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Real sounds of traffic for atmospheric city ambiences, with various levels of activity and captured at different times of day and year
London Ambiences is a diverse collection of ambiences captured in our field recording sessions around the city of London, UK. The sounds in this library are perfect for creating a natural soundscape of London or other big cities and can be used in your films, documentaries and video games.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded ambiences from the busy streets of the capital: cafes, tunnels, the iconic Waterloo Bridge, Westminister Bridge, traffic, construction sites and more. The heavy rumbles from bridges, busy roads and streets are great for building a dense, multilayered city soundscape.
All of the included sounds are carefully edited and provided dry in 24Bit/96kHz and are tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata to help you find the right sound for your scene.
A good range of everyday city sounds. Different perspectives. High quality urban ambiences will serve as ideal background tracks. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About City Perspectives and Ambiences
From busy intersections to back streets, vibrant parks to rooftops, this pack of 56 sounds is an indispensable toolkit to create the perfect atmospheres without being in the foreground.
It gives you access to 3 hours of city ambiences in varying activity levels, with loud and calm spaces of the endless locations in a large city.
You will at once get a hold of elevated and underground spots, freeways, intersections, bridges, viaducts, parking lots, parks, streets of all sizes, rooftops, window views and the city rumble and hum at its best. There are varying levels of horns, sirens, vehicles pass-by, school backgrounds and so forth at different times of the day.
These meticulously recorded sounds of 5.87 GB in size have clarity and lots of room for further usage and sound design. They are compatible with all DAWs, middleware and video editing tools and 100% royalty free.
56 high-resolution soundscapes in 24bit/96 kHz .wav format with detailed, easy to navigate naming and thorough metadata. Recorded with patience and sometimes in stealth and guerilla style.
Keywords including Location, Activity, Style
City, ambience, soundscape, field recording, metropolis, urban, rumble, hum, road, industrial, street, highway, freeway, intersection, viaduct, window view, distant, calm, noisy, busy, loud, calm, underground, elevated view, rooftop, bridge, park, car park, top floor, ventilation, horn, siren, vehicle, pass by, bus, truck, car, train, motorcycle, downtown, rain, schoolyard, royalty free, game, film, video, music.
Recorded with our favorite DPA 4060 stereo pair microphones.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our City Ambiences Series; London, China, Japan and Istanbul for access to many ambience essentials. Room Tones and Interior Ambiences is another option for quieter spaces in 84 pristine sounds.
Ambiences from Poland is a collection of sounds recorded over winter in two major cities in Poland – Poznan and Warsaw (the capital). This library is very close to my heart, as Poland is where I was born and grew up, so I hope you enjoy it! Poznan and Warsaw are full of unusual sounds created by old and modern electric trams that are very popular amongst locals and visitors. Pay specific attention as old trams generate heavy rumbles, cracks and squeaks while modern trams generate futuristic soundscapes when they move. Apart from that, you will have a chance to immerse yourself in Polish urban environments, public places such as schools, churches, shopping centres and some residential areas.
This expansive library is compliant with the Universal Category System (UCS) and it is recorded at high quality – 192kHz, 24bit.
Traffic Pass Bys Vol. 3 is the third in our series of versatile vehicle pass by recordings. This collection contains a mixture of single and continuous pass bys, stops, idles and pull offs at a busy junction and on main roads.
A range of vehicles have been included to allow for maximum variation in your soundscapes or designed elements. Highlight specific vehicles, emphasise transitions, and turn buses, lorries, trucks, cars, vans and more into immersive atmospheres, sci-fi vehicles, dopplers and whooshes – all with Traffic Pass Bys Vol. 3!
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 192kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
GERMAN CITY ATMOSPHERES
Create authentic urban soundscapes and sceneries with the detailed recordings of our Urban Ambiences sound library. This release offers you professional sound recordings with a total length of 4 hours and 50 minutes featuring background atmospheres, passing cars and trains, sirens and horns, construction sites, church bells, generators, escalators, various crowds, restaurants and city parks with singing birds.
AN INDUSTRIAL JOURNEY
During the production process, we traveled through various cities in Germany, mainly in the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia. We chose this location because it has a unique history and a high population density. With more than 5 million people living in this area, combined with old industrial buildings and always close to nature, we had the opportunity to capture a wide variety of incredible urban textures.
Included are 143 unique sound effects, all carefully metadata tagged. The ambience recordings are seamlessly loopable to give you the highest possible comfort.
