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Trying to find the evil laughing "Ha ha ha haaaa" sound effect used occasionally on Mythbusters. Unfortunately I can't recall what episodes it's used in

Edit: I found an episode it's used in. Season 5, episode 3, 7:40 into the episode.

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A Collection of intense bone-breaking sound effects, featuring realistic snaps, cracks, and fractures. Ideal for enhancing fight audio, horror/gore scenes, and realistic injuries from body shattering to spine cracking. Includes a lot of variety for different bones and impact types, all recorded in high-quality 96kHz 24-bit WAV format.

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Does anyone have a video (preferable) or link to how they did Franks resurrection scene in Hellraiser 1?

I'm sure l've seen one before (maybe in Leviathan but I don't have 8 hours to look haha) Would love to see how they did it, (I believe in reverse?) and what things they used!

Thanks so much

Hey! Does anybody know where I could find good quality recordings of fires/large bonfires/buildings or houses on fire/trees and grass on fire? Thanks!

Hi all! I’m currently working on a tech-based short film and need a variety of sound effects (SFX), especially futuristic, glitch, mechanical, and robotic sounds. Does anyone know where I can find high-quality SFX libraries (free)? Are there any go-to platforms, community groups, or specific collections I should check out for this kind of project?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Hey there, not sure if this is the right place to ask but I’m in need of a very particular sfx: a punch/kick sequence. To be exact, I’m looking for a general purpose SFX that would fit a flurry of blows between two combatants, something that would instantly fit an ATLA or TLOK fight sequence. The purpose is a simple one, I just need the SFX to play out during a combat exchange for an Avatar Legends Campaign session, something to immerse my players into the fight a bit further. I can find Punch SFX A and Punch SFX B but I can’t seem to find a decently lengthy combo. I’m pretty sure most would stitch it together themselves, but alas I’m not savvy enough it seems to make one. Can someone help?

Edit: I don’t mind purchasing it if it exists somewhere and someone points me to the right direction. :)

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That ubiquitous sound of a crowd gasping with a prominent female yelp that stands out. It's in everything, real cheesy. It was even in the Gladiator 2 trailer. Does that have a name?

I am looking for the best room tone libraries, and rural libraries for a series I am about to start. It is a western in the 1800s in a rural area. Anyone have go -to's for room tones that don't have HVAC, ventilation, and the modern outdoors in the back of it? Along with clean rurals that are in isolated tracks?

About to throw out some old ceramic dinner plates and bowls. I though it would be fun to record some break sound from them. But I have so many breaking sounds in the library, are there any different ways to get sounds from them?

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Hear this song in a lot of techno music. Two examples I can think of:

Twilight zone - 2 unlimited 0:15 0:20 0:25

Hamster dance 0:54 0:55

Idk other songs those are off the dome rn. Need this effect asap thanks love you

This is one of those cases of ridiculous crap that moderators deal with at times, the kind which just deserves a good airing

Striving for censorship and going after people and communities in order to manipulate perception is a BAD road to take which just might be met with the cleansing light of day

##How it started

August of 2023, someone posted in/r/sfxlibraries to ask

Ocular sound fx libraries, any good?
Any sound editors/designers/mixers got any of their libraries? Are they any good? They've got some deals on at the moment so I'm tempted.

The same person also posted it in /r/AudioPost

Ocular sound fx libraries, any good?

As anyone can see, the poster has nothing bad to say and asks a perfectly legitimate question. They simply asked for the opinion of others who had purchased Ocular's libraries. The poster makes no judgement about the content or the company and offers no opinions.

##Requested opinions are given

One responder in the /r/SFXLibraries post noted they were a purchaser and found the sounds to not be up to the standard they sought "...I wouldn’t recommend it for an actual professional."

Two responders cautioned that the content may / apparently have issues with content that came from other sources (a concern which Stefan from Ocular themselves later confirms had been warranted). They "recommended" to avoid "libraries like this", (those which do not identify the recordist, offering thousands of sounds for an extremely low price) and noted correctly that a library purchaser would not be free from legal entanglement should there be an issue with the content being "pirated".

