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Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond
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.
'Fans Light Machines' is a collection of different mechanical fan and electrical sounds recorded over the last 10 years. Presented in this library are interesting machine hums and buzzes from air conditioners, vents, vending machines, heating fans, light strips, washing machines, steam engines, and more. It also includes the creator's favorite – the ping of a light turning on that was recorded in the bathroom of Bugbear Studios in 2009. To flesh out your industrial buildings with distinct and detailed sounds of lighting and appliances, this is the one you want.
Get a large selection of ambiences recorded in parks, residential areas, playgrounds and other urban areas with this SFX library. 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 – in the middle of a park or residential area, to create the widest possible sound. A stereo version of each cue is included as well as embedded metadata. Most tracks are 2-3 minutes.
The Planets SFX library delivers 40 minutes of designed atmospheres from 20 imaginary, extraterrestrial locations. Different perspectives, sometimes close to the ground, sometimes far away. Some locations are buzzing with geological and biological activity others seem distant, cold and lifeless. All sounds are constant, ranging from one to three minutes in duration and can be easily combined to create unique variations, allowing you to dial in your own planets soundscape.
•Designed planet atmospheres
•20 extraterrestrial locations
•Descriptive filenames
•96 kHz / 24 bit WAV files
•Embedded Soundminer metadata
Industrial Ambiences – perfect for realistic industrial settings, adjacent to factories, dockyards, warehouses. Subtle intricate backgrounds, eerie man-made areas and horror ambiences. All files at least four minutes in length.
• 53 Tracks Total (25 Day time Tracks, 28 Night time Tracks)
• High Resolution Photographs of Recording Locations Included
• Thorough UCS compatible metadata included in all files
• All tracks recorded and edited at 24bit, 96kHz
• Each Track around 4 Minutes in Length
• 6.9 GB compressed download, 7.5 GB uncompressed
Sound Tailor Effects Library enters the void with its 3rd release:
60 sounds, 5+ hours of rich and deep room tones, with a variety of sizes and environments that will cover most of sound editors needs. From a quiet residential bedroom to an reverberant inactive hospital hall, a ventilated office space, or a noisy basement, we carefully chose the right place at the right time, to get the best from those empty spaces.
We’ve recorded with a combination of 7 low noise microphones, 1 ambisonic microphone and 1 geophone, dispatched on a wide rig, to get the best spatial impression, allowing us to deliver a true 7.1.2 format, plus ambisonic, 5.1 and 2.1 versions. The sub channel, provided by the geophone and its low frequency response, has been a shocking surprise for us, and is a real colorful and creative addition.
You can choose between several spatial format combinations, to suit your needs. All versions includes a stereo mixdown, and all files are loopable.
Sound Tailor’s Room Tones is UCS compliant, and delivered in high resolution 96kHz/24 Bits.
THE ALL-IN-ONE WATER SOUND EFFECTS COLLECTION
Create magical water spells, design foley scenes on the fly and always have the right water atmosphere available. Our Water Bundle brings you the best solution for water sound design. Whether you’re working on films, video games or immersive VR experiences, this bundle comes with a huge amount and the versatility of water sounds that you need. Dive into the world of water sound design with Water in Motion, Ocean Waves and Streams and Rivers now!
WHAT’S INSIDE?
Water in Motion
Discover the versatile world of aquatic audio with WATER IN MOTION, a sound library designed to provide sound designers and game audio professionals with an extensive array of water sounds. This library equips you with detailed recordings and designed tools to create your very own sound effects and design water foley scenes right out of the box.
More Info: https://asoundeffect.com/sound-library/water-in-motion/
Ocean Waves
This collection of ocean waves sound effects is truly one of a kind, offering a wide range of detailed nature field recordings for your projects. From gentle waves splashing onto sandy beaches and the light lapping of water between rocks and stones, to storm-driven surf and the powerful crashing against solid cliffs, you’ll find everything to create the perfect ocean-inspired atmosphere.
More info: https://asoundeffect.com/sound-library/ocean-waves/
Streams and Rivers
Creating this library we travelled to many secluded places to capture the pure sounds of flowing water: gently gurgling springs and small streams in deep forests, calm rivers between rocks or fields and thundering waterfalls splashing down mountains. Bring your projects to life and craft all kinds of flowing water by using, layering and transforming our water sounds in a creative way.
More Info: https://asoundeffect.com/sound-library/streams-and-rivers/
Wind Bundle includes four different sound libraries, providing a comprehensive and versatile collection of windy sounds. By purchasing this bundle you will benefit of a 20% discount.
