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Get the sounds of switches, buttons, knobs and handles – recorded inside an old, retired flight simulator donated to the Danish Technical Museum.
This machine used to make aspiring pilots sweat in their seats, putting them through all sorts of mechanical failures, emergency landings, and just plain flying.
There is basically a switch, button, knob or handle to start every single possible emergency situation a pilot and crew may encounter when flying.
When the sound recording started, some of them were partly broken, and others missing, some did not turn or switch, but most of them were still there and worked beautifully. The variety is surprisingly great, and very different from today's modern switch sounds.
91 tracks, recorded with a Sennheiser 416 onto a Sounddevices 702, all tracks Metadata tagged.
If you are looking for vacuum sounds here is an entire sound effects library dedicated to a Retro Vacuum Cleaner.
Vacuum by Badlands Sound features over 160 sounds of an old vacuum cleaner. The library includes onboard recordings of the wheels and motor and Pass bys at various speeds including separate files for wheels and motor, ambiances of a person using a vacuum in different spaces with multiple distances, and Foley.
All sounds were recorded with professional equipment including RODE NTG3, and Sound Devices 702t 96k/24bit sounds allow high-quality sound effects and are great for sound design.
Need high-quality volcanic audio from a film featured by National Geographic? You can hear it pop and snap, and occasionally rocks forming, shearing, and breaking apart. Thankfully – I didn’t melt the recorder!
Welcome to the Hong Kong Ambience sound effects library (1 hour and 15 minutes long, 1.6gb compressed .rar file, 2.4gb Uncompressed). This package contains sounds of what the Cantonese people hear during their daily commutes and can be used for common Asian scenes, China Town scenes, etc. All 18 ready to use and loop-able stereo wave files were captured in 24 Bit, 96 kHz (each in 3, 4, or 5 minutes long), and include metadata.
This library is a collection of balls bouncing off different surfaces, inside and outside. We can generally find sports being played but not the clean sound of the ball used. We have included unique sounding balls such as a toddlers play ball and a Yoga ball for that really specific sound.
Need playing card sound effects? Welcome to the most thorough and comprehensive playing card library in existence. Not only does this library provide an incredible array of card actions with many diverse variations, but it's also provided with 2 Mic perspectives.
Close Perspective: For that “in your face” sound often used in games or scenes where you want to focus and create an impact.
Mixed perspective: For scenes where the sound needs to sit naturally without drawing too much attention, yet still sound articulate.
The library was recorded with the most commonly used card deck used by casinos, magicians and hobbyists alike.
It was recorded with 2 matched Neumann TLM 103's selected for their outstanding transient response and ultra high SNR, and contains 410 Sounds (205 sounds x 2 perspectives).
Carma Studio teleports you to the Golden Age of Video Games with over 600 sound ‘bytes’ starring 5 characters:
8-bit Low-Res Man • Computer Room Man • Tough Guy • 2 Vocoders
These familiar and clearly articulated words & phrases straight from the arcades of the past will add that nostalgic accent to today’s music and production work.
Deposit coins… ready, start playing!
Empty City Rain is a collection of 12 rain & thunder sound effects.
Drippy gutters, peeling thunders, rumble, downpour, light & medium rain, puddles, rain on trees, aftermath, distant city presence and more.
Collection consists of 12 carefully mastered and rendered rain ambiences.
All audio clips loop seamlessly which makes them perfect for games, meditation apps etc.
All SFX have baked-in Soundminer’s meta data
Download includes additional 44.1kHz 16Bit version for Unreal Engine.
RECORDED WITH: Sony PCM D100
EDITED WITH: iZotope RX, Pro Tools.
This library includes 106 sfx of exterior, interior and on-board perspectives of pass bys, shifting, and foley of the Chevy Duramax 2500HD Pickup Truck.
With different performances of each action, you can add unique detail and character to your film, commercial, show, or video game.
This sound collection covers a wide range of sounds produced by this unique vintage car from 1954, 4CC and 63HP. Not only extensive driving sounds but also some foley and horn blasts. All in high quality 96/24 BWAV-files, recorded with high end equipment. All sounds include metadata.
The recordings are multitrack. For the onboard recordings you’ll find synchronized recordings of engine, exhaust, cabin. For the roadside recordings you’ll find an ortf stereo pair.
Recorder
Onboard Mics
Exterior Mics
Cymbals From Hell is the seminal collection of bowed metal sound effects, crafted from recordings of both natural and broken cymbals. Bringing you the nastiest, gnarliest, and harshest set of design elements and raw recordings. Their dynamic range provides a palette that evolves and adapts over time.
