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Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond
Thunderstorm, thunder strike and rain recorded in ambisonic. Recorded in urban and natural environment. Clean long recordings.
Check the sound list for additional info.
tech note:
Ambisonic recording (3D audio, VR360 audio) – Immersive Audio, Spatial audio;
Recorded with Sennheiser Ambeo VR microphone (tripod, Rycote blimp/windjammer) and Sound Devices recorder. All channels matched with pink noise generator (ch. gain).
B-format (Ambix) – RAW files and stereo files (binaural) rendered via Reaper/Ambeo (Sennheiser plugin), A to B format converter and they are ready to use. FX library sound preview is in binaural stereo.
Ocean Waves – East Coast of Taiwan features powerful Pacific Ocean waves fizz and roar in the east coast of Taiwan. Recorded from Yilan to Hualien, covering 6 different locations, gravel beaches and rocky shore with close and distance perspectives of vivid ocean waves. Hear the unique crackling and ascending hiss as the waves wash over pebbles beaches, and strong punches as the waves hitting the hard rocks.
Bird sounds have been carefully removed, providing you pure useful recordings for your creative works.
This library includes 40 stereo files recorded in AB or XY at 96 kHz. Approx. 156 minutes total.
Additionally, this library was carefully tagged with rich Soundminer metadata, including marks in the recordings highlighting interesting sounds.
All the recordings were recorded, edited and mastered with care and love.
From Farmland, Rural Forests & Mountains to the countryside of Italy, Nature’s Soundscapes – Country Mountains, Fields & Streams contains many essential habitats of real life & sound types needed for video games & movies. Experience new & exciting natural locations captured across the rolling hills of Tennessee, Cades Cove, the Smoky Mountains, Breckenridge Mountains, Natchez Trace, North Carolina, New York & the countryside of Italy. Nature’s Soundscapes brings you the sounds of the organic world in both long form & seamlessly loop-able file format giving you extended length, maximum versatility and time saving files.
Extensive collection of arctic wind in different seasons. Sound effect library includes chilly winter wind, rapid wind gusts of spring, summer breeze with birds and insects, and massive wind roaring of autumn. Some other elements in these ambiences consist of trees creaking and cracking, needles and leaves, snow shifting with the wind, and rain. Locations include fell/mountain, forest, pine barrens, bog, lake, pond, and even inside kota or wooden Sami hut. Recorded in Lapland, Finland.
Gear used:
Sennheiser MKH 8040, MixPre-6 II
Capture the life of rural Europe – humming TRACTORS and the busy sounds of FARM LIFE, peaceful VILLAGE SQUARES and the tolling of CHURCH BELLS, WIND rustling leaves and the RAIN drizzling in the forests. All the sound palettes needed for your countryside scenes, including one shots of CARRIAGES, WOOD CHOPS, and ANIMALS.
Four types of heavy, howling, whistling wind with gusts and slowly evolving intensity. Type 4 has some otherworldly and alien character. Lots of variations with around 88 recording time of howling winds. Could be used to recreate wind gusts, hurricanes, typhoons, high altitude or winter atmospheres. To have even heavier sound try to pitch it down a bit.
Need background passbys for your interior scene?
ROOM TYRE | Tyre-only vehicle passbys from an interior house perspective.
Included are a solid selection of singular residential passbys (recorded with an EV) and general traffic passes (meticulously stripped of combustion engines). As the world transitions to electric vehicles, this collection will ensure your tracklays are up to date with the smooth sound of electric transportation!
These passbys were recorded through a single pane of glass in order to maximise the ability to tweak the perspective and proximity with filtering when desired.
Supplement your scenes with a range of singular-vehicle passby speeds (20, 30 and 40mph / ~ 30, 50, 70 km/h) and tarmac conditions (dry, semi-wet and wet). ROOM TYRE makes sure you have a compelling set of high-end, future-proof and dependable passbys ready whenever you need them.
Crowd Sounds From A British Soccer Match
Crowd sounds recorded at a smaller London Football Club match. Cheers, groans, chants and quite a lot of swearing.
[Includes Adult Content]
Spatial Roomtones & Interiors is an immersive collection of audio backgrounds for cinema, VR, videogames and any audiovisual or creative purposes.
The audios provided in this library are high quality recordings with Zoom H2n recorder in propietary Spatial Audio mode, horizontal-only ambisonic alike mic layout stored in an AmbiX format. W, X, Y channels of AmbiX provide immersive audio through the horizontal plane and they allow to decode the recording into Mono, Stereo, Binaural, Quad, 5.0, 5.1, 7.1 and more layouts with dedicated Ambisonic processors. Z channel is empty.
The library comes with 5.0 and Stereo version of the AmbiX original recordings.
Now UCS Compliant!
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:
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.
