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City and urban sound effects & recordings – including crowds, walla, traffic and other city activity
NSL –French Trains is a 86 Files Sound-Pack essentially composed of Railway Related Sounds. You will have access to many samples: Rails Textures, High Speed Trains, Interiors, Stations, Level Crossing, and many more…
Dive into the energy coming from a bustling city that is always in full swing with construction chaos.
Whether you’re working on projects that crave the immersive ambience of a construction site or need close-up sounds of heavy machinery to make your audience feel the impact, this is your go-to ambiences collection of high-quality recordings.
You will receive 95 clean, rich recordings and 177 minutes of construction site ambiences, whether it’s the powerful impact of excavators demolishing quickly, the scarce activity on sites where workers are slowly laying metal on the foundation, or trucks continuously carrying rubble back and forth.
Inside are a variety of activities, including the clatter and clank of metal, wood, debris, leveling, disk sawing, hammering, shoveling, welding, jackhammer, demolition hammer, digging, drilling, cutting, rumble, reciprocating saw, angle grinder, sand pressing, as well as truck activity, passing by, and more.
We’ve captured close, medium, and distant perspectives with rich reverb and roof top and off-stage POV, in both controlled and stealth recording techniques.
You will get intuitive, detailed naming, UCS compatibility and the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail in 95 royalty-free pristine sounds. These loopable sounds have both practical usability and material for creative experiments in sound design.
Recorded in stereo 24bit-96kHz.WAV format on our sensitive DPA 4060 pair and Zoom F3.
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Check out our City Perspectives and Ambiences pack for 56 high-resolution files and 3 hours 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.
If you need calm nature ambiences, check out Nature Ambiences: Mount Ida National Park – an extensive collection of birdsong, wind, woodland, waterways, and animals in pure untouched nature in 36 high-resolution files and 2 hours duration.
NSL – Planes & Airports is a 86 Files Sound-Pack essentially composed of Planes sounds. You will have access to many samples: Tarmac Backgrounds, Turbines, Jet Engines, Flight Roomtones, Airports Hall & Security Checkpoints, and many more…
This library contains 13 city ambience from Taiwan, Kaohsiung. Recorded in ambisonic format then convert into various other formats. From crowd outdoor to quite hotel room and restarunt. It can fit perfetfly into any film or game production that sets in Asia city immediately.
– AMBIX AMBISONIC –
Convert into B format AmbiX, This allows you to convert into all kinds of formats such as Dolby Atmos, 7.1 and 5.1.
– LOOP READY –
All sounds are edited into a perfect loop for easy editing.
– INCLUDING STEREO VERSION –
In addition to the Ambisonic files, the ambisonic edition also contains all files in Stereo and Binural format.
Sevilla and his genuine essence is captured in this BIG library. We. spent one month recording in the capital of Andalucia, in Spain.
This compilation of registers is designed to perform real wild sounds in your films and postproduction projects.
Sevilla and its people are captured in this pristine immersive audio collection.
All the sounds that this collection is composed of have been obtained and recorded on an ambisonic format. Besides, all the recordings include metadata in English and Spanish, and they are compatible with software of sound library management like Soundminnner.
Introducing “Cruising Europe” – your passport to the authentic sounds of Europe’s most charming towns! From the tranquil waterways of Amsterdam to the vibrant streets of Budapest, our expertly captured ambience sound effects transport you straight to the heart of each location. Hear the gentle lapping of the canals in Amsterdam, the bustling chatter of the markets in Würzburg on Farmers Market Day, and the lively chatter on the streets of Vienna. With “Cruising Europe,” you can add an extra layer of depth to your projects and bring your audience on a journey through some of Europe’s most beloved destinations. Get your copy today and let the sounds of Europe inspire you!
A general sound effects collection that includes SIX of our first category-focused micro library releases, plus HUNDREDS of additional files, priced at a substantial discount compared to buying collections separately. 1100+ separate WAV files recorded at 24bit, 96kHz or 48kHz.
Ambiences from London Part 1 – is the first sound collection that captures the sounds of the UK capital. Explore the soundscapes of iconic landmarks – Covent Garden, St Paul’s Cathedral, Tower Hill, and Southbank together with traffic and crowds that make this city unique. Some of the recordings were also made around Wimbledon Tennis Championship. Lastly, enjoy the city parks (Hampstead Heath, St James’s Park, Victoria Park, Green Park), art galleries (Tate Modern), restaurants and public transport (DLR, Charing Cross, Liverpool Street, London Bridge train stations).
