Environments & Ambiences

Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond

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Travel & Transportation Sounds of the London Underground Play Track 189+ sounds included $40

Anybody familiar with travelling on the London Underground will be aware of the distinct soundscapes beneath the streets of London; from the clatter of the ticket hall barriers to the eerie rumbles from the tunnels, waiting in anticipation for the next train to come rushing past before stopping with the squeal of the brakes.

Each type of train on the network has its own distinct characteristics such as the moaning of the electric traction motors or the peculiar sound of the 1996 Stock used on the Jubilee Line.

All of these sounds have been beautifully captured in 24-bit 48KHz quality- recorded both with XY stereo microphones and binaurally- creating a highly realistic experience for headphone users.

Note to users:
As many of you will know, like many urban transit systems, the London Underground is littered with pre-recorded public announcements.
These recordings have been extensively edited to the highest quality to ensure that these pre-recorded announcements have been removed where possible.

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City Life Sound Effects Pedestrian Streets of Moscow Play Track 27 sounds included, 124 mins total From: $44

This sound library was recorded in Moscow’s downtown on 13 locations at different times of the year. 27 samples include the sounds of passers-by, steps and random conversations against the background of distant traffic, singing birds and other casual sounds.

It can be useful for audio post-production when working with movies, trailers or commercials in which it is necessary to convey the routine life atmosphere of Russian cities. All files are carefully selected and prepared. Metadata included in the archive – and the library is available in both a stereo and a surround version.

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Bird Sound Effects Exotic Birds Play Track 32+ sounds included, 58 mins total $75

To set an exotic scene, or to illustrate a different and luxuriant nature, exotic birdsong is a great asset. Even if it is very difficult to identify each of them, the bird’s songs of this collection will bring you far from home. Feel surrounded by those songs recorded in Brasil, Thailand, Maldives and France.

About Ambisonics:
This is an Ambisonics sound effects library - and by using the free SoundField SurroundZone 2 plugin you can convert the B-format files into your preferred format (stereo, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0 or 7.1 surround). Note: The library also contains ready-made stereo mixdowns for your convenience.

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City Life Sound Effects Tokyo Tourist Play Track 34 sounds included, 79 mins total $42

Tokyo Tourist is more than 2.5 GBof sound from different locations in Tokyo and beyond.
34 recordings/79 minutes of stereo recordings featuring temples, trains, religious processions and much more – this library takes you to some of the locations a tourist might visit, all in 24bit/96kHz quality. All files are UCS-compliant.

Recording with the same setup as Tokyo – Outdoor Ambiances, I went to Shinjuku station and Gyoen Park. I recorded the Kanda festival procession in the streets of Akihabara, captured the infernal sound in a video game arcade – just to name a few of the sounds in this library.

Tokoy Tourist delivers:

• Clean, realistic ambient recordings of interesting locations
• Traffic, temples, parks, trains, people, people, people…
• All sounds recorded with the same microphones – in the same setup (spaced-omni)
• BWAV metadata embedded with even more included in CSV and ODS (OpenOffice) formats

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Environments & Ambiences Quad City Berlin Play Track 34+ sounds included, 108 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
From: $99

Quad City Berlin is a comprehensive collection of quadrophonic recordings from the busy and multifaceted german capital, the second largest city in the European Union.
It was created to work as an internationally usable library of urban ambiences while still capturing the unique sounds of Berlin. It’s a set of extensive and versatile recordings focused on large open spaces and the nice fat low-end hum of major city traffic.

Quad City Berlin comes in two flavors:
– Quad + MS: four channels with omni-directional mics + two channels mid-side (6 channels total, please check out diagram below. 102 files)
– Stereo only: the two front channels of the quad setup only (A-B stereo, 34 files)

The locations covered in Quad City Berlin include: rooftops, main roads & squares, residential areas, parks, freeways, room ambiences

The recording session took place in the fall of 2015 where birdsong is usually very sparse and the weather can still be sunny and dry. Thanks to these conditions, most of the recordings contain no bird chirping at all. All recordings where made using the same microphone setup: four omni-directional mics with equal distances to each other and one MS rig at the front side.

Depending on the location, the omnis where placed up to 3 meters apart to deliver a truly wide sound that works well on a cinema mixing stage. The MS signal serves as both a center signal (if needed) and a stereo option that is also mono compatible.
The four omnis where the high-end DPA 4006 (Bruel&Kjaer) microphones with a remarkable quality in the low frequencies. They work exceptionally well for city background hum and low engine sounds producing a very full and warm, yet precise sound.

