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The Birds includes selections from some of my previous libraries: Forests and Mountains, California Grassland Wildlife, Forest Day, and Harbor and Ocean.
I’ve gone through all of these libraries and selected what I consider some of my favorite recordings and that only include birds. With this collection you get a wide variety of various birds in different environments, perspectives, times of the day, night. Birds together, more specific and separate, close, distant. The locations mostly include Southern California Foothills, Forests, and Mountains and Central California Grassland areas. There’s also some recordings from Washington and Oregon.
There’s a few different species of Owls, a number of Ravens, various Sparrows, Woodpeckers, Doves, Finches and all sorts of other fun birds singing away. Anyone looking for a bit more info should check out the library links up top to get a good idea.
I’ve provided the species listings by each library. The file names have been kept the same as they were in the original libraries so if anyone would like to compare metadata sheets to see what’s included it will be a bit easier.
Forests and Mountains
Acorn Woodpecker, American Coot, Barred Owl, Black-headed Grosbeak, California Quail, California Towhee, Canadian Geese, Fox Sparrow, Great Horned Owl, House Wren, Mallard, Northern Flicker, Nuttall’s Woodpecker, Oak Titmouse, Pacific Wren, Pied-billed Grebe, Pileated Woodpecker, Common Poorwill, Raven, Robin, Red-shouldered Hawk, Song Sparrow, Spotted Towhee, Steller’s Jay, Swainson’s Thrush, Western Wood-Pewee, Wilson’s Warbler, Wrentit, Yellow-throated Blackbird
Forest Day
Acorn Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Lawrence’s Goldfinch,Mountain Chickadee, Northern Flicker, Pygmy Nuthatch, Raven, Red Shouldered Hawk, Spotted Towhee, Western Bluebird, Williamson’s Sapsucker
California Grassland Wildlife
Ash-throated Flycatcher, Barn Owl, Bell’s Sparrow, Bullock’s Oriole, California Towhee, Cassin’s Kingbird, Common Nighthawk, Eurasian Collared-Dove, Horned Lark, House Finch, Great Horned Owl, Mourning Dove, Raven, Red-tailed Hawk, Say’s Phoebe, Western Kingbird
Harbor and Ocean
Crow, Herring Gull, Pelogagic Cormorant, Pigeon Guillemot
Grassland Micro
California Towhee, House Finch, Mourning Dove, Western Kingbird, White-throated Swift
Metadata
All files have been carefully edited. Detailed Metadata and labeling of species has been provided along with using UCS. Photos have been embedded with each file to help out with getting an idea of what birds are typical in particular landscapes. Markers have also been placed in the files to help out with navigating.
The Gear
Sound Devices MixPre-3
Sound Devices MixPre-6
Zoom F3
Mics
Sennheiser MKH 8020
Sennheiser MKH 8040
Sennheiser MKH 8040+MKH 30 MS
Harbor and Ocean is a smaller micro library featuring a mix of Ocean and Harbor sounds. This features some recordings of Seagulls in a harbor, a large group of Cormorants and sea Pigeons hanging out on old dock pilings, and morning birds in a lake marina. There’s also a few various sounds of ocean waves on different beaches, water laps on rock jetty’s and a lake dock, a barge ship heading out of the harbor, and general industrial harbor ambience.
MoGraph and Visual Effects Sounds
Keyframing, motion blur, easing, masking, interpolation, texturing, rotoscoping and more, everyone knows that making professional broadcast quality motion graphics, visual effects, animations and info graphics is no easy task. Even more, finding the right sounds and audio cues that fit is tedious, time consuming and frustrating.
With Synthetic Cut Transitions – MoGraph and Visual Effects Sounds you get an instant, affordable, sound solution, ready to use right out of the box. Precision crafted to amplify the impact of your motion graphics, animations, logos, idents, transitions, explainer videos, cinematic trailers and cutscenes. You get a fresh set of swipes, wipes, whooshes and sound morphs that you can use everyday (all royalty-free). Even more, you can mix and match, layer and transform sounds to create the perfect audio track to go with longer visual sequences.
It’s a time saving, action oriented, ready to use power pack of sound made specifically for interactive visual effects.
