Cedric Hommel is a German sound designer, sound engineer, and foley artist who has worked on countless computer games, movies, animations, multimedia projects, and game trailers. His library consists of various naturally recorded and edited field recordings, as well as synthetically created sounds transformed through extensive effect chains and sound layering. Cedric's credits include the upcoming feature computer game "Das Schwarze Auge - Demonicon," various game trailers on Steam and German TV, and commercials for Audi, AMC, and Bayer.
A telephone foley sound: Ring tone, your typical standard system ringtone. Perfect for everyday or office uses, these are the ringtones used by fixed line network phones since the 80s up till today. Recorded directly off a telephone, not created synthetically. Version 11. Seamless looping, stereo. Ringers Phones, Euro phone ringers
A telephone foley sound: Ring tone, your typical standard system ringtone. Perfect for everyday or office uses, these are the ringtones used by fixed line network phones since the 80s up till today. Recorded directly off a telephone, not created synthetically. Version 4. Seamless looping, stereo. Ringers Phones, Euro phone ringers
A jogger is running along a gravel road. He stops running and turns to walking speed, then stopping altogether to catch his breath. He is breathing heavily from the exercise. Recorded outdoors, distant traffic sounds in a rural area can be heard. Sports, Marathon
Inside a moving regional train. Train interior, sounds of driving and transportation, no passengers or atmo, but of the train driving on the tracks. Stereo. Transportation,
A slowly pulsating or phasing soundscape, perfect for a hypnotic drone. Mesmerizing, soothing, meditative, similar to the machine room of HAL-9000 in Space Odyssey, a slight technical feel. Stereo. Science Fiction,
Turning on a tube television. Pressing the Power button, then the TV starts up with a typical short buzzing sound, humming. At the end it is turned off, the CRT screen whizzing and crackling. Recorded very close, both electrical and via a 'usual' microphone in mixed technique. Version 1, stereo. Electronic,
A construction site ambience, located inside an inner city area, exterior. Heavy machinery breaking the ground, a pneumatic jack-hammer, an excavator, engines... Seamless looping, stereo. Ambience,
A long drone of middle low tonality. Great as a background soundscape, giving a feeling of secrecy, insecurity, lingering danger. Also good for mystery, sorcery, magic, as well as science fiction room tones. Stereo. Loopable, but not perfectly seamless. Horror & Halloween, Haunted houses
A city square ambience: People sit at outside bars, drinking and talking. Others are walking around, chatting, or sitting on the ground. Some street musicians are playing guitar and singing. Recorded at Placa del Sol, in Barcelona, Spain. Seamless looping, stereo. Version 1. Ambience,
Footsteps: Recording of someone in sneakers climbing up some outdoors metal stairs. The stairs are reverberant and vibrate and clang at every steps. Stereo. Humans,
Really beautiful nature park atmosphere, lots of loud birds chirping, people chatter and laughter, horse cart driving by, at some point short distant hammering sounds, very relaxed atmosphere, in summer or spring. Seamlessly loopable, stereo, binaural. Ambience,
A science fiction sound effect: the wide and endless space. A dark, deep, bassy drone sound, oppressive and heavy. Long and seamless looping. Stereo. Nature,
A muezzin is singing the morning prayer, at the break of dawn. Recorded live in Sarajevo at the Gazi Husrev-bey Mosque, the oldest mosque of that city. He sings without amplification, just his pure voice! In the distance, other muezzin fall in with their singing. Distant traffic hum. Stereo. Long. Talking, Sermons
A dark and hellish drone ambience sound: A demonic incantation, mystical meditation, monks singing to a dark god, worshipping the devil. Mysterious and hypnotic. Stereo. Horror & Halloween, Hell
A crowd of people talking cheerfully at an opening event party. A buzz of voices, joking, laughing. Seamless looping. Version 1. Crowds, Interior Medium Crowds
On board of a ferry in Sydney, Australia: The engines hum, the ship itself makes creaky metal sounds. A few waves are splashing quietly while the ferry crosses the waters. Stereo, seamless looping! Version 2. Watercraft, Motorboats
A bank office ambience: inside a small working space. A few employees type on their computers, use the copier, staple documents and do other sorts of office work, while chatting all in a while. Recorded in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A long recording, seamless looping. Stereo. Ambience,
A very deep, low drone soundscape, perfect for big space, galaxy, science fiction. A large spaceship moving through space. Long and deep. Stereo, seamlessly loopable. Science Fiction,
A massive earthquake! Inside a house, the walls creak and crack dangerously. Things and furniture shake and slide over the floor, fall and break. Heavy rumbling and bumping sounds as the earth creates an enormous disaster. Massive destruction! Intense, a specially designed high quality sound effect. Nature,
Lot of cars honking and roaring their motors on the streets. May be used for a wedding corso, a heavy traffic jam, a road show, and much more. Ambience,
Riding a subway train or metro. Driving for two station. The train stops and the doors open and close. Passengers talking and station announcements. Recorded in Rome, Italy. Stereo. Transportation, Subway
A machinery inside a large metal-processing factory. This one is an automated assembly robot, putting together small metal pieces. It is huge, humming, whirring and doing steaming noises. Different variants available. Seamless looping! Stereo. Version 2. Industrial,
