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Tonal Metal

Name: Tonal Metal | Sound Effects Library
Price: 49.00 USD
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Specifications: 449 Files – 1000+ Sounds – 3.92 GB – 192kHz – 24Bit

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Sound of Essen

Groans, Clangs and Shrings

Metal can be very tonal and used as an muscial instrument. For this library I used different metallic objects and hit them, rubbed them, stressed them, bowed them, plucked them or made them spin. Among the objects that I worked with were steel wires, iron gates, a saw blade, daggers, cloth stands, aluminium boxes, bells, humming top and much more.

You can hear the metal shring, clang, groan, purr, scream, squeak, scratch, doing, pling, wronk, bang, moo and sing. The inital idea for this library evolved from a sound art object in Essen, a big hollow tree trunk with some iron strings on the back. I played it many times when walking past it and eventually started a decent recording session.

The sounds can be used to sonify bending iron gates, bridges or other objects but also as samples for producing music. Both tonal or percussive. Lots of them are also very expressive and can be used as a layer in voice design for creatures, monsters, dinosaurs or other giant living beings. And of course if you want to add character to any weapon (from sword to gun), a tonal element can give it a unique and recognizable audio mark.

Most recordings were made with multiple mics, with one mic being the Earthworks QTC50, catching high frequencies and making the sfx perfect for pitching down fun. Other mics: Neumann 81i, Schoeps MK41, Shertler Contact, Lewitt 540s, SM57.


Files:	449
Sounds:	1000+
Size:	3.92 GB
Format:	192khz/24bit
Channels:	Stereo-Wav
Metadata:
Product Type:	Download

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Works with all Editing Softwares

Pro Tools

Logic Pro X

Ableton Live

Premiere Pro

After Effects

Cubase

Nuendo

Final Cut

Sound of Essen

Sound of Essen is a project by Nils Mosh, a field recordist, a sound artist and designer from Essen, Germany. In his works, he explores the spirit of sound from various locations. He always listens to the places in their social context and examines them for the interaction between nature and human-made influences. And in between, he simply opts out of the world and falls in love with the sound of the resonances of a handrail or the delicate chirping of a water beetle. In 2017 his recording „Das Team“ won 2nd price at the international radio award "60 seconds" in Canada. Besides recording in the territory of the wolf GW954f from 2019-2022 for the release „Of wolves and people“ (Gruenrekorder 214) with Melissa Pons, he presented sound art work at festivals like Tonwelten Festival (2023), Blaues Rauschen Festival (2023) or Weimarer Sommer (2018). He collaborated with dance & perfomance artists for performances in Montreal, Tel Aviv and across Germany. He also lectures about field recording at the universities in Darmstadt & Duesseldorf. Besides his sound art & field recording work, he also runs the blog Sound of Essen and sells sound effects for games & movies. His focus is on local sounds, which he explores with his deep knowledge of these specific sounds and which are sometimes hard to get in other places of the world. His libraries range from local animals to unique aircrafts and farming machines.

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