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Sound effects libraries in various surround sound formats. Also check out the Ambisonics sound category.
In times of global change it’s nearly impossible to hear places without human sounds. The majestic and old rainforests on the tropical south pacific islands creates an amazing soundscape. We recorded these soundscapes with a variety of organic sounds like exotic birds and animals, light and heavy tropical rain, wind blowing through trees and calm rivers and waterfalls. We also covered day and night moods. Our microphone setup is the amazing immersive Schoeps ORTF3D System powered by the precise preamps of the Sonosax R4+ and AD8+. These Systems allow us to record the incredible soundscapes of the south pacific rainforests in the most iconic way.
The Library include sounds like
AMBIENCE, TROPICAL, WATER, RAINFOREST, RAIN, EXOTIC, ANIMALS, BIRDS, INSECTS, WIND, VEGETATION, VOLCANO, RIVER
Key Features:
Our planet has a fascinating sonic spectrum, and every season, nature offers us an impressive and multi-faceted sound composition. We have recorded the most interesting and iconic ambiences the only way that truly reflects the sonic character of Earth as precisely as possible: Using the unparalleled Schoeps ORTF3D Surround Set. Harness these first-rate sounds to shape your projects in the most authentic way possible, from the ground up in 3D Surround or Stereo.
EUROPEAN LIFE – 3D SURROUND AMBIENCES
We wandered the European countryside to capture the unique flavors of the different small towns, villages, and suburbs.
Now Europe can be enjoyed from farmstead to cottage with this ambient sound effects collection that encompasses all the rural sound palettes from the North Sea to the Mediterranean. The sounds provide genuine atmospheres for each setting without any distractions in the foreground; perfect, countryside soundscapes for authentic audio layers in your production.
Varying from calm restaurants to small town cafes, rivers and creeks to traffic and streets, EUROPEAN LIFE contains an entire sonic palette of the European rural life. Recorded in 3D, you can choose the exact listening angle or use the stereo version (also included). EUROPEAN LIFE makes for an excellent addition to our TOWN & COUNTRY collection to broaden the agrarian scope, or as a companion to URBAN EUROPE to round out the sounds of the European continent.
Surround Sound LAB is proud to present our first ambisonic library decoded and mixed in Dolby ATMOS.
After several months recording around Madrid, we are including 22 tracks in ambisonic format, 48Khz and 24 bits HD of Far city Ambiences.
As always, top quality recordings specially designed for film audio projects.
This time we have mastered all the files in Ad Hoc Studios Madrid (link), Post Production sound studios certified by Avid and Dolby ATMOS, one of the best post production facilities in Spain.
We have decoded all the First Order Ambisonic recordings with the HarpeX plugin into a 7.1.2 Dolby ATMOS bed configuration, using the top channel to create totally outstanding ambiences tracks ready to use.
We want to let you know that Surround Sound LAB. new releases will be in Ambisonic format. This way you will be able to decode it from mono to Atmos systems. Also it’s important to think in ambisonics as the way to go for VR – and we are ready for it.
Sculptunes – Underwater Ambiences SoundListSculptunes SFX – Underwater Ambiences is a sound library designed for immersive underwater scenes in films, games, and projects. It includes 5.1 Surround Ambiences for deep, realistic soundscapes and Stereo Layers with individual elements like bubbles and airy tones for customization. Fully UCS-compliant with metadata, it’s compatible with Basehead and Soundminer for seamless integration.
SOUNDS OF THE RUGGED NORDIC SEA
This mini library transports you to the coastline of Norway with the powerful sounds of ocean waves interacting with rocky shores. Rocky Coast of Norway features crashing waves against rock cliffs, splashing water on pebble beaches, and the gentle lapping of waves along shallow rock formations.
These ocean sounds are perfect for capturing the essence of open sea scenes or showcasing the power of water along raw coasts. Rocky Coast of Norway immerses you in the rugged but fascinating landscape of the Norwegian shoreline and awakens the spirit of the Viking Sea and coastal adventures.
The calm of the night sets in, few people are outside. The city, quiet, gives way to the faint hum of ventilations, as well as the subtle and peaceful urban rumble.
All files are embedded with extensive UCS compliant metadata.
Feel the coldness of winter landscapes. In the heart of the Cantal mountains in France, immerse yourself in a soothing nature or in the cold winter wind.
All files are embedded with extensive UCS compliant metadata.