The SKI RIDE sound effects library is a comprehensive collection of audio recordings that capture the various sounds associated with skiing. This library includes a wide range of ski sounds, recorded on the Italian Alps in the 2023.
The collection features recordings of skiers carving turns on groomed trails, as well as sounds of off-piste skiing through fresh powder and pass bys on the ski slopes.
In addition to the sounds of skiing, this library includes recordings of ski equipment like ski poles, ski boots, ski binding, ski gloves, ski jacket, backpacker, foley sounds like ski boots footsteps and ambience tracks like chair lift and ski lift stations.
All of the recordings in this library are of high quality and have been carefully edited and mastered to ensure they are ready for use in a variety of audio projects, including films, television shows, video games and podcasts. Whether you are creating a documentary about skiing or a commercial for a ski resort, the SKI RIDE sound effects library has everything you need to bring your project to life.
All the files are 24 Bit, 192 Khz, extensive embedded metadata and categorized with the Universal Category System (UCS).
‘Traffic Tones’ will help build flavorful air tones and atmospheres in order to support urban or suburban environments.
This sound library is divided into 2 main sections
1) Traffic Loops
2) Single Event Sounds
The first part of this library comprises a wide variety of long undisturbed traffic loops;
exempt from excessive dynamic fluctuations, and without any incongruous noises (such as birds).
These are non-disruptive atmospheres that you can easily layer up.
Ready to be inserted into your project, they will help you build the foundation of your own soundscape.
The second part of this library consists of ‘single event’ sounds.
They will bring character to your sound-bed and help soundify any story/visual cues.
You will find in this section well-classified eclectic sounds such as whistles, sirens, brake squeals,
but also more than 110 individual horns, and a massive collection of 300+ pass-by of all kinds…
The diversity of sounds delivered in this library reflects the large-scale recording process that took us 5 years to gather the right material, recorded throughout 30 cities in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, from various perspectives in space and time, various weather conditions, various terrain type, and vehicle types.
***Most of the library were recorded in 192KHz, however, in the majority of the recordings, there was no reason to keep this sample rate. Hence we saved some space and converted it to 96KHz unless interesting spectral information was found in these high ranges, in this case, we kept them at 192 kHz.
Immerse your projects in the sounds of “Underwater Movements”, captured to bring your aquatic scenes to life. But that’s not all – as a bonus, we’ve included an array of stunning surface ocean sound effects that evoke the rhythmic dance of waves and the gentle whispers of the sea breeze. Transport your audience beneath the waves and onto sun-kissed shores.
Room tones and ambiences, various objects, buildings and facilities, various room sizes. Check the sound list for more info.
Recorded with Sennheiser mics MKH series, Sound Devices Recorder/mixer, LOM Usi , etc.
Metadata tagged with description (room size etc.) and equipment list included.
Aimed at complementing Ambisonics – Roomtones, this library compiles additional content for intimate VR experiences. This volume focuses on busier soundscapes,including the heavy hum from a fridge in a kitchen facing a street with sporadic vehicles and conversations, quiet living room takes with distant voices and a dog snoring, persistent machine sound from a pump, porch recordings on a rainy night and a busy morning with varied traffic passing-by.
These audio files are perfect for both quiet and languid roomtone soundscapes, conveying multiple moods for any desired VR experience.
This sound library is available in both Ambisonics FuMa (B Format) and Stereo (Binaural) formats.
The “Distant City And Morning Parks” Library has been recorded for more than a year, in about 7 different cities and 3 countries. The library is divided into 2 subsections:
1) Distant Cities: The subject of this section is large and small towns in different seasons. Respectively can be heard both classic distant city rumble sounds, as well as light burds activity, distant sirens, train, and car horns, distant traffic, church bells e.t.c.
2) Morning Parks: Mostly recorded early in the morning in spring and summer, when there is light human activity, some footsteps, few dogs, even frogs in the middle of a city park. You can hear birds activity and of course distant traffic. Several fountains, recorded from different distances, have also found their place in this library.
All files are meta-tagged with UCS format in Soundminer.
Enjoy the city from a distance.
Winter in the City features 60 beautifully and professionally recorded ambient sounds of Toronto, Canada, all recorded over the course of 4 winters, 2016 through 2020. All files are mastered in Pro Tools Ultimate and meticulously categorized in Basehead Ultra 2020 and is Universal Category System compliant. They are all checked for phase coherency.
This album features winter city airs recorded around the city in the morning, day, evening, night and vary late night.
