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Ambience recordings from around the world
The China: Temple Bells & Crowds sound library was recorded in two locations. The first within the Yungang Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage site from the Wei Dynasty era, and the second, an ancient Taoist temple built in the Tang Dynasty in the outskirts of Beijing.
The library includes recordings of large prayer bells, Buddhist wind chimes, wooden wishing sticks adorned with twinkling bells, background and foreground crowd walla in Mandarin, Chinese, birds, and other ambient sounds captured on location in stereo. We’ve also included some bonus designed sounds made from the recordings.
These authentic recordings offer a sonic window into the atmosphere of ancient Chinese temples and shrines as they exist today. The sounds can be useful for adding realism to cinematic, game, or multimedia projects requiring an accurate representation of this cultural setting, or as fodder for creating mystical and spiritual designs.
Specs:
34 Sounds – 18 Buddhist Temple, 9 Taoist Temple, 7 Designed Sounds
Total Runtime 48:44
1.64GB in Total
Stereo – 24 bit, 96kHz
In Taiwan, immersing in traffic of scooters and cars is a daily occurrence. Waiting for the green light in the sea of scooters, and VROOOOOOM, all the scooters simultaneously rev their engines and accelerate forward as the light turns green. These are the sounds of the rush hour traffic in Taipei.
IN THE TRAFFIC is a sound library that makes you feel like you’re in the middle of the traffic in Taipei city.
It features the sounds of scooters, cars and buses passing by, the idle scooters sea at red lights, and the eager acceleration of scooters and motorcycles as they compete to speed forward when the light turns green. Additionally, the sounds of riding through tunnel and underpass can also be found in this sound library.
IN THE TRAFFIC adopts a slightly experimental approach, placing the microphones on the front sides, and riding a relatively quiet electric scooter with almost no engine sound in the traffic of Taipei.
Bird sounds and human voices have been carefully removed, providing you pure useful recordings for your creative works.
This library includes 58 stereo files recorded in AB at 96 kHz. Approx. 44 minutes total.
Additionally, this library was carefully tagged with rich Soundminer metadata, including marks in the recordings highlighting interesting sounds.
And of course, all the recordings were recorded, edited and mastered with care and love.
A cross-section of life from the kingdom of Thailand.
From Sacred Valley to the Amazon Jungle and the vibrant cities of Cusco & Puno beside the great Lake Titicaca. PERU covers all aspects of life across this incredible nation. Stereo, LCR & 5.1 multitrack recordings all with meta tag and correct wildlife identification.
Soundbody’s home town, all walks of London life here for your projects based in UK’s capital city.
From Salvador to Rio De Janeiro. Lush, remote island life, jungle fauna to the deep, urban heartbeat that is the rich and colourful Brazil. This library captures everything you will need for projects based in this diverse and culturally intoxicating country. Rural and Urban.
On my travels around the UK, I always bring my sound recording gear.
This collection of sounds focuses on nature, recordings of animals and atmos’ from down in Dartmoor, all the way up to Scotland.
Small Cave Ambiences / Big Wave Crashes / Coquina Rock Hits
If you’re in need of an Ocean/Beach library, this is it. The library covers a range of material from small enclosed spaces with the sound of distant waves droning to massive waves crashing against the coquina rock.
Although it is, in essence, an ambience library I recorded and edited material for maximum flexibility for further sound design capabilities.
The library was recorded over a period of 4-weekend trips to Washington Oaks State Park near Flagler Beach, FL.
Types of Recordings:
Bonus Forge / Reaktor Sample Maps Also Included
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.
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).
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.
Take an acoustical tour through Vienna, Austria with this sound effects library recorded by Ana Monte. It features recordings from the downtown area, churches, touristic areas and busy restaurants, subway stations and more!
20 read-to-use stereo and surround (5.0) tracks with all the appropriate metadata ready to be used on your next production.