NSL – ATMOS Vol.1 is a 40 Files Sound-Pack composed of Backgrounds Sounds made to be used in Dolby Atmos Format. You will have access to many samples: Forests, Rivers, Airfields, Alpine Mountains, Winds, and many more sounds…
The ultimate sound library that lets you unleash the raw, untamed force of angry machines and manufacturing floors right at your fingertips. Loaded with an assortment of menacing sounds from machine rooms, furnaces, printing lines, and more, this collection will elevate your projects to a whole new level of intensity.
An extraordinary sound library boasting high-quality recordings, rich with the authentic sounds of urban and suburban parks, lush gardens, and tranquil neighborhood backyards.
Antique Rifles is a comprehensive selection of historic long barrel black powder firearms. This library features heavy weight military and civilian weapons commonly used throughout the 1800s into the mid 1900s.
The coach gun, known as the cut-down shotgun, was made famous in the American Wild West by historical figures like Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday. Coach Guns were also used on stage coaches by shotgun messengers and were commonplace amongst homestead farmers, landowners and outlaws alike.
The Enfield 1861 Artillery Carbine with smooth bore barrel was a popular weapon during the mid 1800s with military forces in Europe and America. Enfield carbine rifles were used extensively in the American civil war.
The black powder hammer gun is manufactured by legendary gunsmiths Westley Richards. This 1864 design of breech loading shotgun was instrumental to the advancement of firearms in the 19th century.
The 1872 Snider Enfield .577 rifle was favoured by the British army and used in the Zulu war of 1879. The Snider Enfield was also used by the British Indian army until the end of the 19th century.
This library features 29 channel HD recordings, spread over a 500m private gun range. The recordings have been provided without dynamic processing at 96KHz 24bit, a selection of range recordings are also included at 192KHz 24bit. The 5.1 recordings give an excellent sense of depth and space across the 500m range as each of the shots are fired. Stereo and mono microphone positions add further detail, spread out at various distances between 1-50m away from the shooter. The collection features designed and mixed sound effects from black powder antique rifles alongside all of the original recordings used. In addition to a full workup and mixed sound set of these antique firearms, the library also includes a further extension to the Foley with recordings from a San Cristobal Americana and Valmet Sako rifles. A Pro Tools session is included that takes all the effort out of arranging the content for mixing. You can drop in your own routing, processing and mixing touches according to taste and quickly establish a new sound set for the picture or video game you are working with.
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.
Recordings from the Spanish capital. A collection of files containing a wide view of Madrid ambiences: Parks, streets, birds, city ambiences… 50 files of interior and exterior files recorded since 2009 in our city.
All the files have metadata embedded for great Soundminer type programs. They both include Spanish and English description.
Recordings from the German capital. A collection of files containing a wide view of Berlin ambiences: Parks, streets, undergrounds, city ambiences… 50 files of interior and exterior files recorded in the Summer of 2013.
Immerse yourself in the second library of the Ambisonics series by USO. These “Runaway Trains” were recorded with a Senneheiser Ambeo and a Sonosax R4+ in and around the Milano Greco Pirelli railway station, which is part of the so-called “Milan Circle Line,” a railway loop which circumnavigates the city.
The library contains a lot of passing trains and ambient sounds recorded very close to the railway, both by day and by night. There has been no further processing, although I did carefully remove all the Italian P.A. announcements, to make life easier for the editors during the sound montage.
A useful bonus, too: you will find some ready-to-use backgrounds as “airfill” between the passing trains to create continuity in a longer scene, if need be. The ambient sounds are also great as a standalone!
This sound library captures the unique acoustics of New Zealand’s caves, abandoned mines, and tunnels, recorded in stereo and surround.
You will find a variety of ambiences, from vast, echoing caverns to narrow passageways with close, damp acoustics. From the delicate trickle of water on mossy stone and heavy drips on dirt to the distant rumble of underground streams and the wind through old miner houses, these recordings bring the underground world to life.
This library reveals the rich echoes and shifting textures of these hidden spaces, where sound bends, fades, and resonates through stone and water.
This library is also available in The New Zealand Collection bundle.
Cover photo by Harry Bradley.
Recorded Locations
Aranui Cave • Ballroom Overhang • Box Canyon Cave • Cave Stream Scenic Reserve • Collins Drive • Denniston Mines • Glenorchy Mining area • Harris Bay Cave • Mangapohue Natural Bridge • Moria Gate Arch • Oparara Arch • Piripiri Cave • Tatare Gorge • Tunnel Hill • Waipu caves • Welshtown
Stereo and Surround
Recorded with double mid-side and AB microphone setups, this library is delivered in 5.0 (L/R/C/Ls/Rs) and Stereo.
