A COLLABORATIVE POST
WRITTEN BY BOOM BOX POST
Build your library! Build your library! Build your library!
We say it all the time in blog posts, and it's advice we always give to our interns, but this tip often raises the question: What do I buy?
For starters, there are a ton of amazing commercial libraries out there to purchase. If you’re overwhelmed and unsure of what to buy, this blog post is for you!
Listed below are 10 libraries we have recently acquired and are loving here at Boom Box Post.
But before we get into it, I’d like to include a small shameless plug to our own libraries currently available for purchase. You can shop the Boom Box catalogue here!
SQUISH SPLAT OOZE
$20.00
BABIES & KIDS
$40.00
1966 FORD MUSTANG
$75.00
EDITOR TOOLBOX: EXPANDED HOUSEHOLD EDITION
$30.00
ROBOTIC CREATIONS: HEADS UP DISPLAY SOUND DESIGN TOOLKIT
$69.00
Recent Library Adds:
Vintage Anime SFX
”The Vintage Anime Sound Effects Library brings all of the excitement of your favorite Japanese animated series to your fingertips. Inspired by classic cartoons from the 80’s and 90’s, these recognizable and versatile sounds will instantly enhance any FX collection. Vintage synths were used to create the auras, beams, mecha blasters, atmospheres, magic spells, guns, sonic blasts and explosives that makeup this pack of over 350+ custom 24bit/96khz .WAV files. Perfect for film, video games, podcasts and any project that could benefit from a power up!”
2. Magic
“This collection of magical sounds has all you need to create an exciting audio experience for all of the spells you have in mind. Be it warm and powerful white magic or some evil and destructive black magic. Edit the sounds exactly the way you like and thereby creatively enrich the spectrum of supernatural.”
“Animal Hyperrealism Vol I is a library containing sounds themed animal vocalisations, from real to designed creatures totaling more than 1300 individual sounds in 290 files. The sounds were partly recorded with animals trained for media production, partly recorded in zoos and wildlife centers. The asset list includes but is not limited to: african lions, bengal tigers, horses, donkeys, cows, exotic birds, owls, bobcats, pumas, dromedaries, wolves, dogs, geese, lemurs, gibbons and many more.”
4. Cartoon Field Recording Slack Library
The cool thing about this library is that purchase is actually in the form of a donation. For a $50 donation to one of the three charities, you will receive a copy of this library! The charities you can choose from include Doctors Without Borders, Climate Change, and Hearing Loss Research.
“Entire PMSFX catalog in one bundle. You get all the libraries we’ve released so far. Thousands of high quality sound effects (48-192kHz 24Bit) recorded with top tier gear (Sennheiser, DPA, Sound Devices, Ambient, Sony etc) and processed with some of the best plugins and outboard on the market.”
“A collection of hunger-inducing sounds of cooking: Includes sounds of frying, boiling, pouring, stirring, whisking and many more sounds from the kitchen.”
“Draw from a vast pool of clean, crisp and lively animal vocalizations featuring alpacas, baboons, camels, seals, crows, dogs, donkeys, elephants, foxes, pigs, badgers, owls, hyenas, lions, loris, otters, parrots, racoons, griffins, kestrels, sheep, tigers, caracals, leopards, chicken, cows, goats and horses. Being a comprehensive realistic animal sound library in its own right, the Construction Kit gives you a varied, flexible toolset to come up with incredible, daunting creations.”
“The ‘Universal Emotes’ sound library is the largest collection of human voice reactions and emotions spanning across all ages and sexes.”
9. Glacier Ice
“Glacier Ice is a library containing over 300 high quality sounds of ice cracking, breaking, shattering in various sizes of blocks – recorded entirely in the Italian Alps over the course of two winters. The library contains sounds of all dimensions, from ice cubes being dropped in a drink to a designed iceberg collapsing.”
10. Water Volumes
“The Water Volumes SFX library gets you over 300 sounds of natural hot-springs, bubbles, and liquids of various densities boiling under the effect of dry ice.”
Pro tip: A great time to buy SFX libraries is on Black Friday. We do most of our major purchases during these sales.
If you don’t currently have the funds to curate a large and diverse sfx library, we highly recommend subscribing to soundsnap.com!
Also, check out our Sounds Like blog series, which lists 10 sound effects you should consider recording during every season!
