LARX Audio

26/11/2022

Hello friends! Our Third Anniversary and Black Friday sale is on! All our libraries are discounted by 20% till November 30th 23:59 PST at our webstore. This is the one and only seasonal sale of the year. It’s been 3 years since the release of our first library and we want to thank all our customers for supporting our work! So, your personal coupons add up to this seasonal discount. Please use your coupon codes on checkout! https://larxaudio.com

05/09/2022

Hello friends! We are excited to announce the release of a new animals sound library - "Extraterrestrials? - Guinea Pigs!" - a comprehensive anthology of Guinea pigs’ vocalisations and other characteristic sounds. Single pigs: male, female, little ones, duets, trios and in groups of up to 9. Full spectrum of emotions from lively chatter to aggressive fast teeth clicking (yes, they click teeth!) and synchronous hysterical whining and scared ear-piercing squeals. Recorded simultaneously in EXTREME CLOSE UP with Nevaton and Sanken CO-100K microphones for full coverage from deep bass to rich ultrasonic content (and a mix of these two mics is also provided for your convenience), as well as general CLOSE UP with Nevaton for more natural perspective. Guinea pigs are very social and vocal, but the sounds they make are so unexpected and weird, that they can greatly work for extraterrestrials or robots. Lots of ultrasonic content makes a perfect basis for speed and pitch manipulations. Sound demos, detailed info and shopping at our larxaudio website and there is a 20% library launch discount till September 15 2022. https://larxaudio.com/gpet/

16/02/2022

Thanks to the prominent sound designer from Israel Michael Goorevich sounds from our "Wolves" library were used in the outstanding film "Berenshtein" by director Roman Shumunov. This film is absolutely not about wolves, but about the hero partisan commander of World War II Leonid Berenshtein, who discovered the nazists' secret research facility that was developing their last hope weapon, and changed the outcome of the war. The distant howling of wolves is used in the silence after the battle to build the atmosphere of the scene. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11478458/

Berenshtein: Directed by Roman Shumunov. With Leonid Berenshtein, Yaroslav Kucherenko, Anton Karlinsky, Lilya Ostapovich. The last of the great partisans, who located Hitler's "wonder weapon", returns to the war that took away his feelings and identity, but failed to rob him of his values as a human...

17/12/2021

Hi friends! Recently we received a great review for our Wolves library from an award winning supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer Dillon Bennett. It's always so rewarding to get kind words from happy customers!

03/11/2021

The Halloween mood demo track for "Cowbells Outdoor" library is now on SoundCloud:

Just made a Halloween mood track of our "Cowbells Outdoor Ambisonic and Surround" SFX library. All sounds used are from this library, the only processing applied is speeding sounds up/down and reverse

24/03/2021

Hi! We released our new LARX Audio sound effects library: Cowbells Outdoor Ambisonic and Surround.
https://larxaudio.com/cwbloas
the demo on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-234503012/cowbells-outdoor-ambisonic-and-surround-by-larx-audio-demo-stereo
This library’s uniqueness is simple: it features cowbells and other typical bells used on animals, recorded synchronously with two systems: close and distant, in the natural acoustics of a field, surrounded by forests, but without any other environmental sounds at all. Clean direct sound, beautiful early reflections and reverberation in pure silence. May be used as utility animal bells, subtle atmospheric mood elements, scene punctuation elements, abstract metal sound design elements or for game UI sound design.
Specifications:
Content: 8 props, 53 different articulations, 426 sound takes.
Total duration 45 minutes multiplied by 5 formats. Total size 12.75 GB. Included formats: Close LCR, Distant AmbiX O1A, Distant 5.0 Surround, Close XY, Distant ORTF.
UCS (Universal Category System) compliant, additional implementation in file names and metadata: Vendor Category for listing the bells, User Data for Microphone perspective and format.
Metadata – Soundminer, including bells photos in the “Artwork” field; BWF; CSV file exported from Soundminer; XLSX file with metadata, a folder with photos of the bells.
And there is a week of 15% launch sale!