Gear used
Zoom F3 • Zoom F6 • Usi Pro • MKH30 • MKH8040
Metadata
This sound library is UCS compliant and comes with fully embedded metadata compatible with Soundly, Soundminer and Basehead.
All the Paris Metro lines recorded and brought together in a single collection to take you on an immersive trip in surround sound.
All files are embedded with extensive UCS compliant metadata.
Take to the skies with “Planes of LAX,” a sound library that thrusts you into the thunderous symphony of jet engines soaring down into and roaring up out of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Tailored for professionals in film, games, and immersive formats, this collection will take your jetliner flybys to the next level.
Immerse your audience in a three-dimensional auditory experience with Ambix Ambisonic recordings and decoded 7.1.2 Atmos Bed, 5.1, and Stereo versions.
Decoded and referenced in Dolby Atmos at Cheviot Sound, ensuring top-quality playback.
Along with decoded stereo files, choose from separately recorded stereo and mono recordings, adding flexibility to meet the unique demands of your projects. Stereo recordings were expertly captured using a Tascam X8 in an XY configuration, while mono recordings were taken with a Rode NTG5.
Immerse yourself in the distinctive roars, whines, and rumbles of various planes, including but not limited to:
Airbus A320, A321, A350, A380
Boeing 737-7H4, 737-823, 737-824, 737-825, 767-332ER, 777-223, 787-9 Dreamliner
Boeing C32A Airforce Two
Bombardier Challenger 605
Embraer 175LR, E175LR-04, E175LL, Phenom 300, Phenom 300-02
Mitsubishi CRJ-701ER
Decode to 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0, 7.1 and higher immersive formats, Change orientation, and Emulate microphone polar patterns using ambisonic decoder plugins:
RODE SoundField – FREE
Harpex B Converter – PAID
Recording-
Jack Weiss
Roy Berardo
Editing-
Jack Weiss
Photos-
Jethro Tai
A collection of soundscapes and isolated sound elements from technology labs, with recordings from biotech, optics, molding, transforming, and other places of hi-tech development, perfect for industrial, sci-fi, or stealth setting, and more.
Nowadays a lot of protests against global climate change all over the world are happening. With our amazing immersive Schoeps ORTF3D recording system, we recorded some protests during the UN climate conference (COP26) in Glasgow 2022. You can hear people cheering and screaming, helicopters flying around, rhythmic drums playing and crowds shouting political lines against climate change.
The Library include sounds like
PROTEST, CROWD, CLIMATE CHANGE, CHEERING, DRUMS, HELICOPTER
Key Features:
These sounds were recorded in 2018, throughout the Swiss cities of Geneva, Zurich, Basel, & Bern.
Ambisonic – PickUp Truck interior is a small package of interior recordings performed in a Mitsubishi L200, under multiple use-cases.
The captured vehicle model is a Mitsubishi Hunter L200 2012, with a 2500cc Diesel engine.
It includes driving on asphalt and gravel at various speeds, while the windows are open or closed for each scenario. Rooftop rain was also recorded and added to this package.
The Ambisonic version can be great for creating different listening angles of an interior car scene that uses several video angles, using it as an ambient layer for interactive experiences or simply implementing it into a real-time gaming audio engine.
To create this product a Sennheiser Ambeo microphone paired with Zoom H8n was used.
Please note that the Ambisonic version also includes a stereophonic rendering of the files.
This collection of sounds include a variety of ambiences, drones, and room tones recorded during a relaxing SPA day in Zamora, Spain. 17 tracks recorded in different spaces (Dressing Rooms, Jacuzzi, Sauna, etc) . Room Tones, Drones and Ambiences recorded and edited for audio atmos designers. SURROUND, DMS and ST VERSIONS INCLUDED, and all the files have metadata embedded for Soundminer and similar programs. They both include Spanish and English descriptions.
Military Truck Percussion
Fiat 850 Sport Coupe 1968 sports car
$65
Effective Trailer Booms Vol. 2
SpellBound
Kawaii UI Bundle
Motion Graphics
Modular UI
Animal Hyperrealism Vol IV
WET and SLIMY - Foley Recordings
Forests and Mountains
Horror Jumpscares
The Still Line
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