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Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond
UK Football Vol. 5 is the fourth in our series of candid UK football fan recordings. It comprises the sounds of English-accented voices, cheers, chants, songs, shouts, yells, groans, Tannoy announcements and more!
To create this library, our Audio Craftsmen recorded the authentic sounds of an English football match, focusing on large crowd atmosphere and reactions. The immersive nature of these recordings make them perfect for TV, Film and game scenes requiring passionate voices and performances.
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.
People & Crowds Vol. 1 brings you all the hubbub, hustle and bustle that comes with big cities during main events. Our Audio Craftsmen captured the sounds of large, dense crowds of people during the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in Manchester, UK. The result is a concise collection of walla-infused ambiences filled to the brim with passing international voices, movement and city activity.
This library is perfect for injecting a sense of liveliness and business into your projects: make sparse scenes feel fuller, or build bustling backgrounds for your Game, TV and Film productions with this useful collection!
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.
The second installment of the Epic Nature Loops sound effects series is here! Welcome to a freshly field recorded and curated ambient sound pack collection of over 100+ game ready nature loops! Epic Nature Loops 2 features many essential habitats of real life & sound types needed for video games & movies. The sound files are game ready & seamlessly loop-able. You, & your users, can experience new & exciting natural locations captured across the rolling hills of Tennessee, Cades Cove, the Smoky Mountains, Breckenridge Mountains, Natchez Trace, North Carolina, New York & the countryside of Italy.
Nature library is a collection of background ambiences covering lots of terrain from seas and lake shores, rivers, desert, grasslands, forests with birds, swamps, mountains and tropical areas all recorded in the North and Central Americas and Pacific Islands.
Eastern European Wetlands is our new sound effects library, made in collaboration with our friend and acclaimed field recordist Georgi Valchev from West Wolf Audio.
This outstanding collection of sound effects contains stunning ambient recordings from a variety of rural locations within Eastern Europe, such as Bulgaria and Romania. These real-world locations include wetlands, marshes, swamps, forests and city outskirts, and features a diverse line-up of wildlife local to each area.
Our team of audio craftsmen have edited and processed each sound with the upmost precision, so that you can drop your sounds straight into your project timeline and get down to work with minimal fuss.
All files in this library come at a sample rate of 24Bit 96kHz allowing for further sonic manipulation, and have been tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
The First Industrial Revolution, which arised in the second half of the 18th century, meant a series of industrial and socioeconomical transformations and a turning point on sound: the end of silence.
Asturian sound editor and designer Oscar de Avila is the main recordist of this Library. He begins his career in the mid 90s as a music composer and sound editor for audiovisual media, carrying out numerous projects for several institutions and film production companies in the Principality of Asturias.
This large compilation of registers formed by forced sounds, dark and electrical textures and industrial-themed backgrounds have been registered in 2019 at the most important and strategic areas (they had difficult access and permits were hard to get) around some industrial locations in the Principality of Asturias,Spain, which is my home place, as I was working for a documentary website on Asturian industrial historic heritage as the only responsible for sound design and editing (patrimoniuindustrial.com).
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!
This library features ambience and crowd recordings captured inside Hong Kong shopping malls. Each recordings reflects a specific venue acoustics, crowd dynamics and perspectives. The primary language found in these recordings are Cantonese and Mandarin.
All recordings are recorded, edited and processed to broadcast standard , ready for all types of media use, such as animations, films, games, advertisements and other aspiring creative projects.
Create ultra-realistic ATHLETIC SPORTS projects with this one-of-a-kind audio pack of sound effects for a variety of different Olympic sports! With 480 top-quality audio assets (160 original sounds) mixed and mastered by our team of audio experts and veterans of the AAA Gaming industry, this aquatic sports sound pack is perfect for:
…and more!
ALL ASPECTS OF ATHLETIC SPORTS GAMEPLAY INCLUDED
From AIR HORN BLASTS and WHISTLE BLOWS for a SOCCER / FOOTBALL MATCH, to relaxing GOLF ambience and gameplay sounds, various Olympic STADIUM ambiences, multiple size CROWD CHEERING and BOOING, BASEBALL and HOCKEY movement and hits, UPLIFTING DRUMMING loops, WINTER SPORTS movement sounds, all essential sound effects for GYMNASTICS, WEIGHTLIFTING GEAR handling, and much much more, this sound effects library will leave nothing to be desired!
INCREDIBLE EASE-OF-USE
Each audio file is drag-and-drop ready, presented in high-quality MP3 and WAV formats with meticulously labeled keywords, so you can create the perfect gaming experience for your players in a matter of moments! Enrich your title in seconds with beautifully mixed, AAA quality sounds brought to you by our team of industry veterans, whose hundreds of games worth of experience have culminated in this extraordinary sound pack!
