City Life Sound Effects

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

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City Life Sound Effects Ambiences from Amsterdam Play Track 27 sounds included, 34 mins total $59.99

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.

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City Life Sound Effects Traffic Network – City & Motorway Play Track 27 sounds included, 140 mins total $70

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.

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City Life Sound Effects Polish Cities Play Track 18 sounds included $60

The low frequency rumbles, distant traffic and hubbub of daily city life from European Countries captured in high quality audio!

This short but sweet selection of busy city and urban soundscapes with rumbling trams, trains, cars and other general hubbub of a busy European City, with powerful low frequency energy and detailed sounds of the city.

From underneath huge concrete flyovers to the fast moving city street, thunderstorms over a small side street and more.

We were really looking to capture the low frequency energy of the city and when recorded this library this was our main point of interest.

Recorded in locations such as Warsaw, Poland and Wrocław – the former German city and the hubbub of a busy city square in Krakow, Poland with cafe and tourist ambiences.

Recorded with a variety of microphones including ambisonic, omnidirectional and stereo.

All ambisonic tracks are either ambix b-format or binaural. We hope you enjoy!

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World Sounds Sri Lanka Play Track 113 sounds included $99

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.

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World Sounds Argentina Play Track 94 sounds included $129

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.

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Ambisonic Sound Effects Ambisonic Budapest Play Track 23 sounds included, 120 mins total $60

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 ST .

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!

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City Life Sound Effects Prague – Ambisonics Play Track 41 sounds included, 194 mins total $40

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.

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Environments & Ambiences Ambiences for Atmos Vol. 1 – Cities Play Track 40 sounds included $399

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.

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City Life Sound Effects Ambiences from Auckland, New Zealand Play Track 36 sounds included, 69 mins total $39.99

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.

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Bundles (NSL) Transit Bundle Play Track 204+ sounds included, 180 mins total $79

The NSL Transit Bundle includes 3 New Sound Lab sound libraries. 204 high resolution WAV files – 180 minutes – 9 GB

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Ambisonic Sound Effects DL0118 Downtown Los Angeles Ambisonic Library Vol 1 Play Track 84 sounds included, 657 mins total $89

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

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City Life Sound Effects Cityscape Play Track 67 sounds included, 166 mins total $35

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

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City Life Sound Effects Immersive Night In The City 7.1.2 /O2A /Stereo Play Track 32 sounds included, 59 mins total From: $59

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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City Life Sound Effects NYC Street Sounds Immersive Binaural Stereo Play Track 50 sounds included, 55 mins total $135

A good range of street sounds – from traffic that’s light to heavy-with-horns, to whizzing by on a city freeway. Sirens from near and far. Church bell chimes, a kids playground – a garbage truck. From Park Ave to Greenpoint. All in immersive binaural stereo – the next best thing to being there.

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Industrial Ambiences Industrial | CCC Play Track 104 sounds included, 125 mins total $75

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.

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Environments & Ambiences General Ambiences Play Track 46 sounds included $37

General Ambiences is a generic ambience sound collection which contains a mixup of stereo high quality backgrounds and soundscapes for cinematic purposes.

Sounds have been recorded with different techniques, different microphone patterns and recorders to get the best stereo results in every situation.

Now UCS Compliant!!!

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City Life Sound Effects Suburbs of Chicago: Night Play Track 1000+ sounds included, 315 mins total $40

Suburbs of Chicago: Night is the 8th in the Suburbs of Chicago Series. Included in this pack are recordings from all four weather seasons, and recorded for over a year. All recordings are within the times of 6PM- 6AM.

Recordings include:

Fall
– Front Porch During Rain, Hitting Roof
– Traffic Rumble, Rustling Leaves

Winter
– Snow Against Cars, Windshield Interior
– Snowing Parking Lot

Spring
– Subdivision, Park
– Bedroom Room Tone, Thunder Crack

Summer
– High School Baseball Game
– Raining Outside, Open Window

All tracks are recorded using the Sony D100 Portable Recorder, recorded at 192kHz, 24 bit. Over 5 hours of recordings, metadata tagged and updated using the Universal Category System in Soundminer, Basehead, and Soundly. As in all the other packs in this series, you will hear distant traffic and planes throughout.

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Nature & Countryside Ambiences My Trip To LA: Various Ambience Play Track 2000+ sounds included, 221 mins total $30

My Trip To LA_Various Ambience is the second in a four part collection. This pack is filled with a variety of different recorded locations. Locations visited are:

– Wild Wood Canyon
– Lake Arrowhead
– Muscle Beach (Santa Monica)
– Huntington Beach
– Broad Museum
– Los Feliz Library

Most recordings are exterior, with a few interior sprinkled in.

Heard in these recordings range from a go cart race, ocean waves, leaves rolling on dirt canyon, Single Passenger Plane Overhead, Car Pass bys/ Traffic, swing set, Roller Coaster, Interior Library beeps, and more!

All recordings are metadata tagged and updated using the Universal Category System in Soundminer, Basehead, and Soundly. Recordings labeled using the Sony D100 Handheld Portable Recorder are recorded at 192kHz, 24 bit. Recordings labeled using the Rode ixy are recorded at 96kHz, 24 bit

Sit back, relax, and enjoy.