Vienna City Ambiences – Stereo:
– 20 ready-to-use ambiences in stereo
– 1.31 GB
Vienna City Ambiences – Surround:
– 20 ready-to-use ambiences in 5.0 surround(split mono)
– 100 split mono files
– 3.34 GB
Vienna City Ambiences – COMPLETE Pack:
– Surround + Stereo downmix bundle for maximum savings!
– 120 files
– 4.66 GB
Get the ambiences and atmospheres of Amsterdam, the Netherlands in this sound effects library recorded by Ana Monte. It features recordings from around the Dutch capital from locations such as an amusement park, a boat ride, church, ferry ride, metro ride, plaza, the science museum, a street market (a Turkish one, too), a train station, restaurant and more.
The Pyrenees brings you a collection of quad and stereo recordings taken in spring and summer time across several locations of the Regional Natural Park of the Ariège Pyrenees.
Recorded in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in the South Yunan province on the border of Myanmar and Laos. Home to 14 minorities including the Dai and the Han ethnic groups this pack features recordings of lush rainforests full of life and vegetation filled with wild elephants and an array of insects and monkeys. Contrasting, recordings of the city of Jinhong feature the largest night market in Asia and an array of Buddhist temples. Â
Featuring mountain and rainforest ambiances, cafe and city atmospheres, and ancient temple gongs this pack showcases the unique sounds of this distinctive region. Includes 20 audio tracks all recorded at 24bit / 96 kHz with UCS metadata.
Over 2.5 hours of vast and varied Portuguese ambience, including a range of church bells from towns and cities, iconic Lisbon trams, chaotic car horns, daily hustle and bustle, empty seaside towns and calming seafront ambience – a timeless, unique and classically-European collection of recordings.
All files are UCS compliant, 24 bit/ 96k and metadata is included (via soundminer), with keywords and detailed markers embedded to quickly locate specific sounds/ regions. Recorded with Sony PCM-D100 and Wildtronics Stereo microphones.
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.
From Medellin to the Jungle of Tayrona and the pueblos of zone de cafeteria. Extensive recording sessions from Colombia – Urban, markets, rural, forests, jungle, walla, and much more.
Day and night recordings of the incredible wildlife.
Giant otters, birdlife, open plains to lush jungle. Stereo, LCR & 5.0 multitrack recordings all with meta tag and correct wildlife identification.
Field recordings from Liverpool taking you on a sonic journey from the banks of the River Mersey to cultural hotspots including a modern art gallery and museums full of rich walla and natural reverb. We also captured the sound of the high street, an urban park, construction work, rush hour traffic and train station ambience, all ready to use in projects requiring sounds of this world-famous North West English city.
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.Â
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.Â
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. Â
Gear Used: Roland R26, four channel built-in microphones (OMNI and XY), four channels merged down to a stereo file.
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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.
The rich and colourful sounds of the Mekong delta: this collection features a wide range of old diesel boat engines, gentle row boats along quintessential narrow waterways and a varied selection of local ambience, from quiet rural villages to the hustle and bustle of towns and live animal markets.
The majority of boats were recorded directly on board and up close from various points along the riverside, with a selection of perspectives. There are also over 10 isolated sounds – engines, waves/ wash, cock crows and dogs – with alternate versions at 192kHz for further manipulation. Full metadata is included (Soundminer), with keywords and detailed markers embedded to quickly locate specific sounds/ regions.
Berlin Ambiances II is 115 minutes / 3,7 GB of pure Berlin in 32 separate files – recorded in 24 Bit / 96 kHz A-B stereo, with Primo EM172 omni capsules. All files are UCS-compliant.
This collection is focused on lively locations such as markets, museums, playgrounds and shops, and features several takes from each location (in most cases). I wanted the sound of Berliners more than anything else, so here are sounds from Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain and Mitte. Whether it’s drunks on Alexander Platz or the lunch crowd in Markthalle 9, I tried to capture a good spectrum of public, everyday life in Berlin.
As always, you get searchable file names and comprehensive metadata in CSV and ODS (OpenOffice) format. This allows you to import the metadata into your favorite librarian software.
You get:
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