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City Life Sound Effects

City and urban sound effects & recordings – including crowds, walla, traffic and other city activity

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    Environments & Ambiences Urban Atmos Play Track 101 sounds included, 398 mins total From: $129

    URBAN ATMOS is an immersive sound library recorded in 7.0.2 cinematic format with our exclusive array: the Atmos Tree.

    Over 6 hours of material and a broad palette of sounds make this collection the perfect representation of the typical metropolitan soundscape : avenues, rooftops, public squares, bridges, highways, residential streets, alleys, city parks… all kinds of city environments are here, wide and enveloping as never before. 

    The library is perfectly suited for DOLBY Atmos mixes.  It also contains extensive metadata and is UCS compliant. 

    HAL Urban Atmos | Trailer

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  • City Life Sound Effects 3D Climate Change Protest Play Track 10 sounds included From: $27

    Nowadays a lot of protests against global climate change all over the world are happening. With our amazing immersive Schoeps ORTF3D recording system, we recorded some protests during the UN climate conference (COP26) in Glasgow 2022. You can hear people cheering and screaming, helicopters flying around, rhythmic drums playing and crowds shouting political lines against climate change.

    The Library include sounds like

    PROTEST, CROWD, CLIMATE CHANGE, CHEERING, DRUMS, HELICOPTER

    Key Features:

    • 10 Sounds between 5-10 minutes
    • Crowd cheering & screaming
    • Political lines against climate change
    • Rhythmic drums playing
    • Helicopter flying around
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  • City Life Sound Effects In The Traffic Play Track 58 sounds included, 44 mins total $49

    In Taiwan, immersing in traffic of scooters and cars is a daily occurrence. Waiting for the green light in the sea of scooters, and VROOOOOOM, all the scooters simultaneously rev their engines and accelerate forward as the light turns green. These are the sounds of the rush hour traffic in Taipei.

    IN THE TRAFFIC is a sound library that makes you feel like you’re in the middle of the traffic in Taipei city.

    It features the sounds of scooters, cars and buses passing by, the idle scooters sea at red lights, and the eager acceleration of scooters and motorcycles as they compete to speed forward when the light turns green. Additionally, the sounds of riding through tunnel and underpass can also be found in this sound library.

    IN THE TRAFFIC adopts a slightly experimental approach, placing the microphones on the front sides, and riding a relatively quiet electric scooter with almost no engine sound in the traffic of Taipei.

    Bird sounds and human voices have been carefully removed, providing you pure useful recordings for your creative works.

    This library includes 58 stereo files recorded in AB at 96 kHz. Approx. 44 minutes total.

    Additionally, this library was carefully tagged with rich Soundminer metadata, including marks in the recordings highlighting interesting sounds.

    And of course, all the recordings were recorded, edited and mastered with care and love.

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  • City Life Sound Effects Asia City Ambience Vol.1 – Taiwan Taipei – Stereo Play Track 66 sounds included, 184 mins total $50

    This library contains 33 city ambience from Taiwan, Taipei. Recorded in ambisonic format then convert into various formats. From city center traffic, department stores to quite park, street basketball cout and afteroon heavy rain. It can fit perfetfly into any film or game production set in urban asia city.

    – LOOP READY –

    All sounds are edited into a perfect loop for easy editing.

    – INCLUDING BINURAL VERSION –

    In addition to the Stereo files, the ambisonic edition also contains all files Binural format.

     

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  • City Life Sound Effects City Perspectives & Ambiences Play Track 56 sounds included, 180 mins total $49

    A good range of everyday city sounds. Different perspectives. High quality urban ambiences will serve as ideal background tracks. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.

    About City Perspectives and Ambiences

    From busy intersections to back streets, vibrant parks to rooftops, this pack of 56 sounds is an indispensable toolkit to create the perfect atmospheres without being in the foreground.

    It gives you access to 3 hours of city ambiences in varying activity levels, with loud and calm spaces of the endless locations in a large city.

     

    You will at once get a hold of elevated and underground spots, freeways, intersections, bridges, viaducts, parking lots, parks, streets of all sizes, rooftops, window views and the city rumble and hum at its best. There are varying levels of horns, sirens, vehicles pass-by, school backgrounds and so forth at different times of the day.