With 480 top quality audio assets (160 original sounds), multiple variants, recording takes, and options such as single hits or loops, this audio pack is jam-packed with any sound you could want.
FREE BONUS: Included are also numerous athletics-relevant sounds from our other sport libraries, as well as uplifting drum beat loops that perfectly compliment your sporting even trailer or adrenalin rushing gameplay.
DOWNLOAD NOW to add massive value to your athletic sports project!
KEY FEATURES:
PERFECT FOR:
MASSIVE SAVINGS: Gear up with the Sports Sound Effects Bundle, your all-access pass to athletic sounds—from basketball, tennis, and soccer to Olympic sports, street fights, martial arts, racing, extreme sports, and sports venue ambiences. This definitive collection meets all your sports audio needs, eliminating the need for future purchases. Secure this bundle now to capitalize on substantial savings over buying individual sounds. Click here to enhance your sports productions with unrivaled diversity and quality!
A selection of thunder and storm effects, recorded in London, United Kingdom. Complete storms, long-form sequences, claps & rumbles.
A cornucopia of thunder and rain, recorded in a city location, with six complete storms, from start to end, three long-form sequences and individual rumbles and claps. Over 8GB of material, from distant rolls to close-up claps, building storms, torrential rain and ominous rumbles, you’re sure to find that something amazing for your city storm scenario.
46 stereo files at 96/24, with full Soundminer Metadata and UCS data.
From the busy streets of Jakarta to the deep jungles of Borneo MWS Indonesian Ambiences is providing a diverse snapshot of Indonesia soundscape.
Carefully recorded over a 40 days trip it covers many islands of the Indonesian archipelago.
MWS Indonesian Ambiences includes urban scenes like squares, markets, small streets and avenue with bustling life and many calls to prayer singing through PAs. Suburban and villages scenes for quieter purposes, sea sides from near to desert Islands, a floating market and deep jungles ambiences at various time of the day.
The sounds are fully Meta-Tagged and are UCS compliant.
Industrial, gas boiler room / domestic household gas boiler room included)
Industrial, gas boiler room in operation. Boilers, pumps, sensors, tank, electronics and a variety of pipelines.
Recorded with MS stereo rig (Sennheiser MKH 60/30) via Sound Devices mixer/recorder and with JRF contact mics (see photos).
Metadata included with description, info about equipment used and mic position.
Urban Underground consists of 111 files that will help you recreate the soundscape of an underground area in an urban environment. Quiet room tones, muffled noises, distant impacts, water through pipes, hums, buzzes, HVACs, fans, elevators and many more sounds are included.
Spatial Rain & Thunders 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!
Weather Bundle includes eight different sound libraries, featuring rain and wind both in urban and rural environments, at 30% discount.
This bundle brings together an incredible collection of rain and wind sounds hitting and blasting different surfaces at several intensities.
London 2020 captures the unique sound of the city throughout the Coronavirus pandemic, from March all the way through to December. It includes:
195 stereo files comprising over 10 hours of recordings, all made safely and according to the lockdown regulations in place at that time.
All recordings fully mastered and labelled (with metadata) using the Universal Category System.
Ambience Colors is a surprisingly diverse, vast collection of atmosphere tracks and sound effects. Pack of unforgettable memories collected over few years and places. Let’s go deeper into the highlights:
Herde of cows on a meadow | Inside a wasp nest | Bali hindu ceremonies with crowds, brahmins and announcers | Bali Village with dogs, roosters and crickets | Cambodia village around a marketplace and calm streets | Latin church mass catholic with a quiet crowd | Diffused city noise | Distant fireworks on New Year’s Eve| Inner courtyards of old Prague houses | City streets | Crowd indoors at film shooting locations, restaurants and celebrations | Crowd outdoors around beer gardens | Industrial indoors with a meat processing factory | Huge poultry farm | Industrial outdoors on a building site or foresters machinery | International airports with crowds and announcers | Nature day in jungle, forest, swamp, pond, lake and meadow | Nature night in Asia and Europe | Ocean waves | Rain inside a tent or behind windows | Heavy rain outdoors | Roomtones and quiet places | Trains passing by and inside | Craftsmen workshops with power and hand tools
The rich and colourful sounds of the Mekong delta: this collection features a wide range of old diesel boat engines, gentle row boats along quintessential narrow waterways and a varied selection of local ambience, from quiet rural villages to the hustle and bustle of towns and live animal markets.
The majority of boats were recorded directly on board and up close from various points along the riverside, with a selection of perspectives. There are also over 10 isolated sounds – engines, waves/ wash, cock crows and dogs – with alternate versions at 192kHz for further manipulation. Full metadata is included (Soundminer), with keywords and detailed markers embedded to quickly locate specific sounds/ regions.
