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London Edge

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Boxing Gym

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Lifts & Elevators

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Morris Minor

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TV Destruction (Free Sounds)

We forage quality sound effects.

"Does it make a sound?"

If it does we are recording it.

Here at If a Tree Falls our focus is on recording unique and diverse sound effects and delivering these to sound artists and creatives to inspire creativity and sonic exploration.

Founded 2018 by Rick Blything

Sound Library

Lifts & Elevators

This library contains sounds from 19 different elevators. From the slick and the smooth to cranky old freights....

London Edge

A collection of evocative recordings of; trains, skylines, AC units, rooftops recorded after dark in London.....

Morris Minor

This Library offers a range of unique sounds from this iconic British car. The Morris Minor Traveller 1000....

Boxing Gym

For our Boxing Gym library we visited three different gyms around the UK and present a wide range of sounds....

Military Buildings

The Military Buildings library features 5.0 ambiences & spot fx captured inside a Cold War Military Air Base....

Nightlife

‘Nightlife’ is an collection of authentic nightclub based crowd ambiences, professionally recorded over....

Street Sweeteners

‘Street Sweeteners’ are characterful street sounds with personality that will naturally bed into your city scenes and are sure to enhance your soundscape and bring any street scene to life.

"I love the variety of the elevators, they're real, heavy and dirty and you can hear the grit and dust in the cogs. The reverberant buttons and room tones are super useful too."
Anna Bertmark - Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor

"The file naming, metadata and pictures make the library really simple to browse. The quality and variety of the recordings are really excellent, there's a great mood and atmosphere to all of the recordings."
Steve Fanagan - Supervising Sound Designer/Re-recording Mixer

Exquisite Library, very inspiring and enriching. “Military Buildings” give any space a whole other dimension. The multiple layers in every recording, the diversity of the sounds creates its unique sound identity which is necessary to every Sound Designer.
Rana Eid - Supervising Sound Editor/Designer

"Unique and massively useful library - many times in the past I have been stumped on elevator sounds in traditional libraries, and often having had to use combinations of different things to get the Sonic answer I was looking for" with this new unique library that's now a thing of the past and plenty of great recordings to choose from for any scenario, top notch stuff, and also very useful to base sound design on"
Alex Joseph - Supervising Sound Designer/Re-recording Mixer

"The London Edge Library has proved a very useful addition to my sfx collection. It captures the atmosphere and mood of London as we know it. The sounds contain the cities natural characteristics and sit perfectly into a soundtrack. Something that takes time to recreate without resources like this. A superb library."
Helen Dickson - Sound Effects Editor

"The Lifts & Elevator series provides a comprehensive spectrum of this subject. It is obvious great care and attention has gone into each and everyone of these recordings to ensure all elements have been covered. In addition to the regular elevator sounds they have also covered creaks and groans that I can see working very well for sound design. The file naming system is user friendly and I recommend this library to anyone."
Tony Gibson - Sound Designer

"fantastic stuff all around and definitely not only for literal elevators scenes, tons of interesting metal shakes, scrapes, squeaks and rumble, bravo!"
Michal Fojcik - Supervising Sound Editor/Re-recording Mixer

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We offer bespoke recording for any project big or small. With our wide range of experience, microphones and techniques, we can record almost any sound your require, please get in-touch for further details.

ambiences

wildlife

vehicles

destruction

household

Field Notes

6th April 2020

Military Buildings Library (IaTF05)

Although I grew up in Suffolk and as a child visited an air show at RAF Bentwaters before it closed, I knew little about it as a Military Base. Whilst searching for recording locations I came across it again and became intrigued to want to explore the remaining spaces with my microphones. The former USAF […]

17th April 2018

The Cinema Museum (free sfx)

Last year I attended Cheap Cuts Film Festival which turned...

4th April 2018

TV Destruction (free sfx)

Working from the studio in Hackney Wick I often...

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Street Sweeteners

Military Buildings

Nightlife

London Edge

Boxing Gym

Lifts & Elevators

Morris Minor

TV Destruction (Free Sounds)

We forage quality sound effects.

Sound Library

Lifts & Elevators

London Edge

Morris Minor

Boxing Gym

Military Buildings

Nightlife

Street Sweeteners

"I love the variety of the elevators, they're real, heavy and dirty and you can hear the grit and dust in the cogs. The reverberant buttons and room tones are super useful too."Anna Bertmark - Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor

"The file naming, metadata and pictures make the library really simple to browse. The quality and variety of the recordings are really excellent, there's a great mood and atmosphere to all of the recordings."Steve Fanagan - Supervising Sound Designer/Re-recording Mixer

"fantastic stuff all around and definitely not only for literal elevators scenes, tons of interesting metal shakes, scrapes, squeaks and rumble, bravo!" Michal Fojcik - Supervising Sound Editor/Re-recording Mixer

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ambiences

wildlife

vehicles

destruction

household

Field Notes

Military Buildings Library (IaTF05)

The Cinema Museum (free sfx)

TV Destruction (free sfx)

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"I love the variety of the elevators, they're real, heavy and dirty and you can hear the grit and dust in the cogs. The reverberant buttons and room tones are super useful too."
Anna Bertmark - Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor

"The file naming, metadata and pictures make the library really simple to browse. The quality and variety of the recordings are really excellent, there's a great mood and atmosphere to all of the recordings."
Steve Fanagan - Supervising Sound Designer/Re-recording Mixer

"fantastic stuff all around and definitely not only for literal elevators scenes, tons of interesting metal shakes, scrapes, squeaks and rumble, bravo!"
Michal Fojcik - Supervising Sound Editor/Re-recording Mixer