All of the sounds have been recorded in a controlled studio environment and played by a professional percussionist, with the intention of providing the most dynamic range and disturbing playing style. Our Audio Craftsmen then meticulously designed and edited every included sound from the bizarre to the downright horrifying.
Cymbals From Hell contains a total of 197 files running at a huge 8.9GB. This library gives you everything you need to create compelling Horror and Sci-Fi soundscapes and add accents to your music, ideal for use in a wide range of projects. All sounds have been recorded in 24bit 96khz for further manipulation, and have been carefully edited so that you can easily drop them into your project timeline and get working right away.
Here are the included folders:
Bowed Cymbals: Harsh and dynamic bowed cymbals, perfect for musical or sound effects accenting.
Time Bending Risers: Sharp risers that have a feeling of movement in time.
Pulsating Dread Pads: The perfect Horror backdrops, built from organic elements.
Mind Bender Stingers: Warped cymbal effects that are equally at home in a Sci-Fi or Horror tracklay.
Metallic Oscillation Pads: The direct opposite of a Meditation Bowl, these sounds oscillate and move in an unnerving way.
Head Shaker Drones: Grit your teeth and cover your ears, these sounds warn of impending doom.
Gut Rumbler Subs: How low can we go? Very low. These sounds sit nicely under your tracklay and provide some serious sub frequencies.
Disturbing Risers: Distorted and mangled, these cymbals are bound to accent any jump scare with a dose of disturbing!
Bowed Alien Metals: Otherwordly vibes fused with a classic staple Horror sound.
Shamanic Drums is a cinematic instrument built from 360+ sample recordings of hand drums and voices.
Our Audio Craftsmen edited, balanced and programmed 4 round robins and 3 velocity layers for each articulation before integrating them into our Kontakt interface, giving Film Composers and Music Producers an extensive set of unique percussion to use in their tracks. These sounds are perfect for trailer percussion loops, rhythmic tension, electronic music and cinematic scores. We also included performed loops that can add interesting ethnic layers to your music.
To provide some tonal layers, we recorded tribal vocal performances to give extra texture to your tracks. After the implementation, our talented in-house Composers designed 11 extra patches, which include shamanic choirs, melodic tones, different variations of electronic sounds, chords, trailer hits and even trickling, echoey drums.
Our user-friendly Kontakt interface provides a variety of controls that encourage experimentation within the patches. The built in Arpeggiator and Step Sequencer are great for generating hundreds of percussion variations in seconds. We have also added a Chord function in our designed patches where you can choose different scales, key and chord shapes while the Main View provides a set of parameters perfect for sculpting the sounds your way.
Kontakt 5.8.1 or higher is required.
NOTE: This library does not run in the free ‘Kontakt Player’.
Haunting Ambiences Vol. 3 is the direct successor to one of our most popular horror sound effects libraries. This product contains dense, multilayered construction kits, everything you need to build a world around your horror scenes with separated stems.
Our Audio Craftsmen captured creepy ambiences and sounds from the cellblock where a couple of notorious killers (The Moors Murderers) were held at The Old Courthouse, Manchester. We captured various ambiences, creaky cell doors, metal bangs, vocalisations from multiple voice actors and much, much more. All of the sounds were then meticulously edited and designed to make 10 construction kits including a mental asylum, vampire’s prison, gas chamber, experimental lab, underground prison, haunted ship prison etc.
These dense ambiences include split stems with the same running length to encourage experimentation, allowing you to add or subtract certain elements, balance them or combine them with sounds from other construction kits in the pack. In addition, all of the files are available in 24Bit 192kHz with extensive UCS compliant metadata to integrate seamlessly with your workflow.
This bundle is perfect for use in your films, documentaries, video games, escape room/live experiences and other horror/sci-fi projects.
Our Antique Small Metals sound effects library contains various sounds from multiple antique items. The collection of used items includes; antique coins, locks, hotel bells, telescopes and much, much more. The sounds created are of a wide variety, including but not limited to; tinkering with mechanisms, placement of the item on various surfaces, rattling, scratching and even setting up a variety of the items.
Our Audio Craftsmen have created a comprehensive library that is ideal for use in films, documentaries, video games and other projects. particular those relevant to scenes from historical eras.
