This week we have sounds that will bring life and movement to your projects. We have gusting winds from the Texas desert mountains, peaceful nature atmospheres from northern Poland, all kinds of HVAC machines like air conditioners, heaters and fans, factory ambiences that include whirring Volvo robotics and a rock processing plant that strangely hums, soldiers conducting war games with AK5s and tanks, rusty freight trains traveling around the San Francisco Bay, plenty of crumbling, shattering rocky glitches, and 1920s technology that helped us count money back in the day.
Designed Rocks
Destruction & Impact
Designed Rocks
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70 sounds included, 12 mins total
$15
The next installment of the Designed series features crumbling and cracking rocks, shattering glitches, evolving textures, and everything in between.
Designed Rocks includes:
• 70 24bit 48kHz WAV files / Meta-tagged (inc PDF/XLS)
• 30 Evolutions
• 30 Elements
• 10 Bonus Raw Source WAV Files
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'Designed Rocks' by Solar Audio is a set of glitchy rock elements that crumble, crack and shatter in oddly organic yet synthetic ways. This library has 70 impacting textures that are at times rhythmic and melodic as they crumble, roll, and burst. The library also includes unique atmospherics as if the rocks are under water, or in a small reverberating space, a malfunctioning holodeck and an alien world. If you are looking for synthetic crumbles, check this library out.
Summer Ambients
Environments
Summer Ambients
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92+ sounds included, 175 mins total
$65
Get the sounds of nature from places like forests, lakes, meadows and swamps. Many types of birds, insects, a forest during rainfall, calm and windy days. A brilliant collection of ambiences for atmospheric background sounds, and you can mix and match ambiences for an even livelier soundscape. Recorded in beautiful Masuria in Poland, a region known for its rich nature and 2000 lakes.
Recorded with Sound Devices 702, Rode NTG3, 2x Oktava MK012 in MS and stereo XY pattern.
Huge new update: The library now features 92 files, 175 minutes of recordings – and the total size is 5.79 GB
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The just-updated version of 'Summer Ambients' by Soundholder captures the peaceful landscapes of the lively and pristine forests, lakes, meadows and swamps of Masuria, Poland. This library features several birds such as cuckoos, crows, collared doves, seagulls, warblers, and woodpeckers, as well as crickets, frogs, and flies. You'll even find various intensities of wind and rain, plus quiet and peaceful soundscapes on which to build your own fauna. For tranquil scenes of Northern Polish nature, you should definitely listen to this library.
High Deserts Winds
Environments
High Desert Winds
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52+ sounds included, 200 mins total
$40
$30
Get the blustery sounds of High Desert Winds in this collection of highly provocative winds recorded in the resonant mountains of west Texas.
Key Features:
• High Altitude Desert Wind: 6000 ft. average elevation
• Turbulent Gale-Force Gusts ranging from 15-50 mph
• Mountain Ridgetops
• Indoor Window Perspectives
• Dead Winter and Spring Grass
• Pinyon Pine
• Scratching Mesquite
• 80% Bird Free
• Bats above 20kHz
• Locations: Big Bend National Park and Davis Mountains, Texas
*Bowed metal sounds in demo not included
Gear Used:
• Sennheiser MKH 50/30 Mid/Side pair
• DPA 4060 A/B pair
• Sound Devices 702
• Rycote AG MS Blimp
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'High Deserts Winds' by Thomas Rex Beverly is an eclectic collection of winds from the high altitude areas of Texas. This library includes sounds of the mountain ridge tops of the David Mountains and Big Bend National Park with 15-50 mph gale gusts, low whistling drones, and breezes through the pines, mesquite and more. There are also seasonal recordings with leafy gusts, pouring rain, broad spectrum wind through winter grass, and crickets at night braving the weather. If you need sounds of the blustery wide open American South, this is the library to check out.
HVAC Elements
Mechanical
Hvac Elements
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49 sounds included
$24
Hvac Elements is a sound effects library to help you put some realistic ventilation sounds in your productions, recorded from a variety of sources at many different locations.
From table fans to large industrial vents, as well as a multitude of cooling units. Humming, droning, whooshing hvac machinery; some well-oiled, some rattling and worn. Bathroom vents, air conditioning units and a hot water pressure pump. Even the feeding mechanism of a pellet stove.
Recorded with a minimum of ambiance and background noises (location permitting) and many delivered as seamless loops. The perfect companion to Hvac Drones & Tones.
Hvac Elements is 1.65Gb / 61 minutes of fans, heaters, coolers and things that go WHOOSH, in 49 separate files, recorded in 24bits/96kHz quality.
Hvac Elements includes:
• A variety of hvac elements
• Seamless loops
• Searchable file names
• BWF Metadata embedded, with more included in CSV and ODS (OpenOffice) formats
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'HVAC Elements' by Hzandbits has all the sounds of ventilation you need for your industrial scenes. This library has nearly fifty recordings that make up over an hour of fans, heaters, coolers and more. You can find a small fan with bad bearings that grates and squeals, a tabletop fan that flutters, a howling bathroom fan, a refrigerator cooler that drones and rattles, and much more. With so much variation, you should have an easy time implementing these ambiences and HVAC units in your factories, spaceships and general interior scenes.
