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Essential Sound Urban Background Ambience & Traffic 2 Pack Bundle
This bundle contains 80 tracks of clear and dynamic field recordings. A select collection of captured background ambiences from various locations around Southern California and Los Angeles.
Some of the locations include; West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Pasadena, Ojai, Joshua Tree, San Bernadino Forest, and much more.
There is a good mix of interior and exterior files, as well as day and night versions. This includes; light and heavy traffic, near and distant. Rainy wet traffic. Room-tone versions with light/heavy traffic. Quiet desert bird and cicada ambience, as well as active park and street ambiences.
There is a little bit of everything, and a great way to bolster your existing library.
All material has embedded Metadata. Also, where there are notable moments that stick out in a track, there are meta-tags for easy spot viewing in programs that support meta-tags, such as Soundminer.
Recordings were captured at 24bit/96Khz, with Zoom F6, H6 recorders, with Rode Shotguns and Stereo mic setups. All files are cleaned up and mastered in Pro Tools, with light compression and the necessary EQ to ensure clarity is preserved without sounding muddy.
Rain Night Neighborhood Ambience
In this library you will find ambient sounds at rain night in a quiet neighborhood.
In these sounds you will find some variations in rain intesity, cars and motorcycles passing by in the background, among others.
After working these sounds in post production, this library comes with 16 incredible ambient rain night neighborhood sounds.
Size: 2.21 GB
Files: 20 • Including metadata
Sample Rate: 192Hz – 32 Bit WAV
Duration: Approx. 25 min
Gear: Zoom F6, Clippy Stereo Pair EM272
Delivery: Instant – blazingly-fast – digital download
License type: Royalty-Free
This library contains city ambience from Dublin, Ireland. Recorded in ambisonic format then convert into various other formats. From crowd in bar street, shopping center to quite college square, library and urban forest. It can fit perfetfly into any film or game production that sets in Europe city immediately.
– 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.
A collection of nature, town, and civil ambiences.
Immerse yourself in the bustling sounds of the city with this collection of urban and outdoor ambience sound effects. City parks and playgrounds. Intersections and fountain areas. Backyards and rural forest areas. 88 individual WAV files, recorded at 24bit, 96kHz or 48kHz.
Barbershop Vol. 1 is the first instalment in a series of candid recordings captured in a Mancunian Barbershop (Speak Easy Barber Club).
This library showcases the sounds created by the furniture inside a barbershop, such as the creaks and moans from the staircase leading up to the shop, the running taps from the hair-washing station, and the movements from a barber’s chair.
Additionally, we’ve include recordings of a hair dryer, water spray bottle, pomade tin, and more!
For the sound of groomers, hair brushes and scissors – look no further than Barbershop Vol. 2 for all your sonic trimming, clipping, and shaving needs.
These sounds provide you with natural, unprocessed sounds that can be used for barber-specific projects or manipulated further for a variety of film, TV, game, and soundscape projects.
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 Outskirts Vol. 1 is a diverse collection of candid recordings captured in locations across Greater London – specifically Ealing, Hounslow, Heathrow and Richmond.
Included in this library are: the rumbling of train interiors, busy roads, airport walla, distant sirens, bubbling water fountains and more! These sounds are ideal for building authentically British soundscapes into your Film, TV & Game productions.
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.
Discover the sounds of Wales – from the windy mountainous areas of Snowdonia to relaxed 19-th century pier on a Saturday morning in a seaside town, Llandudno, filled with families, children and local conversations. Explore the spectacular Aber Falls, one of Snowdonia’s most dramatic waterfalls and its surroundings.
This library is UCS-compliant.
Ambience of the streets
Walla of Salem during an average day
Easy to implement into a scene
Recorded in 192Khz 32bit float using the zoom f3
And exported in 192/32 and 96/24
Ambience Vol.1 is the first library in our Film, TV & Game Essentials range. If you are a working sound effects editor, sound designer, film maker or game designer… this really is content for everyday usage! And we say that with some experience working across multiple film, TV and video game productions. This library covers all of the practical, go-to sound categories that sound editors use on a daily basis working with fiction, factual, animation and interactive world design.
Urban and suburban areas. This library contains a broad selection of city and suburban recordings, featuring activity from people in exterior and interior settings, clearly audible footsteps and movement on exterior surfaces like pavements, alleyways and walla at different densities. Sirens, street sounds and signature city environments are all included in this selection.
