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Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond
London Ambisonics is a collection of 55 immersive city ambience recordings from the streets, parks and subways of London, England. Use these versatile sounds to enliven your scenes with an authentic city atmosphere. Recorded in 24-bit/96kHz with a Sennheiser AMBEO VR mic, London Ambisonics was captured at various locations throughout London including St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Palace Theatre, the River Thames and more. Detailed metadata includes coordinates and cross streets for maximum geographic clarity.
To capture these stunning ambiences, recordist Matt Snedecor traversed London with the goal of capturing its essence. In his own words:
“London, although there’s a lot of English, just has a different feel and sound than a major US city. So I was partly looking for urban sounds, but also getting the feel of the city itself. It was definitely not as big and loud as NYC and there’s also things like different sirens and horns than we have here.”
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.
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.
Matt Snedecor
Your DAW must support Quad (4-channel) tracks in order to use SurroundZone2 plug-in.
Walk down the boulevard, jump onto the metro, and catch the last train with this collection of soundscapes and transitions. Transport your listener to a cafe, the seaside, or the streets, or let their senses take flight as a plane passes by. When you need your audience to come onto the scene, then our pack of city and travel filmmaker sounds will be sure to bring it all to life.
This library was developed in cooperation with our partner VAMIFY.
Included are Ambiences (Airport, Train Station, Restaurant, City, Highway, Ocean, Weather) Vehicles (Cars, Motorcycles, Planes, Train) Musical Ambiences, Transitions.
Berlin is a city full of history but today it is thriving in arts and culture scene. Visit vintage flea markets and listen to the quirky conversations between locals and tourists. Walk pass the underground nightclubs and feel the low end kick-drums while queuing to enter. Share a ride on an S-Bahn and U-Bahn train to discover what it is like to live in the German capital.
Spatial Towns 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 propietary 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!
VARYING AMBIENCES WITH EVERY SEASON
DECIDUOUS FORESTS are intimate and harmonious spaces. Their sound character is much quieter than that of tropical forests – but nonetheless spectacular. Their loudness varies and changes with the seasons, as the angle of the arriving solar energy gradually impacts their character. Winter, spring, summer or fall – you’ll find what you need to create the whole acoustic range of different weather conditions and day times in this collection, e.g. dawn onsets with early birds, day birdsongs and insects, wind drips and frogs, passing flocks, rainy storm aftermath…
LIVELY ABUNDANCE
DECIDUOUS FORESTS is especially rich with songbird and insect ambiences. The sheer selection of birds included in these all-natural hardwood ambient recordings ranges from American Robin, Barred Owl and Darkeyed Junco to Ruffed Grouse, Tufted Titmouse, Whippoorwill and so many more. Whether talkative, rhythmic, active or relaxed, their bird songs shape the unique characteristic of these natural cathedrals as the echo or afterlife of the original sound has a pronounced forest acoustic.
This Library is also part of The Complete Quiet Planet Bundle.
Libraries from Quiet Planet are covered by a special EULA - read it here.AMONG NATURE’S MOST ENORMOUS FORCES
Sound Tracker® Gordon Hempton has recorded a fantastic and remarkable collection of waves in its various appearances. Hempton has searched the globe for more than three decades to record nature at its most pristine.
WHAT’S INSIDE
FROM GENTLE TO RAGING – VAST DYNAMIC RANGES
Waves are among the most universally appealing of all nature sounds. Their character changes dependent on tides, climatic and ground conditions, so they can come in as lapping, gurgling, surging, bubbling, sweeping, splashing, rumbling, rolling, howling, thundering, roaring, crashing and many other forms.
DIFFERENT SIZES AND CONTACT SURFACES
The library contains more than 5.5 hrs in 5.42 GB of pure and unaltered source recordings: 111 files which are classified by wave size and beach substrate (solid rock, boulder, pebble, sand).
This Library is also part of The Complete Quiet Planet Bundle.
Libraries from Quiet Planet are covered by a special EULA - read it here.WATER IN MOTION, AS PURE AND NATURAL AS IT GETS
This collection contains 121 beautiful recordings of stream, river, and waterfall sounds with close and distant perspectives. Dig into more than 3 hours of high quality material to find the perfect water sound.
WHAT’S INSIDE
ANY SOUND WATER CAN MAKE
No matter if you’re searching for trickles, babbles, gurgles, glugs, roars, splashes, surges, swishes, booms or some gentle water SFX, you’ll find it in this great and well-selected collection. This library offers a complete kit to produce whatever stream, river, or waterfall sounds you may need.
