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Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond
SHORES island edition features varieties of beaches and cliffs from Oshima island, Japan, and extra harbors & boats are also included.
While calm beaches have relaxing atmospheres, cliffs sound aggressive that like onboard ships. And others like rocky beaches create colorful sounds.
Recorded with ortf, spaced omni, wide A-B and carefully edited.
This ambisonic library takes us to the historical centre of a magic city of Prague. A listener is surrounded by international crowds with lots of voices and footsteps in all possible distances. The soundscape background is complemented by diffused city noises of all kinds. And you can even meet a procession of Asian tourists!
Highlights:-16+16 crowd ambiences take place in narrow streets and large squares
-from decent pads to significantly sounding moments
-recorded on Sound Devices MixPre-6 and Soundfield by Rode NTSF1 ambisonic microphone
-both first order AmbiX and standard stereo files in the box
-96/24 resolution, 6.2 GB unpacked, 59.5 minutes of the original audio, 119 minutes in total
-all tracks are over 3 minutes length
-convert the Ambix files into any other format, up to 7.1.4 Atmos surround
HARBOR & INDUSTRIAL consists of authentic industrial ambiences, one third of which capture sites close to the water. Almost all files are loopable; every sound is ready-to-use and recorded to sit well within your mix. An accessible, yet highly flexible toolkit for you to create signature locations with ease.
LOCATION VARIETY
This collection features a large variety of places to explore – both indoor and outdoor, busy and desolate, organic and constructed. HARBOR & INDUSTRIAL also offers a series of isolated components to assemble just the environment you envision with multiple layers and sources of sound. Especially game environments profit from the diverse palette of sounds available to give each area its own distinct character.
THE SOUND OF SIZE
In HARBOR & INDUSTRIAL you have access to massive mechanical constructs with enough body to set up huge, incredible acoustic scenes. Without sounding intrusive these metallic beasts blend smoothly into their surroundings at just the right proximity and volume.
Suburbs of Chicago: Forest Preserve 2 is the fourth in the Suburbs of Chicago series, and 2nd trip inside a suburban Forest Preserve.
Included you will hear bird chirps, tree rustles, bike passes, distant chatter, a small brook and families near a small lake, and more! Every wonder what it sounds like inside a hollow tree trunk? Wonder no more! This pack consists of 12 audio files, all metadata tagged and updated using the Universal Category System in Soundminer, Basehead, and Soundly.
Recorded at 24 bit, 192 kHz using the Sennheiser MKH8050 and MKH30 into a Sound Devices Mix Pre-6. About an hour and a Half of recordings! Like in the other packs in this series, you will always hear distant traffic and planes.
As part of travelling around recording sound, you tend to spend many hours in airports.
This collection of high-quality ambient sounds were recorded in 18 countries.
Expect to hear small, medium and large interior crowds, loudspeaker announcements in all kinds of languages, internal passenger vehicles speeding by, the many beeps and musical tones of airport security clearance, and a whole lot of accents.
Recorded in both domestic and international airports in Colombia, Argentina, Mexico, Ireland, Portugal, New Zealand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Cuba, Australia, Montenegro, Russia, Finland, Switzerland, France and Morocco.
All tracks were recorded in high definition by Evan Buist, sound engineer and field recordist (National Geographic, DreamWorks, Paramount Pictures).
Spain and Portugal represent two countries with truly vibrant and distinct cultures. At anytime, day or night, you can expect an abundance of ambient sounds and vocalisations on every corner, except for during the afternoon siesta of course.
We roamed the streets of Seville, Granada, Lisbon, Coimbra, Porto and beyond recording everyday life in tapas bars, restaurants, markets, public transport, universities, local football matches, cultural and religious events and more to bring you an accurate sonic representation of these great countries
All tracks were recorded in high definition by Evan Buist, sound engineer and field recordist (National Geographic, DreamWorks, Paramount Pictures).
Get the sounds of flowing, streaming water – in ambisonics format. features the sounds of waterfalls, large and small rivers and streams.
G4F SFX07 – YellowStone Geyers is a sound effect library dedicated to sounds of geysers.
G4F’s Geysers soundbank comprises high quality recordings of most of the geysers in Yellowstone National Park, USA. It also contains five eruption designs, carefully put together and designed for an instant use.
The bank is sorted by categories : Mudpots, steam, water bubbles, water splashes, water streams and water lapping from Yellowstone’s amazing lake as a bonus. Finally, you will find sounds from the Dragon’s Mouth Geyser, the Porcelain Basin and a massive eruption of the Steamboat Geyser from September 3rd, 2014.
The bank was created by Marie Doyeux and Arnaud Roy. It was entirely meta dated for SoundMiner, and every file comes with an artwork.
Nb Files: 54 wavs
Nb SFX: 75
Size: 3,50 Go (zip archive of 3,24 Go)
UCS Naming and Classification
This unique library contains atmospheres from Cologne and its surroundings. If you're looking for that certain Germany city sound, you'll find lots of it right here, captured in the city centre, parks, churches, the Rhine shore, the trains, the subway – and the beer garden.
