Trunks Chests And Crates

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Trunks Chests And Crates

The Trunks Chests And Crates sound library is 154 tracks of pure opening and closing sounds, and a small set of creaking sounds, from old dusty and weird looking metal and wooden boxes, drawers, and traveling suitcases.

This library include the Sonicsalute Creaks And Squeak sound library at a bundled discounted price. If you just cant get enough of those creak sounds to go with the opening and closing ones this bundle is the one to get.

The single library can be purchased on its own! Please choose variations above.

Variations

From a few modern trunks and metal tool cases, to 17th. century wooden traveling chests, latches and hinges, and dust and dirt debris falling and sliding off lids, this library will fit into most categories where something old and creepy needs to be opened or closed.

The library even include sounds of old rusty nails being removed from dry floor boards, and some tracks of hammering nails into wood too. Everything you might need (sound wise) to build a sound design around a vampire being trapped in a coffin, or being freed if you like.

As an extra bonus, library includes 13 tracks of designed coffin sounds, packed with extra punch and creak.

TRACKLIST TRUNKS CHESTS AND CRATES

Library is 1,7Gb 24/96. 154 tracks recorded on to a Sounddevices Mixpre through Sennheiser, Neumann, Sanken, Beesneez, Usi microphones. All tracks are UCS ready.

Not all boxes creak the same do they?                                                                                            

Looking for the different objects for this project made me realize that finding trunks and chests that have a nice sound to them, can be quite tricky. Some of the more then 200 years old traveling trunks recorded for this library did not have a very interesting sound to them, and some did not make a creak or very powerful open/closing sound. Fortunately I was lucky to find a bit of both.

I came across a local museum which had all sorts of categorized relics stored in chests and coffins, and was invited to go there record for a day. Many of the sounds included are the ones recorded her, where you literally could smell how much time has passed by.

Recordings were done with a wide variety of microphones, where the Neumann Kmr81I and Sanken CO100K were the favorites.

Real used coffins, and preserved mummies!

Some 20 years ago, the cathedral in Helsingor had its floor removed and a new one added. Removing the floor revealed a 10 feet high crypt with coffins stacked on top of each other. Whole families (only the more wealthy ones) were buried this way. Still a huge amount of Coffins and human remains were jam packed into this space. The coffins were literally going from top to bottom of the crypt. Because of the cathedrals ventilation shafts, the human remains inside the coffins were amazingly well preserved, with most of the bodies still having hair and facial characteristics, as well as dried up flowers next to them.

Some of these 17.th century coffins were donated from the cathedral downtown, and while they did not hold any human remains, and were completely nailed shut, it was truly fascinating to touch and see something this old and precious.

Dying from simple diseases back then was very common and families could easily lose most of their young children to a disease that we dont see as harmfull today, because of science and proper treatment and penicillin.

Storage rooms and basements

Other objects for the sound effects library were found in friends storage rooms and basements. These were kept under less strict conditions and much of the time had a more gritty and worn out sound to them.

We need more dirt debris

Finally I have recorded a bunch of tracks of dirt and dust sliding off different lids to add to those old coffin openings. We all know that a great amount of stuff will reside on top of a coffin after a while.