Michael Raphael, owner at Rabbit Ears Audio, has finally released his fourth library, called Metal Machines, featuring recordings of 11 incredible machines from a vintage train repair facility. Shake, Rattle, and Rumble. Those are just a few of the sounds that heavy machinery makes when it is fired up and put into action. The age of the steam locomotive has long faded in the … [Read more...]
Coming Soon in the Independent SFX World: Metal Machines, Electricity and Guns (Updated with more)
I'm still impressed of how fast the SFX independence scene has grown since the last year. This is just the first month of 2011 and there are already several great SFX libraries coming from different independent companies: Rabbit Ears Audio - Metal Machines Michael Raphael is ready for the release of another wonderful package of sound effects in Rabbit Ears Audio. This time he … [Read more...]
Hydrophonic, New Underwater SFX Library from Rabbit Ears Audio
Michael Raphael has announced the release of "Hydrophonic", a new sound effects library of amazing sounds recorded underwater. Time to get wet and be sucked in by the rip current! Hydrophonic is a moist library that features sounds recorded from a variety of subaquatic perspectives. For a period of 3 months, I dragged around my hydrophones wherever I could find water. My … [Read more...]
Having Fun with Small Motors SFX Library from Rabbit Ears Audio [Review & Demo]
Michael Raphael recently released Small motors on Rabbit Ears Audio. This package is terrific sfx collection full all kind of little motorized devices, including appliances, broken devices, and also a really cool robot: the Maker Bot 3D Printer. This library maintains the same great sounding stuff from the first Rockets library. It's recorded at 96kHz/24-Bit and comes tagged … [Read more...]
Small Motors, New SFX Library from Rabbit Ears Audio
Michael Raphael has announced the release of Small Motors, another great collection of sounds at his company Rabbit Ears Audio. The library includes a lot of different sounds from electric devices, robots, servos, clicks, buzzing machines, etc. Small Motors. Clicking, whirring, buzzing, grinding,servo sounds and robots. This library is composed of a variety of motor sounds … [Read more...]
Sound Effects Independence!
I remember when we started to see all this independent companies of sound effects distribution just starting. Now I'm glad to see all the amazing packages that have been released by designers and recordists that put their heart and soul into this. For a good resume and opinions about this, I recommend you to read a great post created Damian Kastbauer at his blog Lost Chocolate … [Read more...]
Having Fun with Rockets [Review & Video]
Following my limitation challenges, I wanted to do another one. This time is a video where I had to re-design all the sounds using only the Rockets library from Rabbit Ears Audio, a new sound effects company from Michael Raphael. The Library Well, Michael did a terrific work with his new company, an independent model of online sfx distribution, similar to Tim Prebble's HISS … [Read more...]