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Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond
NASCAR – car race. Recorded in NOS stereo and MS stereo.
Clean recordings without any crowd (except few files), air traffic, birds…
Recorded with Sound Devices 744T/Mix Pre recorder, Sennheiser MKH mics, Rode NT1 (matched pair) mics, Rycote blimps (windjammers). Tripod used, recorded from hand-following the object (check sound list for info).
Recorded on Grand prix circuit. Long recordings. Metadata tagged with detailed description of equipment and object of recording.
RAW files, without any eq., and dynamic manipulation (compressors/limiters etc.). Maximum peak level is -5 dBFS .
Fully UCS compliant
From gentle wispy winds recorded in rushes to gale force winds bending branches.
All sounds were recorded during a trip home to Ireland.
Check out the video below to see some of the recording session.
Equipment:
LOM Usi Pros
Sound Devices MixPre-3II
Ocean Waves Beach and Water consists of a large dynamic range of a variety of ocean locations, and water sounds. From roaring white water surf, violent crashing waves on sand and rock, to calm lapping, of far and near perspectives.
I’ve included different types of outdoor fountains, large and small, single seagulls and groups of seagulls. A good portion of the Beach Ambiences have good, useable beach type walla. Family get togethers, children playing, and casual volleyball playing. All these tracks have good movement within them so that the listener doesn’t get bored with static sounds. There are plenty of tracks with and without any sort of voices or walla in the background.
There are “Dins” included for those settings where you may need to fill in the background with sound that doesn’t get in the way, and doesn’t draw attention to itself.
These sounds were recorded over the period of 10 years in multiple countries. All have been mastered in Pro Tools, EQ’d, with light limiting and compression to pop out the finer details, otherwise hidden by masking frequencies, but are otherwise in their raw form.
All tracks have full metadata created in Soundminer, and there is an attached Track List for quick reference.
During these last months we have recorded several Ambisonic room tones. This is a small selection of the best Room tones In IMMERSIVE format!
We choose ambisonic for our libraries as the most adaptive format in Audio Postproduction. We serve the edited and mastered AMBIX files, and decoded surround format in Dolby ATMOS, 5.1 and ST .
We recorded around 29 beautiful tracks in ambisonic format, 48Khz and 24 bits HD. As always, top quality recordings specially designed for film audio projects.
All our libraries are UCS compliant (universalcategorysystem.com). In this new category system all files contain extensive metadata like file description, Category & Subcategory. Metadata can be read and processed by the most common audio libraries management tools . Starting with Full support from Soundminer and more audio tools adopting this system, we are adopting metadata UCS system in our files!
Japan: Bullet Trains is a collection of exterior recordings and interior ambiences of a variety of Japanese bullet trains which includes passbys, arrivals, idles, departures and ride ambiences.
The shinkansen, or bullet train, is a symbol of Japan’s economic and technological prowess. Streaking by at speeds of up to 200mph, their sound pierces over miles of empty farmland. In rare spots where you can get near the tracks, the air pressure bursts of these trains passing by can knock you off-balance.
Recording coverage between models vary quite a bit, so please check the tracklist to get a sense of what is available per bullet train model.
Note: The W7 series bullet trains were recorded within their first month entering service, well before they had time to wear-in.
Models represented in this collection:
(Dates indicate the service years for the model, not the specific age of the train recorded)
These recordings were originally part of the Japan Sound Effects Collection Kickstarter campaign that was successfully funded in 2015.
All recordings have meticulously written Soundminer metadata embedded in them and comply with Universal Category System naming standards. Included in the download folder is also an excel file and CSV file with all of the metadata fields.
Equipment Used: Tascam HD-P2 | Rode NT4 | Rode NTG3
Mid-/Side-Stereo ambiences of the German city and seaport Hamburg.
Different situations recorded in the downtown with people and traffic and the famous red light district “Reeperbahn”.
Also included are recordings of a shipyard and on a ferry.
All files are carefully edited and comes with detailed metadata. Ready to use left/right decodings are also included.
Electromagnetic Design Vol. 2 contains a diverse collection of experimental ambiences gathered from a variety of sources around an Electrical Power Plant and a radio tower.
