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Home Sound Effects
This in-depth and enormous library was originally created with video games in mind but became much more detailed over time. Most of the props were used on multiple surfaces, with multiple versions. This avoids sounding repetitious. Props range from Grabs, Drops, Rolls, Slides, Crinkles, Shakes, Handling, and much more.
There are no footsteps in this compilation, however, there are over 3000 versatile sounds.
This well recorded Foley library is very perfect for all media content.
The total amount of files in Essential House Foley is over 3200, offering a large dynamic range in props used.
Recorded in Burbank CA, we used state of the art equipment and computers. The sounds have all been captured and mastered in Pro Tools, and kept natural sounding, by edited and mixing with very light and natural sounding compression and limiting.
Cymbals From Hell Vol. 3 is an unnerving collection of the most disturbing, ominous sounds, brought to you as a sequel to one of our most popular horror libraries to date. Built from Tibetan bowls and various bell recordings, this collection of sound effects is destined to disturb and horrify you to the absolute fullest, bringing out every sense of fear and anguish that your audience has.
This horrifying library is made in association with Igor Tikhonov from KEDR Audio, who captured Tibetan bowls and various bells (performed with different types of beaters) using both Mid-Side and omnidirectional A/B microphone techniques to cover an extensive stereo-field and different textures. Our team of Audio Craftsmen carefully edited and designed them to make the most mysterious and disturbing sounds including harsh hits, low drones, distorted stingers, magical bells, dark – unsetting chimes, and even weird sci-fi drones.
All of the sounds are extensively meta-tagged and UCS compliant so that you can easily find the sound you need. All of the files are in 192kHz/24bit allowing for further sonic manipulation.
Guitar Designed originated from source recordings of an expert guitarist playing a variety of articulations across the instrument. Our Audio Craftsmen used a variety of tools to then mangle, distort and transform these into ground-breaking, futuristic sonic elements.
This library includes everything from deep, hypnotic low drones to fast and reactive cinematic stingers, all designed from this players hand-crafted, custom shop instrument. Furthermore, we have also prepared a strong selection of accustomed guitar riffs, licks and phrases ready to be dropped into whatever project you wish!
All sounds were recorded and have been brought to you here at the music industry sample rate standard of 48kHz, and 24 bit-depth. Whether you’re working on your latest film, designing the soundscape for a video game or producing a great new track; this library has something for all.
Ultimate Smoking SFX is an extensive collection of almost every conceivable smoking sound effect, covering cigarettes, roll ups and pipes, as well as lighters and matches.
Our skilled Audio Craftsmen recorded a large range of different smoking sounds, including puffing, taking drags, cigarette pack handling, tapping out in an ashtray, rolling up a herbal cigarette, packing a pipe, smoking a pipe, and lighting with a lighter and matches.
All effects were recorded in our acoustically treated Foley Suite and have been edited with meticulous detail, so that you can use them straight away in your films, games and other projects containg smoking characters. All files are provided dry in 24Bit/96kHz allowing for further manipulation.
Lets light up!
Here are the 4 included folders:
Cigarette: Sounds of traditional cigarettes from a packet.
Herbal Cigarette: Sounds of “Roll your own” and alternative herbal cigarettes.
Matches and Lighters: Sounds of matches and lighters being struck and lit.
Pipe: Sounds of a traditional pipe being packed and puffed.
East Coast America Contains a variety of recordings from rural and suburban settings in locations such as Florida and Connecticut.
Immerse yourself in the sun kissed beaches as waves wash on the shore. Walk through bustling markets and streets. Take a ride on a busy ferry, and listen to the calming country ambiences of crickets and gentle winds.
This diverse collection of ambiences and spot effects can be used for a range of exterior settings. Ideal for building up backgrounds for your scenes, or further manipulation to create your own bespoke atmospheres.
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.
UK Football Vol. 2 is the second in our series of candid UK football fan recordings. Crowd reactions and walla were captured during gameplay to bring you a selection of spectator sounds brimming with unique English personality!
