Product Description
Streetscape is an extremely focused urban ambience library: It features nearly two hours of exterior stereo recordings of only a few city blocks, portraying a gritty and dense urban setting, perfect for any urban thriller, modern noir, or cyberpunk project.
Recorded four stories above street level in San Francisco, articulate details are balanced with natural diffusion and slapback in this dense urban corridor, allowing the recordings to sit in a mix with definition but without distraction. The recordings are between three and nine minutes long, have UCS-compliant filenames and metadata, and are provided with markers describing significant sound events. They have been carefully curated to not have any music from radios inside passing vehicles or local businesses, no wind, only adult voices, and only a handful of birds can be heard in a few of the recordings.
The ambiences range from quiet and sparse to vibrant and active, with shouts and murmurs between car pass-bys and other events, echoing off the buildings crowded together like uninterrupted canyon walls. The city comes to life through the clanks of truck lift gates, rattling manhole covers, skateboard wheels over sidewalks, and even open grates down to the subway below, emitting an infamous “howl” as the train cars pass underground. Conversations, arguments, vehicular beeps, garbage trucks, electric buses, motorcycles, hydraulic brake releases, jackhammers, police sirens, car alarms, and more provide textures and specific sounds useful for any story set in a big city.
Whether used as full beds or sliced up into specific sound events, Streetscape can help build a dynamic, lived-in city soundscape for your film, show, or game.