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Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond
“Ping Pong” is a sound library containing many recordings of Ping Pong/Table Tennis. Includes the sound of rallies, individual hits, drops, and more!
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“The Animal Symphony – Horse” offers a collection of 168 high-quality audio tracks,each with multiple sounds, making a total of 717 sounds individually. The audios are organized with intuitive nomenclature, allowing you to easily swap between different microphone jacks, so you can choose which microphone to use or combine them all. Using two high-end microphones, the Sennheiser MKH 8050 and an EM258 capsule microphone, along with a Zoom H6 recorder to get stereo sound if you want. The recordings were made at 24-bit and 192 kHz/96 kHz, ensuring professional clarity and depth.
This collection offers a wide variety of horse sounds ranging from snorting, snorting, and blowing at both close and medium distances – they are perfect for adding realism and authenticity to your projects. With multiple takes and variations, this library provides the flexibility needed for any type of production that requires interacting horse sounds.
All recordings have been carefully edited to remove external noises such as other birds, wind or people. In addition, thanks to the ultrasonic microphones used, it is guaranteed that whoever decides to lower the pitch will still obtain richness of frequency.
Ideal Applications:
– Video games: Add realism and depth to the natural environments of your games.
– Cinema and Documentaries: Enrich your audiovisual productions with authentic sounds.
– Educational Applications: Use these sounds in educational projects to teach about wildlife and animal behavior.
– Multimedia Projects: Ideal for any project that seeks to enrich the user’s listening experience.
Technical details:
– Total Audios: 168 (Each audio contains between 3-6 variations) 717 sounds individually
– Format: 192kHz – 96kHz/24bit
– Equipment Used: Zoom F6 recorder with Sennheiser MKH 8050 microphone and EM258 capsule microphone, plus a Zoom H6 recorder for stereo sound.
Ankers Audio presents a collection of stereo ambiences recorded during a 5 month visit to Australia. Consisting mainly of wildlife recordings in various outback parts of several states including quintessential Australian bird song, insects, amphibians, marsupials but also humans in the city and local life.
All tracks were recorded in 24Bit/48kHz with a Tascam DR100MKII.
Ready to use and filled with metadata.
The Construction SFX Library contains essential sound effect recordings of manual and power tools as well as construction site ambiences. Included are the sound effects for items such as a circular saw, cordless drill, chainsaw, shop light, nail gun, hammer, hand saw, toolbox foley, large and small construction site ambiences, and more. This highly curated and easy-to-use library is perfect for a video editor or sound effects editor working on a project involving tools or construction. For a .pdf listing all sound files included, see the sound file list below.
Includes the sound of drips on:
This is a sound library with a variety of road traffic ambiences, from quiet rural roads to busy highways.
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Sri Lanka Soundscapes Vol.1 – Urban and Walla is the first volume in the Sri Lanka Soundscape Library Series.
This library features typical sounds from Busy Streets, Road Traffic, Stations, Schools, Tourist Areas, Residential Villages and General Wallasound captured around southern Sri Lanka. The library serves as a great palette of local and unique sounds within busy crowded environments to really ground and localise any projects.
A particular highlight for me in this library was capturing the army drill commands outside the Old Army Headquarters in Galle.
Sounds recorded in Stereo 24bit/48kHz and UCS compatible.
Get the other collections here:
Sri Lanka Soundscape Vol. 1-3 Collection
Sri Lanka Soundscape Vol. 2 – Rural Countryside
Sri Lanka Soundscape Vol. 3 – Vehicles
Drowning is a Sound Effects Library By Decal Audio Containing over 45 different Male drowning sounds, from coughs, splutters, gags and gasps plus hydrophone underwater scream sounds. This set of sounds should provide all you need for any scenario’s of an adult male drowning, with submerged bubbling, pants and gasps struggling keeping afloat and huge emerging breaths.
No one was harmed during the recording of this library – just some concerned neighbours!
Mono audio files recorded at 96kHz/24 bit with a Rode NTG-3, JRF Hydrophone and Sound Devices MixPre-6 recorder.
Sri Lanka Soundscapes Vol.2 – Countryside is the second volume in the Sri Lanka Soundscape Library Series.
This library features typical sounds recorded in the rice paddy’s and farms and beaches of Southern Sri Lanka. It features, ambiences containing local animals and birds (did someone say Peacock), insects, remote villages, Ocean waves all in quiet secluded environments. The library serves as a great palette of local and unique sounds within quiet countryside environments to really ground and localise any projects. Contains a mix of ambience recordings and some shorter animal specific SFX.
A particular highlight for me on this collection was capturing the sound of a duck farting as it plodded away (see movement and fart file at 00:07)- cutting edge stuff.
Sounds recorded in Stereo 24bit/48kHz and UCS compatible.