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Ambisonic Sound Effects Fireworks 1 Play Track 27 sounds included, 27 mins total $75

A collection of fireworks sound effects, mostly recorded from the launching area, close to the mortars for some big booms and fuse sounds. Of course you will find classical fireworks atmosphere here too. And if you are looking for rocket sounds or loud blasts, you should try slowing them down.

About Ambisonics:
This is an Ambisonics sound effects library - and by using the free SoundField SurroundZone 2 plugin you can convert the B-format files into your preferred format (stereo, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0 or 7.1 surround). Note: The library also contains ready-made stereo mixdowns for your convenience.

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Animal Sound Effects Imaginary Birds Play Track 2000+ sounds included, 64 mins total $69

Recorded using only bird calls, musical instruments, voice and whistling techniques, IMAGINARY BIRDS contains over 200 different organic and realistic songs of non-existing birds. Recorded with a Sennheiser MKH 8050 with ultrasonic content, you can use the sounds as is, pitch-shift them or combine individual sounds to create new bird songs.

KEY FEATURES:

• 227 sounds recorded with MKH 8050
• 96KHz/24bit
• Each file contains several variations of the songs
• Recorded dry, no reverb added
• Ideal for cartoon, sci-fi, adventure films, video games, creature design, soundscapes…

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Environments & Ambiences Stadium Crowd Vol. 1 Play Track 45 sounds included $37

Stadium Crowd Vol. 1 captures an immersive symphony of emotions reverberating around a UK stadium packed with over 80,000 people. The library includes a cacophony of cheers, jeers, groans, and moans, giving a genuine sense of the passionate energy in the stands.

This library was recorded during a professional wrestling event, making it an ideal choice for productions featuring exhilarating sports scenes filled with heightened excitement. Experience the resonant thuds of body slams, the distinct chime of bell dings, and the vibrant chorus of crowd chants.

These sound effects are not only suitable for productions infused with pro wrestling themes, but can also elevate any scene with an enthusiastic stadium crowd.

Combine these sounds with our Football SFX Bundle Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 to build a myriad of enthusiastic fanfares.

All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation, and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.

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Ambisonic Sound Effects Offices and Workplaces Ambience Kit Play Track 181 sounds included, 141 mins total $20

A meticulously crafted sound library that offers a plethora of workplace ambiences and sounds, transporting your audience to bustling offices, serene lobbies, humming server rooms, and much more. Immerse your audience in the essence of bustling urban workspaces.

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Bundles BOOM ONE – BUYOUT Play Track 166400 sounds included $3,490

ONE MASSIVE & EVER-GROWING GENERAL SOUND LIBRARY
– NOW WITH 85% MORE SOUNDS THAN AT LAUNCH!BOOM ONE brings you a massive quantity of unique, high-quality sound effects. Starting with 55,900+ files containing 166,400+ sound effects, BOOM ONE is our new flagship for general sound effects – delivered via a custom tool for easy downloading. No reused sounds, pristine and consistent quality. Perfect for creators, post-pro, video, games and more.

You can choose between two versions – BUYOUT and SUBSCRIPTION:
This is the BUYOUT version:
This BUYOUT version gives you instant access to the full collection – and you get the chance to update your BOOM ONE once a year with all new monthly releases that come with the subscription version.

Want the SUBSCRIPTION version instead? Find it here

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Ambisonic Sound Effects Ambisonics – Crickets, Insects vol. 2 Play Track 64 sounds included, 202 mins total $20

Crickets, insects, soundscapes/recordings, recorded in Ambisonic. Recorded in spring summer and early autumn. Daytime and nocturnal recordings, with wind in background or without. With birds and without birds in background. Close or distant perspectives. In nature environment, urban or in rural area. 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/ included) and Sound Devices recorder. All channels matched with pink noise generator.
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.

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Car Sound Effects Sirens Volume 2 Play Track 100 sounds included $25

Sirens Volume 2 delivers a wealth of siren sounds, from police cars, ambulances, fire trucks and many emergency alarms. Features a range of US siren wails and yelps, arrivals, constant wailing and pass-bys, from internal and external perspectives + siren recordings from European countries. These sounds are all hand-picked from Sound Ideas General HD and General HD 2 libraries.

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Sports Sound Effects Street Basketball Play Track 210 sounds included $50
Featuring:
- Backboard Hits
- Combination Shots
- Swishes
- Dribbling
- Ball Handling
- Foot Scuffles
- Ring Hits
All sounds were recorded using the Schoeps CCM8/CCM4 mid-side microphone and Sound Devices Mix-Pre 6.

Mid-Side recordings are presented in their raw, uncoded format as well as decoded stereo files for efficient editing. Recordings have been processed using the Control V2 plugin by Brainworx.