The library was captured pre-lockdown and pre-Brexit. In comparison to the second sound collection (Ambiences from London Part 2), it is much livelier and busier, which is no surprise considering the declining number of office workers, immigrants and tourists.
Ambiences from London Part 1 is compliant with UCS (Universal Catalogue System) and recorded at high quality – 192kHz, 24bit.
The GENERAL AMBIENCE SERIES: A modular approach to the ambitious project become one of the largest and most versatile ambience libraries on the marked. High quality, detail, versatility and diversity will set this library apart from other products. You can expect monthly releases of small ambience packs in the future to keep the quality standards high and constantly grow the library over time.
This Suburban Ambiences Sound Effects Library is part of the General Ambience Series by Systematic Sound. Suburban 01 features a great representation of typical everyday life sounds in the European Suburbs. You will hear things like dogs barking in the distance, birdsong in the parks and everything from a quiet street in a residential area to urban activities like football or tennis training. There will be some traffic noises present, but less that in urban areas. The portrayed suburban life is full with background activities like residents who mow their lawns on Saturday or blow away the leaves in autumn as well as children playing and screaming in the schoolyard.
Gloucester Vol. 1 is a succinct ambient library featuring field recordings captured by our Audio Craftsmen in Gloucester, England. This collection encapsulates the sounds of natural, candid activity in a small English cathedral city. It features the bustle and walla of denizens, a church choir, traffic and vehicles, clock tower bell rings, train station barriers, the hubbub of a busy pub, a child on a scooter, and a huge variety of background movement and distant goings-on.
Use this library for building authentic interior and exterior environments, or design your own custom backgrounds through further manipulation.
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.
Trains recorded in Europe: Palermo, Napoli, Rome, Milan, Istanbul, Copenhagen, Malmö, Aarhus and others and towns and areas.
Recordings made since 2019 until 2022, so also during Covid’s time; has been a long process of recording, editing and efforts but there is so much interesting sound source for sound design.
There are trains hi-speed, steam train, trams (so differents in each specific town), vox futz with local announcements and crowds.
West Coast America features both urban and rural sounds of Washington and Oregon state. Venture into Pacific rainforests to hear raindrops, frogs, exotic birds, waterfall and rivers. Take a trip to the farm to experience a creaky squeaky wagon ride and a grunting pig. Journey to the ocean to surround yourself with peaceful lapping water, squawking seagulls and the bassy engine of a ship. Listen to sci-fi traffic pass-bys, car locks, and the activity of Portland city at night.
This varied selection 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 designed effects.
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.
Welcome to the capital of the Netherlands, or as locals would say – ‘Welkom in Amsterdam’! Walk through the food markets and hear vendors encouraging passer-by to try their delicacies. Surround yourself with Dutch and foreigners in busy streets, sonically filled with iconic trams. Lastly, jump on a cruise boat to explore the historical canals or a train to escape the city.
This library features recordings of traffic ambience captured in the modern city, Hong Kong.
There are two main categories of locations, City and Motorway.
City consists of recordings such as, busy intersection, carriage ways, street and etc.
Motorway consists of recordings of fast highway ambience of various perspectives, density, road surface and etc.
These ambience are aimed to be sonic backgrounds for movie scenes, games and etc. Subtle and characterful. Perfect for background layering.
All recordings features no crowd, walla or human voice.
A cross section of sounds from the Sri Lankan countryside to urban Kandy and Negombo. Wildlife, traffic, crowds and much more. Plenty to create you rich sound palette for Sri Lanka.
Eastern European City Ambiences is brought to you as our newest set of real-world authentic and functional ambience sound effects, made in partnership with our long-time friend and collaborator Georgi Valchev at West Wolf. Sofia, Bucharest and Belgrade are just a few of the iconic cities to mention where these sounds were meticulously captured by Georgi, a native and well-experienced Field Recordist working everyday within these areas.
All files in this sample pack come at a sample rate of 96kHz, and bit-depth of 24-bit, with the option of either AB or ORTF stereo configurations on many. The inherent high quality of each sound enables you to stretch, distort and manipulate the audio in whatever way you may wish! 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.
