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City and urban sound effects & recordings – including crowds, walla, traffic and other city activity
Viva North of Spain is a massive sound effects library featuring authentic sounds of the northern part of Spain, along the route of the Camino de Santiago.
This collection contains sounds of Cities, Villages, Beaches, Nature, Cathedral of Santiago, Highway Bridges and the basque country’s national sport Pelota.
It features typical Streets, Walla, Traffic Sounds, Beaches, Nature Sounds with Birds, Residential Village Sounds.
La Gomera’s Spirit is a sound effects library featuring authentic sounds of the small Canarian island’s life.
This collection contains sounds of Villages, Beaches and Nature Sounds.
It features typical Streets, Walla, Traffic Sounds, Beaches, Nature Sounds with Birds, Residential Village Sounds.
Ambiences from… Copenhagen captures the atmosphere of Denmark’s capital city:
It will take you to Christianshavn and Kastellet areas filled with tourists and locals, historic landmarks and museums.
In this library you will find sounds from Danish public transport areas: bus, metro, overground rail, airport and train stations.
Recorded in 192kHz/24-bit format, all sounds are fully described and include a photography. A 24 bit / 48 kHz version is also included.
Urban Berlin Vol. 1 is the first release from a set of different Sound Librarys from Germany’s Capitol City Berlin. This first Volume contains Sounds like Citylife, Leisure, Traffic and Train Stations, Pleasure Boat, Flea Market, Trade Fair, Shopping and Crowds in different public Situations. Indoor and Outdoor.
This collection is really immersive, distant noises in large halls, people walking away to catch their train and much more.
Recorded in Hong Kong months prior to the unrest and turmoil in the region. This pack explores various areas in Hong Kong from the ladies’ market and “Ten Thousand Buddha Temple” in Kowloon District to the popular fishing villages and stunning scenery of Sai Kung District, to the Dragons Back mountain and wilderness trails in the Southern District
Features Buddhist chants and rituals from the “Ten Thousand Buddha Temple”, urban and city atmospheres, and landscape ambient recordings this pack showcases how varied and unpredictable Hong Kong is. Includes 13 with UCS metadata.
Konnichiwa Japan! Travel through Kyoto, Nara, Osaka; the urban spaces, temples, public transport, and hear the everyday walla, the animals, the natural rhythms of the cities. Authentic high-quality ambiences in 50 pristine files will serve as ideal background tracks. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
This one offers the urban daily life and the atmospheres recorded in winter at various locations in Japan. Nara, Osaka and Kyoto with its temples, subways, trains, buses and motorways, exterior and interior walla with tourists and locals, various animals, street musicians and public transport announcements paint a good picture of Japanese life on-the-go.
This is the toolkit to create the perfect cinematic atmospheres, with or without being in the foreground. The length of the ambiences is mostly enough to meet your needs without loops. Some can be adapted to other urban or rural ambience needs. It gives you access to varying activity levels in close, medium, and distant perspectives.
Recorded in 24bit/96 kHz .wav, comes with intuitive naming and thorough metadata. Compatible with all DAWs, middleware, video editing tools and 100% royalty free.
Keywords:
Japan, ambience, Japanese, Nara, Osaka, Kyoto, city, town, urban, rural, temple, gong, train, bus, traffic, cabin, stop, rails, announcement, walla, footsteps, gravel, bird, birdsong, deer, bleat, grunt, crowd, tourist, local, pass by, drive by, bike, motorbike, horn, motorway, crosswalk, hand pan, musician.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Ambiences from China and Ambiences from Istanbul Sound Effects Packs for access to different unique ambiences.
Mid-/Side-Stereo recordings of the beautiful Dutch city Groningen.
City ambiences recorded by day and night in the historic downtown.
All files are carefully edited and comes with detailed metadata. Ready to use left/right decodings are also included.
From the busy streets of Jakarta to the deep jungles of Borneo MWS Indonesian Ambiences is providing a diverse snapshot of Indonesia soundscape.