Another purchaser says Ocular had only been around for 5 months at the time of the post and that "if the libraries are legit, they sound good and professional, but there is some questionable marketing involved..." because "They show logos for Play Station, HBO, Apple, Netflix, and Red Bull, but they don't say those companies are their customers or use their products"

These are opinions and suspicions presented as such on a post with two upvotes at the time. The post had four top level comments, only two of which spoke to suspicions of any rights concerns.

##The campaign begins

December 2023, four months after the post - the comments in the post started receiving false reports for site rule violations regarding "promoting hate based on identity or vulnerability". This clearly was someone abusing the reporting system to try to have the content pulled. Hmmm, who would be behind that and who would benefit from it?

July 2024 - eleven months after the post - Stefan from Ocular Sounds sends a modmail to this subreddit

Dear soundeziner,

I hope you're doing well. My name is Stefan, co-founder of Ocular Sounds.

We've noticed a post on your subreddit, /r/SFXLibraries, that claims our company has been selling stolen sound libraries (SD - Wrong, the post itself made no claims of any kind. Only two responders within offered suspicion, which is confirmed as valid by you via this very message) . This post has been causing us significant concern, as it's severely impacting our reputation and business (SD - this is a post with only 2 upvotes at the time which contained nothing truly malicious or unwarranted, only responder suspicion which you confirm herein was warranted. It is not the problem you make it out to be. Your attempts at handling of it however...). We wanted to discuss the possibility of having it removed. (SD - Hell no, you may not ask for censorship because you got feedback you didn't like, especially in light of the fact that you confirm the concerns expressed were valid given you took action on the library for the same reason)

I would like to address the issue and provide you with more context. The issue mentioned in the post (SD - some of the comments Stefan and not the post itself) dates back to when our company was just a few months old. We collaborated with a freelancer who created a sound bundle for us. Unfortunately, we discovered later on that a sound in that bundle bore similarities to a sound from another library. While these claims were never proven, we took immediate action by severing ties with the freelancer and removing the entire bundle from our website. (SD - which only matches / confirms the reasonable suspicions expressed by a couple of the responders in the post)

Since then, we've implemented strict measures to guarantee that all our sound libraries are entirely original and free from any copyright concerns. We've completely replaced our libraries, now working exclusively with a carefully vetted group of sound designers. Each of these sound designers has signed clear and comprehensive contracts, affirming that all the work they provide is created from scratch and is legally sound. This ensures that there is no room for ambiguity regarding the originality and legality of our sound libraries. (SD - Good for you. Clearly you should have done that due diligence in the first place. That you didn't is on you and not anyone else who had concerns about it, concerns which you validate.)

We are truly passionate about sound design and are committed to delivering high-quality sound effects to our customers (SD - and as a VERY long term professional in this industry, I can tell you that the raw reality is not everyone is always going to like your products or find it suits them. Content creators can and do live and move on when some people prefer other products). This dedication is reflected in the trust and loyalty of our customer base (SD - any trust issue is not at the feet of the people who felt it best to point out their suspicions which you confirmed as valid, it would be due to those who failed to head a problem off in the first place), which includes over 15,000 customers. In addition, we have gathered nearly 250 positive Trustpilot reviews, with an average score of 4.9/5. If you would like to learn more about our company, please checkout our about-us page with the link below:

(website link removed)

The post in question appears prominently when searching for Ocular Sounds on Google, causing undue harm to our reputation (SD - again, the suspicions that were expressed are ones you validated herein and even if you hadn't, people get to have opinions and concerns. and your boast over the numbers of buyers and trust rating stats does not jibe with your claim of 'undue harm'). Given the actions we've taken to address the issue and the overwhelmingly positive feedback we've received, we would highly appreciate it if you could consider removing the post.

Thank you for your time and consideration. We're more than happy to provide any additional information or clarification you might need.

