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Animals & Creatures Wetland Atmosphere Play Track 33/66+ sounds included, 179 mins total ~~From: $65~~ From: $52

Wetland Atmosphere is a collection of pristine ambiences recorded at wetlands, marshes, bogs, lakes and other similar areas around Europe.

The library consists of 33 recordings ranging from 3 to 10 minutes in length, available both as stereo and surround. The recordings have been captured with a Sennheiser Double Mid-Side rig which was left out overnight in remote locations. This was to make sure that man-made noise and human interaction was kept to a minimum.

Locations include but are not limited to:
• Remote islands in the Danube Delta, the best preserved Delta in Europe
• Swamps in Northern Romania, teeming with frogs and far away from civilization
• Marshes and bogs in Central Sweden
• Lakes surrounded by trees in Central Sweden
• Wetlands in the Somerset Levels, England

The library is accompanied by a comprehensive species list covering 68 birds and 7 amphibians in total.

Highlights include Bitterns with their booming calls, Common Loons and their wails being reflected off of trees, geese, ducks and swans making a racket, the insect-like clicking of Savi's Warbler and the incessant croaking of various frogs and toads.

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Animals & Creatures Monster Within Play Track 3062+ sounds included $199

We're proud to announce our newest sound library: Monster Within, our largest library ever – clocking in at over 3,000 files! We've not only included 27 different creatures, monsters, and aliens, but also 29 categories for them! Everything from Attacks, Roars, Giant Footsteps, to detailed foley, vocals and flesh ripping. We think this is a must have Monster and Creature library to add to your collection.

Monster Within is massive. Just look at the list below or download the PDF sheet to get an idea of all that you get. Monster Within features more than 3,000+ files, 4.1 GB of 24bit/96khz .WAV files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer and Basehead metadata.

Monster Within includes the following:
27 different creatures and monsters • Attacks • Body Movements • Breathing • Charges • Damage • Death • Dodge • Enter • Exit • Flesh • Foley • Footsteps • Footsteps Giant • Grunts • Hits • Idles • Impacts • Jumps • Melee • Pain • Punches • Reactions • Screams • Roars • Spawns • Special Effects • Swings / Swipes • Taunts • Transforms • Vocals

Some of the monsters included:
Automaton • Bearer • Excavator • Expector • Fodder • Giant • Heartless • Hunter • Hydra • Kraken • Large Beast • Leech • Nest • Ogre • Prowler • Sicarius • Slasher • Small Creature • Snowbeast • Snowbeast • Stalker • Trapper • Wasp • Werewolf • Witch

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City Life Busy Streets Play Track 148+ sounds included, 218 mins total ~~From: $49~~ From: $39

‘Busy Streets’ is a key library containing surround and stereo sound ambiences that will set the scene of bustling cities – recorded in Chicago, New York and Philadelphia. The library is available in stereo, and surround (Quad).

Recorded with the Stealth Surround System:

With ‘Busy Streets’ we used an exclusive SSS technique (Stealth Surround System) which means the recording process was hidden from the eyes even with 4 discrete channels.

This results in fully immersive, undisturbed and authentic city soundscapes.

What’s inside:

74 Surround authentic ambience recordings between 1 to 5 minutes long each, non-disturbed city life using our SSS technique (Stealth Surround System):

• Crowd movements
• Pedestrians walking by and talking
• Traffic noises, train, metro, truck, bus, cars
• Evolving swarm
• Above and under bridges
• Narrow pathway
• Underground street
• Large boulevards
• Restaurants terrace
• Commercial areas
• Financial disctricts
• Wet streets

‘Busy Streets’ is also a great complementary library to the ‘Quiet Streets‘ library.

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Surround Surround At The Show 1 – 5.1 + Stereo Play Track 48 sounds included, 20 mins total ~~$79~~ $69

Surround At the Show features 48 HD 24bit/48khz 5.1 Surround Sound Crowd Effects with a large selection of Audience cheers and swells. Recorded in 3 premiere locations in Los Angeles: The Hollywood Bowl, Rose Bowl and Forum during sold out rock concerts.

Recorded with discrete Quad microphones, and mastered in 5.1 surround (L-C-R-Ls-Rr-Lf Embeded .WAV format). Recording locations are all from center of the crowd to create the widest possible sound.

A stereo version of each cue is included, as well as embedded metadata. Want a taste of what's included? Download the 5.1 Surround Demo file here and try it out on your own system!

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City Life The ‘Hood Audio Playset Play Track 78 sounds included $16
Welcome to Buffalo, New York!

The 'Hood audio playset gives you over 12 minutes of urban ambience delight. This playset was recorded in Buffalo, New York and captures the traffic and neighborhood sounds of a busy city street including:
- City Busses
- Garbage and recycling trucks
- Tractor Trailers
- A wide variety of passenger vehicles
- Emergency vehicles
- A motorcycle
- Dogs barking and neighborhood quarrels.
The 'Hood Playset comes with everything you see here:
- 78 high definition sound clips
- 96 kHz, 24-bit mono and stereo WAV files
- Includes file lists and broadcast WAV compliant metadata
- Total Runtime 12:35
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