This Library is also part of The Complete Quiet Planet Bundle.
Libraries from Quiet Planet are covered by a special EULA - read it here.THE COMPLETE NATURE AMBIENCE TOOLKIT
NATURE ESSENTIALS is the first SFX library from a series of absolutely stunning nature recordings by Emmy-winner and nature recording genius Gordon Hempton. Hempton has searched the globe for more than three decades to record nature at its most pristine.
PREMIUM SELECTION OF NATURAL SOUNDSCAPES
NATURE ESSENTIALS offers all the necessary ingredients to immediately produce stunning natural soundscapes. The sonic palette includes wind, rain, thunder, streams, surf and a wide selection of ambiences and wildlife vocalizations. These sound files are unmixed so you can confidently present actual places or creatively mix something uniquely yours.
USEFUL CATEGORIES AND GUIDES
In addition, these files are embedded with metadata offering geographic location, the bird species or animals that are heard, plus advice on how to use a particular sound to achieve best results.
This Library is also part of The Complete Quiet Planet Bundle.
Libraries from Quiet Planet are covered by a special EULA - read it here.“Collected Ambiences“ – Series description:
Each library of the “Collected Ambiences“ series features 33 various Stereo Ambiences.
All recorded with Sound Devices 744T, Sonosax SX-R4+, Sennheiser MKH8040 ORTF, Sennheiser MKH8050 + MK30 MS, RODE NT1-A or Sony PCM-D100.
All files were cleaned, edited and most of the files loop seamlessly.
Collected Ambiences – Volume XIV
Harvester Cabin, Home Improvement, Busy Exhibition Hallway, Kids Crowds, Farm, Coutryside
The lush sound of the Mediterranean Sea
It contains waves rolling on a rocky coast and splashing on large boulders on a pier.
All sounds are tagged with metadata
Immerse your audience in nightmares with your very own collection of spooky, mysterious, and chilling ambiences that will transport them to new dimensions of suspense and fear! From the dead of night to the pale light of day, from abandoned mansions to cursed graveyards, HORROR AMBIENCES is the perfect choice to raise goosebumps in any scene you require.
So pack your flashlight and take your audience on a journey through haunted houses, undead wastelands, dark forests, and the shadows of the apocalypse!
TRUE IMMERSION
HORROR AMBIENCES is the only sound bank on the market that goes beyond artificial drones, synth-generated soundscapes, or raw noises to instead use movie quality mixing to combine field recordings of rich, natural sounds into custom ambiences, immersing your users in truly dynamic environments that feel tailored to each scene.
ALL NEEDS COVERED
With every aspect of the horror genre as a foreground or background audio, multiple versions and levels of intensity for the sounds, seamless transitions, and formats from Hi-Res WAV to High-Quality MP3, you’ll be spoiled for choice! What’s more, HORROR AMBIENCES includes easy contact with our expert team for any additional, custom requests.
DRAG AND DROP READY
Each audio file has been mastered and carefully designed to seamlessly blend into any mix of sound effects, music, or dialogue in your project, with no tweaking required! With meticulous labeling and expansive use of keywords in filenames, this massive library is easy to navigate and you wll find the perfect sound in seconds.
Look no further than blockbuster films to see how crucial incredible audio is for a truly immersive horror experience. With this in mind, we have meticulously designed HORROR AMBIENCES for you to immerse your audience in maximum tension.
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Places Ambience Library supplies you with 111 common or familiar locations from Airport to Zoo.
Placing focus on locations with human created or populated environments such as public spaces, event gatherings, and public service infrastructures. Recognizable environments for easy use to add as a background creating your place for a scene.
Outdoor Ambience features 200 ambience length sound effects. Featured in this collection are crowds, cities, forests, jungles, parks, streets, parades, water and more! All sound effects have been hand-picked from the Sound Ideas HD – Atmospheres & Environments library.
Get the sounds of rally cars competing in the world championships. Pack of very fast speed passbys through the turns. Two general locations and additional recordings further away.
Race to the summit! A collection of impressive WRC sport car passbys in three different distances. Close, further and two bonus far sounds, also usable as ambiences. Recordings are not “whoosh” type – the microphones typically follow the cars. It is easy to pan customization or make it more spatial. Recorded at the popular Czech event Rally Bohemia.
INDUSTRIAL TERROR – Hits & Transitions is a second installment of Industrial Terror series.
It is a collection of dark, distorted, ear-piercing, industrial hits, impacts, crashes and transitions.
IT Hits & Transitions is an expansion pack that focuses in single, sharp hits and transitions rather than evolving, textural impacts and whooshes (as heard in Industrial Terror).
