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

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City Life Sound Effects AMBISONIC CITY LIFE – PARIS Play Track 27 sounds included, 120 mins total $90

Welcome to “AMBISONIC CITY LIFE: PARIS”. Join us as we take you on a captivating sonic adventure through the enchanting streets of Paris. With a passion for sound and a desire to capture the essence of this iconic city, we embarked on an extraordinary recording trip to create an immersive audio library unlike any other.

Immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of Parisian life as we wander through bustling markets, meander along the Seine River, and explore the hidden gems tucked away in charming neighborhoods. From the symphony of café chatter to the iconic Montmartre Painters Square, we meticulously captured every nuanced sound to transport you to the heart of this vibrant metropolis.

Through state-of-the-art recording techniques and equipment, we aimed to preserve the authenticity and uniqueness of each soundscape. The result is an immersive audio collection that allows you to experience Paris in a whole new way, whether you’re relishing in the captivating ambiance from the comfort of your home or integrating these immersive sounds into your creative projects.

Whether you’re a filmmaker looking to add realism to your cinematic endeavors, a sound designer seeking inspiration, or simply an avid traveler yearning to reminisce about the City of Light, “SSL47 Paris” promises to ignite your senses and transport you to the very soul of this remarkable city with a selected sound collection of the daily city life: Traffic, restaurants, wallas, museums, transport….

Join us on this extraordinary auditory journey, and let the sounds of Paris envelop you in a world of wonder and beauty. Bienvenue à Paris!

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City Life Sound Effects FAR CITY AMBIENCES Vol.2 Play Track 14 sounds included, 30 mins total $90

One of our more important library was the original SSL23 Far City Ambiences. It was a step forward in the way we record our libraries. We got new gear because for us, it was really important to get the best quality in our projects. As many of you know, we are a post Studio in Madrid, Spain (www.blacktone-studio.com) and we try to achieve the best in all our projects.

This year, we have just recorded the second part of the collection: FAR CITY AMBIENCES VOL.2

This compilation of registers is designed to perform real wild sounds in your films and postproduction projects.

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.

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City Life Sound Effects Serbian city ambiences Play Track 50 sounds included, 194 mins total $50

All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with FEL Clippy XLR EM272, FEL Pluggy XLR EM272 and Sonorous Objects SO.3 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II and Zoom F3 recorders. The goal is to record every city in Serbia with at least 3 different locations – pedestrian zone, park and high density roadway traffic.

I also created a map with all recorded locations: www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1KJ80IzKE7r7dllCZclECwbk9N8rz3wTa&usp=sharing

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City Life Sound Effects Ambiences from Madrid and Toledo Play Track 74 sounds included, 122 mins total $49.99

This library was recorded in the beautiful cities of Madrid and Toledo in Spain. It includes unique sounds of bustling streets, charming cafes, historical landmarks, public transportation and more. Elevate your productions with the authentic and immersive sounds of these two Spanish cities, ranging from urban to suburban soundscapes.

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City Life Sound Effects World Ambiences Vol. 1 Play Track 16 sounds included, 35 mins total $29.99

A selection of world ambiences – from San Francisco, through New York, London, Beirut and Tokyo to Sydney from Rob Kubicki, a creator of ‘Ambiences from…’ sound libraries. A total of 16 sounds, 35 minutes and 2.08 GB of audio content from 16 different countries across the world.

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City Life Sound Effects Ambience Play Track 15 sounds included $9

A bundle of crowd, sports, hall crowd, and weather ambience sound effects. Includes stations, construction, and other evocative atmospheres.

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City Life Sound Effects Ambiences from London, Part 2 Play Track 56 sounds included, 132 mins total $59.99

Ambiences from London Part 2 – is the second sound collection that captures the sounds of the UK capital. Explore the soundscapes of iconic landmarks – Big Ben, British Library, and Covent Garden, together with the traffic and crowds that make this city unique. Enjoy the city parks (Hyde Park), art galleries (Tate Modern), pubs and public transport (King’s Cross and Stratford train stations, Overground and the recently-opened Elizabeth line).