The Paris Ambisonics sound effects library is a collection of 73 immersive city ambience recordings from the streets, plazas, and parks of Paris, France. Use these versatile sounds to enliven your scenes with an authentic city atmosphere.
Recorded in 24-bit/96kHz with a Sennheiser AMBEO VR mic, Paris Ambisonics was captured at various locations throughout Paris including the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg Park and more. To capture these stunning ambiences, recordist Matt Snedecor traversed Paris with the goal of depicting its unique essence characterized by narrow streets, outdoor cafes, scooters and sirens. Be it bustling cab rides through dense boulevards or the resonant underbelly of the Arc de Triomphe, these authentic recordings embody the vibrant and dynamic spirit of Paris.
Delivered in both Ambisonic and stereo formats, each audio file is embedded with rich descriptions for quick intuitive search results. Detailed metadata includes coordinates and cross streets for maximum geographic clarity.
This library includes SurroundZone2 software by TSL Products that allows you to control the Ambisonics files by pointing “virtual microphones” any direction with a wide range of polar patterns. Unparalleled flexibility lets users match backgrounds with the specific setting of any scene and decode to mono, stereo, 5.1, 7.1 and beyond. These recordings are also perfect for 3D Audio applications including VR and 360º video.
Matt Snedecor
Take a sonic journey through Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, London, Stockholm and Berlin with this characteristic collection of immersive atmospheres. European Capitals is an exclusive specialty library featuring nearly 20 hours of authentic city ambience recordings for an array of scenes in European life.
Recorded by award-winning sound designer Ken Skoglund (The Duel, Fire With Fire), with the assistance of Anna Bertmark and Eric Eklund, the European Capitals library pristinely captures the essence of six major cities. Each surround ambience transports your audience to iconic and everyday locations – from the Louvre museum in Paris to a small pub in Amsterdam and beyond. This library delivers walla sound effects in various languages, public places, train announcements, boats and dock ambience, traffic, birds, and many more location-specific sonic indicators.
Sounds for each city are delivered in both 5.1 Surround and Stereo. Each sound file is embedded with descriptive metadata including a photo from the exact recording location for your reference. Grab the whole collection, or select a specific city to drop straight into your project.
Ken Skoglund: Recordist (Berlin, Rome, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Paris)
Anna Bertmark: Recordist (London)
Eric Eklund: Recordist and photographer (Stockholm)
Arno Verstappen: Assistant Editor
Ronnie Lundquist: Photographer (Berlin, Amsterdam, Stockholm)
Anton Söderhäll: Photographer (Rome)
Odd Hagel: Photographer (Paris)
Joss Albert: Photographer (London)
Create ultra-realistic projects for SPORTS on WHEELS with this one-of-a-kind audio pack of sound effects for a variety of different motorized, bicycle, and racing sports! With 660 top-quality audio assets (220 original sounds) mixed and mastered by our team of audio experts and veterans of the AAA Gaming industry, this sports sound pack is perfect for any kind of sports on wheels, including:
Or any other Motor Sport or Sport on Wheels!
ALL ASPECTS OF SPORTS GAMEPLAY INCLUDED
From BICYCLE BIKE BELL RINGS, to BICYCLE DRIFTS, QUICK STOPPING, JUMPS, BIKE MOVEMENT, WHEEL SPOKES CLICKING, PEDAL PUSHES, JUMP LANDINGS, DIRT BIKE HUMS, ENGINE sounds, SPEEDING WHIZZES, ACCELERATORS, JEEP & TRUCK noises with CAR ENGINES, TIRES SQUEALING and SCREECHING, DOOR OPENS and CLOSES, HORN HONKS, MOTORCYCLE ENGINES and MOVEMENT noises, MECHANICS HANDLING, RACECAR ENGINES and MOVEMENT noises, POLICE SIRENS, SKATEBOARD JUMP LANDINGS, TRICK FAILED ATTEMPTS, JUMPS, MOVEMENTS, and much much more! This sound effects library will leave nothing to be desired!
INCREDIBLE EASE-OF-USE
Each audio file is drag-and-drop ready, presented in high-quality MP3 and WAV formats with meticulously labeled keywords, so you can create the perfect gaming experience for your players in a matter of moments! Enrich your title in seconds with beautifully mixed, AAA quality sounds brought to you by our team of industry veterans, whose hundreds of games worth of experience have culminated in this extraordinary sound pack!
With 660 top quality audio assets (220 original sounds), multiple variants, recording takes, and options such as single hits or loops, this audio pack is jam-packed with any sound you could want.
