This ambiences pack is the result of a short field recording trip / road trip I made in October 2019 around the beautiful land/soundscapes of the Scottish Highlands.
I decided to go with a LCR + AB setup, as while testing different options I found it to be very versatile and relatively light and small. All mics were mounted inside the Cinela Albert basket for more convenience, allowing me to capture multichannel ambiences ( virtually 5.0 surround ) with a single thing to set up, and perfectly sheltered from wind.
I came across rivers, streams, lochs, waterfalls, lochs, harbours, lochs, quiet forests, reindeers slabs and more lochs.
This ” Mini Ambience Pack ” contains 24 sounds /72 files embedded with full and detailed metadata ( Soundminer, Basehead, iXML ).
The sounds of our world are full of beauty and intrigue, with each season bringing out a new and profound sound composition. Using the unmatched Schoeps ORTF3D Surround Set, in SEASONS OF EARTH we aim to capture the Earth’s most fascinating and iconic ambiences in a manner that faithfully reproduces the planet’s unique sonic signature. Use these high-quality audio files to create fully immersive 3D Surround or Stereo environments from scratch.
Once the snow has melted and the flowers have begun to bloom, Mother Nature overwhelms the senses with new sounds, colors, and experiences. Entire orchestras of sound rise to their climax as animals wake and continue the cycle of life while the skies open to pour out Earth’s nourishing rain.
EUROPEAN SPRING takes on a different dimension than our previous SPRING library, which was recorded in environments throughout the United States. EUROPEAN SPRING captures the outdoor atmosphere of Europe. It contains different birds, frogs, and other wildlife captured in stunning detail. In general, Europe is much more temperate, while the United States has a much more< diverse palette.
Now available in immersive 3D Surround.
Our planet has a fascinating sonic spectrum, and every season, nature offers us an impressive and multi-faceted sound composition. We have recorded the most interesting and iconic ambiences the only way that truly reflects the sonic character of Earth as precisely as possible: Using the unparalleled Schoeps ORTF3D Surround Set. Harness these first-rate sounds to shape your projects in the most authentic way possible, from the ground up in 3D Surround or Stereo.
Our planet has a fascinating sonic spectrum, and every season, nature offers us an impressive and unique sound composition. We have recorded the most interesting and iconic landscapes the only way that truly reflects the sonic character of earth as precisely as possible: Using the unparalleled Schoeps ORTF3D Surround Set. Harness these first-rate sounds to shape your projects in the most authentic and multi-faceted way possible, from the ground up in 3D Surround or Stereo.
As the sun retreats to lend vast landscapes their spectacular appearance, an equally astounding sonic world emerges.
Now available in immersive 3D Surround.
A captivating audio collection capturing the sounds of a 20th-century barge moving along the Seine River in France. This sound bank offers a variety of authentic recordings, perfect for content creators, musicians, and sound designers looking to add a realistic touch to their projects. You will find recordings of the barge’s engines, bells, mechanisms, and levers, as well as hull creaks. The river soundscapes, including bird songs and water lapping, are also included.
All recordings were made with a Zoom F6 recorder, equipped with two EM272Z1 cardioid capsules, ensuring optimal audio quality. This sound bank can be used to enhance music, audiovisual post-production, content creation, and sound design.
The modern, civilized man has pretty much lost it’s natural connection to mother Earth. We live in cities, man-made spaces basically our entire live and are constant listening to the soundscape of Anthrophony. In the SOUND OF NATURE SERIES, it is all about the sound of Nature. I try to capture the sound of natural environments, biotopes, wildlife and different natural materials. Great care is benign given to capture those songs as pure and clean as possible, free from man made noises. I’m constantly pushing the boundaries to deliver the most authentic and expressive nature recordings.
This Sound Pack is part of the Sounds Of Nature Series by Systematic Sound. Flowing Water 01 features a great variety of unique sounds of water flows recorded in natural creeks & rivers with characteristic topographies. You will find close, medium and far perspective recordings and anything from quiet creeks to churning rapids with all their fallen tree trunks and stones that swirl up the water. Additionally you find the sound of small streams, calm lake shores and rushing waterfalls. This collection is the perfect tool for natural & dynamic ambience construction.
Spatial Countryside is an immersive collection of audio ambiences for cinema, VR, videogames and any audiovisual or creative purposes.
The audios provided in this library are high quality recordings with Zoom H2n recorder in Spatial Audio mode, horizontal-only ambisonic alike mic layout stored in an AmbiX format. W, X, Y channels of AmbiX provide immersive audio through the horizontal plane and they allow to decode the recording into Mono, Stereo, Binaural, Quad, 5.0, 5.1, 7.1 and more layouts with dedicated Ambisonic processors. Z channel is empty.
