Trailer SFX Sought

[Buanann]

Hey guys! I'm looking for a SFX library containing a very particular genre of sound effects, and I'm hoping someone on this board might know where I can find them.

The sound effects I'm looking for are the ones you hear most often in movie trailers. They are the deep meaningful thuds you hear when movie titles comes up on the screen... the airy whooshes and flybys that punctuate cuts from shot to shot... the surging impacts that accompany shocking or violent moments... those are the sort of things I'm looking for. The sound is very "Hollywood" and quite distinctive -- no generic thud or whoosh will evoke the same feeling.

For an example, here's a link to a Quicktime file of a trailer -- it happens to be for The Da Vinci Code videogame. The "Hollywood" SFX I'm describing begin in this trailer about halfway through, when the text appears on screen and the voiceover begins. Example of "Hollywood" SFX (http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=10363&type=mov&pl=game)

So far I have had no luck in finding a SFX library with these types of sounds. Does anyone know where I can find them? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

[musicsuccess]

I've been looking for those sounds as well. I've created my own versions but they lack the power and "Hollywood" edge.

[danring]

I think Stylus RMX has some sound effects in its library that might be what you're looking for. Also, combining progressive synth patches like those found in Atmosphere with certain percussion can give you desired effects.

Good luck,

Dan

[Doug Wellington]

Maybe this is what you're looking for?

http://www.store.precisionsound.net/stingersinfo.php

[Briody]

I've also been looking for these type of sounds. I've made my own, but they lack the impact of the sounds you hear in trailers.

I'll probably order that one linked above. The right is good and the demos sound good as well.

[jmeredith]

Not sure if you've checked these libraries out yet but here are some options... Digital Juice SoundFX (http://www.digitaljuice.com/products/products.asp?pid=160&tab=t3#tabs) or Sony Pictures Sound Effects Series Volumes 1-10 (http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/loop_libraries/showloop.asp?SPID=399). Also available in 1-5 and 6-10 box sets. Much better Sony prices available at Safe Harbor (http://www.sharbor.com/vendors/SFO.html). Hope this helps :)

[Buanann]

Thanks so much! I just went ahead and bought the PrecisionSounds Stingers collection, which sounds quite excellent! It is a relatively small collection, but the sounds are choice. I'll probably still keep looking for more, and if I hear anything else that knocks my socks off I'll report back. :-)

[sghoughton]

do a search for radioactive noise on ebay. they had some interesting stuff when i was searching for sounds.

steve

[Videohlper]

You can try noisegenerator.com for info on one (of many) trailer sound dersign libraries. They make a collection called Slam Bang Boom that is used really frequently by the large trailer houses.

I should know. I helped work on the darn thing.

There's also Sonomic.com and sounddogs.com for an on-line collection if you need to to do a piecemeal search.

Good luck.

[Dup]

Hello,
I think you can do easely yourself:
In wavelab for example:
- one track of pink noise abour 400ms with fade in and fade out
- another with a wip noise pan from left to right
- Another withthe same wip wip noise pitch one octave down pan from left to right
- A deep pad sound
- A final chord of a symphony without attack mix not too loud
- And some reverb

Best regards

[dpasdernick]

I have purchased a ton of Sound FX libraries from Sounds-Ideas.com. All great stuff. Titles like Metropolis, SCi-Fi Series 8000, etc. The only problem I have is that their are so many it's pretty much impossible to find the one I need at any given moment. I usually end up grunting into a mic and adding reverb ;)

Also try Xtreme FX. Bloody cool stuff, and fits right into your host as a VST.

Darren

[zvenx]

anyone heard or own this one:

http://www.sound-ideas.com/elementscafe3.html


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rsp

[Doug Wellington]

I think that a fairly recent Eventide Harmonizer (Orville, 7000 or 8000) would be a good tool for this sort of work.
Eventides are fantastic for sound design! In addition to the 7000 and 8000 series, I think the 4000 series is also great, and you can pick up a used one for significantly less money. You can't layer as many effects as the 7000/8000, but in the "real world" (whatever that is) you probably don't need to do that very often. If you want to get crazy and edit your own effects structures, VSIGfile works with 4000, 7000, Orville and 8000 series units. (The main differences are that the 4000 and 7000 series are stereo units and the Orville and 8000 are four to eight channel units...)

[Von Richter]

I was also faced with this problem recently.

I needed that cliche, huge "anvil" sound that often comes with each ending title in these trailers (and have you noticed how the title is always zooming in a bit?)

So I listened to some real trailers and tried to match it.

I ended up getting very close with a downtuned cowbell, an EQ'd toaster oven door slamming, and a low thump, and some reverb to finish it off. I think some good sized aluminum tubes might work as well.

[Bruce A. Richardson]

I usually end up grunting into a mic and adding reverb ;)


That's the ticket. I can't tell you how many times that has been the answer for me. All those sounds you used to make when you were a kid, playing Army? Add a good mic, some effects, and some reverb, and you can have your trailer effects done in five minutes.

Lee's point is really well taken. You need to mix expertly to get this kind of impact, because it is so easy to saturate your mix bandwidth with bass energy, which results in no impact.

Waves MaxxBass or Renaissance Bass is one of the not-so-secret tools for this. The problem most people make with this plugin is strapping it across entire mixes, which is the wrong way to use it. Put it on the tracks that create the subsonics, dial up a typical bottom end limit (40-50 Hz in almost all instances), and make sure the original signal is muted (there is a setting on the plugin). This causes the plugin to create a false overtone structure that will create the fundamental via difference tone...in other words, the speaker no longer has to produce it. The overtone trick produces the fundamental in mid-air.