UK Big City Exteriors contains a varied assortment of ambient sounds captured during field recording sessions in Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield by our team of Audio Craftsmen. The effects in this library will make for a fantastic addition to your general audio collection and will be perfect for use in short films, documentaries, commercials, and video games based both in the UK and abroad.
The team has gone out of their way to bring you a range of different sounds, including tram squeaks, recordings of people passing by, crowds, street sweepers, skylines, construction and much, much more. We recorded a selection of ambiences at different times of day, covering many different central city locations to give you the most authentic & grounded representation of the UK city life to use in your projects.
The files included in this library have been meticulously edited so that you can drop them into your project timeline instantly and are provided dry in 24Bit 96kHz allowing for further sonic manipulation if required. All files are tagged with extensive metadata and are UCS compliant to allow you to search for and select the desired sound with ease.
Some of the included sounds are: Water features, Bus idling and departing, children playing, car pass bys, preachers, cityscapes and skylines.
Highway Pass By features 75 pass bys of single and multiple vehicles; compact cars, trucks, lorries and motorcycles on a big highway on clear winter day. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Highway Pass-By
75 files of pass bys that are clean, impactful and diverse in activity of varying speeds. You will get single, multiple, continuous activity, sometimes intense with rattle, squeak, clanging, chassis flap, highway buzz and hum, and even a plane pass by.
With pass bys from left, right, and both sides, what makes this collection handy is the clarity and diversity of the sounds. These meticulously recorded sounds have both organic usability and room for further sound design of trailer whooshes, transitions, and hits.
You will get intuitive, detailed naming, UCS compatibility and the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail in 75 pristine sounds.
Recorded in 24bit-96kHz.WAV format on our favorite Sennheiser MKH 8040 stereo pair and Zoom F3 in ORTF.
What else you may need
You may want to check our TRUCKS: RENAULT 460T that includes 68 multi-channel tracks of onboard perspectives of a RENAULT 460T from engine starts and stops, rev-up, idle, gearshifts, horn, door, cabin, accelerating and decelerating to constant and high, medium, low RPM, driving slowly and fast.
MERCEDES-BENZ AXOR 1840 is another bestseller with 54 pristine files of multi-channel tracks of exterior and onboard perspectives of a MERCEDES-BENZ AXOR 1840 from engine starts and stops, rev-up, idle, gearshifts, accelerating and decelerating to constant and high, medium, low RPM, driving slowly and fast.
Essential Sound New York & Subway Bundle
This bundle includes both the top selling New York City libraries: Essential New York City, and Essential New York City – Street and Subway.
These two libraries combined give you access to the rich urban intercity, under-city and rural ambiences that keep making New York sound unique. Sirens, skyline drones, and the beating heart of NYC are all covered in this bundle.
Included sounds are: wet and dry close and distant perspective traffics, skyline dins, subway interiors, bys, through walls, etc. Pedestrians on busy sidewalks, quiet side streets, and dozens of other locations and situations.
All tracks have been meticulously recorded and mastered with Sony D10-D50 and similar field recorders and Pro Tools.
All recordings have full metadata created in Soundminer.
24bit/48Khz
Essential Sound Urban Background Ambience & Traffic 2 Pack Bundle
This bundle contains 80 tracks of clear and dynamic field recordings. A select collection of captured background ambiences from various locations around Southern California and Los Angeles.
Some of the locations include; West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Pasadena, Ojai, Joshua Tree, San Bernadino Forest, and much more.
There is a good mix of interior and exterior files, as well as day and night versions. This includes; light and heavy traffic, near and distant. Rainy wet traffic. Room-tone versions with light/heavy traffic. Quiet desert bird and cicada ambience, as well as active park and street ambiences.
There is a little bit of everything, and a great way to bolster your existing library.
All material has embedded Metadata. Also, where there are notable moments that stick out in a track, there are meta-tags for easy spot viewing in programs that support meta-tags, such as Soundminer.
Recordings were captured at 24bit/96Khz, with Zoom F6, H6 recorders, with Rode Shotguns and Stereo mic setups. All files are cleaned up and mastered in Pro Tools, with light compression and the necessary EQ to ensure clarity is preserved without sounding muddy.
Looking for some new and different background tracks? Create more movement within your BG’s tracks with dynamic files. These tracks might be just what you’re looking for. With an average of 4 min. per track, and as long as 10 min., the days of repetitive copy/paste are behind you.
