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Sound effects libraries where the file names and metadata follow the Universal Category System (UCS), championed by renowned sound supervisor Tim Nielsen & more
Wozówka the tortie likes to talk and she likes to purr. And she’s often multitasking, like a typical 21st century person.
Being in the 5th year of her life she has developed a decent vocabulary. She code-switches, too, depending on whether she’s safe at home, or on alert in the woods. Every mood she goes through is marked with a different meow.
Roughly half of the sounds here are made indoors in mono, close miked with a Lom Usi. The rest is made outdoors in stereo with a Telinga.
Carma Studio makes a toast to all you creators out there by saluting you with a sound library of toasting clinks using various drinkware.
Swish is a micro-collection that contains a ton of variation of two objects swinging around, creating swishing/swooshing sounds. The first is a simple cat toy wand and string, that used to have feathers on the end. The second is a branch from a thorn bush. The collection includes individual swishes, multiple swishes, and continuous swishes (swirling around and around). Each at various speeds.
Introducing our new Artbits library which is all about elevators! Such a typical subject to be recorded in the world of sound effects as they generate a large range of mechanical sounds from the emblematic doors, the traction system, all the clicketing metallic parts, and the characteristic acoustic of small cubic space.
The Master Gun SA 1911 contains 20 microphone perspectives delivered at 192kHz Broadcast WAV files with UCS Standard Soundminer metadata.
The Master Gun Ithica Model 37 contains 20 microphone perspectives delivered at 192kHz Broadcast WAV files with UCS Standard Soundminer metadata.
A remarkable sound library of ambient loops and isolated elements meticulously captured from domestic interiors, appliances, and Foley.
An extraordinary sound library that has been meticulously crafted to transport your audience to the heart of huge engine rooms, industrial settings, or sci-fi realms, taking your projects to awe-inspiring heights.
An extraordinary sound library boasting high-quality recordings, rich with the authentic sounds of urban and suburban parks, lush gardens, and tranquil neighborhood backyards.
Experience the heart and soul of the city with this captivating collection of ambient sounds from urban environments and transportation. Includes stereo, surround, and ambisonic loops, plus individual elements to create custom ambiences. From bustling boulevards to echoing alleys, this library perfectly captures the rhythm of urban life.
Heritage Doors & Floors Vol. 1 features door and footstep sounds captured in a British historic house for its reverberant, characterful effects.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded door slams, opens, closes, latches, rattles, door knobs, knocks and footsteps performed on antique wooden floors. Because of the hall’s enormity and natural reverb, the sounds include a sense of perspective and authenticity that will transport you right into the past.
Use this library to set your soundscapes in bygone periods or modern stately homes belonging to wealthy characters. Evoke a sense of history in your audiences with the distinct sounds of long ago.
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 perfect boring traffic you are looking for. All the recordings are long enough to fill an entire scene or play in the background without looping. Heavy traffic in the city center, busy intersections, highways, vehicles passing under a bridge, different incoming and outcoming directions, with different mic placements, with no human (or birds’!) interference, ready to use in your project.
AN EPIC SONIC JOURNEY
Blast through the sounds of the future with SCI-FI – MOMENTUM. Ignite your film and video projects with the dynamic sounds of unstoppable starships soaring through the vast expanse of the cosmos. SCI-FI – MOMENTUM is powered by our signature high-quality audio and design; each sound a celestial brushstroke, helping you to paint a vivid sonic tapestry of otherworldly experiences for your audience.
This sound collection contains a wide range of sonic elements, including hurtling starships, time warps, and smaller vehicle movements. From grinding engines and hovering drones, to humming servos, pneumatic lifts, and power ups and downs, it captures a full spectrum of futuristic sounds. SCI-FI – MOMENTUM also incorporates a plethora of top-notch organic source recordings to ensure an unparalleled level of authenticity and fidelity rarely encountered in the sci-fi realm.
The all-time classic ARP 2600 was a synthesizer that was an immediate hit with musicians and sound designers when it was released in 1971. Most famously, it’s the very synth that Ben Burtt used to give R2D2 his unmistakeable voice.
Semi-modular in nature and with many handy features like voltage modifiers, lag control, ring modulation, a comprehensive noise generator, sample & hold, and 3 independent oscillators, it comes equipped with more features than you’ll find in many of today’s analog synthesizers.
Thanks to the Alan R. Pearlman Foundation and the non-profit studio The Record Co. I was able to access an original, mint condition ARP 2600 that is beautifully maintained and lock myself in a studio with it to capture nearly 7 hours worth of raw sound design material.
Putting the 2600’s immense sound design potential to use, I created this library to help you give robots a voice, create otherworldly ambiances, score computers with the obligatory “bleep bloops”, and craft larger than life weapons with a distinct retro SciFi flair. I also captured the physical, mechanical sounds of patching cords and moving faders on the synth using a pair of LOM Uši Pro. These sounds are included in a dedicated subfolder.
The resulting sounds range from droid chatter at various root pitches, impacts, drones, noise, and lots of other sonic source that begs to be pitch-shifted and mangled. In fact, the ARP 2600’s pristine analog circuitry and my high-end recording chain capturing it at 192 kHz means that most of the final material features high-frequency content ranging up to nearly 90 kHz!
