Diffuse City is the unique urban ambience sound effects library you didn’t know you were missing. It captures the urban environment in its many forms… all based around the idea of diffuse ambience.

This SFX library is purpose-built for the times an environment needs to be felt, but not be distracting. Every track in Diffuse City was recorded with some sort of real life “filter” in mind; be it distance, elevation, time of day, physical material… Anything to provide the feeling of city life with out the specificity of many urban ambience libraries. No distracting close car pass-bys or people talking; only great natural ambience beds.

Diffuse City was recorded in big cities, suburbs, small towns, and rural settings over a span of two years. It was largely recorded over very late nights, when very few people we’re around. Occasionally, however, a car would pass by… a gun would go off… While these were edited out of the recordings, they are included as “extras” in the library. Perfect for adding some flavor to a moment that’s authentic to the environment it was recorded in.

In addition to thorough metadata, each ambience in Diffuse City is embedded with markers highlighting unique moments that aren’t easily visible in a waveform. Software like Soundminer v4.5 and Reaper can display these markers, making it easy to identify distinct sonic moments in an otherwise nondescript waveform.

Diffuse City - Overview

The "Seismic Activities" sound archive contains over 2500 different noises from vibrations, shocks and their resonances.
We have taken the trouble to use a set-up of different natural sounds, such as frequency drops, thunder or the sound of deep rumbling, to control two structure-borne sound transducers. We have installed these converters in various locations. For example, we were at a company that produces large roller doors. There we shook all sorts of pipes, high racks, tool cabinets, gates and the like.
In addition, we worked with many household items to create a variety of sound structures, which should make the use of "seismic activities" particularly diverse.
Almost all of the sounds were generated from a multi-channel set-up made up of Sennheiser MKH80 (ORTF), DPA 4060 (AB) and a Sony DR100. So you can expect the best sound quality. As always, a Sounddevices 744T and a Mixpre were used as recording devices.

As always, all files come with burned in metadata in open standards like iXml, BWAV, ID3 Chunk.

Seismic Activities

Seismic Activities Sound Design Package

Collected Transients creates high quality sound effects libraries for sound designers. It is ran by Stosh Tuszynski, a sound designer with 10+ years experience in the film, TV, game, and commercial industries.

Collected Transients libraries are comprised of 100% originally recorded material. Each collection meticulously tackles a unique subject to provide thoroughly useful source material for sound designers. Every library is built to foster creativity and easily bend, stretch, and mold into your next creation.

All sound effects libraries are embedded with rich Soundminer, Basehead, BWF, and iXML Metadata for easy searching across all popular audio database software.

Diffuse City - Overview

Collected Transients

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