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Quality field recording from Warsaw, Poland and anywhere since 2011 or something.
Over 3000 sound files and counting. Designed, foley, unique machines, nature, villages, towns, cities and factories. And more. You may send us a request or an enquiry for a specific sound.
This library presents diverse means of rail transport in Italy. I recorded it in 2020, but some trains were decades old. In these you’ll find warm sounds of old electric motors, as well as creaking, rattling, squeaking and rumbling of their weathered bodies.
In some files you’ll hear some conversations of various intensity, as well as announcements in Italian and English, in foreground or background. Some of them are about covid restrictions, masks etc., but usually just station names.
In addition to 53 files with onboard sounds you get 11 files with ambiences from stations – indoor and outdoor, busy and desolate, with or without PA announcements.
The onboard sounds are made in 10 types of rail transport:
* vintage diesel railcar
Fiat ALn 668
(made in 1980s, designed in 1950s)
* vintage electric multiple unit
ALe 724
(made in 1980s)
* vintage electric multiple unit
Sepsa ET100
(made in 1960s)
Cumana/Circumflegrea
suburban lines in Naples
* modern electric multiple unit
TFA Alfa 3 ET500
Cumana/Circumflegrea suburban
lines in Naples
* vintage electric multiple unit
FE220
(1970s-1980s)
Circumvesuviana narrow gauge
suburban line in Naples
* modern double-decker suburban
train in Rome
TAF ALe 426
* trams in Rome (modern Fiat
Cityway, and Stanga 7000 from
1940s)
* funicular in Naples
(Funicolare Centrale)
* passenger cars in various
regional trains
* metro in Naples
The library is UCS compliant.
Wozówka the tortie likes to talk and she likes to purr. And she’s often multitasking, like a typical 21st century person.
Being in the 5th year of her life she has developed a decent vocabulary. She code-switches, too, depending on whether she’s safe at home, or on alert in the woods. Every mood she goes through is marked with a different meow.
Roughly half of the sounds here are made indoors in mono, close miked with a Lom Usi. The rest is made outdoors in stereo with a Telinga.
The library is UCS compliant.
This classic vehicle is drawn by two horses and produces mostly clank and rattle of wood and metal. You can also hear some leather creaks and the horses’ hooves and breaths. Occasionally the driver beatboxes some cues – clucking, smacking, monosyllables.
Some of the files contain solely the rattle of the rolling carriage but no horses – these can be used for sound designing any old vehicle on a bumpy road.
This selection of onboard sounds contains a variety of speeds, horse gaits and road surfaces. They have been recorded with the Sennheiser Ambeo VR Mic, and, simultaneously, with two stereo sets. For each recording you get 10 channels:
– ambiX B-format (4 channels)
– Stereo XY (Audio-Technica BP4025)
– Wide Stereo (DPA 4060) captured at the carriage’s chassis
– Stereo Mix of all of the above
The ambiX B-format files are ready to be encoded into all spatial sound setups: like 5.1, 7.1, 4.0, VR 360 degree experience, and more.
The library is UCS compliant.
Modern bread making environments sound industrial, both at a wholesale production facility that feeds the whole town, and at a small boutique bakery run by enthusiasts. Think large electrical appliances with fans and beeping control panels in reverberating rooms with tiled walls. Conversations (in Polish) usually stay in background.
Out of this emerges the edible matter itself – poured flour, dough splatting in mixer, and dozens loaves of fresh bread falling on decks, shelves, crates.
The library constists of ambiences, human movements, and close-ups on specific machines, including spiral mixers, dividers, sheeters, conveyors, provers, ovens. Six recordings are matched with pictures taken at the scene.
Recorded in 2020 with Audio Technica BP4025 stereo microphone (XY) and Sound Devices MixPre-6 II.
UCS compliant.
Fiat 126 is a tiny car designed in the early 1970s to replace the classic Fiat 500. It was the most popular car in Poland from the late 1970s until the late 1990s. The idiosyncratic sound of its two cylinder, 0.65 Litre engine became an icon of the Polish everyday life. Fiat 126 was also common in Italy and Cuba.
This library contains all basic sounds this car can make, like driving at various speeds on tarmac and dirt roads, pass-bys and parking. Then there’s foley sounds of all the switches, opening doors etc. Don’t miss the particularly rich sound of the cold start of the aged engine.
The car we recorded was made in 1999. All its sounds are relevant for cars produced between 1994 and 2000. Earlier versions did not have the electronic starter and they wouldn’t beep when the choke was open. Cars made until about 1985 had a different dashboard so some of their switches would sound different (compare pictures for reference). The engine (and its sound) however was the same from the early 1970s until the end of production in 2000.
109 stereo files, 18 mono files, all UCS compliant.
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