I had the recent pleasure to receive a copy of Factory Machinery Ambiences from Mikkel Nielsen over at Sonic Salute. It's a pretty cool atmospheric selection of engines and motors and pounding metal. Some blurbs from the library page: Sounds range from plastic foundries, casting machines, and machinery alarms, to giant textile processing units, and medical equipment … [Read more...]
Cranking Down the Volume to Create Buzzsaw 2
[written by Jim Stout] Blastwave FX is known for its signature sound and style. Feedback from their customers usually includes comments like “unique”, “high quality” and “clean” -“super clean”, in fact. However, one product prides itself on being anything but clean – Buzzsaw. The innovative distortion library was created in 2007 and released in early 2008. Since then, it has … [Read more...]
SFX News 04.07.12
BOOM Library released his previously announced Cars - Everyday Cars library This 4 DVD collection offers more than 20 GB of data. We completely wired 10 everyday cars, rented a super-quiet test track for our recordings and are now proud to deliver really great and pristine long takes of drive-bys, car engine sounds, exhaust sounds and stereo interior recordings. We also give … [Read more...]
Making Of “Cars”, Boom Library’s Latest Release
 (Written by Tristan Horton and Axel Rohrbach of Boom Library) At Boom Library we like to take a category of sound and then completely go to town on it. A Cars library has been in on our hit-list for some time, but there have been so many car sounds recorded in the past - how could we push this even further, (beyond the obvious advantages of high-definition 24bit/96kHZ … [Read more...]
SFX Lab #4: Resonance
[SFX Lab, the laboratory of sound effects, a place dedicated to experiment and explore sound libraries. The main goal is to hear what happens when sounds of a specific kind are combined, processed, and transformed in several ways.] New chapter of the sfx lab, this time dedicated to explore high doses of resonance, with a quite special kind of sounds: bells and chimes. These … [Read more...]
Hart FX Releases New Alligator Library
Hart FX has released Hart a Gator, a new library of alligator sound effects, cut from 10 hours of material recorded at 192kHz. Alligators are quiet, stealthy creatures that roam the swamps and marshes of Florida like big, scaly, green ninjas. You see one silently skimming along, then all of a sudden it disappears! They hardly make any sound either – except for this one time of … [Read more...]
Game Audio Podcast #17 – Post GDC Wrap Up 2012
The latest edition of the Game Audio Podcast is out, wrapping up a variety of subjects from GDC 2012 with special guest, Michael Raphael of boutique,royalty-free sound library provider Rabbit Ears Audio. Our hosts also discuss the GANG awards, FMOD Studio, and newly emerging procedural plug-in formats for audio middleware, such as AudioGaming's AudioWeather. You can check out … [Read more...]