The library comes with 5.0 and Stereo version of the AmbiX original recordings.
Now UCS Compliant!
Several waterfalls and rivers recorded in the Vosges Mountains in France.
It tooks place in three different location: Cascade Charlemagne, Pont des Fées, Saut des Cuves.
For almost every place, several microphones placements were used at close, medium and far distance.
In addition to the 2 stereo microphone pairs, a hydrophone track is also available to allow you to modulate the low end and to add more movement.
43 locations from various perspectives.
STREAM / RIVER & WATERFALL features WATER MOVEMENT from JAPAN and NEW ZEALAND.
Each STREAM / RIVER has unique flows, and the various terrains produce distinctive sounds, WATERFALLS from small to medium add a natural feeling.
In addition, this library also features places where SPRING WATER GUSHES, a huge ELECTRIC WATER PUMP from New Zealand, and more.
15GB / 88.WAV FILES TOTAL
Recorded @ 24 bit 96 kHz / ORTF, SPACED OMNI, XY and carefully edited.
SOUNDS OF FLOWING WATER
Creating this library we travelled to many secluded places to capture the pure sounds of flowing water: gently gurgling springs and small streams in deep forests, calm rivers between rocks or fields and thundering waterfalls splashing down mountains. Bring your projects to life by using, layering and transforming our water sounds in a creative way. Streams and rivers are an important part of our world and they form a big part of our aural experiences. Large rivers may flow majestically quiet, but other aqueous entities produce a lot of interesting sounds: they bloop, splash, spray, sprinkle, burble, roar, rumble, dribble, drip and drizzle. Every stream sounds different and mostly the variations consist of small, subtle changes.
DESIGN YOUR OWN WATER SOUNDS
Create all kinds of flowing water, layer waterfalls into a loud roaring mass or design the pure and gentle sound of a fresh spring.
Included are 120 unique sound effects, all carefully metadata tagged and seamlessly loopable to give you the highest possible comfort.
This library covers a wide range of flowing waters. From the gentle bubbling of small mountain streams to the terrifying roar of gigantic waterfalls.
The extensive collection includes 125 tracks with a total length of approximately 99 minutes, recorded in more than 10 locations across Austria and Slovenia.
Microphone setup:
Suburbs of Chicago: Lagoon is the second installment in the Suburbs of Chicago Series. This package contains ambiences from a suburban lagoon. There is no shortage of bird chirps, leaves and grass rustling in the wind, and bike pass bys. Canoe Paddling, both distant and close, can be heard as one of the outdoor activities. As in any suburb, there are distant cars and distant planes. There is also 20 minutes of various car passes on a side road. 18 files wrap up this small package and over 300+ sounds for a duration of over 2 hours, and exported at 48kHz, 24 Bit! All files are metadata tagged and updated using the Universal Category System in Soundminer, Basehead, and Soundly.
Summer Mountains is a collection of nature sounds captured during several trips in 2017 and 2018.
This library has been fully recorded at high altitude (over 2000m and more) in the heart of the French Alps in places such as the Vanoise National Park and the Natural Reserves of Aiguilles Rouges, Passy, Carlaveyron and Vallon de Bérard.
This collection provides more than 2 hours of high quality recordings such as alpines pastures ambiences, forests, wind, streams and waterfalls as well as herds of sheep or cows, birds and distant marmots, all without any human sounds.
All recorded in 24 bit / 96 kHz and fully tagged with metadatas, Summer Mountains should provide you the essentials of a mountain journey.
Gear Used: DPA4060 stereo set powered by a Sound Devices 702
We recorded everything you would expect from such a place: extremely quiet room tones with various levels of rumble, water dripping sounds of many densities, at various distances, howling and whistling winds, all sorts of underground water streams, plus a terrific metal door, phantom-like distant voices, and a few rock falls.
The Cave contains more than 43GB / 206 Files.
WHAT’S INSIDE
All files are 24Bit/192kHz WAV Surround / LCR / Mono files & 24Bit/96kHz Stereo Version files.
All meticulously embedded with Soundminer & UCS Metadata.
INCLUDED SOUNDS – KEYWORDS
WATER, WATER DRIPPING, WATERFALL, WATER LAPPING, CASCADE, RIVER, UNDERGROUND AMBIANCES, CAVE, ROOM TONES, RUMBLE, WINDS, AIRFLOW, HOWLING, WHISTLING, METAL DOOR, ROCK FALLS
101 effects of seascapes and some river and waterfall sounds. From the gentle waves on a sandy beach to the crash of breakers on the Pacific shore.
“The Zinc Mines” is a collection of high quality ambient and close up recordings from within the various levels, drifts, shafts and caverns of the underground Zinc Mines located in Grue, Norway.
