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Authentic animal sound effects, animal recordings and designed creature and monster sound effects.
Hello Creators!
Here’s my new pack: “Monster Sounds – Volume 01“
The approach for this pack was to create some disgusting and fearsome monster sounds so you can create cool experiences for your audience! In this pack there are: Attacks, Growls, Arachnid SFX, beasts SFX, demonic SFX, Hurt sounds, different type of monsters, Undead SFX, also I made some shorter monsters (more high-pith).
They can be used in different styles of video games or other media projects.
I hope you enjoy implementing this sounds in your project!
Making-Off
All this sounds were originally recorded by a voice actor. I procesed all those voices and turned them into monsters with tools like: PitchMonster, Dehumaniser 2, MTransformer.
Costa Del Sol – Crickets And Dogs contains well edited and well recorded sounds for your projects! Recorded on a Sound Devices MixPre6II and a matched pair of lom BasicUchos. One file is recorded with a Sanken CO100K. Recorded at 192/24.
The California Grassland Bundle includes two Libraries, California Grassland Abandoned and California Grassland Wildlife. The recordings from this library mostly took place in The Carrizo Plain, an open expanse of Grassland located West of the Mojave Desert in California’s Central Valley.
California Grassland Abandoned recordings feature dilapidated remnants of old ranches, water tanks, barns, metal sheds, farm machinery, and corrals. Many of these were far off the beaten path and a number of miles were logged along dirt and gravel roads. The focus was to record things that had a lot of character. Also included are calm, medium, and higher winds in metal sheds, small houses, barns, tall dry grass, and in some exterior locations out in the Plain.
California Grassland Wildlife features of over 30 different species of birds that can be found in Grassland, Plains, and High Desert Environments. Also included are a few recordings of Coyotes, Grasshoppers, Insects, along with some quieter ambiences.
At first glance, one wouldn’t think there’d be much wildlife out in such a vast remote area, but I discovered the Grassland has quite a bit going on. A lot of the old structures, along with the few areas with trees become the resting place and shelters for birds and animals. Over a span of two years I made a number of trips to this location trying to capture as much of the local wildlife as I could.
More info on both libraries can be found by clicking on the Individual links.
Unleash the fury of Our Dogs Sound Effects collection
High-quality capture the intense emotions and reactions of real guard dogs Growls, snarls and barks
Add realism to your animal and creatures from horror movies to animal dramas
Recorded and exported in 32-bit/192kHz
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – MEERKAT
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – WATUSI
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – WHITE HANDED GIBBON
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – CROWING ROOSTER
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – GOAT & SHEEP
“The Animal Symphony – Lovebird” features a total of 118 high-quality audio recordings, each containing multiple sounds recorded (between 3 and 6 variations) with exceptional quality. Using two high-end microphones, the Sennheiser MKH 8050 and an EM258 capsule microphone, along with a Zoom H6 recorder to capture the stereo sound, we have managed to capture every detail and nuance of these natural sounds. Each recording was made at a 24-bit 192kHz and 96kHz sample rate, ensuring professional clarity and depth.
This collection offers a wide variety of lovebird sounds, perfect for adding realism and authenticity to your projects. With multiple takes and variations, including long calls, short calls and squawks, this library provides the flexibility needed for any type of production requiring these types of animal sounds.
All recordings have been carefully edited to remove any external noise, such as wind or people. Furthermore, thanks to the ultrasonic microphones used it is guaranteed that anyone who decides to lower the tone will continue to obtain frequency richness.
Ideal Applications:
– Video games: Add realism and depth to the natural environments of your games.
– Cinema and Documentaries: Enrichment of the audiovisual product with authentic sounds.
– Educational Applications: Use these sounds in educational projects to teach about wildlife and animal behavior.
– Multimedia Projects: Ideal for any project that seeks to enrich the user’s listening experience.
Technical details:
– Total Audios: 118
– Format: 192 kHz – 96 kHz/24 bit
– Equipment Used: Zoom F6 with Sennheiser MKH 8050 microphone and EM258 capsule microphone, plus a Zoom H6 recorder for stereo.
License:
The sounds from “The Animal Symphony – Lovebird” are available under a royalty-free license, allowing their use in multiple projects without additional costs or royalties. You can use these sound effects in your games, trailers, Kickstarter campaigns, and more, as many times as you like.
