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Nature & Countryside Ambiences Rivers & Brooks – Above and Underwater Play Track 77 sounds included $39

Rivers, Streams, Brooklets, Creeks and Waterfalls recorded both above- and underwater.

Over the past five years I constantly recorded flowing water at every opportunity. This library includes a fine selection of diverse sounds emitted by running water. From alpine mountain rivers that rush after the snow melt, brooklets jumping over rocks, natural and human-made tunnels, bubbling watersteps in streams, rapids and riverwaves to plattering waterfalls, straight concrete waste water run and groaning and hissing natural brooks.

Some sounds are harsh and almost white noise, others are lovely and relaxing.

I mostly recorded at night, to keep the recordings free of bird, car or plane noise.

A broad spectrum of sounds to choose from for any film, game or audioplay scene, that needs WATRFlow. Bubbling, splattering, roaring, lively, hissing, talking and lapping murmur.

Mics used: Earthworks QTC50, Neumann KMR81i, Ambient ASF1 & ASF2, Lewit 540s, Ambient Emesser,

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Industrial Ambiences Construction Site Play Track 33 sounds included, 74 mins total $40

‘Construction Site’ is a collection of recordings caught on an active building site located close to the city centre of Manchester, UK. Within the 33 sounds (74+ Minutes) you will find 15 ambiences, captured with both Stereo and Mid Side Microphones. Along with individual recordings of a range of tools, vehicles and machinery found on sites in England, such as Diggers (Large & Small), Trucks, Drills, Saws and more

Also Included in the 42 files are 9 MS-RAW recordings to allow you to create the stereo image your projects desire. Furthermore all tracks are delivered in 24bit/96kHz for the best quality, and tagged with extensive USC compliant metadata.

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Explosion Sound Effects Fireworks – Residential area Play Track 35+ sounds included, 72 mins total $21

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.

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Universal Category System (UCS) Phantasmal Ambiences Vol. 3 Play Track 9 sounds included $14

Phantasmal Ambiences Vol. 3 is the third in a series of nightmarish ambiences made to unnerve you and your audiences.

In this edition, we have included both perspective and close miked recordings from our large array of props captured here at our studio. These sounds were then edited, wildly manipulated and layered to create chilling tones and soundscapes, perfect for giving your audience a fright!

Maximum sonic clarity has been maintained and further enhanced with each of these sounds so they can be dropped directly into your project timeline and get down to work with minimal fuss.

All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Designed Risers Play Track 90+ sounds included $21

Unearthly Designed Risers!

Recorded using a surprisingly wobbly Metal Sheet!

Ethereal sounds perfect for Sci-Fi and Horror projects OR for Cinematic Trailers!

Recorded and exported in 24/192Khz

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Bundles Eastern European Ambiences Bundle Play Track 88 sounds included $75.57

This bundle contains all of our Eastern European sound effect libraries at one affordable price, bringing you real-world soundscapes captured within Europe’s most interesting and unique regions captured faithfully by Georgi Valchev from West Wolf Audio.

Experience life within the beautiful cities of Sofia, Belgrade, and Bucharest, or delve into Eastern Europe’s rural wetlands and vicious seas. All sounds included were carefully captured and meticulously edited for maximum sonic quality, enabling to you drop each sample into your projects with no need for further enhancement or modification.

The entire bundle is delivered at 24Bit/96kHz, and tagged with extensive Metadata.

INCLUDED LIBRARIES

Eastern European City Ambiences
Eastern European Urban Ambiences
Eastern European Wetlands
Boats, Buses, Trains And Planes
Water And Waves

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City Life Sound Effects Polish Cities Play Track 18 sounds included $60

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!

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City Life Sound Effects London Ambiences Vol. 2 Play Track 16 sounds included, 48 mins total $19

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.

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City Life Sound Effects Sounds of Boston Vol.1 Play Track 122 sounds included, 255 mins total $65

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.

On top of this, 10% of profits received will go to GLAAD…The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate, and inclusive representation of individuals and events in all media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.