The advantage to long tracks is that it will never sound looped, and thus, no listener fatigue.
This library consists of urban and city traffic ambiences and dins, high desert amb, small town amb, busy and calm ambiences. There are both day and night time scenarios.
Add this collection, “Essential Sound Urban Background Ambience & Traffic PART 1” and it’s counterpart, “Essential Sound Urban Background Ambience & Traffic PART 2“, to your library and see what all the noise is about.
All sounds captured with Zoom H6 and Zoom F6 recorders
Mastered in Pro Tools.
Discover the Ambiences of Glasgow and Edinburgh (Scotland)!
Step into the heart of Scotland with this immersive sound library. From the bustling streets of Glasgow to the tranquil ambience of Edinburgh’s iconic landmarks, we’ve captured the essence of this beautiful country in vivid audio detail. Whether you’re a filmmaker, musician, or sound designer, these authentic recordings will transport your projects to the enchanting landscapes of Scotland.
Experience the Scottish accents, public announcements, and the unique atmosphere of Glasgow and Edinburgh. Transport yourself to the lively atmosphere of Queen Street train station in Glasgow. Feel the energy of Friday crowds and the buzz of the weekend. Stroll down the bustling Royal Mile, lined with performers, eateries, and shops during the Fringe Festival. Walk the cobblestone streets on a Saturday evening. Take a journey on the Glasgow Subway, from Buchanan Street to Bridge Street via St. Enoch.
Explore these and many more authentic Scottish sounds to add depth and realism to your creative projects. Elevate your audio productions with the captivating sounds of Scotland, available in this comprehensive sound library.
In Taiwan, immersing in traffic of scooters and cars is a daily occurrence. Waiting for the green light in the sea of scooters, and VROOOOOOM, all the scooters simultaneously rev their engines and accelerate forward as the light turns green. These are the sounds of the rush hour traffic in Taipei.
IN THE TRAFFIC is a sound library that makes you feel like you’re in the middle of the traffic in Taipei city.
It features the sounds of scooters, cars and buses passing by, the idle scooters sea at red lights, and the eager acceleration of scooters and motorcycles as they compete to speed forward when the light turns green. Additionally, the sounds of riding through tunnel and underpass can also be found in this sound library.
IN THE TRAFFIC adopts a slightly experimental approach, placing the microphones on the front sides, and riding a relatively quiet electric scooter with almost no engine sound in the traffic of Taipei.
Bird sounds and human voices have been carefully removed, providing you pure useful recordings for your creative works.
This library includes 58 stereo files recorded in AB at 96 kHz. Approx. 44 minutes total.
Additionally, this library was carefully tagged with rich Soundminer metadata, including marks in the recordings highlighting interesting sounds.
And of course, all the recordings were recorded, edited and mastered with care and love.
Sri Lanka Soundscapes Vol.3 – Vehicles a is the third volume in the Sri Lanka Soundscape Library Series.
This library features a huge range of vehicles noises captured along the unique and chaotic sounding Sri Lankan roads. The collection includes pass by’s, engine sounds and interiors from Tuk Tuk’s, HGV’s, Buses, SUV’s, Tractors, Mopeds, Motorbikes, Diesel engine and Trains at a variety of perspectives and speeds.
The library serves as a great palette of local and unique sounds for any project that involves the chaotic Asian traffic and roads.
A personal highlight on this library is the ‘ Musical Unique Bus Horn Beep Melody’, it came out of nowhere and I’ve never heard one like it!
Sounds recorded in Stereo 24bit/48kHz and UCS compatible.
Get the other collections here:
Sri Lanka Soundscape Vol. 1-3 Collection
Sri Lanka Soundscape Vol. 2 – Rural Countryside
Sri Lanka Soundscape Vol. 3 – Vehicles
A general sound effects collection that includes SIX of our first category-focused micro library releases, plus HUNDREDS of additional files, priced at a substantial discount compared to buying collections separately. 1100+ separate WAV files recorded at 24bit, 96kHz or 48kHz.
In this library you will find recordings of environments recorded in public places in Portugal such as train and bus stations, markets, supermarkets, beach and streets.
These sounds are perfect for background sound design in movies, games, documentaries, art installations, etc.
These sounds were all recorded with the stereo match pair microphone Clippy EM 272.
After working these sounds in post production, this library comes with 25 incredible pulic places ambient sounds.
Tuk-Tuk Ride is 10 minutes/346Mb of Tuk-Tuk/auto rickshaw interior recordings from Sri Lanka.
