Environments & Ambiences

Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond

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City Life Sound Effects Atmospheres of Lisbon Play Track 43+ sounds included, 136 mins total $40

Get the authentic sounds of Lisbon, Portugal in this SFX library by Ana Monte. It includes recordings from various Lisbon neighborhoods, places such as a bakery, big market, bus ride, coffee house, construction site, airport, pub, museum bookstore, busy and quiet restaurants and more. It also features a 5.1 recording of a train ride in the world-famous Train 28 Lisboa Street Train.

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Foley Sound Effects Frying Water Play Track 27+ sounds included $15

This library features the sizzle of burning water with sounds that were recorded to capture the feeling of heat and the dynamics of heat exchange. These easily recognizable sounds can be used for literal frying or as sweeteners for magic sounds or anything else whi needs to feel hot. Files last from eight seconds to two and a half minutes allowing flexible use for foley, ambiences, layers, or wherever your imagination leads you.

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World Sounds Sounds of Canada Play Track 43 sounds included, 47 mins total $50

Sounds of Canada includes a huge variety of local ambiences and sounds unique to Canada. From Canadian crowds, restaurants, bars and markets to community sporting events, stadium events, street parades, nature sounds, ski villages, the distinct rattling sound of the Vancouver Marathon, the Canadian pedestrian crossing button sound and even Vancouver’s famous steam-powered organ clock.

This collection is a true representation of Canadian sounds, all recorded on location whilst living in Vancouver, around British Colombia, Vancouver Island and beyond.

All tracks recorded by Evan Buist, sound engineer and field recordist (National Geographic, Dreamworks, Paramount Pictures).

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Industrial Ambiences Elevators Play Track 42+ sounds included $30

An library of elevators! From your standard elevator to EWP, platform elevator, large industrial lifts, one of the largest elevators in Europe and an old elevator from the early 1900s. Hear them pass by, listen to room tones, button presses, door movements and more! Everything recorded in Stereo, 96 kHz 24 Bits with Neumann KM184, DPA 4017 and Sennheiser MKH50 on a Sound Devices 633. Total 46 files in 625 Mb.

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Sports Sound Effects Ski Slopes Play Track 75 sounds included, 60 mins total $39

A superb collection of quiet alpine ski slopes and realistic onboard ski and snowboard recordings. The Alps pistes are known for their great snow and peaceful ambiance.
We captured the calm atmosphere and expressive whooshing and carving on these quiet ski slopes. Recordings range from high speed alpine skiers and distant voices of snowboarders, to a small class, on a variety of pistes. We also recorded onboard the ski lifts and crowds while waiting in line.
More info on how this library came together on our blog.

Contents:
The library consists of a broad range of Alpine ski slope recordings.
– Ski slope ambiences with chatty skiers and snowboarders from young to adult (solo and groups)
– Clean passby's on quiet ski slopes with a mix of speeds, perspectives and types (snowboarders and skiers)
– A very handy set of onboard recordings of skiing and snowboarding with various speeds and cadences
– Onboard ski lifts (gondola, open) and drag lifts (T-bar)
– Evolving ambiences of a moving drag lift and gondola station
– The sound of people waiting in line at the ski lifts (a mix of german/dutch/english)

What you won't get:
– Close up 'Foley' of snow gear
– Music in the background
– Birdsong
– Apres Ski drinks :)

Recording equipment:
– Sony PCM-D50 recorder
– Sonosax SX-R4 recorder
– DPA 4060 microphones
– Rycote Furries and windscreen

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Travel & Transportation Toolkit for Airports Play Track 53 sounds included, 38 mins total $47.99

An extensive collection of airport ambiances from departures, arrivals, passport control and luggage reclaim halls, spanning Venice, Saigon, Istanbul and Trieste.

Also includes a collection of voice-only announcements sound effects, topped with a collection of designed chimes in the style of the ones from London Heathrow and Gatwick, JFK, Johannesburg, Manila, Dubai, Tokyo and Paris provide you with a versatile tool kit of both off-the-shelf, ready-to-use ambiances and all the elements you need to create your own scene.

