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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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    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.

    Take a little trip – with the Audio Ninja.

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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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  • City Life Sound Effects California Ambisonic Play Track 158 sounds included $120

    Last Summer we visited California State for 2 weeks. We visited and recorded Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Santa Barbara, Morro Bay, Monterey, Carmel, Yosemite and finally San Francisco.

    We recorded in each place, just to save the beautiful soundscapes from the marvelous Route 1, capturing around 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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  • 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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  • City Life Sound Effects Lisbon City Sounds Play Track 44 sounds included, 70 mins total $35

    Lisbon is one of the oldest cities in the world, and the oldest city in Western Europe, predating other modern European capitals such as London, Paris and Rome by hundreds of years. Lisbon (Portuguese: Lisboa) has experienced a renaissance in recent years, with a contemporary culture that is alive and thriving and making its mark in today’s Europe.

    This small collection of sounds includes a variety of ambiences, feels, and classics Lisbon Sounds. They are part of my last travel to this amazing city!

    They include sounds from Rossio Square, Comerce Square, Trains, Belem, Underground, Baixo Chiado Neighbourdhood, Sant George Castle, street and market ambiences.

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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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    Ambisonics SFX bundle
    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 Crowds Vol.3 Play Track 150 sounds included, 62 mins total $50

    A comprehensive library of crowd sounds for every scenario. Features sports stadiums, concert cheers, panicked screams, laughter, and intimate conversations. Essential for creating believable backgrounds in film, games, and media productions.

    Crowds Volume 3 is an extensive collection designed to provide sound editors with every possible human crowd reaction. This versatile library of 150 files captures the full spectrum of group dynamics, from the organized chaos of a European soccer match with constant chanting to the subtle murmur of a golf gallery. It includes powerful assets like massive stadium applause, explosive cheers at rock concerts, and genuine laughter from studio audiences. For intense scenes, the library offers a wide range of panic screams, horrified gasps, and angry mob reactions. Also featured are specific crowd elements such as boos, jeers, individual shouts (“Go!”, “Now!”), and atmospheric walla for settings like prisons or basketball games. This volume is an indispensable resource for building tension, conveying scale, and adding authentic human presence to any project.

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  • Ambisonic Sound Effects Ambisonics – Roomtones Bundle Play Track 58 sounds included, 525 mins total From: $30

    Roomtones Bundle compiles nine hours and twenty-five minutes of long, evolving, and varied ambiences recorded in four distinct ground and first-floor apartments. Both busy and quiet urban soundscapes can be found in these audio files, allowing you to create vivid backgrounds for your Virtual Reality projects. Additionally, rainy recordings are included, providing versatility alongside cityscapes that range from quiet traffic in the distance to bustling pedestrians, strange bathroom rumblings, construction work, barking dogs, and moments of dead silence.

    Busier soundscapes also abound, such as the heavy hum of a fridge in a kitchen facing a street with sporadic vehicles and conversations, quiet living-room takes with distant voices and a dog snoring, persistent machine sounds from a pump, porch recordings on a rainy night, and a busy morning with varied traffic passing by.

    Holiday beach house recordings are also included, featuring distant birds chirping, barking dogs, chatty neighbors, moderate to low traffic, intense fridge hum, and upstairs bumps. Quiet and neutral takes are also provided, which can be filled later with additional content. Each division includes two different takes with open and closed windows (where applicable), adding an extra dimension to these sound files. They are perfect for creating both quiet and languid roomtone soundscapes, conveying multiple moods for any desired VR experience.

    Every sound designer’s worst nightmare is also fully realized with ten long takes of drilling, hammering, polishing, occasional conversations, and thuds from a ground-floor apartment undergoing heavy renovations. These audio files are ideal for roomtone soundscapes containing construction noise from neighbors or, with some clever tweaking, for simulating sounds from a nearby building.


    Ambisonics – Roomtones contains:

    This sound library is available in both Ambisonics FuMa (B Format) and Stereo (Binaural) formats.

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  • City Life Sound Effects Ambiance – Atmosphere Play Track 85 sounds included, 60 mins total $20

    Ambience – Atmosphere is a sound library of 85 loopable background ambience sound effects designed specifically for video game environments and interactive scenes.
    These ambiences are minimal, versatile, and made to blend in. They’re the kind of background sounds you can drop into almost any setting.


    The collection is divided into four main categories:
    – Drone: dark, airy, eerie, dungeon…
    – Natural: caves, underwater, wind, rain, fire, forests…
    – Urban: city traffic, distant crowds, village ambiance, roomtones…
    – Sci-Fi: bunkers, spaceship interiors, engine rooms, apartment roomtones…

    All sounds are delivered in high-quality 48kHz / 24-bit WAV, captured primarily with the Sony PCM D100, ensuring clean stereo recordings. Every file is loop-ready, stereo, and carefully organized for fast, drag-and-drop implementation into your workflow.

