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Sound effects libraries in various surround sound formats. Also check out the Ambisonics sound category.
One of the greatest cities in the world, New York is always a whirlwind of activity, with famous sites at every turn and never enough time to see them all. Some people come here to enjoy the Broadway shows; others come specifically to shop; and many come simply to see the sights: the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park, historic neighborhoods, and numerous world famous museums. All of them offer unique perspectives of the city. Any time of year and any time of day there are an endless array of things to see and do in New York.
We visited New York last summer and once again, we have recorded recorded 22 beautiful tracks in ambisonic format, decoded and mixed in Dolby ATMOS at AdHoc Studios. The New York city sounds will give you the essence of the most iconic film city in the world. AmbiX First Order Ambisonic, Dolby ATMOS 7.12, 5.1 and ST files have been mastered with Pro Tools HD 2018Â system are included in the package.
‘Busy Streets’ is a key library containing surround and stereo sound ambiences that will set the scene of bustling cities – recorded in Chicago, New York and Philadelphia. The library is available in stereo, and surround (Quad).
With ‘Busy Streets’ we used an exclusive SSS technique (Stealth Surround System) which means the recording process was hidden from the eyes even with 4 discrete channels.
This results in fully immersive, undisturbed and authentic city soundscapes.
74 Surround authentic ambience recordings between 1 to 5 minutes long each, non-disturbed city life using our SSS technique (Stealth Surround System):
• Crowd movements
• Pedestrians walking by and talking
• Traffic noises, train, metro, truck, bus, cars
• Evolving swarm
• Above and under bridges
• Narrow pathway
• Underground street
• Large boulevards
• Restaurants terrace
• Commercial areas
• Financial disctricts
• Wet streets
This is a collection of sounds recorded at various locations in London, UK. Recordings of landmarks such as Trafalgar Square and Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben), various London streets, and green spaces are all featured, totalling 127 minutes of ambisonic audio, with an average length of 6 mins 22 seconds.
The files have been decoded to AmbiX, but can be converted to FuMa with the free Ambi Converter from Noise Makers, or decoded to any format from mono to 7.1.2 Atmos using Harpex-X or the free Røde Soundfield plug-in.
No noise reduction has been used, apart from on the recording of Big Ben, and the unprocessed version is also included.
Get a large selection of ambiences recorded in parks, residential areas, playgrounds and other urban areas with this SFX library. Recorded with discrete Quad microphones, and mastered in 5.1 surround (L-C-R-Ls-Rr-Lf Embeded .WAV format).
Recording locations are all from center perspective – in the middle of a park or residential area, to create the widest possible sound. A stereo version of each cue is included as well as embedded metadata. Most tracks are 2-3 minutes.
‘Traffic Tones’ will help build flavorful air tones and atmospheres in order to support urban or suburban environments.
This sound library is divided into 2 main sections
1) Traffic Loops
2) Single Event Sounds
The first part of this library comprises a wide variety of long undisturbed traffic loops;
exempt from excessive dynamic fluctuations, and without any incongruous noises (such as birds).
These are non-disruptive atmospheres that you can easily layer up.
Ready to be inserted into your project, they will help you build the foundation of your own soundscape.
The second part of this library consists of ‘single event’ sounds.
They will bring character to your sound-bed and help soundify any story/visual cues.
You will find in this section well-classified eclectic sounds such as whistles, sirens, brake squeals,
but also more than 110 individual horns, and a massive collection of 300+ pass-by of all kinds…
The diversity of sounds delivered in this library reflects the large-scale recording process that took us 5 years to gather the right material, recorded throughout 30 cities in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, from various perspectives in space and time, various weather conditions, various terrain type, and vehicle types.
***Most of the library were recorded in 192KHz, however, in the majority of the recordings, there was no reason to keep this sample rate. Hence we saved some space and converted it to 96KHz unless interesting spectral information was found in these high ranges, in this case, we kept them at 192 kHz.
“PWL08: Ambisonic Overview : USA – WEST COAST AIRPORT & FLIGHT” is a collection of sounds recorded between 2 airports of the west coast of the USA: Los Angeles, and Oakland. As a bonus, we put in the library sounds recorded at the Paris Airport (France).
The library includes also sounds recorded during the flights between these 3 airports in four different planes: one Boing 787, one Boing 789 Dreamliner, one Airbus A319, and one Airbus A320.
We were recording in many places inside the airports: Ticket place, gate place, security check, waiting room, near a restaurant, bar, dutyfree shop, etc…
And also inside the planes: before take-off, security announcement, take-off, landing, room tone, ambiance during the flight, passenger walla, Captain and crew PA System
– The soundbank contains 64 sound takes recorded in 24 Bit / 96 kHz for a total duration of 388 minutes of original sound, decline in 192 files
Sound Tailor Effects Library enters the void with its 3rd release:
60 sounds, 5+ hours of rich and deep room tones, with a variety of sizes and environments that will cover most of sound editors needs. From a quiet residential bedroom to an reverberant inactive hospital hall, a ventilated office space, or a noisy basement, we carefully chose the right place at the right time, to get the best from those empty spaces.