Photo by Haiqal Osman on Unsplash

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Bundles Signature Series Bundle Basics Subscription 15000 sounds included $229 / year

FOR THE HIGHEST DEMANDS – YOUR COMPLETE SOUND LIBRARY
Our BOOM Signature Series Basics collection gives you the essentials of the BOOM Library experience. A strong selection of sounds (about 10%) from each of our 89 full BOOM Library collections.

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Environments & Ambiences Burkina Faso Sounds Play Track 99 sounds included, 178 mins total $32

This library with sounds from Burkina Faso, Africa features authentic ambiences, wallas, FX and traditional songs.

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World Sounds North India Play Track 73+ sounds included, 187 mins total $65

The North India sound effects library is a unique collection of 73 sounds recorded and produced with high quality equipment in North India.

From west to east at different seasons over many months, this collection includes:

North India features sounds such as:

• Varanasi: The most religious city of the country, bordered by Ganga
• Cities: Delhi and Kolkata, hyperactive Indian cities
• Country-side and villages mostly in Rajasthan.
• Temple: Ceremony, prayer
• Mountains of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, next to Pakistan
• Market: from small to big, outdoor and indoor
• Public space and train stations

This collection provides authentic and interesting sounds recorded through north west to the north east part of the country!
All Faunethic tracks include metadata tags filled with Soundminer.

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Environments & Ambiences Roller Coaster Sound Effects Builder Play Track 529+ sounds included $249

Introducing the ultimate roller coaster sound library: Roller Coaster Sound Builder includes high-quality recordings from 5 different roller coasters, from classic steel coasters to aggressive impulse coaster. This huge collection includes clean roller coaster passbys, onboard recordings, and classic roller coaster screams.

Roller coaster pass by sounds were recorded without background noise in an amusement park that was closed to the public. A great amount of natural screams with different intensities is also included, recorded during a regular summer day in the amusement park.

Roller Coasters included:
– Big Steel Coaster (inverted steel coaster with high speed and loops)
– Small Steel Coaster (classic-sounding sit-down coaster)
– Flying Coaster (with a more metallic and rumbly sound)
– Impulse Coaster (unique-sounding coaster with electro-magnetic propulsion)
– Motorbike Coaster (fast flywheel launch)

This collection provides unique, hard-to-access source material in high-quality, with a large amount of takes for creative sound design. We worked hard to capture as much useful material as we could when we had full access to the rides. All sounds were recorded in Särkänniemi amusement park, Tampere, Finland. Also available in the special Complete Amusement Park Sound Bundle.

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Bird Sound Effects Ravens and Robins Play Track 22 sounds included, 19 mins total $49

Recorded in Eastern Oregon’s Great Basin and High Desert Region – classic sounds of the American West, forest or desert.

These tracks are stripped highlights from the hundreds of hours of field recordings I use to make my films. A number of them include the birds fluttering and making deep natural calls right next to the recorder – about as close as you can hope to get of birds in the wild.

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Nature & Countryside Ambiences Pacific Northwest: Roosevelt Elk Play Track 19+ sounds included, 86 mins total $35

• In Pacific Northwest: Roosevelt Elk, get a mini-nature collection of ambiences from the Hoh Rainforest, a temperate rainforest on the Olympic Peninsula in Olympic National Park. Hear Roosevelt Elk clack antlers and bugle as they fight for the chance to mate. Hear Pacific Wrens joyous chirps as they dance on rotten logs. Hear the massive sparseness of forests filled with 200-300 foot douglas fir and spruce. Hear haunting reverberations as ravens caw in groves of titans and the Hoh River’s soothing wash, the perfect sound to lull you off to peaceful dreams.
• This library offers you a small collection of both quiet and active nature sounds from one of the wettest forests in North America. Some places on the Olympic Peninsula get over 200 inches of precipitation per year, and that abundance of moisture makes for a magical fern and moss filled ecosystem brimming with soothing ambiences.

2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased for the Pacific Northwest Series. Field Recording travel for these libraries was carbon neutral!

