This week on A Sound Effect, we have lots of highly detailed libraries from the sound designers we’ve all come to love. You can hear sandy, rattling winds in West Texas, a collection of smartly produced AI commands and phrases, intricately designed mechanisms, and strange ambiences and creatures from an imaginative mind. You can also hear authentic WWII aircraft, immersive ambience from a Buddhist nunnery, glitchy screams, character-based footsteps, and all the elements you need for your convivial adventure game. Happy listening!
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In the second installment of the High Desert Winds Series, get the blustery sounds of High Desert Winds 2 recorded in the resonant mountains of West Texas. This library was recorded during a massive two-day wind storm with gusts up 75 mph! These extreme winds rattled and shook the house in wonderful ways. The creaking and groaning windows, doors, and walls were vibrating so much that I could record wind for the first time using a contact microphone! There are also recordings of leaf vortexes, sand blasts, tarps popping, umbrella destruction, and much more. If you need the sounds of a stunning desert storm to complement the recordings in High Desert Winds 1, this is the library to check out.
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!
KEY FEATURES:• 90% bird and insect free
• Turbulent hurricane-force gusts ranging from 20-75 mph
• Droning and singing wind whistles
• Open plastic bottle and wine bottle wind whistles
• Mountain ridge top wind
• Desert grass, scrub oak, and pinyon pine wind
• Indoor ORTF perspectives: adobe house, wooden storage shed, and mid-sized truck
• Indoor contact mic perspectives: chimneys, windows, doors, and walls
• Plastic tarps and umbrellas whipping in 50-75 mph winds
• Locations: Davis Mountains, Texas
• Named markers included in each file to help find interesting events. 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.
GEAR USED:
• Sennheiser MKH 8040 Matched Pair
• Aquarian Audio H2a-XLR Hydrophone – Used as contact microphone
• Sound Devices 702
• Rycote ORTF BlimpNeed More Winds? Listen to High Desert Winds 1!
'High Desert Winds 2' by Thomas Rex Beverly is the much-awaited new volume of his clean, interesting wind recordings. With 59 recordings, you'll hear pure 20-75 mph winds in West Texas and everything they shake in their paths: this includes creaking, groaning windows, doors, and walls in a house, as well as winds that spray sand, float across the grass, and tear apart tarps and umbrellas. If this is your first introduction to Thomas Rex Beverly's libraries, you're in for a treat!
'Artificial Intelligence' is a joint venture between SoundBits and Monte Sound to bring you a very useful and flexible sound library that will give voices to your robots, AI, and user interfaces. With 2,800 words, 6 character voices, and 112 phrases like 'Security breach detected. Please proceed with protocol', you'll have lots of sci-fi scenarios covered with endless word combinations. And with the metadata, retrieving a sound will be as easy as the 'find' shortcut! If you need professionally-designed phrases, this library will woo your players into your futuristic world.
'Mechanicals' by BOOM Library gets you all the sounds you need for an epic archaeological adventure with your robot sidekick. With clean, meticulously designed sounds, you'll have sounds for your machines, vaults, treasure chests, and more with rattling metal gears, heavy hinges, rolling chains, spinning washers, and small ratchets. You'll also receive sounds of clocks, typewriters, slots, bicycles, mechanical calculators... the list goes on! And of course, you can buy the Construction Kit or Designed Edition - or both for a great discount. For all your contraptions' audible workings, check this one out.
'Strange Moods' by Sounds Like George might be his strangest library yet, and that's saying something! This library has all the elements you need in its 65 minutes of content to take your audience on an odd yet intriguing trip, visiting otherworldly species and worlds with insane ambiences and bizarre loops. The library was inspired by games like 'Limbo', 'No Man's Sky' and 'Badlands', so that should give you some idea of what to expect. This is definitely one you just need to hear for yourself, so check out the demo!
'WW2 Aircraft' by Mindful Audio features WWII aircraft from all views. Featuring the well-known Supermarine Spitfire, Grumman F8F Bearcat, Bucker Bu-131 Jungmann, North American P-51 Mustang, and Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, you'll have sounds of these aircrafts from outside perspectives as they start up, idle, rev, and take off, as well as on-board recordings, and ground recordings as they fly by for over an hour and a half of their roars! If you need authentic sounds of these classic symbols of The Second World War, this is your library.
If you read Filip Stefanowski's Recording Adventures piece about capturing the sounds of Nepal, you'd know that 'Tek Chok Ling Nunnery / Nepal' is something special. In this library you get a rare perspective of the nunnery with sounds of Buddhist prayers, singing bowls, choirs, instruments, and more. You'll also hear sounds of Kathmandu to include crowds around the stupa, as well as ambiences of wind chimes and changing weather. Whether you need sounds for a documentary or as peaceful ambience in your game, this one is worth listening to.
'SWAP_Digital Screams' by MatiasMacSD is a quick pack of experimentally designed screams. With almost 100 sounds on 18 files, you'll hear glitchy, morphed sounds that will add abstract tension and suffering to your soundscapes. It includes scenarios such as 'Plugged In', 'Power Off', 'Pain', and 'Movement' with plenty of variations to give your ambiences an oddly lifelike feel. If you're looking for inspiration for your next project, check this one out.
'Footsteps' by Blue Sugar Audio takes an everyday concept and puts a brilliant spin on it. With five different characters of all shapes and sizes, from the big bearded Bruno to little Pippa or barefoot Iggy, you'll easily find the footstep you're looking for. Each character provides walking, running, and sneaking steps on 5 surfaces including concrete, dirt, metal, and wood. It also includes a Kontakt library! For 750 footsteps from a variety of body types, give this one a listen.
Continuing their game-focused themes, Epic Stock Media has released their warm, pleasant 'Ambient Game' library with over 600 sounds. Based on family-friendly games like 'Spyro the Dragon' and 'Crash Bandicoot', this collection features lots of shimmering, glistening effects like pick ups, coin sounds, treasures, awards, buffs, potions, items and more. For bright, professionally designed sounds that will give your friendly game a sense of magic, wonder, and adventure, check out the demo.
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NEW: ANIMAL HYPERREALISM IV contains animal vocalisations – from hippos, hyenas, vultures, dwarf mongooses, elephants, African cranes, parrots, tigers, pigmy hippos, rhea ostriches, to brown bears, pheasants, wildebeests, African wild dogs and many more. Features 2000 individual sounds in 294 files.
CATACLYSM is a collection more than 1400 sounds in 400+ files of recorded, synthesized and designed sounds created to support important destructive moments and add a stronger sense of extreme consequence to any sound.
ANIMAL HYPERREALISM VOL I is a library containing themed animal vocalisations & sounds, from real to designed creatures totaling more than 1300 individual sounds in 290 files.
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ANIMAL HYPERREALISM VOL III is a library containing sounds themed animal vocalisations, from real to designed creatures totaling more than 1700 individual sounds in 279 files.
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POLARITY delivers more than 950 sounds of electricity, science and technology – captured in several locations around the world, from electricity museums to science labs.
ULTRASONIC DRY ICE is a library containing over 600 sounds themed metal resonances, scrapes and all sorts of weird.
ROCKS MOMENTUM gets you more than 1100 sounds of rocks, bricks, wood logs, stones, impacting on different surfaces, rolling, being scraped one against the other and so on. The library was recorded in the Italian alps, and in Inverness, Scotland.
WATER VOLUMES delivers you over 300 sounds of natural hot-springs, bubbles, and liquids of various densities boiling under the effect of dry ice.
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