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Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond
Wild life and urban activity, covering a wide variety of necessities for your South American post production project. Identified wildlife with their respective images embedded.
Water and Waves is our new sound effects library created in collaboration with our friends at West Wolf Audio.
This library features an inspired selection of authentic water ambiences from a range of stunning locations, including Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, as well as recordings taken from The Black Sea and The Agean Sea.
Our audio craftsmen have carefully edited each sound for maximum sonic clarity so that you can drop each sound directly into your project timeline and get down to work with minimal fuss.
Some of the sounds included in this library include rough seas with crashing waves, calm water lapping, lakeside ambiences with boat engines, various cave ambiences with dripping and rushing water, forest streams and water splashing against the hull of a sailboat.
This epic collection of sound effects gives you all the tools you need to design detailed and authentic aquatic soundscapes and is perfect for use in film, tv and video games with a seaside or lake setting.
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.
Orbital Emitter proudly presents The Engine Room – a comprehensive sci-fi environment sound-set giving you a rich palette of sounds to design your own authentic sci-fi environments!
…In Science Fiction, interstellar vessels travel the galaxy at great speeds. In the heart of all these ships are massive engine rooms outputting incredible power… But what would such a space sound like? Read on for more!
The Engine Room sound-set contains 8 long playing audio-scenes and 29 isolated audio-stems which break down to a total of 78 sounds- which played in real time, is over 65 minutes of Royalty Free sci-fi sound!
The 8 long playing audio-scenes capture this engine room environment in various states of activity, from average speeds to faster than light cruising speeds, then back down to average power output and there’s even a separate night shift scene which is relaxed and atmospheric. Two more scenes feature the sounds of a fusion reactor in different states of operation adding another rich group of sounds to this exciting sound-set!
Each scene plays in real time and is perfect for editors and sound editors who want convincing sound environments on the quick for their productions.
And for more creative control, our audio-stems offer the complete sound palette used in all the audio-scenes!
The 29 audio-stem files are listed below.
And many of our audio-stems files contain multiple versions of a title giving you nuanced control with those sounds. Some of the multi-version audio-stems feature different perspectives or feature different modes of a sound.
If we break down our audio-stems by category we have:
And the best part about our sound-sets is that they are so easy to use! Just drag and drop our stems or scenes into any DAW or NLE have fun creating your own fantastic environments!
Orbital Emitter’s sound effects are designed to be at home in any motion picture, television show, video game or whatever sci-fi multimedia you wish to create!
The Engine Room Sound-Set is part of our Star Cruiser Environments Anthology Collection and delivers industry ready at 24 bit/48k WAV and each sound file contains simple meta-data to make our sound files easy to organize & find.
All of our sounds are 100% original, created in our sound-labs and designed to boldly explore the universe of sci-fi sound!
Thank you for reading and watch for more sci-fi sound from Orbital Emitter coming soon!
EUROPEAN LIFE – 3D SURROUND AMBIENCES
We wandered the European countryside to capture the unique flavors of the different small towns, villages, and suburbs.
Now Europe can be enjoyed from farmstead to cottage with this ambient sound effects collection that encompasses all the rural sound palettes from the North Sea to the Mediterranean. The sounds provide genuine atmospheres for each setting without any distractions in the foreground; perfect, countryside soundscapes for authentic audio layers in your production.
Varying from calm restaurants to small town cafes, rivers and creeks to traffic and streets, EUROPEAN LIFE contains an entire sonic palette of the European rural life. Recorded in 3D, you can choose the exact listening angle or use the stereo version (also included). EUROPEAN LIFE makes for an excellent addition to our TOWN & COUNTRY collection to broaden the agrarian scope, or as a companion to URBAN EUROPE to round out the sounds of the European continent.
‘Rain & Thunderstorms’ by Cinematic Sound Design delivers a collection of weather-themed ambiences, ready to cover your media productions needs.