All sounds were recorded in our acoustically treated Foley suite in 24Bit 96kHz allowing further sonic manipulation. We then meticulously edited and tagged the files with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Ocean Waves Beach and Water consists of a large dynamic range of a variety of ocean locations, and water sounds. From roaring white water surf, violent crashing waves on sand and rock, to calm lapping, of far and near perspectives.
I’ve included different types of outdoor fountains, large and small, single seagulls and groups of seagulls. A good portion of the Beach Ambiences have good, useable beach type walla. Family get togethers, children playing, and casual volleyball playing. All these tracks have good movement within them so that the listener doesn’t get bored with static sounds. There are plenty of tracks with and without any sort of voices or walla in the background.
There are “Dins” included for those settings where you may need to fill in the background with sound that doesn’t get in the way, and doesn’t draw attention to itself.
These sounds were recorded over the period of 10 years in multiple countries. All have been mastered in Pro Tools, EQ’d, with light limiting and compression to pop out the finer details, otherwise hidden by masking frequencies, but are otherwise in their raw form.
All tracks have full metadata created in Soundminer, and there is an attached Track List for quick reference.
Hydrophonic Design Vol. 1 is the latest of our water-themed collections. This library is overflowing with sounds recorded with our dual-mic over and underwater set-up.
These recordings – captured with the Sennheiser MKH50 and Aquarian H2a Hydrophone – have been carefully designed by our Audio Craftsmen to produce a huge variety of dopplers, impacts, oneshots and ambiences. Worldise your space battle scenes with brassy hits and sci-fi gun shots, or add suspense to underwater game sequences with moody ambiences and bubbling pass-bys. Bring the fun to your sound design process with this versatile collection!
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 192kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
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Historical Battle Voices is a library of vocal performances ideal for any and all army, battle, war and fight projects! Inside you will find an enormous selection of grunts, cries of pain, guttural roars, and historical battle orders and calls (including ‘Forward!’, ‘Attack!’ ‘Knock’ ‘Lock!’ ‘Pour’, ‘Ball’, ‘Save the King!’ ‘Charge!’ ‘Prepare for battle!’, ‘You win!’ and much more!)
The characters were performed by our Audio Craftsmen and a professional voice actor, providing as many options as possible for your next film, TV and game project. This library is ready for action and sure to add some liveliness and personality to your work. Pair it with our other historical weapons and armour libraries for an adventure-filled, immersive experience!
Sounds have been separated into the following character categories:
Young Soldier: Includes battle cries and roars, orders and calls, grunts and cries of pain.
Knight: A deep-voiced, heroic man. Includes battle cries, roars, orders and calls.
Kid Fighter: A member of the youth ready to defend their village.
High-Ranking Officer: A haughty, authoritative figure. Includes battle cries and roars, orders and calls, cries of pain and heroic grunts.
Hardened Princess: A woman willing to fight for her kingdom. Includes grunts and cries of pain, injury and impact.
Foot Archer: An aggressive, energetic fighter. Includes battle cries and roars, orders and calls, grunts and cries of pain.
Village Warrior: A wilful, brave man. Includes battle cries and roars, orders and calls, grunts and cries of pain.
Each file contains numerous variations and lines of the named performance.
All sounds were recorded in 24Bit 192kHz, and have been tagged with extensive UCS metadata for ease of use.
Interior Vibrations Vol. 2 is a new sound effects library from 344 Audio, and the second volume in our Interior Vibrations collection.
This product contains a selection of different sounds captured with a stereo pair of contact microphones, all edited to perfection by our skilled team of audio craftsmen.
When making this library, we experimented with a range of different sound creation methods, using a variety of different objects and materials to achieve the desired effect.
Some of the sound sources in this library include:
Raw vibrations through metal and wooden surfaces.
Scraping & bending metal.
Rubbing fabrics, hair and skin.
Drilling metal at various intensities.
The organic nature of these sounds means they’re perfect for further sound design, and are ideal for use in horror and science fiction productions.
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.
The sound enthusiast in you will love to know that we scoured around the city/internet to collect a bunch of antique mechanistic objects for this sound collection. We even scored an old classic adding machine and a working antique pedal sewing machine! The gears and mechanisms in this odd assortment of old machines is from a beautiful and rich bygone era of manual movement, of strange and fascinating ideas from inventors creating moving parts that are simply unproducible in modern day gadgets.
