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Nature & Countryside NXNW – Cascadia 2017 Play Track 69+ sounds included, 209 mins total ~~$35~~ $30

This library of environmental recordings is the culmination of three recording expeditions to the stunningly gorgeous Pacific Northwest. We visited a variety of locations ranging from urban Vancouver, Portland, and Seattle to the wild and untamed Olympic Peninsula. We captured dynamically disparate sounds such as a noisy Seattle shipyard and the quietest location in the continental US – deep within the primordial Hoh Rainforest. There are excellent crowd wallas, and contemplative mountain streams. From beaches to mountain tops to luxury high rises no environment was left un-recorded! This is what the Northwest sounds like!

In all, this library features 69 individual files totaling over three hours of runtime. Total un-zipped file size is over six gigabytes. All sounds have been edited to remove discernable dialog and unwanted noises. What’s left is pure, loop-able ambience suitable for no-fuss editing.

All sounds were captured on a Sound Devices 744T recorder. Microphones used include a Sanken CSS-5 stereo mic and a matched stereo pair of Sennheiser 8040s in ORTF configuration. All recordings are accompanied by a high quality photograph for reference and tagged with Pro Tools searchable metadata.

Bonus library included:

As a special incentive we will also include a bonus mini-library of ambiences from the Irish countryside that James recorded on a recent trip home! Highlights include some great mountain winds and a rare recording of a starling formation taking flight!

Credits:
Recordist, Producer, Editor – Jason Strawley
Photography, Video – Andrew Garraway
Asst Producer – James Nolan

Thanks, and enjoy!

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Materials & Texture Huge Hidden Passages Play Track Up to 1727+ sounds included From: $70

Huge Hidden Passages takes you from the depths of the jungle, to the entrance of a temple, and behind the thick walls of a castle to discover a buried pyramid – and beyond. Some of passages will be hidden to your eyes, but we offer you the sonic keys of those closed passages. The library is the final installment in the World Of Secrets series.

Available in two versions, and a bundle:

Huge Hidden Passages – Designed
A ready-made collection of elements designed for your mysterious access. All designed elements have separated layers (sorted by textures) to give you the possibility to construct your own.

Specs: 187 .WAV files, 1.07 GB
Recorded with: 744T + EAA Micromix • Schoeps MS Couple • KM 82i Neuman • 2 KM 184 Neuman • DPA 4060 • Barcus berry contact mic

Huge Hidden Passages – Toolbox

An incredible toolbox, issued from a year of recording and sound design. Versatile, dense, pitchable.

Specs: 1540 .WAV files, 10.43 GB
Recorded with: 744T + EAA Micromix • Schoeps MS Couple • KM 82i Neuman • 2 KM 184 Neuman • Sennheiser MD 441 • DPA 4060 • Barcus berry contact mic

Huge Hidden Passages – Complete Bundle
Get both the Toolbox and Designed packs, at a special price.

Specs: 1727 .WAV files, 11.05 GB
Recorded with: 744T + EAA Micromix • Schoeps MS Couple • KM 82i Neuman • 2 KM 184 Neuman • DPA 4060 • Sennheiser MD 441 • Barcus berry contact mic

All packs contain stereo & mono, 192 / 96 kHz, 24 bit files.

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Foley Coins Play Track 105 sounds included ~~$10~~ $7.50

‘Coins’ by Badlands Sound includes 100+ clean and high-quality coin sounds. Everything from one coin, a few, too many coins dropping on various surfaces like wood, water, metal, and other coins. Also, includes Foley sounds of grabbing coins perfect for film and video games.

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Nature & Countryside High Desert Ambiences 2 Play Track 500+ sounds included, 287 mins total ~~$99~~ $66.33

Explore a large collection of beautiful, tranquil sounds from remote desert locations across the American southwest and enjoy listening to the morning sun awaken desert wildlife. This serene collection features sounds that will make you fall in love with the harmonious desert dawn. Sounds include doves cooing, woodpeckers hammering, White-throated Swifts in swirling flocks, and much more. Featured like never before are recordings of Swainson’s hawks so close you can hear the whoosh as their powerful wings cut through the air. For the second installment of my extensive nature sounds from the heart of the American Southwest, here is High Desert Ambiences 2 – Dawn and Morning Choruses.

2% for the Planet:
Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause. I view it as an “artist royalty” for the planet!

KEY FEATURES:
• Swainson’s Hawks – a male and female recorded near their nest in a 200-foot cliff. Recordings are from below the nest and include close, distant, circling, diving, and soaring perspectives.
• White-throated Swifts – flocks of small barn swallow-like birds circling, darting, and whooshing in front of a desert cliff.
• Other Birds/Wildlife Included: Canyon Wren, Bewick’s Wren, Montezuma Quail, White-winged Dove, Western Screech-Owl, Aoudad Sheep, Rufous-crowned Sparrow, Eastern Meadowlark, and many more labeled as “songbirds” if not identified by species.
• Quiet Nature tracks –these filenames start with “Quiet Desert” and are sparse ambiences recorded at the threshold of hearing and normalized between -15 and -20 dBFS, with and integrated loudness of approximately -35 to -45 LUFS.
• Quiet Nature tracks have low wildlife activity and are perfect “natural roomtones” to use as the foundation of a designed environment.
• All tracks normalized between -10 and -20 dBFS. Most tracks have an integrated loudness between -25 and -45 LUFS.
• Most files are 3-6 minutes in length
• Named markers included in each file to help find interesting events in an otherwise uniform waveform. Starting in Soundminer 4.5Pro_v252 you can now read text markers from within Soundminer!

• Marker text included in the Soundminer Description and BWAV description fields.
• Recording Location – Davis Mountains, Texas
• *Note – Birds were self-identified using several iOS apps and bird identification websites, so I cannot guarantee 100% accuracy of species identification.
• Need a smaller collection of desert ambiences? Please take a listen to High Desert Ambiences 1 – Essentials ($29, 10 stereo WAVs, 6.5 GB, 94 min, 192 kHz / 24-bit).

Sounds from this library were used in the upcoming movie Woman Walks Ahead starring Jessica Chastain!

GEAR USED:
• Sennheiser MKH 8040 Matched Pair
• Sound Devices 702
• Rycote ORTF Blimp

FILE LIST:
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User Interface (UI) UI Sounds: Futuristic Play Track 400 sounds included ~~$39~~ $27

UI SOUNDS: Futuristic, the next step of our user interface (UI) SFX series, is a collection of 400 well organized selections ranging from subtle to glitchy and vivid elements which are ready to use in any futuristic user interface environment, smart TV app, wearable device app, UI demonstration or infographic video, as well as in your games.

All sounds are spread across these 9 categories: selections, buttons, open – close – pause interfaces, holograms, alarm loops, notifications, calculations, screen errors, browse menu and delivered to you in the 3 most commonly used file formats to save you the trouble of having to create them yourself; WAV, MP3, OGG

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