Best regards,

Stefan Ocular Sounds

In response they were told "no" to censorship and that their claims had factual issues. They were told to instead make a post about their products and efforts (as any intelligent PR person would point out is the ideal way forward) which they chose not to do. It's unfortunate since that effort would easily have garnered more than a couple of upvotes and become the more prominent post on reddit about Ocular

August 2024 - A few days ago, three of the comments received false reports. Today both posts and the comments within were all bombarded with numerous false reports each in an attempt to force them to be removed. The user who made both the posts is now having their other posts attacked with false reports. Hmmm, who would be behind that and who would benefit from it?

To clarify what happened and continued, as a result of these attacks the accounts of the poster and participants in the comments were shadowbanned by the site due to the multiple intentional false reports being made. This continued to happen after appeals to the site were made. The posts, comments, and accounts came back only to be subsequently shut down again due to extended attacks

Is it right that the person who made their posts to ask a legitimate question, did so without expressing anything negative towards Ocular, and was even done in hopes of buying Ocular content...is it right that any of their posts much less their other unrelated posts were taken out and their reddit account was shadowbanned due to attacks on them via abuses of the reporting system and possibly done so over comments which they didn't even make? Fuck no

To Stefan of Ocular Sounds, when someone tries to mischaracterize, bully, and/or play censorship games for any reason, especially if it's over something which the attacker themselves validates, that would NOT be trust building but rather the opposite. It would be best to strive for something better.

Note that Ocular has had to be blacklisted in both these subreddits due to the deceptive and bad faith engagement towards discussion of your products including the intentional false report attacks being conducted by....hmmm wonder who would be behind that?

EDIT UPDATE

It turns out in addition to all the above, it was conveyed that Ocular contacted the account which made the posts receiving unjust attacks and which has been shadowbanned as a result of the multiple abuses of the reporting system about them. I'm told that Thom at Ocular offered the poster some 'free' product in exchange if the poster would remove their own post(s).

I have contacted some of the accounts who commented to give them a heads up that they might be undeservedly acted on due to these abuses of the report system attempting to silence them. Reddit site admin has confirmed the connections of the report abuse and hopefully will get everyone's account back in good standing.

UPDATE 2

The original poster's account has now been taken off their shadowban status by reddit site admin. Their posts and comments within are reapproved.

UPDATE 3

Unfortunately, the poster's account is still being unjustly messed with. This kind of thing needs to be condemned, not condoned

UPDATE 4

Someone claiming to be a representative of Ocular sounds just created an account to modmail regarding one of the comments they don't like which they want us to wrongly censor

Since the user account is deleted, i would like to request you to delete the comment as well, as it is negatively effecting our online reputation.

The user account which made the comment that they want censored is NOT a deleted account. It was subjected to multiple intentional. malicious, and false report system abuse attacks which impacted the account. It was shadowbanned directly after the cowardly report system abuses.

Opinions are still allowed. Censorship requests will not be granted

UPDATE 5

(Continuation of the 2nd account claiming to represent Ocular making contact with modmail) It was an unpleasant exchange involving several false claims on their part. They finally offered an apology for their antics which included confessing to being the ones behind the report abuse attacks on the posts, comments, and accounts. They continued to press for removal of the content though it has been repeatedly made clear that will not happen from our end. Things did not ring true so...

A few days ago I added the targeted accounts, the creator of the original post(s) and two of the responders, to the moderator team here in order to 1) give them visibility to the communications from all parties and 2) give them some manner of protection from the ongoing attacks

Another contact has just been made by Ocular. Yet again, it's not off to a good start. Hopefully a final update soon

FINAL UPDATE

Yeah, some mistakes certainly were made...

Thom from Ocular sounds made contact using the same account as the prior message from Stefan. This was the same account they used to contact the original poster to make an attempted offer of exchange of product for post removal (bribery for self-censorship).