Rusty Old Freight Trains
Mechanical
Rusty Old Freight Trains
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10+ sounds included, 28 mins total
$10
This sound effects library is a collection of field recordings of freight trains in the San Francisco Bay area with a route along San Jose, Richmond, Oakland, Emeryville, and San Francisco. All the recorded freight trains were old, rusty, and covered in graffiti. When in motion they come alive with very unique sounds such as metal on metal scrapes, heavy thuds, clunking, and screeching noises. All trains were recorded within 15-20 feet from the mic setup of Schoeps 2 CMC 6 U mic bodies, a Schoeps MK4 and MK8 mic capsules, and a Rycote windjammer fed into a Sound Devices 744T.
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'Rusty Old Freight Trains' by Kevin Durr has sounds of these giants as they travel around the San Francisco Bay. Covered in rust and graffiti, the trains clunk, screech, scrape and thud as their complex bodies - roiled by heat, constant rain and salty air - roll along the tracks to San Jose, Richmond, Emeryville and other destinations. Each recording was captured within 15-20 feet of the trains and have a sample rate of 96kHz for creative design. If you're looking for the distinct sounds of trains with more robust age characteristics, these are ones to hear.
Victor Adding Machine
Mechanical
Victor Adding Machine
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56+ sounds included
$12
This sound library is entirely based on the Victor adding machine, made in the 1920s. This machine was purely mechanical and non-electric. In this sound library you'll get individual recordings of the machine's hand crank, printer, paper, and button/keys tracks as well as six complete recordings of the adding machine in full action. The library also contains five different mic positions with two different mic techniques used.
Gear:
• Spaced pair mic setup: 2x Schoeps CMC 5U, 2x Schoeps MK4 capsules
• Mid-side mic setup: 2x Schoeps CMC 5U, Schoeps MK4 and MK8 capsules
• Sound Devices 744T
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'Victor Adding Machine' by Kevin Durr is a library based on this machine and all its early 20th century technology. With its printer, paper, buttons, and cranking mechanism, this device used to give human minds a break from counting cash. This library features six recordings of the machine's actions from five mic positions and with two different mic techniques from a Schoeps CMC 5U pair with MK4 capsules. Whether you are going for authenticity or creating a retro-futuristic device, give this library a listen.
Infantry Soldiers
Destruction & Impact
Infantry Soldiers
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113+ sounds included, 15 mins total
$22.50
The Infantry Soldiers sound library was recorded at a real Swedish military drill. It contains AK5 rifles, AT-rocket launchers, screaming Swedish soldiers, tanks driving by and much more. It was all pretty crazy – and we had a lot of fun recording it! The rifle-clips are cut into arrays of shots and single shots, and are meta-tagged.
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'Infantry Soldiers' by Gladrian Studios gives you sounds of military drills by Swedish soldiers. These grunts recreated combat scenarios using squad techniques and all the gear they could muster. The soldiers use their AK5 rifles and shout commands, plus they had access to their big guns with AT rocket launchers and tanks. The sounds are also separated into arrays as well as single shots. With all the resources to be found in this library, it is quite the rare find!
Rock Processing Factory
Environments
Rock Processing Factory
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59 sounds included
$22.50
This library was recorded at Cementa in Skövde – Sweden. Cementa is a rock processing and cement factory. The recordings are of different rock crushing machines, atmospheres, gravel processing departments and huge cogs. The audio files are clips under about 50 seconds, most around 10 seconds long. The clips are meta-tagged.
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'Rock Processing Factory' by Gladrian Studios was recorded at Cementa, a rock processing and cement factory in Skövde, Sweden. This library features rocks being processed and crushed by machines that rattle, hum, squeal and spin as they crush massive amounts of earth. These recordings are perfect for creepy industrial ambiences, torture devices, or even massive storms ready to tear the roof off. If you are looking for something completely new in your ambiences, give this library a listen.
Robot Factory
Environments
Robot Factory
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29+ sounds included, 21 mins total
$22.50
The Robot Factory library was recorded at the Volvo car factory in Skövde – Sweden. The recordings are cut into chunks of about 10 seconds to 1 minute with weird car lifts, air pressure machines and all kinds of weird stuff I have no idea how to explain what they were. But they sounded cool!
The audio files are meta-tagged.
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'Robot Factory' by Gladrian Studios features the interesting and weird sounds of the Volvo factory in Skövde, Sweden. It has weird robotic sounds, strange atmospheres and all the humming, whirring, creaking, moaning and hissing you could hope for. Each recording from this 22-minute library was cut into 40 seconds, so it has quite the diverse collection of sounds for building ambiences or robotic movements in your project. If you need sounds for your obsessed machinist's lab or an abandoned factory that became sentient, this is one to check out.
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290 sounds included
$30
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