Medieval Life
Medieval Life Sound Effects: Villages, Castles and MoreAuthentic SFX, ambiences and textures from the Middle Ages
Ever struggled to find unobtrusive sounds without any traffic noise to create historic backgrounds? Well we did, so we decided to create a library to address that.
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What’s Inside
Medieval Life Construction Kit
Countless design possibilities
MEDIEVAL LIFE – CONSTRUCTION KIT with hundreds of single stereo source sounds from the categories ACTION, CRAFT, ANIMAL, WORK, VOICE, MECHANICAL as well as hundreds of LOCATION recordings (some of them in Stereo and 5.0 Surround sound) has a size of more than 34GB.
Ideal for historical and fictional games, movies and TV
MEDIEVAL LIFE – CONSTRUCTION KIT is a real treasure when it comes to quickly designing the background ambience of a movie or game scene. As the sounds are meant to create a convincing background soundscape, the source sounds were recorded in distance to the microphone to capture the original medieval environments and to provide you with a nice open room environment right from the start without having to add complex synthetic reverb or impulse responses.
Build peaceful villages or bustling town centres
Close your eyes and imagine the manifold sound atmosphere of medieval places. Imagine farms with cackling chicken, the mowing of sheep, the noise of trotting horse hooves, the opening and closing of old doors and an axe chopping some wood in the background. In the cities and castles, imagine the echoes of distant persons, the shouting of street vendors, the rattling of iron chains and the constant hammering of the blacksmith. We have recorded the sound of this historical era for you with many facets.
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Medieval Life Designed
Authentic and believable, yet quick and efficient
This collection is an incredible high-quality time-saver that you’ll never want to miss again. Creating rich and vivid medieval background sound atmos like a market place or an encampment can be really time consuming as you have to find and include numerous different sound sources and place them within your stereo or surround environment. What if you could just drag and drop completely pre-designed medieval background ambiences right into your project?
Highly versatile, production ready environments
This is where MEDIEVAL LIFE DESIGNED starts to save you precious time. You’ll get 50+ ready-to-use, completely pre-designed medieval places like campsites, construction sites, farmyards, courtyards and market places. All of them in different sizes, multiple variations and long enough to loop them without sounding repetitive. What, you have a surround environment? We got you covered. All sounds come in stereo and 5.0 surround.
Overwhelming inspiration
The Middle Ages is one of these eras that can give our imagination wings like no other. With this collection you can achieve this. Just drag and drop the MEDIEVAL LIFE - DESIGNED sounds in your project and let everybody feel the vivid atmosphere of the dark age.
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Medieval Life Bundle
THE BUNDLE - The best of both worlds at a discounted price.
The Bundle gives you the full sound design power as it contains both - the DESIGNED and the CONSTRUCTION KIT edition at a discounted price.
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What we recorded
Most of the sounds were recorded in authentic medieval environments in Germany. We went out to visit medieval heritage sites like ruins and castles. For the market place recordings we went to farmers markets around the cathedral in Mainz, Germany that was built around 975 A.D. A perfect place to capture the spirit of medieval market places.
On our trip we recorded the hard life of people living in this era. We recorded medieval farm sounds like animals, mechanics of old tools, hurly-burly on marketplaces, blacksmiths hammering metal and working with wood, church bells, voices and a lot more.
What's so special about this library?
Designing the sound for a scene which is set in the medieval times can become a very long-lasting process. Due to the lack of smartphones, TV or even a well-written book, the people back then didn’t sit in their houses the whole day long making no noise at all. Instead they went out on the streets, to the market, they camped, they worked, they drank, the chattered, they yelled, they farmed, they were very noisy or at least busy in a very diverse way. We sound designers should keep that in mind when designing a convincing medieval scene that covers that multi-facetted background ambience.
Inspire your audience with the unmistakable sound of the life in the Middle Ages.
