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Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond
Industrial, gas boiler room / domestic household gas boiler room included)
Industrial, gas boiler room in operation. Boilers, pumps, sensors, tank, electronics and a variety of pipelines.
Recorded with MS stereo rig (Sennheiser MKH 60/30) via Sound Devices mixer/recorder and with JRF contact mics (see photos).
Metadata included with description, info about equipment used and mic position.
This audio library features low-frequency drones, powerful impacts, metallic scrapes, resonant vibrations, and other rare audio textures.
All sounds were recorded using the LOM Geofón, a device that captures low-frequency surface vibrations that conventional microphones cannot detect.
The recordings were made with the TASCAM Portacapture X8 at 192 kHz/32 bit, ensuring maximum detail and sound quality.
Fireworks FX library including recording of mining/blasting. Recorded with Sennheiser MKH 40/30 mics (Rycote blimp) in MS stereo via Sound Devices 744T, Sound Devices Mix Pre; Lom usi (Rycote BBG windshieldx2) via Sony PCM M10 in NOS stereo.
Metadata tagged with equipment list and info.
Stereo (RAW) recordings without any dynamic manipulation (compressors/limiters) with max. peak level: -5dBFS.
If you’ve ever been to Warsaw, Poland, you know how diverse this city is. Both extremely noisy and quiet, modern, yet sometimes surprisingly vintage. Full of vehicles, voices, nature, typical and untypical spaces. We decided to capture some of it for you.
Part 1 of our library is:
– focused mainly on traffic and transportation,
– with some nature elements and human walla additions,
– not language specific, so it will blend into any project seamlessly.
53 high quality stereo sounds in 53 files, 127 mins in total. Enjoy, more of our libraries to come soon!
Back Alley Rain is a collection of 20 rain & thunder sound effects.
Light/medium/downpour rain, aftermath, drips, muffled thunder and more
The collection consists of 20 carefully mastered and rendered rain ambiences with baked-in Soundminer’s metadata.
All sounds (with one exception – see metadata) loop seamlessly which makes them perfect for games, meditation apps etc.
All sounds have been created and processed using top tier gear in order to deliver crisp, modern, error free sound.
RECORDED WITH: Sony PCM D100
EDITED WITH: iZotope RX, Pro Tools.
Feel the power of a 200cc quadbike with onboard perspective: 200cc quadbike sound effects library.
Featuring 69 stereo recordings captured at 96kHz/32bit, this collection brings over 28 minutes of on board audio from a 200cc 4stroke quadbike captured from the rider’s point of view at various speeds, carefully labelled for easy editing.
Key features:
Perfect for sound designers, filmmakers, and game developers, Onboard Perspective – 200cc ATV Quadbike delivers the sounds you need to enhance POV and close perspective shots, action scenes, and off-road adventures.
Sounds Captured using a Clippy EM272Z1 stereo pair into a ZoomF3 recorder.
The City Distant library gets you a series of high quality, diffused city ambiences. Choose ‘flat’, unobtrusive background tracks, or versions with emerging elements: trains, cars, trams, bells, sirens, fireworks and other noises. Captured in Prague, Czech Republic.
• Native 192kHz /24bit
• excellent mics used – Sanken CO100K (wide range, ultrasonic mic, recording frequencies up to 100kHz) and Sennheiser MKH30 (industry standard) in MS stereo configuration.
• Use any of rendered LR tracks or reach for included raw MS data.
• Long takes (up to 7 minutes).
• 12 files (plus the raw data), at several locations.
• Flat and normal versions
Introducing a dynamic sound effects library that captures the intense atmosphere of urban protests.
This collection features 14 high-quality recordings, including the raw, organic sounds of people whistling and using actual protest whistles to express dissent. You’ll also find powerful boos and chants, applause and cheers echoing through city streets, perfect for creating an immersive protest scene.
The sounds are rich in detail, with varying crowd sizes and intensities, offering versatile options for your projects with the authentic sounds of civil unrest and public outcry.
100% royalty-free – comes with intuitive naming and detailed descriptions – UCS compatible.
Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
Check out Vadi Sound Library’s amazing collection of cowbell and sheep bell sounds! Recorded in our studio, these bells come in various sizes, and you’ll even find some cool, rusty ones. Listen to them ding, ring, and get handled from different angles with top-notch mic techniques.
Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
Bells Galore!
This set includes 107 top-quality files, clear and powerful, featuring just about every cowbell and sheep bell sound you can think of. What’s handy about these sounds is their crystal-clear quality and variety. They’re good for both real-life settings and sound design, offering loops, richness, and atmosphere.
Expect to hear bells ringing fast, medium, slow, being handled, all in different lengths and distances – close, medium, and far. The names are easy to figure out, and they’re UCS compatible. All recorded in crisp 24bit-96kHz.WAV format using our best gear: Sennheiser MKH 8040, DPA 4060, and Zoom F3, in both A/B and ORTF settings.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out Drag and Slide Pack for 477 sounds of dragging, sliding, scraping and friction sounds of different objects made of wood, plastic, metal on various surfaces. Our bestseller Crafting and Survival Pack is another option with 1000+ survival, gathering, movement and crafting sounds.
We recorded various aspects from a New York Hotel this includes
Room Ambience
StairWell Ambience
Impulse Responses from the Stairwell
StairWell Emergency door open and close
Elevator/Lift moving
Elevator/Lift Button
Hotel Bathroom Fan
American Light Switches on/off
Hotel Toilet Flush
USA Hotel will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of an American Hotel boosting your project to the next level. USA Hotel 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
We came across some Local Construction/Repair work being done, to which we were able to capture the general sound of construction work being done
You can hear heavy machinery, engines powering up and powering down whilst remaining constant and Idle, as well as various bang and knocks from completing the construction. We also managed to record the sound of a truck reversing, Workers shouting and a Saw and Drill being used.
UK Construction Ambience will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of a small Construction site boosting your project to the next level. UK Construction 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/Compositions for TV, Film, Documentaries and Video Games. UCS Compliant and Metadata is attached to the samples
We headed to the Local Train Station (UK) where we recorded the ambience of their train station in a bid to get some natural sounds of Trains and Northern Train goers on their journey
We recorded:
General Train station ambience
Ticket Booth ambience
Train’s Arriving, Departing and Idle
Train’s preparing to depart (Whistles/Door Alarms etc)
Crowds and Crowd movement with plenty of Northern Voices
Tannoy Calls (Calling such places as Manchester, London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, as well as general warnings, pending trains and the usual cancellation ones)
The Train Station Ambiences Sample Pack will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of a UK local train station boosting your project to the next level.Train Station 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/Compositions for TV, Film, Documentaries and Video Games. UCS Compliant and Metadata is attached to the samples
We wanted to add to a recent sample pack (Train Station Ambience), so that it allowed any Sound Designer the ability to complete their project from someone waiting in a Train Station to the Train Journey.
We recorded the natural ambience of a UK train Interior, taking a Northern journey from Preston to Manchester Piccadilly and back again.
Not only did we record the general ambience of the train interior, we managed to capture the sound of the engines idle, departing and slowing down, the natural creak of the train and the typical sound of train movements, as well as passengers boarding and debarking, the general Northern chatter and movement of the everyday commuter, as well as various beeps, doors shutting and tannoy calls/communication.
Train Interior Ambience will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of a UK train interior boosting your project to the next level.Train Interior 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/Compositions for TV, Film, Documentaries and Video Games. UCS Compliant and Metadata is attached to the samples
It made sense whilst driving to Manchester that we should record the journey there and back for a Interior car ambience sample pack
We recorded the ambience of Ford Fiesta 1.25L driving on the motorway and around Town
This includes:
Ambiences at different speeds
Ambiences for different road surfaces
Ambience changes due to Rev’s
Departing from a stop position
Slowing to a stop position
Joining the Motorway
Exiting the Motorway
Passing vehicles outside
General groans and movements of a car
Noises when travelling over bumps
Driver Foley
Indicator noises
Car Interior Driving Ambience will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of a car interior driving, boosting your project to the next level. Car Interior Driving 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/Compositions for TV, Film, Documentaries and Video Games. UCS Compliant and Metadata is attached to the samples
Submerge was created using a stereo hydrophone which recorded submerged and underwater sounds. We recorded various water sources from streams, rivers, waterfalls, showers and drains
We were able to record:
Drain water flow and movement with bubbles, gargling and draining sounds
Flow/Currents of Rivers and Streams moving
Impacts/Dunks and Splashes
and
Rock Movements under the water
Recording with a stereo hydrophone allowed us to captured unique and different sounds on both tracks, so for instance, left track was underwater but on the right track it had the sound of drips falling on to the Hydrophone from a water fall. Giving you options to split the audio for different tonalities, giving you more audio to work with for your said project.
