New Sound Effects: Ambiences From Italy, US Cities, Wetlands, Forests, Rock Shows - And More!

Posted September 28, 2017 by Asbjoern Andersen in New sound effects libraries

In this 2nd part of our look at the latest sound effects releases, we have interesting ambiences from all over the world and sound effects with the ornate qualities you’ve been looking for.

You can hear sounds of birds and frogs from across the European wetlands and Finnish forests, busy streets in major US and Italian cities, and screaming fans during LA rock shows.

You can also hear a massive collection of beastly roars and growls and a pleasant futuristic user interface library. Happy listening!

Monster Within

Just in time for Halloween, the sound designers at SoundMorph bring you their largest library to date, 'Monster Within'. With over 3,000 sounds, this library features 27 species of ornery creatures, monsters, and aliens. These beasts attack, roar, growl, hit, taunt, charge, walk, breathe, etc., giving you a complete collection that will quickly fill your game or monster movie. It also includes has unique types like hydras, krakens, witches, snow beasts, wasps, werewolves, and more! If you're looking for monster sounds, this might be your last stop.

Surround At The Show 1 – 5.1 + Stereo

Surround Sound Effects Surround At The Show 1 – 5.1 + Stereo Play Track 48 sounds included, 20 mins total $109

Surround At the Show features 48 HD 24bit/48khz 5.1 Surround Sound Crowd Effects with a large selection of Audience cheers and swells. Recorded in 3 premiere venues in Los Angeles during sold out rock concerts.

Recorded with discrete Quad microphones, and mastered in 5.1 surround (L-C-R-Ls-Rr-Lf Embeded .WAV format). Recording locations are all from center of the crowd to create the widest possible sound. From veteran Hollywood Sound Designer Lenny Jones.

A stereo version of each cue is included, as well as embedded metadata. Want a taste of what's included? Download the 5.1 Surround Demo file here and try it out on your own system!

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'Surround At The Show 1 – 5.1 + Stereo' by 2496 Sound Effects gets you the best seat in the house to hear lots of cheering crowds. You'll hear 48 recordings of happy audiences during sold-out rock shows at The Hollywood Bowl, Rose Bowl and Forum in Los Angeles. These sounds were recorded with a Quad setup and mastered in 5.1 surround, so your listeners will feel surrounded by other concert-goers. It's perfect for rockumentaries, music games, and more, so check it out!

Wetland Atmosphere

Nature & Countryside Ambiences Wetland Atmosphere Play Track 33 sounds included, 179 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
From: $140

Wetland Atmosphere is a collection of pristine ambiences recorded at wetlands, marshes, bogs, lakes and other similar areas around Europe.

The library consists of 33 recordings ranging from 3 to 10 minutes in length, available both as stereo and surround. The recordings have been captured with a Sennheiser Double Mid-Side rig which was left out overnight in remote locations. This was to make sure that man-made noise and human interaction was kept to a minimum.

Locations include but are not limited to:
• Remote islands in the Danube Delta, the best preserved Delta in Europe
• Swamps in Northern Romania, teeming with frogs and far away from civilization
• Marshes and bogs in Central Sweden
• Lakes surrounded by trees in Central Sweden
• Wetlands in the Somerset Levels, England

The library is accompanied by a comprehensive species list covering 68 birds and 7 amphibians in total.

Highlights include Bitterns with their booming calls, Common Loons and their wails being reflected off of trees, geese, ducks and swans making a racket, the insect-like clicking of Savi’s Warbler and the incessant croaking of various frogs and toads.

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From a sound designer who understands nature like it's his home, Mindful Audio presents you 'Wetland Atmosphere'. These sweet, lovely sounds come from all across Europe - from Romania to Sweden to the UK - and capture memorable deltas, swamps, marshes, bogs, and lakes and their majestic species. You'll hear the memorable calls of loons, bitterns, cuckoos, and dozens of other birds, as well as several species of frogs and toads. All together you get nearly 180 minutes of these remarkable ambiences which are available in stereo and surround.

Busy Streets

Traffic Sound Effects Busy Streets Play Track 148+ sounds included, 218 mins total From: $49

‘Busy Streets’ is a key library containing surround and stereo sound ambiences that will set the scene of bustling cities – recorded in Chicago, New York and Philadelphia. The library is available in stereo, and surround (Quad).

