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City and urban sound effects & recordings – including crowds, walla, traffic and other city activity
Introducing our field recording collection of ambiences from Bratislava, Slovakia. This collection features a diverse range of sounds from this beautiful capital city, including city streets with people and traffic, the unique sound of trams, the clanging of construction work, the lively atmosphere of a busy bar and restaurant, and the hustle and bustle of a busy train station.
These high-quality recordings are perfect for film, television, and video game sound design, as well as for ambient music production. Whether you’re a sound designer, musician, or just a fan of unique and authentic sounds, this collection is a must-have for your library.
Speedway Motorcycles Sound Effect Pack Vol.01
The world of loud and roaring speedway motorcycles must impress many people. This collection contains 131 pieces of free practicing motorcycles passing by without a crowd in more than 70 minutes.
I sometimes go to rally sprint and speedway motorcycle races. Since I have recorded rally car sounds before, I couldn’t miss the motorcycles. I recorded these sounds at speedway motor free practice sessions without audience noise.
This sound effect collection is ideal for use in game software, applications, commercials, movies, TV shows,
videos, animation, and any other entertainment industry where a high-quality audio effect is essential.
131 Speedway Motorcycle sound effect.
Excellent choice for productions where motorcycles appear.
Construction Yard Sound Effect Pack Vol.1
Noisy demolitions and constructions belong to a multitude of urban sounds and they are part of our everyday lives.
This sound library has collected more than 90 minutes of construction sounds that include jackhammer, excavator sounds and background atmospheres.
Construction machinery and construction or demolition sites always produce interesting and varied sounds and can be used in a wide range of productions. That’s why I made a package like this one, recorded on real construction sites.
This sound effect collection is ideal for use in game software, applications, commercials, movies, TV shows,
videos, animation, and any other entertainment industry where a high-quality audio effect is essential.
105 Construction Yard sound effect.
For productions where construction area scenes appear.
Ambience Vol.1 is the first library in our Film, TV & Game Essentials range. If you are a working sound effects editor, sound designer, film maker or game designer… this really is content for everyday usage! And we say that with some experience working across multiple film, TV and video game productions. This library covers all of the practical, go-to sound categories that sound editors use on a daily basis working with fiction, factual, animation and interactive world design.
Urban and suburban areas. This library contains a broad selection of city and suburban recordings, featuring activity from people in exterior and interior settings, clearly audible footsteps and movement on exterior surfaces like pavements, alleyways and walla at different densities. Sirens, street sounds and signature city environments are all included in this selection.
Interiors and Room Tones. One of the staples of sound effects editing, the background room tone. Useful for ADR editors and sound effects editors alike, this library features a number of tones, background hums and ambience that will provide the perfect bed for set dialogue, ADR and replacing missing interior shots from set. Our room tone content also makes the perfect edition for sound editors looking to enhance the audio from set or create a realistic environment scene. From perfectly still rooms to interior weather recordings, this selection can bring your interior scenes to life in any genre or story.
Nature. Vol.1 wildlife and natural environment selection includes ambiences from Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, England, Wales and Thailand. Featuring dense rainforests, jungle trails, native villages, hillsides, farmland and fields. From pristine natural environments to rural countryside shared with people, there are options to cover exotic and European exterior spaces that will prove useful across multiple genres and most everyday applications. Wide spread bird species are featured in these nature recordings that remain common across Europe and North America, such as guls, pigeons, ducks and more. The rural recordings included also contain common farm animals like sheep in fields.
Water. With so many textures and possible settings for water, this selection aims to provide some common use cases. Various intensities of sea waves, tidal sounds, waves against man made features and natural shorelines are included along with inland rivers, streams and water features. Elements like dripping, trickling and splashing all add detail and enhance any background mix or ambience design that contains these visual attributes.
Whatever the Weather… we’ve got you covered! This library contains multiple selections for rain and wind, along with enhanced detailed elements like howling, whistling, rain on specific surfaces, interior weather, exterior suburban weather and thunder. Nothing soaks the ground and sounds quite like tropical rain, thats covered too… with contextual weather recordings from Brazil and Mexico. Springtime rain from England and close reflections from rain splashing down in urban areas, the choice and flexibility featured in this set is not often seen in a single collection and represents great value for sound professionals to use again and again on productions.
From industry veterans to first time designers, this collection will prove useful on almost any production and add value to even the most established of sound effects collections. Recorded using Tascam, Sound Devices, DPA, AKG and Sennheiser equipment… and more than a decade in the making!
Newcastle & Durham Vol. 1 features ambient recordings of Newcastle upon Tyne and Durham, England.
The local environments of these historic cities were faithfully captured, bringing you a diverse collection of urban and suburban sounds. Together these comprise a sonic tapestry of one of Britain’s major regions – the North East of England.
Included are recordings of: clangs and bangs of a garbage truck; creaky footsteps in the Bowes Museum; clinking cutlery in Eldon Square food court; peaceful protest walla; pressure washer spray; evening rain; Haymarket Station bus engines; escalator squeaks; Central Station trains; Tyne Bridge traffic and more!