This library comprises a variety of activity recorded by our Audio Craftsmen from a pitchside and stands (AKA bleachers) perspective. Inside you will find football impacts, “weeey”s, “awww”s and boos, swearing, yelling, clapping, players shouting, Tannoy announcements, jeering, whistles, as well as encouraging, aggressive, angry, annoyed, sarcastic and fighting spectators!
This collection of football fervour is ideal for TV, Film and game scenes requiring passionate voices and performances. Use it to embellish sport backgrounds or boost tension during on-screen competitions.
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.
Rub-a-dub-dub, thanks for the grub!
Eateries Vol. 1 features the native sounds of food-providing locations; in this case, a cafe and bakery kitchen.
This library comprises natural cafe ambiences (featuring walla, cutlery clinking, coffee machine noise, customers placing their orders, machinery hum, and general cafe hubbub) and sounds of a baker preparing food in their industrial kitchen (including cracking eggs into a metal bowl, putting food in the oven, cutting chocolate, pouring sugar, and more).
The immersive quality of these sounds make them ideal for eatery settings or scenes involving food. Use them to craft realistic, dynamic backgrounds in your Film, TV and Game projects.
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.
Need the sound of fast cars at an affordable price? The Race Cars Essential library features recordings from a 2009 Nissan GTR and a 2007 Lexus IS 350 – approximately 300 MB in total.
Created by Carlo Ascrizzi and Aditya J Yadav
More than your average beast sound set, this library brings you a large selection of dog vocalizations, howls, growls, cries, whines, huffs, puffs, sighs, and more.
A collection of ambulance, police and fire truck sirens, captured in Italy. Features both cars, fire trucks and motorcycles – and comes with doppler pass-bys, stationary, close, distant and in-car siren recordings. A bonus selection of car/house alarms is also included, for a total of 15 minutes of howling siren recordings!
Each sound file has been carefully named and tagged for easy search in Soundminer and is Universal Category System (UCS) compliant.
(see the full track list below).
Need helicopter sounds? The Bell 407 and Bell 429 are *THE* helicopters used in police, news, rescue, military and private fleets. Over 1 hr and 45 minutes of beautiful recordings.
The Motorboat 2 library gets you recordings of a motor boat with a Honda BF 5A 5-HP 4-Stroke engine. Includes starts, idling, forward speeds, false starts, and engine shutoffs.
Get the movement noise and handling sounds of a wide range of dresses and clothes, bags, necklaces, hats and footwear. Most items include photos too, to make the items easier to identify.
Footwear includes:
Japanese clogs • training shoes • mens' and womens' sandals • leather and canvas • turkish slippers • riding boots • military boots • canvas sneakers
Necklaces include:
Bijou Wooden copper balls • wood cubes • bijou plastic pearl • classified links • metal death head • fiber micro pearl • big plastic pearl and more
Bags include:
Small women's handbag • Grandmother handbag • Mini handbag • Cane handbag • Cane shoulder bag • Braided handbag • Indian shoulder bag • Military canvas bag
Hats:
Woolen hat • summer straw panama hat • basketball cap
Belts & more:
Canvas belt • plastic belt • leather belt • classic leather belt • ties • silk sheets • leather holster
Get more than 5.5 hours of urban soundscapes from Chicago, Illinois. The recordings in the ‘Chicago – Urban Atmosphere’ library range from busy sidewalk ambiences, street corners, crowds, subways, skyline tones, horns, to back alley rumbles.
The library is recorded with a Sound Devices 702 recorder + a stereo pair of Schoeps CMC6s with the MK2 H capsules, and is embedded with extensive metadata.
Iconic Chicago sounds such as the El Train, Lower Wacker Drive, and Michigan Avenue are only some of the unique sounds found in this library. And although Chicago has many iconic features that create its soundscape, this library can be used for any city or urban application.
This library has 224 footsteps of all sorts. There are different type of shoes, such as boots, sneakers, sandals, slippers, flats, heels, bare feet and even a couple of wet sock recordings. It also has different type of surfaces like tile, grass, concrete, wood, dirt, carpet and rooftop recordings. Plus, you will find different types of movements with walking, running, jumping and scuffling around. The recordings are raw, with only light editing applied.
