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Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond
Get almost 5 hours of sounds of Sicily, Italy – captured at various locations during different times of the day. The library features sounds of both empty and crowded streets. Mornings and nights sounded different from siesta time, that’s why I’ve recorded streets during all those times.
Another location was a fish market recorded in the morning, during most intense moments.
Other files covers the traffic on the streets full of honking scooters, barking dogs and just cars passing by.
In addition to the recordings from Trapani, you’ll find sound of the airports, not only in Italy but also in Poland, which contains both Polish and Italian walla.
Walla sounds varies from ones with a lot of people talking from different directions, to more narrow ones, with small groups speaking from one place. Most of the recordings are not that easy to distinguish, but there are also files where you can hear very clearly every word.
Italy – Sicilian Ambients features 36 WAV files, recorded with two 8040s plugged into Sound Devices 702 and Sony PCM-M10 portable recorder. The total length of the files is 321 minutes.
Abstract Aqua sound effects library is a result of different field recording sessions with more experimental approach.
It features 208 192kHz WAV files, 92 designed sound effects and 116 RAW recordings. It was recorded with a Sound Devices 702 and Sony PCM-D100, Sennheiser MKH 8040 microphones, Rode NTG3 and Aquarian Audio hydrophone. Total length of the files is 334 minutes.
The designed files have more abstract feel to it, so you’ll find aqua whooshes, different underwater sounds and big sounding waves. The RAW files includes different wave recordings from the Baltic Sea, water foley sounds and effects recorded with hydrophones. You can find more informations in the library sound list.
Water Flow took six months to create, and offers 90 BWAV files recorded in different locations. A huge part of this library is based on the recording sessions by (and in) rivers. Most recordings were done during the winter just before sunrise, to reduce the amount of unwanted sounds.
Almost all recordings are completely clear and free from any birds in the background.
The first location was river called Łyna, and there I’ve recorded a sound of water flowing at different speeds, along with the sound of a dam reducing the speed and height of the river’s flow. The second interesting part of this location was the amount of fallen trees in the water, causing the water to split. Because of this, there was a lot of sonically interesting places to record.
The second river is called Guber, and it’s much smaller than Łyna. I’ve picked this place because of the really subtle water streams, and something even more amazing, natural dams built by beavers. The amount of work these animals put to built those dams is incredible.
In addition to recorded rivers, this library also includes the sound of water dripping inside underground sewers. During one of my field recording trips I discovered a hatch. I could not resist to go inside, and what I discovered there was far beyond my expectations. I made a two small trips there to record it from different distances, with different microphones in mono and stereo.
Get the sounds of nature from places like forests, lakes, meadows and swamps. Many types of birds, insects, a forest during rainfall, calm and windy days. A brilliant collection of ambiences for atmospheric background sounds, and you can mix and match ambiences for an even livelier soundscape. Recorded in beautiful Masuria in Poland, a region known for its rich nature and 2000 lakes.
Recorded with Sound Devices 702, Rode NTG3, 2x Oktava MK012 in MS and stereo XY pattern.
These group of sounds will help you colour your footage with sounds from the city and the countryside. Packed with 40 sounds to enhance your design
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Rain & Thunders is a small collection of ambisonic recordings performed at various locations in the countryside.
39 unique recordings, Including 11 isolated thunder samples.
To create this sound package, a costume rain protection rig was built, and a Sennheizer Ambeo microphone paired with Zoom H8n was used.
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 39 Samples – A total of 25 minutes of content.
Supported formats: First Order AmbiX B-Format and Stereo (Total of 78 files).
Another uniquely South African library with a mixture of Interior ambiences ranging from interior shack, spaza shops and taxi rides. Its a great collection for anyone looking to add an authentic South African flavour to their production
Second episode of our journey to Moscow, Russia, but this time – during summer and autumn
We recorded the most interesting sonic atmospheres, such as wet and dry traffic, streets, singing birds, wind in the endless parks, fountains, construction work, yelling children, rain and thunder, suburban villages, crowds and many more.
To capture this sound palette I made another stealth recording kit, but now, using LDC (large diaphragm condenser) microphones. This has improved the sound quality and made the recordings even more detailed, to continue creating the largest sound library series about Russia.
KEY POINTS:
Moscow, Russia in winter and spring time
Streets, covered with melting snow; people, hurrying with their business; street, cleaning from ice; whistling wet traffic; quiet and loud residential neighborhoods; children playing in the snow; windy parks; cold nights and, then, saving spring; water, dropping from the roofs; singing birds and babbling brooks.
How to convey these things without violating their nature?
One of the ways is a stealth binaural recording using miniature microphones DPA 4060. It gave the sense of naturalness and created a presence effect, that you wouldn’t find in any other library about Russia.
