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Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond
Out of ice? Please help yourself. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Breaking Ice
This cinematic ice sound effects bring you 103 files and 250+ sounds – in both basic organic and designed formats.
You will get different types of ice cracking, squeaking, and creaking that you need for your related projects and room for further sound design with the flexible texture of the sounds for customization.
Performances include single or multiple crashing, smashing, shattering, debris movements, falling on different surfaces, rolling, stabbing with different tools, tiny-medium-large ice breaking, sweeping through, scatters and more. Breaking ice can level up your projects with fresh high quality sound effects with variety and quality of recording. And the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!
All sounds are in mono and stereo 24bit/96 KHz Wav format and they are just great for Foley, film, video, game, advertisement and music.
Breaking ice can level up your projects with fresh high quality sound effects with variety and quality of recording and the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Crafting & Survival SFX Pack for access to 1000+ sounds of drawers, electricity, fire, tactical and sports equipment, explosions, cloth, weapons, food and drink, glass, gore, mechanical gear, lots of metal impacts and movements on different surfaces, paper and other objects, robot, rifle and guns, rope and other vital tools, vegetation, vehicles, other weaponry, whoosh, wood, bags, doors, chains, destruction.
Fancy a vocal cat? Introducing the first 20 cats of the Istanbul cat federation! Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Cats of Istanbul Vol. 1
With Cats of Istanbul Vol. 1, you can bring out a strong character of any cat in your projects. Angry, happy, distressed, and hungry! From loud meows to long purrs, through wild growls, cries, hisses and yummy eating. These are cats at their most expressive!
98 files and 200+ sounds in 24-bit / 96kHz Wav format with easy to navigate naming. Go ahead and reflect the world of cats and kittens, indoors and outdoors. Complex tones of meowing, growling, screaming, mewling, purring, munching on various food, hissing, chattering, and howling and even digging in a litter box – in short, long and varied takes. Plus, you get the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!
Starring 20 cat friends, namely;
Oglus, Biyikli, Duduk, Disko, Zeytin, Puantiye, Paspas, Misa, Sans, Cinko, Kaju, Ucgen, Gunes, Teri, Eylul, Pofuduk, Ozmo, Ceku, Pusi, Lola.
These meticulously recorded sounds have clarity and room for further usage and sound design with the flexible texture of the sounds for further customization. You can now set the bar higher for all your film, game, motion and video projects, advertisement, animation and all kids related projects.
We donate 50% of this pack’s profits to animals in need.
Keywords including Actions, Mood, Style
Animal, Cat, Kitten, Indoors, Outdoors, Meowing, Growling, Screaming, Screaking, Fighting, Mewling, Purring, Munching on various Food, Hissing, Chattering, Howling, Snarling, Digging in a Litter Box, Short, Fast, Slow, Long, High-pitched, Relaxed Agitated, Mad, Angry, Tired, Aggressive, Happy, Distressed, Nervous, Hungry, Wild, Hostile, Dry Food, Cat Food, Water, Milk, Eating, Drinking, Crunching, Chewing, Tingling, Collar, Bell, Biting, Subtle, Gulping, Licking, Threatening, Kicking, Warning, Pleading, Complaining, Trilling, Welcoming, Attention-seeking, Street Cat, Stray, Sleeping, Snoring, Crying, Chattering, Dreaming, Wailing, Pinging.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Toys SFX Pack for access to 215 carefully recorded sounds effects of Toy Story-like ambiences.
Welcome to UK Cities: London On-The-Go Ambiences. Travel through the city, with these beautiful ambiences recorded at various unique locations in London. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About London On-the-Go Ambiences
You will find yourself at the park, airport, then underground on a train and outside a park, then at Camden Town, at Primrose Hill, and many other locations. Have a taste of 132 fresh sounds in your ears with this London On-the-Go Ambiences sound effects. It includes sounds from many different environments like crowds, subway, train ambiences, elevators, cafes, and interior walla, announcement sounds and room tones at the airports from London in 132 sounds, 24bit/96kHz .WAV files and detailed naming.
Total length of this library is 130 minutes.
We captured a wide array of ambiences so that you can easily adapt them to your other UK or similar location needs. The length of the files is high so that you can meet your ambience needs with just a few of these sounds. The locations are both interior and exterior. It captures the soul of the vibrant city, recorded on sunny days in April.
