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Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond
Nature In Hong Kong – Basic SFX Kit is the fundamental sound library that includes excellent quality nature ambient – all exclusively recorded in Hong Kong. The collection features sounds from natural terrains like forests, grasslands, highlands, mountains, valleys, streams, ocean, underwater in days and nights, from spring to winter. Capturing the biodiversity of Hong Kong with sound of birds, insects, amphibians, frog, hawks and more. Get to know the nature, your new friend, with an economical pack of nature sound.
Created with heart and sweat. Sincerely selected from the extensive library featuring more than 100 stunning natural locations of the Pearl of the Orient in akinkk.com. A more than 2 years’ journey in one click, in sighting of transformation of a passionate greenhorn to the world-wide reported field recordist.
Experience the undiscovered side of Hong Kong
Adventure to the obscure nature soundscape of Hong Kong with exquisite field recording. Follow the track and guide your listener from forest to ocean, and from the sunbath to the rainy day. The sound of nature was recorded and processed for the use in theatre, games, film, video and commercial audio projects. Enjoy your coffee time without taking care of cut sheets and royalty reporting, as the Kit is royalty free for commercial use.
All of the sound effects files are delivered in 96kHz/24bit .wav file format in premium sound quality. Includes 10 field recordings of nature in 0.6 GB audio files. Featuring the core of Nature In Hong Kong – Essential SFX Kit, best for user with limited budget.
Content:
0.6GB of audio samples
10 lightly processed and edited field recordings of nature – all recorded in Hong Kong
All in 96k/24bit .wav files
Core elements of Nature In Hong Kong – Essential SFX Kit
Designed specifically for theatre, games, film, tv, video, motion graphics & commercial productions
Audio background for various types of natural environment
Around 20 minutes of premium nature sounds
Includes pdf metadata and description list
Reference id for locational information in akinkk.com
4 forest recordings –birds, cicadas, crickets, frogs and more
4 water, ocean and weather recordings – rain, stream, waves, wind and more.
1 bonus clean animal sample – Hawk
1 bonus UNIQUE Hong Kong hiking experience ambience – Overheads
All Royalty-Free
Haunting Ambiences Vol. 3 is the direct successor to one of our most popular horror sound effects libraries. This product contains dense, multilayered construction kits, everything you need to build a world around your horror scenes with separated stems.
Our Audio Craftsmen captured creepy ambiences and sounds from the cellblock where a couple of notorious killers (The Moors Murderers) were held at The Old Courthouse, Manchester. We captured various ambiences, creaky cell doors, metal bangs, vocalisations from multiple voice actors and much, much more. All of the sounds were then meticulously edited and designed to make 10 construction kits including a mental asylum, vampire’s prison, gas chamber, experimental lab, underground prison, haunted ship prison etc.
These dense ambiences include split stems with the same running length to encourage experimentation, allowing you to add or subtract certain elements, balance them or combine them with sounds from other construction kits in the pack. In addition, all of the files are available in 24Bit 192kHz with extensive UCS compliant metadata to integrate seamlessly with your workflow.
This bundle is perfect for use in your films, documentaries, video games, escape room/live experiences and other horror/sci-fi projects.
This library consists of numerous recordings as a result of experimentation with the H2A hydrophone. Various domestic and suburban appliances were utilised for the creation of this library.
All sounds were recorded using the H2A hydrophone and Sound Devices Mix-Pre 6.
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From 24/96 Sound Effects. Immersive Cites In Motion features 29 HD 24bit/96khz Surround Sound Effects with a large selection of city center traffic ambience. 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 Immersive 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 Ambisonic and 7.1.2 Immersive Surround Demo files here and try it out on your own system!
East River ferry immersion – pretty much all you’ll need to recreate a trip on the ferry – or how it sounds from the quayside/shore. Immersive binaural stereo locates you right by the ferry station with a groaning pontoon and creaking fenders and gentle river wave action. Then boarding and disembarking, as well as a suite of onboard sounds inside the main passenger cabin and out on deck. No wind buffet here … just awesome variable boat engine sounds and wave lap against the hull.