We’ve recorded with a combination of 7 low noise microphones, 1 ambisonic microphone and 1 geophone, dispatched on a wide rig, to get the best spatial impression, allowing us to deliver a true 7.1.2 format, plus ambisonic, 5.1 and 2.1 versions. The sub channel, provided by the geophone and its low frequency response, has been a shocking surprise for us, and is a real colorful and creative addition.
You can choose between several spatial format combinations, to suit your needs. All versions includes a stereo mixdown, and all files are loopable.
Sound Tailor’s Room Tones is UCS compliant, and delivered in high resolution 96kHz/24 Bits.
Ignite your projects with the punchy presence and immersive depth of pristine exterior explosion sound effects in 5.1 surround and stereo.
Detonate is a specialty sound effects library of high-resolution explosions, blasts, bursts, and impacts curated from the personal collection of Academy Award®-winning sound editors Mark Mangini & Richard L. Anderson.
Delivered in both 5.1 surround and stereo, these detonation recordings and designs pack a lot of punch up front with a very spacious slap from nearby mountains. Blow it up with massive boom sound effects from dynamite, artillery, and C4 – perfect for sound designing bombs, grenades, cannons and anything else that explodes. The depth, detail, sharp transients, and powerful LFE channel make these sounds perfect design elements for your projects including film, TV, trailers, games and beyond.
“”I heavily leverage my library to find new sounds that I didn’t think of initially…You simply can’t record everything.””
Mark Mangini
Blade Runner 2049, Mad Max: Fury Road
Detonate is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Standard.
Key Features:
'Fireworks From Paris' is a sound library, recorded as Paris was celebrating the Bastille Day on July 14th 2016. The firework recordings are divided into categories such as tiny explosions, middle explosions, and powerful explosions. The library features both solo explosions, as well as multiple blasts. It comes with 2×138 recordings, in stereo as well as UPMIX 5.1.
This exceptional sound library offers you the raw and authentic sounds of urban environments in a state of violent public disturbances. Rain rocks and flashbang grenades on your scenes as you immerse your audience in hair-raising atmospheres of real-life riots. From fuming roadblocks to flaming tires and legions of demonstrators, this library encapsulates the very essence of uproar, vandalism, and turmoil.
Atacama Desert is a collection of stereo and quad soundscapes recorded in the barren but amazingly beautiful desert plateau of Western Chile. This is the most arid desert on Earth, with some weather stations here having never recorded any rain. It’s a breathtaking place with incredible silence and powerful winds. The soundscapes in this collection were recorded around giant rock pillars, endless rock plains and fields of sparse dry vegetation.
This library is the perfect way to portray the barren expanse of the Atacama desert. Some of the soundscapes recorded are the lightest of desert airs. The others feature wind, from light and soft to heavy and gusty. Lastly, some of the recordings also include flies buzzing around.
This library was recorded in several locations on the border between Chile, Argentina and Bolivia . Reaching this part of the world was no easy task, as you can see in the second part of the teaser video.
The Complete Craig Carter Collection comprises of the major sound libraries in addition to a wide range of additional, specialised sound libraries.
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SPANISH COUNTRYSIDE AMBIENCES is a small collection of field recordings containing a wide view of Spanish countryside ambiences: Pinewoods, countryside, birds, crickets, and cicadas. 25 files of exterior files recorded in the Spring and Summer of 2013.
All the files have metadata embedded for great Soundminer type programs. They both include Spanish and English descriptions.
German engineering in its high performance.
I would love to introduce you to the 2019 Porsche 911 – RPM Collection sound library for your sound editorial and designing purposes.
After lots of thought and planning, I managed to record, clean, and edit the recording for an extensive and easily accessible editorial experience to your production.
The RPM Collection gives you a large range of multi-microphone proximate and one-meter distance recordings of the engine, as well as a broad variety of details of the exhauster. This masterpiece of engineering got recorded on a vehicle lift to gather sounds from unreachable angles, catching all the richness and details of the engine.
With a large collection of Idling, Reverse, Steady RPMs, Revs, Accelerations and Decelerations, you will be able to use these sounds as a wonderful organic layer to your vehicle sound designs and edits.
Let your designing imagination be the limit of your creation!
Royal Blue Audio
A Journey with Sound
Surround At the Show 2 features 54 24bit / 96 kHz 5.1 Surround Sound Crowd Effects with a large selection of mostly female audience cheers and swells. Recorded in 3 premier locations in Los Angeles: A large Stadium, a Traveling Circus and a large Political Rally. Recorded with discrete Quad microphones, and mastered in 5.1 surround (L-C-R-Ls-Rr-Lf Embedded .WAV format). Recording locations are all from center of the crowd to create the widest possible sound. From veteran Hollywood Sound Designer Lenny Jones.
A stereo version of each cue is included, as well as embedded metadata. All new, original recordings.