KEY FEATURES:
MASSIVE SAVINGS: Gear up with the Sports Sound Effects Bundle, your all-access pass to athletic sounds—from basketball, tennis, and soccer to Olympic sports, street fights, martial arts, racing, extreme sports, and sports venue ambiences. This definitive collection meets all your sports audio needs, eliminating the need for future purchases. Secure this bundle now to capitalize on substantial savings over buying individual sounds. Click here to enhance your sports productions with unrivaled diversity and quality!
This collaboration of the sound designers Bony Stoev and Saro Sahihi is the long awaited successor and main chapter of “Surrounding Horror – Prologue”.
In this library you’ll find all sounds from the “Surrounding Horror Soundscapes” library downmixed to Stereo.
Each soundscape was painstakingly handcrafted to 2:30 minute length with lots of frightening and terrifying sonic events.
It gives your horror-related production just the right amount of heart-stopping texture, leaving your audience with fear crawling up their spines to hold ’em tight.
Also available: “ANGST | Surrounding Horror – Construction Kit” (or get the Bundle)
Welcome to my ‘TRAIN ANNOUNCEMENTS CONCATENATION KIT’. What does that mean? Well, it means you can use the words, numbers and phrases I have created to make your own station announcements, using whichever DAW you like to use.
With 90 popular UK stations phrases such as ‘We’re sorry to announce that the…’, ‘fast train’ slow train’ ‘is now boarding’ and ‘…has been cancelled’ you can create thousands of combinations of train times and destinations. I’ve made a couple of pre-canned ones for you as a sample and put one station background ambience in there too. All the VO is in a RP (well spoken) English male voice.
THE SOUND OF THE GREAT WIDE OPEN
PRAIRIES is your library of coice if you are looking for extraordinary material to support your natural sound scenery. Whether you’re conceptualizing an adventure movie or documentary project, a catchy advertisement or the next big gaming hit – whatever creative idea occurs to you, this library supports your potential: with more than 4.8 GB exceeding 5 hrs and a total of 105 files of high-quality material, you’ll surely find what you need.
WHAT’S INSIDE
AUTHENTIC ANIMAL RECORDINGS
The collected bio-acoustic treasure of PRAIRIES includes for instance various indigenous animals such as a wide spectrum of songful birds, buzzing insects, howling coyotes or chirping prairie-dogs.
INCREDIBLE SONIC BACKDROP
The PRAIRIES library naturally also comes with a generous range of wind recordings: gusting, blustering, softly blowing, breezing, roaring through the typical vegetation of this area. As special features, the library holds weather phenomenon recordings of grass fire and distant thunder rolling in.
This Library is also part of The Complete Quiet Planet Bundle.
Libraries from Quiet Planet are covered by a special EULA - read it here.
Yellowstone National Park, this library transports the listener to someplace far away from Earth – although sounds represent the primal geological processes of our beautiful planet.
Whether you are designing for daunting underground environments or films somewhere else in our solar system, draw from the rich sonic details in this collection and fill your fictional realm with uniqueness and character – all in incredibly immersive 3D SURROUND!
IDEAL CONDITIONS – EXCELLENT QUALITY
GEOTHERMAL was recorded at night in order to eliminate bird, tourism and transport noises.
The result is a pristine, authentic toolkit with which to sketch out, layer and shape environments and products of your imagination (or project briefing).
EARTHLY, YET ALIEN
GEOTHERMAL grants a sonic glimpse at the massive, seething processes continuously happening deep inside Mother Earth. Hostile underground environments, hellish scenes or extraterrestrial landscapes come to mind when immersing yourself in the sound.
This library is a true asset in the hands of the creative: Bring the unusual to life and embellish your designs with the almost uncanny details of the audio material available in GEOTHERMAL.
INCLUDING STEREO VERSION
In addition to the ORTF-3D files, the 3D SURROUND edition also contains all files in 2.0 stereo for your convenience to save time on unnecessary conversions. Instead, you can instantly use these great new sounds for all your projects that don’t require surround sound.
Files: 89
Size: 15+ GB; 20+ GB (incl. Stereo version)
Content Info: PDF + XLS
Format WAV – 24bit – 96kHz / Windows + Mac
Track Layout Lo: L • R • Ls • Rs; Hi: Lh • Rh • LSh • RSh
SAME QUALITY, SAME CONTENT
You don’t want to miss the excellent GEOTHERMAL source recordings, but don’t necessarily require the surround version? We offer the same recordings in the same quality in our stereo version at a lower price.
TECH SPECS:
Files: 33
Size: 4+ GB
Content Info: PDF + XLS
Format: WAV – 24bit – 96kHz / Windows + Mac
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