14 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Autobahn"

Many cars passing, recorded from a bridge.

Many cars passing, recorded from a bridge.

Autobahn highway background far germany.

Under a bridge on the a20 autobahn near neubrandenburg in mecklenburg-vorpommern (mecklenburg-western pomerania). You hear cars passing by, heard as bumping sounds. Swallows are audible, who build their nests on the abutments. Recorded with an olympus ls-11.

I recently contributed a track to a triple lp set of krautrock cover versions ("head music 2", released by fruits de mer records, december 2020). The song i chose to cover was kraftwerk's "autobahn". If you know the track, you'll know that it uses synthesised traffic sounds alongside recordings of the same. On my version, i achieved these in three ways:. 1) i downloaded some public domain traffic sound effects from elsewhere here on freesound. Org (thanks, guys!). 2) i got in my car with my zoom recorder and made my own recordings of the engine starting, stopping, etc. 3) i made my own sound effects using virtual synths and effects in ableton live 10. This particular sound falls into the third category. Let me stress that while the song "autobahn" is copyrighted, these are isolated sound effects and are not covered by copyright. I'm making them available here under a public domain licence. If you download and use any of these samples, please let me know in the comments what you did with them. It's not compulsory but it would be interesting to know what people did with these sounds.

Cars and and trucks passing in both ways. Recorded from a bridge above the highway, edited from a longer recording. Sound devices mixpre-3 and rode nt5s.

4ch field recording of an underpass below a german motorway, the a38 by leipzig. The recorder is located directly beneath an expansion joint on the edge of the underpass, the clonks and clanks of cars and trucks driving over the joint can clearly be heard, with the motorway noise reverberating in the underpass in the background. Recorded with a zoom h2 with a rycote windscreen, mounted on a boom pole. These are the rear channels, mics set to 120° dispersion.

Highway ambience recorded somewhere in denmark.

This sound effect was captured by me on video on my canon digital powershot a460 camera, i stood just above the motorway at charing cross glasgow scotland and captured this sound from the jam packed motorway, both sides were busy, i even caught the sound of a police car coming along the hard shoulder. I simply took the sound from my video. Please note, anybody is free to use this sound, you don't have to credit me, but it would be fun to hear how you use my sound if possible. :) here is the link to the type of licence i use. Http://creativecommons. Org/publicdomain/zero/1. 0/.

Recorded on a bridge crossing a highway (autobahn) with a zoom h2n (x/y + m/s). 44. 1 khz / 24 bit.

Motorway in braunschweig, lower saxony, germany on a friday afternoon.

Sorry for vehicle sounds, camping near autobahn. Recorded with tascam dr05.

I recorded with my sony recorder some nature sounds in berlin buch. There is an autobahn near the forrest which i filtered a bit out in the deep frequencies.

Various birds singing at the early morning. Recorded in a small town in northern germany. No sea-birds!. Highpass filtered and slightly noise reduced because of a distant highway/autobahn. But still useful for background.