This means that you can pitch-shift most of these sounds down by up to 2 octaves and uncover new harmonic content along the way. By recording at 32 Bit with the ultra low-noise Zoom F6 and Rheingold Music cables, these recordings are extremely clean and hold up well to intense processing.
While highly abstract in nature, these sounds are a great basis for building:
Metadata: UCS file naming, SoundMiner, Soundly, BWF
Recording Specs: 24 Bit / 192 kHz for the majority of files. 96 kHz for files with less ultrasonic content, Stereo and Mono recordings.
File Format: WAV
Gear used: Genuine ARP 2600 Model 3620 (1974), LOM Uśi Pro Mics, Zoom F6, Rheingold Music Cables, Radial Pro D2 DI Box
Processing: Level adjustment, crossfades, spectral noise reduction for recordings using built-in spring reverb.
Immersive Industrial Steelwork Ambiences + Metal Welding, Grinding & Cutting Sounds
Commercial fireworks: Up Close and Loud is a collection of commercial-grade fireworks – the big stuff – shooting from mortar tubes not 20 feet from my microphones. Each thunderous burst is heard directly overhead. Many feature a long decay at the end. The result is an assemblage of sounds filled with power and punch. Every round leaving its tube gives off a solid gut-thumping boom. Only such nearby access can provide this perspective.
If fireworks aren’t your thing, that’s cool. These files could have been used for any number of WWII movies I grew up watching and will put you right there on the battlefield again today.
Wind Chimes is a collection of meticulously captured wind chimes purposely recorded with a pair of high-end Barcus Berry 4000 (Planar Wave Piano and Harp Pickup System) contact microphones. By using this type of mic instead of traditional ones, the attack, sustain and decay of each tube struck by its clapper are experienced in ways unheard by the naked ear. Every tinkle and plink, every clang and rattle sound a bit more removed from its environment than normal. Harmonics are heard alongside fundamental frequencies. Every recording is unique to its moment in time. Each note is as random as the wind that plays it. These chimes are anything but showroom new. Some are weathered. Some are outwardly neglected. A few sound pretty, others not so much.
The Master Gun Steyr AUG Assault Rifle contains 20 microphone perspectives delivered at 192kHz Broadcast WAV files with UCS Standard Soundminer metadata. (80 Total Files, 5.97GB Total).
When traveling to Berlin to take some much needed time off, I immediately know that I wanted to capture some of the ambiences of the city; Not just to create a library from them, but also to let me dwell on the trip for a little longer by immersing myself in these recordings once back home. From the balcony of an AirBnb in Berlin-Wedding, I captured several long-form ambiences (ranging from 5 to 30+ minutes) during different times of day. The location of the apartment allowed me to capture the sounds of the city in a very cohesive and uninterrupted way without having people walking or driving directly in front of the recorder.
You’ll hear gentle traffic sounds, the S-Bahn 41 and 42 arriving and departing regularly in the distance, occasional ambulance pass-bys, church bells, birds, and, in some cases, even the thumping bass from a nearby wedding venue.
Also included are recordings captured at train and subway stations, animal vocalizations captured at the two zoos, and some very calming suburban ambience.
The Foley Vault is home to an ever-growing collection of original Foley recordings.
Each library was captured by professional Foley Artists on our in-house Foley Stage using a Sennheiser MKH50 microphone.
These sounds were originally performed for a variety of feature and short film projects. They have now been compiled and released for you to edit and implement into your own film, game and television productions.
Female Mouth Noises Vol. 1 offers a plethora of everyday vocal and mouth human sounds. This instalment features a female actor to provide an alternative tonality to our Male Mouth Noises library.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded her lip smacks, swallows, slurps, gasps, hiccups, groans, coughs, burbles, tongue clicks, gargles, sucks, hmms, ums, yawns, retches and much more, providing you with a library suitable for a multitude of use-cases. These theatrical sounds are full of feeling and aim to inspire a fun and playful editing experience.
You can apply these sounds to any Film, TV or Game project requiring a hit of expression, character and human behaviour.
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.
Female Horror Screams Vol. 1 features ear-ringing, blood-curling, spine-tingling screams performed by a female actor. This collection of vocalisations channels pure fear and pain, making them perfect for your horror genre productions.
Inside is a multitude of sounds performed according to various horror needs, including terrified screeches, shrill shrieks and cries in agonies. Our Audio Craftsmen also recorded screams in a reverberant stairwell to offer an eerie perspective suitable for enhancing your background designs.
You can use this library to amp up the fear in your final girl scenes, design dark and twisted characters, or add immersion to your horror projects.
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 Foley Vault is home to an ever-growing collection of original Foley recordings.
Each library was captured by professional Foley Artists on our in-house Foley Stage using a Sennheiser MKH50 microphone.
These sounds were originally performed for a variety of feature and short film projects. They have now been compiled and released for you to edit and implement into your own film, game and television productions.
The Foley Vault is home to an ever-growing collection of original Foley recordings.
Each library was captured by professional Foley Artists on our in-house Foley Stage using a Sennheiser MKH50 microphone.
These sounds were originally performed for a variety of feature and short film projects. They have now been compiled and released for you to edit and implement into your own film, game and television productions.
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