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Level Up Sound(小島聲集所) is founded by Yu-Ching Teng, a Taiwanese field recordist, sound editor and designer.
The aim of Level Up Sound is to create various sound libraries about Taiwan for both local and worldwide creators.
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STONE PROCESSING FACTORY is a sound library that captures the process of stone materials being transformed into slabs within heavy machinery.
It includes a wide range of metallic machinery sounds, the deep rumble of heavy stone vibrations, squeaks of friction, and the hiss of air valves releasing pressure. From cutting, rinsing, grinding, heating, flaming, manual back glue scraping, to transport operations, every step and every machine sound is thoroughly recorded. And of course, the noisy, industrial atmosphere of the factory itself.
It is more than just an industrial site. Here, machinery condenses the slow forces of nature into bursts of mechanical power. For example, water mixed with sand can cut through stones, same way as the constant erosive action of canyons. The friction of countless tiny particles swings back and forth between stereo channels. And the stones resisting the machinery create vibrations that resemble the heavy bass strikes of techno music, pounding directly into our nervous system.
In the preview, these various sounds are woven together in a montage, unfolding like a cyberpunk dream.
This library includes total 47 files, consisting of 22 mono files and 25 stereo files recorded in spaced pair at 96 kHz. Approx. 1 hour and 31 minutes total.Certainly, this library was carefully tagged with rich Soundminer metadata, including marks in the recordings highlighting interesting sounds.
All the recordings were recorded, edited and mastered with love and care.
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SCOOTERS features various sound effects recorded from 7 different scooters, ranging from general scooters to a scooter with a modified exhaust. An old two-stroke scooter with high-pitched brake squealing sounds is also included, along with on-board riding sounds (including revving and speeding), pass-bys, idling, approaching, pull-away, engine cranking, and varied mechanism sounds. SCOOTERS sound library helps you create different types of scenes with scooter riding.
The recorded scooters include:
・KYMCO VJR 110
・YAMAHA BW’S 125
・YAMAHA BW’S R 125
・YAMAHA FORCE 155
・YAMAHA Super Four (with a modified exhaust)
・YAMAHA VINO 50 (Two-stroke scooter)
・YAMAHA VINO 50 FI
This library includes total 197 files, consisting of 170 mono files and 27 stereo files recorded in ORTF at 96 kHz. Approx. 2 hour and 44 minutes total.
Certainly, this library was carefully tagged with rich Soundminer metadata, including marks in the recordings highlighting interesting sounds.
All the recordings were recorded, edited and mastered with love and care.
Aged Truck features a variety of characteristic sounds from an old classic truck. From idling engines to acceleration and deceleration, as well as different perspectives of steady and casual driving, this sound library strives to capture the essence of classic trucking. It also includes detailed recordings of doors, gear sticks, pedals, and various levers and switches. Hear the metallic clatter of shifting gears during a drive, and the abrupt halt of an engine stalling mid-motion.
This library includes total 100 files, consisting of 65 mono files and 35 stereo files recorded in ORTF at 96 kHz. Approx. 1 hour and 29 minutes total.
Certainly, this library was carefully tagged with rich Soundminer metadata, including marks in the recordings highlighting interesting sounds.
All the recordings were recorded, edited and mastered with love and care.
In Taiwan, immersing in traffic of scooters and cars is a daily occurrence. Waiting for the green light in the sea of scooters, and VROOOOOOM, all the scooters simultaneously rev their engines and accelerate forward as the light turns green. These are the sounds of the rush hour traffic in Taipei.
IN THE TRAFFIC is a sound library that makes you feel like you’re in the middle of the traffic in Taipei city.
It features the sounds of scooters, cars and buses passing by, the idle scooters sea at red lights, and the eager acceleration of scooters and motorcycles as they compete to speed forward when the light turns green. Additionally, the sounds of riding through tunnel and underpass can also be found in this sound library.
IN THE TRAFFIC adopts a slightly experimental approach, placing the microphones on the front sides, and riding a relatively quiet electric scooter with almost no engine sound in the traffic of Taipei.
Bird sounds and human voices have been carefully removed, providing you pure useful recordings for your creative works.
This library includes 58 stereo files recorded in AB at 96 kHz. Approx. 44 minutes total.
Additionally, this library was carefully tagged with rich Soundminer metadata, including marks in the recordings highlighting interesting sounds.
And of course, all the recordings were recorded, edited and mastered with care and love.
Resource Recovery Park is the result of a request for a resource recovery park scene’s ambience sounds in Taiwan. It includes excavators with grab and magnet to grab and press the metal junks, a baling press machine working with hum, workers sweeping and dumping piles of aluminum cans, and some dump trucks dumping cardboard.
There are some birds and distant traffic of Taiwan in some sounds. Please be aware.
This library includes total 21 files, consisting of 8 mono files and 13 stereo files recorded in AB at 96 kHz. Approx. 44 minutes total.
Additionally, this library was carefully tagged with rich Soundminer metadata.
All the recordings were recorded, edited and mastered with care and love.
Ocean Waves – East Coast of Taiwan features powerful Pacific Ocean waves fizz and roar in the east coast of Taiwan. Recorded from Yilan to Hualien, covering 6 different locations, gravel beaches and rocky shore with close and distance perspectives of vivid ocean waves. Hear the unique crackling and ascending hiss as the waves wash over pebbles beaches, and strong punches as the waves hitting the hard rocks.
Bird sounds have been carefully removed, providing you pure useful recordings for your creative works.
This library includes 40 stereo files recorded in AB or XY at 96 kHz. Approx. 156 minutes total.
Additionally, this library was carefully tagged with rich Soundminer metadata, including marks in the recordings highlighting interesting sounds.
All the recordings were recorded, edited and mastered with care and love.
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