You will hear small, medium, and big crowds, chilling at a park, chatting at cafes or outside a pub, on the street and at the subway and airports. You will get hold of low or no walla atmospheres and room tones. You will travel on the subway and stop at a lot of stations and hear the usual announcements! You will get the unique feel of each location like a local travelling through the city.
Keywords including Locations, Ambiences, Mood
London, ambiences, city, sounds, atmosphere, walla, crowd, elevator, Camden market, busy, street, British, English, traffic, Camden Town, café, Easter Friday, Regent Canal, night, evening, Saturday, chill, pub, bridge, pass by, walk, announcement, Primrose Hill, construction, cars, people, chatter, eating, chatting, park, calm, birds, rumble, airport, gate announcement, Stansted, room tone, lounge, train, subway, metro, rain Edgware, Euston, Finsbury Park, Highbury & Islington, Harlow Town, King’s Cross, St Pancras Station, Mornington Crescent, Seven Sisters, speed, Ticketgate, Tottenham Hale, train announcement, interior, exterior, film, game, video.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Ambiences from Japan and Ambiences from China Sound Effects Packs for access to different unique ambiences of the world.
Konnichiwa Japan! Travel through Kyoto, Nara, Osaka; the urban spaces, temples, public transport, and hear the everyday walla, the animals, the natural rhythms of the cities. Authentic high-quality ambiences in 50 pristine files will serve as ideal background tracks. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
This one offers the urban daily life and the atmospheres recorded in winter at various locations in Japan. Nara, Osaka and Kyoto with its temples, subways, trains, buses and motorways, exterior and interior walla with tourists and locals, various animals, street musicians and public transport announcements paint a good picture of Japanese life on-the-go.
This is the toolkit to create the perfect cinematic atmospheres, with or without being in the foreground. The length of the ambiences is mostly enough to meet your needs without loops. Some can be adapted to other urban or rural ambience needs. It gives you access to varying activity levels in close, medium, and distant perspectives.
Recorded in 24bit/96 kHz .wav, comes with intuitive naming and thorough metadata. Compatible with all DAWs, middleware, video editing tools and 100% royalty free.
Keywords:Â
Japan, ambience, Japanese, Nara, Osaka, Kyoto, city, town, urban, rural, temple, gong, train, bus, traffic, cabin, stop, rails, announcement, walla, footsteps, gravel, bird, birdsong, deer, bleat, grunt, crowd, tourist, local, pass by, drive by, bike, motorbike, horn, motorway, crosswalk, hand pan, musician.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Ambiences from China and Ambiences from Istanbul Sound Effects Packs for access to different unique ambiences.
Get the expected everyday sounds and the unexpected sporty sounds of a go-to compact car. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
What’s inside
Fasten your seatbelt for 141 mechanical and electrical sounds of acceleration, deceleration, driving, drive-by, interior and exterior sounds; ignition, honk, engine, door, and trunk, and more Foley.
You will get long takes of drive-bys, car engine sounds, exhaust sounds and stereo interior recordings, from the exhaust, engine and the cabin perspective on both the rural roads and the highways.
Up your game with these 141 stereo recordings of engine starts and stops, rev-up, idle, gearshifts, accelerating and decelerating to constant and high, medium, low RPM, driving slowly and fast.Â
96kHz – 24bit format, 2.7 GB size, 79 minutes duration. Comes with intuitive naming and metadata. UCS compliant, 100% royalty-free and compatible with all DAWs, middleware and video editing software.
All sounds are organic and have room for further sound design; recorded in high detail so that you can layer and shape all channels individually in vehicle and other sound design.
Full specs:Â Volkwagen Polo TSI 1.4 2013 Comfortline, 6R, 85PS, 1104 kg, 1390 cm3 cylinder.Â
Gear:Â DPA 4060s, Sennheiser MKH8040s, Audix F5 Dynamics, Zoom F3s.