Binaural stereo – the next best thing to being there. Take a little trip … with the Audio Ninja.
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Binaural soundscapes from Grand Central Station – recorded to have plenty of background (and some mid & foreground) voices without anything too recognizable – so you can add your own dialogue in the foreground, OR loop sections you like most without it being obvious. The central concourse soundscapes are fairly static – but others move at walking speed – between different locations from street level entrances, through the concourse to the platform. There’s even a couple of revolving doors and an empty escalator/platform to add your action onto. Recorded on (my) dummy head with high-quality omni mics – listening back in headphones instantly immerses you in the middle of the sound field. Binaural stereo – the next best thing to being there! And all with just two channels. So put your headphones on and take a little trip – with the Audio Ninja.
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Build the world of your story with award-winning quality sound curated from the private library of two Academy Award®-winning sound artists.
Establish the setting of any scene with the go-to recordings of The Odyssey Collection: Ambiences. Cover your needs for locations both everyday and exotic – from aircraft carriers to the Serengeti, nuclear power plants, brisk Canadian mountain air, Mexican bar walla, a Czechoslovakian office, record pressing factories, Malaysian forests, big cities, small towns and everywhere in-between.
Developed in exclusive collaboration with Academy Award®-winners Mark Mangini & Richard L. Anderson, Odyssey Ambiences delivers vibrant, diverse, high-quality recordings from around the globe – so you can focus on staying creative and delivering your best sound.
“Because Richard and I were so religious about fresh recordings, it was quite common for us to have a recorder with us everywhere we went. This allowed us to develop a rich, varied and international scope to our Ambience library without having to actually find money to fund every recording.”
– Mark Mangini (Blade Runner 2049, Mad Max: Fury Road)
Explore sounds from Odyssey Ambiences
Sound artists need a deep collection of ambiences to cover the location of any scene. Each recording in this library was captured with a dedication to gathering diverse, high-quality sounds from around the world – so you’re covered for every environment. Listen to a small sample from a variety of categories.
Optimized metadata for quicker searches and better results.
You need to actualize your creative vision in an instant. That’s why the PSE Editorial Team team has invested over 20,000 hours of library development work – eyes, ears, hands, imaginations – editing and cataloging each audio file in The Odyssey Collection. The result is a reliable wealth of professional sound effects to boost your projects – each with meticulous, rich descriptions optimized to our metadata standard for lightning-fast, pinpoint search results.
Harness the unique sonic properties of water in your next project! Create otherworldly sound design with bubble streams, air bursts, immersive perspectives and more.
Submerged is a boutique sound effects library of swirling, bubbling, whooshing sounds recorded using a hydrophone (underwater microphone).
The variety of sounds featured in Submerged include scuba inhale/exhale/hiss, ice impacts and cracking, air release whooshing and bubbling, dry ice, pool pump hum, underwater fireworks explosions, cannon bursts, underwater movement, rushing water, dripping water, and an assortment of underwater vocalizations both male and female. Submerged is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Pro.
Created in collaboration with Big Tree Media
Colin Hart: Recordist, Editor
Joseph DiMarco: Editor, Librarian
Álvaro Aparicio: Recordist
Sarah Swan: Performance, Vocals
Benny Maus: Performance, Vocals
Robb Nichols: Consultation (Aquarian Audio)
Spatial Cities 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!
Various recordings made through several inner-city winters. This collection includes a diverse range of rain recordings, ranging from light to moderate & heavy rain. All recordings were done between 3am and 5am to minimise the intrusion of traffic noise as much as possible.
All sounds were recorded using the DPA 5100 and Sound Devices 788T.
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“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 XIII
As volume X this volume also contains 50 various Stereo Ambiences.