Many tracks were recorded in parks, quiet residential streets, downtown core, downtown roof tops, the lakeshore, city squares, and parking lots. These recordings were recorded in sub-freezing temperatures so they don’t have birds or insects and are great for general air fillers and quiet scenes. The album includes Omni Spaced Pair (A/B), ORTF, MS, and XY polar patterns.
Also featured are market places, traffic driving through snow and slush, hockey being played in the park, various activities with people, and winter winds.
Please visit www.TexturesSound.com for more info
ROOM TONES USA – 3D SURROUND AMBIENCES
Our fourth entry of our famous sound effect series 3D SURROUND is now available: After ROOM TONES EUROPE comes ROOM TONES USA.
As you’d expect from a library labeled “room tones”, the sounds come without much action in the foreground but with a very detailed acoustic image of each room, giving you the perfect basic noise layer to break the silence in your post production project. The recorded rooms vary from hallways and warehouses over cafes, offices, basements, apartment rooms, laundry and boiler rooms to industrial rooms and even an underground bunker. ROOM TONES USA 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).
In 1979, bells from more than 100 countries were brought together for a communist event which had the purpose to promote world peace.
Kids from most countries gathered for the occasion bringing along with them bells from each of their respective country.
A monument was built for this occasion which is still standing nowadays, situated in the suburb of Sofia.
This monument encompasses what is known to be the largest drum instrument in the world, as it contains hundreds of bells from all over the world.
We meticulously recorded each of those bells.
We were blessed to get clean close sounds of these bells with some variations, isolated takes but also sequence of ringing.
In this library. you’ll find a selection of 30 of these countries which have bells that have “church-like” sonic characteristics.
Learn more about these recordings: https://soundxplorer.com/sound-of-bells-around-the-world
A condensed library with medicine and dentist sound effects. If you need to create an ambiance of a surgery room or a dentist visit, this is your go-to. 33 different sounds to overcome or accentuate your fear to the doctor, it’s up to you
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‘Wilderness – Flowing Water Sound Effects’ from Bluezone Corporation contains a selection of 40 carefully recorded calm and rushing mountain river sounds, running stream sounds, small and large waterfall sound effects.
Created with a large selection of high quality recordings (24 bit / 96 kHz), all ambiences included in this sound library (1.2 GB) are carefuly processed and designed to give you ready-to-use elements. All samples are royalty-free for all your commercial projects.
Contained in this library are authentic Chicago environmental and transportation ambiences. You will find ambience inside and outside the famous L train, street cars and Chicago bus routes. As well, as a few memorable ambiences from the street-side and also down by the water. Recorded in high resolution, this library will put you right in the virtual seat of the city of neighborhoods!
This library contains a collection of sounds sourced from 22 different elevators found in the following locations:
Each elevator has its own unique characteristics featuring creaks, groans, impacts & rattles. All elevators feature roomtones, buttons, doors opening & closing (both interior & exterior perspective) and in motion using the Sound Devices Mix-Pre 6, Sennheiser MKH 416 and Sennheiser MKH 8020 stereo pair at 24bit/96khz for all your sound design needs.
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Unlock your creativity with The School Audio Playset, meticulously recorded at the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts. Dive into a world of immersive sound design with 46 high definition sound clips, 96 kHz, 24-bit mono and stereo WAV files, 6 HD immersive audio impulse responses, and file lists with broadcast WAV compliant metadata. Elevate your projects with the tools to craft dramatic and immersive scenes within a modern school setting.
A collection of ambiances and street sounds recorded in ukraine between 2015-2018. With these recordings I tried to grasp the unique character of Ukraine. The distinct traffic sounds, the wonderful nature and the lively language.
You will find recordings of airport and train station with p.a announcements, street sounds with Russian walla and voices, quiet residential ambiances, Ukrainian village ambiances, supermarkets and markets, schoolyard, school corridor, parade, street traffic, trains, conversations in Russian, prayers, street player talking, pedestrian areas, and more.
The Farm is a sound library that I compiled about a year ago just for fun and I kept adding sounds recorded at the same location in the Canadian countryside at 4 different farms. During the recording session, I’ve been lucky enough to have met some fantastic people ready to share their passion for farming and pointing me out to what they felt was an essential part of their everyday soundscape.
I had the chance to stumble on two late 50s John Deere tractors that where still functional and that marked the end of an era. It is a comprehensive farm sound library that is not just about tractors or animals.
You will find, in the bonus section, 6 different footsteps surfaces each with a walk and run variation and some more. There are five main categories in this library: Ambiances, Animals, Footsteps, Misc (Various SFX) and Vehicles ready for creating a convincing farm soundscape for your project.
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