03/03/2021

16/02/2021

Hello friends! Some cheerful recent events pushed us to revive our blog series about the making of our Wolves sound library. Here's Chapter 2. Meeting the pack.
https://larxaudio.com/blog/wolves-chapter-2-meeting-the-pack/

02/12/2020

Just a reminder. Tomorrow December 03 is the final day of LARX Audio sale both at our site: https://larxaudio.com and at A Sound Effect: https://www.asoundeffect.com/sounddesigner/larx-audio/
Many thanks for your purchases and support of our work!

27/11/2020

Hello friends! We are running a Black Friday 20% sale on all our sound libraries and bundles for one week only till December 3 23:59 PST. Please hurry to get yourself a pack of "Wolves" and add the virgin Northern Europe soundscapes for them to inhabit!
https://larxaudio.com

11/07/2020

Dear followers, we are so happy 'cos we got the second five star review for our Wolves sound effects library at Asoundeffect, now by Felix Davin! Thank you so much Felix, your words are the best reward for our work!
As a matter of fact, we started a Mid summer sale, so all our sound effects libraries are available with a 20% discount till the end of July 2020 at our store:
https://larxaudio.com

as well as at Asoundeffect

01/05/2020

Hello, friends! I started a series of blog posts about making of Wolves sound effects library. I share my thoughts, meetings with people, discoveries I made while working on this project. Features a long cheerful howling of the pack 🐺🙂🐺
https://larxaudio.com/blog/wolves-how-it-started/

Wolves. How it started. April 29, 2020 How did it happen that I got the opportunity to observe and record the life of a pack of wolves for a whole week? This story began with a lucky encounter that opened a whole new dimension for me. When you have kids, you always need to find something interesting...

24/04/2020

Happy to share that our surround nature libraries "Northern Europe Vol. 1 Forests Meadows Summer" and "Northern Europe Vol. 2 Lakes Streams Summer" were used by the multi-award winning sound designer John Leonard in the Theatre Royal, Bath, UK production of Anton Chekhov's play "Uncle Vanya" directed by Rupert Everett. Sir John Leonard's testimonials are a great honour for us.
You can find these sound libraries here:
https://larxaudio.com/karelia-northern-europe-v1-forests-and-meadows-summer/
https://larxaudio.com/karelia-northern-europe-v2-lakes-and-streams-summer/
or buy them both as a bundle:
https://larxaudio.com/karelia-northern-europe-summer-bundle/

03/04/2020

Hello friends! We made a longer and more representative audio demo compilation for "Northern Europe Vol. 2 Lakes Streams Summer"

Trailer for the sound effects library Northern Europe Vol. 2 Lakes Streams Summer. To buy the Library please visit https://larxaudio.com

27/03/2020

We've just released our new sound effects library: Wolves.
please listen here: https://soundcloud.com/user-234503012/larx003-wolves-demo-stereo
learn more and buy here: https://larxaudio.com/wolves/
This library provides the highest quality vocal sounds of the members of a wolves pack in their social interaction: Howls solo and in groups from 2 to 9, fierce growls, extremely bassy grumblings, barks, snorts, whines, yapping. I recorded the raw material at the private shelter for wolves, using the method of passive observation with minimal intrusion, nothing was staged or provoked. I stayed with the wolves alone for a week, every night just setting and adjusting the mics. A large part of the library is made of unintentional recording of the accidental territorial quarrel between a polar wolf SEVER and an alpha male HORT: close very aggressive growls, teeth clacking and other fight sounds. Luckily, in spite of the terrifying sonic impression, no one was injured. About 60 hours of raw recordings were edited and mastered into 1 hour 18 minutes, 151files with 500+ individual sounds. 131 files are 192 kHz, 20 are 48 kHz. Wolves are very emotional, expressive and surprisingly musical. So, these sounds can be equally useful for films and games featuring wolves, as well as for creature and monster sound design. Some of the recordings sound very humanlike with complex vocal phrases.

