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Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond
Bombastic and brash. This city never sleeps. A cacophony of noise that can only be the mega metropolis of Moscow.
Includes complete contents of Wild Alaska: Denali – Stereo Ambiences and Wild Alaska: Denali – Binaural Ambiences plus bonus water flowing recordings.
Add a sense of authenticity to any cold climate in your game or film by using recordings that were made with great effort to capture the wild nature of Denali avoiding human interference.
To help preserve the natural beauty of Alaska, 10% of each sale of this library will be donated to The Alaska Conservation Foundation. https://alaskaconservation.org
Enchanting Amsterdam, captured in high quality, premium sound. Trams, street scenes, traffic, parks, interiors, exteriors, the distinct echo of Amsterdam’s alleys and air of it’s waterways. This library has all you will need to kit out your project on Amsterdam!
According to the Spanish National Forest Inventory, 51 % of the Spanish total surface is covered by forestlands. This collection of sounds is the biggest nature recording project we have done in Surround Sound LAB.
Sound editors and designers Oscar de Avila and Barto Alcaine, among with Surround Sound LAB main recordist, Alvaro de Iscar are the main recordists of this Library. We have covered Asturias, Leon and Segovia Forests.
This large compilation of registers is designed to perform real nature sounds in your films and postproduction 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!
London Ambiences is a diverse collection of ambiences captured in our field recording sessions around the city of London, UK. The sounds in this library are perfect for creating a natural soundscape of London or other big cities and can be used in your films, documentaries and video games.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded ambiences from the busy streets of the capital: cafes, tunnels, the iconic Waterloo Bridge, Westminister Bridge, traffic, construction sites and more. The heavy rumbles from bridges, busy roads and streets are great for building a dense, multilayered city soundscape.
All of the included sounds are carefully edited and provided dry in 24Bit/96kHz and are tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata to help you find the right sound for your scene.
Pachamama is a background focused library that features uncharted sounds from Bolivia and Peru. This library invites you on a spiritual journey through the bustling city of La Paz to the sacred mountains of Machu Picchu.
This unique collection is comprised of various atmospheres recorded at different times of day – from the drunken hot spring party at night to the pensive street market in the morning. The library is also recorded with an emphasis on indoor perspective ambiences, perfect for your upcoming bedroom scenes.
Recorded and mastered in 24 bit/96 kHz, the library is passionately described with emotive yet precise words, and it is UCS (Universal Category System) compliant.
Gear Used: Roland R26, four channel built-in microphones (OMNI and XY), four channels merged down to a stereo file.
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A collection of sea waves from far to close-ups to enrich your sonic coastlines sound design or simply listen to them for relaxing and be transported back there.
The Soundcloud preview contains only some examples of the full library.
The library contains two different sets of recordings: stereo and/or Ambisonics 3rd Order.
This will cover any needs. If you need mono, you will just need to get only track 1 of the Ambisonics files. If you need different formats, you just need to convert them from the Ambisonics files, which contain all the 360º spherical information. There are plenty of tools out there to use.
Different sets of microphones and recorders have been used to create this library, according to what was best to get the recordings.
Recorders:
Sound Devices 788T
Zoom F8
Zoom F6
Brahma-in-Zoom
Microphones:
Reynolds custom 4Type
Sennheiser MKH 8060
DPA 4060
All microphones were fully protected with Rycote windshields.
The Isolated Ambience Loops sound effects loop library includes 99 haunting ambience loops, steady room tones, abstract loop-able soundscapes, ominous cinematic drones, game styled background loops as well as a variety of other modern ambiences that fit the dark ambient genre.
Save time and easily create background ambiences that set the tone in your production. 872.9MB of samples all royalty-free and ready to use in your next audio project.
Water is a major part of our lives. Not only in the fact that a large percentage of our bodies are made of water, but it is all around us and this library brings you water, and lots of it.
The library includes 121 recordings, over 6 and a quarter hours of audio, is over 10 GB in size and features everything from ocean waves, lakes, streams, mountain waterfalls, taking a shower, going to the toilet, running a tap, heavy rain, light rain, hailstones plus a number of underwater recordings (made with a hydrophone) and much more, this would be a huge player in any sound designer’s toolbox.
The recordings are a mixture of 24Bit/96KHz and 24Bit/48KHz with full Soundminer, RIFF INFO & ID3v2.3.0 metadata embedded.
Water Flowing is a library composed by 49 files of creeks, streams, rivers and waterfalls recorded in the italian forests.