KEY POINTS:
NSL – Water Movements is a 96 Files Sound-Pack essentially composed of Water Materials. You will have access to many samples: Waterfalls, Streams, Rivers, Torrents, Drains, Gutters and many more…
This library contains dynamic, harsh, aggressive and sometimes mysterious wind sounds and strong and heavy gusts.
I took bike trips around World War II sites on the shores of France and the Netherlands. The winds on the steep rocky cliffs as well as on the long sandy beaches are one of a kind. Especially the resonances of rumbling bonkers and swirling winds inside hides and on the concrete edges of munition depots create an atmosphere of terror, that allowed me to took a glimpse inside the soundscapes of these horrific times.
The cliffs with the old war stuctures, the dunes, the swapping sand, the storms in the forests behind the shoreline all have a unique character and texture.
I picked the recordings, which created images of the battlefield inside my head and described these images in the meta data. But of course this wind library can be used for any scene, that contains a strong blow of air.
Most sounds are recorded in ORTF stereo, some were better captured in mono or with a contact mic.
If you need more specific wind sounds, my library “Tonal Wind” and this library are complementing each other to a versatile tool for a broad use of wind sounds. Contact me for bundle prices.
The Water Volumes SFX library gets you over 300 sounds of natural hot-springs, bubbles, and liquids of various densities boiling under the effect of dry ice.
A large amount of content was recorded during two weeks spent in the city of Furnas, Azores, where volcanic hot-springs of all kinds are active. Other recordings were gathered with the use of dry ice.
Most recordings will contain energy up to 96 KHz as they were recorded with a Sanken CO-100K at a 192KHz sample rate. Others were gathered with the use of an Acquarian H2A, Sennheiser MKH8040, 416, a Sony D100 and a Tascam DR-05.
The collection was recorded over a trip to Sao Miguel, Azores, and several other recording sessions in the UK.
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.
Multichannel recordings of the ice (in sync): stereo, mono and underwater/under ice recordings. Audio tool for further sound design, production etc.
Multichannel, recordings of the ice; Surface/underwater recordings of the ice. Check the sound list for info/ object of recording.
Each multichannel recording (or position/place of recording) is in a separate folder. Each channel/recording is Metadata tagged with description of equipment/format/character. Each multichannel recording (each folder) consist of:
– 4 Ch STEREO Mix, all channels mixed together (surface and underwater), ready for use stereo file
– Ch 01-MID, mono file, front/MID microphone-cardioid, RAW
– Ch 02-SIDE, mono file, SIDE microphone-figure of eight, RAW
– Ch 03-HYDRO LEFT, mono file, Left side hydrophone, RAW
– Ch 04-HYDRO Right, mono file, Right side hydrophone, RAW
– STEREO HYDRO Mix, stereo file, two hydrophones mixed together, ready to use underwater/ice stereo file
– STEREO (surface) file
You can use mono channels to create your own mix (or use it as mono) or use a stereo-ready to use file (or combination of both).
Using mono recordings/files for multichannel mixing can be very creative for SFX, or maybe in film, for example, to accompany first surface (frame) and then underwater (frame) separated, or half submerged camera (frame).
For mixing stereo (surface) files (microphones) you will need an MS matrix (plugin). This is a very creative tool which allows you to control the amount of stereo field or front to side ratio of the sound captured. If you are not familiar with MS there is a ready to use stereo (surface) file and you can use/mix it with underwater/ice file(s).
(for MS: Sennheiser MKH40 – front microphone/cardioid and Sennheiser MKH40-side microphone/ figure of eight.) Hydrophones are Aquarian audio H2a XLR.
Sound of the sea, coastline, port, small port harbor, people, ship, boats etc. Recorded during year, all seasons.
Many sound perspectives. Ambisonic or “immersive audio” approach kept in mind while recording.
24,2 GB of high quality recording of the sea environment.
Recorded with Sennheiser Ambeo VR mic. (Rycote blimp) and Sound Devices recorder. Audio files included: B-format, Ambix and Binaural. Preview is in Binaural (stereo).
Recordings of rivers, lakes and streams in stereo.
250 files, long recordings. Many perspectives captured, various distances, positions, „expressions“ of water, rivers, lakes, streams…
(sound for video perspectives having in mind while recording)
River, lake and streams ambiences, some are with birds (mentioned in name)… Flows in ditches, channels, urban environment, dam, well facility, watermill and others. Recordings are from all seasons even recorded in ice covered streams. There are some recordings „loop ready“; this means they are not faded in/out but loop edited for repeating if needed (shorter ones).
