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Authentic animal sound effects, animal recordings and designed creature and monster sound effects.
Discover a versatile sound library crafted for filmmakers, game developers, and sound designers seeking to elevate their projects with realistic animal foley. From movies to games and even music, this comprehensive collection offers a diverse range of recordings for your creative endeavors.
Immerse your audience in the world of creatures with an extensive assortment of sounds, including the thunderous footsteps of large animals, the distinct cadence of various hooves, the nimble scurrying of monkey feet, and the delicate padding of canine and feline paws. You’ll also find recordings of menacing talons and much more.
To ensure authenticity, the recordings feature a variety of surfaces, capturing the unique textures and nuances of each step. Explore the sounds of animals traversing concrete, dirt, grass, rocks, and wood, adding depth and realism to your projects.
Beyond footsteps, this library includes additional elements to bring your animal characters to life. Enhance the audio experience with the subtle jingle of dog tags, the creaking of a saddle, the rustling of fur, and the impact of a tackle. These meticulously recorded movements will infuse your creations with a sense of dynamism and authenticity.
Unleash the power of sound and captivate your audience with this all-encompassing animal foley library. Whether you’re working on a film, game, or any sound design project, this collection is a must-have resource for breathing life into your creations.
There are 705 audio files that are meta tagged and ready for your next project. The left channel is a Senheiser 416 and the right channel is a Neuman KMR81 both mics are going through a GML mic pre.
Natural soundscapes in Ambisonic recorded in Winter, early Spring and Spring. Forests, meadows, lake, river, streams ambiences. Long recordings. Birds, wind, background wind in trees, branches, dead grass… Winter (quiet) ambiences. 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.
When the sun goes down the Forest comes alive. Well, at least a very different version of it. It’s a pretty amazing place, with the various rhythms and wildlife going about their business. FOREST NIGHT is 27 Files and includes the dense sounds of crickets all throughout the night and into dawn. You’ll hear birds making their nests, Owls and Poorwills calling out to one another. The random dogs barking in the distance, the cacophony of Tree Frogs.
Most of this library came out of a few different over night recordings in the Angeles Forest. I taped a couple of mics to an Oak and Pine Tree and hoped for the best. There’s also a few others from when I was feeling a bit more adventurous and decided to roam around in the dark.
Detailed metadata and markers have been provided so they’re easily searchable. Checking out the Metadata Sheet will give one a better idea of everything else that’s in the library.
Anyone looking for more in depth Forest Sounds that include Rivers, Lakes, along with the Forest during the day can pick up FOREST LIFE. That comes with multiple libraries at a bit of a discount along with the bonus mini library FOOTHILLS.
Night Birds
Common Poorwill, Great Horned Owl, Whiskered Screech-Owl, Western Screech-Owl.
The Gear
Sound Devices MixPre-6 II
Sony A10
Sony PCM D100
The Mics
Sennheiser MKH 8040
Clippy EM272
Line Audio CM4
LOM microUsi Pro
This library takes you on an acoustic journey to rainforests, beaches and rural areas of Costa Rica. Included are 73 recordings of tropical animals, such as insects, frogs, monkeys and birds, as well as recordings of the sea and rivers. The ambiences were captured at different times during day and night, in different weather conditions and in five different locations: Braulio Carrillo National Park, Cabo Matapolo (Osa Peninsula), Dos Brazos (Osa Peninsula), Cahuita and Puerto Viejo de Talamanca.
Recorded in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in the South Yunan province on the border of Myanmar and Laos. Home to 14 minorities including the Dai and the Han ethnic groups this pack features recordings of lush rainforests full of life and vegetation filled with wild elephants and an array of insects and monkeys. Contrasting, recordings of the city of Jinhong feature the largest night market in Asia and an array of Buddhist temples.
Featuring mountain and rainforest ambiances, cafe and city atmospheres, and ancient temple gongs this pack showcases the unique sounds of this distinctive region. Includes 20 audio tracks all recorded at 24bit / 96 kHz with UCS metadata.
In this library you will find recordings of outdoor environments captured at the Olhão dock and shipyard, such as workers washing, building and preparing boats.
