11 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Stop Bells"

Bell ringers practising in marsden, west yorkshire. Untreated audio. A long silence has been recorded after the bells stop to enable noise removal. There is a some barely audible, infrequent, traffic noise and there are a few barely audible footsteps. Recorded on a roland r05 with wolf windshield.

A boston-area commuter rail train approaches the station, warning bells ringing; brakes to a stop; then departs, passing very close to the microphone, and recedes into the distance.

A 22 minute bus ride, almost silent. Only some passengers getting on and off, very short discussions with the driver and all basic sounds you can hear inside a bus. I guess this will leave you a lot of possibilities. Recorded with olympus ls-p4 onboard microphones.

The bells of santa maría la real gothic church ring in an autumn evening. Once the tolls stop you can hear the city's background noise at its main square. Olite is a small town in the south of navarra (spain). Recorded with a poco x3 phone's recorder in hq mode.

Bells ring to mark the start of evening mass at notre-dame cathedral (notre dame de paris) in paris, france on christmas day in 2011. The first bell heard is the largest, the "emmanuel" bourdon bell, which weighs 13 tons. After 90 seconds or so, the other bells in the north tower start to ring as well. After several minutes of continuous ringing, the bells are allowed to slowly stop ringing. A few soft clicking noises right at the start of the recording come from me adjusting the recording level (which i couldn't do until the bells started to ring). Mp3 from 96 khz / 24-bit / stereorecorded with zoom h4n built-in mics hand-held, about 100 feet southwest of the south tower (the one with the big bell).

A sample of church bells from a pamplona side street. Recorded in 1985 on a sony walkman using the in-built mics. Recorded onto tdk d90 cassette and stored since then in damp cellars, sheds, and long forgotten drawers. Just today transferred to digital using my fathers old decca legato tape player which we purchased in the early 70s to enable us to send messages to my uncle who had emigrated to australia. Dad says the player cost over £30 then which was more than a weeks wages at the time. I was inter-railing around europe at the time but the recording seems to stop in pamplona. Six weeks later all my money and passport was stolen while in crete and i made my way home via the british consulate in athens.

Mississauga transit bus announcement. Transcription: "(bell) stop requested. Please exit, rear door. ".

The soundscape of a thunderstorm that passed over berlin in 2012, recorded from my backyard window with a little earplug stereo mic that a friend once made for me - a dummy head. The heavy rain was followed by thunder, then transforms into softer rain that lets you hear faint city sounds like cars, doors closing, someone using a screwdriver, voices, the bells of a nearby church, airplanes and birds. There's so much to hear, i couldn't stop recording. I only took out some little peaks caused by the movement of my ear.

Crossing bell and diesel locomotive. Locomotive goes from stop to a slow start with crossing bell. Recorded in dillsboro, nc. Part of the smoky mountain railway.

Late night bus ride on a friday night in toronto. People talking, 1 bus stop signal noise, 2 bus stop announcements, sound of the bus in operation from the inside. Recorded with zoom h4n recorder - 44. 1khz/16bit.

This was recorded in the interior of a truck stop, somewhere on the road in oklahoma. General store ambiance can be heard throughout, but the real highlight is the electronic door chime that seems to happen intermittently, when someone enters or exits the store.