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Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond
The sounds of Hong Kong, recorded in 2007. It includes the sounds of a ferry from Lantau Island to Hong Kong, the legendary Star Ferry, trams, street scenes including the iconic pedestrian crossing beeps and MTR (Metro) trains, interior and exterior.
Some tracks could be used for any modern or futuristic city, where you need to add an exotic or futuristic dimension, that Blade Runner-esque feel if you will, not just for Asia!
In total, 30 recordings are included for more than 40 minutes of authentic Hong Kong sounds.
We’ve bundled together Submerge and Cave Design to give you more audio for a reduced price
The Water Bundle will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of water boosting your project to the next level. The Water Bundle 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
A sound effects library that contains a wide range of authentic rally car sounds, recorded at the Rally Legend 2022.
The Rally Legend is an annual rally event that takes place in San Marino, a small sovereign state located in central Italy. It is a historic rally event that features classic rally cars from different eras, and is known for its challenging and exciting stages. The event takes place over a three-day period, and consists of a series of timed stages that are held on a variety of roads and terrain types. The stages are designed to test the skill and endurance of the drivers and their vehicles, and are known for their technical complexity and high-speed action. The event attracts a large number of spectators and rally car enthusiasts, and has become a popular destination for rally fans from around the world.
This library features a wide range of high-quality sounds captured from real rally cars in different locations, including corners, straights, chicanes, pit lanes. These sounds include high-speed cars pass by, revving engines, powerful accelerations and are recorded to be used in a variety of media projects, such as video games and movies. With a diverse range of sounds captured from different makes and models of rally cars, you’ll be able to find the perfect sound to match your needs.
All the files are 24 Bit, 192 Khz, extensive embedded metadata and categorized with the Universal Category System (UCS).
UK Train Bundle
We’ve bundled together Train Station Ambience and UK Train Interior Ambience to give you a good all rounder for your all your Train project needs
We recorded:
General Train station ambience
General Train Interior Ambience
Ticket Booth ambience
Train’s Arriving, Departing and Idle
Train Creaks
Train Movement
Passengers boarding and debarking and sounds of the commuter
Various beeps
Doors Noises
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 UK Train Bundle Sample Pack will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of a UK train station and train interior boosting your project to the next level. UK Train Bundle 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
The SKI RIDE sound effects library is a comprehensive collection of audio recordings that capture the various sounds associated with skiing. This library includes a wide range of ski sounds, recorded on the Italian Alps in the 2023.
The collection features recordings of skiers carving turns on groomed trails, as well as sounds of off-piste skiing through fresh powder and pass bys on the ski slopes.
In addition to the sounds of skiing, this library includes recordings of ski equipment like ski poles, ski boots, ski binding, ski gloves, ski jacket, backpacker, foley sounds like ski boots footsteps and ambience tracks like chair lift and ski lift stations.
All of the recordings in this library are of high quality and have been carefully edited and mastered to ensure they are ready for use in a variety of audio projects, including films, television shows, video games and podcasts. Whether you are creating a documentary about skiing or a commercial for a ski resort, the SKI RIDE sound effects library has everything you need to bring your project to life.
All the files are 24 Bit, 192 Khz, extensive embedded metadata and categorized with the Universal Category System (UCS).
Fantasy World Loops 2 is an all original, royalty free ambience loop library designed to help you create stunning and immersive audio environments quickly. Great for your fantasy adventure, 2D, 3D mobile app games, motion graphics, film, and audio productions. With over 1.5 hours of popular location sound loops, you’ll be well equipped to create the perfect mood and sound environments that bring your fantasy world to life!
The Isolated Ambience Loops sound effects loop library includes 99 haunting ambience loops, steady room tones, abstract loop-able soundscapes, ominous cinematic drones, game styled background loops as well as a variety of other modern ambiences that fit the dark ambient genre.
Save time and easily create background ambiences that set the tone in your production. 872.9MB of samples all royalty-free and ready to use in your next audio project.
Wind turbine rotations and motor movements recorded subterraneously, through wire fences, metal steps and the body of the turbine.