Recorded in MS, XY, AB; NOS, Spaced, Parabolic (very distant flow), etc., mosty with Sennheiser and AKG microphones, Sound Devices recorder/mixer. Files are without any dynamic manipulation (compression) with max. peak around -5dBFS.
Metadata tagged with description of equipment used on each recording. Recorded with great care with pro grade equipment. Noise (pollution) free. Various perspectives and sounds, check the sound list for add. info.
Rivers, Lakes and Streams recorded in Ambisonic
Many different sound perspectives. Ambisonic or “immersive audio” approach kept in mind while recording. Ambiences as well as close up (“surrounded by medium”) recordings. Recorded in all seasons, during all year.
Clean recording without birds and other unwanted sounds and recordings (ambiences) recorded with birds and other ambient sounds intentionally. 26,5 GB or 544 mins of high quality recordings.
Recorded with Sennheiser Ambeo VR mic. (Rycote blimp) and Sound Devices recorder. Audio files included: B-format, Ambix and Binaural. Preview is in Binaural (stereo).
Welcome to the Sounds of Morocco. This essential collection features carefully selected, high-quality sounds recorded on location in the North African region of Morocco.
From the chaos of Marrakech’s bazaars and souks, to the relative calm of the seaside town, Essaouira, to the laid-back surfside village of Taghazout, this collection captures a true snapshot of the sounds you can expect to hear in Morocco. This collection includes crowds, accents, cafes, birds, traditional markets (or souks), the Islamic call to Prayer (Adhan) and so much more. Please see the tracklist below for more detailed track information.
Sounds of Morocco was recorded with the intention to be particularly useful in post-production environments with a range of genuine and rare sounds you can genuinely expect to hear in Morocco.
We really hope you enjoy this extensive, high-quality sound pack.
All tracks recorded by Evan Buist, sound engineer and field recordist (National Geographic, DreamWorks, Paramount Pictures).
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.
This library contains an eclectic collection of sounds sourced on a recent trip to Japan. It's an auditory sampler of the beauty and stillness as well as the chaos and busyness of Japan, from elevator rides to fish markets, temples, busy streets and mountain streams.
All tracks were record with a stereo pair of Sennheiser MKH 8040's and a Sound Devices 633.
This library of environmental recordings is the culmination of three recording expeditions to the stunningly gorgeous Pacific Northwest. We visited a variety of locations ranging from urban Vancouver, Portland, and Seattle to the wild and untamed Olympic Peninsula. We captured dynamically disparate sounds such as a noisy Seattle shipyard and the quietest location in the continental US – deep within the primordial Hoh Rainforest. There are excellent crowd wallas, and contemplative mountain streams. From beaches to mountain tops to luxury high rises no environment was left un-recorded! This is what the Northwest sounds like!
In all, this library features 69 individual files totaling over three hours of runtime. Total un-zipped file size is over six gigabytes. All sounds have been edited to remove discernable dialog and unwanted noises. What’s left is pure, loop-able ambience suitable for no-fuss editing.
All sounds were captured on a Sound Devices 744T recorder. Microphones used include a Sanken CSS-5 stereo mic and a matched stereo pair of Sennheiser 8040s in ORTF configuration. All recordings are accompanied by a high quality photograph for reference and tagged with Pro Tools searchable metadata.
As a special incentive we will also include a bonus mini-library of ambiences from the Irish countryside that James recorded on a recent trip home! Highlights include some great mountain winds and a rare recording of a starling formation taking flight!
Credits:
Recordist, Producer, Editor – Jason Strawley
Photography, Video – Andrew Garraway
Asst Producer – James Nolan
Thanks, and enjoy!
Pack your bags! This sound library has everything you need to recreate the sonic experience of flying on a commercial airline or waiting to line up at the airport!
All aircraft recordings are taken from inside the aircraft, all airport ambiences were taken from the Dallas, Chicago, or Buffalo airports. Sounds include airport ambiences, inflight cabin room tone, inflight walla, airport walla, engine sounds, flaps, take-offs, landings, runway bumps, overhead compartment opening and closing, seat belt buckles, airplane bathroom sounds, captain and flight attendant intercom correspondence and more!
You might think your ears are popping as the subtle sounds of change in altitude are captured in this library. Whether you need short wallas or ambiences or an entire recording from take-off to 10,000 feet this library’s got you covered! All sounds recorded at 24 Bit / 96 kHz.
Baltic Forest is a collection of ambient recordings captured over one year in a private forest in Northern Lithuania. 53 carefully recorded exterior ambiences made during summer, autumn, winter and spring. From the bright sound of native birds in spring and summer, to the freezing cold (-20 Celsius) snow storms and tree movements of autumn and winter – sometimes recording in knee-deep snow.
All sounds were recorded and edited at 24-bit / 96kHz, with embedded meta data.
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