Office ambience: mouse clicks, computer keyboard typing, general atmosphere in a call center. Almost no telephone calls are audible, only distant muffled background talking. Computer typing and work sounds are in the foreground. Stereo, seamlessly loopable. Ambience,
A café ambience: people sitting outside on a sunny day, drinking coffee and talking. A street musician wanders around with an accordeon and singing songs. Some birds are singing, the city traffic is distant. Recorded in Berlin, Germany. Seamless loop, stereo. Ambience,
An alarm signal, by a large siren, giving an instant impression of danger and urgency, the highest state of danger! Highly suitable for sci-fi situations, a crashing spaceship, a large vessel going into battle, an incoming attack! Available in different variants. Stereo. Version 2. Foley,
Driving a car outside, over gravel ground with deep puddles. The microphones for this recording were mounted below the car. A strong rumble, mostly it's the driving sound with water splashes. A beautiful, intense wild ride cross-country, jungle exploration adventure sound. Very wide stereo field! v1, Cars Generic,
A Horror soundscape: Dark winds on lonely and blackened plains. A feeling of hopelessness and isolation, haunted fields, chilling bell sounds. Long and eerie. Stereo. Horror & Halloween, Horror ambience
A strange and eerie ambience sound. It has an eerie character, a mysterious Alien cave on a lone planet, a haunted spaceship, mystery, danger and loneliness. Long, seamless looping, stereo. Science Fiction,
Car: Interior driving sound. Driving over gravel ground, motors stopping, pulling the hand brake, inside the car. Could also be used as car exterior sound. Beautiful wide stereo! Cars Generic,
A medium-slow whoosh sound, sounding like an effect for a complicated magic trick, theatrical. Strong and impressive. Building up slowly, releasing a bit faster. Stereo. Multimedia, Whooshes
At the Mercat de la Boqueria, Barcelona, Spain. It is a traditional, big, half-covered market (open, but with a roof on iron pillars), lots of food stands, small bars, etc. People talking, buying, walking around. Seamless looping, stereo, version 3. Ambience,
Football (or soccer) stadium ambience: Shouts, chants, chorusses, drums, whistles, cheers, etc. Recorded in Linz, Austria, at the Austrian Cup. Version 6, stereo. Long recording. Sports, Soccer
Office Ambience: In the Call Center, customer care section, general atmosphere. Busy, but not hectic. Mouse clicks, computer keyboards clicking, telephone calls. Employees talking on the phone unintelligible. Stereo. Short sound, but works great as a seamless loop! Version 1. Ambience,
A sound design ambience, highly useful to picture scenes of traumatic experiences, shellshock, numbness and isolation. Also great for space ambiences, endless vast and empty galaxies, the black universe. Low rumbling sounds mixed with high frequencies whirling and passing. Stereo. Horror & Halloween, Horror ambience
A dark mystery ambience: a dimension of hell where demons dance. Black magic performed by hateful warlocks. Satanic rituals unspoken of. Very gloomy, bewitching, eerie. Stereo. Horror & Halloween, Hell
A specially designed sound effect: digging a grave on a cemetery. Several spade cuts into the ground, the gravedigger (s) is/are groaning while working. The background is a day ambience, wind and birds singing and crowing. Distant churchbells ringing in the distance. Version 1, stereo. Seamless loop, Action, Digging
A relaxed morning in spring: Morning birds chirping and tweeting, light distant traffic, the city is awakening. Recorded in a garden, as the sun came up, some doves and crows. Calm and beautiful. Seamlessly loopable, stereo. Ambience,
In a restaurant, busy chatting by men and women, mostly indistinguishable words, laughter, conversation. Eating sounds, cutlery, dishes and glasses clinging. This sound is taking place in a reverberant eating hall. Seamlessly loopable! Stereo. Ambience,
Inside a large Bazar, an interior covered marketplace common to Arabian cities. Very busy atmosphere. Turkish & English chatter (almost unintelligible), deals being made, money goes over counter, haggling, buying, selling antiques, fabrics, etc. Recorded in Istanbul. Binaural stereo, seamless loop. Ambience,
A series of footsteps, walking over dry leaves, breaking small twigs. A walk in the autumnal woods. Clean recording, no background noises, seamlessly loopable! Humans,
The ambience inside a passenger airplane that is landing. Passengers sitting and talking. A constant and uniform background hum. Then the touchdown on the airstrip, brakes are applied, the hum gets louder. Braking further, the airplane slows down and rolls on the airfield. A smooth landing! Stereo. Aircraft, Cabin
The ambience inside a passenger airplane that is landing. Passengers sitting and talking. The background hum getting louder and louder, as brakes are applied. Then the touchdown on the airstrip, rumbling and thumping. Braking further, the airplane slows down and rolls on the airfield. Stereo. Aircraft, Cabin
Dare to do a frightnight at the cemetery? A specially designed soundscape: rain and distant thunder, a church bell in the far distance. Creatures of the night can be heard, some natural, others... who knows. Dark and eerie, an ambience of fright and horror. Seamless looping, stereo. Horror & Halloween, Graveyards
A bulky copying machine (or copier) in the office. Startup, then warming up, giving beep signals, copying something, error alarm. Relatively modern device, approximately 2005 or later. Long recording. Office,
A city traffic ambience: cars driving by, many of them honking their horns. Busy traffic. Recorded from above, on a multistory building balcony. Recorded in Yerevan, Armenia. Stereo. Version 1. Ambience,