The results are a selection of metallic movements, evolving eerie soundscapes, atmospheric hums, whines.
Excellent design source and sound morphing material, eerie atmospheres and dystopian environments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSGOZXKJWbc
Number of Sounds : 45
Number of Files : 45
Total Audio Time : 2 hours 22 minutes 18 secs ( 142 minutes 18 seconds)
Type : WAV Stereo
Sample Rate / Bit Rate : 192 kHz / 24 Bit
Mastered : No
Normalised : No
Size : 9.92 Gb
Metadata : Files are stamped with detailed UCS compliant metadata in Soundminer
Documentation Included : Copyright, EULA, Images, Metadata (exported in multiple formats)
License : A Sound Effect EULA / Terms and Conditions https://asoundeffect.com/license-agreement/
Recorders : Zoom F3 and Sound Devices Mix Pre 10 II
Microphones : LOM Geofon, Stille and Klang small spots, Sennheiser 8040’s and 8050
Microphone Configuration : Magnetic, Spike, Contact. ORTF and Centre Mic
KEYWORDS : Wind Turbine , Back, Wire Fence, Metal Steps, Underground, Rotate, Inner, Motor, Vibrate, Whirr, Bass, Hum, Whine, Pulse, Atonal, Disharmonious, Breeze
FXNAME : Abandoned Environment, Deserted Environment, Design Source, Dystopian, Eerie Atmosphere, Post Apocalypse, Sound Morph, Uninhabited, Wind Turbine
NSL – Planes & Airports is a 86 Files Sound-Pack essentially composed of Planes sounds. You will have access to many samples: Tarmac Backgrounds, Turbines, Jet Engines, Flight Roomtones, Airports Hall & Security Checkpoints, and many more…
In this Kit all “Dark SciFi Drones” were carefully split in logical frequency Layers. So you have better control and you can do your own mix of these elements.
Also you can combine and mix the different layers across the ambiences by drag&drop to create nearly endless variations. Or easily do creative up-mixes to surround.
The duration of each Drone is 1:00 minute with very versatile variations in each file.
Use the layers in “Playlists” (Pro Tools) or “Track Versions” (Nuendo) for best flexibility and easy access.
Each layer of the same Drone is named after the Drone plus a letter for the layer. Starting at “A” (low frequency)…
Each Drone is separated in 2-5 layers.
SciFi Drones is a composite collection of very disturbing and scary futuristic spaceship ambiences, Sci-Fi Drones and organic, surreal alien-atmospheres.
Each drone is 2 minutes long, with very versatile variations in each file. And whether it comes to futuristic horror settings, abandoned sci-fi corridors, large spaceship halls, haunted basements or open space in an alien galaxy, this will set the right tone.
Fantastic for any sci-fi project – and will also set the tone equally well for other disturbing cyberpunk projects and scary industrial spaces.
This library is a hybrid-production; A symbiosis of organic original field-recordings like Room Tones, Construction Sites, Traffic, Zoo-Animals, Motors and synthetic elements. Lot’s of spectral and granular synthesis. And lots of sound designing, of course.
Haunting Ambiences Bundle Vol. 2 includes three more libraries from our series of horror-genre atmospheres: Haunting Ambiences Vol. 4, 5 & 6.
The bundle comprises 19.99 GB worth of sounds recorded and designed by our Audio Craftsmen. Each of the 18 featured ambiences have been separated into individual stems, providing you with multi-layered kits for constructing your own horror backgrounds. Bangs on doors, swamp creature screeches, sewer screams, rattling chains, sacrificial chanting and many more can be endlessly mixed and matched in this customizable collection.
Use this bundle to experiment with layering, tone, and other sonic parameters when building atmosphere in your horror scenes. Sounds can be used for both digital and real-life projects, including Film, TV and Game productions, and live horror events and escape rooms.
The entire bundle is delivered at 24Bit 192kHz and tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.