Specifically these recordings were done in the mines called “Nysetergruvene”. The atmosphere inside the mountain mine is cold and wet, with water dripping between levels, trickling down shafts and dripping in large pools.
The recordings vary from extremely quiet and sparse dripping to gushing intense waterfalls with varying distance to source.
‘Tropical Ambiences’ delivers 52 pure, immersive tropical soundscapes, meticulously collected from each subset of tropical ecosystems in extremely-bio-diverse Central America.
It includes rainforests (jungle), cloudforests, dry forests, mangroves, and many other settings.
Recorded at different times of the day and spanning diverse range of weather conditions with various scale of rain and wind forces, this sound pack provides access to a complete array of wild tropical soundscapes.
Each of the 52 files is a careful selection of 1 to 4 minutes high-quality binaural stereo ambiences.
It has been precisely produced so that each track is able to LOOP in a seamless manner allowing for the ambience to last as long as desired, and the files are embedded with metadata (Soundminer/iXML/XMP/BWAV/ID3). The metadata descriptions provide the identification of many animal species from the recordings.
In total, this library delivers more than 2 hours of pristine, tropical ambiences.
WINTER WITHOUT THE FILTER
SEASONS OF EARTH – EUROPEAN WINTER: AUTHENTIC SNOW & ICE SOUND EFFECTS
Step into a world of pure winter ambience where every snow sound, creaking tree and distant wolf howl is captured exactly as it happened. European Winter gives you ice sound effects and snow sound effects that aren’t dressed up or sweetened – they’re field recordings, honest and raw. Perfect for when your scenes need authentic winter sounds that feel truly alive.
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UK Small Town Bundle contains five libraries with more than 124 sounds including ambiences, room tones, vehicles and unique sounds captured in northern England. With a total runtime of 328 mins and a file size of 10.68 GB, the libraries cover a variety of areas like canals, housing estates, shops, markets, traffic, parks, forests, industrial estates, interiors and much, much more.
A collection of ambiences from underneath every railway bridge crossing the Thames in London. Most recordings are dynamic enough to allow for easy isolation of train sounds for use as an individual effect, with periods of quieter urban and suburban soundscapes in between – 2 kinds of library for the price of one, essentially.
All recordings made with a pair of DPA 4060s into a Tascam Dr-100mk3.
In the Nomad series we’ve captured a wide variety of locations and soundscapes in remote, hard-to-reach wilderness during a two month, 1,000-km thru hike trek across New Mexico state, Texas, Arizona and Utah following the Continental dive trail.
You’ll hear unique arid desert, deep canyon, wild river, mountain forest, desert silence, wild animals and a variety of New Mexico birds: raven, robin, turtle-dove, sparrow, hawk, coyote, prairie dog, etc….
In this collection you’ll find high quality audio recordings in ambisonic Ambix format with references pictures, detailed track sheet and a reaper session.
Bonus 1 : Outside impulse response audio files recorded with balloon explosion to complete the collection.
Bonus 2 : Audio files of city rumors and passing diesel trains encountered along the way.
Field recording locations : Monument Valley, Carlsbad cavern, Crazy Cook monument, Gila wilderness, Petrified forest national park, Bear Ears national monument and many other mythical wild places.
We used a Sound Device MixPre6 + ZOOM F6 Field Recorder and Reynolds 1st order Ambisonic mics.
Lakes, rivers, oceans and waterfalls. Whether you’re looking for a gentle lapping river, dense rapids, calm lake waves lapping on the beach, giant crashing waves, tumultuous waves rolling through rocky shores, or jungle waterfalls — we have you covered.
Explore US waterways with Soundopolis from Michigan to Virginia Beach to Hawaii, and back again!
Dam sound recordings from several positions: top, bottom, side, and a view from top to bottom.
The points are recorded from various distances: close, 1m, 2m, 5m, 10m, and 15m.
Consist of close-up water splashing, rippling surges, gurgling and falling streams from the concrete blocks, and moderately distant recordings from a dam.
540 files • 24 Bit / 96 kHz • 4.59Go • 2hrs11:16 mins
Water Experiment is a library regrouping several water recording sessions. This bundle contains many different methods to manipulate and to hear water. In this first bundle of a series, you can hear Water waves ambiance and flap, river stream and different water flow perspectives; Bubbles of water in movement with objects manipulation or only with hand; Blowing and boiling water bubbles; Different sizes of water splash movements and dripping; Spraying water sounds from a water hose, bottle and pump bottle; And movements, splash, flow, and bubbles from underwater recordings. The bundle includes 540 files recorded at 96khz – 24bits.
A great tool to have for any audio production.
Each sound has been meticulously edited individually. All files were recorded and are delivered in 24bit 96kHz Broadcast Wave files, all embedded with metadata information for easy import and ensure fast and easy workflow.
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