KEY FEATURES:
• Recorded near the One Square Inch of Silence
• Featuring Roosevelt Elk
• Hear two full grown Roosevelt Elk clacking antlers and bugling!
• Distant elk trumpeting deep in the forest.
• Varied ambiences from the Hoh Rainforest in Olympic National Park
• Sparse ambiences with minimal wildlife
• Active ambiences with twittering songbirds
• One extended 35-minute quiet nature ambience
• This library is a portrait of the Hoh Rainforest. The rainforest is in a long river valley, so the distant soothing wash of the Hoh River can be heard in all recordings.
TEXT MARKERS:

• Named markers are included in each file to help find interesting events in an otherwise uniform waveform!
• Marker text included in the Soundminer description and BWAV description fields.

FILE LIST & METADATA:
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• Flora (plants) and Fauna (animals) are described in these terms:
• fauna sparse
• fauna constant
• flora sparse
• flora constant
• flora and fauna sparse
• flora and fauna constant
• Included wildlife: Roosevelt Elk, American Crow, Common Raven, Pacific Wren, Brown Creeper, Barred Owl, chipmunks, and various other distant murmuring songbirds

BLOG POST:
• Read the full story on the A Sound Effect Blog – Sounds from the Quietest Place in the Continental US

MORE INFO:
• Read 30+ user reviews for Thomas Rex Beverly Audio
• Read my Field Recording Mastering Rules and learn more about how these recordings were mastered.
• Browse the Library Info Master List to compare specs on all my libraries.
• Browse the Metadata Master List to search my entire catalog.
• MD5 and SHA 256 Checksums are included for each zip file in my catalog. Use these hashes to check the integrity of your downloaded files.
• ***Note – the name of this library was changed from Pacific Northwest: Miniature to Pacific Northwest: Roosevelt Elk on 9/28/2018. This was a name change only. No audio files were updated.

GEAR USED:
• Sennheiser MKH 8040 Matched Pair in ORTF
• Sound Devices 702
• Rycote ORTF Blimp

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Foley Sound Effects Game of Go Play Track 64 sounds included $29

Go (Baduk/Weiqi) is Asia's infamous and ancient strategy game. Incredibly popular in Japan, China, and Korea for over 2000 years, it rivals chess for the world's most challenging strategy board game. “Game of Go” presents the game's iconic sounds characterized by stone pieces clicking down on a thick wooden board for use in film, game development, and beyond.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects The Omen – Dark Dungeon Crawler Music Pack Play Track 16 sounds included, 21 mins total $56

The Omen music pack is a collection of 15 seamless loops of dark fantasy music, perfect for dungeon-themed games. Each track features haunting melodies, eerie soundscapes, and ominous tones that will transport players to a world of danger and mystery. Some tracks include percussion, while others offer a version without for greater flexibility in gameplay. Whether exploring ancient ruins or battling fierce monsters, The Omen music pack will set the mood and enhance the immersive experience of any dungeon game.

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City Life Sound Effects Atmospheres of Amsterdam Play Track 27+ sounds included, 64 mins total $30

Get the ambiences and atmospheres of Amsterdam, the Netherlands in this sound effects library recorded by Ana Monte. It features recordings from around the Dutch capital from locations such as an amusement park, a boat ride, church, ferry ride, metro ride, plaza, the science museum, a street market (a Turkish one, too), a train station, restaurant and more.

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Environments & Ambiences Ambiences from Milan Play Track 42+ sounds included, 119 mins total $34.99

Home to biggest fashion houses and supermodels, Milan is one of the most entertaining cities in Italy. On the contrary, it’s a secular city that has one of the biggest Gothic cathedrals in the world – the Duomo. Extensive public transport (trams, buses, metro, scooters), canal system and people give this city unique soundscapes. Apart from Milan you will also experience a journey to Lake Como, an upscale resort area know for its dramatic scenery and celebrity homes.

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Train Sound Effects Sydney Australia Trains Play Track 55 sounds included, 46 mins total $10

Sydney Australia Trains consists of 55 beautifully recorded and edited sounds, tagged with rich metadata. From pass bys and ins and outs, to atmos' and more.