Inside you will find a palette of ambiences of Rain, Thunderstorms, Wind and more. We have used the flagship ‘Sound Devices 702’ based setup with high quality microphones to capture these sounds, delivering a detailed, rich sound dextures. These recordings have been gathered over the course of several years involving different places around Central & South of Europe.
All sounds come 100% Royalty-Free, so no additional clearances are needed. This pack is a must-have addition to any cinematic project, that requires unique weather ambiences & backgrounds to complement the scene.
Product Details:
• 77 Ambience Recordings
• 100% Royalty-Free
• 24-Bit/96kHz
Geophonic Design contains a wide variety of unique and abstract designed sounds which include infrasonic frequencies as low as 10Hz. The effects in this library have a science fiction/horror vibe, everything from alien spaceships to underwater ambiences. These are perfect for your films, video games, documentaries and other projects that require a mysterious and ominous soundscape.
Our Audio Craftsmen used a ‘Geophone’ which is a seismic measurement device used to record seismic waves and vibrations of the earth, to record low heavy vibrations and rumbles of various surfaces and materials, often using metal resonators to enhance the sound. We captured sounds from window glass, busy roads with vehicle pass bys, metal posts and rails with football impacts, water passing through pipes, metal containers, plastic buckets and much, much more.
All of the included sounds were then precisely edited and designed by our dedicated in-house team to build ambiences such as: outer space, underground bunkers, submarines, weather stations and other abstract ambiences. Moreover, all the files are available in 24Bit 96kHz and extensively tagged with metadata and are UCS compliant to simplify your workflow.
The subsonic sounds in this library will also make a great addition to your library as layered effects, to build an enigmatic mood in your projects, and will be perfect as drones and backgrounds for futuristic, sci-fi and horror scenes.
UK Shops & Markets is a distinct collection of ambiences from small shops and markets recorded in England, captured during field recording sessions by our team of Audio Craftsmen. The sounds will make a great addition to your everyday audio collection and are perfect for use in your films, documentaries, commercials and video games.
Our team travelled and recorded sounds from authentic British outdoor and indoor markets, different perspectives from supermarkets and retail stores, shopping centres and much more, all in locations without music. We captured the sounds of trolleys passing, people speaking in English and other language, checkout tills, shopping bags and footsteps, essentially everything you would need to build an ambience of a shop/market in the UK.
We then carefully edited the files so that you can drop them straight to your projects effortlessly. All of the sounds are provided dry in 24Bit 96kHz allowing you for further sonic manipulation according to your requirement. Moreover, all the files are tagged with extensive metadata and are UCS compliant to search and select the desired sound with ease.
Take a sonic dive into the NYC subway – in immersive binaural stereo … the next best thing to being there. Roaring trains, squealing wheels, deep announcer echoes. Recorded from the platform – and on the train. Take a little trip … with the Audio Ninja.
Logo: modified from an original image by Gordon Johnson at Pixabay.com
Breathe life into your urban scenes with the authentic energy of the NYC Ambisonics Vol. 2 sound effects library. Create pristine backgrounds for everyday applications and specific locations – including tucked-away Brooklyn streets, MTA subway platforms, the New York Public Library, the rumble of midtown Manhattan, the bustling sounds of Grand Central Station, and more.
NYC Ambisonics Vol. 2 features 90 high-quality B-format ambiences with bundled software that allows you to point “virtual microphones” in any direction in real-time with a wide range of polar patterns. Captured by recordist Coll Anderson, this library features 24-bit/96kHz Ambisonics recordings from hand-picked locations throughout New York City, with a focus on Manhattan and Brooklyn. Pre-rendered stereo versions of all of the recordings are also included.
As a follow-up to Pro Sound Effects’ popular NYC Ambisonics library, and the latest addition to the Urban Ambisonics Bundle, NYC Ambisonics Vol. 2 maintains the standard of quality while expanding the sonic offering to a range of useful new locations.
The Ambisonics recordings can be decoded to mono, stereo, 5.1, 7.1 and beyond. In addition to giving sound editors and mixers greater flexibility and control over the recordings, these recordings are also perfect for 3D Audio applications including VR and 360º video.