Use these sounds to build candid backgrounds and ground your Film, TV and Game projects in British realism.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
UK Ambiences Bundle comprises rural and urban ambiences from across the UK designed to add authentic British textures to your Film, TV and Game projects. Our Audio Craftsmen, captured original recordings across Scotland, Gloucester and northern English countryside. This bundle is perfect for projects with both a rural and urban setting, or for crafting your own custom soundscapes.
The sounds in this library are supplied in both 24 bit / 192 kHz and 96 kHz format and have been tagged with extensive UCS metadata for ease of use.
Ambisonics – Lisbon compiles 57 long and evolving sound files from Portugal’s sunny capital, known for its particular river/ocean side location and varied lifestyles.
Busy traffic intersections from the city’s most famous avenues contrast with the quiet ambiences of its picturesque neighborhoods, splashed with riverside waves and distant boat engines, while also including chatty touristic hotspots like Carmo’s Street, Feira da Ladra’s flea market or A Brasileira’s coffee shop. Lisbon’s main plazas also abound with centered recordings, resulting in complete cityscapes with both busy traffic flow and pedestrian action.
Some of the city’s gardens were recorded on hot summer days which include cicada calls, multiple bird species chirping and curious sightseers exploring around.
The city’s trademark trams are also prominently featured on all traffic soundscapes but also with an interior ride take for full VR immersion. Other city transportation vehicles such as cable cars, trains, subways and their respective stations are also present, recorded on multiple floors and distances, some with interior takes as well. With nearly 6 hours of versatile and original content, you’re guaranteed to find the right cityscape from one of Europe’s most sought after touristic destinations.
Given the nature of ambisonics, you can easily convert these B Format files onto any desired format (like regular stereo, 5.1 or 7.1 surround) with the correct plug-in, like RØDE’s own Soundfield, which happens to be free to download. These are raw recordings where little to no hum or hiss removal techniques were applied.
Gloucester Vol. 1 is a succinct ambient library featuring field recordings captured by our Audio Craftsmen in Gloucester, England. This collection encapsulates the sounds of natural, candid activity in a small English cathedral city. It features the bustle and walla of denizens, a church choir, traffic and vehicles, clock tower bell rings, train station barriers, the hubbub of a busy pub, a child on a scooter, and a huge variety of background movement and distant goings-on.
Use this library for building authentic interior and exterior environments, or design your own custom backgrounds through further manipulation.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation, and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
In this sound library you will find ambient and crowd sounds of the Loulé market located in the Algarve, Portugal.
Ambiences and crowds were recorded in the market streets outside and then ambiences and crowds were recorded in the interior market inside the building.
Each recordings reflects a specific venue acoustics, crowd dynamics and perspectives. The primary language found in these recordings are Portuguese.
These sounds were all recorded with the stereo microphone Audio-Technica BP4025.
After working these sounds in post production, this library comes with 14 incredible market ambient sounds.
West Coast America features both urban and rural sounds of Washington and Oregon state. Venture into Pacific rainforests to hear raindrops, frogs, exotic birds, waterfall and rivers. Take a trip to the farm to experience a creaky squeaky wagon ride and a grunting pig. Journey to the ocean to surround yourself with peaceful lapping water, squawking seagulls and the bassy engine of a ship. Listen to sci-fi traffic pass-bys, car locks, and the activity of Portland city at night.
This varied selection of ambiences and spot effects can be used for a range of exterior settings. Ideal for building up backgrounds for your scenes, or further manipulation to create your own designed effects.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation, and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
This small sound library includes recordings from one of the most popular English seaside resorts – Brighton. Located on the south coast of England, it a has long pebbled beach and a famous pier with an amusement arcade. Join a short weekend trip and explore the shingle beach and British crowds on a sunny day.
The port city of Valencia is Spain’s third-largest city. It has its own language (a dialect of Catalan and unique culture. Stroll along the urban beaches, promenades, alleys and main roads. Discover the soundscapes of El Carmen, Cabanyal and Russafa neighbourhoods. Visit the Gothic cathedral, museums, art galleries, parks and buzzy markets.
Welcome to the capital of the Netherlands, or as locals would say – ‘Welkom in Amsterdam’! Walk through the food markets and hear vendors encouraging passer-by to try their delicacies. Surround yourself with Dutch and foreigners in busy streets, sonically filled with iconic trams. Lastly, jump on a cruise boat to explore the historical canals or a train to escape the city.
Remember, remember the Fifth of November!
Fireworks from all different perspectives, up close and far in the distance.
I have included stereo ambience of Guy Fawkes night with the perspective from a small residential area with general Walla and fireworks from all different distances going off.
I have also included the stronger / closer sounding fireworks in smaller Mono clips so they can be found, used and manipulated with ease.
All sounds were recorded and exported in 24Bit 192kHz ready for further manipulation.
The low frequency rumbles, distant traffic and hubbub of daily city life from European Countries captured in high quality audio!
This short but sweet selection of busy city and urban soundscapes with rumbling trams, trains, cars and other general hubbub of a busy European City, with powerful low frequency energy and detailed sounds of the city.
