collection includes:
This collection provides authentic and interesting sounds recorded through all the country using DPA, Neumann and Audio technica mics powered by an Aeta Mixy Recorder. All Faunethic tracks include Soundminer metadata tags.
'Chaosmos – Sounds From Istanbul' is a sound effects library created by Furkan Utku Gerçik, who's lived in Istanbul for the past 22 years. The main focus of the library is to create a bundle that helps creatives who need sounds from Turkey.
The library doesn’t focus on common or popular sound sources such as Muezzin, Ezan or Taksim Square etc.
Instead, it focuses on more naturalistic sounds of daily life such as transportation, places that most people pass, bazaars, islands and much more. The recordings are are 99 percent raw.
Compared to other libraries 'Chaosmos – Sounds From Istanbul' offers a naturalistic, everyday perspective and focuses on alternative sounds. It also covers the common sounds of Istanbul.
Want weapon sounds that stand out? With Steampunk Weapons, we mixed the old with the new to make this uniquely diversified collection of weapons. Combining modern recording techniques with metal, rusted objects, and synthesis, if you need some more weapons that break the mold of traditional weapons, this is the collection for you!
Explore a large collection of beautiful, tranquil sounds from remote desert locations across the American southwest and enjoy listening to the morning sun awaken desert wildlife. This serene collection features sounds that will make you fall in love with the harmonious desert dawn. Sounds include doves cooing, woodpeckers hammering, White-throated Swifts in swirling flocks, and much more. Featured like never before are recordings of Swainson’s hawks so close you can hear the whoosh as their powerful wings cut through the air. For the second installment of my extensive nature sounds from the heart of the American Southwest, here is High Desert Ambiences 2: Active Nature.
2% for the Planet:
Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause. I view it as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• This library is filled with the “Active Nature” sounds of desert mornings.
• Swainson’s Hawks – a male and female recorded near their nest in a 200-foot cliff. Recordings are from below the nest and include close, distant, circling, diving, and soaring perspectives.
• White-throated Swifts – flocks of small barn swallow-like birds circling, darting, and whooshing in front of a desert cliff.
• Other Birds/Wildlife Included: Canyon Wrens, Bewick’s Wrens, Montezuma Quail, White-winged Doves, Western Screech-Owls, Aoudad Sheep, Rufous-crowned Sparrows, Eastern Meadowlarks, and many more labeled as “songbirds” if not identified by species.
• Tracks starting with the filename “Quiet Desert” have low wildlife activity and are perfect “natural roomtones” to use as the foundation of a designed environment. If you need more “Quiet Nature” tracks check out High Desert Ambiences 3: Quiet Nature or the miniature pack of desert sounds in High Desert Ambiences 1: miNiATURE.
• Most files are 3-6 minutes in length
• Named markers included in each file to help find interesting events in an otherwise uniform waveform. Starting in Soundminer 4.5Pro_v252 you can now read text markers from within Soundminer!
• Marker text included in the Soundminer Description and BWAV description fields.
• Recording Location – Davis Mountains, Texas
• *Note – Birds were self-identified using several iOS apps and bird identification websites, so I cannot guarantee 100% accuracy of species identification.
Ultrasonic Dry Ice is a library containing over 600 sounds themed metal resonances, scrapes and all sorts of weird.
All the content has been recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K, a couple of Sennheiser MKH8040 and a MKH416.
The resulting ultrasonic spectrum is rich and allows for truly extreme manipulation of the content.
A larger focus on wind – with trees, brush, crickets, and other sounds often included. There are also plain wind sounds recorded on exceptionally quiet wilderness winter nights that can be layered over most every project for several minutes or longer. Additionally includes some branches breaking in high winds and rain patter.
‘Tinnitus Designed’ is a collection of 25 sounds to replicate the noises of tinnitus. The library is a realistic approach at creating some of the sounds experienced by people with tinnitus.
Suitable for post-production sound designers.
Cinenergy is the first installment of CINE series.
It is a collection of dark, dirty, analog, synthetic impacts and whooshes, designed to energize your projects.
Cinenergy (Cinematic Energy) is a library created with sound designers in mind.
Add dark, synthetic impacts and drops to you trailers, enhance existing sound design with extra transitions and modern cinematic drops.
Collection consists of 100 carefully designed and rendered sound effects with baked-in Soundminer’s metadata.
All sounds have been created and processed using top tier gear in order to deliver crisp, modern, error free sound.
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Senhheiser MKH8060
CREATED AND EDITED WITH: Modular, DBX 120A, TC Finalizer 96k, Reaktor, Serum, Live
CINE series explained:
Cinenergy: Dark, energetic, Impacts, whooshes and transitions
CineDrop: Slow-motion impacts, downers and bass drops
Cinescapes: Seamlessly looping, modern cinematic soundscapes
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