Submerge 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 through to Composing for a variety of projects such as TV, Film, Documentaries and Video Games.
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
We travelled to several local Corn Fields in the UK and recorded the sound of corn stalks moving in the wind.
We recorded:
General Corn Field Ambiences
Corn Stalk Shakes
Corn Leaf Rubs
Run-bys through the Corn Field
Corn Stalk movement via the Korg CM300 contact Microphone
Corn Stalk movement via the LOM Geofon
This sample pack is great for use in any corn related project. There are also design opportunities with the Korg CM300 and the LOM Geofon to give texture to the corn or to create rumbles underneath the ambience layers. Sound of the Corn 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
Recorded in the well known New York Public Library, we managed to capture the sounds of the crowds and activity as they enter the public library as well general ambience.
These samples will immerse your listeners into the authentic sounds of this amazing building.
The New York Public Library will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of a Library boosting your project to the next level. The New York Public Library 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
So We’ve been wanting to record in a deep dense Forest for sometime and this one was not only enjoyable but absolutely beautiful
We travelled to the Forest of Bowland, to record the beautiful sounds this Forest had to offer.
We were surrounded by Dense Conifer tree’s on a slightly damp/windy day which added to the atmosphere and extraordinary sounds the Forest created, with a constant variety of Bird songs and on occasions Sheep Bleating, it truly added to the recording experience.
Bowland was a hive of activity with some recordings capturing Aeroplane noises and vehicles driving around the Forest but we also got a variety of just natural Forest sounds without these disturbances.
The Forest will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of a UK Forest boosting your project to the next level. The Forest 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
We heard there was a storm coming to the UK so of course we wanted to record it, instead of going to a wide open space we wanted to record it in a typical UK back garden, mainly as we wanted to record a storm reacting with its surroundings. This Storm was moderate in nature, we managed to record gusts of wind and rain as well as the storm rattling fences, blowing bushes/trees and moving items, as well as general residential/suburban sounds.
Back Garden Storm will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of a good ole British Storm, boosting your project to the next level. Back Garden Storm 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
We recorded a decommissioned UK Police Van (Ford Transit)
Capturing some unique sounds:
Workshop Ambience
Internal Police Van Ambience including the Cell
A range of Door Open/Closes from the front doors, sliding door, back door and even the cell door
Hinge movements from the back and Cell Door
Lock mechanisms from the Cell Lock and handle lock, with various open and close options and general Handle movement.
We recorded dials, levers, buttons and switches from the Police Van which includes, the 12 Volts flap, Air Con movement, Dials and Heating knobs, Indicators, Light switches and Window Switches
Seat Belt clicks
Gear shift movements
Glove compartment open and close
Foley of the seat/seatbelt
and
Foley of movement within the Cell its self.
This giving you the essence and character of a UK Police Van, not only will this be amazing for your Police based projects but you’ll be able to use these on other various projects. UK Police Vehicle 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
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
and
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
This Sample pack was recorded in a variety of Small to Large Northern Shops in the UK
Capturing the natural ambience of several shop tones as well as the Northern Shoppers going about their daily shop. When recording we wanted to be as disccrete as possible to get the northern shopper as natural as possible.
We also managed to capture Fridge Tones, Till Bleeps, Self Checkout Announcements, Trolley Noises and General shopper movements
UK Shops will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of a UK Shop Ambience boosting your project to the next level. UK Shops 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
Here’s 144 minutes of composite German construction site ambiences. It comes with all the hammering, sawing, digging, drilling, some yelling workers, squeaky crawling excavators and loud jack hammers you’d expect. All edited, cleaned, mixed and packed with metadata.
The ambiences were mostly recorded with a Sound Devices 744t and a Sound Devices Mix-PreD through a Beyerdynamic MC930 ORTF setup and RODE NTG-4 microphone, and some ambiences were tweaked to seamless loop from end to start. All sounds were recorded over weeks at several different construction site around Stuttgart / Germany – from very small sites recorded close up to huge construction sites with lots different typical working sounds.
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