Audience in theatre is a collection of murmurs, talks, cheerings, claps, screams and laughs.
It has been recorded in three different Italian theatres (small, medium and large sized theatres) and in an outdoor arena during a summer jazz festival.
The Construction Zone library consists of 260 HQ recordings of a wide range of heavy-duty vehicles and construction workers engaged in raucous activities such as driving around, digging holes, flattening surfaces and more, that will satisfy your appetite for… construction!
Specifically, the library comes with sounds of dump trucks moving debris, hungry excavators, bulldozers pushing rocks, loud drilling hammers, cranes, asphalt paving machinery and screeching crawlers. Other sound effects include construction workers hammering, shoveling, sawing, welding and drilling in all kinds of environments such as public roads, cobblestone streets, renovation sites, and other facilities.
Construction Zone library has been captured using both control and stealth field recording techniques. In all those cases, post-production and curation work has created a fine outcome, totaling approximately 7 hours of material.
Overall, the collection caters to projects that require construction site ambiences and/or detailed, close up sounds of heavy machinery. The sounds in this library can also be used as raw audio material for further processing.
Discover the vibrant tapestry of our “South African Exterior” ambiences sound effects library! Immerse yourself in authentic sounds, where each recording transports you to the heart of bustling Cape Town and its surroundings.
From the lively buzz of city life at the local taxi rank to tranquil residential suburbs this collection captures the essence of South African life. Hear the rhythmic waves crashing on the shores, feel the energy of a bustling market or soak in the serene atmosphere of a school playground or residential suburb. Whether you’re seeking the dynamic pulse of a train station, bus station or taxi rank, the charm of a beachfront promenade, or the subtle CDB sounds from a city rooftop, our library offers a wealth of meticulously curated recordings.
Also available as part of the “South African Bundle” collection.
COUNTRYSIDEÂ WINTER – Ambisonics brings you 15 ambisonic atmospheres recorded during different times of a day in winter: early morning, morning, afternoon, evening and night.
All these recordings have been done in Sierra Morena, Andalusia (Spain). Being winter, birds tend to be much quiet and insects are almost gone, so most of the ambiences are pretty silent. You will hear mainly birds such as sparrows, doves and woodpeckers. At night dogs and roosters make an appearance.
Recordings have been done with a Sennheiser Ambeo + Zoom F8. All files are in 96 kHz/24 bit and meta-tagged.
About this library:
This Ambisonics sound effects library contains the original recordings in A-Format (no processing whatsoever) and in B-format (AmbiX). By using Harpex, 5.1 (LRCLfeLsRs) and stereo (ORTF) mixdowns have been also added. Note that the Lfe channel is mute. It hasn’t been removed to follow the SMPTE path order.
The Ambisonics version contains all the formats. Stereo version only includes the stereo files.
This library of environmental recordings is the culmination of three recording expeditions to the stunningly gorgeous Pacific Northwest. We visited a variety of locations ranging from urban Vancouver, Portland, and Seattle to the wild and untamed Olympic Peninsula. We captured dynamically disparate sounds such as a noisy Seattle shipyard and the quietest location in the continental US – deep within the primordial Hoh Rainforest. There are excellent crowd wallas, and contemplative mountain streams. From beaches to mountain tops to luxury high rises no environment was left un-recorded! This is what the Northwest sounds like!
In all, this library features 69 individual files totaling over three hours of runtime. Total un-zipped file size is over six gigabytes. All sounds have been edited to remove discernable dialog and unwanted noises. What’s left is pure, loop-able ambience suitable for no-fuss editing.
All sounds were captured on a Sound Devices 744T recorder. Microphones used include a Sanken CSS-5 stereo mic and a matched stereo pair of Sennheiser 8040s in ORTF configuration. All recordings are accompanied by a high quality photograph for reference and tagged with Pro Tools searchable metadata.
Bonus library included:
As a special incentive we will also include a bonus mini-library of ambiences from the Irish countryside that James recorded on a recent trip home! Highlights include some great mountain winds and a rare recording of a starling formation taking flight!
Credits:
Recordist, Producer, Editor – Jason Strawley
Photography, Video – Andrew Garraway
Asst Producer – James Nolan
The Cement Factory sound effects pack was recorded in a giant cement processing and rock crushing factory. It features perfectly looping ambiences that'll be sure to set a dark, industrial mood on anything that it's used on. Recorded with a Oktava MK 012 in MS Configuration.