Carefully recorded over a 40 days trip it covers many islands of the Indonesian archipelago.
MWS Indonesian Ambiences includes urban scenes like squares, markets, small streets and avenue with bustling life and many calls to prayer singing through PAs. Suburban and villages scenes for quieter purposes, sea sides from near to desert Islands, a floating market and deep jungles ambiences at various time of the day.
The sounds are fully Meta-Tagged and are UCS compliant.
UK Big City Bundle contains three libraries with ambiences and sounds unique to some of the biggest cities in the UK captured during our field recording sessions. With a total runtime of 173 mins and a file size of 5.6 GB, this bundle has everything you need to build a multi-layered city soundscape.
Our Audio Craftsmen travelled through some of largest cities of England including London, Manchester, Sheffield and Liverpool capturing exclusive ambiences to build your perfect city atmosphere. We recorded ambiences from tunnels, construction sites, shopping malls, book stores, technology stores, cafes, restaurants, toilets, busy train stations, buses, trams, elevators, escalators, street sweepers, crowds, skylines and much, much more. The sessions were planned at different times of the day to give you the most authentic and grounded representation of the UK city life to use in your projects.
You will be saving 30% on the total cost of the individual libraries when purchasing the bundle, an awesome value for money addition to your general sound effects libraries. All of the included sounds are carefully edited and provided dry in 24Bit/96kHz and are tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata to help you find the right sound for your scene.
Morocco, part of the Maghreb region of Africa, is a very unique place. With a long historical heritage, a cultural mix of Arabic, Berber, European, West Africa; a varied geographic landscape along with characterized biomes.
Recorded over a one-month field trip in 2018. You will find typical ambiences of cities, suburbs, villages, deserts, markets, birds… Mostly recorded in stealth mode and ORTF, for more authenticity in many ways. Get immersed into a country of many colors and spices.
Recorded by Stephane Fufa, Sound Xplorer
London 2020 captures the unique sound of the city throughout the Coronavirus pandemic, from March all the way through to December. It includes:
195 stereo files comprising over 10 hours of recordings, all made safely and according to the lockdown regulations in place at that time.
All recordings fully mastered and labelled (with metadata) using the Universal Category System.
Take a sonic dive into the NYC subway – in immersive binaural stereo … the next best thing to being there. Roaring trains, squealing wheels, deep announcer echoes. Recorded from the platform – and on the train. Take a little trip … with the Audio Ninja.
Logo: modified from an original image by Gordon Johnson at Pixabay.com
The Paris Ambisonics sound effects library is a collection of 73 immersive city ambience recordings from the streets, plazas, and parks of Paris, France. Use these versatile sounds to enliven your scenes with an authentic city atmosphere.
Recorded in 24-bit/96kHz with a Sennheiser AMBEO VR mic, Paris Ambisonics was captured at various locations throughout Paris including the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg Park and more. To capture these stunning ambiences, recordist Matt Snedecor traversed Paris with the goal of depicting its unique essence characterized by narrow streets, outdoor cafes, scooters and sirens. Be it bustling cab rides through dense boulevards or the resonant underbelly of the Arc de Triomphe, these authentic recordings embody the vibrant and dynamic spirit of Paris.
Delivered in both Ambisonic and stereo formats, each audio file is embedded with rich descriptions for quick intuitive search results. Detailed metadata includes coordinates and cross streets for maximum geographic clarity.
This library includes SurroundZone2 software by TSL Products that allows you to control the Ambisonics files by pointing “virtual microphones” any direction with a wide range of polar patterns. Unparalleled flexibility lets users match backgrounds with the specific setting of any scene and decode to mono, stereo, 5.1, 7.1 and beyond. These recordings are also perfect for 3D Audio applications including VR and 360º video.
Matt Snedecor
59 Ambiences, most of them are loopeable, from the city of San Francisco, California (USA).
Recorded in October 2019.
