Sound effects tag

Walla Sound Effects

Walla sound effects, the murmur of people talking where nobody can quite make out a word. Restaurants, airports, school corridors, shopping centres, theatres, stadiums and pubs. Small groups and huge crowds. It's the bed under almost every scene with people in it, and once it's missing, the room feels dead straight away.

Libraries
239
Publishers
73
Formats
Mono, stereo, M/S, surround, ambisonic
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$5 to $699
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Channel format
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Embedded metadata
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All 239 libraries tagged Walla

48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo, Surround, Ambisonic B.
A collection of crowd sound effects in Spanish, Catalan, and Menorcan from various social settings. Includes original ambisonic files with stereo, 5.1, and 7.1.2 decoded versions.
19 files · 10 GB · Metadata
48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Professional South African voice actors deliver authentic crowd sound effects and ambient dialogue in multiple local languages, creating genuine background atmospheres for diverse media productions.
21 files · 600 MB · Metadata
48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Nigerian crowd sound effects encompass layered male, female, and group walla recordings, providing authentic ambiance from intimate conversations to bustling street atmospheres with distinct cultural character.
74 files · Metadata
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44.1 kHz, 16-bit. Formats: Stereo.
This extensive library contains 200 crowd-based sound effects spanning airports, schools, and public venues, delivering authentic background murmur and ambience across 8 hours of recordings.
200 files · 4.33 GB · Metadata
Was $50.00, now $25.00
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44.1 kHz, 16-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Background crowd ambience from diverse locations fills this collection of 200 sound effects, capturing authentic murmurs across auditoriums, pubs, markets, and public spaces.
200 files · 3.27 GB · Metadata
Was $50.00, now $25.00
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44.1 kHz, 16-bit. Formats: Stereo.
This diverse collection presents 200 ambient sound effects capturing authentic crowd murmurs across various settings, from bustling airports and pubs to schools and theaters.
200 files · 5 GB · Metadata
Was $50.00, now $25.00
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44.1 kHz, 16-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Background crowd sound effects from various locations capture ambient murmurs and bustling activity across 200 lengthy recordings, including airports, schools, malls, and theatres.
200 files · 4.96 GB · Metadata
Was $50.00, now $25.00
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96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo, Ambisonic B.
Sri Lanka, Thailand and Cambodia ambience sound effects covering markets, temple bells, tuk-tuk traffic, airports, railway stations, jungle birds and ocean waves, delivered in ambisonic AmbiX with decoded stereo files.
237 files · Metadata
Was $217.00, now $139.00
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The name comes from old radio, where actors playing a Crowd would mutter the word walla over and over so nothing clear cut through. Film still works much the same way: loop groups record walla to sit under the dialogue, and editors fill the gaps with recordings like these. The trick is matching the place. A Restaurant wants cutlery and close tables, a Market wants traders calling out, and a stadium wants a roar that rises and falls with the game. Language matters too, because a clear word in the wrong accent pulls an audience out. There's walla here from all over, plus battle crowds for historical scenes and empty school corridors for horror.

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