Over 90 minutes of fridge hums, buzzes, deep rumbles, tones, and clicks. Find all the fridge sounds you need with unlimited potential for sci-fi designed tones and other sonic manipulation.
STORM TEXTURES FOR ANY PROJECT
The SB101 STORM sound effects library provides varied detailed textures of rain storms, thunder storms and wind.
YOUR SECRET WEAPON TO CREATE THE PERFECT STORM
With all the included Thunderclaps, Thunderstorms, Wind and Rain intensities in this STORM library, you will be able to create any storm imaginable for your feature film, tv show, or live performance. Use the files separately for that perfect thunder and lightning strike, or layer them to create a storm that rises and falls with the needs of your project. Every file has Soundminer compliant metadata embedded, and a structured organized file naming structure. This library of storms has been meticulously edited from over 200 hours of recordings. Don’t get stuck in the endless loop of using those same old boring rain files from your sound library — get this STORM collection of sounds and take your project to the next level!
An innovative sound library boasting an exceptional assortment of immersive soundscapes and isolated sound elements from the urban symphony, taken from the unique perspective of elevated locations above key metropolitan areas, giving you the power to construct soundscapes that ebb and flow with unparalleled authenticity.
Buckle up (your harness)!
Climbing Gear Foley Vol. 1 contains textural sounds of lead-climbing paraphernalia manipulated by an experienced climber. This library emphasises the fine detail of equipment, allowing you to immerse audiences in the intensity of the sport.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded interactions with a harness, rope, carabiners, and quickdraws to create a selection of authentic, material sound effects. Sounds of metallic clip-ins, plastic straps, friction-filled rope pulls, squeaking locks, hardhat rattles (and more!) enable you to inject your climbing sequences with gritty realism.
Use this library for any mountaineering- and climbing-themed projects in the TV. Film and Game industries.
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.
Who’s the pool shark here? Ornament your billiards scenes and games with the pristine sounds of “Billiards”. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Billiards SFX Pack
100+ sounds in 88 SFX files that capture all the moves in a billiards game. You will get variations of each sound in different proximity, angle, and style of action.
From hits, miss hits and break shots to ASMR sounds of chalk takes and to ball actions in pockets and on rails, with different perspectives, these meticulously recorded sounds have both direct usability and room for further sound design.
The sounds are broadly grouped as hits, miss hits, break shots, ball movement, pocket actions, cue sticks, cue balls/balls, triangle and others.
You will get clear naming and fully explanatory metadata and the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail in 100+ pristine stereo, mono, single and multiple sounds. Recorded in 24bit-96kHz .WAV format on our favorite Sennheiser MKH 8040 stereo pair.
What’s InsideBilliards, Sports, Indoor, Pool, Snooker, Ball, Cue Ball, Cue Stick, Chalk, Table, Miss Shot, Break Shot, Drop, Pull, Pocket, Triangle, Fast, Slow, Hard, Close-up, Single, Multiple, Casino, Ball Game, Rattle, Rolling, Dragging, Full, Empty, Rubbing
What else you may need
You may also want to check out Okey SFX Pack for 130+ sounds of collecting, pouring and arranging of Okey pieces and dropping, hitting, pushing sounds of an Okey wooden board.
Backgammon SFX Pack is a good option, too with 100+ unique sounds of flipping, dice rolling, spilling, dropping, shaking, rolling, spinning pieces, wood and plastic boards and 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.
Sri Lanka Soundscapes: The Collection Vol. 1-3 features all 3 volumes of the Sri Lanka Soundscapes series.
Sri Lanka Soundscapes Vol. 1 – Urban and Walla
This library features typical sounds from Busy Streets, Road Traffic, Stations, Schools, Tourist Areas, Residential Villages and General Wallasound captured around southern Sri Lanka. The library serves as a great palette of local and unique sounds within busy crowded environments to really ground and localise any projects.
A particular highlight for me in this library was capturing the army drill commands outside the Old Army Headquarters in Galle.
Sri Lanka Soundscapes Vol. 2 – Countryside
This library features typical sounds recorded in the rice paddy’s and farms and beaches of Southern Sri Lanka. It features, ambiences containing local animals and birds (did someone say Peacock), insects, remote villages, Ocean waves all in quiet secluded environments. The library serves as a great palette of local and unique sounds within quiet countryside environments to really ground and localise any projects. Contains a mix of ambience recordings and some shorter animal specific SFX.
A particular highlight for me on this collection was capturing the sound of a duck farting as it plodded away (see movement and fart file at 00:07)- cutting edge stuff.
Sri Lanka Soundscapes Vol. 3 – Vehicles
This library features a huge range of vehicles noises captured along the unique and chaotic sounding Sri Lankan roads. The collection includes pass by’s, engine sounds and interiors from Tuk Tuk’s, HGV’s, Buses, SUV’s, Tractors, Mopeds, Motorbikes, Diesel engine and Trains at a variety of perspectives and speeds.
