A Sound Effect Podcast Episode 16: Your hearing is absolutely essential when working in sound – and to help you protect it, here's Doctor of Audiology Steven Taddei with insights, methods and key advice on how to protect your ears and keep your hearing in pristine condition as an audio professional.

Interview by Jennifer Walden, hosted by Asbjoern Andersen and Christian Hagelskjaer - find more episodes at https://asoundeffect.com/podcast 
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How to Protect Your Hearing as an Audio Professional, w/Audiologist & Audio Engineer Steven Taddei

Go behind the inventive sound of 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' here, in Jennifer Walden's excellent group interview with supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer Brent Kiser, ADR supervisor Julie Diaz, sound designer Andrew Twite, and re-recording mixer Alex Fehrman

Bonus: Get 1000 sound effects at asoundeffect.com/free - hosted by Asbjoern Andersen

0:00 Introduction and highlight of the 1000 premium sound effects from SmartSoundFX, available at a 90% discount or free with attribution at asoundeffect.com/free

01:29 Behind the inventive sound of Everything Everywhere All At Once 

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How the Inventive Sound of 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' was made

Junkyard Destruction is a unique library of vehicle destruction that is perfect for all of your mayhem needs. Get the full library here: https://www.asoundeffect.com/sound-library/junkyard-destruction/

Junkyard Destruction Sound Effects Library

'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me' turns 30: Sound supervisor Doug Murray shares lots of fascinating sound stories behind the haunting film and the Twin Peaks series, the creative joys of "sound painting" with David Lynch, its impact on film sound today, the sound for signature scenes - and how it transformed Doug Murray as a sound designer.  Learn more here: https://www.asoundeffect.com/firewalkwithmesound/

The Haunting sound of 'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me' - with Sound Supervisor Doug Murray

This is the demo for Xylon, a free sci-fi sound effects library that you can get at asoundeffect.com/gift

Xylon features over 800+ sounds of futuristic weapons, creatures, robots and much more, and was recorded and designed by students of the 2021 – 2022 Mohole Music and Sound Design course. 

A big thanks to them for allowing us to share it with you - and an early Happy Holidays from all of us at A Sound Effect!

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The Nightingale Voice Box is one of the largest and most respected collections of vocal production elements created for film, TV, games, toys and all-media. Spanning over 4 volumes, our comprehensive collection includes 3000+ sound effects all made by the human voice:

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The Ultimate Creature Footsteps sound effects library immerses your audience in the world of creatures with an extensive assortment of sounds, including the thunderous footsteps of large animals, the distinct cadence of various hooves, the nimble scurrying of monkey feet, and the delicate padding of canine and feline paws. You’ll also find recordings of menacing talons and much more.

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This sound effects library from Ultimate Foley Collection immerses your audience in the world of creatures with an extensive assortment of sounds, including the thunderous footsteps of large animals, the distinct cadence of various hooves, the nimble scurrying of monkey feet, and the delicate padding of canine and feline paws. You’ll also find recordings of menacing talons and much more.

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This sound effects library from Ultimate Foly Collection features a diverse collection of 13 unique variations and 19 different body parts, making it perfect for filling in M&Es or adding realistic hand pats to your scenes.

Ultimate Hand To Body Foley

A hand-picked collection of two hundred and twenty two sound effects gathered during the past year

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Introducing Artillery, a new devastating sound library covering a wide range of elements including cannon shots, electric systems, mechanical parts, distant artillery barrage, impacts, whooshes, grenade launchers and more.

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WWII US WEAPONS SFX COLLECTION

Prepare for impact! This extensive bullet impact collection features a huge number of impacts into cars, metal, walls, water, body impacts, as well as passbys, ricochets and underwater passbys.

A must-have for for actual bullet and combat sounds – and for adding oomph to many other types of impact sounds too!

BULLET IMPACTS SFX COLLECTION

Get this at https://www.asoundeffect.com/zombie

The Zombie Apocalypse has arrived, and the virus is spreading fast. This comprehensive sound library features 20,000 high quality zombie sounds, making it the most complete zombie sound collection ever released.