Embark on an immersive journey through the wonders of nature with Wilderness Nature Loops. This game ambience loop sound library features 200 meticulously crafted ambient audio loops, capturing the essence of serene landscapes from Germany, Greece, and the USA. From the gentle rustle of leaves to the symphony of birdsong, each sound is expertly edited to enhance your project’s atmosphere. With organized folders covering forests, oceans, and mountains, creating lifelike backgrounds for your games or films has never been easier. Plus, with UCS compliance and Soundminer metadata, finding the perfect sound is effortless. Let Wilderness Nature Loops elevate your creations with the soothing sounds of the wilderness.
Every now and then an opportunity comes along that you just cannot pass up. The chance of going on a recording trip to Zimbabwe alongside someone who knows the area and many locals was exactly that.
I traveled to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe in August of 2023. As the dry season and the coldest time of year was still in full swing, the land is dry, and animals travel long distances to reach watering holes and rivers to drink. With the trees dried out and few insects in sight, the soundscape across the steppes is eerily quiet day and night, save for the large number of helicopters flying tourists around during the day.
Not only was it an utterly inspiring experience just taking in the beauty of nature and the warm spirits of the people I have met, it was also an exercise in navigating the challenges of anthropogenic noise becoming more prevalent around the globe. With this time of year being the height of tourism season, capturing the sounds of nature meant having to find pockets of silence to avoid the sounds of helicopters, safari trucks, and trains carrying coal.
By resorting to drop rigs, overnight recording, and getting up before sunrise to record, I captured a wide range of birds, mammals, and ambiences that will let you recreate the soundscapes of this vivid nation in your projects. Of course, I also had to capture the incredible majestic power of Victoria Falls’ namesake waterfalls, both in stereo and Ambisonic format.
A portion of the sales proceeds for this library will be donated to local conservation efforts including Painted Dog Rescue, African Wildlife Foundation, as well as CARE‘s efforts in providing food and nutrition security, climate resilient livelihoods, economic development, education, and water.
Read my Article about the Trip here!
Indian forest tribe percussion, rainforest sourced textures & more!
NSL – Everyday Life is a 216 Files Sound-Pack essentially composed of Backgrounds Sounds. You will have access to many samples: Forests, Cities, Transports, Amusements Park, Abandoned Places, Mountains, Room Tones and many more sounds…
In the Nomad series we’ve captured a wide variety of locations and soundscapes in remote, hard-to-reach wilderness during a six-month, 3,000-km thru hike trek across New Zealand following the Te Ararora trail ,
You’ll hear unique exotic birds and be immersed in soundscapes between the Tasman Sea and the Pacific Ocean, in the heart of primeval jungle, in the lost alpine mountains of the Richmond Range and the many Scottish-like pastures.
In this collection you’ll find rare high quality audio recordings in ambisonic Ambix format with references pictures, detailed track sheet and GPS location on both North and South Island.
Get our amazing 3D Pacific Ambience Libraries 3D Pacific Tropical Island, 3D Pacific Waves, 3D Pacific Island Winds, 3D Volcano Eruptions in ONE Bundel with 171 unique sound Files. In times of global change it’s nearly impossible to hear places without human sounds. The majestic and old rainforests on the tropical south pacific islands creates an amazing soundscape. We recorded these soundscapes with a variety of organic sounds like exotic birds and animals, light and heavy tropical rain, wind blowing through trees, calm rivers, waterfalls and huge volcanic eruptions of the Yasur volcano on Tanna Island. We also covered day and night moods. Our microphone setup is the amazing immersive Schoeps ORTF3D System powered by the precise preamps of the Sonosax R4+ and AD8+. These systems allow us to record the incredible soundscapes of the south pacific rainforests in the most iconic way.
The Library include sounds like
AMBIENCE, TROPICAL, WATER, RAINFOREST, RAIN, EXOTIC, ANIMALS, BIRDS, INSECTS, WIND, VEGETATION, VOLCANO, RIVER, WATER, WAVES, SHORELINE, COAST, SURF, BEACH, OCEAN ROAR, GUST, BREEZE, VEGETATION, TONAL, PLAIN, VOLCANO, ERUPTIONS, EXPLOSIONS, CRISP, MUFFLED, CLOSE, DISTANT, WIND, PLAIN
Key Features 3D Pacific Tropical Island
Key Features 3D Pacific Island Waves:
Key Features 3D Pacific Island Winds:
Key Features 3D Volcano Eruptions:
Essential Sound Urban Background Ambience & Traffic 2 Pack Bundle
This bundle contains 80 tracks of clear and dynamic field recordings. A select collection of captured background ambiences from various locations around Southern California and Los Angeles.