These sounds are perfect for background sound design in movies, games, documentaries, art installations, etc…
These sounds were all recorded with the stereo microphone Audio-Technica BP4025.
After working these sounds in post production, this library comes with 10 incredible dock shipyard ambient sounds.
Psychedelic Cicadas Vol. 3 is the latest edition of our cicada ambiences produced in collaboration with César Rodriguez Pulido and Guile Martins.
A diverse collection of cicada species were recorded in Cerrado, Brazil for this library, yielding wild, weird and wonderful choruses. Add texture to your soundscapes and creations with these insects’ captivating tones, pitches and rhythms – along with the sounds of other local wildlife found in the valleys of Cerrado.
Recording by César Rodriguez Pulido and Guile Martins.
Our Audio Craftsmen have carefully edited each sound for maximum sonic clarity so that you can drop each sound directly into your project timeline and get down to work with minimal fuss.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 48kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Psychedelic Cicadas Vol. 2 is the second in our series of cicada ambiences produced in collaboration with César Rodriguez Pulido and Guile Martins.
A huge variety of cicada species were recorded in Cerrado, Brazil for this series. The creatures’ unique pitches, tones and rhythms combine to form strange, beautiful choruses ideal for affective soundscapes, atmosphere design and abstract creations. These recordings are further enriched with the sounds of Cerrado denizens; birds, oxen, dogs, crickets, frogs and insects were captured during thunder and rain storms, in the forest and by a river.
Recording by César Rodriguez Pulido and Guile Martins.
Our Audio Craftsmen have carefully edited each sound for maximum sonic clarity so that you can drop each sound directly into your project timeline and get down to work with minimal fuss.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 48kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
376 files • 96 kHz/32 Bit • 4.39Go • 41:37 mins
Farm Animals is a sound effect library covering animals sounds from a barn. You will find animals as: Goose, Cow, Chickens, Horse, Pigs, Goat, Sheep, and more.
It’s a SFX package of animals reaction and living their lifes into the barn around other animals. Close micking and ambience perspective recording. Stereo and Ambix recorded files at 96khz – 32bits for a total of 1.95Go.
Each sound has been recorded with high-quality equipment and meticulously edited individually.
Delivered in Broadcast Wave files, all embedded with metadata informations for easy import and ensure fast and easy workflow.
DESCRIPTION:
• In Bat Echolocation, get a collection of unheard sounds from North American bats. Hear powerful clicks that sound like alien languages and musical pings that ring for ages. Hear laser-like chirps and the feeding buzz of bats on the hunt. Hear a batnado as millions of Mexican free-tailed bats exit their cave and swarm with starling-like murmurations.
• This library offers you a collection of sounds not normally heard by human hears. With a little pitch shifting, this ultrasonic world is at your fingertips. I find unheard sounds fascinating, I hope you enjoy them too. Thanks for listening.
DEMO:
• This demo is made up of pitch shifted sounds. Otherwise you would not be able to hear them :)
• All sounds included in library are ultrasonic other than the BATNADO swarm from 3:00 to end.
Want wilderness sounds ? Get genuine marmots whistles recorded in French Alps in quiet environnements. Those cute rodents emit loud sounds when they feel a danger. This library contains recordings from different distances, from a few meters to 200 meters. It also includes ultra realistic synthesized sounds, hard to differentiate from real ones, with zero background noise.
Garden and nature in January, April and August. Fresh spring air with birds’ concert in the morning, crickets and summer ambiences,echoey chatter from the neighborhood, gardening, dogs barking, roosters calling, jets and prop passing, as well as the dead silence and eerie animals in the deep of the night; the awakening of nature and residents during the early morning hours and much more.
‘Residential Forest I + II + III’ are the three libraries of long term recordings in a German allotment environment in one. The area is a remote place surrounded by a forest with cottages, ponds and lots of nature sounds. The library is a conflation of suburban, residential and forest ambiences.
‘Residential Forest I + II + III’ contains 121 unique ambiences, recorded in Germany during summer, August 2021, spring, in April 2022 and January, 2023. Out of 64 hours of ambiences I edited the best parts and collected them to a 13 GB time travel in sound, from afternoon to evening, through the night, morning and mid day hours in a residential forest area.