Keywords:Â Vehicle, car, compact car, everyday car, electrical, mechanical, ride, break, speed, VW, Volkwagen, Polo, tire, highway, drive by, gear, light, car hood, door, honk, trunk, sun visor, steering wheel, seat belt, lock, outdoor, engine, key, control panel, open, close, window, window wiper, air conditioner, idle, rev-up, handbrake, uphill, downhill, motor, button, remote, road, indoor, exhaust, acceleration, deceleration, cabin, Foley
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Bavaria 36 Sailing Boat for access to 58 unique files of 32m 35s duration, including sailing, sail Foley, engine ignition starts and cut offs, water movements, different RPMs, interior and on-deck Foley and ambiences from different perspectives like front, rear, near the water, inside the hull.
Mercedes-Benz Axor 1840 is another option with 54 pristine sounds with multi-channel tracks of exterior and onboard perspectives; ranging from engine starts and stops, rev-up, idle, gearshifts, accelerating and decelerating to constant and high, medium, low RPM, driving slowly and fast.
We’ve bundled together
Manchester Ambience
Train Station Ambience
UK Train Interior Ambience
To give you a good all rounder for your all your commuting project needs.
The Commute gives you the authentic soundscape of the daily commuter, from waiting at the train station, to getting on the train and the sound of the big city boosting your project to the next level.The Commute has been edited to allow a drop in ready and Royalty Free sample pack. These Samples can be used in a variety of projects from Sound Designing/Compositions for TV, Film, Documentaries and Video Games. UCS Compliant and Metadata is attached to the samples
European Ambient sounds made with Film/TV Sound Editors and mixers in mind – so they won’t just sit on your hard drive gathering virtual ‘dust’, but ones you’ll use often!
Busy, crowded places in London, Prague, Venice, Vienna and Annecy (France.)
Unlock the rich tapestry of urban soundscapes with Public Spaces – Urban Life Exteriors sound library. This collection transports you to the heart of vibrant city life, where you can hear nuanced bustling streets, serene town squares, and dynamic construction zones. Ideal for filmmakers, game developers, and sound designers. With Public Spaces – Urban Life Exteriors you can enhance your projects with compelling background sounds and atmospheres with ease.
Immerse your projects in the tranquil beauty of nature with our Public Spaces – Storms Lakes Parks and Rural Nature Exteriors sound pack. This diverse collection captures the essence of serene environments, from the peaceful rustle of leaves in a forest to the lively interactions of a park bustling with activity. Each recording offers a unique auditory experience, transporting listeners to idyllic rural landscapes, soothing lakesides, and vibrant seaside locales. Plus you can add an engaging dimension to your soundtracks with dynamic weather sound effects, including, storms, lightning, rain and thunder.
Perfect for sound designers, game developers, and filmmakers, this sound library provides the rich, immersive audio backdrop needed to bring any natural setting to life. Add depth, realism and transform your story into a captivating auditory journey with Public Spaces – Storms Lakes Parks and Rural Nature Exteriors from Epic Stock Media.
This comprehensive sound library is where you can find: sounds of wind in urban and nature environment, room tones, wind recorded in car, wind whistling under doors and windows, at the sea-boats mast and hardware, in trees, in buildings corridors, lobby, attic etc. Check the list of sounds for full info. All files are metadata tagged, with detailed description of equipment used object of recording etc.
Recorded with high end recording equipment: Sennheisers MKHs, mics; Rycote blimps, Sound Devices 744T recorder, Sound Devices MixPre mixer, Mogami cables, etc.
Maximum peak level on all recordings is -5 dBFS (for great dynamic range, great headroom), originally recorded with great headroom keeping in mind and to maintain great dynamic range of this natural phenomena.
Useful Winds contains 17 decoded ms recordings of various types of wind, both interior and exterior. From a mild breeze through an Irish field to a storm gale atop of a Spanish hill, the library delivers a vast array of windy goodness. Recorded with Schoeps mk4/mk8 & SoundDevices MixPre-D.
‘Cityscapes and street’ is a collection of different atmospheres, recorded in Sofia, Bulgaria. Inside you will find various cityscapes from hectic street traffic through city parks, subway stations, pedestrian zones to quiet morning urban sounds. This package covers various city states and is an excellent choice for filling your library or using it in a project where urban environment is necessary. Enjoy the varied sounds of the city.