The pack was recorded inside, outside and around various large machinery which gives you a lot of options when designing sounds with this pack. The sounds are also characteristically tonal and drone based and the ambiences are uninterrupted.
Istanbul Ambiences delivers an extensive collection of sounds from Istanbul, Turkey.
Locations include many areas of the Great Bazaar, the tram station, the harbor, the railway station, the hippodrome, many different neighborhoods and streets, The Blue Mosque courtyard, the gold stock exchange, hotels, workshops, the spice bazaar, open markets, quiet streets, and much more.
166 recordings are included for more than 5 hours of authentic, atmospheric ambiences from Istanbul in total!
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.
Basketball Game Pro is a sound effects library thematically centered around a basketball game.
The collection includes several versions of game air horns, crowd applause, attack, defense, fault, score and lost opportunities ambiences, referee whistles, crowd boos & yells and a short warm up game ambience.
The library contains only the interjections, purposely avoiding a specific language identity, making it more flexible and suitable for universal use.
All sounds have of course been recorded at a real basketball match.
This library gets you very rare sounds from the inner sound of bridges.
Recorded inside of two differnet box girder bridges, this collection features deep metallic thuds from traffic above, metallic creaks of steel and iron, low rumble and eerie atmospheres.
Recorded using Schoeps MK4/MK8 MS microphones and paired with a Sound Devices 702 recorder. All files in this collection use the Universal Category System (UCS) and are tagged with detailed metadata.
Sounds includes:
Interior sounds of box girder bridges, Elevator shaft inside a bridge pylon. Elevator ride and sounds from the stairwell, Wind and distant traffic from the top of a bridge pylon, Sounds under a bridge with metallic rattling caused by traffic above it.
A comprehensive collection of 100 immersive wildlife and ambient sounds from the jungles, forests and national parks of Central and South Vietnam – 96k, 24bit and totalling over 2 hours/ 4GB, with a selection of isolated sounds at 192kHz for further manipulation. As well as the inimitable sounds of singing gibbons and some intense asian cicada chirps, over 20 bird species are identified, along with some raucous langur monkeys, rich jungle ambiences, busy dawn choruses, various boat sounds and white water rapids.
Full metadata is included (via soundminer), with keywords and detailed markers embedded to quickly locate specific sounds/ regions.
Create ultra-realistic projects for STREET FIGHTING or MARTIAL ARTS COMBAT with this one-of-a-kind audio pack of sound effects for a variety of different fighting environments! With 4,440 top-quality audio assets (1480 original sounds) mixed and mastered by our team of audio experts and veterans of the AAA Gaming industry, this sports sound pack is perfect for any kind of hand-to-hand combat, including:
Street Gang Fighting
Karate
Aikido
Boxing
Jiu-Jitsu
Kung fu
Judo
Krav Maga
Muay Thai
Sambo
Western Wrestling
Sumo Wrestling
Or any other form of combat! Included are also KNIFE and WHIP noises!
ALL ASPECTS OF FIGHTING GAMEPLAY INCLUDED
From PUNCHING & KICKING, to defensive BLOCKS, BODY FALLS and BODY THROWS, BOOMERANG noises, BLOODY CUTS & slice noises, BONE BREAKS, BOXING BELL rings, CLOTHING or KARATE ROBE rustling noises and GRABS, DAGGER KNIFE draws, swipes, and STABS, SKULL CRUSHES, PUNCHING BAG hits, WHIP noises, and much much more, this sound effects library will leave nothing to be desired!
STAGGERING AMOUNT OF HIGH-QUALITY MARTIAL ARTS CHARACTER VOICE OVERS
Inject life into your fighters with 1000+ different MALE and FEMALE voice overs, of which more than 200 are ASIAN KARATE style voice overs, inspired by BRUCE LEE and JAPANESE SAMURAIS! Ranging from MID-PITCH and DEEP VOICES, with voice overs covering GRUNTS and SHOUTS for situations ranging from DOMINANT to SUBMISSIVE, from WINNING to LOSING, from STRONG to WEAK, LOUD to QUIET, BREATHY to GUTTURAL, ANGRY AGGRESSIVE to EXCITED and HAPPY, and everything in between, all emotions are covered!
