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City Ambiance (New York)

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knufds

May 16th, 2016

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Soundscapes > Urban
New York, New York, United States
City sounds

New York City outdoor ambient sound. Recorded 10+ floors up in a midtown Manhattan building using Sound Room/Oktava 012 cardioid mics in a X/Y stereo configuration w/ Sound Devices preamps.
This file can be looped without any audible glitches.

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city
field-recording
Manhattan
New-York-City
NYC
street
traffic
urban

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

0:47.511

File size

8.0 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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molinamunizaga

5 years, 8 months ago

Thank you! Great material. I visited NY with the fam before Christmas and wanted to make a video of the trip. Strange as it is, I kind of miss the city sounds.

knufds

5 years, 11 months ago

"Great but not long enough"
This can be edited and looped easily with a Digital Audio Workstations (DAW and many Non-Liniar Video Editor (NLE.

nicola_ariutti

6 years, 8 months ago

thank you for sharing, beautiful sound: exactly what I was looking for...

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andmishlee

6 years, 10 months ago

Thank you! Just perfect.

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hywelesq

7 years, 8 months ago

EXACTLY what I needed. Thank you so much. Have spent two years writing a comedy adventure and have a character standing in New York... You know when you find an effect which is exactly what is playing in your head? Well... THANK YOU. In an exhausting passion project aimed purely at making people happy, finding someone else doing the same with sound is a lovely thing. So thank you. Listen to your efforts... I think near the start of episode 1. Thanks!!
Pod is here, free, attributed etc etc.. http://apple.co/2nI5gO6

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