Textures, recordings and soundscapes of the sea, coastline, harbour, harbour-industry, port, beach in summer, boats, ship, seagulls and other
(for film and multimedia ready)
This sound library contains:
Recordings of the boats, fisherman boat/ship (in navigation, in the port), powerboat, big ship, etc. Variety of sound perspectives, from super close to distant ones. Some recordings are intentionally recorded in mono with shotgun microphone (Sennheiser MKH 60-P48) to get direct clean sound (for use in video Foley or in audio post) on vessels in navigation.
Close up recordings of the sea (surface), cavity in the rocks, peddles washed by the sea, walking on the beach,…many different sea waves sounds are captured, sound of the sea storms, rough sea, etc. Check the sound list for additional info.
Soundscapes of the seaside (remote ones included), shores, harbour (industry), small port ambiances; soundscapes of the coastline. Nocturnal sounds/recording included.
17.2 GB or 5h 24min of high quality recordings recorded over years in all seasons and in all weather/sea conditions.
Recorded with professional audio equipment, Sound Devices Recorder/mixer, and Sennheiser mics mostly. Majority of the recordings are recorded in MS stereo (excellent mono compatibility for film, radio program etc.), but in other stereo techniques like XY, AB, NOS as well for more precise focus on detail or wider stereo image (regarding the object of rec.). Metadata tagged with a detailed description of mic positioning, mic tech. and equipment used.
 Max peak level is around -5dBFS. No compressors or dynamic tools were used in editing nor limiters during recording (natural dynamic of the recordings maintained).
Multichannel recordings of the ice (in sync): stereo, mono and underwater/under ice recordings. Audio tool for further sound design, production etc.
Multichannel, recordings of the ice; Surface/underwater recordings of the ice. Check the sound list for info/ object of recording.
Each multichannel recording (or position/place of recording) is in a separate folder. Each channel/recording is Metadata tagged with description of equipment/format/character. Each multichannel recording (each folder) consist of:
–Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 4 Ch STEREO Mix, all channels mixed together (surface and underwater), ready for use stereo file
–        Ch 01-MID, mono file, front/MID microphone-cardioid, RAW
–        Ch 02-SIDE, mono file, SIDE microphone-figure of eight, RAW
–        Ch 03-HYDRO LEFT, mono file, Left side hydrophone, RAW
–        Ch 04-HYDRO Right, mono file, Right side hydrophone, RAW
–Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â STEREO HYDRO Mix, stereo file, two hydrophones mixed together, ready to use underwater/ice stereo file
–Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â STEREOÂ (surface) file
You can use mono channels to create your own mix (or use it as mono) or use a stereo-ready to use file (or combination of both).
Using mono recordings/files for multichannel mixing can be very creative for SFX, or maybe in film, for example, to accompany first surface (frame) and then underwater (frame) separated, or half submerged camera (frame).
For mixing stereo (surface) files (microphones) you will need an MS matrix (plugin). This is a very creative tool which allows you to control the amount of stereo field or front to side ratio of the sound captured. If you are not familiar with MS there is a ready to use stereo (surface) file and you can use/mix it with underwater/ice file(s).
(for MS: Sennheiser MKH40 – front microphone/cardioid and Sennheiser MKH40-side microphone/ figure of eight.) Hydrophones are Aquarian audio H2a XLR.
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The “Distant City And Morning Parks” Library has been recorded for more than a year, in about 7 different cities and 3 countries. The library is divided into 2 subsections:
1) Distant Cities: The subject of this section is large and small towns in different seasons. Respectively can be heard both classic distant city rumble sounds, as well as light burds activity, distant sirens, train, and car horns, distant traffic, church bells e.t.c.
2) Morning Parks: Mostly recorded early in the morning in spring and summer, when there is light human activity, some footsteps, few dogs, even frogs in the middle of a city park. You can hear birds activity and of course distant traffic. Several fountains, recorded from different distances, have also found their place in this library.
All files are meta-tagged with UCS format in Soundminer.
Enjoy the city from a distance.
Tattoo Parlour & Barbershop Bundle features field recordings of two local businesses in Manchester, England. A plethora of objects, activity and movement were captured at a tattoo parlour and barbershop, providing you with detailed and specific sounds grounded in reality.