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Ambisonic Sound Effects Madrid Ambisonic City Life Play Track 40 sounds included, 180 mins total $120

We recorded Madrid last winter, capturing 40 beautiful tracks in ambisonic format, 48Khz and 24 bits HD. As always, top quality recordings specially designed for film audio projects. The library was decoded and mixed in Dolby ATMOS.

Included Ambix Ambisonic, 7.1.2 Atmos Bed, 5.1 and ST versions.

Another way to get this library: Also included in the Surround Sound LAB Complete Bundle, featuring 25+ SFX libraries at a huge discount.

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City Life Sound Effects Porto City Sounds Play Track 27 sounds included, 50 mins total $60

SSL14 Porto City Sounds is one of our recording travel projects, captured in Porto, Portugal during a 3-days visit to the country. The Surround Sound LAB team traveled to Porto just to record the main essence of this city.

This library contains the main character of the lovely city: Boats, trains, wine and history in one of the most beautiful cities in Portugal.
More than 2 hours of original and actual recordings, 27 original field recordings in Surround 5.1 , ST and Double MS RAW format (for custom editions).

Each ambience recorded in this library is at least 1-2 minutes long, so there is no need for looping ambience in your project. This library was recorded in a Double MS mic configuration. providing great post production possibilities.

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City Life Sound Effects Brussels, Brugge & Gant City Sounds Play Track 55 sounds included, 150 mins total $60

SSL13 Brussels, Brugge & Gant City Sounds is our second recording travel project, recorded in Belgium during a 4-days visit to the country. The Surround Sound LAB team traveled to Brussels, Brugge and Gant just to record the main essence of these cities!

Parks, Ambiences, Traffic, Wallas, indoors crowds, buses, trains, stations and touristic places, all available right now in this huge library.

More than 2:30 hours of original and actual recordings. 55 original field recordings in Surround 5.1 , ST and Double MS RAW format (for custom editions).

Each ambience recorded in this library is at least 1-2 minutes long, so there is no need for looping ambience in your project!

This library was recorded in a Double MS mic configuration. This provides great post production possibilities.

Another way to get this library: Also included in the Surround Sound LAB Complete Bundle, featuring 25+ SFX libraries at a huge discount.

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Environments & Ambiences Sounds & Ambiences Of Prague Play Track 47 sounds included, 174 mins total $40

Beautifully captured sounds from the stunning Czech Republic capital of Prague.

This library takes you on an whirlwind audio journey around the most popular areas of Prague. Listen to the sounds of people crossing the famous Charles Bridge, take a stroll into the Old Town, visit the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague’s Jewish Quarter, venture into the atmospheric torture chamber at Daliborka Tower, walk around the palace, listen to the evening chorus while overlooking the city, enjoy the sound of the church bells ringing for mass, walk through the famous Naplavka Farmer’s Market, take some time out to enjoy a drink in one of Prague’s most famous beer halls. These and many more sounds are included in this library of ambiences, traffic and crowd sounds.

The library is 6.05GB in size and approx 3 hours of audio, all recorded at 96KHz / 24 Bit and is perfect for the film / documentary maker, theatre sound designer or anyone who needs that authentic sound of Prague for whichever project they are working on.

The whole library contains detailed Soundminer, ID3v2.3.0 and RIFF INFO metadata embedded. It also includes PDF, Numbers, CSV and XLSX info.

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Environments & Ambiences VSCRL Volume I Play Track 150+ sounds included $275

We're proud to offer our inaugural bundle package, which includes the first four VSCRL libraries- The Park, The Road, The Snow, and The Beach. This collection comes at an incredible deal, and is the ultimate showcase of the immersive and VISCERAL quality of our ambisonics.

Recorded with the stunning Sennheiser Ambeo microphone, each ambience is delivered in both AmbiX and FuMa formats, as well as Stereo, 5.1, and 7.1.

What’s more- a 360 video reference is provided to offer a fully immersive image of the sound effect being captured!

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City Life Sound Effects Ambiences from Paris, France Play Track 65 sounds included, 176 mins total $59.99

Step into the vibrant and diverse soundscape of Paris with Ambiences from Paris, a meticulously recorded sound library capturing the authentic atmosphere of the city and its surroundings. From the rhythmic hum of metro journeys to the grandeur of the Louvre, the lively chatter in historic cafés, and the serene ambiance of the gardens of Versailles, this collection offers an immersive audio experience.

This library features:
🏙️ Urban Atmospheres – Bustling streets, busy cafés, markets, and iconic landmarks.
🚇 Transport Sounds – Metro rides, train journeys from London to Paris, station ambiences, and public announcements.
🏛️ Cultural Landmarks – The Louvre Museum, Notre Dame, and the grand halls of Versailles.
🌿 Natural Soundscapes – Tranquil gardens, riverside walks, and peaceful plazas.
🎢 Theme Park Energy – The excitement of theme park queues, rollercoaster screams, and park crowds.

Whether you’re a filmmaker, game developer, or sound designer looking for authentic French ambiences, Ambiences from Paris delivers an expansive collection of rich, high quality and evocative recordings, perfect for bringing your projects to life.

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