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KEY FEATURES:
“Bar and Coffee Shop” by SpillAudio is a library with 193 SFX. You will find all the sounds you hear behind the bar.
The pack includes both BAR and COFFEE SHOP actions like: steaming milk, preparing an espresso, coffee grinder, coffee beans pouring, ice crushing, shakers, juice machine, pouring beverages and many more.
All sounds were recorded and edited at 192 kHz / 24 bit.
The bell collector sound library is a unique collection of 113 sounds of bells, gong and other metal percussions. These objects have been collected over the years, mainly in Asia, India and Europe.
All these sounds have been recorded and produced with high quality equipment at 24/96 khz at low noise floor.
Each bell, sorted by tonality, comes with many variations of intensity and rhythms.
-Hand bell
-Crotal bell
-Gong bell
-Hand drum
-Sleight bell
-Bicycle bell
-Singing bowl
-Chime
This library provides authentic and interesting sounds, recorded with Neumann and MBHO mics powered by an Aeta 4minX.
Recorded and edited in high resolution, these sounds are easy to pitch down and time stretch to create unique and surprising sounds.
All Faunethic tracks includes metadata carefully edited, compatible with Soundminer, Soundly and Basehead.
This library is quite self explanatory, ” Planes – Takeoffs & Landings ” is a collection of various commercial jets taking off and landing on a runway.
We recorded as close as possible to the airport fences with a multi microphones setup giving you different sonic perspectives.
The “Source” folder contains 130 files corresponding to 34 different recordings :
– AB stereo (LOM Usi)
– Cinela LCR array (Sennheiser MKH8040 ORTF + MKH8050 Center)
– a shotgun mic following the plane (Neumann KMR81)
The “ Designed” folder contains 46 files / 28 processed sounds such as fast jet fly by or sonic boom.
All the files are 96kHz /24bits and embedded with rich metadata ( Soundminer, Basehead, iXML ) .
Our second entry of our brand-new sound effect series 3D SURROUND is here: ROOM TONES EUROPE. This library offers an enormous variety of different room ambiences. From busy transportation areas, malls and warehouses over congress centers and green houses to swimming pools and public libraries. ROOM TONES EUROPE covers all different scenarios you could possibly need, delivered fully surround with unprecedented precision, spatial impression and clarity. Undoubtedly, this can be easily used in stereo productions as well. Either chose the angle yourself or use the stereo version (included in 3D SURROUND).
CLEAN AND PRODUCTION READY
ROOM TONES EUROPE is a highly versatile ambience library that smoothly adapts to virtually any application.
It offers a large selection of generic ambiences to blend into many different contexts as well as specifically recognizable locations delivered with maximum authenticity.
FRAME YOUR SCENE
Ambiences are an excellent tool to establish the mood of a scene, level, or location. With ROOM TONES EUROPE, this becomes a simple and rewarding task: Choose from the over 98GB large pool of well categorized ambiences available.
From ultra-silent to lively, confined to wide open, dry and close to reverberant – everything delivered in an immersive 3D audio format that’s also backward compatible.
To increase your mileage with the library even further, the average sound is 3-7 minutes long.
INCLUDING STEREO VERSION
In addition to the ORTF-3D files, the 3D SURROUND edition also contains all files in 2.0 stereo for your convenience to save time on unnecessary conversions. Instead, you can instantly use these great new sounds for all your projects that don’t require surround sound.
Specs:
Files: 119 • Size: 19+ GB • Format: WAV – 24bit – 96kHz
Asia Echoes is a unique collection of sounds captured in Laos and Vietnam providing more than 2 hours ( 5GB) of various atmospheres at different times of the day.
From Cat Ba island National Park, to Luang Prabang night and food markets, to mountains of Sapa, Tam Coc Fields and many more, this collection will make you explore an exotic soundscape through this two beautiful countries.
All recorded in 24 bit / 96 kHz and fully tagged with metadatas compatible with Soundminer, Basehead and Soundly.
Gear Used: DPA4060 stereo set powered by a Sound Devices 702
• Vientiane Night Market
• Vientiane Morning Interior Market
• Vientiane Chao Anouvong Park
• Vang Vieng
• Luang Prabang Food and Night Markets
• Nong Khiaw Mountains and Forests
• Sapa Mountains and City
• Cat Ba National Park
• Tam Coc Forest and Fields
• Hanoï City and Train
Islamic prayer is a unique collection of 22 sounds related to muslim religion recorded through Maghreb and Middle-East over years.
All these sounds has been recorded and produced with high quality equipment.
This library provides authentic and interesting sounds, recorded with DPA, MBHO and Neumann mics powered by an Aeta 4minX.
All Faunethic tracks includes metadata carefully edited, compatible with Soundminer, Soundly and Basehead.
Some of these sounds are already included in the following libraries: Morocco, Turkey and Jordan.