    These meticulously recorded sounds of 5.87 GB in size have clarity and lots of room for further usage and sound design. They are compatible with all DAWs, middleware and video editing tools and 100% royalty free.

    56 high-resolution soundscapes in 24bit/96 kHz .wav format with detailed, easy to navigate naming and thorough metadata. Recorded with patience and sometimes in stealth and guerilla style.

     

    Keywords including Location, Activity, Style

    City, ambience, soundscape, field recording, metropolis, urban, rumble, hum, road, industrial, street, highway, freeway, intersection, viaduct, window view, distant, calm, noisy, busy, loud, calm, underground, elevated view, rooftop, bridge, park, car park, top floor, ventilation, horn, siren, vehicle, pass by, bus, truck, car, train, motorcycle, downtown, rain, schoolyard, royalty free, game, film, video, music.

    Recorded with our favorite DPA 4060 stereo pair microphones.

    What else you may need

    You may also want to check out our City Ambiences Series; London, China, Japan and Istanbul for access to many ambience essentials. Room Tones and Interior Ambiences is another option for quieter spaces in 84 pristine sounds.

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  • City Life Sound Effects Ambiences from Poland Play Track 61 sounds included, 160 mins total $49.99

    Ambiences from Poland is a collection of sounds recorded over winter in two major cities in Poland – Poznan and Warsaw (the capital). This library is very close to my heart, as Poland is where I was born and grew up, so I hope you enjoy it! Poznan and Warsaw are full of unusual sounds created by old and modern electric trams that are very popular amongst locals and visitors. Pay specific attention as old trams generate heavy rumbles, cracks and squeaks while modern trams generate futuristic soundscapes when they move. Apart from that, you will have a chance to immerse yourself in Polish urban environments, public places such as schools, churches, shopping centres and some residential areas.

    This expansive library is compliant with the Universal Category System (UCS) and it is recorded at high quality – 192kHz, 24bit.

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  • City Life Sound Effects Warsaw Cityscapes Part 1 Play Track 53 sounds included, 127 mins total $15

    If you’ve ever been to Warsaw, Poland, you know how diverse this city is. Both extremely noisy and quiet, modern, yet sometimes surprisingly vintage. Full of vehicles, voices, nature, typical and untypical spaces. We decided to capture some of it for you.

    Part 1 of our library is:
    – focused mainly on traffic and transportation,
    – with some nature elements and human walla additions,
    – not language specific, so it will blend into any project seamlessly.

    53 high quality stereo sounds in 53 files, 127 mins in total. Enjoy, more of our libraries to come soon!

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  • City Life Sound Effects Switzerland Urban Ambiences Play Track 43+ sounds included $60

    These sounds were recorded in 2018, throughout the Swiss cities of Geneva, Zurich, Basel, & Bern.

    Some of these sounds are recorded an delivered in Surround Quad format, while the others are Stereo. Recorded ORTF or Double ORTF.
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  • City Life Sound Effects TYPEWRITERS Play Track 43 sounds included, 19 mins total $20

    Here we have nine different individual manual typewriters various brands and eras, recorded closely at various typing speeds and one simulated office ambience with three typewriters tapping away simultaneously. Great for period piece historical drama or scenes on stage screen or video game.

    What’s your type? Well you have plenty to choose from here. Most manual typewriters sound very different to one another and here we have nine different individual manual typewriters various brands and eras, recorded closely at various typing speeds and one simulated office ambience with three typewriters tapping away simultaneously. Great for period piece historical drama or scenes on stage screen or video game.
    Carriage returns, carriage bell, individual key strikes, hammer jams, paper feed, paper remove, case open and close.

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  • Car Sound Effects Sounds of Shanghai Vol.1 Play Track 14 sounds included, 8 mins total $10

    Recorded in Shanghai, this major industrial and commercial center in China represents a truly modern, forward-thinking Chinese city. Filled with intense, urban streets and bustling, densely packed malls and commercial centers the Sounds of Shanghai Vol.1 showcases only a small portion of what the city has to offer. 