Interiors and Room Tones. One of the staples of sound effects editing, the background room tone. Useful for ADR editors and sound effects editors alike, this library features a number of tones, background hums and ambience that will provide the perfect bed for set dialogue, ADR and replacing missing interior shots from set. Our room tone content also makes the perfect edition for sound editors looking to enhance the audio from set or create a realistic environment scene. From perfectly still rooms to interior weather recordings, this selection can bring your interior scenes to life in any genre or story.
Nature. Vol.1 wildlife and natural environment selection includes ambiences from Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, England, Wales and Thailand. Featuring dense rainforests, jungle trails, native villages, hillsides, farmland and fields. From pristine natural environments to rural countryside shared with people, there are options to cover exotic and European exterior spaces that will prove useful across multiple genres and most everyday applications. Wide spread bird species are featured in these nature recordings that remain common across Europe and North America, such as guls, pigeons, ducks and more. The rural recordings included also contain common farm animals like sheep in fields.
Water. With so many textures and possible settings for water, this selection aims to provide some common use cases. Various intensities of sea waves, tidal sounds, waves against man made features and natural shorelines are included along with inland rivers, streams and water features. Elements like dripping, trickling and splashing all add detail and enhance any background mix or ambience design that contains these visual attributes.
Whatever the Weather… we’ve got you covered! This library contains multiple selections for rain and wind, along with enhanced detailed elements like howling, whistling, rain on specific surfaces, interior weather, exterior suburban weather and thunder. Nothing soaks the ground and sounds quite like tropical rain, thats covered too… with contextual weather recordings from Brazil and Mexico. Springtime rain from England and close reflections from rain splashing down in urban areas, the choice and flexibility featured in this set is not often seen in a single collection and represents great value for sound professionals to use again and again on productions.
From industry veterans to first time designers, this collection will prove useful on almost any production and add value to even the most established of sound effects collections. Recorded using Tascam, Sound Devices, DPA, AKG and Sennheiser equipment… and more than a decade in the making!
In this library you will find recordings of environments recorded in public places in Portugal such as train and bus stations, markets, supermarkets, beach and streets.
These sounds are perfect for background sound design in movies, games, documentaries, art installations, etc.
These sounds were all recorded with the stereo match pair microphone Clippy EM 272.
After working these sounds in post production, this library comes with 25 incredible pulic places ambient sounds.
Sri Lanka Ambiances 1 is 171 minutes/5.51 Gb of lively ambiances recorded in Sri Lanka in July 2017.
62 separate files – recorded in 24bit/96kHz using Primo EM172 microphones in a spaced A-B setup. All sounds are UCS-compatible.
This collection features a variety of locations in and around the small tourist town of Unawatuna, on the southern-most end of the island. The area is mix of small boutique hotels and private guest-houses, low-rise residential housing and small shops. Traffic is dominated by old busses and trucks, as well as mopeds and Tuk-tuks (basically a three-wheeled motorized rickshaw).
Animals heard include different birds, monkeys, dogs and squirrels during the day; and cicadas and frogs at night.
Most locations are covered with different angles/takes, to provide enough variation of the material to build a scene around. Included are several drive-bys of various vehicles.
In this sound library you will find ambient and crowd sounds of the Loulé market located in the Algarve, Portugal.
Ambiences and crowds were recorded in the market streets outside and then ambiences and crowds were recorded in the interior market inside the building.
Each recordings reflects a specific venue acoustics, crowd dynamics and perspectives. The primary language found in these recordings are Portuguese.
These sounds were all recorded with the stereo microphone Audio-Technica BP4025.
After working these sounds in post production, this library comes with 14 incredible market ambient sounds.
East Coast America Contains a variety of recordings from rural and suburban settings in locations such as Florida and Connecticut.
Immerse yourself in the sun kissed beaches as waves wash on the shore. Walk through bustling markets and streets. Take a ride on a busy ferry, and listen to the calming country ambiences of crickets and gentle winds.
This diverse collection of ambiences and spot effects can be used for a range of exterior settings. Ideal for building up backgrounds for your scenes, or further manipulation to create your own bespoke atmospheres.
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.
PANORAMA is a collection of ambience, background sound effect, recorded using a dedicated 3 channels microphone array (INA-3), specify catered for project format where there is a centre channel.