City, Traffic, Car-Horn Chorus, Howling Wind, Roomtones, Train Control Room
The whole collection of Lesser Vibes sound libraries.
Included packs:
Artificial Life (sci-fi, user interface, designed)
Automatic Umbrellas (foley, cloth, mechanical)
Handheld Transceivers (radio, glitch, noise)
High Tech Interface Sounds (sci-fi, user interface, designed)
Urban Russia (environments, transport, crowds)
All libraries were created by Sergey Eybog, a sound designer and music composer from Russia.
Last Summer we visited California State for 2 weeks. We visited and recorded Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Santa Barbara, Morro Bay, Monterey, Carmel, Yosemite and finally San Francisco.
We recorded in each place, just to save the beautiful soundscapes from the marvelous Route 1, capturing around 40 beautiful tracks in ambisonic format, 48Khz and 24 bits HD. As always, top quality recordings specially designed for film audio projects. The library was decoded and mixed in Dolby ATMOS.
Included Ambix Ambisonic, 7.1.2 Atmos Bed, 5.1 and ST versions.
Sci-fi World Guardian is a library geared towards multiplayer games, space, dystopias, utopias, fantasy, magical places, serene game moments, RPG, MMO, and sci-fi games all alike and showcases sounds like automated shipyard, electron flow, data mining, engines, mothership hums, conversions, moons of Venus, deserted area, bioengineering lab, desolate space, holy house, a variety of pulses, tech-based loops, winds, & more.
Each loop is game ready, seamlessly loopable and around 1 minute in length. Each main ambience includes 1-2 alt mix versions + you get a variety of layers to accent your scene and games ambience. Having both full ambiences, alt mixes and layers allows you to truly orchestrate your game’s background sound how you want it. If the full loop has too much going on, then try using the minimal version without the sound you don’t like or by stacking a layer loop to boost the dynamic of the atmosphere.
SSL16 USA CONTRASTS is a great collection of American Ambiences. Recorded in Summer 2015, I traveled to some of the most beautiful cities of the country to explore the American way of Life.
From San Francisco to New York, visiting:
Room tones from the quietness of a Las Vengas Hotel vs the Wild Nature of California & Crowd and traffic of the big cities…. This is the real contrast of USA! As always, recorded in full 5.1 Surround format.
Oslo central station is the largest station in the Norwegian railway station and the main railway station in Oslo. This collection contains recordings from three recording sessions. This ensures plenty of variation.
Lisbon is one of the oldest cities in the world, and the oldest city in Western Europe, predating other modern European capitals such as London, Paris and Rome by hundreds of years. Lisbon (Portuguese: Lisboa) has experienced a renaissance in recent years, with a contemporary culture that is alive and thriving and making its mark in today’s Europe.
This small collection of sounds includes a variety of ambiences, feels, and classics Lisbon Sounds. They are part of my last travel to this amazing city!
They include sounds from Rossio Square, Comerce Square, Trains, Belem, Underground, Baixo Chiado Neighbourdhood, Sant George Castle, street and market ambiences.
Ambisonic City, Suburbs, Rural Ambiences in B-format (ambix) and binaural.
Ambiences of the city, suburbs and rural areas. Many sound perspectives and situations. Long recordings, over 20 GB of recordings. Please check the sound list for additional info.
Recorded with Sennheiser Ambeo VR microphone and Sound Devices Mix Pre 10-II, 744T recorder. See the track list for additional info.
The download contains each recording in B-format (RAW-4ch.) and as Binaural Stereo files. The audio preview is binaural and should be listened to with headphones. All files are tagged with Metadata.
Step inside the real-world atmosphere of a modern European hotel. This sound effects library was recorded over the course of a week at the Holiday Inn in Ghent, Belgium — with microphones carefully placed to capture the natural flow of people and space.