Electromagnetic Interference and Electronic Chaos Sound Library
Ever found yourself staring at a screen that reads, “Sorry, we are experiencing technical difficulties”? It always seems to happen at the worst possible moment. Have you ever wondered what those “technical difficulties” actually sound like? The answer is right here in the High-Freq Havoc – Electromagnetic Interference and Electronic Chaos Sound Library. When you hear these sounds, chances are something isn’t quite right.
High-Freq Havoc is a trouble-inspired collection of sounds and SFX designed to transmit tension and stress into your project, perfect for moments when “The system is down” or “Something bad is about to happen.” This sound library is packed with a variety of compelling audio elements, including buzzing currents, sharp tonal hums, modulated static, broken transmissions, and both digital and analog EMF noise sources. Whether you’re a sound designer, filmmaker, audio supervisor or indie hobbyist, High-Freq Havoc provides the perfect sounds to signal troubling times ahead.
Get your hands on the High-Freq Havoc – Electromagnetic Interference and Electronic Chaos Sound Library today and capture the attention of your audience with authentic, tension-filled audio.
Don’t touch that dial. There’s nothing wrong with the audio in your system. We are controlling glitch transmissions. We control the horizontal malfunction. We control the vertical distortion. We can change the resolution to 8 bit grunge or sharpen to HD crystal clarity. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with the audio in your system. For the next 19 minutes, you are about to participate in a great audio adventure with Glitch Vault sound effects. A dynamic collection of malfunction, error, noise, static, electromagnetic, sci-fi, steampunk, space and interference sounds for infusion directly into your auditory nerves.
Dead on for futuristic or retro sci-fi, building otherworldly atmospheres, layering abstract textures into cinematic trailers, forging interactive sound designs for VR. Glitch Vault gives you the tools to push your sound design to the edge. A loud and lovely mix of tonal chaos, rhythmic pulses, and data-inspired glitches make Glitch Vault an ideal choice for science fiction, cyberpunk, horror, suspense, industrial and experimental projects where sonic malfunction and electro energy take center stage.
Experience the mystery and mayhem which reaches from the inner ear to the outer limits. Listen and enjoy the ride with Glitch Vault.
Swirl in a vortex of suspenseful audio with Twilight Fear Drone Loops. A fine tuned collection of drones, atmospherics and cinematic horror textures designed to evoke a sense of foreboding and tension. Get 260 custom created atmospheric and textural background loops that are perfect for creating a haunting environment filled with vampires, ghosts, undead and paranormal creatures.
Create your own suspense and tension filled immersive audio experience with ease. Whether you’re setting the scene of a chilling horror film soundtrack, a tense apocalyptic video game, a spooky haunted house, even a crop circle installation, these fear-inducing drone loops provide the sonic foundation to ensnare your audience in a web of uncertainty.
Our 3 bite-sized Mini Sound FX Sets in 1 Bundle
This bundle consists of our three releases: Dark Whooshes, Impacts & Cinematic Hits, Bright Wisps & Whooshes!
Dark Whooshes is comprised of 15 transition sounds that favor a darker or more muted tone! But don’t be fooled- some of these transition sounds are powerful.
Impacts & Cinematic Hits has 29 individual percussive sounds across the 18 sound files. These cinematic impacts run the spectrum from loud to abstract to intimate.
Bright Wisps and Whooshes is overflowing with bright and airy transition sounds! The wisps are quick & icey. The whooshes are brimming with light and our long swells are almost magical.
The Train Life Bundle includes three Train Libraries, Train Life, Train Life 2, and Train Life 3. In both these collections there’s a number of Exterior Freight Train Recordings with various speeds, perspectives, and locations. Rumbling Trains in the Desert, Industrial, and Urban Areas. Horns Close and Distant, Passenger Trains, Rail Yard and Track Ambiences, and an assortment of other Train related sounds.
Train Life 3 is the third library in the ever evolving sonic journey of recording trains. I can’t quite explain it, but trains are just downright fun to record and those old industrial rail yards and tracks seem to always be calling.