Thank you!

P.S. This library is in Stereo, Mono, and LCR…if you just need Stereo and Mono please head to our website or reach out to the email above…thanks.

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Nature & Countryside Ambiences Spring in the Pacific Northwest – Essentials Play Track 12 sounds included $35

The Essentials version of this library contains 12 sounds pulled straight from the premium library and is a great value to anyone who wants a variety of sounds without the strain in storage space.

As with all of my libraries, a significant portion of all sales will be dedicated to giving back to nature. I will donate 10% of each sale of Spring in the Pacific Northwest to Hatchery & Wild Coexist for use toward protecting and restoring salmon and steelhead habitat in the region.

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Nature & Countryside Ambiences Death Valley Essentials Play Track 12 sounds included $35

The essentials libraries contain special excerpts from the premium libraries, meaning the same attention was paid to quality in both. I am thrilled to be able to bring this journey together and share it with you here.

I will be donating 10% of my portion of each sale of this library to the Death Valley Conservancy to aid in research and protection of the endangered and endemic Devil’s Hole Pupfish.

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Nature & Countryside Ambiences Sky River Sound Nature Essentials Bundle – Volume 1 Play Track 36 sounds included $99

For those who need a broad palette of nature sounds without redundancy, I’m pleased to offer Sky River Sound Nature Essentials Bundle: Volume 1. This bundle contains all of the sounds of the essentials collections from Death Valley, Alaska and Spring in the Pacific Northwest.

I will be donating 10% of my portion of each sale of this library to the Death Valley Conservancy to aid in research and protection of the endangered and endemic Devil’s Hole Pupfish.

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Nature & Countryside Ambiences Wild Alaska – Denali – Binaural Ambiences Play Track 13 sounds included, 35 mins total $35

This library contains only binaural recordings which are meant to be experienced with headphones as 3D audio.

Add a sense of authenticity to any cold climate in your game or film by using recordings that were made with great effort to capture the wild nature of Denali avoiding human interference.

To help preserve the natural beauty of Alaska, 10% of each sale of this library will be donated to The Alaska Conservation Foundation. https://alaskaconservation.org

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City Life Sound Effects Eastern European City Ambiences Play Track 15 sounds included $18

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.

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Ambisonic Sound Effects Ambisonic Vienna Play Track 11 sounds included, 60 mins total $60

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!

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Bass Drops and Downers Vol. 3 Play Track 51 sounds included $21

Let’s get ready to rumble! After the success of our first two volumes, we at 344 Audio decided to return and go to even deeper depths with Bass Drops and Downers Vol. 3! Handmade by our Audio Craftsmen, these 51 effects are designed to bring drama and energy to your productions. Hand crafted using analogue synthesisers and hardware effects, they are guaranteed to give your audience the excitement and suspense you’re looking for; all recorded and supplied to you at 192khz 24bit.

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Magic & Fantasy Sound Effects Sci-Fi & Fantasy Sounds Volume 1 Play Track 108 sounds included, 12 mins total $45

The first pack of designed sound effects from Sky River Sound provides you with over 80 sound effects I’ve created taking inspiration from video games in the Sci-Fi and Fantasy genres. Types of sounds you’ll find include ranged and melee weapons, magic spells and rituals, vehicles, UI elements and creature sounds. The sound effects were designed to be ready to be used as they are now, but can also easily be used as building elements for further sound design.

Sale Policy: To keep things simple, I never put any of my libraries on sale or offer any kind of discount. I sell them at a reasonable price given the effort to record and compile them, I find this is the most honest and transparent approach to the sale of sound effects.

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Traffic Sound Effects Singapore Ambiences – Traffic Play Track 58 sounds included, 359 mins total $59

– “TRANSPORT YOUR AUDIENCE WITH THE TRAFFIC SOUNDS OF BUSTLING CITY SINGAPORE”

Cars. Traffic. Bustle the dynamic soul of Singapore’s iconic streets
As part of our Ambient Sound Series focusing on the specific, distinct Soundscape of Singapore, we recorded and compiled high definition traffic sounds of this small, iconic city-state.

