High Desert Ambiences 5: Crickets

• In High Desert Ambiences 5: Crickets, I revisit the place where my field recording journey started: West Texas. The heavy summer rains spawned a lively cricket chorus unlike anything I had heard before. Hear 10,000 cricket chirps weave into lush blankets of sound that gently float through mountain valleys. Hear the slowly sagging pitch of lush choruses as nighttime temperatures fall. Hear the joyous chirps of countless crickets that will make you want to take out your tent immediately.
• This library offers you an extensive collection of crickets from a unique slice of time in the life of a desert. Hear the rejuvenating summer rains fill a desolate desert with 10,000 tiny violins.

2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased to offset my field recording travel for this library.

KEY FEATURES:
• 27 cricket choruses containing only crickets. Some of these 27 tracks also include bats in ultrasonic frequencies or other occasional ultrasonic insect sounds.
• 4 clips of crickets with Western Screech-Owls or Great Horned Owls.
• All tracks are 3-6 minutes in length
• Recordings from 4 nights in 15 different locations.
• Recordings are ordered by night, then location, then part. Listen to nights and parts in sequence to hear the pitch drop with the falling temperature.
• This is a library of cricket choruses. Individual crickets can be hear as part of a chorus, but this library does not contain solo, single crickets.
• The pitch shifted demo is the normal demo at quarter speed. Please note: the “Pitch Shifted Demo” was made to demonstrate the potential of the sounds in this library. However, HDA5: Crickets does NOT include pitch shifted sounds, only mastered field recordings.
TEXT MARKERS:
• Named markers are included in each file to help find interesting events in an otherwise uniform waveform.
• Markers are included in the Soundminer and BWAV description fields starting with the prefix “Marker Text”.
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Wilderness Crickets

High-quality nature ambiance of wild landscapes in both eastern and western Oregon – with a focus on different cricket sounds by day and night.

Types range from hot desert heat to cold windy forest nights, to vibrant riversides. Many tracks are quite long – several minutes or longer.  A number catch crickets quite close to the recorder

South African cricket sounds

South African Crickets

Get an extensive collection of South African nature ambiences (average duration: 5 minutes), from places like the Mhkaya Jungle, Kruger National Park, The Wetlands and more. Locations include jungles, swamps, ponds, rivers and towns. Featuring all sorts of crickets and cicades, of course – but there’s also plenty of other South African wildlife, like mosquitoes, birds, fighting baboons and snorting hippos The sounds were captured during various times of both day and night and give you a huge variety of ambiences to work with.

grasshopper sound effects

Grasshoppers, Crickets and Katydids – 4 users

Get some real insect sounds with this SFX library – almost entirely recorded in and around one large grassy meadow throughout various times of day and season. GRASSHOPPERS, CRICKETS & KATYDIDS is a small collection of 14 crisp recordings focusing on 12 insect species commonly found in open fields and forested areas of northeastern North-America. Each sound is 2:30 mins or longer (96kHz/24bit), for a total of 38+ mins of sound.

Features insects such as:

Allard's Ground Cricket • Carolina Ground Cricket • Northern Bush Katydid • Oblong-Winged Katydid • Red-Legged Grasshopper • Roesel's Katydid • Short-Winged Meadow Katydid • Slender Meadow Katydid • Snowy Tree Cricket • Spring Field Cricket • Sword-Bearing Conehead Katydid

– as well as multiple mixed choruses of various sizes!

grasshopper sound effects

Grasshoppers, Crickets and Katydids

Get some real insect sounds with this SFX library – almost entirely recorded in and around one large grassy meadow throughout various times of day and season. GRASSHOPPERS, CRICKETS & KATYDIDS is a small collection of 14 crisp recordings focusing on 12 insect species commonly found in open fields and forested areas of northeastern North-America. Each sound is 2:30 mins or longer (96kHz/24bit), for a total of 38+ mins of sound.

Features insects such as:

Allard's Ground Cricket • Carolina Ground Cricket • Northern Bush Katydid • Oblong-Winged Katydid • Red-Legged Grasshopper • Roesel's Katydid • Short-Winged Meadow Katydid • Slender Meadow Katydid • Snowy Tree Cricket • Spring Field Cricket • Sword-Bearing Conehead Katydid

– as well as multiple mixed choruses of various sizes!

South African cricket sounds

South African Crickets – 4 users

Get an extensive collection of South African nature ambiences (average duration: 5 minutes), from places like the Mhkaya Jungle, Kruger National Park, The Wetlands and more. Locations include jungles, swamps, ponds, rivers and towns. Featuring all sorts of crickets and cicades, of course – but there’s also plenty of other South African wildlife, like mosquitoes, birds, fighting baboons and snorting hippos The sounds were captured during various times of both day and night and give you a huge variety of ambiences to work with.

Shogun Series Sound Design

Posted by Jennifer Walden in Television sound

Exploring Shōgun’s Superb Sound Design — with sound supervisor Brian Armstrong

Sound supervisor Brian Armstrong delivers an authentic soundscape for FX series ‘Shōgun.’ He talks about sonically transforming the Canadian location shoot into 17th-century Japan by de-geese-ing the dialogue and adding era-appropriate background sounds to set the scenes. He also discusses the sound team’s approach to capturing sounds on set, creating non-shingy sword sounds, designing the devastating earthquake sound, and much more!

Seasons of Earth European Summer

As Springs shifts to Summer, the bird choirs change to solitary signals and thunder rolls across the hills as the cicadas sing their farewells into the night and the wolves gather for their hunt.

The character of the EUROPEAN SUMMER focuses on capturing the spirit of Europe’s summer in stunning detail. The season in Europe expresses itself through its different and unique birds, wolves, insects, weather, and much more.

Now available in immersive 3D Surround.

What’s Inside


ANIMALS, CICADAS, BIRDS, BIRDSONGS, BATS, BREEZE, GEESE, CHIRPING, CONIFEROUS, CORVID, CRANE, CRICKETS, GRASSHOPPER, CROW, RAVEN, CUCKOO, DAWN, DECIDUOUS, DEER, DOVE, DUCK, DUSK, FOREST, GRASSLANDS, GUSTS, INSECTS, LAKE, LOON, DIVER, MEADOW, NIGHTJAR, OWL, RAIN, REEDS, RIVER, RUSTLING, SANDPIPER, SEAGULL, SNIPE, STREAM, SWAMP, CREAK, TREE, TRICKLE, THUNDER, STORM, VALLEY, WATERFALL, WAVES, WETLAND, WIND, WILD HORSE, WOLVES, WOODPECKER

SEASONS OF EARTH - EUROPEAN SUMMER | 3D Surround | Trailer