This collection includes newer more recent recordings and is a good addition for anyone that has the previous Train libraries I’ve released (Train Life and Train Life 2) or who is just looking for a general collection of Exterior Freight and Passenger Trains. You’ll find long approaches, various bys, rail clacks, a few horns. I was also able to get some close recordings of slow connecting cars with big booms and bangs, groans and rail squeals. A couple of those are long recordings which can provide for some really interesting sound design when pitching down. I’ve provided booms and squeals that are more singular elements with multiple versions as well.
This library is also part of the Train Life Bundle collection.
Freight Trains in Transit (6) – Bys, Approaches, Air Bursts
Passenger Trains (12) – Amtrak and Metrolink Fast Bys with Rail Clacks. Slow Away and a couple with Horns.
Freight Trains Mechanical (10) – Trains Connecting Cars with Booms and Bangs and Rail Squeals.
Metadata
Detailed Metadata and labeling has been provided along with using UCS.
The Gear
Sound Devices MixPre-3
The Mics
MKH 8040 and 30
All of the recordings except for one were decoded to MS.
Voices of the Farm captures the vibrant and authentic soundscape of rural life, recorded over several years in barns, stables, fields, and farmyards across Asia, America, Africa, and Europe. From the deep lowing of cattle and the playful bleats of goats to the piercing calls of roosters at dawn and the gentle ambience of open pastures, this collection reveals the true voices and atmosphere of the countryside.
The library includes over 500 sounds, organized into 122 files:
100 focused recordings of individual animals and groups
22 natural ambiences captured in real working environments such as barns, stables, meadows, chicken coops, and open fields
All recordings are carefully edited, organized by species, and fully UCS-compliant with detailed metadata, ready for direct use in Soundminer and professional workflows. The clear folder structure makes navigation simple and efficient.
Whether you need the quiet intimacy of a single goat bleat, the energetic life of a barnyard, or the pastoral calm of rural landscapes, Voices of the Farm offers a versatile sonic palette ideal for film, television, games, and interactive projects.
Many of these recordings also serve as a great foundation for creature sound design, thanks to their expressive textures and organic tonal qualities.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, Line Audio Omni1 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II & Zoom F3 recorders. Library contains wav files of driving, foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is only available in UCS.
PLANES & HELICOPTERS contains flybys, takeoffs, and landings of 13 aircraft models and 5 helicopter models, including small and medium-range passenger planes, private jets, tiny planes and firefighting aircraft. Recorded as close as possible to the aircraft, in airports. You’ll find turbojet, turboprop, and propeller-powered aircrafts. You’ll also find military and civilian helicopters sound effects.
The sounds can be used for a realistic purpose but you can design spaceships or futuristic vehicles.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, Line Audio Omni1 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is only available in UCS.
A comprehensive fridge hum library with 60 sounds / 2+ hours of hums, buzzes, beeps, industrial room tones, clicks, drips and more
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.
Recorded using a multi-mic setup, every nuance has been preserved – from the hurricane-like rotor wash to the natural echoes bouncing across the runway and hangars. This library is a perfect fit for war films, military documentaries, AAA video games, or any production in need of authentic and cinematic helicopter power.
With CH-47 CHINOOK, you’ll have a rock-solid, versatile, and epic sound resource at your fingertips – ready to take your projects to the next level.
Note: The SoundCloud demo contains radio communiactions and some cockpit switches. These are not included.
VIOLENT COMBAT is a professional sound effects library built for fight scenes that demand impact. Packed with punch sound effects, fight sound effects, and powerful combat sound effects, it delivers everything from raw realism to over-the-top cinematic action. With improved fidelity and greater variation than its predecessor CLOSE COMBAT, this collection gives sound designers production-ready audio for film, TV, and games.
Dial in the tone you need with dedicated categories: Martial Arts, Grounded, Over The Top, and Gory. Whether it’s kung fu sound effects, karate sounds, or exaggerated wrestling hits, you can shift seamlessly from authentic to stylised.
VIOLENT COMBAT builds on the legacy of CLOSE COMBAT with higher fidelity recordings, better-organised categories, and more variation. It’s the ideal companion, giving you the flexibility to cover every style of fight scene.
Recorded with a wide range of props and techniques, each fighting sound effect has real weight. Where needed, selective pre-processing boosts impact, avoiding the flat results of real fight recordings.