Using both condenser microphones and an electromagnetic receiver, our Audio Craftsmen captured material ranging from fences & metal coverings surrounding the power plant, to wires, generators & pylons. Our team then meticulously edited and designed these sounds, including a range of characteristics such as screaming interference, distorted glitches, sweeping electrical currents and much more to create an eclectic assortment of short ambiences. Perfect for building nerve racking intensity within your sound design in Sci-Fi, Horror or Dramatic film, game, or television projects. All files are available in 24bit 96kHz allowing further sonic manipulation, tagged with extensive metadata and are UCS compliant for ease of workflow.
A library for all those situations where high revs and speeding into a corner wont do. We created the library with run of the mill cars, driving around town, at the speed limit.
Its a combination of manual and automatic cars with stop, start, accelerate, drive, coast, idle, brake, and turn.
Recordings of the ice recorded in: MS stereo, with hydrophones and with contact mics.
Stereo recordings of the ice in many mic positions; Underwater recordings of the ice; Ice recorded with contact mics placed on the ice surface; Check the sound list for info.
Here you can find: kick, blast, cracks and other “strange” sounds of the ice. Great material for sound design, Foley etc. Recordings are organized in folders by type of the sound. Metadata tagged with description of equipment used included.
Structure borne sound (contact mics) and hydrophone recordings are captured in two channels (at the same time-in sync). Ch. left is closer to the object and Ch. right is away from the object. You can experiment with the levels of two channels to get the depth of field. (Just a few hydrophone recordings are recorded in mono/single hydrophone)
Conventional stereo recordings are recorded in MS with Sennheiser MKH 60/40/30 and Sound Devices 744T.
Contact mics are JRFs and hydrophones are Aquarian audio H2a-XLR routed via Sound Devices Mix Pre (Lundahl input transformers) to get warmer sound.
The NSL Nature Bundle includes 4 New Sound Lab sound libraries.
382 high resolution WAV files – 180 minutes – 9 GB
Italian Cityscapes and Ambiences is comprised of a number of different areas in Italy. Rome, Naples, Tivoli and Positano.
You can almost taste the amazing food while listening to the sounds of the back streets of distant traffic ambiences and church bells, or in the steep hills of Positano. There are scooters, church bells, and sirens that are scattered throughout.
In general, this has some great traffic dins that can be used anywhere. All tracks are mastered in Pro Tools, maximizing your listening experience.
All the plaza, church, street, train, and general ambience give a great overview of Rome and outlying areas.
All tracks have detailed metadata and are recorded in 24/48
Northern Mediterranean soundscapes – Adriatic sea
Textures, recordings and soundscapes for film and multimedia.
This sound library contains:
Beach ambiance in summer. In urban (city) and in rural (islands, remote) areas.
Sounds of boats, fisherman boat on the sea during fishing, in port, near mid and far (field)…
Room tones of boats, ships, ferryboat etc. Ambience of boats in voyage, stationary, in port, on the open sea…Sounds of sea and seaside in Nature Park and National Park. The unique sound of world famous Zadar’s Sea Organ (Croatia)…
Distinctive soundscapes of the north Mediterranean like: seaside and beaches; harbor and small port ambiances; soundscapes of small villages near the sea – church bells etc.; Sounds and ambiences of touristic destinations-restaurant ambiences, café ambiences etc.; Soundscapes and recordings of market on open, fishmonger’s, people, crowd, children, seagulls in flight following fishing vessel, ship horn, soundscapes of shipyard, harbor and cranes, workers shout, etc.
Biophony sounds of most common animals from littoral region are here too. Cicadas in summer, crickets, donkey, seagulls, European shag, swallows, pigeons,…
Some recordings are nocturnal recorded in urban and rural area. Check the sound list for full info.
On recordings recorded in restaurants, beaches, café you can hear many European languages like: Croatian, German, Slovenian, Italian, etc.
The recordings are generally very long. In fact many can be used in music production or as a background sounds (sound art, museum installations, etc.)
