Sound effects tag

Street Sound Effects

Street sound effects from cities, towns and the quiet roads in between. Traffic rolling past, buses pulling in, horns, sirens in the distance, footsteps on wet pavement, people chatting as they walk by. Rush hour and the dead of night. Recorded on real streets across the world, from huge downtown junctions to sleepy suburbs, so every place sounds like itself.

Libraries
209
Publishers
88
Formats
Mono, stereo, M/S, surround, ambisonic
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$5 to $450
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Recorded or designed
RecordedDesigned

Recorded means captured in the field or a studio. Designed means built from other material.

Channel format
MonoStereoM/SSurroundAmbisonic

Mono for 3D positional audio. Ambisonic and surround for immersive mixes.

Embedded metadata
Tagged for Soundminer or UCSUntagged

Soundminer and UCS fields written into the files.

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All 209 libraries tagged Street

48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Field recordings captured at night in a sleeping city feature street dog sound effects. Contains individual dogs, groups, and conflicts. Edited and tagged.
35 files · 1.28 GB · Metadata
-56%
48 to 96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Urban atmospheres blend traffic sound effects, construction work, and pedestrian activity across different seasons, capturing over 10 hours of authentic city life through 258 high-quality recordings from multiple locations.
20.5 GB · Metadata
Was $149.00, now $65.00
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A street ambience does most of its work without anyone noticing. It tells the audience where they are, what time it is and what the weather's doing before a word is spoken. The libraries here cover all of that: Traffic from light to gridlocked, rain on city roads, wind funnelling between buildings, crowds and Walla in many languages, plus close foley of feet on concrete and tarmac. Every city has its own giveaways, from the crossing signals to the way the buses brake. Those details sell a location instantly. Long, clean takes make them easy to loop under a scene. Films, TV, games and podcasts lean on street beds constantly, and they're royalty-free for any commercial project.

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