Explore the beautiful soundscape of this impressive historic city.
In this soundlibrary you can hear more than just the popular tourist center. You can also explore outskirts and suburbs, trams, busses, subways and more.
41 georgeous ambiences, recorded carefully, professional and inconspicuous. With the 1st-order ambisonics AmbiX format you are completely free in what you want to do. For VR productions or to decode it into stereo, binaural stereo or multichannel-formats.
The ambiences are ready to use edited, detailed metadata included.
– “TRUE-TO-LIFE RAIN SOUNDS FROM THE TROPICAL CITY-STATE OF SINGAPORE”
The distinct sound of tropical rain against Singapore’s skyscapes and streets
As part of our Ambient Sound Series focusing on the specific, distinct Soundscape of Singapore, we went on a journey to capture high definition sounds of the city-state.
Scaling high above the city’s skyscapes all the way down to Singapore’s busy streets, we captured the sound of rain unique to the city-state, all in this extensive library.
For sound designers and editors looking for the sound of rain unique to this small, vibrant city
Singapore Ambiences – Rain is a collection of high definition sounds of the unique rain ambience of various locations in the country. From light drizzles to heavy apocalyptic tropical thunderstorms with rolling rumbles and cracking booms of thunder included. Recorded by a team who have worked on projects for Marvel Studios, Universal Studios, Riot Games and the Discovery Channel, these recordings are clean, accurate and of high quality.
Like all IX Sound Libraries, this collection is meticulously edited and embedded with detailed descriptive metadata utilising the Universal Category System (UCS).
This collection is compatible with Soundminer, Pro Tools, Basehead, AudioFinder and other popular sound effects library search engines.
The files will be delivered in Stereo/Mono Wav format at 24bit, 48kHz.
Atmos format recordings of Swedish urban ambiences
The Ambiences for Atmos Vol 1 – Cities features recordings from 10 different locations covering soundscapes and city scenes from plazas, parks, marinas, waterfronts, and sports centres. Each take is described with both foreground and background activity, incidental ambient events, level of crowd presence and traffic, and much more.
The sound pack consists of 40 sound clips in 10.25 gigabytes and is delivered in a 7.1.4 format. The clips are arranged in stems so you can easily be adpated to any mixing format of choice, from 5.1 all the way up to 7.1.4. Recordings were done using a range of Ehrlund and Sennheiser microphones and a Sonosax R4+ recorder for quiet preamps. For detailed microphone information, see below.
The collection is delivered with Pro Tools and Reaper editing sessions with all tracks pre-aligned for easy editing, as well as 22 fields of metadata support in Soundminer, iXML, BWAV, and MacOS Finder formats.
Auckland is the most populous city in New Zealand, yet it sounds very peaceful and quiet. Explore the seaside promenade, city parks and a zoo with native animals. Then briefly, discover the stillness of mesmerising Waitomo caves and a magical world of Matamata.
The NSL Transit Bundle includes 3 New Sound Lab sound libraries. 204 high resolution WAV files – 180 minutes – 9 GB
DL0118 Downtown Los Angeles Ambisonic Library Vol 1. Possibly the largest Downtown Los Angeles Ambisonic Sound FX Library created to date! This amazing collection of ambisonic recordings covers all major districts of Downtown, Los Angeles. The native B-Format ambisonic recordings for VR, sound editorial for film, and more
Cityscape has been recorded in stereo 96khz / 24 bit in various Italian cities.
It contains 67 files recorded in different public places e.g. bars, restaurants, coffe shops, churches, theaters, public squares and streets.
It contains also traffic and city background noise
Immersive Night In The City features 32 HD 24bit/96khz Surround Sound Effects with a large selection of evening city crickets and rural night time ambience.
Recorded with a Voyage Audio 2nd Order Spatial Microphone. Mastered with ProTools Ultimate in 3 configurations: Ambisonic (Ambix 2nd Order (Wyzxrstuv), Atmos™ 7.1.2 Immersive Surround Sound (LRCLfeLssRssLrsRrsLtsRts) and Stereo (L-R)
Most tracks are 1-2 minutes in length with embedded UCS compliant Metadata. All new, original recordings.
Want a taste of what’s included?
Download the O2A Ambisonic and 7.1.2 Immersive Night In The City Demo files here: 7.1.2 & O2A Ambisonic Demo Download and try it out on your own system!
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