Step into the heart of English lower league football with “Close Crowds: Football Terrace” — a collection of 233 high-quality sounds recorded at a small EFL League 2 game*. This diverse library captures the essence of small football stadiums in the English Football League, ranging from close reactions and individual shouts to smaller group dynamics and large crowd chants, all meticulously labelled with unique names for quick and easy integration into your project.
The smaller setting allowed for the capturing of more nuanced shouts and reactions, which can often be drowned out in larger stadiums. A personal favourite sound of ours is the CRWDSprt_English Football EFL League Fans Angry What Is He Doing Reaction_Decal Audio_ClsCrwdsFtbl file, you can hear the pain and frustration in their voice that us football fans are all too familiar with!
Ideal for sports-related productions, podcasts, audiobooks, documentaries, video games and more this library ensures that the excitement and intensity of English Football is brought to life with exceptional detail.
*AFC Wimbledon vs Forest Green Rovers F.C. – away end approx 6000 attended.
This library has a unique selection of streams and rivers sounds, recorded and edited with the utmost care in the one of the most beautiful places in the world, the French Alps.
Includes 100 files 24Bit/96kHz, recorded in many different places situated in the heart of the Mercantour National Park and the Ecrins National Park, for a total of more than four and a half hours of recording. This work was done over five months, from the end of the winter ( by the time the snow had melted ) until the end of the summer.
All recordings have been made early in the morning, between 5 and 8 a.m, resulting in extremely clean recordings with no man-made noise pollution. The majority of sounds has been recorded from a close perspective for beautiful details with four different recording methods :
Includes embedded Soundminer metadata.
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This sound pack contains unique sounds from old school printing and folding machines.
You get close up sounds from individual machines as well as ambiences from within the print shop.
What makes this pack unique is the fact that the machines recorded are really old and you won’t find them easily. You can use them as they are or play around with pitch shifters and the like to create dramatic sfx.
The machines used in this pack are vintage machines, printing and pressing machines from a previous era .
Adding this pack to your collection will give you some great material for designing all kinds of industrial machine sounds. It can be used for machine sound design, futuristic door design and much much more .
This pack will prove to be an interesting and versatile addition to your sound library :)
THE DEMO TRACK CONTAINS A NOISY MACHINE UNDER THE ENTIRE TRACK TO AVOID LOOPING :) In the pack all the sounds come without that noisy machine .
UCS COMPLIANT !!!
Artwork by Annemie Van Roey
“Collected Ambiences“ – Series description:
Each library of the “Collected Ambiences“ series features 33 various Stereo Ambiences.
All recorded with Sound Devices 744T, Sonosax SX-R4+, Sennheiser MKH8040 ORTF, Sennheiser MKH8050 + MK30 MS, RODE NT1-A or Sony PCM-D100.
All files were cleaned, edited and most of the files loop seamlessly.
Collected Ambiences – Volume XIV
Harvester Cabin, Home Improvement, Busy Exhibition Hallway, Kids Crowds, Farm, Coutryside
“Collected Ambiences“ – Series description:
Each library of the “Collected Ambiences“ series features 33 various Stereo Ambiences.
All recorded with Sound Devices 744T, Sonosax SX-R4+, Sennheiser MKH8040 ORTF, Sennheiser MKH8050 + MK30 MS, RODE NT1-A or Sony PCM-D100.
All files were cleaned, edited and most of the files loop seamlessly.
Collected Ambiences – Volume XII
Countryside, Heavy Duty Gardening, Riverside, Rain, Zeppelin, Garden, Trainstations
The Bunkers sound effects library features roomtones and ambiences captured inside old World War II shelters (at the historic WW2 complex known as Wolf’s Lair in Poland).
The ambiences were captured in small rooms deep inside bunkers, in hallways, inside old rusty water pipes and outside, between bunkers.
The library includes room tones with water dripping from ceilings, small pieces of wall falling on the floor and wind getting through destroyed walls. The Bunker Ambients library features 23 files with a total length of 57 minutes, recorded with a Sony PCM-M10 and Sennheiser MKH 8040 plugged into Sound Devices 702 recorder in ORTF configuration.