Get the other collections here:
Sri Lanka Soundscape Vol. 1-3 Collection
Sri Lanka Soundscape Vol. 2 – Rural Countryside
Sri Lanka Soundscape Vol. 3 – Vehicles
I found a very long disused bore hole in the middle of an Icelandic lava field. I dropped rocks down it, poured water into it, vocalised into it, stroked a rasp file on a plastic bottle stuck into the top of it and other experiments.
The results were insane metallic echoes, delays and reflections.
Unique source material for sound designers and experimental sounds for musical composition
392 single files and 55 grouped files for easy reference.
Files are stamped with UCS compliant metadata in Soundminer
Urban Gongs is a field recording collection of 128 sounds of metal and glass objects struck with a variety of mallets and hands and recorded with top end contact microphones and geophones.
The results are rich and resonant gong like tones perfect for sound design, ambient compositions, cinematic soundscapes or adding unique character to your creative projects.
Recorder : Sound Devices Mix Pre 10II and Zoom F3
Microphones : LOM Geofon, Stille and Klang, Organic Audio Cjossul
Microphone Perspective : Magnet and Contact
Source Files – WAV Mono
Grouped Files for Easy Reference Included
Documentation Included : Copyright, EULA, Images, Metadata (exported in multiple formats)
Metadata : Files are stamped with detailed UCS compliant metadata in Soundminer, including pictorial references.
Assorted ice sounds, including various cracks and creaking, plus ice chunk drops and impact sounds at different velocities.
Also included are numerous footsteps on hard and soft ice, plus ice block drags and smashes.
Low-price. High-quality. Essential.
A collection of 150 essential thunder sound effects, ranging from very close to very distant, with and without rain, background storm loops, and more!
The sounds are 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!)
Low-price. High-quality. Essential.
An essential collection of 100 loopable background ambience sounds, including theme parks, dawn choruses, fireworks, alien worlds, deserts, day & night wildlife, offices, zoos, public pools, food courts, swamps, traffic, sewers and more!
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!)
This ambience sound pack comprises of street recordings taken in the city of Edinburgh. Expect lots of cars driving by, traffic, distant chatter, construction works, machinery and even the occasional seagull. Perfect for use with film to add ambient realism to outdoor scenes.
– This pack contains 7 beautiful long soundscapes (5 mins+) and 18 other shorter clips
– Sounds were recorded professionally using a shock-mounted Mid-Side microphone with a windjammer
– 1 hour long
– Metadata included
Langa – Township Ambiences is a collection of everyday sounds recorded within a vibrant township community in the heart of Cape Town. The townships are always a busy place with a lot of different soundscapes to offer – from the chaotic market street in the town centre to the quieter houses/shacks on the outskirts. This collection has both interior and exterior ambiences and wallas to set the scene for any project set in a lively city environment. This pack consists of 25 Ambiences.
Photo Credits: Matthias v.d Neut
Huge hydraulic lift working hard.
metall impacts / clanks / servo motor / jammed / hydraulic burst
26 Tracks / 2ch / 5 mins / 96kHz 24Bit / Metadata
This album is a recording of a huge hydraulic lift in my garage that is made to lift 4 cars with up to 8 tons of weight. Recorded with an Olympus field recorder that has a omnidirectional polar pattern center mic for more bass. ;) Except for a little bit of editing and a little bit of leveling here an there the recordings are not processed.
Low-price. High-quality. Essential.
An essential collection of 100 seaside beach sounds, including ocean waves from various perspectives with seamless loops, as well as seagulls.
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!)
Low-price. High-quality. Essential.
An essential collection of 250 bird sounds, including crows, magpies, chicks, hawks, owls, seagulls, wrens, finches, robins and more!
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!)
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!)
Playgrounds & Parks is a small collection of ambisonic recordings performed at various exterior parks, water parks, and playgrounds of multiple cities and the countryside.
This collection is great for post-production, VR/AR experiences, game developers, and any real-time 3D audio engine.
All files are tagged and categorized for your convenience – supporting tag-filtering browsing applications.
This package includes 30 Samples – A total of 60 minutes of content.
Supported formats: First Order AmbiX B-Format and Stereo (Total of 60 files).
This pack is a collection of recordings from the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and North Carolina. Everything from birds and bugs, to soft streams and raging rivers. Perfect for any sound designer looking to create a forest ambience full of wildlife and healthy streams.
Want the sound of soccer (or football, if you like)? This library delivers a wide range of soccer sounds, including various kicks and ball impact sounds.
It also packs keep-up, knee, chest and header sounds + ball impacts on various surfaces / items. And finally, soccer boot footsteps, keeper sounds and ref whistles are also included.
Take a trip to the Caribbean with this beach resort walla and ambience library! You’ll get the sounds of the beach, various pools and poolside bars, quiet outdoor/open air balcony tones, noisy beach ambience, quiet beach ambience, birds and palm trees, dining halls, waves breaking, and people splashing and having a good time in the sun! Enjoy the Beach Resort Sound Library!
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