Some of the locations include; West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Pasadena, Ojai, Joshua Tree, San Bernadino Forest, and much more.
There is a good mix of interior and exterior files, as well as day and night versions. This includes; light and heavy traffic, near and distant. Rainy wet traffic. Room-tone versions with light/heavy traffic. Quiet desert bird and cicada ambience, as well as active park and street ambiences.
There is a little bit of everything, and a great way to bolster your existing library.
All material has embedded Metadata. Also, where there are notable moments that stick out in a track, there are meta-tags for easy spot viewing in programs that support meta-tags, such as Soundminer.
Recordings were captured at 24bit/96Khz, with Zoom F6, H6 recorders, with Rode Shotguns and Stereo mic setups. All files are cleaned up and mastered in Pro Tools, with light compression and the necessary EQ to ensure clarity is preserved without sounding muddy.
A collection of sounds from Spain’s renowned Jerez Horse Fair.
Key Features:
Natural soundscapes in Ambisonic recorded in Spring and early Summer. Forests, meadows, lake, river, streams ambiences. Long recordings. Birds, wind, background wind in trees, branches, wind in grass… Spring ambiences with intense birds song. Immersive recordings.
Recorded with Sennheiser Ambeo VR mic (Rycote blimps) and Sound Devices recorder
(all ch. matched with noise generator). Metadata tagged with info. Mic position is upright.
RAW files: B-format, Ambix (4 ch.) and Binaural stereo (preview is in Binaural stereo).
Check the sound list for add. info.
A mini library of Maldivian fruit bats (aka flying foxes) vocalising and screaming their soul out during the early hours. The sound is a very distinct scream captured in 96kHz mostly with Sennheiser 8060 shotgun fully extended and pointed at the source. In the SoundCloud preview, you can hear sound pitched down by 3 octaves, which is quite terrifying.
The recording was done on an island, few takes have background noise of the ocean, which was lowered by applying EQ and RX9. These are included as separate files along with the originals.
This collection includes some unique sounds from Penny, a cockapoo. From barks to whines, whimpers and grunts, Penny provided an outstanding canine performance. Being a puppy, her mood fluctuates from excitement to anxiety, but rest assured – she thoroughly enjoyed the recording session and was rewarded with plenty of treats.
All her dog noises were recorded at 192kHz 24bit, making them perfect for creative sound design.
This library is UCS-compliant.
Recording at Thousand Island Lake in Zhejiang Province, China. Also known as Qiandao Lake, this beautiful location consists of 1078 islands of all different shapes and sizes which naturally brings with it enchanting nature sounds! With a living and breathing landscape, this area is home to many insects, wildlife, natural water sources and remote villages.
Featuring recordings of countryside roads, large groups of insects and cicadas, Chinese town chatter, Chinese street sellers and old Chinese boats this pack captures the essence of Thousand Island lake. Includes 25 audio tracks all recorded at 24bit / 44.1 kHz with UCS metadata.
Humanoid Creatures is a monster sound FX library featuring 14 versatile creature types – all designed & styled for video games. Inside you’ll find over 340+ distinctive, immersive, game optimized humanoid creature sound effects, vocalizations, attacks, death sounds, pain hits, special SFX and more. The library houses a variety of sound sets with multiple variations of each sound type. Creating compelling cinematic game characters and outstanding gameplay audio experiences has never been easier.
Bring your creature designs to life with a ferocious edge using the beastly power of Wildlife Collection: Leopards. Containing more than 200 exotic leopard sound effects, this library delivers a wide variety of recordings that are ready for naturalistic use or manipulation for sound design applications.
Featuring the sounds of both spotted leopards and black leopards, recordist and sound designer Chris Diebold (Spider-Man: Homecoming, Transformers: The Last Knight) captured this collection at 24-bit/192kHz using multiple microphones, including the Sanken CO-100K, which captures and maintains up to 100kHz (rather than 20kHz from other microphones), making these natural and characteristic leopard recordings ripe for pitch processing and control over your sound design. Use the high-quality recordings of monstrous growls, threatening snarls, and ornery groans to design your beasts, creatures, and more.
In addition to the raw recordings, this collection also contains designed and “hyped” sounds, ready to drag-and-drop directly into your projects. Each sound file is embedded with rich, descriptive metadata for fast, intuitive search results to help increase efficiency and sustain creativity. Wildlife Collection: Leopards is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Pro.