The library was captured post-lockdown and post-Brexit. In comparison to the first sound collection (Ambiences from London Part 1), it is quieter and less busy, which is no surprise considering the declining number of office workers, immigrants and tourists.

Ambiences from London Part 2 is compliant with UCS (Universal Catalogue System) and recorded at high quality – 192kHz, 24bit.

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City Life Sound Effects Bulgaria Vol. 2 Play Track 30 sounds included, 74 mins total $43

Bulgaria Vol. 2 continues our series of field recordings captured in this Balkan country! This instalment comprises sounds of a plane cabin en route to Sofia, and of the city itself.

To make this library, tram pass bys, Bulgarian language, people, movement, activity, airplane take off, announcements, vehicles, footsteps, walla, and other urban facets were recorded and edited by our Audio Craftsmen.

The result is a curation of aircraft and city ambiences typical of a trip to Sofia, Bulgaria.

Use these sounds to build Balkan backgrounds or airplane ambiences in 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.

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City Life Sound Effects General Ambience Series – Sounds Of Madrid 01 Play Track 75 sounds included, 358 mins total $50

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 Sound Pack is part of the General Ambience Series by Systematic Sound. Sounds Of Madrid 01 captures the sound of the Spanish Capital. You will find a fine selection of curated ambiances that are typical for a South European city. The traffic seems a bit more busy, with more scooters and motorbikes than in North European cities. People on the streets are more open and the Walla in the background is usually a bit louder with lots of shouts and laughter. Police, ambulance and firetruck sirens have their own distinctive sound. Madrid has a lively scene when it comes to restaurants, cafés and tapas bars. I have made sure that all your „Spanish restaurant Walla“ needs are covered. Lastly you will find some transportation sounds capturing the vibe of a Spanish metro and train station, as well as interior recordings of a metro and train ride.

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City Life Sound Effects General Ambience Series – Urban City 01 Play Track 54 sounds included, 288 mins total $42

The GENERAL AMBIENCE SERIES: A modular approach to the ambitious project become one of the largest and most versatile ambience sound effects 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 Urban City Ambience Sound Effects Library is part of the General Ambience Series by Systematic Sound. Urban City 01 features a great variety of modern urban city ambiences for soundscape design. The selected ambiences are a good and solid representation of busy modern city life. The sounds where recorded in various alleys, marketplaces, rooftops, busy street corners, city parks, squares, train stations, etc. You will hear typical down town traffic noises (cars, bikes, trucks, airplanes, boats, trains & trams), sirens, car honks & car slaps, bicycles passing, etc.. You will hear a lot of pedestrian activity as well as church bells, construction din, hum from ventilation systems and different types of Walla in the background.

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City Life Sound Effects Sri Lanka Ambiances 1 Play Track 62 sounds included, 171 mins total $61

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.

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City Life Sound Effects Sri Lanka Ambiances II Play Track 32 sounds included, 133 mins total $47

Sri Lanka Ambiances II is 133 minutes/4.40 Gb of ambiance recordings from Sri Lanka.
32 separate files – recorded in 24bit/96kHz A-B stereo. All sounds are UCS-compatible.

Sri Lanka Ambiances II was recorded in 2017 on the same trip that resulted in Sri Lanka Ambiances 1. This collection takes us inland, to the mountain town of Ella, and the larger city of Kandy.

Ella has some distinctive sounds; not least the train snaking it’s way slowly through the mountains, it’s whistle reverberating between them. I also recorded distant distant loudspeaker “chants” or recitals, which, as far as I could gather, was a part of the Poya-days – a Sri Lankan full moon holiday.

Another personal highlight is the recording of an office clerk working an old-school mechanical typewriter behind the blinds of a small office in Kandy.