Coll Anderson
Your DAW must support Quad (4-channel) tracks in order to use SurroundZone2 plug-in.
The LA Ambisonics sound effects library is an extensive collection of 239 immersive urban ambience recordings from throughout the city of Los Angeles. Add these LA ambiences sounds to strengthen your scenes with an authentic city soundscape — from beach and boardwalk sounds, city and freeway traffic, to street and restaurant walla, plane pass bys, and more.
Recorded by Academy Award®-winner Mark Mangini (Blade Runner 2049, Mad Max: Fury Road), LA Ambisonics was captured at various locations throughout Los Angeles including LAX, Venice Beach, Hollywood Boulevard, Union Station, Laurel Canyon and more. To capture these stunning ambiences, Mangini took the opportunity to think critically about what makes Los Angeles sound unique, and how to best achieve the immersion integral to the ambisonics format.
“I’ve been a fan of Ambisonic recording for some time, having developed my own microphones and plugins, not only for their sonic verisimilitude but for their obvious potential in cinema sound. While ‘immersion’ is the word on everyone’s lips as a sonic panacea, there is a great deal of controversy about how best to achieve it. I believe that it is in the reproduction of a believable 360 degree sound field that one achieves the highest level of ‘immersion’ and Ambisonics is one of the most practical and sonically pleasing ways to get there.” – Mark Mangini
Delivered in both Ambisonic and stereo formats, each audio file is embedded with rich descriptions for quick intuitive search results. 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.
Mark Mangini
Famous for cable cars, golden bridge and hippie culture, San Francisco has some of the most unique soundscapes in the world. Enjoy a walk along the streets of Castro, Haight-Ashbury and The Fisherman’s Wharf. Travel on a ferry to both eerie and peaceful Alcatraz Island. Feel the rumble and vibrations on the Golden Gate Bridge.
Various collected Fish Aquariums, Jacuzzi, Water Pumps, and different bubbles, made with dry ice, metal recipient or regular bubbles – high quality water bubbles and aquariums collected from various countries like Argentina, Ecuador, Germany, Switzerland, and Thailand.
59 Ambiences, most of them are loopeable, from the city of San Francisco, California (USA).
Recorded in October 2019.
Learn more about these recordings: https://soundxplorer.com/the-noise-of-san-francisco
Ambisonic – Transportation is a great collection of ambisonic ambient recordings performed at various transportation locations.
It is aimed to provide you with great spherical content to wrap your dialogue or main-focus content, allowing you to create a convincing and immersing soundtrack.
You will find recordings such as a Train car interior, Jet airliner interior, multiple cars interior under different driving conditions, Bus interior, public transportation stations and much more.
This collection is great for post-production, VR/AR experiences sound-design, game developers and any real-time 3D audio engine.
All files are tagged and categorized for your convenience – supporting multiple tag filtering browsing applications.
A Sennheiser Ambeo microphone paired with Zoom H8n was used to create this product.
This package includes 68 Recordings – 136 Files.
A total 2h 37m of content.
First Order AmbiX B-Format and Stereo @ 96Khz / 24bit.
Download a Demo here:
Want to hear an example of the included recordings? Download the B-format Demo Here
RAIN features various kinds of RAIN AMBIENCES and EFFECTS from different parts of CITIES and FORESTS.
RAIN AMBIENCE SET includes RAIN FALLING ON DIRT & LEAVES, RAIN COMING OUT FROM PIPES, HITTING THE ASPHALT, and various kinds of RAIN POURING ON ROOFS such as PORCHES and LARGE PARKINGS and more. And THUNDERS!!
RAIN VEHICLE SET includes CAR PASSING BYS and RAIN TRAFFICS in cities.
Recorded @ 24bit 96kHz / ORTF, SPACED OMNI, XY and carefully edited.
Don’t be afraid to jump off the deep end and explore those murky depths.