This diverse collection delivers 200 authentic sound effects of rodents, reptiles, and other small creatures in natural environments. From the quick rustles and high-pitched squeaks of rats, mice, and guinea pigs to the distinctive hisses, splashes, and movements of snakes, crocodiles, frogs, and more, Rodents & Reptiles Vol 2 captures a wide range of detailed wildlife recordings.
Bring the jungle to life with this expansive collection of 200 authentic primate sound effects. From piercing screams and playful chatter to guttural grunts, barks, and subtle movement sounds, Monkeys Vol 2 delivers a rich variety of vocalizations and behaviors from monkeys, apes, and other primates. Each recording is clean, natural, and captured in multiple perspectives—close, medium, and distant—giving you maximum flexibility in post-production. Delivered in high-quality WAV format, this library is ideal for film, television, games, podcasts, educational projects, and any production that needs true-to-life wildlife audio. All sounds are royalty-free for unlimited creative use.
This collection explores New Zealand through three unique sound libraries.
“Wilderness” transports you to the diverse ecosystems of both North and South Island, from alpine forests to wetlands and coastal shores, filled with bird calls and wildlife sounds.
“Geothermal” captures the intense volcanic activity in North Island, with geysers, bubbling mud, hot springs and steam vents.
“Subterranean” explores the underground world, with ambiences of caves, abandoned mines, and tunnels, revealing the rich echoes and shifting textures of these hidden spaces.
With almost 10 hours of recordings, this bundle offers a rich palette of sounds that will bring your project to life.
Cover photo by Harry Bradley.
Stereo and Surround
Recorded with double mid-side and AB microphone setups, this library is delivered in 5.0 (L/R/C/Ls/Rs) and Stereo.
92 Surround files + 280 Stereo files
Gear used
Zoom F3 • Zoom F6 • Usi Pro • MKH30 • MKH8040
Metadata
This sound library is UCS compliant and comes with fully embedded metadata compatible with Soundly, Soundminer and Basehead.
Recorded across multiple trips to Hong Kong, this pack captures the dynamic energy and contrasts of one of Asia’s most vibrant regions. From the bustling streets of Kowloon to the serene peaks of Dragon’s Back, the sounds of Mong Kok’s fishing villages to the quiet shores of Lamma Island.This collection offers an authentic sonic journey through the region.
Featuring recordings of bustling urban streets, metro rides, market vendors, city ambiences, crashing beach waves, and atmospheric landscapes, this pack highlights the diverse and ever-changing soundscape of Hong Kong.
Includes 44 audio tracks all recorded at 24bit / 96 kHz. Captured using a Tascam DR-40 for crisp, high-quality sound.
Looking for animal sound effects for your projects? The independent sound effects community has recorded a huge number of original animal sound libraries, covering everything from tiny chirps to earth-shattering roars.
From animal sounds heard in Antarctica’s freezing cold to the wildlife of the scorching hot deserts of Namibia, the sound libraries have been recorded across the globe - giving you unique atmospheric ambiences, as well as rare and expressive recordings of individual animals.
So whether you need sounds of domestic animals like cats, dogs, horses and cows, or wild animals like lions, tigers, bears and wolves, you'll find them in these sound libraries. You can also find sounds from exotic and endangered species like pandas, gorillas, elephants and rhinos, or discover the sounds of birds, reptiles, amphibians and insects.
The sounds are highly useful for both films, documentaries and game projects, and can be used to create realistic or designed sonic environments, as well as for monsters, beasts, fantastical creatures, aliens and so much more.
Bark, bleat, buzz, caw, chirp, croak, growl, hoot, hiss, meow, moo, neigh, oink, quack, rattle, ribbit, roar, snarl, squeak, tweet
Q: What are some of the most popular animal sounds?
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Q: How do I download the animal sounds?
A: Add the sound libraries you're interested in to the cart, and complete the checkout - you can then instantly download your chosen animal SFX.
Q: Are these sounds royalty free?
A: Yes, they're royalty free, and no attribution is required
Q: Who has recorded and designed these sounds?
A: They're created by the independent sound community, and have been recorded by some of the best recordists and sound designers on the planet. There's a constant flow of brand new sound libraries coming from the community, giving you the absolutely freshest sound effects available anywhere. Oh, and by getting sounds from the community, you support individual sound designers and sound recordists – that’s a pretty cool thing too.
