Publisher: Hiss and a Roar Website: hissandaroar.com Format: WAV Quality: 24-bit, 96 kHz, stereo Size: 2.63 GB Vegetable Violence is an organic sound effects library designed for creating your own orchestral, visceral chaos. Featuring plant-based ruptures, tears, snaps, and various types of impacts—all recorded and mastered at 96 kHz to deliver realistic, gut-wrenching effects—this is a fantastic… Read More »
Publisher: Hiss and a Roar Website: hissandaroar.com Format: WAV Quality: 24 bit 96 kHz stereo Size: 2.28 GB The English dictionary defines SWISH as a verb: ‘to hear a sound,’ and in hindsight, that’s a perfectly evocative definition, as we’ve spent many hours in the foley room at Park Road Post recently, cutting the beautifully quiet air… Read More »
Publisher: Hiss and a Roar Website: hissandaroar.com Format: WAV Quality: 24-bit, 192 kHz, stereo Description: This library features impact sounds involving metal objects and structures. It includes recordings of a five-ton concrete block striking a large container; sounds of four large metal trash bins, metal gates, truck platforms, solid metal plates, and an excavator bucket; the complete… Read More »
Publisher: Hiss and a Roar Website: hissandaroar.com Format: WAV Quality: 24-bit, 96 kHz, stereo Description: A celebration of mechanical sounds: ranging from a pneumatic blast furnace to an antique guillotine, workshop electrical appliances, an old clockwork mechanism, a Mamod steam engine, hand tools, sewing machines, a “tortured” battery, and more modern equipment such as a CNC router… Read More »
Publisher: Hiss and a Roar Website: hissandaroar.com/v3/soundlibrary/sd003-seal-vocals/ Format: WAV Quality: 24-bit 192 kHz stereo Size: 1.33 GB Three types of seals visit the New Zealand coastline, but the most common is the fur seal (Kekeno). These fur seals can grow to weigh up to 160 kg and are fearsome-sounding creatures. Consequently, I made these recordings using the… Read More »
Publisher: Hiss and a Roar Website: hissandaroar.com/v3/soundlibrary/sd004-fireworks/ Format: WAV Quality: 24-bit 192 kHz stereo Size: 8.02 GB Four recorders, ten microphones, a windless night, a full moon, an empty park, and $600 worth of fireworks—handpicked by a pyrotechnician—made for a great time! But I didn’t just want to record the fireworks; I also wanted to manipulate them… Read More »
Publisher: Hiss and a Roar Website: hissandaroar.com/v3/soundlibrary/sd005-pressure/ Format: WAV Quality: 24-bit 96 kHz stereo Size: 5.22 GB We all know that sound is produced by the vibration of air molecules. But what happens when you deliberately manipulate pressure? To explore this, we utilized a variety of devices: a five-ton steam engine, an air compressor with various attachments,… Read More »
Publisher: Hiss and a Roar Website: hissandaroar.com/v3/soundlibrary/sd006-tortured-piano/ Format: WAV Quality: 24-bit 192 kHz stereo Size: 6.76 GB There is nothing sadder than the death of a musical instrument. But this broken, old piano was already a “corpse” long before I got my hands on it. My mission, therefore, was to immortalize its final chords. The resulting library… Read More »
Publisher: Hiss and a Roar Website: hissandaroar.com/v3/soundlibrary/sd007-water-foley/ Format: WAV Quality: 24-bit 96 kHz stereo Size: 2.99 GB Creating convincing water-based foley and movement on water is one of the more challenging aspects of foley work. One way to address this is to have a library of sounds covering various actions in or on water at your disposal.… Read More »
Publisher: Hiss and a Roar Website: hissandaroar.com/v3/soundlibrary/sd008-contact-mic/ Format: WAV Quality: 24-bit 192 kHz stereo Size: 6.85 GB Recording with contact microphones is a realm ripe for fascinating exploration. Inspired by the work of Alan Splet and Anne Krober, I began to experiment. This library is the result of hundreds of hours of experimentation and the taming of… Read More »