    Featuring Chinese school classrooms, rain-drenched streets, and the extremely modern Shanghai metro this micro pack will add flavor and character to your projects. Includes 14 audio tracks with UCS metadata.

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  • Bundles UK Ambiences Bundle Play Track 66 sounds included $37.50

    UK Ambiences Bundle comprises rural and urban ambiences from across the UK designed to add authentic British textures to your Film, TV and Game projects. Our Audio Craftsmen, captured original recordings across Scotland, Gloucester and northern English countryside. This bundle is perfect for projects with both a rural and urban setting, or for crafting your own custom soundscapes.

    The sounds in this library are supplied in both 24 bit / 192 kHz and 96 kHz format and have been tagged with extensive UCS metadata for ease of use.

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  • Environments & Ambiences Portugal Ambience Play Track 65 sounds included, 157 mins total $35

    Over 2.5 hours of vast and varied Portuguese ambience, including a range of church bells from towns and cities, iconic Lisbon trams, chaotic car horns, daily hustle and bustle, empty seaside towns and calming seafront ambience – a timeless, unique and classically-European collection of recordings.

    All files are UCS compliant, 24 bit/ 96k and metadata is included (via soundminer), with keywords and detailed markers embedded to quickly locate specific sounds/ regions. Recorded with Sony PCM-D100 and Wildtronics Stereo microphones.

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  • City Life Sound Effects Asphalt Paving A Road – Asphalt Road Construction Play Track 18+ sounds included, 54 mins total $14

    Asphalt Paving A Road

    Asphalt Road Construction in urban environment.

    Ambiences and close perspectives of heavy duty machines.

    Clean recordings of: Road paver finisher-asphalt finisher: Vögele super 1900-3i; Asphalt roller: Hamm dv 8;

    Many sound perspectives including far, mid and close mic distance, various angles of recording etc.

    Metadata tagged with detailed description of equipment and object of recording

    Recorded in MS and NOS stereo with Sound Devices recorder, Tascam recorder, Sennheiser MKH mics, LOM usi mics. Recorded in Winter. Metadata tagged with detailed description of equipment and object of recording. No air traffic.

    RAW files, without any eq., and dynamic manipulation (compressors/limiters etc.). Maximum peak level is -5 dBFS.

     

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  • City Life Sound Effects Editor Toolbox: Expanded Construction Edition Play Track 565 sounds included $30

    The Expanded Construction SFX Library contains all of the essential sound effect recordings of manual and power tools as well as construction site ambiences included in the standard edition plus 369 additional recordings. These additional sound effects give you a greater variety of choices while editing.

    The library includes sound effects of items such as a circular saw, cordless drill, chainsaw, shop light, nail gun, hammer, hand saw, toolbox foley, large and small construction site ambiences, and more.

    This highly curated and easy-to-use library is perfect for a video editor or sound effects editor working on a project involving tools or construction. For a .pdf listing all sound files included, see the sound file list below.

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  • City Life Sound Effects Urban Ambiences Play Track 143 sounds included, 290 mins total $59

    GERMAN CITY ATMOSPHERES
    Create authentic urban soundscapes and sceneries with the detailed recordings of our Urban Ambiences sound library. This release offers you professional sound recordings with a total length of 4 hours and 50 minutes featuring background atmospheres, passing cars and trains, sirens and horns, construction sites, church bells, generators, escalators, various crowds, restaurants and city parks with singing birds.

    AN INDUSTRIAL JOURNEY
    During the production process, we traveled through various cities in Germany, mainly in the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia. We chose this location because it has a unique history and a high population density. With more than 5 million people living in this area, combined with old industrial buildings and always close to nature, we had the opportunity to capture a wide variety of incredible urban textures.

    Included are 143 unique sound effects, all carefully metadata tagged. The ambience recordings are seamlessly loopable to give you the highest possible comfort.

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  • City Life Sound Effects Eastern European Urban Ambiences Play Track 20 sounds included, 50 mins total $22

    Eastern European Urban Ambiences is our newest sound effects library made in collaboration with West Wolf Audio.