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World Sounds Greece Ambience Play Track 63 sounds included, 157 mins total $40

Over 2.5 hours of varied ambience from Greece – from the bustling Athens rush hour to peaceful olive groves and the gentle lapping waves of the Ionian Sea. This collection captures daily life and quintessentially Greek ambience from various locations on the islands and mainland, including Athens, Delphi, Ithaca and the Peloponnese. Expect lots of city life, rural villages, church bells, countryside, harbour and seaside ambience.

All files are UCS compliant, 24 bit/ 96k and metadata is included (via soundminer), with keywords and detailed markers embedded to quickly locate specific sounds/ regions. Recorded with Usi Pro, Sony PCM-D100 and Wildtronics Stereo microphones.

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Nature & Countryside Ambiences Small German City And Suburban Play Track 36 sounds included, 571 mins total From: $15

36 high-quality recorded ambiences in a south-German city with 100.000 inhabitants. Recorded on different spots in different seasons and weather situations. Day and night, with or without people, downtown or suburban, next to busy streets, in a forest and much more.

Available in 7.0 and 5.0 surround, so it‘s perfect for sounddesign for motion pictures. Most of the files have a duration of five minutes and more, so you don‘t need to loop them.

If you only need the stereo-versions of the recordings you can get them here for half the price.

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Nature & Countryside Ambiences Desert Winds: Death Valley in Winter Play Track 46 sounds included, 120 mins total $30

This library, recorded during a trip to the ominous Death Valley USA in February 2021, features sounds of the harsh desert being carved by winter winds, as well as sounds of life such as wetland birds from the oasis at Ash Meadows. If you listen closely to the recordings from the infamous Devil’s Hole, and inhospitable Salt Creek, you can hear the endangered pupfish bark. Many recording styles were used to capture immersive stereo images of the landscape that provides such stark contrasts being both foreboding and breathtaking in its beauty, included are surround and binaural recordings. This is by no means a comprehensive collection, if anything I learned that I have much more to discover about Death Valley than I thought I did starting out.

Sale Policy: To keep things simple, I never put any of my libraries on sale or offer any kind of discount. I sell them at a reasonable price given the effort to record and compile them, I find this is the most honest and transparent approach to the sale of sound effects.

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Ambisonic Sound Effects Spatial Countryside Play Track 20 sounds included, 75 mins total $49

Spatial Countryside is an immersive collection of audio ambiences 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 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!

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Nature & Countryside Ambiences Tropical Caves Play Track 41+ sounds included, 166 mins total $65

in stereo, binaural, ambisonics

7.6 GB of original sounds, 9.46 GB with the encoded ambisonic files in stereo included

• rough & authentic recordings in remote locations
• immersive & suitable for VR productions and mobile applications
• real binaural and ambisonics recordings
• clean edited, but not designed
• including long takes >15 minutes with a lot of sounds for further editing and looping
• with cave atmospheres, animals, and tropical wildlife
• metadata added
• incl. stereo versions of the ambisonics B-Format AmbiX files for instant use
• captured during three recording expeditions over the past five years in Colombia, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos
• Microphones: 2xDPA 4060, Sennheiser Ambeo, 2xMKH 40-P48

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Foley Sound Effects Christmas Library Play Track 17 sounds included $17

Flysound presents, for the holiday season, a joyful, enchanting library of all the essential sounds of winter magic. The literal jingle of bells, and other blessed chimes; the clinking of glasses and the popping of bottles of champagne. These are the sounds of Christmas, Hanukkah, and a very special New Year’s Eve and beyond.

Flysound is proud of the work it has done in this challenging year, and we are happy to face the coming new one, with the people we love and care for, and with the colleagues we respect and cherish. So here we present a celebratory collection of triumphant professional sounds, to stimulate the holiday mood and to joyously ring in the New Year. Cheers!

Flysound Christmas Library

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Nature & Countryside Ambiences Niger Sahara Desert Play Track 117 sounds included $80
Niger Sahara Desert, ambiences and sound effects library By Iben Haahr Andersen

Back in 2004 Iben Haahr Andersen travelled to Niger on an amazing journey into the Sahara desert.

Her job was to follow a large group of nomads, travelling on camels back for 10 days to the desert town of Agadez to purchase sweet dates, which they would later sell to make a living.

Through 10 days of extreme heat and hard labour, Iben recorded everything from the most beautiful and quiet starry nights, to daily life and struggle of the nomad people, sandstorms and desert wind, an interior mountain well, and grunts and cries from nomads precious desert animals, the camels.

