Trailer stylee sound effects...

www.sounddogs.com is another good resource for effects, where you buy the individual effects online. Not as economical in the long run, but the available selection is pretty vast.

The 6000-series is a great library at a good price, but popularity is itself a liability in this case (we keep hearing the same sound effects over and over again). You may want to consider one of Sound Ideas' newer general-purpose libraries, which will give you a broad selection of effects without as many miles on the odometer. Hollywood Edge has some pretty solid generalist libraries as well.

Are there specific effects for which you're looking?
 
I hear stuff from the Sound Ideas and Hollywood Edge libraries all the time. I have both, so I recogonize stuff out of them all the time. There is this male scream that is in almost every horror movie trailer, or theme park commercial with a roller coaster in it.
 
Thanks guys! :dankk2: I will definately try to check those libraries out. Sound Ideas seems to have also track lists on the web...very cool!

I'm looking especially for those whooshes and effects that comes for example when text animation comes in and then goes fast away again...or when the footage changes quickly from one to another...damn, they sound so cool and like these guys are serious, hehehehe! :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)

For example, here're some cool sound effects in the beginning of this Paparazzi trailer:

"...gold medal...PAM...24 shots per load...PAM...a 1000 meter range...PAM...it has power to tear man apart...PAM"

Damn, it sounds so cool with picture. :love4: I'm looking for this kind of cool effects! Also this Paparazzi trailer has very cool camera sounds!!! I love those.

http://www.scanbox.dk/images/film/1373/media/paparazzi.mov

Sounds and music makes so much of the trailers!
 
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Each of those sounds are different. That first sound is a type of bass hit, with a metal hit in it. The second is a bass hit with hardcore reverb. The third and fourth is another bass hit with a gun shot layered over it. The rest sound like just different variations of the first four.

There aren't really any pre-built kits with the traileresque whooshes and stabs. You have to mix them and build them yourselves.

I think some of the links posted above would be a good basis though to start mixing.
 
Hollywood Edge's Premiere Edition 1 is only $495 but only comes with 1459 effects. Sound Ideas' General 6000 is $1500 but comes with 7500 effects. (the prices are from soundfx.com)

I've used General 6000 but not Hollywood Edge. Anyone here used it?

Justin
www.beyondtimemedia.com
 
Libraries are fine until you build up your own but the sounds you are talking about are not going to be found on any commercial CD for two big reasons. First a lot of those sounds were recorded or designed for the trailer or film very specifically and second because they are not a single sound but a whole bunch of tracks that combined to create the sound you are talking about. A typical "hit" as in punch in a film has three to four tracks. A big whoosh FX could have 4-5 stereo tracks and with some editors a lot more. So while you can get some very cool sounds they wont have the subtly and texture and will probably seem a bit flat in comparison. If you could "find" the perfect FX sound editors would be out of business.
 
Really? Where's the repetition in the library (I haven't received mine yet, so I haven't gone in for a good listen). Compared to General 6000 and Hollywood Egdge, at $1500 and $500 respectively but with less effects, this seemed like a sure hit.

Justin
www.beyondtimemedia.com
 
I checked out the link and actually ordered a set. But these are not really in the same camp as the SI or HE FX. In the film world most of the commercial FX are looked down on (but also used). Partly because everyone else can also use them and also because they tend to bee too sterile and sometimes "hoakey". THe DJ FX suffer from a bit of both. I'm not complaining because that is why I ordered it. But as a heads up you will have to do a lot of work to get "Trailer Style" punch out of the general FX. What is really great about the set and I need periodically is the "TV commercial" cheesy ad style vocals and the production music. One often needs to create fake TV content or radio content and this stuff is perfect. I find most of Sound Ideas tracks recorded way too dry, Hollywood edge is much better (personal opinion). But DJ's FX's are sort of what I expect from "consumer" FX libraries. Gunshots and such are recorded too low and distant for much use, Cars are only labeled in generic types. A lot of stuff is obviously "designed", etc. I do think it's a good buy at what you payed for it. FX that are more "professional", for lack of a better distinction, are around $100 per disk. A nice not too expensive starter set is the Hollywood Edge "super single" (1 & 2). But the DJ set has some useful stuff in it and the FX are as good or better as you are likely to see with out stepping up to the $100/ disk level.
If you mix them in with your own recordings they should give you a good foundation. And when you library is full of better stuff you will still used the music and Voice stuff for that fake commercial that needs to play on the radio in the background.

SK


jchenier said:
Really? Where's the repetition in the library (I haven't received mine yet, so I haven't gone in for a good listen). Compared to General 6000 and Hollywood Egdge, at $1500 and $500 respectively but with less effects, this seemed like a sure hit.

Justin
www.beyondtimemedia.com
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jchenier said:
Really? Where's the repetition in the library (I haven't received mine yet, so I haven't gone in for a good listen). Compared to General 6000 and Hollywood Egdge, at $1500 and $500 respectively but with less effects, this seemed like a sure hit.

Justin
www.beyondtimemedia.com
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Oh I think he may be referring to when there are multiple versions of an FX. Ironicaly on a higher end collection you would see a lot more "repetition". If you need to do a fight you want a LOT of hits not just one, same with guns etc. Variety is key to a sound track that is not boring.
SK
 
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