Aural Hygiene SFX provides SFX by Doug Gallob, Film Sound Designer, Composer and Sound Engineer with over 30 years experience in music and sound. As Doug captures or creates sounds for his own films, he saves those that might be useful for your film and offers them here. Aural Hygiene is created in Doug's studio in Colorado and thus contains some lovely Canadian geese flying north, a man stomping through deep winter snow, and other Rocky Mountain sounds to add a certain authenticity to your TV and Film productions.
Large flock of Canadian geese taking flight from a city park. Cool close up wing flutters and after flutters, then honking recedes into the distance. Recorded in stereo with nice natural reverb from the surrounding trees. Bird Sound Effects, Geese
A large flock of honking, agitated Canadian Geese in a city park recorded close-up, in stereo, with a nice natural reverb from the surrounding trees. Great for a goose flyover shot. You can hear not just honks, but all the other little "goose utterances" in this take. Bird Sound Effects, Geese
Aluminum baseball bat against human head. - O.K. maybe not a real human head, but this is as close as you can get without actually hurting someone. Action Sound Effects, Impact
The Rain on the plywood is letting up and the crickets are coming out. Nice, thick, woody raindrops plunk in stereo, creating beautiful rhythms as the storm eases up. Nice long take. Water Sound Effects, Rain
Large waterfall (Rifle Falls near Rifle, Colorado) from a distance of about 50 yards. Long, loopable, stereo file (2:30) contains no surprises, just smooth, steady-state waterfall. Volume can be smoothly faded up or down as camera perspective shifts closer or further from the falls. Water Sound Effects, Waterfalls
A large, roaring bonfire, with lots of good crackle, roar, and wood pop. The natural edit can be used for a campfire, a bonfire, or any even-burning fire. The compressed version sounds bigger and can be used for a bonfire, a forest fire, or any other large, wood-based fire. Nature Sound Effects, Fire sounds
A large, roaring bonfire, with lots of good crackle, roar, and wood pop. The natural edit can be used for a campfire, a bonfire, or any even-burning fire. The compressed version sounds bigger and can be used for a bonfire, a forest fire, or any other large, wood-based fire. Nature Sound Effects, Fire sounds
Light rail commuter train arrives at Union Station in Denver with bells and brake squeals, idles with door warning beeps, clunks, and air brake releases, then departs with bells, and rail squeals. Recorded in Stereo - Nice Ambience, Transportation Sound Effects, Trains
Urban traffic ambience near a tire shop with pneumatic tire wrench in the background. Subtle conveyance of busy urban setting. Wrench is prominent enough to convey "busy, urban", but distant enough to stay out of the way of other sound design. Traffic sounds are more steady state than intrusive. Ambience Sound Effects, City and urban ambience
Aluminum baseball bat against human head. - O.K. maybe not a real human head, but this is as close as you can get without actually hurting someone. This version is compressed and EQed for greater impact. Action Sound Effects, Impact
A prairie dog colony scolding and peeping in a field about a half a block from Colfax Avenue, one of Denver's busiest streets. This edit keeps the low frequency traffic rumble, the traffic drive by, and the regular dog barking along with the prairie dogs. Mammal Sound Effects, Chipmunks, squirrels
A prairie dog colony scolding and peeping. This edit is the same prairie dogs in "City of Prairie Dogs Peeping and Scolding in a City of Humans", but removes the low frequency traffic rumble, the traffic drive by, and the regular dog barking, leaving nothing but the peeps! Mammal Sound Effects, Chipmunks, squirrels
