Two new ambience libraries are on the way. HISSandaROAR Beaches: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/32247477[/vimeo] and TONSTURM Mountain Air: http://vimeo.com/32139444 Rabbit Ears Audio has an Animal Bells Library on the way, "for sheep, goats, cows, elephants, or sound designers". [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/32374039[/vimeo] Chuck Russom FX has released Drones sound library, … [Read more...]
HISS and a ROAR Contact Mic, Tim Prebble Explores the Lack of Acoustic
CONTACT MIC is a new library of sound design source material recorded by Tim Prebble and released by HISSandaROAR, including 1,556 sounds recorded at 192kHz/24-Bit using contact microphones. Recording with contact microphones is fascinating territory to explore due to the unpredictable results; it encourages experimentation! Inspired by the incredible work of Alan Splet and … [Read more...]
Water Foley, New Library of HISS and a ROAR
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/30574333[/vimeo] Water Foley is a new sound library of water movement, footsteps and sound effects released by HISS and a ROAR and recorded by Tim Prebble. This library was recorded in two exterior swimming pools, one interior pool, a sandy beach at low tide, a river, a stream, a rock pool at low tide and a swamp. Apart from human movement, footsteps … [Read more...]
SFX News: Windhowler, Sonic Beatbox, SFX Bible Kit, Tortured Piano Remix
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/27283568[/vimeo] -- TONSTURM has released his fourth sound effects pack, called The Windhowler: This Soundpack is based on the recordings of the very rare Mole-Richardson Windhowler Moleeffect Type 2281. During extensive recording sessions we captured every aspect of this inimitable sound effect instrument. All sounds are recorded, edited and mastered … [Read more...]
New Remix Competition at HISS and a ROAR
Tim Prebble has announced the first remix competition of HISS and a ROAR: After playing with the sounds in the Tortured Piano library over the last few weeks, I’ve become fascinated as to the ways these sounds can be processed, altered & recontextualised… But I am even more so interested in what other people might do with the sounds…. So I’ve just released the FREE version … [Read more...]
TORTURED PIANO, New Library of HISS and a ROAR
HISS and a ROAR has released TORTURED PIANO, a new library loaded with 1,143 sound design sources recorded through the destruction of a dilapidated old upright piano. The library is a huge collection recorded and mastered at 24-Bit/192kHz (total of 7.3GB). The content is diverse and unique, offering all kind of sounds recored with different microphones and a wide variety of … [Read more...]
SFX Lab #1: Experiments on Pressure, Blow Holes
Welcome to SFX Lab, the "laboratory" of sound effects, a place dedicated to experiment and explore sound libraries with the goal of learning different kinds of sounds and some of its morphing features. We take libraries of a certain theme and put them through some experiments. Think about not only what you will learn, but also for what your ears are obtaining. Some time ago, … [Read more...]