149 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Bow"

Setting up the shot.

Setting up the shot.

Shooting an arrow.

Bow wave of a ~8m sailing boat in calm water, distant micing. No sounds from the sail (could just as well be a motor boat depending on what you layer the sound with ;) ). There is also recording with a more close up perspective of the bow wave. Recorded with a ~30cm ab pair of neumann km183 on a tascam hd-p2, 48khz, 24bit.

A slowly evolving, background drone using samples of a bowed water phone, recorded live to disk in logic and edited in bias peak.

Actual recording of a compound bow (child size) with an aluminum shaft arrow, blunt tip on a plastic and foam target. Approx. 9:30am, on a sunny brisk morning.

Sound a bowed metal plate. Processed.

Captain tortuga says "run a shot across the bow!" in other words, fire a warning shot in front of the other ship.

Am string chord.

Fender stratocaster squire with plectrums stuck between the strings. Recorded directly into the mic input of zoom h2. Experimenting with effects caused by the plectrums stuck in there. Later i am bowing the guitar.

Strings - gm chord.

Ok, i don't know how many of you might be interested in this, but i figure there's no harm in posting it. I'm working on some original songs. Laptop-based, electronic songs, with many orchestral parts, including violin, viola, cello, and string bass. Presonus studio one has some very nice vst string instruments, and i have some really great ones for kontakt. But they all are missing one thing, and i couldn't find the (admittedly esoteric) sound that i'm looking for anywhere on the internet. Being a viola player myself, i recorded myself playing these very particular incidental sounds. Let me explain-. There's this 'grabby' sound that a well-rosined bow makes just is it is first being drawn across the string. Listen carefully to any of the pros and you'll hear it. In your laptop sequences, if used subtly, right at the point where the first note of a phrase is initiated, this sound can give the string part a marked sense of realism*. This, combined with vibrato, reverb and a nice warm/tube/tape saturation setting, nobody will be able to tell the difference between your vst and the real thing. About the audio-i tried to keep them as pitchless as possible, thus not limiting their utility. I recorded two sets of all four open strings (c, g, d, a), first close mic'ed, and once from a few feet away, in stereo. Or to say it another way, the sounds are as follows-1. Open c close2. Open g close3. Open d close4. Open a close5. Open c far6. Open g far7. Open d far8. Open a far. It's totally overkill for me to record all the different versions, but i suppose somebody out there might find one more appropriate than another for their purposes. They work pretty effortlessly for violin and viola, but you might have to pitch them down for cello and string bass. I added no processing whatsoever, apart from normalizing each individual sound. Aiff, recorded at 44/16. Nady scm-2090 stereo condenser mic, focusrite saffire pro 24 interface, recorded in logic. Not the quietest room, but these sounds will be so far down in the mix that it won't matter. Free for all to download, no attribution necessary. Http://www. Freesound. Org/people/bruce%20burbank/sounds/220917/. As an example, here's the part i'm working on that motivated me to record these sounds, with the grabby sound in place. See if you can spot the three times i used it. *pro tip- much the same way i'll insert an inhale breath right before horn or oboe phrases.

Clean notes played on a home-made diddley bow. Sampled with an electric pickup and a little added reverb to make up for lack of sustain. Seasick steve inspired me to construct a diddley bow (it ain't hard). All you need is a length of wire, 4 or 5 ft of two-by-four, some timber nails, an empty bottle and a hammer.

The sound of st mary le bow (london), a. K. A. The bow bells, ringing stedman cinques, as a practice. The zoom h4npro was placed above the bells, in the base of the spire, on a thin wooden trapdoor. Fairly lenghty recording (13 mins), but gives plenty of time to select from. Take a small section from the start for the traditional "rounds" where the bells sound in descending order (in terms of pitch), or select from the bulk of the recording to get some traditional english style change ringing. These bells are known as the bells white called dick whittington (mayor of london) back when he tried to flee, and also as the 'great bells of bow' in nursery rhyme 'oranges and lemons'. Use away! this seems to be (imo - that of a proper bellringer) the best recording of bells on here, so please do use it!!.

Strings - d#sus4 chord.

String tightens then whips.

Took a violin bow to a chinese guzheng and the results were pretty great. Good for ambience, drones and creepy stuff. Recorded with blue spark and blue bluebird condenser mics through a scarlett 6i6 interface. Uncut with a small glue compressor to minimize spikes.

This is a combined bass note to give you a dark but slapped sound. Works in all daws. Works best for grunge, goth, dark hip hop songs.

The cello strings replaced w/ dental floss.

Cello bow swipes through the air.

Ambient guitar loop made with omnisphere.

The sound of arrows hitting a target.

Arrow impact swoosh sound.

Bowed cymbal swellsrare 18" zildjian eak crash rideviolin bowrecorded in 24 bit at 48khz with an mxl 603 mic through yamaha mg16xu mixer and motu audio express a/d in reason 6 with subtle modulation and filtering. Clips are cut from track with no fade-in/out. July 21st 2015 high noon in nyc during very hot-feeling 88º with high low-level ozone and abusive humidity of 74%.

A "singing bowl" from nepal, played with a contrabass bow. Recorded with a neumann 184 cardioid and a focusrite scarlett, for a project in the percussion room of my university, so may have background noise. The resonance may be cut. Feel totally free to use!.

Double bass bowed harmonics. Bass played by houston guy, recorded with a shure ksm44, 24bit mono. I was producing a song and asked mr. Guy to give me some noisy strangness just to layer in for texture and he performed admirably.

Pulling the string on a siege weapon - ballista. Could be also a very large crossbow.

C note on an old homemade string instrument played with a bow.

Creek sounds edited via melodyne.

Recording of the almost-frozen bow river in banff, alberta, canada. Recording taken in winter, at night. Cold, some wind distortion. Recorded using the h2n zoom recorder on the m/s setting. High pass filtered, decoded to stereo.

A rather creepy sound created by "playing" a guitar with an iron bow and sending it through a long reverb chamber.

A cello slide on the a string i used for a draw a bow sound in cartoon.

Shooting a melon with a longbow. Tascam dr-40, sennheiser me66, 24/48.

It's a gong sound. . . There's really nothing to say about it.

Made with cinematic strings (basses) + orchestral essentials (strings pizzicato).

Rubbing the edge of scissors along the low e string of an acoustic guitar. Recorded with a condenser microphone.

Random digital bleeps, sounds a bit like tuning in an interstellar radio.

Recording of a violin bow being drawn across the strings of a guitar + eq and fx mix. Akg p220 -20db.

Made with session strings pro.

Made with session strings pro.

Ambience, near bow river, construction and traffic in the distance. Stereo spaced em172s.

Cymbal cymbals drums one-shot bowed percussion metal drum sample sabian splash ride china crash meinl paiste bell zildjian special hit sound groove beat.

A knife being thrown and hitting a target. Great for a carnival or knife fight scene.

This is the sound of a group of harp strings being excited using the hairs of a violin bow, but processed in two iterations.

Direct exterior mic recording of an arrow being fired from 40lbs english longbow. Recorded on rode shotgun mic into zoom h4n. De noised/de bird atmos in rx6 then logic processing.

Enregistrement d'une cymbale frotté par un archet.

Violin string sound w/ pressure, played with the violin bow from back part of the violin bridge. 48khz/24bit.

Blade runner 2049 joi notification sound - i made from the original recording of "peter and the wolf".

The erhu is an chinese string instrument with two strings,which is playeda lot in china. The samples are recordings from a free vst-instrument.