Similar library96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Authentic sound effects captured from rare vintage printing machines, featuring detailed close-ups and ambient recordings suitable for industrial and futuristic sound design applications.

While capturing vintage printing equipment, this collection features mesmerizing sound effects from a 1940s Heidelberg Windmill press, including distinctive hydraulic movements, grinding mechanisms, and rhythmic metallic clanks.


Located on the beautiful Vancouver Island, Black Stone Press houses the German made Heidelberg Windmill Platen Press built somewhere around 1940.
The machine’s old working mechanism gives it a very unique sonic characteristic.
We have tried to capture this machine from various perspectives thereby being able to present its various characteristic sounds like the hydraulics, grinding and rhythmic clanks.