All files are loopable and they are about one minute long
This library includes various sounds of rain, from a light to a real heavy rain. In total, this library contains 31 files. All sounds were recorded in different locations (city streets, apartment, farm, park).
Files are meta-tagged, that describe everything in more detail. Some files are already looped. These sounds can also be used as a construction kit to create the various general atmospheres.
Spatial Shores 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!
Tokyo Ambisonics is a sound effects library of 46 high-quality urban atmospheres in B-format with “”virtual mic”” software.
Included software lets users adjust perspective of the city ambiences in real-time for greater flexibility, realism, and creativity. Point “virtual microphones” in any direction with various polar patterns to match the specific setting of a scene!
The Ambisonics recordings can be decoded to mono, stereo, 5.1, 7.1 and beyond, allowing for versatile use of the library. Pre-rendered stereo versions are included as well.
Recorded in 24-bit/96kHz with a SoundField SPS200 mic by Masato Ushijima, Tokyo Ambisonics was captured at diverse locations throughout the city including the Yamanote Line railway, Shuto Expressway, Keihin Industrial Region, Daiba Bayside Park & more. The library contains sounds that are unique to Tokyo in addition to some more general-purpose urban ambiences.
This library is also ideal for use in VR audio and 360 video projects. Equip your personal library for the future of immersive media!
From 24/96 Sound Effects. Immersive Parks and Forests features 28 HD 24bit/96khz Surround Sound Effects with a large selection of Parks, Forests and Residential Areas. Most of the tracks were captured in Los Angeles during the 2020 Corona Virus shutdown, so the ambiences are quieter with less human activity. Recorded with a Voyage Audio 2nd Order Spatial Microphone. Mastered with ProTools Ultimate in 3 configurations: Ambisonic (Ambix 2nd Order (Wyzxrstuv), Atmos™ 7.1.2 Surround Sound (LRCLfeLssRssLrsRrsLtsRts) and Stereo (L-R) Most tracks are 2-3 Minutes in length with embedded metadata. All new, original recordings. From veteran Hollywood Sound Designer Lenny Jones. Want a taste of what’s included? Download the O2A and 7.1.2 Surround Demo files here: https://tinyurl.com/ImmersiveParks and try it out on your own system!
Here are diffused soundscapes of one of the largest and fastest-growing city on the planet: Dubai. The traffic and activity level is constant in this metropolis.
There are ambiences recorded at ground floor, and traffic tones recorded from high-rise buildings, at the 38th floor, from indoor and outdoor. One bonus included: a Bangkok traffic ambience from 25th floor.
257 sounds of electricity sorted in 8 main categories: Electronic data, Interference, Motor, Pass-by, Periodic Noise, Permanent Noise, Permanent Tone and Switch on/off.
From analog to digital, from low sub drone to high pitch pulse, from “warm” power-on of a generator to a harsh distortion interference, this library contains all you need for your realistic room machine ambience, your space gun, your robot motion, and all the strange things in your head.
The library is the collection of atmosphere recordings in the city of Belgrade during the winter months. It’s a gathering of 29 ambisonic atmospheres recorded at many different places in Belgrade. There are atmospheres from famous places in Belgrade, parks, busy streets, traffic, underground passages, pedestrian streets, atmospheres on Ada Isle, below and on the Ada bridge, Ada Lake, two rivers Sava and Danube.
All atmospheres are recorded at 96kHz/24Bit with condenser ambisonic microphone Rode NTSF1 and Zoom F8, in FuMa format.
You can convert ambisonic FuMa format in real time with free SoundField plugin to stereo, 5.1, 7.1, 7.1.4, or any other surround format. You can also change the panoramic view of the sound because they are 360 degrees recordings, as well as automate the panoramic perspective.
All recordings have metadata.
THE LAST NATURE AMBIENCE LIBRARY YOU WILL BUY
High quality nature and ambience sound effects are a real treasure when it comes to designing the backround ambience of a movie or game scene. If you’re looking for such sounds, you’ve just found the Holy Grail. With this package you’re ready for the next sound design decades.
Contains all 17 stereo packs of our QUIET PLANET® nature series. You will have full access to the unique spectrum of these vivid regions with all their depth. It will definitely enrich your portfolio!
1000 SELECTED SOUND FILES FROM ALL OVER PLANET EARTH
THE COMPLETE QUIET PLANET® – BASICS features a thorough collection of 1000 stereo files from all 17 QUIET PLANET® nature packs.