INCREDIBLE EASE-OF-USE
Each audio file is drag-and-drop ready, presented in high-quality MP3 and WAV formats with meticulously labeled keywords, so you can create the perfect gaming experience for your players in a matter of moments! Enrich your title in seconds with beautifully mixed, AAA quality sounds brought to you by our team of industry veterans, whose hundreds of games worth of experience have culminated in this extraordinary sound pack!
With 4,440 top quality audio assets (1480 original sounds), multiple variants, and a staggering amount of recording takes, this audio pack is jam-packed with any sound you could want.
KEY FEATURES:
Huge variety of sounds for any combat fighting environment, with multiple variants and intensities
Easy to use, drag and drop ready
AAA mixing and mastering
Meticulously labeled and easily searchable files, including keywords/tags
High Definition, Standard Quality WAV and High Quality MP3 formats
FREE Updates to higher versions, FOREVER!
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These sounds were recorded over 3 years in southern Australia.
It comprises ambience and atmosphere recordings of beach waves, forest streams, rivers, a dripping cave system and even a sewage processing plant (The Poo Machine!!). There are also Hydrophone recordings of urban swamp insect life, jetties and water treatment systems. Many of the recordings offer multiple perspectives of the same subject from close up to distant.
They were all recorded using Sennheiser, DPA, Sanken and Soundfield Mics as well as a pair of Hydrophones. All recorded into Sound Devices 788 or 633 recorders.
The recordings were mixed to stereo with minimal post processing.
Most files are loopable. And great care was taken to record clean sounds that are useable in an edit.
I hope you enjoy and find these useful for you projects.
The Beach sounds were recorded on the Mornington Penunsula in Victoria Australia. The waves range from gentle currents lapping at the sand to heavy surf waves. Different perspectives from close to distant were recorded to give greater flexibility when editing. These were recorded using a pair of supercardioid mics.
The cave recordings were captured at the Yarrangobilly caves in the Kosciuszko National Park, they feature a continuously dripping soundscape. The entrance to one of the caves is a large cavern with part of the roof caved in. In this space birds dart around and water drips. Further into the cave there is just the continual dripping of water. These were recorded using a spaced pair of Omni mics to give a sense of space and a centre hypercardiod to pick some detailed drips.
Also captured at Kosciuszko National Park are some recordings of rain and wind gusts through trees. I was able to place the microphones and recorders into protected rock formation and leave them recording for hours on end.Â
A pair of hydrophones was used to explore an urban water treatment project at the Trin Warren Tam-boore (Bellbird Waterhole) The wetland has been designed to treat water from the surrounding area through natural biological processes. Â It provides water to irrigation systems for the Royal Park Golf Course and other sporting grounds in Royal Park.
I was able to record pumped water flow as well as a symphony of underwater insects. The insects probably included Backswimmers and Dragonfly larvae, often called ‘mudeyes’, amongst others.
The streams and rivers were recorded in both country New South Wales and Victoria. Most of these recordings were captured using Soundfield Microphones, the ST450 Mk2 as well as the SPS200. There is a variety of fast flowing, gentle, close up and distant. As well as a ’study on fishing from a tin boat’. No fish were caught.!!
And finally a machine. A sewage treatment plant gives us a great slopping, mixing sludge sound.
Back Alley Rain II is a second installment of city rain and thunder sound effects.
This library consists of light/medium/downpour rain, aftermath, drips, muffled thunder, rumbles, drippy gutters and puddles.
All sounds loop seamlessly which makes them perfect for games, meditation apps etc.
All SFX have baked-in Soundminer’s metadata.
RECORDED WITH:Â Sound Devices MixPre 6 + 2x Sennheiser MKH 8040 (ORTF) EDITED AND MASTERED WITH: RX, Pro Tools, FabFilter.
Recorded on the coasts of a small, quiet, desolate island. Near higher and lower cliffs and rocky shores. As well recordings inside and near coastal caves. Mostly lapping water, splashes and minimal waves. Highly usable for ocean-, sea- and lakeshores. As well for boats and open water.
All recordings are clear and completely free from external noise and other human disruptions. This is why this library will be especially useful for historical productions as well as nature documentaries.