Want a taste of what's included? Download the 5.1 Surround Demo file here and try it out on your own system!
This library, recorded during a trip to the ominous Death Valley USA in February 2021, features sounds of the harsh desert being carved by winter winds, as well as sounds of life such as wetland birds from the oasis at Ash Meadows. If you listen closely to the recordings from the infamous Devil’s Hole, and inhospitable Salt Creek, you can hear the endangered pupfish bark. Many recording styles were used to capture immersive stereo images of the landscape that provides such stark contrasts being both foreboding and breathtaking in its beauty, included are surround and binaural recordings. This is by no means a comprehensive collection, if anything I learned that I have much more to discover about Death Valley than I thought I did starting out.
Sale Policy: To keep things simple, I never put any of my libraries on sale or offer any kind of discount. I sell them at a reasonable price given the effort to record and compile them, I find this is the most honest and transparent approach to the sale of sound effects.
Spatial Countryside 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 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!
Want the sounds of urban rain storms, gutters, drains and wet traffic? Surround In the Rain features 30 HD 24bit/48khz 5.1 Surround Sound Effects with exactly that. Recorded with discrete Quad microphones, and mastered in 5.1 surround (L-C-R-Ls-Rr-Lf Embeded .WAV format). Recording locations are all from center perspective to create the widest possible sound, and a stereo version of each cue is included, as well as embedded metadata. Want a taste of what's included? Download the 5.1 Surround Demo file here and try it out on your own system! From veteran Hollywood Sound Designer Lenny Jones.
Wind Bundle includes four different sound libraries, providing a comprehensive and versatile collection of windy sounds. By purchasing this bundle you will benefit of a 20% discount.
German engineering in its high performance.
I would love to introduce you to the 2019 Porsche 911 Carrera S sound library for your sound editorial and designing purposes.
The library comes in three dedicated sections: RPM Collection (incl. Idling), Drive-Bys (incl. Approaches and Drive offs) and Interior drive recordings.
After lots of thought and planning, I managed to record, clean, and edit the recording for an extensive and easily accessible editorial experience to your production.
The RPM Collection gives you a large range of multi-microphone proximate and one-meter distance recordings of the engine, as well as a broad variety of details of the exhauster. This masterpiece of engineering got recorded on a vehicle lift to gather sounds from unreachable angles, catching all the richness and details of the engine.
With a large collection of Idling, Reverse, Steady RPMs, Revs, Accelerations and Decelerations, you will be able to use these sounds as a wonderful organic layer to your vehicle sound designs and edits.
The Drive-bys, approaches, and drive-offs section can be essential to maximize the quality of your production! This package includes Mono sound source following and Stereo drives of the 2019 Porsche 911, with velocities starting at Walking Speed, 10km/h – 80km/h to Reverse.
The Interior Drive series portraits the most beautiful driving experience with its unique comforting interior and design. I am thrilled to share with you the quadraphonic interior recordings of the front and rear of the car.
Covering the sounds driving over cobblestone, uneven and normal roads (reverse drive included) at multiple speeds from Walking Speed to 160 km/h!
Side note: The engine becomes nearly silent in times, which leaves us with just a beautiful interior rumble of the car driving over cobblestones.
Let your designing imagination be the limit of your creation!
Royal Blue Audio
A Journey with Sound
The city of Kolkata, India, is one of the sonically richest locations in the world. This library features over 25 locations and 276 files of both day and night time recordings in 5.1 and stereo formats. Feel the relentless energy of Bagbazar Street, the traffic rumble over Howrah Bridge, walk through the flower market along the Ganges river, and much more…
Large cathedrals & small chapels each with their unique characteristics and reverb. Recorded at 8 different churches this library features walla, chair creaks, coughs, prayers, foot traffic & movement.
All sounds were recorded using the DPA 5100 and Sound Devices 788T. This library is available in stereo or 5.0 (5.0 package contains stereo mix downs as well).
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This sound library was recorded in Moscow’s downtown on 13 locations at different times of the year. 27 samples include the sounds of passers-by, steps and random conversations against the background of distant traffic, singing birds and other casual sounds.
It can be useful for audio post-production when working with movies, trailers or commercials in which it is necessary to convey the routine life atmosphere of Russian cities. All files are carefully selected and prepared. Metadata included in the archive – and the library is available in both a stereo and a surround version.
Surround In the Night features 25 HD 24bit/48khz 5.1 Surround Sound Effects with a large selection of urban crickets and cicada recordings in parks and residential areas. Recorded with discrete Quad microphones, and mastered in 5.1 surround (L-C-R-Ls-Rr-Lf Embeded .WAV format).
Recording locations are all from center perspective – captured in the middle of a park or residential area, to create the widest possible sound. A stereo version of each cue is included, as well as embedded metadata. From veteran Hollywood Sound Designer Lenny Jones.
Want a taste of what's included? Download the 5.1 Surround Demo file here and try it out on your own system!
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