This is your library for making authentic background train ambiences in movies, games or radio plays. It features over 40 indoor ambiences in 5.1 surround sound. Recorded in 2017 with an INA 5 surround microphone array for realistic room impression. Finish your next project in light speed. Simply drag and drop the interleaved surround sounds into your DAW and get perfectly balanced and panned surround sound train ambiences.
• More than 40 indoor (cabin) train ambiences/room tones in 5.1 surround sound (3 GB)
• Fans, rails, machines, motors (diesel and electric), humming, heating, buzz, natural noise
• Doors, passengers, rattling, air conditioning, toilet, speed-up, slow down, pass-by noise
• Realistic room impression and sound location, true to original sound color
• Compatible with ITU-R BS.775 recommendation, no Ambisonics, no plug-in needed, just drag the 5 tracks into your DAW
• Perfect balanced surround sounds for drag and drop integration
• 24 Bit / 96 kHz / low noise recording
• Interleaved surround sound file (L/R/C/LFE/LS/RS), simply drop into your DAW
• EBU/BWF and WAV-Metadata made with Soundminer for use in any DAW
• Equipment: INA 5 surround microphone array, RME UCX, RME Quadmic 2
Ambisonic City (Berlin) delivers a spherical surround sound image of a modern European city. It features a vast variety of traffic sounds from vehicles, public transport trains, trams and airplanes that were captured at crowded intersections, various squares and arterial roads and the Tegel airport. As complementary counterpart the library also contains recordings from wide open spaces, recreation areas, public parks and side roads.
The recordings were made with the Sennheiser Ambisonic microphone and the encoded B-Format FuMa files are ready to use for speaker arrays of any number.
Ambisonic City (Berlin) is available in two versions:
Ambisonic and Stereo
The Ambisonic version delivers 4 channel B-Format (FuMa, WXYZ) files recorded with the Ambeo VR microphone in upright position.
The Stereo version contains the same number of files with equal playing length, but, as the name suggestions, only in stereo versions.
This is an Ambisonics sound effects library – and by using the free SoundField SurroundZone 2 plugin you can convert the included B-format files into your preferred format (stereo, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0 or 7.1 surround).
I can't tell you the number of times I've needed a good clean suburban atmos to fill out a scene. I've got plenty in my sfx collection, but not a whole lot that are local to Australia. So I thought I'd remedy that!
This collection covers a variety of locations, from quieter suburbs with a gentle breeze, a distant dog, some crickets perhaps and maybe a few birds, to the more densely populated areas, where the traffic and background noise is much higher and some construction is always going on. There some nighttime stuff in there, some ocean side, some with nature at its finest and even lawnmower and whipper snipper recordings so you can layer it all up.
All recorded at 24bit/96kHz, the library is 2.5GB and contains 36 tracks.
‘Busy Streets’ is a key library containing surround and stereo sound ambiences that will set the scene of bustling cities – recorded in Chicago, New York and Philadelphia. The library is available in stereo, and surround (Quad).
With ‘Busy Streets’ we used an exclusive SSS technique (Stealth Surround System) which means the recording process was hidden from the eyes even with 4 discrete channels.
This results in fully immersive, undisturbed and authentic city soundscapes.
74 Surround authentic ambience recordings between 1 to 5 minutes long each, non-disturbed city life using our SSS technique (Stealth Surround System):
• Crowd movements
• Pedestrians walking by and talking
• Traffic noises, train, metro, truck, bus, cars
• Evolving swarm
• Above and under bridges
• Narrow pathway
• Underground street
• Large boulevards
• Restaurants terrace
• Commercial areas
• Financial disctricts
• Wet streets
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.
'Turkey' is a unique collection of 36 sounds recorded during a Turkish journey on the road last summer with an amazing meeting point between Europe and Asia through incredibly diverse landscapes, cultures and traditions. What an unusual and surprising journey from Istanbul through the plains of Anatolia and Aegean coast during Ramadan. This library includes:
This collection provides authentic and interesting sounds recorded through the western part of the country using DPA, Neumann and Audio Technica mics powered by an Atea Mixy. All Faunethic tracks include Soundminer metadata tags.
The Mediterranean Summertime SFX library includes 120 selections dedicated to life and the atmosphere of both glitz and off-beat Mediterranean islands, during summertime. We follow tourists in well known busy bays, as well as head out to quieter destinations recommended by locals.
Surround In the City delivers 25 5.1 Surround Sound Effects with a large selection of City traffic and Ambience. Recorded with discrete Quad microphones and mastered in 5.1 surround (L-C-R-Ls-Rr-Lf Embeded .WAV format). Recording locations are all from center perspective – between traffic lanes on medians, bridges, walkways and tunnels to capture the movement of a city. A stereo version of each cue is included as well as metadata. Want a taste of what's included? Download the 5.1 Surround Demo file for free here!
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