City Life Sound Effects

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

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Bird Sound Effects Essentials 19 – Ambience 02 Play Track 100 sounds included, 89 mins total $20

Low-price. High-quality. Essential.

An essential collection of 100 background ambience sounds, including dawn choruses, machine factories, deserts, day & night wildlife, spaceship interiors, train stations, city streets, storms, wind, as well as seamless loops!

Each sound was created at 96kHz / 24-bit stereo and is fully compatible with the Universal Category System (UCS) – a public domain initiative establishing a standardized category list for the classification of sound effects.

Note: All of these sounds (and more!) are included in the 96 General Library (get 3,000+ SFX for FREE!)

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City Life Sound Effects Trains of Los Angeles: Subways Play Track 71 sounds included, 150 mins total From: $72

Trains of LA: Subways is an extensive collection of high-quality recordings capturing the wide variety of sound in the Los Angeles Metro subway system.
Available in both Stereo and Immersive versions. All recorded at 24Bit 48kHz on Los Angeles Metro’s B (red) and D (purple) subway lines.

This library includes a huge variety of subterranean transportation related sounds including but not limited to clicks of fare gates, crowd walla and ambience at Union Station, echoes of crowded underground platforms, roaring and screeching subway train arrivals and departures, announcements, elevators, long recordings of train interiors during rides with and without chatter, an end to end ride of the D line from Union Station to Wilshire Western, doors opening and closing, lights humming and buzzing in walkways, escalators, and more!

Recorded mostly on the Rode NT-SF1 ambisonic microphone and Tascam X8, with a few sounds from the Rode NTG5/Zoom H5 and Zoom H3-VR.

Stereo Version Includes: All Stereo and Mono Files and Stereo Files Decoded from AmbiX
Immersive Version Includes: All Files, AmbiX, 5.1, 7.1.4, Stereo

Produced by Cheviot Sound
Recorded by Jack Weiss and Roy Berardo
Edited by Jack Weiss

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Bundles SFX Smorgasbord – 2019 Play Track 27 sounds included, 59 mins total $19.99

A collection of sounds from the year 2019

Some highlights from this collection include: An elevator from the 1890s, various recordings of New York City, drones made from a 1970s synth, and very crunchy bread sounds!

Download includes the following:

27 Audio Files / 1.19 Gb / 59 minutes
24 bit / 48 kHz
UCS Compliant Meta-data (with Artwork included)
True Channel Integrity (Actual Mono/Stereo/Multi-Channel)
QCed Editorial

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Urban Town Ambience Play Track 12 sounds included, 21 mins total $20

In this library you will find ambient sounds at day in a urban town.
The sounds were recorded on urban town of Tavira at day in different locations.
In these sounds you will find pedestrians, cars, motorcycles passing by among others.

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City Life Sound Effects Manchester Ambience Play Track 24 sounds included, 57 mins total $20

We wanted to record the sound of a city, the hustle and bustle, the noise, the traffic so what better place than Manchester

We recorded multiple types of ambiences in different parts of Manchester through out the day, this includes:

Crowds of people shopping, commuting and passing by
Different Languages from the Crowds
Various transportations including cars, busses, Trucks, bikes and trams with their high pitched squeaks and horns
Police sirens in the distance and up close
Car Horns
Pedestrian crossing Beeps
Distant Protesting
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Some quieter areas of Manchester where you can hear the traffic but less crowds for a different perspective of Manchester

Manchester Ambience will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of a UK City boosting your project to the next level. Manchester Ambience has been edited to allow a drop in ready and Royalty Free sample pack. These Samples can be used in a variety of projects from Sound Designing for TV, Film, Documentaries and Video Games. UCS Compliant and Metadata is attached to the samples

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Animal Sound Effects Exterior ambiences Play Track 50 sounds included, 225 mins total $65

50 exterior ambiances from varios places and environments. All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with FEL Clippy XLR EM272, FEL Pluggy XLR EM272, Sonorous Objects SO.3 and Shure VP88 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II and Zoom F3 recorders. The library is also available in UCS.

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

Photo by Pixabay www.pexels.com/photo/earth-wallpaper-41953/

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City Life Sound Effects UK Motorway Play Track 33 sounds included, 69 mins total $20

These samples were recorded using the H4N Pro and the NTG4 from several of the finest bridges that the North West has to offer, capturing several different points of the M6 and M61 during the day and yes at stupid o’clock at night as well

The sample pack contains a massive range of Car’s, Van’s, Lorry’s and Motorbike bypass sounds, each vehicle with its own unique distinctive sound going at high pace on a UK Motorway.

We were able to capture cars crossing lanes, driving over cat eyes, carrying heavy loads and traffic that was both on coming and departing.

UK Motorway will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of a UK Motorway boosting your project to the next level. UK Motorway has been edited to allow a drop in ready and Royalty Free sample pack. These Samples can be used in a variety of projects from Sound Designing/Compositions for TV, Film, Documentaries and Video Games. UCS Compliant and Metadata is attached to the samples

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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 World Ambiences Vol. 1 Play Track 16 sounds included, 35 mins total $19.99

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 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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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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Travel & Transportation Train Station – Hong Kong MTR Play Track 32+ sounds included, 158 mins total $80

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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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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Wylie Stateman

Supervising sound editor,
The Hateful Eight, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill: Vol. 1

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Gabriel Guy

Re-recording Mixer, Walt Disney Animation Studios:
Frozen, Big Hero 6

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Supervising Sound Editor/Re-recording Mixer, The Lego Movie & Mad Max: Fury Road

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Sound designer:
Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit trilogies

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