Sound effects tag

Urban Sound Effects

Urban sound effects for the noise a city makes when nobody's listening. Sirens wailing past, rain on the streets, wind whistling down corridors and boots on concrete. Then the darker side: abandoned buildings with their own strange hum, and explosions bouncing off walls. Tuk tuks buzz through it all. Busy, mostly.

Libraries
123
Publishers
69
Formats
Mono, stereo, M/S, surround, ambisonic
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$3 to $449
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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.

All 123 libraries tagged Urban.
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All 123 libraries tagged Urban

48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo, Surround, Ambisonic B.
A library of Spanish urban ambience sound effects, including traffic, construction, and pedestrian zones. Files are delivered in stereo, 5.1, 7.1.2, and original ambisonic formats.
79 files · 15.72 GB · Metadata
192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono.
A collection of 128 sound effects of struck metal and glass objects recorded with contact microphones and geophones, creating resonant, gong-like tones. Includes detailed UCS metadata.
136 files · 2.61 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
From the bustling Ruhr region of Germany, nearly 5 hours of sound effects capture authentic urban life, featuring industrial zones, crowds, transport networks, and natural city spaces.
143 files · 10.05 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Detailed collection of passing vehicle sound effects, featuring 337 urban recordings from slow to fast speeds on various road surfaces, with both exterior and interior perspectives plus processed whoosh textures.
396 files · 4.01 GB · Metadata

A city is never quiet. It just changes what it's loud about. The siren recordings give you ambulances and police cars racing past, and they sit over Traffic beds to make a street feel busy. Rain sounds harder in a city, slapping off pavements and gutters instead of soaking into a field. Abandoned buildings bring the opposite mood, empty rooms with the odd unexplained creak. For action, explosions and gunfire recorded in built-up areas carry the crack and echo of real walls, which is hard to fake with reverb. Crime dramas and open-world games use all of it.

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