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Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond
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 ) .
Get the sounds and ambiences of Jamaica in this very special sound effects library, featuring almost 12 hours of authentic recordings.
An Additional Library of Vol 1. the Jamaican Vibrations SFX library includes Walla sounds of Jamaican Patois chatting, urban and village ambiences, high mountain atmospheres, forest sounds, car rides, coffee farm working sounds, wooden house sounds, roomtones, beaches, as well as a luxury hotel visit. So if you're looking for the real sounds of Jamaica, here they are:
This is a unique bicycle library that captures this characteristic bike in clean, quiet, nicely performed true exterior rides. Including multiple perspectives, speeds and actions. From fast passbys on asphalt to slow onboard recordings and smooth stops.
The BadBike is a rattling and broken bicycle that perfectly nails the sound of a worn out bike, it’s passbys and hardstops are hard too miss.
Speeds and actions:
Three speeds. Departures from slow, medium to fast getaways. Arrivals from slow stops with gently squeaking handbrakes to heavy stuttering skids.
Overview of perspectives and mic placement:
Onboard recordings are 2-3 minutes long depending on speed. Higher speeds > shorter duration.
All 3 onboard mics are edited in sync with one another to make layering easy.
All Passbys, Arrivals and Departures move from Left to Right.
However, we are aware that some people have different needs for different purposes, so we’ve created a Metadata Reference Guide that explains the structure. And because we’ve automated the metadata proces, you can be confident that a ‘find & replace’ command will always replace all instances.
Download our Metadata Reference Guide
Download complete metadata PDF
If you have any questions about this, contact us!
Additionally, we added Markers to some wave files, so specific sound events are easy to spot in Soundminer or other database apps.
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The BadBike library is part of the complete ‘City Bicycles’ library package available at www.frickandtraa.com. It consists of all 4 bicycles and includes additional surfaces and extras ranging from one-off bicycle passes captured in the city and bounces and rattles. The extra bicycles surfaces and additional effects are also available seperately here on ‘a Sound Effect’. If you’ve bought a single library and want to upgrade to the full package, contact us for a reduced price on the complete City Bicycles library. Every part of City Bicycles that you paid for will get you an extra reduction on the full package.
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The Audio Spotlight: City Bicycles is worth getting if you are in need of great sounding and well edited bicycle sounds.
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This library is a myriad of uniquely South African exterior ambiences.
Get true exterior ambience sounds of South Africa in this authentic collection. The South African Exterior ambience sound effects library features recordings from places in and around Cape Town, beach, city, promenade, bus station, market, taxi rank, residential suburb, city rooftop, the CDB, train station, parking lot, primary school, residential areas and many more.
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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.
'Morocco' is a unique collection of 39 sounds recorded at 2 different seasons, winter and summer for Ramadan. Through different part of the country, this library includes:
This collection provides a wide variety of authentic sounds from this beautiful country. All Faunethic tracks include Soundminer metadata carefully edited.
Get the true sound of Barcelona, Spain, in this sound effects library: It features recordings from places such as a market, coffee shop, park, beach, boulevard, metro, square, parking lot, burger bar, airport, fountain, train, construction site, station, shop and many more. In total, more than 3 hours of authentic Barcelona recordings are included!
The Metal Scrap library was recorded at a scrapyard where they do nothing but shredding, cutting, breaking and moving metal of all sorts, all day long.
• Large metallic objects and metal debris being drooped by huge cranes, into and onto various surfaces.
• The end of the Conveyer belt, where the smaller pieces of metal junk fall onto a bigger pile af junk.
• Lots of metallic destruction and impacts, huge and small.
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.
Nature of Colombia is a unique collection of natural sounds captured in Colombia. This library provides more than 2 hours ( 9GB) of authentic sounds recorded in several regions at different times of the day.
Hear this dense wildlife recorded in unique environnements full of tropical animals such as birds, insects, frogs, monkeys, crickets or cicadas. But also other natural sounds such as Rain and Waves from the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea.
This collection will make you explore an exotic and immersive soundscape through this rich and beautiful country.
All files in this collection are in 24 bit / 192 kHz, use the Universal Category System (UCS) and are tagged with detailed Metadatas.
Gear Used: DPA4060 stereo set powered by a Sound Devices 702
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.
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!
“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 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)
125 pristine roomtones from locations including offices, universities, schools, apartments, hotels, laboratories, bathrooms, stairwells & garages. Unwanted background sounds have been removed through the use of Izotope Spectral Repair, resulting in a wide variety of refined roomtones. All sounds were recorded using the Sound Devices Mix-Pre 6 and a stereo pair of Sennheiser 8020s.
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This library gets you 130 minutes of stereo recordings from an intense off-road motorcycle racing event, captured on a late autumn day with ideal weather conditions.
Two-stroke and four-stroke engines compete together. The race track is about seven kilometers long with a high difference in elevation. The library features sounds such as race starts, test laps, roaring passbys, struggling engines as the bikes go up and down the hills, single bikes and groups + lots more sounds from the event.
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
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