    Immerse yourself in this collection of dynamic drones, room tones, electrical hums and distinctive spot FX. These sounds were recorded in a variety of urban environments, including
    hotels, hospitals and restaurants. Enjoy the acoustic character of old elevators, high voltage hums, fridges, empty rooms, reverberant spaces and urban animals that this library has to offer!

    These high-quality sounds are rich in texture, tone and timbre; perfect for setting the mood in your film, TV and game soundscapes! 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! So feel free to get creative, or, just simply place any of these ambiences into your latest project for a true representation of life in a great European metropolis.

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  • World Sounds Iceland Play Track 168 sounds included $99

    A useful volume of high quality sounds to create your Icelandic sound palette. Interior chat, shops, village activity, air, wind & transport. Recorded in Stereo and LCR.

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  • City Life Sound Effects UK Big City Interiors Play Track 30+ sounds included, 59+ mins total $26

    UK Big City Interiors is a distinct collection of ambient recordings focused on indoor spaces around Manchester. Unlike other libraries, our team has focused on capturing interior atmospheres and sounds, making this the most accurate representation of how a big city feels from the inside. The sounds in this library will make an excellent addition to your everyday audio collection and are perfect for use in your films, commercials, documentaries and other projects.

    To bring you the most authentic feeling of an interior cityscape, our team has captured ambiences and sounds from shopping malls, book stores, technology stores, cafes, food courts, restaurants, toilets, busy train stations, trams, buses, elevators, escalators, and much, much more. We have recorded sounds at different times of the day to capture busy as well as quiet atmospheres.

    All of the sounds have been precisely edited so that you can drop them into your session instantly and are available in 24Bit 96kHz for further sonic manipulation. Also, all of the files are tagged with extensive metadata and are UCS compliant to find the right sound for your scene with ease.

     

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  • Industrial Ambiences Construction Work Site Ambience Play Track 60+ sounds included, 131 mins total $45

    We captured one iconic facet from the cacophony of our modern world development. Building new, demolishing or renovating the old. Our human soundscape (anthropophony) is busy and noisy. The constant desire to build along with our technological advancements allows creating building structures like never before. Construction sites are omnipresent in our daily life. We thus had to create one library of these intricate ambiences, raw, industrial, and mechanical.

    In this collection, you will find pure rich soundscapes of mixed sounds, authentically recorded on construction sites through many countries. You will also find more specific tools or machines that are recorded more closely to the sound source. Chainsaw, Jackhammer, Backhoe, Driller, Grinder, Truck, Sanding Machine, Hammer, Earth Driller, Debris, Welding Torch,…

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  • City Life Sound Effects Collected Ambiences: Spain Play Track 52 sounds included, 123 mins total $35

    Ankers Audio presents a collection of stereo ambiences recorded during a 12 month travel around Spain. Recorded in 9 different parts of the country and featuring everything from busy city life to tranquil mountain ranges. Includes church bells, fireworks displays from Las Fallas festival, cafes, nature and several tracks of protests with large crowds. All tracks were recorded in 24Bit/48kHz with a Tascam DR100MKII.

    Ready to use and filled with metadata.

    Generic walla present in most tracks will be in Spanish (Castilian)

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  • City Life Sound Effects Shanghai Ambisonics 33 sounds included From: $39

    Shanghai Ambisonics is a sound effects library of 33 immersive urban ambience recordings, provided in both B-format and stereo, along with “”virtual mic”” software.

    Adjust perspective of these city atmospheres in real-time with included software for utmost flexibility, realism, and creativity. Point “virtual microphones” in any direction with the polar pattern of your choice to match the specific setting of a scene.

    The Ambisonics recordings can be decoded to mono, stereo, 5.1, 7.1 and beyond, allowing for versatile use of the library. Pre-rendered stereo versions are included as well.

    Recorded in 24-bit/96kHz with a SoundField SPS200 mic by Masato Ushijima, Shanghai Ambisonics was captured at diverse locations throughout the city including Maglev & Metro Train Stations, Century Park, Nanjing Road, Huangpu River Ferry, The Shanghai IFC and more. The library contains sounds that are unique to Shanghai as well as more general purpose urban ambiences.