At the heart of the hotel lies a large, open atrium where guests eat, drink, and gather throughout the day. From quiet breakfasts to late-evening conversations, the recordings reflect a wide range of crowd sizes and moods — always subtle, always authentic.
By staying and living inside the hotel for a full week, I was able to blend in and document the building’s true sonic character across different times and conditions. These are not staged recordings — this is the sound of real life, captured with care.
3OA Barcelona City Life is part of our Golden Catalogue — a high-end series of immersive sound libraries recorded in third-order Ambisonics, designed to deliver rich, spatially accurate ambiences for professional 3D audio production.
This library offers an authentic sonic portrait of Barcelona: layered wallas, vibrant plazas, narrow alleys, markets, and the real sound of urban life. Captured across iconic and everyday locations, it reflects the true pace and atmosphere of the city with exceptional detail.
All recordings were made using the SPCMIC, a cutting-edge immersive microphone with 84 native capsules, capable of capturing even the subtlest nuances of spatial sound. This high-resolution approach guarantees a level of depth and realism that standard arrays simply can’t match.
Unlike generic urban libraries, City Life recordings are crafted to reflect the personality and dynamic nature of each city — ideal for film, TV, VR, installations, and any immersive storytelling format.
Top-notch third-order ambisonic library. It takes the immersive experience to an entirely new level, capturing sound with unparalleled precision and depth. Feel the shivers down your spine as you’re enveloped by every detail, accurately positioned.
But there’s more. In our relentless pursuit of perfection, we’re thrilled to offer 9.1.6 Dolby Atmos audio files along with 7.1.2 Atmos beds, 5.1, Stereo and First Order Ambisonic. The third-order resolution takes this format to heights previously unattainable. Picture yourself in the midst of the sound, where the line between reality and imagination blurs. It’s not just listening; it’s living the sound.
Key Features:
✨ Third-Order Ambisonic Technology: An immersive experience like never before. Sound that surrounds, captivates, and transports you.
✨ 9.1.6 Dolby Atmos: Unmatched sound precision and resolution. Step into the heart of the audio, where every nuance comes to life.
✨ Versatile Mixing Options: 16 channel Third Order Ambisonic, 9.1.6 and 7.1.2 ATMOS Bed, 5.1, First Order Ambisonic, and Stereo downmixes included in the collection. Customize your sound to perfection. Tailor the experience to your specific needs, whether you seek the enveloping embrace of high-order ambisonics or the classic simplicity of stereo.
As always, all the recordings include metadata in English and Spanish, and they are compatible with software of sound library management like Soundminer.
We have decoded all the Third Order Ambisonic recordings with Audio Brewers plugin into 9.1.6 Dolby ATMOS bed configuration, using the top channels to create totally outstanding ambiences tracks ready to use! Audio Brewers tools give use amazing control over high order AmbiX configurations with top notch CPU optimization! Ambisonics recordings are the way to go for VR and modern Film Sound Post Production workflows.
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.
In this pack you will find a great California 3rd Order AmbiX sounds in order to use it in your films, TV, VR & multimedia projects.
Total Runtime:+02h 30m
> 24 Ambiences / +47 GB
> 24 bit / 48 kHz
> Soundminer and BWAV extended metadata
> AMBISONICS, ATMOS, SURROUND and ST VERSIONS INCLUDED
All the files have metadata embebed for Soundminer and similar programs. They both include Spanish and English description.
3OA Rome City Life is part of our Golden Catalogue — a premium series of immersive libraries recorded in third-order Ambisonics, offering the highest spatial resolution for cutting-edge 3D audio production.
This library captures the real sonic essence of Rome through vivid urban ambiences, natural crowd wallas, and bustling markets. Recorded at emblematic locations throughout the city, each take reflects the authentic rhythm and energy of daily Roman life.
As with all libraries in the City Life series, these are not generic urban beds — they are immersive sound portraits crafted for spatial storytelling in film, series, VR, and installation sound.