Recorded with the Stealth Surround System:

With ‘Busy Streets’ we used an exclusive SSS technique (Stealth Surround System) which means the recording process was hidden from the eyes even with 4 discrete channels.

This results in fully immersive, undisturbed and authentic city soundscapes.

What’s inside:

74 Surround authentic ambience recordings between 1 to 5 minutes long each, non-disturbed city life using our SSS technique (Stealth Surround System):

• Crowd movements
• Pedestrians walking by and talking
• Traffic noises, train, metro, truck, bus, cars
• Evolving swarm
• Above and under bridges
• Narrow pathway
• Underground street
• Large boulevards
• Restaurants terrace
• Commercial areas
• Financial disctricts
• Wet streets

‘Busy Streets’ is also a great complementary library to the ‘Quiet Streets‘ library.

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'Busy Streets' by Articulated Sounds takes you to the packed streets of Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia. Available in both stereo and surround, these recordings capture the hustle and bustle of tourists, lifelong residents, and people of all economic situations. You'll also hear city transportation, sirens, large crowds, and plenty of banter. Each of the 74 track lasts between 1 and 5 minutes and has very detailed metadata, so if you need sounds of people and cars cohabiting, this is the one for you.

Virtual UI

User Interface (UI) Sound Effects Virtual UI Play Track 517 sounds included $45

Virtual UI is a library of over 500 high-tech user interface sounds. Using a combination of digital and analogue gear, sound designer Daniel Mumford has created super-usable wipes, beeps, notifications, menus, power-ups and downs, errors, buttons, data, malfunctions, switches, alarms, atmospheres and drones.

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'Virtual UI' by Dark Arts FX is a collection of high-tech user interface sounds that will give your project a clean, professional edge. With both digital and analogue gear, this library has over 500 sounds of notifications, menus, power-ups, errors, malfunctions, switches, buttons, alarms and more, giving you a sound palette that will last for projects to come. Each effect is packed with delightful textures and interesting sound imaging, so let this collection take the aesthetics of your user interface to the next level.

Essential Sound – Italian Cityscapes and Ambience

'Essential Sound – Italian Cityscapes and Ambience' by Tsunami Sound Wave takes you to beloved destinations in Italy to drink in their atmospheres. Featuring ambiences from Rome, Naples, Positano, and Tivoli Gardens, this library has sounds of church bells, scooters, city centers, terminals, thunderstorms, garden fountains, traffic, side streets, and more! All together you get nearly 4 hours of these carefully chosen cityscapes with very detailed metadata. If you're looking for sounds that represent a lively city, this is one to hear.

Ambisonic Forest – Summer

Ambisonic Sound Effects Ambisonic Forest – Summer Play Track 10 sounds included, 95 mins total $80

The library is a collection of atmosphere recordings of different sized/aged forests during summer time in Eastern and Southern Finland.

In these recordings you can hear a huge variety of birds during different times of the day and also some changes of the weather such as multiple states of the wind.

The library contains 30 files (10 FuMa, 10 AmbiX and 10 Stereo files) captured at 24bit/96kHz. Total length of over 1.5 hours.

B-format files are in FuMa and AmbiX format.
With the free SoundField SurroundZone 2 plugin you can convert the B-format files into your preferred format (stereo, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0 or 7.1 surround). There's also other plugin options such as Harpex-X.

The library also contains ready-made stereo (ORTF with wide cardioid pattern) mixdowns for your convenience.

These recordings are very raw. Very little or none denoising, EQ or any other processing method was used.

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'Ambisonic Forest – Summer' by Soundreorganized takes you to Southern and Eastern Finland to hear the country's distinct birds and quiet forests. With an hour and a half of ambiences, you'll hear the summer sounds of cuckoos, owls, blackbirds, cranes, and more from peaceful areas far from humankind. The sounds are also available in B-format and ORTF stereo, giving you soundscapes that are raw but ready to use in your project. For natural ambiences from the crack of dawn to dusk, give this one a listen.

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Weather Sound Effects Hyper Thunder Play Track 800+ sounds included $49.50
Hyper Thunder is a colossal collection of thunder and lightning, 100% crafted from the ground up using innovative synthesized technics and props recordings. Not a single real life thunder recording was used. using synthesis and props manipulation crafted to deliver impact far beyond natural recordings. Built entirely from innovative synthesis and props recordings, this library pushes the boundaries of weather sound design—perfect for when you need the raw energy of a storm dialed up to cinematic extremes.