Our Audio Craftsmen meticulously recorded and edited a multitude of in-shop sounds, including scissor snips, tattoo pen hums, creaky steps, squeaky doors, bottle sprays, item handling, room tone, clipper buzzes and much more!
Use this bundle to enliven tattooing or hairdressing scenes across Film, TV and Game projects.
The entire bundle is delivered at 24Bit 96kHz and tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.
Rounding out our set of libraries that gather beautiful offcuts from many a field recording expedition, our 5th and final installment of our variety SFX series, Vaeyan V is bigger, wilder, and more diverse than its predecessors. Recorded over a several year period, you’ll find everything from superposition array on common appliances to wacky experiments with unlikely materials. Fantastic captures of human sleeping habits (and some dogs as well), alongside of lively automated car washes and mics snuck into melodic bundles of twisted metal. And of course, a few peculiar off-beat ambience recordings as well.
As with Vaeyan I, II, III, and IV, this is a huddling of field recordings and sound designs that do not quite form a library on their own. However, together they make up an audio FX treasure chest gleaming with precious audio loot. Dig in!
Sounds from my daily life in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
This library contains:
– Spanish Walla in Restaurants, Public Transport, Public Places, Parks, Schools, Theaters, Markets and others.
– Traffic
– Urban and Suburban ambiences
– Some nice surprises
Wind recorded in Ambisonic audio format. Natural and urban environment recordings. Room tone or windy interiors included.
Recorded with Sennheiser Ambeo VR microphone and Sound Devices recorder. See the track list for additional info.
B-format (RAW) and Binaural files. Audio preview is in Binaural (best with headphones).
Introducing the “Real Everyday Driving” sound effects library designed for those authentic moments behind the wheel! Say goodbye to high-octane thrill rides and embrace the casual charm of everyday driving. This collection captures run of the mill cars as they navigate the urban landscape at a leisurely pace.
From smooth starts and gentle accelerations to serene cruising, smooth coasting, and natural idling. Whether it’s the subtle sound of the brakes engaging, the comforting hum of a car easing into a turn, or a vehicle obeying city speed limits, our library immerses you in the details of everyday driving.
Each vehicle has been recorded with the following perspectives – interior, engine, exhaust and tyre. Both manual and automatic transmissions.
Ambiences of Markets, Skylines, a Café etc. from Agadir, Morocco, by award winning Sound Recordist and Sound Editor Rob Bourke, edited and mastered by Sound Designer Ian Macbeth.
Get the sound of the Baltic Sea with this sound effect library recorded in Poland, featuring both location sound and additional foley, including walking, running in the water and swimming. The Baltic Sea is located in Northern Europe, and is surrounded by Scandinavia, Finland, the Baltic countries, and the North European Plain.
A total of 153 minutes of ocean and water foley sounds are included in this atmospheric SFX library.
Updated version:
This sound library was updated with 37 additional files of waves crushing on the shore and rocks during different weather conditions. It was recorded with various stereo configurations like stereo XY, ORTF, MS and Sony PCM-M10.
This library contains 17 different trains as they pass through the station, arrive and depart a rural station in Sweden. Trains include double decker passanger trains, local metro passanger trains, and few heavy freight train passes. They were recorded with two 4060s on the tracks with a mkh60 following, they are syncable.
These have a nice isolated stereo image and great for sound designing space ships and sci fi stuff. Also work Wonderfully for transition elements and corporate video introductions. Feel free to inquire before buying here.
UK Big City Bundle contains three libraries with ambiences and sounds unique to some of the biggest cities in the UK captured during our field recording sessions. With a total runtime of 173 mins and a file size of 5.6 GB, this bundle has everything you need to build a multi-layered city soundscape.
Our Audio Craftsmen travelled through some of largest cities of England including London, Manchester, Sheffield and Liverpool capturing exclusive ambiences to build your perfect city atmosphere. We recorded ambiences from tunnels, construction sites, shopping malls, book stores, technology stores, cafes, restaurants, toilets, busy train stations, buses, trams, elevators, escalators, street sweepers, crowds, skylines and much, much more. The sessions were planned at different times of the day to give you the most authentic and grounded representation of the UK city life to use in your projects.
You will be saving 30% on the total cost of the individual libraries when purchasing the bundle, an awesome value for money addition to your general sound effects libraries. 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.
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