Though in contradiction to the prior communications made, their timing, the sources, and the attacks, Ocular now claims to have had no awareness of what was being done. They now claim an SEO service they contracted to suppress the posts at the heart of this are the ones behind the attacks. They are trying VERY hard to put the damage at arms length, "move forward" and (of course) not talk about this (their errors) anymore. Thom stresses the SEO entity was not paid to bully and harass these communities by Ocular. However, he states explicitly that the arrangement they made with the SEO company was for payment upon successful completion of suppression of the post(s). When Ocular pays is not relevant to the fact that the company whom they made arrangements with most certainly was to act on behalf of Ocular.

By their own admission, Ocular Sounds has had troubles with due diligence. Stefan admits they have had to make changes due to early failures to properly vet sounds and freelancers. Thom admits they failed to properly handle their SEO contracting in this current situation.

Their representatives and contractors continued to misrepresent the post(s) and comments within. They are not even able to admit their characterization of the post was completely false and that the truth is; the post itself made NO claim about Ocular and only sought opinions from other purchasers. All comments within were expressed as opinion / suspicion and any suspicions were clearly warranted and validated by Stefan / Ocular themselves.

Thom claims to "deeply regret not replying publicly on the original thread to share our side of the story from the outset". However, I have expressed multiple times that while the post(s) which were attacked on behalf of Ocular Sounds are now in an archived state by the site due to age, I have repeatedly offered to add a moderator comment which includes a statement from them addressing any factual errors. Unfortunately, they (Ocular and their SEO attack dog) 1) have consistently and notably dodged that offer 2) have consistently and notably engaged in inaccurate claims and 3) have not yet offered any "facts" which changes any comments made. To the contrary, all that has been done by them is confirm the validity of the comments made (and worse).

So in the end, are / were questions and concerns about Ocular Sounds warranted?

First off, it is always fair to ask and/or state in regard to any product and company being discussed;

• I'm thinking of buying a product, anyone else bought it and have thoughts about it?
• I'm suspicious of that product based on these aspects I've looked at...(and state why)
• It's not the kind of product I want
• It seems to be a great / quality product but their marketing isn't my cup of tea

Beyond that, it's worth asking questions anytime a company and its contractors choose to resort to the bad faith tactics of bullying, misrepresentation, suppression, censorship, and manipulation. If any company has an admitted and repeat due diligence issue, then that would also fairly warrant questions as to where that problem might potentially reveal itself. If any company resorts to manipulation of feedback in order to suppress / censor / prevent expression of valid concerns and to only prop up the positives into the light, it may result in people exploring why.

If trust and reputation are as important to Ocular as they claim, they should make changes to better reflect that. Those things should be sincerely earned, not manipulated to satisfaction. In my opinion, based on the engagement here, the change needs to start at their top level.

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Hi, I have a big sound library.. I'd say aprox 10Tb..

I'm thinking about the best option to have a backup and to have it ready for use on soundminer/soundQ, etc...

I searched around some HDD...

And I found these enterprise HDD... These are cheap and reliable, they say...

But what do you think? Is this is a good option? Or should I try another type of HDD... or another storage option?

My idea is to get a RAID later on for use...

What would be the best combo for me (budget-wise too)

Hi everyone!

I am excited to share with you my new sound library featuring steampunk machinery and mechanisms that sound huge, gritty and full of character. The sound effects were recorded with an ultrasonic microphones setup and a contact microphones setup, providing exciting opportunities for blending huge up-close bass-filled sounding sources with detailed ultrasonic content.

I hope you'll enjoy listening to the preview: https://www.slavapogorelsky.com/product-page/steampunk-vintage-machinery-and-mechanisms

Feel free to download the freebies and explore other libraries!

To celebrate the release, all of the sound libraries are on sale including the 'Complete Bundle' that just got a lot bigger 🙂

Thank you!

P.S. Wix audio player sometimes fails to load the correct preview file and plays a generic track - reloading the page should help. Soundcloud preview is also available on the right side of the page.

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