12/03/2020

One mysterious and haunting, very quiet track from my "Karelia, Northern Europe. Vol. 2. Lakes and Streams. Summer" surround sound library. Love it myself very much. When I first heard it while sitting in my boat recording and holding my breath, I couldn't even imagine who makes these grunts and howls. Still I can't settle with the fact that these are not so big birds. More about the library here: https://larxaudio.com/karelia-northern-europe-v2-lakes-and…/

"LARX002 67 Lake near wooded shore Summer Night 00 05 Very quiet Fog Arctic Loons two grunting and howling sequence Longhorn beetle larvae ticking cracking Splashes around small ST Demo". This is an a

28/02/2020

We updated the audio demo compilation for "Karelia, Northern Europe. Vol. 1. Forests and Meadows. Summer" with a better and longer version
https://soundcloud.com/user-234503012/karelia-northern-europe-vol-1-forests-and-meadows-summer-demo-stereo

Audio demo stereo for the sound effects library "Karelia Northern Europe Vol 1 Forests And Meadows Summer". To purchase the Library please visit larxaudio.com

18/02/2020

Introducing Karelia, Northern Europe. Summer Bundle. Get 2 summer libraries with a 15% discount! That makes 131 quad surround ambiences of pure nature, almost 11 hours total, 45.6 GB. But this huge volume is not just a recording dump. Recorded with passion, curated, edited and mastered at the calibrated 5.1 mixing studio with extreme nerdiness by the professional supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer with 17 years of experience in sound for feature films. 2 weeks recording, 2 to 3 times more editing and mastering. You won’t be disappointed by an unexpected click, pop, thump and other technical faults in the sounds. You can work confidently with these libraries. I'm getting very good feedback from those who’ve bought these libraries and use them in their creative work.
https://larxaudio.com/karelia-northern-europe-summer-bundle/

This is a series of pure nature surround ambiences. The challenge was to produce everyday forest, meadow, lake and other natural soundscape libraries, free from anthropogenic and technogenic noise. I found such area without air traffic or highways within dozens of kilometres around, 1100 km from Mos...

07/02/2020

Watch the trailer for our new sound effects library "Karelia. Northern Europe. Vol.2. Lakes and Streams. Summer"! Visit the product page https://larxaudio.com/karelia-northern-europe-v2-lakes-and-streams-summer/

03/02/2020

Dear friends! “Karelia, Northern Europe. Vol. 2. Lakes and Streams. Summer” sound library by LARX Audio is released!
As usual - the launch discount is 30% off! Get the library for $55 instead of $79 till February 09 23:59 PST! Please visit our website to see the detailed description and sound examples and buy the library at
https://larxaudio.com/karelia-northern-europe-v2-lakes-and-streams-summer/
This volume is even larger than Vol.1: 71 quad surround ambiences, almost 6 hours total duration, recorded with extremely quiet and sonically reach Nevaton MC-50 mic. Deep, immersive and absolutely free from technogenic and anthropogenic sounds. Again, each ambience is accompanied with the location photo taken at the time of recording, embedded into Soundminer metadata.
Busy morning of birds and insect in a marsh, streams in forests and a beaver's dam, a rapid roaring river in a canyon. Mystically whispering and aggressively chattering winds through reed. A swallow feeding their nestlings in front of the microphone. Still evening over lakes with echoing voices of a Hobby falcon, Arctic Loon calls and splashy takeoff runs. Otherworldly silent night with Longhorn beetle larvae creaking communications in the trees at the shore, a bat at 30 kHz and a large beetle cruising around the mic like a helicopter with rumble down to infrasound.

This release continues the series of pure nature surround ambiences. The challenge was to produce everyday forest, meadow, lake and other natural soundscape libraries, free from anthropogenic and technogenic noise. I found such area without air traffic or highways within dozens of kilometres around,...

04/12/2019

Dear friends! We are very happy to announce that our recently released sound library "Karelia, Northern Europe Vol. 1 : Forests and Meadows. Summer" is now presented at A Sound Effect!

61+ Nature sound effects / recordings: DESCRIPTION: Here you can find 61 HD quad surround ambiences of the wild North European nature. They were recorded during a two-week recording trip on foot and by rowing boat in the hot July of 2018 at the heart of the national park in Karelia, North-Western Ru...

26/11/2019

Dear friends! We are pleased to present the trailer of our first sound effects library "Karelia, Northern Europe Vol. 1: Forests and Meadows. Summer" The library includes 61 quad surround nature ambience files with total duration of more than 5 hours, absolutely free from technogenic and anthropogenic noise. Please visit our website for details, HD surround sound examples and to purchase the library: https://larxaudio.com/karelia-northern-europe-v1-forests-and-meadows-summer/