    Whether you’re working in Unity, Unreal Engine, FMOD, or Wwise, this pack makes ambience simple, subtle, and effective.

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  • City Life Sound Effects Public Interior Ambiences Play Track 53 sounds included, 160 mins total $50.99

    This sound effects library features 53 unique high-quality stereo recordings of public interior ambiences, including offices, hotels, cafes, and more.

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  • City Life Sound Effects The Dublin Street Ambiences Library Play Track 11 sounds included $9.99

    This sound library includes recordings of alleys, riversides and harbors from the Irish town of Dublin.

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  • City Life Sound Effects Streets of Istanbul Field Recordings Play Track 12 sounds included, 26 mins total $16

    Step into the heart of one of the world’s most vibrant cities with Streets of Istanbul, a rich tapestry of field recordings capturing the everyday rhythm, pulse, and energy of Turkey’s cultural capital.

    From the echoing calls to prayer near ancient mosques to the lively chatter of open-air bazaars, this collection immerses you in authentic urban textures and atmospheric soundscapes. Hear the hum of the port, footsteps on cobblestone alleys and the ever-present hum of street life—crowds, vendors, passing trams, and distant seagulls.

    Whether you’re a sound designer, filmmaker, game developer, or just a lover of sonic storytelling, these recordings bring Istanbul’s layered sonic identity directly to your ears.

    Includes:

    • Bustling bazaar ambiances with vendors and crowds
    • Peaceful yet active park recordings with birdsong and families
    • Atmospheric portside soundscape with waves, gulls, and distant horns
    • Spiritual mosque exteriors with calls to prayer and community presence
    • Daily life in the streets – footsteps, conversations, distant traffic
    • Natural crowd recordings from squares and alleyways

    Royalty-Free for Commercial and Personal Use

    Bring the soul of Istanbul into your next project.

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  • City Life Sound Effects Office Play Track 79 sounds included $29

    Bring your office scenes to life with our comprehensive Sound Effects Pack featuring 78 realistic office sounds, all recorded at 24-bit, 96kHz for exceptional clarity. From typing on keyboards and phone calls to printer noises and chair movements, this collection covers a wide range of essential office sounds. Perfect for films, games, podcasts, or any project that needs authentic workplace atmosphere. Enhance your audio experience with these highly detailed and lifelike Foley effects for an immersive, professional touch.

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  • City Life Sound Effects Ambience: Road Traffic Play Track 16 sounds included, 23 mins total $14.99

    This is a sound library with a variety of road traffic ambiences, from quiet rural roads to busy highways.

    Features:

    • 16 audio files in 24 bit 96kHz quality WAV format
    • UCS compliant file naming and metadata
    • Available for commercial or personal use without attribution
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  • City Life Sound Effects The Sounds of Washington DC in Surround Play Track 17 sounds included, 46 mins total $50

    Immersive surround recordings of Washington, D.C., recorded in 5.1 (surround sound) featuring authentic city ambiences—crowds, traffic, walla, footsteps, and everyday urban life.
    Perfect for film, TV, and spatial audio projects.

    Day Ambience
    Washington Day Ambience
    Night Ambience
    Washington Night Ambience

     

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  • City Life Sound Effects The Bangkok Street Ambiences Library Play Track 48 sounds included $9.99

    This package includes 38 stereo WAV files and 10 Ambisonic street ambiences including rooftop soundscapes, alleys, streets, intersections, crowds.

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  • City Life Sound Effects Telephone Booths Play Track 54 sounds included, 103 mins total $19.99

    Telephone Booths features the sounds of indoor wooden and outdoor aluminum telephone booths. From the early 20th century until the last decade, these booths could be found inside hotels, restaurants, offices, state capitol buildings, highways and rest areas throughout the United States. In addition, the library includes sounds of pay telephones that would have been used inside these booths. These include hand crank, 3-slot rotary and 1-slot push-button Touch-Tone telephones.

    I used a variety of microphones along with several miking techniques (X/Y, OFTF, and binaural). You’ll hear bi-fold doors sliding open and closed in stereo, sometimes accompanied by an annoying squeal. You’ll listen to coins being dropped into the phone and receivers being picked up and placed back on their cradles. And of course, you’ll hear numbers being dialed. On a rotary phone, each number takes slightly longer to circle the dial, with one being the shortest and zero being the longest. 

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  • City Life Sound Effects Quiet Streets 3d Play Track 100 sounds included, 580 mins total From: $135

    Quiet Streets 3D is the latest chapter in Articulated’s Quiet Streets series, offering a meticulously crafted collection of quiet urban ambiences. Designed with both creativity and precision in mind, this library captures the essence of urban stillness through the advanced Schoeps 3D ORTF recording technique, resulting in multi-dimensional soundscapes that reveal both horizontal and vertical spatial details.