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Water & Ocean Sounds Shores of Senja Play Track 54 sounds included, 66 mins total $50

Shores of Senja is a collection of wave recordings from the second largest island in Norway. We spent three days on Senja and recorded a wide variety of waves on different surfaces. This collection includes small to big waves and surfaces like sandy beaches, pebbles, rocks and cliffsides.

We recorded everything with one cardioid stereo pair and one omni stereo pair for added flexibility and options in the mix. The library features 192kHz/24bit stereo broadcast wave files with embedded metadata, and also includes all files converted to 96kHz/24 bit stereo broadcast wave files with embedded metadata.

The library includes:
18 files (omni stereo pair)
18 files (cardioid stereo pair)
18 locations/positions. A picture of every location is included.

Extracted size: 5.27 GB (96kHz files), 10.55 GB (192kHz files)

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Nature & Countryside Ambiences Wetlands Play Track 11+ sounds included, 41 mins total $15

Dakota Wetlands by Badlands Sound features 11 three to four minute seamless loopable ambiences making these a breeze to work with. Recorded over the span of a couple months this collection of ambiences were recorded in 96k 24bit with the Sound Devices 702t and a pair of Sennheiser MKH 8040's.

In the Audio Demo for this product you will be able to hear all the sounds that are in this library. If you are looking for marsh, prairie sounds next to a lake, or specifically wetlands for a great price this library is for you.

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Travel & Transportation Gardermoen Airport Play Track 19+ sounds included, 62 mins total $40

Need airport sounds and ambiences? This collection provides good coverage of the common and domestic areas of a modern airport. In total, 19 different recording locations inside the Norwegian airport of Gardermoen have been recorded. A picture from every location is also included for reference.

All files that contain PA announcements have added metadata with a short description of the message. This makes it easier to find the correct announcement for your project. The majority of the announcements are done in both Norwegian and English which is convenient for non-Norwegian speaking sound editors.

Gardermoen airport is the largest airport in Norway, located 35 kilometres northeast of Oslo. Gardermoen is the main international airport in Norway and acts as the main domestic hub. It is also the second busiest airport in the Nordic countries, connecting around 30 domestic and 120 international destinations. In 2014 more than 24 million passengers traveled through Gardermoen.

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Environments & Ambiences Windy Forest Play Track 22 sounds included, 87 mins total $40

Windy forest is a collection of forest ambiences with wind ranging from soft to strong. We spent two stormy days out in the deep forests of Norway and managed to capture a wide variety of wind sounds. The recordings are nearly 100% bird free so they are very usable internationally.

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Insect Sound Effects Frogs and Grasshoppers Play Track 10+ sounds included, 14 mins total $15

This library was recorded in southern France and Komagane, Japan for a diverse collection of cricket, grasshopper and frog sounds. With a Fostex FR2, Sennheiser 418S and Olympus LS11, these focused sounds were captured without the rumbling of nearby traffic or wind. They are clean enough to be dropped right into your project, and they are long enough to offer loop points for interactive use.

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Ambisonic Sound Effects The Snow Play Track 25+ sounds included, 192 mins total $79

From the snow-covered slopes of Mammoth mountain, to the ice-filled shores of Duluth, Minnesota, this library brings together some terrific subzero sounds for your next snow-themed project. With ski and snowboard bys, chairlifts, cold winds, and even melting icicles, this is surely a collection you don't want to miss. 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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World Sounds Sounds of Central America Play Track 59 sounds included, 153 mins total $60

Sounds of Central America explores the sounds native to this Latin American region and beyond.

These high-quality sound recordings were meticulously recorded in Mexico, Guatemala. Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Included is also a taste of the Caribbean and beyond with additional recordings from Belize and Cuba.

Sounds of Central America was recorded with the intention to be particularly useful for post-production environments with a range of genuine and rare sounds you could expect to hear in these countries.

From wild Mexican rodeos, to howler monkeys screaming in the Guatemalan jungle, local fish markets in El Salvador, various means of local transportation, exotic nature, all kinds of crowds with all kinds of local accents, angry mobs, incredibly close-mic’d hummingbird wings and so much more.

We hope you enjoy this high-quality sound pack.

All tracks recorded by Evan Buist, sound engineer and field recordist (National Geographic, DreamWorks, Paramount Pictures).

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