Featuring over 800 files, Hyper Thunder spans everything from subtle distant rumbles and rolling thunder to razor-sharp lightning strikes and earth-shaking impacts. With both designed hits and source layers, you have full control—drop in ready-to-use power or sculpt your own stormscapes using the source recordings.

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Mattia Cellotto’s extraordinary sound libraries are some of the most popular releases in independent sound effects – and here’s your chance to get them all at a nice discount. Here’s what’s you get:

NEW: ANIMAL HYPERREALISM IV contains animal vocalisations – from hippos, hyenas, vultures, dwarf mongooses, elephants, African cranes, parrots, tigers, pigmy hippos, rhea ostriches, to brown bears, pheasants, wildebeests, African wild dogs and many more. Features 2000 individual sounds in 294 files.

CATACLYSM is a collection more than 1400 sounds in 400+ files of recorded, synthesized and designed sounds created to support important destructive moments and add a stronger sense of extreme consequence to any sound.

ANIMAL HYPERREALISM VOL I is a library containing themed animal vocalisations & sounds, from real to designed creatures totaling more than 1300 individual sounds in 290 files.

ANIMAL HYPERREALISM VOL II is a library containing themed animal sounds & vocalisations, from real to designed creatures totaling more than 2000 individual sounds in 283 files.

ANIMAL HYPERREALISM VOL III is a library containing sounds themed animal vocalisations, from real to designed creatures totaling more than 1700 individual sounds in 279 files.

METAMORPHOSIS is a huge collection of recorded source, synthesized material and hybrid sounds – more than 2300 sounds total.

GLACIER ICE is a library containing over 300 high quality sounds of ice cracking, breaking, shattering in various sizes of blocks – recorded entirely in the Italian Alps over the course of two winters.

POLARITY delivers more than 950 sounds of electricity, science and technology – captured in several locations around the world, from electricity museums to science labs.

ULTRASONIC DRY ICE is a library containing over 600 sounds themed metal resonances, scrapes and all sorts of weird.

ROCKS MOMENTUM gets you more than 1100 sounds of rocks, bricks, wood logs, stones, impacting on different surfaces, rolling, being scraped one against the other and so on. The library was recorded in the Italian alps, and in Inverness, Scotland.

WATER VOLUMES delivers you over 300 sounds of natural hot-springs, bubbles, and liquids of various densities boiling under the effect of dry ice.

METAL GROANS AND SLAMS is a library for which metal was kicked, hammered, bowed and… induced to vibrate through feedback loops?! The collection features 346 unique sounds recorded through field trips in US, UK and Italy.

CRUNCH MODE & THE BORAX EXPERIMENT are also included as a bonus: Crunch Mode features 230 crunchy sounds made with a variety of vegetables, fresh bread, pizza crust & frozen goods, and The Borax Experiment gets you 158 squishy, gory, slimy, gooey SFX.

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Animal Hyperrealism Vol IV is a sound library containing animal vocalisations, from real to designed creatures totaling more than 2000 individual sounds in 294 files. The sounds were recorded in zoos, and wildlife centers.

The asset list includes but is not limited to: hippos, hyenas, vultures, dwarf mongooses, elephants, African cranes, parrots, tigers, pigmy hippos, rhea ostriches, brown bears, pheasants, wildebeests, African wild dogs and many more. The content has been recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K, an Avisoft CMPA and a Sennheiser 8050 for center plus two Sennheiser MKH8040 for stereo image.

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Foley Sound Effects Business Navigator NV-A008 Piaggio Vespa PX150 2023 electric ride-on toy scooter motorcycle Play Track 23 sounds included, 10 mins total $45

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Aircraft - Jet/Propeller Plane Sound Effects Planes and Helicopters Play Track 66 sounds included, 41 mins total $34

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Car Sound Effects Lada Riva 1980 compact car Play Track 218 sounds included, 51 mins total $65

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Helicopter Sound Effects CH-47 Chinook Helicopter Play Track 40 sounds included, 46 mins total $80
This library delivers the raw power of this legendary military transport helicopter. Originally recorded for the acclaimed Netflix series Money Heist: Part 5, this library captures every rotor, engine, and maneuver with pristine detail and fidelity—now available for your own productions.

From the thunderous rotor blades slicing through the air, to the deep roar of its twin turbines, and the massive fly-bys that shake the ground, this collection delivers 46 minutes of sounds from one of the most iconic helicopters in history.

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