From underneath huge concrete flyovers to the fast moving city street, thunderstorms over a small side street and more.
We were really looking to capture the low frequency energy of the city and when recorded this library this was our main point of interest.
Recorded in locations such as Warsaw, Poland and Wrocław – the former German city and the hubbub of a busy city square in Krakow, Poland with cafe and tourist ambiences.
Recorded with a variety of microphones including ambisonic, omnidirectional and stereo.
All ambisonic tracks are either ambix b-format or binaural. We hope you enjoy!
London Ambiences Vol. 2 is the newest instalment of our collection of ambient sounds recorded in London. These candid recordings of everyday London life were captured with the aim of adding authenticity to your projects.
Included in this library are: the tranquil babble of a fountain, rowdy geese, quiet streets and busy stations, passing traffic, commuter and worker walla, a marching band and all the hubbub you’d expect of a London ambience library!
Featured locations: Buckingham Palace, Kensington Gardens, Greenwich Observatory, the River Thames, the Lancaster Gate Hotel and more.
Our Audio Craftsmen have carefully edited each sound for maximum sonic clarity so that you can drop each sound directly into your project timeline and get down to work with minimal fuss.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Sounds of Boston Vol.1 is a sound design toolkit built for creating a plethora of ambiance, vehicle, construction, and transportation audio for any and all kinds of audio/visual media. If you want to take your library to the next level, Sounds of Boston Vol. 1 can help you create vivid auditory landscapes like no other. Our library has been formated following UCS categories (Univeral Category System) in the hope to create a more uniform look to your sound library.
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A cross section of sounds from the Sri Lankan countryside to urban Kandy and Negombo. Wildlife, traffic, crowds and much more. Plenty to create you rich sound palette for Sri Lanka.
Soundbody captures the lush cityscape of Santiago from the Metro to city parks, traffic, interior and exterior crowds and much more. This volume covers a general cross-section of life in Santiago. For a wider collection of audio from this country please see Chile.
Eastern European City Ambiences is brought to you as our newest set of real-world authentic and functional ambience sound effects, made in partnership with our long-time friend and collaborator Georgi Valchev at West Wolf. Sofia, Bucharest and Belgrade are just a few of the iconic cities to mention where these sounds were meticulously captured by Georgi, a native and well-experienced Field Recordist working everyday within these areas.
All files in this sample pack come at a sample rate of 96kHz, and bit-depth of 24-bit, with the option of either AB or ORTF stereo configurations on many. The inherent high quality of each sound enables you to stretch, distort and manipulate the audio in whatever way you may wish! So feel free to get creative, or, just simply place any of these ambiences into your latest project for a true representation of life in a great European metropolis.
Vienna, also described as Europe’s cultural capital, is a metropolis with unique charm, vibrancy and flair, and has all the inspiration that you could wish for in order to discover this wonderful part of Europe.
During a small trip from Spain to Budapest & Vienna, we managed to record the most iconic places in the city in truly 360º spatial audio ambisonic format!
We choose ambisonic for our libraries as the most adaptive format in Audio Postproduction. We serve the edited and mastered AMBIX files, and decoded surround format in Dolby ATMOS, 5.1 and ST .
We recorded around 11 beautiful tracks in ambisonic format, 48Khz and 24 bits HD. As always, top quality recordings specially designed for film audio projects.
All our libraries are UCS compliant (universalcategorysystem.com). In this new category system all files contain extensive metadata like file description, Category & Subcategory. Metadata can be read and processed by the most common audio libraries management tools . Starting with Full support from Soundminer and more audio tools adopting this system, we are adopting metadata UCS system in our files!
– “TRUE-TO-LIFE RAIN SOUNDS FROM THE TROPICAL CITY-STATE OF SINGAPORE”
The distinct sound of tropical rain against Singapore’s skyscapes and streets
As part of our Ambient Sound Series focusing on the specific, distinct Soundscape of Singapore, we went on a journey to capture high definition sounds of the city-state.
Scaling high above the city’s skyscapes all the way down to Singapore’s busy streets, we captured the sound of rain unique to the city-state, all in this extensive library.
For sound designers and editors looking for the sound of rain unique to this small, vibrant city
Singapore Ambiences – Rain is a collection of high definition sounds of the unique rain ambience of various locations in the country. From light drizzles to heavy apocalyptic tropical thunderstorms with rolling rumbles and cracking booms of thunder included. Recorded by a team who have worked on projects for Marvel Studios, Universal Studios, Riot Games and the Discovery Channel, these recordings are clean, accurate and of high quality.
Like all IX Sound Libraries, this collection is meticulously edited and embedded with detailed descriptive metadata utilising the Universal Category System (UCS).
This collection is compatible with Soundminer, Pro Tools, Basehead, AudioFinder and other popular sound effects library search engines.
The files will be delivered in Stereo/Mono Wav format at 24bit, 48kHz.
Auckland is the most populous city in New Zealand, yet it sounds very peaceful and quiet. Explore the seaside promenade, city parks and a zoo with native animals. Then briefly, discover the stillness of mesmerising Waitomo caves and a magical world of Matamata.
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