Learn more about these recordings: https://soundxplorer.com/the-noise-of-san-francisco
This library consists of 80 recordings from the beautiful Italian island of Sicily. Centered around the Eastern coastal city of Catania and surrounding areas, this library includes everything you need to get a real feel of this historical island. It includes everything from town ambiences to beaches, traffic, harbor sounds, markets, church bells, transport and much more.
Over 4.5 hours of audio, with most ambiences over 3 minutes in length.
Perfect for filmmakers, theatre sound designers and anyone who needs that authentic, everyday sound of Sicily and Sicilian life.
All recordings are at 24Bit/96KHz with Soundminer & RIFF metadata embedded.
Urban Rain II brings you 53 urban rain sounds captured at various indoor and outdoor locations. Recorded at night or at quiet times so it’s free of unwanted sounds, this library includes light, medium and heavy rain over different locations and surfaces.
Key features:
RAIN features various kind of RAIN AMBIENCES and EFFECTS from different parts of CITIES and FORESTS.
In the forests, you’ll find sounds of RAIN FALLING ON DIRT, LEAVES and more.
In addition to the sounds of CARS PASSING BY and RAINY TRAFFIC in cities, you’ll also find RAIN COMING OUT FROM PIPES, HITTING THE ASPHALT and various kinds of RAIN POURING ON ROOFS such as PORCHES and LARGE PARKING LOTS and more.
And THUNDER!!
Recorded @ 24bit 96kHz with ortf, spaced omni, XY and carefully edited.
The China Ambiences 1 Sound Library, a unique collection of sound recordings from the bustling cities of Beijing, Datong and Pingyao.
Over 2,5 hours of beautifully captured ambiences that are thoughtfully described with rich UCS compatible metadata.
29 airport traffic and crowd ambiences in 1.83 GB with a blend of sizes, densities, and distances.
Recorded in Chongqing, a municipality roughly the size of Austria this region is home to the most infamous and spicy hotpot in China. The city of Chongqing boasts a population of over 30 million and is subsequently filled with a wide array of bustling and distinctive sounds.
Featuring recordings of the urbanized city center, multiple restaurant ambiances, suburban alleys and streets, and Chinese crowds + conversations. Includes 21 audio tracks all recorded at 24bit / 96 kHz with UCS metadata.
People & Crowds Vol. 1 brings you all the hubbub, hustle and bustle that comes with big cities during main events. Our Audio Craftsmen captured the sounds of large, dense crowds of people during the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in Manchester, UK. The result is a concise collection of walla-infused ambiences filled to the brim with passing international voices, movement and city activity.
This library is perfect for injecting a sense of liveliness and business into your projects: make sparse scenes feel fuller, or build bustling backgrounds for your Game, TV and Film productions with this useful collection!
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation, and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
London Train and Tube is the latest addition to our collection of ambiences recorded in London, UK.
This library features interior and exterior ambient recordings of the London Underground, a train en route to to London St. Pancras Station, and the station itself.
Discover the hustle and bustle of the London commute in these detailed recordings, including conductor announcements, platform ambience, passing footsteps, English accents, automatic tube doors, screeching rails, rolling suitcases, engine roars, beeps, bangs, bumps and more!
These sounds are perfect for crafting natural soundscapes of London or British transport and can be used in your films, documentaries and video games. Included recordings of bassy engines and moaning metal rails are also ideal for more abstract genres, such as sci-fi and horror.
Inject verisimilitude into your projects with this collection of immersive sounds!
Our Audio Craftsmen have carefully edited each sound for maximum sonic clarity so that you can drop each sound directly into your project timeline and get down to work with minimal fuss.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
This library features ambience and crowd recordings captured inside Hong Kong shopping malls. Each recordings reflects a specific venue acoustics, crowd dynamics and perspectives. The primary language found in these recordings are Cantonese and Mandarin.
All recordings are recorded, edited and processed to broadcast standard , ready for all types of media use, such as animations, films, games, advertisements and other aspiring creative projects.
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