For this recordings we simultaneously used three different microphone set-ups. A surround (5.0) set-up, a stereo set-up and an wide spaced AB stereo set-up, which also offers extended frequency response. A 2.0 mixdown of the surround recording is also provided. This brings you 4 variations of each recording. Within these variations the differences are sometimes subtle and sometimes more extreme. These different perspectives can provide flexibility for crosscutting within scenes.
Get more than 9 hours of unique, royalty-free and especially high quality recordings with this library.
Recorded in 24 bit / 96 kHz. Accurately edited and mastered to sound as natural as possible. The average length of each file is between 3-5 minutes, so enough time to use in longer scenes without looping.
For more detailed descriptions about the ambiences in this collection see the metadata in our file lists or listen to the preview montage.
FOREST summer edition of Japan is nature sounds and ambiances captured in different forests of Central Japan, from the Kanto region.
This library contains recordings of deep forest ambiances and direct close cicadas & birds and creeks, streams, and waterfalls in a Japanese forest.
All of these nature ambiances are recorded using different microphone set-ups. Ortf stereo set-up and xy & ortf combination set bring variations to stereo images from the locations.
Recorded @ 24bit 96kHz / ORTF, XY and carefully edited.
Over two hours of birds, crickets, cicadas and frogs primarily from Southern Ontario, Canada, but also from Britain and Costa Rica. Specific calls and ambiences from the forest, the beach, the neighbourhood or on the dock of a quiet pond. Essential sounds to bring background tracks to life.
This is the first part of our Water Audio Libraries, featuring a variety of small movements captured in an open-air swimming pool.
99 clips (99 MONO and 99 STEREO) recorded in 192Khz and 24 bits HD Audio.
Splashes, swimming movements, small water movements, paddles, and more. Have a nice day with your friends and they will help you to record this great collection of useful sounds! How many times have you looked for great sounding natural water movements? Here you have them, in awesome 192 kHz, so you can stretch them as you want.
This small library contains 23 unique ambience tracks recorded in the Central Florida area. The nature ambiences range from forests to oceans in both the night time and during the day. Urban ambiences range from industrial warehouse settings, to small city parks and parking garages. One particularly unique track included is a recording from inside a home during hurricane Irma.
Overall, This collection covers a lot of ground for 23 tracks. Each track contained is fairly unique within the set.
Experience the hustle and bustle of the Grocery Store with our Supermarket Ambience Pack! Delve into over 12 minutes of captivating shopping ambience and immerse yourself in the vivid sounds of the bustling aisles. This pack features 13 high-definition sound clips and an immersive audio impulse response, all stealth-recorded with high-quality equipment. With 96 kHz, 24-bit mono and stereo WAV files, this pack is a must-have for sound designers seeking to elevate their projects with authentic, high-fidelity supermarket ambience.
This is a collection of various Northern California beaches recorded binaurally with a Neumann KU 100 Dummy Head. Recorded at Black Sand Beach, Stinson Beach, Muir Beach, and Bodega Bay.
Get an extensive collection of South African nature ambiences (average duration: 5 minutes), from places like the Mhkaya Jungle, Kruger National Park, The Wetlands and more. Locations include jungles, swamps, ponds, rivers and towns. Featuring all sorts of crickets and cicades, of course – but there’s also plenty of other South African wildlife, like mosquitoes, birds, fighting baboons and snorting hippos The sounds were captured during various times of both day and night and give you a huge variety of ambiences to work with.
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Re-recording Mixer, Walt Disney Animation Studios: Frozen, Big Hero 6
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Afghanistan
Ã…land Islands
Albania
Algeria
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola
Anguilla
Antarctica
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belau
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
British Indian Ocean Territory
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Colombia
Comoros
Congo (Brazzaville)
Congo (Kinshasa)
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Curaçao
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Falkland Islands
Fiji
Finland
France
French Polynesia
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Gibraltar
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guam
Guatemala
Guernsey
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Isle of Man
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Jersey
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macao
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Martinique
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Montserrat
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
Norfolk Island
North Korea
North Macedonia
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palestinian Territory
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Pitcairn
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
São Tomé and Príncipe
Saint Barthélemy
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin (Dutch part)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Korea
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tokelau
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom (UK)
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican
Venezuela
Vietnam
Virgin Islands (British)
Virgin Islands (US)
Western Sahara
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe
