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Recordings and ambiences related to travelling and transportation in trains, planes, buses and more
“PWL08: Ambisonic Overview : USA – WEST COAST AIRPORT & FLIGHT” is a collection of sounds recorded between 2 airports of the west coast of the USA: Los Angeles, and Oakland. As a bonus, we put in the library sounds recorded at the Paris Airport (France).
The library includes also sounds recorded during the flights between these 3 airports in four different planes: one Boing 787, one Boing 789 Dreamliner, one Airbus A319, and one Airbus A320.
We were recording in many places inside the airports: Ticket place, gate place, security check, waiting room, near a restaurant, bar, dutyfree shop, etc…
And also inside the planes: before take-off, security announcement, take-off, landing, room tone, ambiance during the flight, passenger walla, Captain and crew PA System
– The soundbank contains 64 sound takes recorded in 24 Bit / 96 kHz for a total duration of 388 minutes of original sound, decline in 192 files
A wide selection of local trains and subways from Japan, featuring recordings such as pass-bys, departing and arriving, interiors, rail chimes which really distinguish from other and many many more. Train and subway stations from Japan are also included to complete the railway atmosphere. A total of more than 5 hours of recordings are included.
The TRAINS SFX library gets you a massive selection of clean, HD train sound effects. Sources include trains such as heavy freight trains, old and modern passenger trains with electric, steam and diesel engines.
The interior recordings were made on different locations such as the cockpit, the wagons, engine rooms, cabins, and even the restrooms. SFX from the outside contain drive-bys, departing and arriving trains, wheels, horns, grinding, rattling, squeaking, clacking, coupling, braking, air releases, and much more! To give you the full package, you get a mass of great interior and exterior handling sounds on top. Simply any sound you need for a realistic train environment, as always, delivered in high quality with 96kHz / 24-bit.
Los Angeles is well-known for having some of the largest and most traveled freeways in the United States.
The L.A. Freeways sound effects library captures the traffic ambience on the massive freeways that run through the Greater L.A. area – 3 hours of recordings in total!
Multiple perspectives were recorded, from close vehicle pass bys to distant traffic ambience captured from city parks, surrounding hillsides, tunnels and underpasses. Traffic types range from fast pass bys, to slow and congested traffic.
• US-101 (Hollywood Freeway)
• I-405 (San Diego Freeway)
• I-5 (Golden State Freeway)
• I-10 (Santa Monica Freeway)
• I-110 (Harbor Freeway)
• SR-134 (Ventura Freeway)
• (Glendale Freeway)
Whooosh! What was that? A pass by from a train? A bus? A tram from the 60s? The longest escalator in all of Sweden!?
Essential sounds from different types of transports for your production. A great starting point for new sound designers or to complement your existing library.
We have recorded buses, trains, trams, subways, ferries, escalators and freight trains in this library spanning over 100 files. Arrivals, Despartures, Pass Bys, Internal Rides, Doors and a toilet flushing on a train. It’s all there, for your essential transport needs.
All files have meta data and are easily searched for in any database search engine. Everything is recorded with Sound Devices 633 and MixPre-10T with Sennheiser MKH50, Neumann KM184 and DPA 4060 in 96 kHz 24 Bits with a total size of 6,7 Gb.
This library contains 17 different trains as they pass through the station, arrive and depart a rural station in Sweden. Trains include double decker passanger trains, local metro passanger trains, and few heavy freight train passes. They were recorded with two 4060s on the tracks with a mkh60 following, they are syncable.
These have a nice isolated stereo image and great for sound designing space ships and sci fi stuff. Also work Wonderfully for transition elements and corporate video introductions. Feel free to inquire before buying here.
The Air Designed Library is filled with sounds specifically manipulated by our Audio Craftsmen to simulate various aircraft noises. Some of the sounds include; engine whistles, rumbles, thrusters and much, much more. Perfect for Action & Sci-Fi set pieces, this Library can not only be used for aircrafts, but it can also be used in various other scenarios like; air conditioning, explosions and time manipulation to mention a few.
Vintage Air Travel – Planes, airports, stewardesses, pilots, announcements and more.
This pack contains some of the sounds associated with vintage air travel. Not a specific decade (some parts will be suitable for a contemporary setting), but think of the film ‘Catch Me If You Can’, 60s 70s 80s. An era when smoking was still allowed on planes, when PAN AM and TWA ruled the skies. I have created these ambiences, voices and sounds to suit that era.
There are two ‘tourist information’ tapes, based on the audio that would have accompanied a slide show for visitors to London and Los Angeles.
There are public address announcements that you might hear in an airport.
There’s stewardess VO as heard in the cabin of a jumbo jet and stewardess greetings as you board. A few pilot announcements, sounds of busy jumbo jets in-flight from a passenger perspective. A ride in a Cessna, with pilot chatter, planes passing overhead and more. For a full list of sounds, view the excel document, and play the preview file for a taster.
Looking for authentic ambient sounds of Japanese transportation? Look no further! Field recordist and composer Ryan Ayers travelled to Japan in April of 2019 and captured this wonderful collection. His journey took him from Osaka to Tokyo to Fukuoka and all points in-between. Travel aboard the trains of the JR, the famous Shinkansen, the Hanyu Ferry and more! Explore the train platforms and station terminals of Osaka. Get lost in the Kansai International Airport. There is a subway noodle shop as well as specialty food markets. Authentic walla and natural activity give this collection the ear candy necessary to be an integral part of great soundscapes.
This is a purely recorded sound pack. Nothing is synthetic or layered here. What you hear is exactly what was captured on location. We edited and mastered the files to bring out the best parts of the recordings. Most of the recordings have been ready-made into loops for ease of use. As always, we have embedded the files with detailed metadata for easy database searches.
Japan: Bullet Trains is a collection of exterior recordings and interior ambiences of a variety of Japanese bullet trains which includes passbys, arrivals, idles, departures and ride ambiences.
The shinkansen, or bullet train, is a symbol of Japan’s economic and technological prowess. Streaking by at speeds of up to 200mph, their sound pierces over miles of empty farmland. In rare spots where you can get near the tracks, the air pressure bursts of these trains passing by can knock you off-balance.
Recording coverage between models vary quite a bit, so please check the tracklist to get a sense of what is available per bullet train model.
Note: The W7 series bullet trains were recorded within their first month entering service, well before they had time to wear-in.
Models represented in this collection:
(Dates indicate the service years for the model, not the specific age of the train recorded)
These recordings were originally part of the Japan Sound Effects Collection Kickstarter campaign that was successfully funded in 2015.
All recordings have meticulously written Soundminer metadata embedded in them and comply with Universal Category System naming standards. Included in the download folder is also an excel file and CSV file with all of the metadata fields.
Equipment Used: Tascam HD-P2 | Rode NT4 | Rode NTG3
A library for all those situations where high revs and speeding into a corner wont do. We created the library with run of the mill cars, driving around town, at the speed limit.
Its a combination of manual and automatic cars with stop, start, accelerate, drive, coast, idle, brake, and turn.
Pack your bags! This sound library has everything you need to recreate the sonic experience of flying on a commercial airline or waiting to line up at the airport!
All aircraft recordings are taken from inside the aircraft, all airport ambiences were taken from the Dallas, Chicago, or Buffalo airports. Sounds include airport ambiences, inflight cabin room tone, inflight walla, airport walla, engine sounds, flaps, take-offs, landings, runway bumps, overhead compartment opening and closing, seat belt buckles, airplane bathroom sounds, captain and flight attendant intercom correspondence and more!
You might think your ears are popping as the subtle sounds of change in altitude are captured in this library. Whether you need short wallas or ambiences or an entire recording from take-off to 10,000 feet this library’s got you covered! All sounds recorded at 24 Bit / 96 kHz.
This sound library boasts a collection of sound recordings that capture the character of locomotive-hauled passenger trains in the East Anglia region of the United Kingdom. All of the recordings were taken at locations in and around Norfolk and feature trains hauled by Class 37 and Class 68 diesel locomotives.
The Class 37 is a classic type of British-built diesel locomotive originally introduced in the early 1960s and features a 4-stroke V12 English Electric turbocharged diesel engine.
The Class 68 locomotives are much more modern locomotives, being introduced in 2013 and feature a 16-cylinder Caterpillar diesel engine.
Features:
Welcome to my ‘TRAIN ANNOUNCEMENTS CONCATENATION KIT’. What does that mean? Well, it means you can use the words, numbers and phrases I have created to make your own station announcements, using whichever DAW you like to use.
With 90 popular UK stations phrases such as ‘We’re sorry to announce that the…’, ‘fast train’ slow train’ ‘is now boarding’ and ‘…has been cancelled’ you can create thousands of combinations of train times and destinations. I’ve made a couple of pre-canned ones for you as a sample and put one station background ambience in there too. All the VO is in a RP (well spoken) English male voice.