Collection consists of 145 carefully designed and rendered sound effects.
Unique processing of organic field recordings combined with modular processing makes it both grounded in reality and creepy. This collection is a perfect choice for any kind of horror genre.
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Senhheiser MKH8060 + DPA 4060
CREATED AND EDITED WITH: Pro Tools, Live 10, Reaktor, EOS2, Discord4, Modular
Sounds of Russia features a collection of high quality sounds recorded on location in St Petersburg and Moscow, Russia.
From the Moscow underground, to St Petersburg’s famous Hermitage art gallery, a number of unique church bell recordings and even the madness of Red Square celebrations during New Years Eve. This collection features various authentic ambiences, crowds, accents and more. Please see the tracklist below for more detailed track information.
Sounds of Russia 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 Russia.
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).
The latest installment in the Epic Stock Media Sci-fi World Sound Effects Series has landed on planet earth. Sci-fi World – Swarm presents a meticulously designed ambience loop library inspired by an insect-like alien race and their quest for dominance in the galaxy. Sci-fi World – Swarm is a collection of over 2 hours of interior and exterior sci-fi background loops.
With a selection of 141 designed sci-fi loops, you’ll be able to create new worlds effortlessly. Dramatic room tones, custom sci-fi interior and exterior scenes, ambient sounds like; alien cave, energy lab, transport hangar, termite mounds, and Queen’s chambers are all ready to mix, match, stack and layer for the perfect vibe in your production.
Loops are approximately one minute in length and the ambience loop files include one or two minimal or alt mix versions. Also, sounds are pre-mixed and mastered to high volume so you can mix your tracks for optimal immersion and sonic dynamics without losing fidelity.
Of course, it’s ready to use in any multi-media production. All of the recordings are royalty-free and RTU-OTB. Need more ambience loops? Be sure to check out Swarm sister sound libraries – Sci-fi World Colony and Sci-fi World Guardians Ambience Loop Libraries.
SSL11 London City Sounds is our first project recorded in London exclusively during a 4 days visit in the city. SURROUND SOUND LAB Team traveled to London just to record the main essence of this city!
Parks, Ambiences, Traffic, Wallas, indoors crowds, buses, trains, stations and touristic places, all available right now in this huge library.
More than 4:30 hours of original and actual recordings. 79 original field recordings (see map above for geo-localization) in Surround 5.1 , ST and Double MS RAW format (for custom editions).
Each ambience recorded in this library is at least 3-4 minutes long, so there is no need for looping ambience in your project!
This library was recorded in a Double MS mic configuration. This provides great post production possibilities.
SPANISH INSTITUTE AMBIENCES contains a great collection of ambiences recorded in public institutes around our country. It also include several recordings from children schools.
Children, classes, corridors, halls, playgrounds, with several Institute zones recorded exclusively for real projects. Now you have the chance to get them together in a great pack!
All the files have metadata embedded for great Soundminer type programs. They both include Spanish and English descriptions.
How many times have you looked for these kinds of files and they have English voices? Now you will have this high quality files recorded in Spain with Spanish voices.
Recordings from the Spanish capital. A collection of files containing a wide view of Madrid ambiences: Parks, streets, birds, city ambiences… 50 files of interior and exterior files recorded since 2009 in our city.
All the files have metadata embedded for great Soundminer type programs. They both include Spanish and English description.
Recordings from the German capital. A collection of files containing a wide view of Berlin ambiences: Parks, streets, undergrounds, city ambiences… 50 files of interior and exterior files recorded in the Summer of 2013.
Sounds of Canada includes a huge variety of local ambiences and sounds unique to Canada. From Canadian crowds, restaurants, bars and markets to community sporting events, stadium events, street parades, nature sounds, ski villages, the distinct rattling sound of the Vancouver Marathon, the Canadian pedestrian crossing button sound and even Vancouver’s famous steam-powered organ clock.
This collection is a true representation of Canadian sounds, all recorded on location whilst living in Vancouver, around British Colombia, Vancouver Island and beyond.
All tracks recorded by Evan Buist, sound engineer and field recordist (National Geographic, Dreamworks, Paramount Pictures).
A collection of high-quality stereo audio recordings capturing trains at speed in the United Kingdom.
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To give a city a good energy, you’ll need to add some background activities. Building sites are one of the of sounds of a living city. You will find different kind of atmospheres in this collection – including large building sites with cranes and outdoor elevators, various emergency alarm, excavators, hammers and grinders. All you need to give your set the realism of a big city.
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