Iben came back to Denmark with a huge amount of DAT tapes, which now have been mastered in Protools, spectral repaired in Izotope RX, and with great help from Tim Nielsen & Michal Fojcik made UCS-Compliant in Soundminer, for a very special set of audio recordings!

117 stereo tracks recorded on to a portable DAT recorder @ 48khz 16 bit. Set is about 4gb big when unzipped.

Mics used, Sennheiser Mkh416 with an ATE 208 Emesser on top.

Sounds included are:
- Agadez chaotic traffic scenes
- Rain and distant thunder
- Native nomad walla from children and adults
- Nomads working and socialising
- Close up and isolated prayers, talks and the cursing of a thief from a local priest
- Quiet ambiences
- Birds and a few bugs
- Spitting, snorting and bleating goats
- Donkey brays
- Camel grunts, gurgles and cries
- Sandstorms and wind through tent camp
- Interior mountain well with the most beautiful reverberation
- Footsteps of humans and camel caravan passing on sand
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Environments & Ambiences Musical Instrument Practice – ROCK BAND Play Track 43 sounds included, 29 mins total $10

Basic rock band instruments being practiced.

“The local rock group down the street is trying hard to learn their song”…So sang The Monkees in 1967. Well, practice is what it takes to make it and this pack is all about practice. You’ll find guitar, bass, drums, electric piano, ukulele, and more in this sound pack, from the sound of someone practicing and tuning their guitar to a little band bashing out a garage jam you will find many useful sounds for depicting rock music rehearsal and instrument practice in your project. See the supplied list for full details on all sounds included. Note: Please audition at a lower volume for your ear’s sake, some feedback, and other loud sounds.

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City Life Sound Effects Ambisonics – Zoo Play Track 61 sounds included, 164 mins total From: $35

Immerse yourself with this collection of ambisonic zoo atmospheres, comprised of animal soundscapes ranging from grumpy flamingos, screaming gibbons, loud lories, curious geese, vocal chimpanzees, amongst other residents of Lisbon’s Zoo. You’ll also find plenty of crowd recordings, ranging from very quiet and distant conversations, to people passing-by from multiple directions and chair-lift discussions, all in different languages.

The zoo’s staff graciously allowed me to record before opening hours, resulting in neutral soundscapes alongside the regular crowded ambiences. This gives you flexibility in how you can use these sounds for your projects.

This sound library is available in both Ambisonics FuMa (B Format) and Stereo (Binaural) formats.

If you wish to support the animal conservation efforts of Lisbon’s Zoo, you can do so either as a company or as an individual. Given the ever-growing labors of zoos and shelters worldwide to protect and breed endangered species, every bit of support or exposure helps. Know how you can do your part through the hyperlinks above or contact your local sanctuaries for more information.

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Car Sound Effects Monza Rally Show vol.1 Play Track 280 sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$32

Get Recordings from the amazing Monza Rally Show, a motoring event at the Autodromo di Monza where some of the most famous rally drivers and track racing experts compete in different races:

• The R5 class rally cars
• The WRC 1.6 T.Trophy for WRC 1.6 Turbo rally cars from 2011-2016
• The Historic section for historic rally cars from 1972 to 1990.

The cars are recorded in different track locations to have the best chances to capture the right sound: Corners, straights, chicanes, as well distant and trackside perspectives. There also include pit ambiences with cars revving.

The sounds are recorded with a steady stereo XY setup (2 Sennheiser 8040), together with a Shotgun microphone (Sennheiser 8060), following the cars to capture more focused sounds.

Each file has the suffix “LR” for the XY stereo files and “SG” for the shotgun mono files.

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Environments & Ambiences New Zealand Ambiences Play Track 27 sounds included $30

New Zealand Ambiences is a beautifully crafted ambience library exploring the incredible country and sounds of New Zealand (mainly focusing on the South Island). This library will take you on a sonic adventure exploring the many unique birds and creatures ranging from locations such as: Haast, Queenstown, Lake Paringa, Lake Wakatipu, Te Anau, the Clay Cliffs and Pukaki!

Recorded at 24 bit/192 kHz you’ll have the flexibility to pitch these ambiences and bird songs to create some truly amazing other worldly atmospheres!

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Note to users:
As many of you will know, like many urban transit systems, the London Underground is littered with pre-recorded public announcements.
These recordings have been extensively edited to the highest quality to ensure that these pre-recorded announcements have been removed where possible.

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Note to users: As many of you will know, like many urban transit systems, the London Underground is littered with pre-recorded public announcements. These recordings have been extensively edited to the highest quality to ensure that these pre-recorded announcements have been removed where possible.