The library serves as a great palette of local and unique sounds for any project that involves the chaotic Asian traffic and roads.
A personal highlight on this library is the ‘ Musical Unique Bus Horn Beep Melody’, it came out of nowhere and I’ve never heard one like it!
Sounds recorded in Stereo 24bit/48kHz and UCS compatible.
Wind Bundle includes three different sound libraries, providing a comprehensive and versatile collection of windy sounds. By purchasing this bundle you will benefit of a 20% discount.
The FROST MAGE PREMIUM EDITION is a great option if you are looking for sharp, splintering and crispy sound effects for that extra layer of magic in you sorcery sequences. Construction kit included!
• It features 599 Designed SFX (96khz 32 bit) .wav files
• Includes the Construction Kit with over 740 SFX (96khz 32 bit) .wav files
• Sound effects of the same category are grouped in the same file with 0.5 silence intervals.
• Organized in folders and named under the Universal Category System (UCS)
It’s all ready-to-use!
Spaceship Pneumatic Airlock Door Sound Effect Pack – Debsound
This sound effects pack is perfect for futuristic, sci-fi or other productions where pneumatic airlock door opening and closing sounds are required.
As a huge Sci-Fi fan, I’ve always loved the sounds of such movies whatever they were. So I couldn’t leave pneumatic airlock doors out of my work.
This sound effect collection is ideal for use in game software, applications.
41 Pneumatic Airlock Door sound effect.
For games, apps or productions where Airlock Door scenes appear.
This sound library features more than 300 minutes of audio recorded during wind storms in Gdynia. This was experimental session, with 7 microphones placed in different places, such as plant pots, watering can, bucket, behind wicker chairs, on the wall and ground. Everything was recorded during 4 different weather states. Each state has 7 mono perspectives + 2 stereo mixes (one outside, and one from the inside of containers). You can hear it in the preview or read in metadata list. Each file was named with UCS in mind.
Microphones used: LOM mics, DPA 4061 / 4062, Rode NTG3
There’s a lot of material here – recorded and organized with a sound editor’s sensibility.
The recordings started out by chance – I’d end up in protest situations, and happened to have a recorder with me. This year I was a little more proactive, especially for the rally in Washington Square Park after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade.
Also in this collection: A Downtown Brooklyn BLM march, A 2019 Foley Square rally in response to border camps/family separation, A UFT protest at City Hall, and a couple different mics on the jubilant reaction to Biden’s presidential win on the corner of Atlantic and Court in Brooklyn. There’s not much underpinning music or other legally difficult material, but there is some. I’ve chosen to leave it in, for the most part, as this is also a historical record.
Quite a few takes are very long, and encompass changing circumstances. I’ve opted to use WAV markers, which I’m also providing as “Notes” metadata – making phrases, cheers, and other things I’ve noted searchable and findable!
Everything is UCS complaint.
*Most material was recorded on a Sony PCM-100, and originated 96k/24bit; Some material was recorded with the Sennheiser Ambeo Headset, and was upsampled to 96k/24bit from 48k/24bit
Recorded in Hong Kong months prior to the unrest and turmoil in the region. This pack explores various areas in Hong Kong from the ladies’ market and “Ten Thousand Buddha Temple” in Kowloon District to the popular fishing villages and stunning scenery of Sai Kung District, to the Dragons Back mountain and wilderness trails in the Southern District
Features Buddhist chants and rituals from the “Ten Thousand Buddha Temple”, urban and city atmospheres, and landscape ambient recordings this pack showcases how varied and unpredictable Hong Kong is. Includes 13 with UCS metadata.
UK Football Vol. 2 is the second in our series of candid UK football fan recordings. Crowd reactions and walla were captured during gameplay to bring you a selection of spectator sounds brimming with unique English personality!
This library comprises a variety of activity recorded by our Audio Craftsmen from a pitchside and stands (AKA bleachers) perspective. Inside you will find football impacts, “weeey”s, “awww”s and boos, swearing, yelling, clapping, players shouting, Tannoy announcements, jeering, whistles, as well as encouraging, aggressive, angry, annoyed, sarcastic and fighting spectators!
This collection of football fervour is ideal for TV, Film and game scenes requiring passionate voices and performances. Use it to embellish sport backgrounds or boost tension during on-screen competitions.
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.
Irish Countryside Vol. 1 brings you the textural sounds of Malin Head, the windiest place in Ireland and home to scenes from Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
This collection of rural ambiences features recordings of the Malin Head farm, its rugged natural elements and its docile animals. Uncover strong, gusting winds, sheep bleats, a whistling metal fence, the distant roar of the ocean, rain pattering on shed roofs, wind buffeting against a creaking hayloft, the ebb and flow of the tide in the bay, and even a sheep playing with a bucket.
These sounds are ideal for layering emotion, texture and tone into your soundscapes and visual landscapes. Pay homage to Ireland’s sonic beauty in TV, Film, Game and Audio projects with this immersive collection.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 48kHz format, and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
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