Here is nearly 19 GB, or 11 hours of recorded material almost completely in 24/96 sound quality. Recorded with Sennheiser MKHs, AKGs, Primo mics, Sound Devices 744T, Sound Devices Mix Pre.
Metadata tagged with a detailed description of mic positioning and equipment used.
The 2020 update to Farm Equipment features modern and older tractors, smaller motors including gators and mowers, as well as farm atmos elements like parlor motors and pumps.
All recorded on farms across Devon, uk.
This sound library is part of the Complete Craig Carter Collection, containing a wide range of hospital recordings.
Recorded over Craig’s 34 year career as an esteem Australian sound designer, this library consists of entrance halls, hallways, wards, wings, emergency departments, waiting rooms, receptions and nurse stations from private and public hospitals.
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The Nature and Wildlife bundle by Mindful Audio is a collection of libraries that covers a wide variety of natural environments and animals. These recordings have been captured in pristine areas like deserts, rainforests, cloud forests, temperate forests, woodlands and wetlands. The wildlife includes elephants, baboons, monkeys, frogs, cicadas and a varied assortment of bird species, all recorded wild in their habitats. This is the content you’re getting:
Atacama Desert
African Jungle
Amazon Jungle
African Cloud Forest
African Desert
African Wild West
Woodland Atmosphere
Eerie Forest
Wetland Atmosphere
Wild Rain
Arabian Desert
Volcano
Whale Song
A versatile collection of tropical island sounds from the beautiful Island of Mauritius, situated in the Indian Ocean to the east of Africa. The pack covers a range from town and city traffic, restaurant and market crowds to calm ocean waves and the birds, insects, amphibians and other wildlife native to islands in the Indian Ocean and Africa. Suitable for a variety of applications in need of high quality sounds of island life.
Please note: Some of the recordings were made at 44.1k and some at 96k. They have all been resampled to 48k for the download but the 96k recordings are also available as a separate download.
Water Flowing features lots of flowing, from a single drip to the roar of the ocean. All recordings are completely clear and free from any birds and traffic in the background. This library contains recordings of waves, rivers, streams, waterfalls, drips onto different surfaces, sprinklers, pipes, street drains and much more, with near and distant perspectives of calm and turbulent flows.
Key features:
Crowd walla recordings made at the National Gallery, the Science Museum, National History Museum, Tate Modern, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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.
This library features a wide range of recordings from various museums and galleries, each differentiated by the nuances of their size and space. All recordings feature pristine echos, walla and movement. The library includes stereo & 5.0 recordings from:
All sounds were recorded using a stereo pair of DPA 4060s, DPA 5100, Sound Devices Mix-Pre 6 and Sound Devices 788T.
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This library includes 123 rally car sound effects, recorded at rally service areas and the race track. Pass bys, idles, revvings and other car engine sounds.
Go (Baduk/Weiqi) is Asia's infamous and ancient strategy game. Incredibly popular in Japan, China, and Korea for over 2000 years, it rivals chess for the world's most challenging strategy board game. “Game of Go” presents the game's iconic sounds characterized by stone pieces clicking down on a thick wooden board for use in film, game development, and beyond.
This comprehensive sound collection contains all sound effects made by The Sound Pack Tree. It includes more than 10,000 diverse sounds from a large variety of categories such as:
All sound files have been edited carefully to be as useful as possible in post production and game audio workflows. Wherever applicable, sounds are seamless loopable. All sounds have clear, catchy file names and rich metadata keywords. The duration of this library is 44 hours while all files have been edited to a meaningful, non-exaggerating length.
Two versions are included in your download – you can either choose one or download both of them:
1. Combined Version
Variations of a sound are combined into one file – best for Soundminer, BaseHead, etc.
3,765 files / 74 GB / 44 hours
2. Split Version
Variations of a sound appear as individual files – best for video editors, game audio, etc.
10,417 files / 74 GB / 44 hours
The audio content of both versions is 100% identical.
All files from all 17 sound libraries yet released by The Sound Pack Tree are included – and additionally, more than 3,500 various sound FX.
This one-folder library is made for quick & easy use, not for endless searching. You will find common sounds as well as tons of rarities and practical material, so this sound library serves the novice as well as the established sound designer.
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