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Environments & Ambiences Countryside Hong Kong Play Track 33 sounds included, 166 mins total $75

This library features outdoor ambience recordings captured at a number of quiet locations around Hong Kong during the winter season. These locations includes: wetlands, large beaches, forests, lakes and meadows.

These sounds are perfect for background sound design in film, games, documentaries, art installation and etc.

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Travel & Transportation Transportation Hong Kong Play Track 111 sounds included $70

This libraries feature interior onboard recordings of the main five mode of transport in Hong Kong: TAXI, BUS, MINIBUS, TRAM and MTR.

From metal grinding and squeaks of trams to the ultra-gusty wind noise of the high-speed MTR train, these recordings embody the sonic character of daily commuting in the city, Hong Kong, where a fast paced lifestyle meet tradition and modern mode of transportation.

This collection of sound effects are perfect ambience background for movie scenes or as materials for transport-related sound designs.

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City Life Sound Effects Residential Hong Kong Play Track 27 sounds included, 144 mins total $70

Hong Kong Residential features a collection of ambience background sounds recorded at Tsing Yi island, the geographical centre point of Hong Kong city. Surrounded by business and industrial zones, there are quiet villages, public housing estates and parks on this island, which manifest the humble, down-to-earth and quieter side of this futurist city.

Selected locations are recorded at different times of a date. Morning, afternoon and evening, which reflects the ever-evolving sonic dynamics of each locations.

One can find everyday life ambience in this library, such as bird songs, suburban traffics, market, crowd and more.

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Environments & Ambiences Panorama – Sea To Sky (LCR AMBIENCE) Play Track 35 sounds included, 183 mins total $75

PANORAMA is a collection of ambience, background sound effect, recorded using a dedicated 3 channels microphone array (INA-3), specify catered for project format where there is a centre channel.

The library features recordings of harbours, empty city streets and diffused urban skylines where the three channel microphone array excels.

Recording ambience in three channels (LCR) gives a solid centre image to sound stage, without relying on “Phantom Centre”. It provides more coherence between LR and Center channel. It also gives editors or mixers the ability to adjust the width of the sound stage to suit the scene.

These recordings are perfect for background sound design in films and games.

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City Life Sound Effects Food Shopping Hong Kong Play Track 30+ sounds included, 120 mins total $70

This libraries feature ambience recordings of crowds doing grocery shopping in Hong Kong.

The two main categories are: Wet Market (indoor and outdoor) and Supermarket.

Wet markets is the essence of traditional Chinese grocery shopping, which involves shouty hawkers, dynamic movements and rustic atmosphere.

On the other hand, Supermarket ambience features trolley movements, freezer hums, busy checkouts area and etc.

Most crowd recordings are in CANTONESE.

These ambience are aimed to be sonic backgrounds for movie scenes, games and etc. Subtle and characterful. Perfect for background layering.

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Roomtones Passageways – Stairwells & Corridors Play Track 27+ sounds included, 162 mins total $70

This library features ambience recordings of stairwell & corridor captured at various industrial buildings. These background recordings embody a lot of subtle movements and characterful nuances, while being non-distractive. They are perfect for background sound design in films and games, or to be used purely as room tone.

All recordings are recorded, edited and processed to broadcast standard.

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City Life Sound Effects Traffic Network – City & Motorway Play Track 27 sounds included, 140 mins total $70

This library features recordings of traffic ambience captured in the modern city, Hong Kong.

There are two main categories of locations, City and Motorway.

City consists of recordings such as, busy intersection, carriage ways, street and etc.

Motorway consists of recordings of fast highway ambience of various perspectives, density, road surface and etc.

These ambience are aimed to be sonic backgrounds for movie scenes, games and etc. Subtle and characterful. Perfect for background layering.

All recordings features no crowd, walla or human voice.

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Car Sound Effects Bumpy Pass By – Compact Cars & Trucks Play Track 125 sounds included $50

This library features recordings of vehicle pass bys on bumpy road surfaces, more specify, bridge joints.

There are compact vehicles which give smooth, clean yet robust whooshes. In contrast, heavy vehicles, likes trucks and trailers, give bold, intense clanging and rattling sound. These characterful pass bys, whooshes, are perfect raw material for further cinematic sound design, for example, trailer hits, transitions and more.

Content:

Location A consists of:
26x Compact Car Pass By
13x Multiple Vehicle Pass By
22x Truck Pass By

Location B consists of:
15x Light Truck Pass By
23x Medium Truck Pass By
26x Heavy Truck Pass By

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Travel & Transportation Train Station – Hong Kong MTR Play Track 32+ sounds included, 158 mins total $70

This library features ambience and crowd recordings captured inside Hong Kong MTR train stations. Locations includes station concourse, passway, platform and stairway. The diversity of recordings ranges from eerie empty platform to busy turnstile concourse during peak hours.

All recordings are recorded, edited and processed to broadcast standard , ready for all types of media use, such as animations, films, games, advertisements and other aspiring creative projects.

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City Life Sound Effects Shopping Mall Of Hong Kong Play Track 27 sounds included, 115 mins total $70

This library features ambience and crowd recordings captured inside Hong Kong shopping malls. Each recordings reflects a specific venue acoustics, crowd dynamics and perspectives. The primary language found in these recordings are Cantonese and Mandarin.

All recordings are recorded, edited and processed to broadcast standard , ready for all types of media use, such as animations, films, games, advertisements and other aspiring creative projects.

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Wylie Stateman

Supervising sound editor,
The Hateful Eight, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill: Vol. 1

A Sound Effect is an excellent resource for us to keep our animated films sounding unique and exciting.

Gabriel Guy

Re-recording Mixer, Walt Disney Animation Studios:
Frozen, Big Hero 6

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Wayne Pashley

Supervising Sound Editor/Re-recording Mixer, The Lego Movie & Mad Max: Fury Road

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Sound designer:
Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit trilogies

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Director, Digital - Source Sound Inc.

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