    This library is perfect for use in immersive audio for VR and 360 video projects. Prepare your personal sound library for the future of media!

    Key Features:

    • 33 immersive recordings in B-Format (FuMa) & Stereo (18.5GB)
    • Nearly 3 hours of pristine Shanghai atmospheres
    • Average recording length of 5 minutes 24 seconds
    • Diverse Shanghai ambiences: Traffic, trains, parks & more
    • 24-bit/96kHz Broadcast Wave Files: Download or flash drive delivery (+$40)
    • SurroundZone2 software by TSL Products: Control “virtual microphone” position and polar patterns
    • 100% Royalty-Free

    Notes:

    • Your DAW must support Quad (4-channel) tracks in order to use SurroundZone2 plug-in.
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    • City Life Sound Effects Chicago Ambisonics 35 sounds included From: $39

      Chicago Ambisonics is a library of B-format city ambiences with “virtual microphone” software.

      Included software allows users to tweak perspective in real time for greater control and creativity. The Ambisonics format offers versatile use of the library, as the recordings can be decoded to mono, stereo, 5.1, 7.1 and beyond. The creative possibilities are endless!

      Featuring 35 high-quality urban ambiences (over 3 hours total), Chicago Ambisonics includes SurroundZone2 software by TSL Products that allows you to point “virtual microphones” any direction with a wide range of polar patterns. Unparalleled flexibility lets users match backgrounds with the specific setting of any scene.

      With more productions filming in Chicago than ever before, a Chicago sound effects library is an asset for any sound editor. Chicago Ambisonics features 24-bit/96 kHz city atmospheres captured all over Chicago including recordings from from Magnificent Mile, Chinatown, the L Train, West Loop, Kennedy Expressway, O’Hare International Airport, Lake View, & Wrigley Field.

      This library is also perfect for use in 3D Audio applications including VR experiences and 360º video – prepare your sound effects library for the future of immersive media! Pre-rendered stereo versions of all of the recordings are included as well.

      Key Features:

      • 35 pristine recordings in B-Format (FuMa) & Stereo (14GB)
      • Over 3 hours of immersive Chicago ambiences
      • Average recording length of 6 minutes
      • Diverse Chicago atmospheres: Including streets, parks, & subways
      • 24-bit/96kHz broadcast .wav files
      • SurroundZone2 software by TSL Products: Gives you full control over “virtual microphone” position and polar patterns
      • 100% Royalty-Free

      Notes:

      • Your DAW must support Quad (4-channel) tracks in order to use SurroundZone2 plug-in.
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    • Car Sound Effects Dubai Megapolis Sonic Bed Play Track 7 sounds included $30

      Here are diffused soundscapes of one of the largest and fastest-growing city on the planet: Dubai. The traffic and activity level is constant in this metropolis.

      There are ambiences recorded at ground floor, and traffic tones recorded from high-rise buildings, at the 38th floor, from indoor and outdoor. One bonus included: a Bangkok traffic ambience from 25th floor.

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    • City Life Sound Effects Buenos Aires Ambiences Play Track 71 sounds included, 200 mins total $39.99

      Buenos Aires Ambiences features 71 beautifully and professionally recorded ambient sounds of downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, with their rich and unique Spanish dialect, a variety of perspectives, locations, and times of day, everything is categorized with metadata input via Basehead Ultra, and mastered in Protools HD.  We originally recorded over 80gb of data which translated to 42 hours and meticulously cut it down to 6.5gb/3 hours and 20 min of the best and most useful ambiences.

      Included is: City airs, botanical gardens, parks, markets, cemetery, city plazas and squares, nature reserve, busy and quiet streets, traffic, crowds, early morning bird chorus, evening airs, construction, airport, department stores, cafes, restaurants, library, church and cathedral, train station, public transit, museum, roomtones, rain.  And a variety of each, with different perspectives and amounts of walla and voices.

      Thank you and we hope you enjoy our recordings

      Buenos Aires Ambiences includes 3 hours of beautiful ambiences of downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a massive variety of locations and times of day, this album will not dissapoint!

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