    This library features 100 files delivered at 96kHz/24-bit. With a total size of 74.8 GB and over 9 hours and 40 minutes of carefully curated ambiences, Quiet Streets 3D is a comprehensive resource for creating immersive urban soundscapes.

    A Global Journey Through Quietude

     

    The recordings span cities across three continents, capturing the unique characteristics of urban environments in Paris, London, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Bangkok, Naples, Kuala Lumpur, Montreal, Regensburg, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Strasbourg, Singapore, and more. Each location offers its own subtle yet distinct textures, from the hushed buzz of a late-night street in Bangkok to the subdued murmurs of a Parisian alley at dawn.

    A Commitment to Quality

    Over two years, our team travelled to these cities to document quiet moments in urban life. Recordings were made at various times of day and across seasons, capturing the interplay of natural and environmental sounds. The ambiences feature layers of biophony (birdsong, rustling leaves), geophony (wind, distant rain), and faint traces of anthropophony (passing footsteps, distant traffic). Care was taken to minimize intrusive noises, ensuring that these recordings integrate seamlessly into projects that require clarity for dialogue or sound effects. Note: at times some distinctive authentic events were kept in order to give the choice for the editor to use them in their projects. These are tagged as marker on the spectrogram.

    A Versatile Tool for Storytelling

    The library’s 8-channel 3D ORTF format provides an intricate sense of space, making it ideal for surround sound configurations in film, video games, and immersive media. For those working in stereo, we’ve included a high-quality downmixed version of every file, offering flexibility without compromising quality.

    Recorded with the acclaimed Schoeps 3d ORTF system, it has a total of 8 discreet channels, 4 on the lower plane arranged in 2 pair of ORTF similar to a IRT-Cross, and doubled with a higher plane of 4 more microphones. The channel layout of the sound recorded and delivered is as this: L R Ls Rs hL hR hLs hRs (whereas h stand for high). Learn more about this configuration here: https://schoeps.de/en/products/surround-3d/ortf-3d/ortf-3d-outdoor-set.html

    Every file is embedded with UCS-compliant metadata, allowing for intuitive searching and streamlined integration into your workflow. The metadata includes detailed descriptors, location names, and environmental characteristics, making it easy to find the perfect ambience for any scene.

    A Timeless Collection for Any Project

    Whether you need the intimate quiet of a European alley or the expansive stillness of an Asian metropolis, Quiet Streets 3D provides a rich palette of urban soundscapes. This library is not just a collection of audio files—it’s a carefully curated journey through the subtleties of urban life, designed to enhance the emotional depth and spatial realism of your projects.

    With Quiet Streets 3D, you’re investing in a resource that will remain relevant across countless future projects.

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  • City Life Sound Effects GPO A & B Payphone British Telephone box Play Track 40 sounds included $25

    Mid 20th Century UK payphone, dialling, coin insertion, button presses, receiver up and down and more.

        Click to view the full sound list for this SFX library::
    A Button No Coin_01.wav
    A button press Ten Pence Piece_01.wav
    A button press Ten Pence Piece_03.wav
    A button press Two Pence Piece_01.wav
    A button press Two Pence Piece_02.wav
    B button press Ten Pence Piece_01.wav
    B button press Ten Pence Piece_02.wav
    B button press Ten Pence Piece_03.wav
    B button press Ten Pence Piece_04.wav
    Coin Insert Ten Pence Piece_01.wav
    Coin Insert Ten Pence Piece_02.wav
    Coin Insert Ten Pence Piece_03.wav
    Coin Insert Ten Pence Piece_04.wav
    Coin Insert Ten Pence Piece_05.wav
    Coin Insert Ten Pence Piece_06.wav
    Coin Insert Two Pence Piece_01.wav
    Coin Insert Two Pence Piece_02.wav
    Coin Insert Two Pence Piece_03.wav
    Coin Remove From Tray_01.wav
    Coin Remove From Tray_02.wav
    Dial_0.wav
    Dial_1.wav
    Dial_2.wav
    Dial_3.wav
    Dial_4.wav
    Dial_5.wav
    Dial_6.wav
    Dial_7.wav
    Dial_8.wav
    Dial_9.wav
    Receiver Down_01.wav
    Receiver Down_02.wav
    Receiver Slam Down_01.wav
    Receiver Slam Down_02.wav
    Receiver Tap_01.wav
    Receiver Up_01.wav
    Receiver Up_02.wav
    Ticker_02.wav
    Ticker_03.wav
    Ticker.wav
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