71 separate files – recorded in 24bit/96kHz A-B stereo. All sounds are UCS-compatible.
Tuk-Tuk Ride features onboard recordings of a Piaggio APE 50 3-wheel scooter doing taxi-duty on the island of Sri Lanka. The 71 clips are categorized according to whether the vehicle is accelerating, deccelerating, cruising, etc. These are not ultra-clean military-precision clips, but come with audible traffic by’s and other environmental noises. There are a few bits of Sri Lankan spoken, but most clips would be suitable for use in non-Sri Lanka settings.
Rather than the ultimate full-coverage of this particular vehicle, this is focused on the experience of riding the APE50 Tuk-Tuk.
Traffic Pass Bys Vol. 2 is the second instalment in our popular Traffic Pass Bys sound effects series.
This collection of hand-picked sounds encompasses a wide range of traffic pass-by effects, including different types of vehicles and speeds.
Using this library you can craft your own custom traffic soundscapes or twist these sounds into sci-fi vehicles, moving atmospheres or designed whooshes .
Sounds were recorded with the Zoom H6 and omni-directional Clippy EM272 stereo microphones. 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.
Wander with us around Newcastle, the North East of England’s busiest city, taking in the famous Quayside on the banks of the River Tyne with sounds from the ground and several of the famous bridges, then through the bustling city centre before heading to beautiful urban parks packed with songbirds, waterfalls and tranquility. Along the way we take in interior and exterior sounds of the Newcastle Catherdral bells and visit busy shops, markets and pubs with detours to the mainline train station, the local Metro and bus stations.
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.
Enchanting Amsterdam, captured in high quality, premium sound. Trams, street scenes, traffic, parks, interiors, exteriors, the distinct echo of Amsterdam’s alleys and air of it’s waterways. This library has all you will need to kit out your project on Amsterdam!
Hear the powerful sounds of RENAULT 460T: 68 pristine sound files are also included as separate engine channels so that you can manipulate them to match your exact needs.
Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
What’s Inside
This pack includes the multi-channel tracks of onboard perspectives of a RENAULT 460T from engine starts and stops, rev-up, idle, gearshifts, door, cabin, accelerating and decelerating to constant and high, medium, low RPM, driving slowly and fast.
You will get the fuel tank and the cabin perspective such as indicator clicks and creaks and rattle and the cabin hum whilst driving on both the rural roads and the highways.
Up your game with these 68 mono and stereo sound files in 96kHz – 24bit format, 1.46 GB, 57 minutes in duration. 100% royalty-free and compatible with all DAWs, middleware and video editing software.
You can layer and shape all channels individually in vehicle sound design. Recorded in high detail so that you have the right tone for your related projects as both Foley and layers with room for further sound manipulation.
Specs: RENAULT 460T, 4X2 TRACTOR UNIT – 2015 –powered by 338 kW engine power and weighs 18t.
Gear used: DPA 4060s for the engine, Sennheiser MKH8040 in the cabin. Recorded on Zoom F3 x 2.
Metadata: UCS compliant and comes with metadata.
Keywords:
Vehicle, Truck, Lorry, Fleet, Cargo, Tractor, Renalt, 460T, Acceleration, Cabin, Engine, Idle, Decelaration, Start, Stop, RPM, Driving, Air Brake, Release, Interior, Exterior, Onboard, Door, Handbrake, Lock, Release, Manual, Gear, Shift, Button, Toolbox, Turn, Rev-up, Road, Highway, Creak, Rattle, Hum, Foley
What else you may need
You may also want to check out the Bavaria 36 Sailing Boat for 58 unique files of 32m 35s duration, including sailing, sail Foley, engine ignition starts and cut offs, water movements, different RPMs, interior and on-deck Foley and ambiences from different perspectives like front, rear, near the water, inside the hull.
MERCEDES-BENZ AXOR 1840 is another bestseller with 54 pristine files of multi-channel tracks of exterior and onboard perspectives of a MERCEDES-BENZ AXOR 1840 from engine starts and stops, rev-up, idle, gearshifts, accelerating and decelerating to constant and high, medium, low RPM, driving slowly and fast.
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…
NSL – Everyday Life is a 216 Files Sound-Pack essentially composed of Backgrounds Sounds. You will have access to many samples: Forests, Cities, Transports, Amusements Park, Abandoned Places, Mountains, Room Tones and many more sounds…
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