Zombie Apocalypse Key Features:
• 5 female voices & 5 male voices
• 25 distinct actions
• 10 variations per action
• 4 unique voice techniques linked to specific zombie vocal archetypes
• Recorded with one close and one distant microphone
• Layering options for most actions, providing immense customization flexibility

Zombie Core Edition
The Basic Zombie Kit contains 2,400 sounds with the following features:

• 5 female voices & 5 male voices
• 12 distinct actions
• 10 variations per action
• 2 main voice techniques tied to specific zombie vocal archetypes
• 1 close microphone for proximity
• Layering options for most actions

Recorded at Tone Studio in Montreal by James Duhamel, the Zombie Apocalypse library offers pristine audio fidelity with a 192 kHz/24-bit sample rate. This, combined with the talents of trusted voice actors and the increased variety of actions and variations, the layering option to keep your listeners immersed and on edge, makes Zombie Apocalypse the most complete and unique sound library on the market. If it is not the first zombie sound library you have bought, this one will definitely be your last.

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Introducing ZOMBIE - the world's largest Zombie sound effects library

The Lethal Energies sci-fi weapons SFX library gets you more than 1000 designed weapons and weapon construction kit elements, for designing your own powerful sci-fi weapons.

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This footstep sound effect library gets you footstep SFX on surfaces such as Dry Swamp, Wet Swamp, Dirt, Grass Short, Grass Long, Forest Plain II, Dry Sand, Wooden Stairs, Water Shallow, Water Deep. Each surface comes at least with walk, scuff and stomp sounds with a lot of variations.

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Footsteps Two  - footstep sound effect library

A huge collection of rock, wood, brick impact sound effects - recorded in the Italian Alps

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Rocks Momentum Sound Effects Library demo

An outstanding collection of truly terrifying horror sound effects from Boom and Hollywood horror master Richard Adrian

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Cinematic Horror Sound Effects Construction Kit

Recordings of a Yamaha 24MX 125 cc dirtbike – featuring onboard and exterior recordings

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Yamaha 24MX 125CC Dirtbike sound effects library

Recordings of a heavily modded Nissan GT-R with a turbocharged 3.8 litres V6 and 500 hp. 

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Nissan GT - R sound effects library

Recording of a 105mm Howitzer cannon from World War II firing blanks - 27 recordings included.

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War Zone - Designed Explosion Sound Effects gets you 170 sound effects categorized into beeps, explosions, beeping mine explosions, debris, low whooshes, whooshes, shots and whooshes + debris.

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War Zone - Designed Explosion Sound Effects Library

SWORDFIGHTER gets you unique sword swings with various hits, swooshes, schings, different fighter vocals and impacts on various surfaces. A total of 137 sword sounds, 93 surface impact sounds, 15 knife throwing sounds, 48 swooshes and 180 fighter vocals are included in the library.

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SWORDFIGHTER Sword Sound Effects Library

Finally a SFX library that delivers authentic Formula 1 recordings! This F1 Williams FW29 was driven by Nico Rosberg in the 2007 Formula 1 World Championship. 

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Formula 1 Sound Effects library

Get hundreds of festive, squeaky sound effects in this debut release from SoundsLikeGeorge's George Hufnagl:

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Squeaky Toys Sound Effects Library

More than 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.

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Glacier Ice | Ice Sound Effects Library

The independent sound effects scene has exploded in the past year, and in this all-new episode of the A Sound Effect podcast, Paul Virostek offers his thoughts on what this means for indie SFX, what excites him in sound effects right now - and how to stand out in an increasingly competitive market. Features Asbjoern Andersen, Christian Hagelskjaer From, and special guest Paul Virostek.

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A Sound Effect Podcast Ep. 03: The indie sound effects explosion!

Get the sounds of large crowds, cheering, booing, celebrating - captured in the ambisonics 3D audio format. The format is excellent for immersive audio projects and VR, and for your convenience, the library comes with regular stereo mixdowns as well. This demo is rendered for binaural listening - many other options are available too.