Equally at home in film, TV drama, high-end game audio, or immersive theatre. From knockout sound effects to stylised fight sequences, Violent Combat is ready to drop straight into your mix.
“Animals Vol. 5 — Unleash Over 200 Wildly Unique Sounds!”
Bring your projects to life with everything from roaring bears and snorting rhinos to chattering lemurs and creepy crawlies.
Build immersive worlds with rich ambiences, quirky effects, and every animal sound you didn’t know you needed.
Your new favorite sample pack is here!
Animals Vol. 5 is the ultimate treasure trove of unique animal sounds you won’t find anywhere else. We’re talking about over 200 sounds that go way beyond the usual lions and tigers. Get ready to spice up your projects with everything from chill capybaras and grumpy camels to creepy crawlies and full-blown jungle atmospheres.
✨ Unique Animal Stars: Meet the scene-stealers! Heavy-breathing capybaras, snorting rhinos, shearing alpacas, groaning llamas, chattering lemurs, and even dramatic camel moans. Perfect for animation, games, and quirky sound design.
🌲 Living, Breathing Ambiences: Don’t just add a sound, build a world. This pack is loaded with immersive backgrounds like windy alpaca ranches, Amazon jungle insects, boiling mud springs, seaside sea lion colonies, and nighttime swamp frogs.
🐾 Classic Creature Power: Still got your back with the heavy hitters—ferocious bear roars, gritty tiger growls, and aggressive dog attacks for when you need pure power.
🦗 The Tiny Details: Complete your ecosystem with a library of insect buzzes, cricket chirps, frog croaks, snake slithers, and detailed bird calls.
Perfect for: Producers, game devs, and filmmakers who want to create unique, immersive, and unforgettable soundscapes.
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.
The resulting ultrasonic spectrum is rich and allows for truly extreme manipulation of the content.
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.
Created in collaboration with Bruits.Studio’s Vincent Fliniaux and Tibo Csuko—longtime SoundMorph contributors to acclaimed libraries like Robotic Lifeforms 2 and WATER— Hyper Thunder blends technical mastery with bold creativity.
From atmospheric detail to explosive drama, Hyper Thunder gives you thunder and lightning that are bigger, subtler, and more versatile than nature itself.
638 meticulously processed stereo fire spells sound effects recorded in 96 khz and 24 bits for high audio definition.
The collection comes with hundreds of variations, more than 1 hour of content and many different type of fire spells. It also includes source sounds for more flexibility for your projects.
This collection is perfect for any films, video games or trailers.
The library is fully focused on fire spells. You will find simple one shot magic firebolt, powerful high level fire spells, fire sword, berserker enchantments and so on. Spells such as fireball, firewall, rain of fire, meteor, fire nova, magma storm, pyroblast, sword of Avernus, etc. are included in this library.
Immerse yourself in an atmosphere of natural power and tranquility with the “Rain and Thunderstorm” sound collection, consisting of 4 Vol-s.
This collection features a variety of looped sounds: light rain, night rain with loud thunderclaps, and other effects that will help you create the perfect atmosphere – from a quiet, secluded night, long scenes, or endless atmospheric effects without abrupt transitions, to a dramatic thunderstorm on the horizon.
The recording was made by a Zoom H3-VR recorder in the Ambisonics A format (96 kHz 24 Bit) and then converted to the AmbiX and Stereo formats (96 kHz 24 Bit), which are located in different folders of this sound pack.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, Line Audio Omni1 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.
Immerse yourself in an atmosphere of natural power and tranquility with the “Rain and Thunderstorm” sound collection, consisting of 4 Vol-s.
This collection features a variety of looped sounds: light rain, night rain with loud thunderclaps, and other effects that will help you create the perfect atmosphere – from a quiet, secluded night, long scenes, or endless atmospheric effects without abrupt transitions, to a dramatic thunderstorm on the horizon.
The recording was made by a Zoom H3-VR recorder in the Ambisonics A format (96 kHz 24 Bit) and then converted to the AmbiX and Stereo formats (96 kHz 24 Bit), which are located in different folders of this sound pack.
All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, Line Audio Omni1 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds.
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