Transport features dozens of vehicles recordings – cars, trains, trucks, planes, motorbikes, etc., – that have taken place in a urban environment, covering your needs for background transportation. The goal of this library is to help sound editors quickly find that background traffic that is often needed. All the recordings are ready to be used in a non-intrusiveness way in any media where vehicles play a remote or central role.
Key features:
As part of travelling around recording sound, you tend to spend many hours in airports.
This collection of high-quality ambient sounds were recorded in 18 countries.
Expect to hear small, medium and large interior crowds, loudspeaker announcements in all kinds of languages, internal passenger vehicles speeding by, the many beeps and musical tones of airport security clearance, and a whole lot of accents.
Recorded in both domestic and international airports in Colombia, Argentina, Mexico, Ireland, Portugal, New Zealand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Cuba, Australia, Montenegro, Russia, Finland, Switzerland, France and Morocco.
All tracks were recorded in high definition by Evan Buist, sound engineer and field recordist (National Geographic, DreamWorks, Paramount Pictures).
This collection is really immersive, distant noises in large halls, people walking away to catch their train and much more.
Recorded in Hong Kong months prior to the unrest and turmoil in the region. This pack explores various areas in Hong Kong from the ladies’ market and “Ten Thousand Buddha Temple” in Kowloon District to the popular fishing villages and stunning scenery of Sai Kung District, to the Dragons Back mountain and wilderness trails in the Southern District
Features Buddhist chants and rituals from the “Ten Thousand Buddha Temple”, urban and city atmospheres, and landscape ambient recordings this pack showcases how varied and unpredictable Hong Kong is. Includes 13 with UCS metadata.
Welcome to Japan Cities: Ambiences from Japan. Travel through the cities of Nara, Osaka and Kyoto and the bamboo forests with these immense ambiences recorded at various locations in Japan.
About Ambiences from Japan
Ambience from Japan captures pleasant natural feel from beautiful cities of Nara, Osaka and Kyoto. Bamboo forests, subways, train ambiences and motorways and exterior interior walla including tourists, school kids, pedestrians, various animals, streets, street musicians and announcement sounds from Japan in 155 – 24bit/96kHz .WAV files.
It is a thoroughly researched collection of the vibrant city, recorded in winter months. With Ambience from Japan, you can meet every need from game/film to animation projects. Plus, you get the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail.
Total length of this library is 69 minutes. We captured a wide array of ambiences so that you can easily adapt them to your other Japan location needs. The length of the files is long and the naming is intuitive, so that you can meet your ambience needs with just a few SFX. The locations are both interior and exterior.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Ambiences from China and Ambiences from Istanbul Sound Effects Packs for access to different unique ambiences.
In this library you will find sounds of planes taking off and landing and ambient sounds of the airport near the runway.
These sounds were recorded as close to the airport fence as possible.
You will also find in the recordings at certain times an explosion as if it were a shot, these sounds are part of the airport system to keep birds away from the runway.
The name is bird scarer with gas cannon.
These sounds were all recorded with the stereo microphone Audio-Technica BP4025.
After working these sounds in post production, this library comes with 28 incredible airport ambient sounds.
Train movements and station ambiences from all over the world including arrivals, departures, passbys, onboards and idling.
Locations: UK, USA, Canada, Russia, Sweden, Czech Republic, Hungary, Belgium, Germany, Greece.
No PA announcements.
All Aboard!
Commercial Aircraft Interior contains a distinct collection of ambient recordings taken onboard commercial aircraft flights over the North Atlantic.
Our Audio Craftsman captured the various stages of an aircraft journey including general onboard ambiences, the plane idling on the runway, take off & landing and some sounds taken from the baggage claim and check-in sections of the airport.
There are also wallas in various languages and the sounds of passengers shuffling in their seats and putting on their seatbelts. We captured recordings from two different plane journeys to get a variety of sounds. This library includes over 50 minutes of audio content, giving you all the ingredients you need to design compelling aircraft and airport soundscapes.
All audio files have been carefully edited so that you can simply drop them into your project timeline 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.
29 airport traffic and crowd ambiences in 1.83 GB with a blend of sizes, densities, and distances.
Onboard sounds are from four separate microphones.
Ch1 Engine Left, Ch2 Engine Right, Ch3 Exhaust Left & Ch4 Exhaust Right
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