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From smooth breeze to choppy gales, this library offers a wide dynamic range. You can experience amazing wind gusts evolving from silence to full storm level back to silence again.
November 23, 2021
Product: Gusty Wind
Company: Tonsturm
Price: $129 (Stereo) $159 (5.0/Stereo)
Our Rating: 4.8/5
Gusty Wind offers a wide variety of winds and a total of 5 hours+ of content. Recorded at 24Bit 96khz in the Norwegian wilderness with a Schoeps CCM2 rig and heavy wind protection, the quality of recordings is second to none. A whopping 25GB of content is included in the 5.0 version. There aren’t many wind libraries that have this level of depth, intimacy, and dynamics which combined allow you to really shape the wind in your mix. With many other wind sound effects, you are left with white noise content filling the frequency spectrum, while the tonal qualities of the breeze are too distant to sit well in the mix. Gusty Wind makes backgrounds tracklay a breeze with 5.0 recordings that have the depth and space to bring an exterior scene to life. To top it all off, Tonsturm have edited different intensity variations from some of the recordings.
While Gusty Wind truly stands out above other libraries, the inclusion of an LFE channel would have been a nice option. The library is also quite expensive for such a specific theme, but would be more than worth the investment for a film with lots of mountainous or snowy exteriors!
To all you sound designers out there who have ever known the struggle of finding that perfect wind sound or failing to record it yourself, this library is for you. It's clear that a lot of time and expertise went into the making of this product. Price aside, this is a great little trick to have up your sleeve for projects to come, but don't take our word for it. Check it out for yourself!
In an interview with Ashton Sixth Form College, Alex Gregson opens up the whole history behind the current success of 344 Audio.
November 23, 2021
Take a look at this interview with our Lead Sound Designer - Alex Gregson, where he opens up the whole history behind the current success of 344 Audio.
If you enjoyed this article please check out our ultimate guide to audio post-production: https://www.344audio.com/post/the-ultimate-guide-to-audio-post-production-sound-design
We are very happy to announce our feature in Digital Filmmaker Magazine this month.
November 23, 2021
We are very happy to announce our feature in DFM this month. See pictures of the article below.
Recently we took a trip to the Pacific Northwest United States where we explored new cities, beaches, and rainforests. We were able to capture a ton of new sounds for our collection.
November 23, 2021
At 344 Audio we are always looking for unique opportunities to update our sound library. Recently we took a trip to the Pacific Northwest United States where we explored new cities, beaches, and rainforests.
We were able to capture a ton of new sounds for our collection. From distinctive cross walk signals to the songs of the Pacific Tree Frog, there was something new waiting to be heard around every corner.
Some of our favorite recordings were from our time spent Hiking in La Push, a village on the west coast of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. Olympic National Park has a very cinematic feel to it, lush and full of life yet dark and mysterious with trees that tower hundreds of feet above the ground, some estimated to be over 1,000 years old.
Something that really stood out in this ancient forest was how easy is was to capture clean recordings. Once we set off on a trail, there were no cars or planes to be heard. Aside from the occasional passerby, our recordings remained uninterrupted.
Overall, we had a successful trip for sound recording. While we were a bit disappointed that we couldn’t find any bears to record, we still look forward to sharing the sound effects we did manage to capture. Keep an eye out for updates and check out our recent vlog live from the rainforest where we offer some tips for field recording!
Odyssey Vehicles Basic includes recordings from the most commonly used vehicles in Film and TV.
November 23, 2021
Company: Pro Sound Effects
Product: Odyssey Vehicles Basic
Price: $199
Our Rating: 4.8/5
The Basic library has an included 25+ Vehicles, which have been handpicked from the larger 250+ available in the full version. They comprise of 21GB of data in 1500+ files. The selection is very useful, and it is clear that time was put into selecting the vehicles that most editors will search for first on a project - think Mustang, Focus, Harley Davidson and Impala.
Most of the effects are ‘workups’ a nickname for recordings of cars with multiple accelerations, movements and speeds, exactly what a Sound Editor needs to fill extended scenes.
The overall sound quality varies from car to car, but what we love about the recordings is that some dirt is left in, which always helps with worldizing a vehicle in a mix. The frequency response is natural, but the quality is exceptional. Care has been put into the mic positioning and editing of these effects. Some exterior mics have subtle wind noise that gives them an authentic sound, rather than an overly processed one. The included pass bys are excellent, as are the onboard mics and the variable interior speeds. A nice extra is the car horns, interior beeps and gravel noise often missing from comparable libraries. There are also some very useful slow ‘coasting’ sounds as a car moves without accelerating which are very welcome additions.
If you were to compare this library to those from heavy hitters Pole Position Production, this library is less polished, but arguably more useful in a film workflow, as it is priced at the same point as a single library of theirs, but includes 25x the vehicle choices. The advantage of Pole’s libraries is that they work great for mission critical uses such as game audio, where every track must be flawless and noise free.
A very, very usable product, that fills a lot of holes in general libraries and allows you to edit extended and complex car scenes with ease. It's by the legends Mangini and Anderson for god's sake. Try the Basic version at least, but it you edit cars all the time get the Full version.