So, the end result is you get your fluffy "lows" from the psychoacoustic effect, and you still have enough amplifier energy and cone travel to smack the air with some significant impact (which you are not running through the algorithm).

Not to say the pre-fab products are necessarily bad things, but you will never get the kind of impact from a prefab sound design that you can custom create yourself, once you've learned how to do it.

Oftentimes, as well, the secret to really great impact sounds is surgical editing of the sources, removing subsonics on the waveform level. Be sure you select across zero crossings for this kind of work, so you don't create clicks and anomalous woofer travel. On that level, you are looking very literally at what motion the cone will be taking. Oftentimes, extremely surgical EQ (non-resonant low shelf) will leave exactly the same depth of lows, but can reduce cone travel by almost half.

It pays to listen to really great pop mixes, and watch the cones while doing so. The best mixes, even those with huge bass, rarely exhibit much cone pumping (so you can crank the snot out of them, versus mixes with too much travel which fall apart when you crank them due to the massive power drain this causes in the amp).

The other mix secret is that you mix the impacts first, before you do anything else. Get those things sounding huge and amazing, then go back and put all the other elements in place. If you try to do it the opposite way, there won't be any room left in the mix by the time you get to the impacts. It's much like mixing a pop song. If you get the vocal, drums, and bass totally punching before you add anything else, the rest of the mix is simple. If you make the typical beginner mistake of getting the band parts slamming, then adding the vocal, there is never any room left for the vocal.

(this is why people spend countless dollars on "vocal plugins" which attempt to punch through the mud they have created...and which rarely work, except to gird the wallets of the plugin provider).

[Pierre Langer]

Hey there,

you can check out the Impacts from this new collection:

www.boomlibrary.com

This has been done specifically for trailers . .

Cheers,

Pierre

[wst3ae]

it is always more fun, though not always practical, to create specific sounds like these from scratch. If you have a software synth in your collection it really is pretty simple. That said, check out Sonokinetic and their Q's libraries. Very well done, priced lower than they probably could be, and they just work right out of the box!

[marce]

Just for the record, here some samples from a Kitchen sink with some delay, reverb and that added:

http://stashbox.org/951354/FXSamples.mp3


you can found that kitchen sink free samples here:


http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/showthread.php/71788-quot-THE-KITCHEN-SINK-quot-a-free-percussion-library-for-Aria!

[Time&Space]

These two titles from Zero-G may be of some help..

Dark Skies: Cinematic Ambiences - this was released last December and was a sell-out success (Zero-G had to get more manufactured after only 3 months!). The reviews have been incredibly positive as well:

http://www.timespace.com/product/DSCA-319/3/9999934/dark_skies%3a_cinematic_ambiences.html

Deep Impact – This was released in June and may be more suited to what you're after in terms of FX:

http://www.timespace.com/product/DIMP-319/3/9999934/deep_impact.html

Hope that helps!

[StrangeCat]

Hey guys! I'm looking for a SFX library containing a very particular genre of sound effects, and I'm hoping someone on this board might know where I can find them.

The sound effects I'm looking for are the ones you hear most often in movie trailers. They are the deep meaningful thuds you hear when movie titles comes up on the screen... the airy whooshes and flybys that punctuate cuts from shot to shot... the surging impacts that accompany shocking or violent moments... those are the sort of things I'm looking for. The sound is very "Hollywood" and quite distinctive -- no generic thud or whoosh will evoke the same feeling.

For an example, here's a link to a Quicktime file of a trailer -- it happens to be for The Da Vinci Code videogame. The "Hollywood" SFX I'm describing begin in this trailer about halfway through, when the text appears on screen and the voiceover begins. Example of "Hollywood" SFX (http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=10363&type=mov&pl=game)

So far I have had no luck in finding a SFX library with these types of sounds. Does anyone know where I can find them? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!


I see this a lot on the web and it cracks me up! Look it sounds to me like you don't need some Lib that is going to hold your hand and create these sound but instead need to learn about being a producer and using FX. You probably already have everything but you need to still learn some producer tricks to get the most out of it.

Down sampling, delay, fx chains, different use of different compressors, etc. Being able to program a synth would help too. And more then I can possibly write on a music forum.

[StrangeCat]

Hey guys! I'm looking for a SFX library containing a very particular genre of sound effects, and I'm hoping someone on this board might know where I can find them.

The sound effects I'm looking for are the ones you hear most often in movie trailers. They are the deep meaningful thuds you hear when movie titles comes up on the screen... the airy whooshes and flybys that punctuate cuts from shot to shot... the surging impacts that accompany shocking or violent moments... those are the sort of things I'm looking for. The sound is very "Hollywood" and quite distinctive -- no generic thud or whoosh will evoke the same feeling.

For an example, here's a link to a Quicktime file of a trailer -- it happens to be for The Da Vinci Code videogame. The "Hollywood" SFX I'm describing begin in this trailer about halfway through, when the text appears on screen and the voiceover begins. Example of "Hollywood" SFX (http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=10363&type=mov&pl=game)

So far I have had no luck in finding a SFX library with these types of sounds. Does anyone know where I can find them? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Guess I'll help too since i see this more and more and more.

There is Symphobia, various percussion impact libs, Bigfish audio, EastWest so many others, get anything by Tonehammer and play with FX. Learn how to create Synth swooshes, then layer that with other sounds and add fx for effect. Use Backward reverb tricks.
Learn to layer Sub basses. And once again it would be a long list...

your good to go^_-

"The sound is very "Hollywood" and quite distinctive -- no generic thud or whoosh will evoke the same feeling. "

That's a really funny thing to say!