This audio library brings 29 crowd ambiences from several interesting places in Israel: the Jerusalem Western Wall and Holy Sepulcher, Tel Aviv’s traditional Carmel market, streets and parks, beaches and villages, and more. Recorded in May.
Library highlights:
• 29 diverse Hebrew and international speaking crowd ambiences
• recorded with a Sony PCM-D100
• 96 kHz / 24 bit high resolution
• each track lasts for 3-6 minutes
• exclusively on A Sound Effect
Phantasmal Ambiences Bundle comprises unnerving horror ambiences designed to make audiences recoil and shake! Distant noises of poltergeists, demons, aliens and other deranged beings create a sense of insecurity and tension in the listener, and are thus ideal for intensifying other-worldly spaces in your horror Film, TV and Game projects.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded a variety of spine-tingling props and movements at 344 headquarters and a Neo-Gothic Nottingham church. These were all chosen and manipulated with the intention of alluding to a supernatural presence somewhere in the near-distance. Further design processes were then applied to form blood-curdling, chilling soundscapes sure to maximise the fear in your audiences!
Phantasmal Ambiences Bundle comprises unnerving horror ambiences designed to make audiences recoil and shake! Distant noises of poltergeists, demons, aliens and other deranged beings create a sense of insecurity and tension in the listener, and are thus ideal for intensifying other-worldly spaces in your horror Film, TV and Game projects.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded a variety of spine-tingling props and movements at 344 headquarters and a Neo-Gothic Nottingham church. These were all chosen and manipulated with the intention of alluding to a supernatural presence somewhere in the near-distance. Further design processes were then applied to form blood-curdling, chilling soundscapes sure to maximise the fear in your audiences!
The entire bundle is delivered at 24Bit 96kHz and tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.
This is a unique mini-library of useful rain loops, recorded in various settings, and with different level of intensity.
Get creative or just use them as is. These sounds are a nice companion to have when creating beds for rainy scenes. Evocative, emotional, rich and subtle.
This library comprises ambiences recorded from inside a sea shell/conch in various settings as city streets, nature, waves, traffic, walla.
Discover distorted realities from the sea shell, the sounds are filtered, occluded by the natural shell, an organic resonator.
In addition there are few sounds that are created by blowing inside the shell and making a note, which is a traditional Inca instrument (Pututo).
WHAT’S INSIDE:
25 stereo files (15 ambiences + 10 Shell Blowing note)
“Rain & Thunder Residential Balcony” (RTRB in short) includes 21 stereo files (WAV, 96 kHz, 24 bit) of total length: 1h 48m 58s. All files were carefully edited and discribed with UCS metadata.
Recorded with Zoom H6 with internal mid-side capsule during few stormy days of June 2020 in the beginning of covid pandemic (hence there’s almost no traffic background!).
The idea was to place the mic on the balcony in the residential, suburban area of Warsaw, Poland, in the best, exact same spot each time, so the recordings can be edited seamlessly together. Library contains rain in every phase from begining, through light, medium and heavy to the ending and afterwards. That gives the editor the opportunity to navigate with rain intensity throughout the scene and even create the storm from pieces.
Different storm stages can work really well also for the computer game implementation.
There are lots of distant thunder rumbles but also few really close, sharp and scary thunder strikes.
RTRB is 21 stereo files, 96/24. 3,5 GB big, all UCS ready!
Construction Ambiences is a library of atmospheres that tracks different processes from the construction site.
It was recorded in Sofia, Bulgaria during the renovation of several objects in the city center, namely: small streets, squares and big streets. The processes are shaking and removing old pavements and placing new ones (pavement, asphalt, tiles, etc.).
You will hear a variety of road construction equipment: Hydraulic Jackhammer, Excavator, Fadroma, Plate Compactor, Buzzsaw, Chainsaw and other hand and mechanical tools.
Workers who speak and chat intelligibly in distant backgrounds can also be heard.
Тhe feeling of an urban environment is aided by the reflected sound waves of surrounding buildings.
Gear used: Neumann KM184 stereo set, Edirol R4pro. All files are meta-tagged in Soundminer.
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