There’s nothing better than a nice long soak in a Jacuzzi hot tub… This library will instantly place you right in the middle of a beautiful oasis of warm bubbling water and massaging bubble jets. All sounds are cut into perfectly seamless loops and provided in both .wav and .mp3 to make your use of this library as easy as a trip to the spa!
These loops make it easy to drop the files into any game development software or to easily support props in a film/tv project.
Music is only heard in the demo, not in the actual footage.
Other libraries that pair well:
1000 Winds Project (Farts.) [The Original]
Everyone farts… and some people do it in the hot tub! CAUTION: This library contains the HIGHEST resolution fart winds that exist on this side of the internet… Well, let’s be real, all sides of the internet!
Chicago – Environmental & Transportation Ambiences
Depending on the needs of your project, you might just find that you need additional environmental ambiences, which are covered in this library! Recorded in high resolution, this library will put you right in the virtual seat of the city of neighborhoods!
PWC – Jet Ski – Sea Doo | Volume 1 & 2
More sounds in the world of water! Ultra-high resolution Sea Doo recordings utilizing on-board microphone techniques, from multiple perspectives (driver perspective (mid-side, exhaust perspective & engine perspective).
This premium collection of sound effects was recorded over 3 years in the foothills and lowlands around the Southern Carpathian Mountains in Romania. This is the sound of the eastern and southeastern European countryside – meadows and hedgerows thrumming with the sound of insects and birds.
Recorded in a spatially-open, exciting and realistic-sounding quad-surround NOS-based format*, these are ultra-low-noise recordings of cinematic quality. They are fully ‘rotatable’ for next-level sound editing options or alternative perspectives. Also available in stereo version.
Key Features
Featured Habitats
Lowland rural meadows, scrub edges and hedgerows.
Wildlife Vocalisations
Some of the many birds to be heard include turtle dove, golden oriole, blackcap, buzzard, jay and great-spotted woodpecker. The birds have a range which extends across southeastern Europe.
Technical
Sennheiser MKH8040 based 4.0 microphone setup recorded into Sonosax SX-R4+
Recording Characteristics
All sounds recorded by Nicholas Allan, a Jackson Hole and BAFTA-nominated sound designer who, along with his team, has created the natural soundtracks for countless natural history TV documentaries and feature films for National Geographic, BBC, Discovery, Animal Planet, Netflix and others.
Special thanks to: Christoph Promberger, Andrew Wilson and Jolanta Brdej-Allan.
* tracks 19 and 20 are recorded in double mid/side
My Trip To LA: Airport Airplane is the first in a four part collection. Join us as we take our flights to Los Angeles, California from Chicago, Illinois. In the first pack, we hear various different areas inside two airports. LAX (Los Angeles) and Midway (Chicago). Have some lunch at both food courts, take a seat near the terminals, and get past security.
All recordings are metadata tagged and updated using the Universal Category System in Soundminer, Basehead, and Soundly. Each are recorded at 192kHz, 24 bit into the Sony PCMD100 Portable Recorder.
Sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight.
Sounds of the London Underground contains 40 minutes of recordings exploring the sounds of the London tube trains and station platforms.
Take a journey outside during the middle of summer to beautiful suburban lake…. surrounded by a highway and roads… and lots of trees and canoes!
Suburbs of Chicago: Lake is the 7th in the Suburbs of Chicago Series. In this pack, we dive into the a large forest preserve in Illinois, bordered by in interstate, and cut in half by a long and busy road. Recordings include bikes, runners, walkers, and rollerbladers passing by on a bike path, in between large trees, lake water splashing from people canoeing, leaves and large grass/ plants rustle, and more!
Recorded at 24 bit, 192 kHz using the Sennheiser MKH8050 and MKH30 into a Sound Devices Mix Pre-6, along with the Sony D100 Handheld Recorder. Total of 25 .wav audio files rounds of this pack.
About four and a half hours of recordings packed with metadata tagged and updated using the Universal Category System in Soundminer, Basehead, and Soundly. As in the all the other packs in this series, you will hear distant traffic and planes throughout.
Have you ever wanted waterfall recordings with character, and texture, as opposed to hours of white noise?
Discover the roaring sound of a hidden waterfall, crashing on jagged rocks, pure ice-cold mountain water permeating the air.
The waterfall, hidden in the Carpathian mountains, is small enough that it still has texture and movement, whilst retaining that unmistakable roaring sound.
Recorded from different perspectives, distances and angles, over an hour and a half of recordings have been edited down to just over 11 minutes of audio at 24bit/96kHz, containing the essence of the waterfall.
The files are tagged with rich SoundMiner metadata, explaining in detail the perspective from which each sound was recorded.
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