The library features recordings of harbours, empty city streets and diffused urban skylines where the three channel microphone array excels.
Recording ambience in three channels (LCR) gives a solid centre image to sound stage, without relying on “Phantom Centre”. It provides more coherence between LR and Center channel. It also gives editors or mixers the ability to adjust the width of the sound stage to suit the scene.
These recordings are perfect for background sound design in films and games.
One of Soundbody’s super libraries. A whopping 15GB of premium Spanish sound. Everything you’ll need for projects focusing on the rich flavours of the Iberian Peninsula.
From the bustling boulevards of Buenos Aires to the wild beauty of Patagonia, this library covers all areas of humanity and the wilderness. Including wild life and urban activity. Covering a wide variety of necessities for South American post production projects. Full MetaData, identified wildlife with their respective images embedded. See Buenos Aires for urban ambiences.
Budapest is often called the “Pearl of the Danube”, and it truly is a stunningly beautiful place.
During a small trip from Spain to Budapest & Vienna, we managed to record the most iconic places in the city in truly 360º spatial audio ambisonic format!
We choose ambisonic for our libraries as the most adaptive format in Audio Postproduction. We serve the edited and mastered AMBIX files, and decoded surround format in Dolby ATMOS, 5.1 and STÂ .
All our libraries are UCS compliant (universalcategorysystem.com). In this new category system all files contain extensive metadata like file description, Category & Subcategory. Metadata can be read and processed by the most common audio libraries management tools . Starting with Full support from Soundminer and more audio tools adopting this system, we are adopting metadata UCS system in our files!
UK Big City Exteriors contains a varied assortment of ambient sounds captured during field recording sessions in Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield by our team of Audio Craftsmen. The effects in this library will make for a fantastic addition to your general audio collection and will be perfect for use in short films, documentaries, commercials, and video games based both in the UK and abroad.
The team has gone out of their way to bring you a range of different sounds, including tram squeaks, recordings of people passing by, crowds, street sweepers, skylines, construction and much, much more. We recorded a selection of ambiences at different times of day, covering many different central city locations to give you the most authentic & grounded representation of the UK city life to use in your projects.
The files included in this library have been meticulously edited so that you can drop them into your project timeline instantly and are provided dry in 24Bit 96kHz allowing for further sonic manipulation if required. All files are tagged with extensive metadata and are UCS compliant to allow you to search for and select the desired sound with ease.
Some of the included sounds are: Water features, Bus idling and departing, children playing, car pass bys, preachers, cityscapes and skylines.
Strengthen your productions with characteristic, intimate and authentic European city ambiences including:
Daytimes & Seasons • Historical Places • Cultural Sites • Transportation & Traffic • People • Industrial • Abstract • Commercial • Natural Environments • Location Perspectives
Enjoy Europe with its rich variety of sound palettes throughout all different countries from city to city.
The sounds come without much action in the foreground to provide a very clear and detailed acoustic image of each environment, giving you the perfect background noise layer to break the silence in your post production project.
The recorded locations vary from streets and restaurants over squares, harbors, markets, commercial areas, parks, and busy shopping areas to industrial zones and construction sites. This library can easily be used in stereo productions as well. Either choose the listening angle yourself or use the stereo version (included in 3D SURROUND).
What’s inside
This sound library is part of the Complete Craig Carter Collection, containing a wide range of industrial ambience recordings.
Recorded over Craig’s 34 year career as an esteem Australian sound designer, this library consists of factory machines, rail yards, ports, harbours and refineries.
Visit edible-audio.com for behind the scenes photos, contact information, sound library updates and exclusive deals.
Part of the WW Audio Mini SFX Series, for those who want a small amount of recordings of a particular theme, without having to buy large libraries, Festival Fireworks brings you many options when you need some quality firework sounds.
This mini library includes a complete fireworks display from a beach during a Spanish Festival. In addition to that, there are recordings from different perspectives – near, far, busy, occasional, with and without voices and external sounds. Everything when looking to add that bit of bang to your project.
Only ground transportation. Sounds of cars, engines and bikes. 63 sounds to enhance your story telling
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Quietsub FX Background Indoor
A collection of 48 Indoor Backgrounds which includes the fundamentals of the sounds you need to create indoor ambiences.
All the Indoor Backgrounds you will ever need.
This collection includes variety of indoor backgrounds, including:
The great Outdoors. All the backgrounds you need for your productions.
Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.
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