Top-notch third-order ambisonic library. It takes the immersive experience to an entirely new level, capturing sound with unparalleled precision and depth. Feel the shivers down your spine as you’re enveloped by every detail, accurately positioned.
But there’s more. In our relentless pursuit of perfection, we’re thrilled to offer 9.1.6 Dolby Atmos audio files along with 7.1.2 Atmos beds, 5.1, Stereo and First Order Ambisonic. The third-order resolution takes this format to heights previously unattainable. Picture yourself in the midst of the sound, where the line between reality and imagination blurs. It’s not just listening; it’s living the sound.
Key Features:
✨ Third-Order Ambisonic Technology: An immersive experience like never before. Sound that surrounds, captivates, and transports you.
✨ 9.1.6 Dolby Atmos: Unmatched sound precision and resolution. Step into the heart of the audio, where every nuance comes to life.
✨ Versatile Mixing Options: 16 channel Third Order Ambisonic, 9.1.6 and 7.1.2 ATMOS Bed, 5.1, First Order Ambisonic, and Stereo downmixes included in the collection. Customize your sound to perfection. Tailor the experience to your specific needs, whether you seek the enveloping embrace of high-order ambisonics or the classic simplicity of stereo.
As always, all the recordings include metadata in English and Spanish, and they are compatible with software of sound library management like Soundminer.
We have decoded all the Third Order Ambisonic recordings with Audio Brewers plugin into 9.1.6 Dolby ATMOS bed configuration, using the top channels to create totally outstanding ambiences tracks ready to use! Audio Brewers tools give use amazing control over high order AmbiX configurations with top notch CPU optimization! Ambisonics recordings are the way to go for VR and modern Film Sound Post Production workflows.
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.
In this pack you will find a great California 3rd Order AmbiX sounds in order to use it in your films, TV, VR & multimedia projects.
Total Runtime:+02h 30m
> 17 Ambiences / +30 GB
> 24 bit / 48 kHz
> Soundminer and BWAV extended metadata
> AMBISONICS, ATMOS, SURROUND and ST VERSIONS INCLUDED
All the files have metadata embebed for Soundminer and similar programs. They both include Spanish and English description.
Rain and Thunder with Traffic Background is a high-quality field recording album by Sound Effect Stacks, capturing the authentic ambiance of rainfall, thunder, and suburban traffic recorded in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This atmospheric sound collection is ideal for video production, film scoring, podcasting, meditation, ASMR, and ambient music layering.
Recorded in the quiet suburban areas of Yogyakarta, this album features the natural sounds of heavy rain, distant thunder rumbles, and the subtle background of cars passing by, creating a rich urban-meets-nature soundscape. Perfect for creators looking to add realistic rain and thunderstorm sound effects with city ambiance, this album brings depth and realism to any audio project.
This small set of sound effects includes 8 looped audio files of ambient sounds recorded on warm summer mornings in a seaside village. The recording was made in the courtyard of a private house located in a summer cottage village on a mountain slope, surrounded by tall trees and bushes at a distance of 400 meters from the seashore.
Recorded and mixed in 48 kHz/24 Bit WAV format.
Yogyakarta Thunder is a raw, immersive field recording project that captures the electric soul of a storm in Kulon Progo, a rugged region west of Yogyakarta. Recorded entirely on location, this album documents the raw force of thunder, the whisper of wind through tropical trees, and the intense silence between lightning strikes.
Every track is a real moment—unfiltered and alive—delivering the atmosphere of a storm as it unfolds in the heart of Java. From distant rumbles to sky-splitting crashes, Yogyakarta Thunder invites listeners into a sonic experience that is both meditative and powerful.
Created by Sound Effect Stack, this album is part of our mission to bring authentic environmental sounds to life. Whether you’re a sound artist, ambient enthusiast, or simply drawn to the rhythm of nature, Yogyakarta Thunder offers a deep connection to the elements.
Let the storm tell its story.
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