Soundopolis Presents: Foliage Sweeteners HD by Soundopolis

Find this library at www.soundopolis.net/foliage

Quick Look:
Files: 180
Clips: 811
Duration: 1h25m35s
Size: ~1.65 GB unzipped
Format: WAV
Fidelity: 96k/24bit
Channels: Mono
Metadata: SoundMiner

Foliage Sweeteners is a collection of sounds recorded in Soundopolis’ Studio, providing crisp new sounds ready for any project. These “sweetener” sounds are great for characters creeping around in the bushes, running through the trees, or just walking through the park. You can add specific environmental sounds to your ambiences, such as individual leafy tree branches that dip into frame, or cattails and bushes reacting to a gust of wind. These sounds are also great for nature documentary, whether you have a squirrel climbing a tree, a bear plowing through a forest, a cheetah stalking from the underbrush, or just a cow eating grass.

Types of Foliage
Arborvitae
Dry Flower Stems
Dry Grass
Green Grass
Dry Leaves
Mulch
Dry Reeds – Teasel, which is like cattail, 1” bamboo, and thistle
Thorn Bush
Leafy Tree Branch
Branches with no leaves
Bundles of Small Twigs

Types of Sounds
Breaks
Rips
Impacts
Rummage
Rubbing
Wind Gusts/Steady Wind, including Loops
Movement
Stress
Crunches
Footsteps
Debris
Shaking

Recording
Fienup used a variety of microphones including Schoeps MK4, Schoeps CMIT5U, Shure KSM 109, and an Electro-Voice RE50b. A Sound Devices 633 was used for all recordings.

Editing
For this library, since all of the recordings were mono, Fienup decided to try and do all of the editing, sweetening, and mastering in iZotope Rx. Fienup got his start editing sound effect recordings in Bias Peak Pro. As a matter of fact, that was his go-to editing software for the majority of his libraries until Bias discontinued producing the software and ended support for it. While sound editing isn’t the primary function of Rx, iZotope has a similar workflow to Peak, but with much better noise reduction and sweetening software built right in. The process was decently simple, although Pro Tools would probably have been easier for the editing portion. But there’s something to be said for doing all of the necessary steps all in one window: denoise, eq, spectral repair, edit, organize, normalize/gain functions, etc.

Metadata was embedded using SoundMiner HD

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This collection provides some new and interesting sounds, as well as a ton of variations so your soundtrack never gets old! All Soundopolis tracks include metadata tags so they are easy to find using any search engine. Collections come in easily downloadable zip files.

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