Quiet Streets

These recordings were made at ground level with very little editing in order to keep them natural and as close as a human would experience the city in a daily basis. At times, distinct activities can be heard from distance although the most noisiest events were taken out. Each files are loopable. Also every season and weather condition are represented. This library has been thought for the universal need of sonic bed in urban scenes, used as glue or 'exterior roomtone'.

This selection is the result of 15 months of recording throughout the multicultural city of Montreal (considered the most European City in North-America). The mix of culture in this city gives it a universal flavor that makes it belongs to the citizen of the 21st Century world.

The library contains 60 Stereo ambience and 27 Surround ambience recordings. Each sound files are between 1 to 5 minutes long. The surround recordings are embedded in an interleaved wav files of 4 channels (quad).The material used for these recordings are Sound Devices MixPre, Audient Mico, Sound Devices 788T, Zoom H4N and the microphones Rode NT5 and Sennheiser MKH8090. The ORTF configuration, or double ORTF (surround) was used for all the recordings.