All in all, here are plenty of general Sri Lankan ambiances featuring traffic, barking dogs, tweeting birds and buzzing insects, as well as bits and pieces of walla.

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Bundles The Complete Collection Play Track 4250 sounds included $1,250

Featuring all of Edible Audio’s archive including in one complete bundle.

Audible Silence | Bluebird Bicycle | Car Parks | Churches | Doors | Electromagnetic Fields | Environmental Protest | Espresso Machine | Flight | Flowing Water | Garbage Impacts | Gutters & Drains | Hospitals | Human Body | Industrial | Laos | Leaf Rustle | Libraries | Lifts & Elevators | Melbourne CBD | Monsoon Rain | Museums & Galleries | Ocean Floors | Overhead Aeroplanes | Parks | Planets | Public Pools | Public Spaces | Rainforests | Roomtones | Sauna Steam | School Playgrounds | Shorelines |Stairwell Doors | Streets at Night | Sub-Aquatic | Tasmania | Tinnitus | The Netherlands | Thunderstorms | Tortured Piano | Traffic | Universities | Urban Desolation | Urban Winter |

Those who buy The Complete Edible Audio Collection will additionally receive 50% off any new sound library releases!

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Environments & Ambiences Environment Ambience 2 Play Track 85 sounds included, 74 mins total $49.99

Add immersive environment ambience sounds to your video, game or film project. Complete with 85 total ambience totalling at 74:43 minutes in length, there is something for everyone. Each sound loops seamlessly and are 1 minute in length (excluding crowd arena sounds). Includes crowd ambience, suburbs, cafe, weather, office, computer factory, factory, bar and forest environments.

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City Life Sound Effects Moscow Play Track 101 sounds included $129

Bombastic and brash. This city never sleeps. A cacophony of noise that can only be the mega metropolis of Moscow.

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World Sounds Buenos Aires Play Track 33 sounds included $69

A cross section of sounds from the urban wonderland of Buenos Aires including street scenes, cafes, parks etc. For a more concise sound library please see Argentina.

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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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Travel & Transportation Train Station – Hong Kong MTR Play Track 32+ sounds included, 158 mins total $56

This library features ambience and crowd recordings captured inside Hong Kong MTR train stations. Locations includes station concourse, passway, platform and stairway. The diversity of recordings ranges from eerie empty platform to busy turnstile concourse during peak hours.

All recordings are recorded, edited and processed to broadcast standard , ready for all types of media use, such as animations, films, games, advertisements and other aspiring creative projects.

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Environments & Ambiences Backgrounds Play Track 22 sounds included, 35 mins total $75

These are analog recordings of inside buildings, like stores, stations, restaurants, bars, elevator, and outdoor ambiences.

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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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City Life Sound Effects NYC East River Ferry Immersive Binaural Play Track 50 sounds included, 73 mins total $115

East River ferry immersion – pretty much all you’ll need to recreate a trip on the ferry – or how it sounds from the quayside/shore. Immersive binaural stereo locates you right by the ferry station with a groaning pontoon and creaking fenders and gentle river wave action. Then boarding and disembarking, as well as a suite of onboard sounds inside the main passenger cabin and out on deck. No wind buffet here … just awesome variable boat engine sounds and wave lap against the hull.

Binaural stereo – the next best thing to being there. Take a little trip … with the Audio Ninja.

Logo: modified from an original image by Gordon Johnson at Pixabay.com

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City Life Sound Effects City Sounds Play Track 79 sounds included, 128 mins total $36

Just close your eyes and immerse yourself into the Big Apple. 79 Sounds you can use cross-city to create a true mild, happy or stressful event happening near you.

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Environments & Ambiences Countrysides and capitals Play Track 40 sounds included, 57 mins total $36
These group of sounds will help you colour your footage with sounds from the city and the countryside. Packed with 40 sounds to enhance your design

Recorded with:
- Sound Devices 633
- Rode NTG3
- Rode NT4
- Seymour Duncan SCR-1
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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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