From the quiet suburbs to the roaring bustle of the city center, and the unique sounds of Asian cars.

This library is for sound designers and editors looking to capture the soul of this dynamic city.

Recorded on-site by a trusted production team using state-of-the-art equipment.

Singapore Ambiences – Traffic is a collection of high definition sounds and noise of the busy traffic ambience of various locations in the country. Morning, afternoon and night recordings of several locations are included in this library. 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.

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Weather Sound Effects Singapore Ambiences – Rain Play Track 48 sounds included, 332 mins total $59

– “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.

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City Life Sound Effects Ambiences from Auckland, New Zealand Play Track 36 sounds included, 69 mins total $39.99

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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Footsteps Sound Effects The Shoe Collection: Dirt- Hard Sole Dress Shoe Play Track 272+ sounds included $12

“The Shoe Collection: Dirt- Hard Sole Dress Shoe“ by Periscope Post & Audio, provides 22 high quality footsteps files in dirt with the hard sole dress shoe. The audio files are recorded at 24bit, 192k with mono and stereo recordings. The Sennheiser MKH-60 was used for the mono files with a slightly more distant mic placement than the stereo files, which were recorded with the Sennheiser MKH8050 and the Sennheiser MKH-30 near the shoe. From different walking speeds, to jogging, sprinting, jumping, hard stops, scuffs, and more! There are several performances with each file to fit the right action you need. That’s a whopping 272 footsteps between the mono and stereo files!

These sound files are also UCS metadata tagged

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Foley Sound Effects The Shoe Collection: Soft Hardwood- Wedge Play Track 472+ sounds included $12

“The Shoe Collection: Soft Hardwood- Wedge“ by Periscope Post & Audio, provides 22 high quality footsteps files on soft hardwood floors with the wedge heel. The audio files are recorded at 24bit, 192k with mono and stereo recordings. The Sennheiser MKH-60 was used for the mono files with a slightly more distant mic placement than the stereo files, which were recorded with the Sennheiser MKH8050 and the Sennheiser MKH-30 near the shoe. From different walking speeds, to jogging, sprinting, jumping, hard stops, scuffs, and more! There are several performances with each file to fit the right action you need. That’s a whopping 618 footsteps between the mono and stereo files!

These sound files are also UCS metadata tagged

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Foley Sound Effects The Shoe Collection: Soft Hardwood- Leather Hard Sole Sandal Play Track 360+ sounds included $12

“The Shoe Collection: Soft Hardwood- Leather Hard Sole Sandal“ by Periscope Post & Audio, provides 22 high quality footsteps files on soft hardwood floors with the leather hard sole sandal. The audio files are recorded at 24bit, 192k with mono and stereo recordings. The Sennheiser MKH-60 was used for the mono files with a slightly more distant mic placement than the stereo files, which were recorded with the Sennheiser MKH8050 and the Sennheiser MKH-30 near the shoe. From different walking speeds, to jogging, sprinting, jumping, hard stops, scuffs, and more! There are several performances with each file to fit the right action you need. That’s a whopping 360 footsteps between the mono and stereo files!

These sound files are also UCS metadata tagged

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Foley Sound Effects The Shoe Collection: Soft Hardwood- Platform Play Track 626+ sounds included $12

“The Shoe Collection: Soft Hardwood- Platform“ by Periscope Post & Audio, provides 22 high quality footsteps files on soft hardwood floors with the platform sandal. The audio files are recorded at 24bit, 192k with mono and stereo recordings. The Sennheiser MKH-60 was used for the mono files with a slightly more distant mic placement than the stereo files, which were recorded with the Sennheiser MKH8050 and the Sennheiser MKH-30 near the shoe. From different walking speeds, to jogging, sprinting, jumping, hard stops, scuffs, and more! There are several performances with each file to fit the right action you need. That’s a whopping 626 footsteps between the mono and stereo files!

These sound files are also UCS metadata tagged

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