Publisher: Hiss and a Roar Website: hissandaroar.com/v3/soundlibrary/sd009-chimes/ Format: WAV Quality: 24-bit, 192 kHz, stereo Size: 10.26 GB Chimes can be used to great effect to add color to a soundtrack, providing a powerful emotional impact. They are also incredibly useful as source material for building the foundation of a musical piece or sound design project. Recorded at… Read More »
Publisher: Hiss and a Roar Website: hissandaroar.com Format: WAV Quality: 24-bit 192 kHz stereo Description: We love recording with contact microphones! This new library is a follow-up to SD008; together, the pair represents some of the most diverse-sounding source material we have released to date. The new library includes sounds from a steel fire pit, a battered… Read More »
Publisher: Hiss and a Roar Website: hissandaroar.com Format: WAV Quality: 24-bit 192 kHz stereo Description: Tortured wood? Hell yeah! We spent the last month breaking wood—dropping 40-kilogram loads onto piles of debris, and smashing pallets, planks, and furniture as loudly as possible! We also subjected wood to torture in our sound design “quiet room,” consigning half a… Read More »
Publisher: Hiss and a Roar Website: https://hissandaroar.com/v3/soundlibrary/sd012-entropy/ Format: WAV Quality: 24-bit 192 kHz stereo Size: 8.05 GB This library was created based on sounds associated with heat transfer in its many forms. During the recording process, we transformed water and ice into steam, rapidly cooled extremely hot metals, and physically manipulated objects on dry ice. This sound… Read More »
Publisher: Hiss and a Roar Website: hissandaroar.com/v3/soundlibrary/sd011-tortured-cymbals/ Format: WAV Quality: 24-bit, 96 kHz, stereo Size: 7.97 GB Various ways of “torturing” drum kit cymbals Contents: 1,865 sounds across 138 WAV files
Publisher: Hiss and a Roar Website: hissandaroar.com/v3/soundlibrary/sd013-metal-resonance/ Format: WAV Quality: 24-bit 192 kHz stereo Size: 30.5 GB The inspiration for this library comes from a quote by Tom Waits: “I’m still looking for the sound of a real metal clang. I want to hear that… the clang of all clangs!” I spent two years gathering the material… Read More »
Publisher: Hiss and a Roar Website: https://hissandaroar.com/v3/soundlibrary/sd016-friction/ Format: WAV Quality: 24-bit 192 kHz stereo Size: 12.96 GB Kinetic friction is an obvious source for many types of sounds. For this library, we sought out particularly striking examples—sounds that would also prove highly useful for abstract sound design. The collection includes a variety of creaks and squeaks, the… Read More »
Publisher: HISS and a ROAR Website: hissandaroar.com Format: WAV Quality: 24-bit, 96 kHz (mono, stereo) Description: A vast collection of sounds from the physical world. It includes sounds of granular materials: rice grains, plastic pellets, glass beads, pumpkin seeds, and marble chips. Sounds of objects moving across pebbles, stones, rocky terrain, potatoes, and pumpkins; sounds of rain,… Read More »
Publisher : Hiss and a Roar Format : WAV Quality : Stereo 96 kHz 24 bit Description : Spiral crash with interesting ways of sound extraction This library uses an 18″ Zildjian Spiral Trash Cymbal , and when played like a regular cymbal, it sounds very bright. But when using contact microphones, the lower end of the… Read More »
Publisher : Hiss and a Roar Website : hissandaroar.com Format : WAV Quality : 24 bit 96 kHz stereo Description : Various “bullying” of cymbals from the drum kit Content: 1865 sounds in 138 wav files
Publisher : Hiss and a Roar Website : hissandaroar.com Format : WAV Quality : 24 bit 96 kHz stereo Description : Vegetable Violence is an organic library of sound effects to create your own vegetable pogrom. Content: 2,500 sound moments in 46 WAV