Spell Variations Vol. 4 marks the grand finale of our magical sound series, delivering a diverse and powerful collection of spell effects. Inside, you’ll find summonings, blood spells, petrifications, healing spells, dark incantations, and much more!
This volume includes 255 high-quality sound effects, organized into 27 distinct spell types, each with multiple variations (3 to 17) to ensure no spell sounds the same, even when reused across your project.
Each spell type is carefully named and sorted into individual folders, giving you intuitive navigation and maximum flexibility for magical scenes, game effects, or cinematic transitions.
Recorded, edited, and mastered in 192 kHz / 24-bit, these sounds deliver exceptional clarity and full adaptability for pitching, layering, or creative processing.
A must-have library for professional sound designers seeking drag-and-drop magical sounds for video games, trailers, animations, or any audiovisual production.
More about the pack
– Intuitive file naming
– All you’ll ever need regarding magical sounds [Use them again & again
Use the sound effects over and over, in any of your projects or productions, forever without any additional fees or royalties. Use the SFX in your game, in your trailer, in a Kickstarter campaign, wherever you need to, as much as you want to.
– Totally mono compatibility
– All sounds have several variations.
– Use your imagination and feel free to use any sound for a creature other than the one described, remember that the world of sound is totally subjective.
– For any questions or problems: [email protected]
Features
– 255 spell sounds
– Number of Audio Waves: 255
– Format: 192KHz / 24 bits
– Win/Mac: Yes
– Minutes of audio provided: 19:21
Audiobeast is proud to present our second sample library; the only library of its kind to focus entirely on weapons being fired in urban environments! For this recording session we were given access to a military training site known as a FIBUA (Fighting In Built-Up Area) consisting of streets with a variety of buildings, vehicles, and exclusive permission to fire weapons in several locations. Pictures of the street and gas station locations and firing points are included.
The aim of this library was to offer the slapback type tails needed for gun sound design for convincing city scenes in film, games and tv production. It’s always been difficult to find gun recordings in a city environment so we hope this library helps sound people everywhere.
This Library contains over 3 GBs of weapons being fired in multiple urban environments, a street, outside of a gas station and inside of a tower block. 218 WAV files of single shots, bursts and many with multiple takes, all recorded at 96 khz 24 bit, with heaps of information on microphones used and distance from the firearms.
Various distances were captured, from the DPA4062 on the guns themselves, to the distant other end of the street 100 metres away. To add, some mics were positioned around corners, a nearby graveyard, through walls and in armored vehicles to capture a variety of perspectives.
Minimal cleanup on the recordings was carried out very carefully so as not to introduce any artefacts into the recordings, they are presented as raw as possible.
If you need a wider selection of interior gun recordings please check out our first library – The London Warehouse Firearms library
MAGIC – ALCHEMY is a professional sound effects library built from real chemical reactions and elemental forces. It delivers short, character-rich magic sound effects perfect for spellcasting, magical UI design, and fantasy storytelling. Designed to sit cleanly in a mix and shimmer with personality, these spell sounds are ideal for games, trailers, audio dramas and more. Real reactions, recorded with obsessive detail.
No digital fakery here. Every sound in MAGIC – ALCHEMY began as a live experiment — alcohol burning in jars, butane growling through pipes, fuses igniting, water swirling in glass. These are true-to-life textures, captured in a lab-grade recording setup. The result? Magical sound with depth, realism, and spark..
These are not long, cinematic flourishes. This library is about immediacy — short, dry, punchy magic effects that are easy to slot into your project. Ideal for game asset design, magical feedback sounds, and trailer moments where clarity counts.
Need a healing chime, a cursed hex, or something more ambiguous? The Designed section is grouped into Holy, Cursed, and Neutral categories — giving you emotional options that match your scene’s intent, whether you’re crafting a fantasy RPG or a subtle magical interaction.
Whether you’re layering magic for a fantasy film, adding interactive audio to a mobile game, or creating rich textures for audiobooks or theatre, MAGIC – ALCHEMY fits right in. It’s mix-ready, flexible, and full of sonic character.
Florida Thunder by Eric Berzins contains 111 distinct wav files with over 200 dry thunderclaps and over 300 thunderclaps with rain. All files were recorded in the US state of Florida between 2021 and 2025. Florida has more lightning strikes than any other U.S. state! All files have been meticulously edited and cleaned, and have embedded UCS-compliant Soundminer metadata.
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