Carefully recorded and designed, Unfathomed brings you rich sonic audio assets to compliment your underwater and ambient textural projects. A wide assortment of performances await, comprised of impacts, raking, scraping, bursts, bubbles, pressure, suction, and many more all enacted underwater in various vessels of different sizes and materials.
There are two types of content in this library: raw hydrophone recordings and designed assets created solely from those recordings. The raw recordings are only lightly and carefully edited, to be mindful of and preserve the ultra- and sub-sonics captured by the hydrophone. This is so that when wielding and rending these assets, you can push them to the extreme and get the widest possible range of results.
Whether you want cacophonous noise, or deep calming drones, Unfathomed is sure to be a boon companion on your submariner adventures.
Jungles, walla, rivers, crickets, waterfalls, streets and rural villages all unique to Laos.
All sounds were recorded using the Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 and a stereo pair of Sennheiser MKH 8020s.
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Surround Sound LAB is proud to present our first ambisonic library decoded and mixed in Dolby ATMOS.
After several months recording around Madrid, we are including 22 tracks in ambisonic format, 48Khz and 24 bits HD of Far city Ambiences.
As always, top quality recordings specially designed for film audio projects.
This time we have mastered all the files in Ad Hoc Studios Madrid (link), Post Production sound studios certified by Avid and Dolby ATMOS, one of the best post production facilities in Spain.
We have decoded all the First Order Ambisonic recordings with the HarpeX plugin into a 7.1.2 Dolby ATMOS bed configuration, using the top channel to create totally outstanding ambiences tracks ready to use.
We want to let you know that Surround Sound LAB. new releases will be in Ambisonic format. This way you will be able to decode it from mono to Atmos systems. Also it’s important to think in ambisonics as the way to go for VR – and we are ready for it.
Welcome to to the historic city of Rome. Once you get here you feel all the history this city has to offer.
In this short visit to Rome we have captured the essence of this lovely city: Markets, museums, city live and of course, storms.
16 tracks recorded in different places of the city. 48Khz and 24 bits HD Audio. As always, great ambience files to use in your production.
This library was recorded in a Double MS mic configuration for the surround files. This provides great post production possibilities.
This small collection of sounds, include a variety of ambiences, feels, and classics Amsterdam Sounds. They are part of my last travel to this amazing city!
They include sounds from Dam Square, Hermitage Museums, Trains, canal tour, street ambiences…
All the files have metadata embebed for great Soundminer type programs. They both include Spanish and English description.
This collection includes 35 files, 48/24 stereo & surround 5.1.
This library consists of 59 recordings from the beautiful Italian island of Sardinia. Centred around the North East town of Olbia and surrounding areas, this library includes everything you need to get a real feel of this jewel of the Mediterranean. It includes everything from town ambiences to beaches (both busy and quiet), traffic, harbour sounds, church interiors, transport and much more.
Almost 4 hours of audio, with most ambiences over 3 minutes in length.
Perfect for film makers, theatre sound designers and anyone who needs that authentic, everyday sound of Sardinia.
All recordings are at 24Bit/96KHz with Soundminer, ID3 v2.3.0 & RIFF metadata embedded.
Streets and stop signs, freeways and highways, and yes, even a roundabout! This is a massive library featuring traffic ambiences that range from quiet suburb avenues, to downtown rush-hour. Not just urban environments, we also “hit the road” and drove north to sleepy desert towns, and single lane canyons. There's a ton of variety here!
Recorded with the stunning Sennheiser Ambeo microphone, each ambience is delivered in both AmbiX and FuMa formats, as well as Stereo, 5.1, and 7.1.
What’s more- a 360 video reference is provided to offer a fully immersive image of the sound effect being captured!
If you're after the sound of construction sites, this library gets you interior and exterior recordings from construction work such as cobblestone pavers, concrete shredders, harbor cranes, forklifts, jackhammers, stonecutters, metal hammering, excavators and more. A total of more than 2 hours of construction work ambiences are included.
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