The Rush is a collection of massive rushing sounds that are perfect for use in timelapses, swirls, swarms, and any other massive movement situation. It features 319 sound rushed files that were generated from 30 lovingly curated sources and carefully rendered in Sound Particles.
Sound sources range from trains and race cars to vinyl, metal and paper frictions to gore, motorcycles and helicopters. Parameters are tweaked to yield textured and interesting results with detailed heads and tails that rush in and gently dissolve out.
Each rush has a different number of particles running, so you get every level from sparse detailed movement to overwhelming waterfalls of sound per sample set. Check it out today!
Vaeyan IV delivers a massive set of assorted sound design ingredients for your audio alchemy. It includes assets captured from natural ambiances, vehicles, tools, cameras, slingshots, scissors, clay whistles, flutes, ceramic jars, dumpsters, kitchen appliances, deconstructed fans, toys, doors, windows, vintage furniture, fountains, projectors, and even a slap bracelet. That’s right, a slap bracelet.
As with Vaeyan I, II, and III, this is a huddling of field recordings and sound designs that do not quite form a library on their own. However, together they make up an audio FX treasure chest gleaming with gold and silver audio loot!
Get the sounds of incredible New Zealand with this new library: I went down to New Zealand to visit a relative and record and experience the north island. It was an unforgettable trip. I rented a car, stayed on a farm, and explored as much as I could of the island.
I recorded everything from cities to beaches to forests and farms and beyond! I even hopped on a 8 person plane to the Great Barrier Island off the coast of New Zealand to capture sounds.
BONUS – I traveled to Sydney, Australia for a week and recorded ambience and walla along the way. This is all included in the library!
Recorded in Eastern Oregon’s Great Basin and High Desert Region – classic sounds of the American West, forest or desert.
These tracks are stripped highlights from the hundreds of hours of field recordings I use to make my films. A number of them include the birds fluttering and making deep natural calls right next to the recorder – about as close as you can hope to get of birds in the wild.
Let’s continue our scientific journey into experimental-impulse-response research. This time around, we have developed a technique to produce outstanding rhythmic reverb spaces; utilizing intense frequency and amplitude modulation synthesis with the touch of granularity.
Some of them resulting in the most vivid and lush ambiences you could imagine, other with glitchy stuttery twists. Sounds that are truly out of this world, that can yet be tamed to fit your reality. Our impulses will reverberate clearly in your convolution reverb engine, without any harsh resonances or struggles with equalisation.
They are like pieces of glass, beautiful and clean with outstanding shapes and textures, yet coloured if need be. Trust your ears, these spatial shapes can be what it takes to transform your tracks into cinematic wonders or completely reinvent them as spatial masterpieces.
This collection of quirky and cartoonish sounds is perfect to create the next prank for your colleagues.
Including organic and acoustic instruments performing falls, rises and all sorts of quirky sounds. Additionally ‘Cartoon & Quirk’ gets you preproduced and ready to use combos, as well as foley and household effects and human reactions.
Dakota Crickets by Badlands Sound features seven ambience files in high quality of 192k Hz. All files are three minutes long and are loopable that allows for easy editing ambiences for your projects. You will hear this library has almost no wind in the recordings allowing you to layer your ambiences. Great file names and metadata makes these a breeze to use and find.
This library is designed for instances when chewing rocks is not what you are looking for. There are various types of food being chewed with open and closed mouth. From soft and squishy, to hard and crunchy.
This library was recorded using the Shoeps CMIT5 and the Avedis MA5 pre.
The Dark Woods Ambience sound effects library contains sounds of natural night ambiences, all recorded in the woods in Southwest Florida, USA (under trees, woods, etc). All 68 ready to use and loop-able stereo wave files were captured in 24 Bit, 96 kHz stereo (each in 3 or 5 minutes long). There are sounds of birds, a Coyote, frogs, insects, wild pigs, waves/water splashes from fish/wind, thunders, etc (check out the file names). See if you can identify what the two creatures are that approached my microphone. One of the creatures dragged the microphone fur a few feet away!
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