Public Spaces Atmos
The rush of voices and footsteps early in the morning as commuters make their way to work on the subway; the gentle murmur of tourists amplified as it bounces off the centuries-old walls of a monumental museum; the bustling life of an indoor market; and the inhabited silence of a library.
You will find this and much more in PUBLIC SPACES ATMOS, our biggest atmos library to date with 15 hours of recorded material spread over 310 files.
Check out what we have so carefully prepared for you in our
FILE LIST and our complete UCS compliant METADATA CHART.
From large reverberant environments, such as a magnificent old church located in the heart of Paris, to the narrow corridors of a hospital, we tried to record a great variety of places and their unique acoustics. We were equally concerned with the many ways people inhabit them, from the loud outgoingness of students at a party to the serious, monotone voices of a coworking space. Public Spaces Atmos is built around the encounter between these two variables and their many possible permutations.
The way to access the diversity of this collection is easier than ever thanks to carefully thought-out metadata, with some trademark features from HAL, such as the use of Open Tier in Soundminer, and fresh new ones, like the ability to navigate between the different places by looking at their photos embedded as the artwork for each sound file.
There are a lot of busy crowd sounds in this collection, from small to massive, but there is also much more than just that. Here you will find: calm environments with only a few people speaking sparsely; the sound of footsteps and doors closing across the hallway as some of the many events we’ve recorded to give a bit of life to a certain space (ready-to-use BG spots!); or even what we call inhabited silences – quiet ambiences, almost like room tones but with a touch of movement and a sprinkle of eventfulness.
A good example of this approach : in what is perhaps the most incredible location featured in this library, the monumental Versailles Palace, we had the privilege of recording on a regular day when it was open to the public and bustling with tourists, as well as on a Monday, when it was closed to most visitors. We were then able to record small guided tours, and for a few hours we had some of the world’s most impressive rooms just to ourselves to play with: walking around, closing doors, staging conversations, and, of course, coughing.
Interior acoustics
as heard by the HAL Tree
One of the definitions of public space presents these environments simply as places of circulation and communication. What we tried to do with this collection was to add to this conversation the interior acoustics of the places where these interactions occur.
The rendition of this special kind of dialog by our 7.0.2 HAL Tree is unique.
You will truly feel the movement of footsteps bouncing off the walls in a complex relation that no convolution reverb could recreate, or, in a more subtle example, perceive the depth of a voice propagating down a long corridor as it recedes toward an imaginary sonic vanishing point.
Everything seems inextricably connected, as if it were saying…
“It’s time to mingle.”
(STEREO DOWNMIX INCLUDED)
96 kHz / 24 bits
143 GB / 15+ Hours
310
96 kHz / 24 bits
31 GB / 15+ Hours
310
310 files / over 15 hours / 143 GB
24 bits / 96 kHz
Extensive metadata
UCS compliant
Easy way to navigate in Soundminer with Open Tier
Radium presets
Microphones : 9x Sennheiser MKH 8040
Recorders : Sound Devices Scorpio
Array : 7.0.2 HAL Tree