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Large Crowd Reaction Ambisonics Sound Effects

Get crowd reactions from a UK football match - covering everything from applause, cheering, booing, chanting, groans, oohs!, misses, goals and more.

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The Football Match - Crowd Sound Effects Library

Get the recordings of a 75mm M4A1 Sherman cannon from World War II as it fires blanks. The library consists of about 20 channels with distances and perspectives ranging from 0 to 150 meters

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75mm M4A1 Sherman Cannon sound effects library

Get the sounds of a Tesla with this new Tesla Sound Effects Library from Rick Allen Creative - featuring 146 recordings of everything from drive motors, servos and alerts, as well as interior and exterior foley + interior environment at highway speeds and the tires on gravel and pavement at various speeds. It also comes with exterior street-based perspectives of vehicle pass-bys and arrivals on different road surfaces at various speeds.

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Get more than 950 sounds of electricity, science and technology with the Polarity SFX library – captured in several locations around the world, from electricity museums to science labs.

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Polarity | Science and Electricity Sound Effects Library

This library delivers the sounds of distant, heavy explosions, impacts and detonations.

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Distant Blast | Explosion Sound Effects Library

Thermal Flux is a sound effects library formed by extreme temperature reactions. With materials ranging from -119°F to 1900°F all captured at 192kHz/24bit, it's a fiery (and icy) collection of unique sound design source material.

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Thermal Flux | Extreme Temperature Sound Effects Library

Ultrasonic Dry Ice is a library containing over 600 sounds themed metal resonances, scrapes and all sorts of weird.
All the content has been recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K, a couple of Sennheiser MKH8040 and a MKH416.
The resulting ultrasonic spectrum is rich and allows for truly extreme manipulation of the content.

 https://www.asoundeffect.com/sound-library/ultrasonic-dry-ice/

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Ultrasonic Dry Ice | Extreme Ice Sound Effects Library

Get the sounds of a Nissan 240SFX s13 and the BMW E46 giving it everything they&#039;ve got on a racetrack - nearly 3.5 hours total. Includes microphone positions such as cabin, body, exhaust and engine.

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Drifting 2: Car Internal | Car Sound Effects Library

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!

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Coll Anderson 's famed Battle Crowd library is the world's largest collection of battle crowd sound effects, covering huge crowds as they're deep in battle, celebrating, screaming, yelling, protesting, begging, crying and much more, as well as crowd movement sounds, marching and more. If you're looking for the ultimate collection of large battle crowd sounds, this is it!

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Coll Anderson - Battle Crowds Demo

Gentle Wind - I will keep adding to this, these are the winds I always wish I had.  No “huge gale force crap” here.  These are all gentle lonely winds, with and without organic material.

Coll Anderson - Gentle Wind Demo

SoundMorph co-founder Jason Cushing shares stories behind their impressive sound effects libraries & what it takes to succeed in indie SFX - and award-winning composer Jesper Kyd tells you how they made the stunning Assassin's Creed Valhalla score. Interviews by Jennifer Walden, hosted by Asbjoern Andersen and Christian Hagelskjaer.

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Shaping the Sound of SoundMorph & Assassin's Creed Valhalla's superb score -A Sound Effect Podcast 9

Hear how Soul’s superb sound was shaped, in our brand new interview with supervising sound editor Coya Elliott, and re-recording mixer, sound designer and supervising sound editor Ren Klyce. Interview by Jennifer Walden • Hosts: Asbjoern Andersen & Christian Hagelskjaer From 
Here’s what’s in this episode (with starting times):
01:46 New independent sound effects: We take a listen to some of the many interesting SFX releases that have come out
04:03 Shaping Soul’s Superb Sound – with supervising sound editor Coya Elliott, and re-recording mixer, sound designer and supervising sound editor Ren Klyce
24:50 Greetings from our friends in the Audio Podcast Alliance

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Creating Soul's Superb Sound - with Coya Elliott and Ren Klyce - A Sound Effect Podcast EP 11

The A Sound Effect Podcast is the world's first podcast dedicated to sound effects. A Sound Effect is also home to an absolutely huge, curated collection of sound effects – hand-picked from the best sound creators in the world. 

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