Your ears spring to life as you listen through, one by one through these highly detailed and engrossing audio recordings that capture brilliantly the foreground and midground layers of the small moving parts. Perfect for older weapon Foley, for steam-punk machines, period piece machines, industrial era machinery, and on and on. A small vintage gear crank, that special metallic rich clickety-clack of a dusty old mechanism, the ribbon typewriter scrolling…
To get the most out of this collection of old mechanisms, we used a multipositional close mic-ing approach for these in order to get all those tiny moving details. Of course, they required that they be captured in our smallest studio used for precisely these low-noise environment sort of recordings – key in bringing the detailed three dimentional quality of these mechanisms to life.
As sound designers, we always need new, better, varied material. We want to feel excited by and connected to the sounds we use – enjoy and make it yours!
Haunting Ambiences Vol. 4 is the fourth instalment in one of our most popular series of horror sound effects libraries. This product contains dense, multi-layered construction kits, giving you the tools craft harrowing atmospheres for your terrifying
Haunting Ambiences Vol. 4 is the fourth instalment in one of our most popular series of horror sound effects libraries. This product contains dense, multi-layered construction kits, giving you the tools to craft harrowing atmospheres for your terrifying projects.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded and designed unusual, unnerving sounds – including screaming voices, chair creaks, bangs, dripping water, bug movement and more – to elicit maximum unease in your audiences. The result is a series of construction kits comprising abandoned sewer, haunted living room, breeding chamber, ghost rider, engine room and eerie forest ambiences.
Also included are split stems with the same running length to encourage experimentation and allow mixing and matching across the library.
This library can be used for constructing unsettling backgrounds for both digital and live horror projects, including films, games and escape rooms.
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.
Enter GORE 2, The follow up to our first smash hit GORE sound library. Full of the most insane blood explosions, drips, flesh rips, splatters, blood gurgles, and intense fight and ultra violence sounds. Why did we make it? Because we wanted a HUGE collection of bigger, wetter, juicer, and crazier GORE sounds that could be a forever go to for professional sound designers. We recorded over 5,000 sounds and 300+ files to make this a whopping 20+ GB collection with lots of variations for all your scenes, film, gameplay or project. The GORE 2 library is split up into 3 sections, designed, source, and builds. Design – Bone, blood, melee & slaughter categories. Source – Featuring 192Khz 32 Bit Sanken Co-100k mic recordings, allowing you to pitch up ultra high or ultra low without loosing fidelity. Builds – Halfway between source material and designed, allowing you flexibility to start with some sounds that are slightly designed. GORE 2 is a classic giant collection that will serve you for years and years.
Essential Sound Urban Background Ambience & Traffic 2 Pack Bundle
This bundle contains 80 tracks of clear and dynamic field recordings. A select collection of captured background ambiences from various locations around Southern California and Los Angeles.
Some of the locations include; West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Pasadena, Ojai, Joshua Tree, San Bernadino Forest, and much more.
There is a good mix of interior and exterior files, as well as day and night versions. This includes; light and heavy traffic, near and distant. Rainy wet traffic. Room-tone versions with light/heavy traffic. Quiet desert bird and cicada ambience, as well as active park and street ambiences.
There is a little bit of everything, and a great way to bolster your existing library.
All material has embedded Metadata. Also, where there are notable moments that stick out in a track, there are meta-tags for easy spot viewing in programs that support meta-tags, such as Soundminer.
Recordings were captured at 24bit/96Khz, with Zoom F6, H6 recorders, with Rode Shotguns and Stereo mic setups. All files are cleaned up and mastered in Pro Tools, with light compression and the necessary EQ to ensure clarity is preserved without sounding muddy.
The Solar Sky library features a diverse set of state-of-the-art spaceship sounds. Designed for use in any modern sci-fi production, Solar Sky is an essential addition to add to your workflow.
Designing sound for spaceships can be quite time consuming, and Solar Sky gives you a great set of sounds to get started.
Solar Sky features more than 2.2GB of 350 24bit/96kHz files, all embedded with Soundminer and Basehead metadata.
• Ship ambiances and drones
• 120+ Ship passbys, both large and small
• Ship power ups
• Ship power downs
• Ship door opens and closes
• Wave Warped passbys
Introducing SoundMorph’s Sinematic – a sound pack featuring cutting edge impacts, stutters, sub sonic bass, mega horns, stingers, risers, whooshs, bowed cymbals, and source recordings.
Get this collection of cinematic sounds to cater to the most modern and cutting edge productions out there.
• Stutter Risers
• Sub Sonic Bass
• Mega Horns
• Hits and Impacts
• Stingers
• Risers
• Simple Design
• Statics
• Whoosh Bys
• Bowed Cymbals
• Raw Source Recordings
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