For recording as well the dead silence during the night I chose an extreme low noise matched pair of Rode NT 1A and the Tascam HD-P1.
The whole length of the library is about 13 hours, most of the ambiences are between 5 – 10 minutes, some are longer, a few are shorter.
‘Residential Forest II’ is recorded in AB Stereophony, 48 kHz, 24 bit.
The French Provence Nature sound library offers authentic recordings from the South of France, around Baux de Provence, Uzès, Nîmes and other areas. Of course you will find multiple Cicadas, what the french call “les Cigales”, with their typical sound and local accent!
Also Bird Chorus, Frogs, Summer Bird Songs, Autumn ambiance, abandoned rural village sounds, the famous Mistral wind, Insects flying by and buzzing, Garrigue atmosphere and so on.
Recorded over 2 years and reduced to over 5 hours of selected files, the most suited spots have been used to make clean recordings without annoying traffic. The French Provence Nature library can be used for all time settings and for all media. You can use stereo and binaural recordings.
All files have Meta tags, UCS compliant descriptions that help you find the right sounds.
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.
The Bird Whistles Bundle features the sounds of generic and Acme brand bird-call making whistles and toys, ideal for cartoon projects and aviary backgrounds alike.
The bundle combines all the slides, glissandos, tweets, hoots, clucks, warbles, squeaks, trills, tremolos, chirps, vocalisations, calls, birdsongs, caws, and yawns found in Bird Whistles Vols 1 through 3. This huge collection of expressions has everything you need to sonically animate cartoon or rural-based productions. Its versatility in performance and tools means you can use it for enhancing comic moments, crafting realistic countryside ambiences or designing your own energetic sounds.
Enjoy the sound of ducks, curlews, crows, pigeons, owls and more in this whimsical sound effects bundle!
Each library is delivered at 24Bit and 192 kHz. The entire bundle is tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.
This mini-library is taken from a session recording ducks and geese in the Pacific Northwest during their Fall Migration. Included are sounds of Mallards, Canada Geese, Cackling Geese, along with some Downy Woodpeckers and Pacific Wrens who wanted to join in on the fun.
All files are UCS compliant and have full metadata embedded.
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 classic vehicle is drawn by two horses and produces mostly clank and rattle of wood and metal. You can also hear some leather creaks and the horses’ hooves and breaths. Occasionally the driver beatboxes some cues – clucking, smacking, monosyllables.
Some of the files contain solely the rattle of the rolling carriage but no horses – these can be used for sound designing any old vehicle on a bumpy road.
This selection of onboard sounds contains a variety of speeds, horse gaits and road surfaces. They have been recorded with the Sennheiser Ambeo VR Mic, and, simultaneously, with two stereo sets. For each recording you get 10 channels:
– ambiX B-format (4 channels)
– Stereo XY (Audio-Technica BP4025)
– Wide Stereo (DPA 4060) captured at the carriage’s chassis
– Stereo Mix of all of the above
The ambiX B-format files are ready to be encoded into all spatial sound setups: like 5.1, 7.1, 4.0, VR 360 degree experience, and more.
The library is UCS compliant.
Indian forest tribe percussion, rainforest sourced textures & more!
In this sound library with its 91 minutes of recordings, you can Immerse yourself in the enchanting sounds of Bulgarian spring with unique audio recordings that capture the essence of nature with love and attention. This acoustic guide introduces you to the world of awakening nature, offering an opportunity to dive into the richness of sounds characteristic of spring in Bulgaria.
From the melodious songs of birds in the forest clearings to the green meadows, each audio recording conveys the unique atmosphere of Bulgarian spring. The sounds of wind whispering through tree leaves, complemented by the delicate fluttering of insects’ wings, create a harmony that captivates the ear and reconnects with the natural beauty of the surroundings.
These audio recordings are not merely technical documentations but poetic treasures that transport the listener on a unique journey through the spring landscapes of Bulgaria. Try closing your eyes and immerse yourself in the sounds of nature, carrying with them tranquility, inspiration, and a connection to the natural world.
These recordings are suitable for nature enthusiasts, those seeking relaxation and a sense of peace, as well as for use in meditative practices. Allow yourself to be immersed in this auditory world and enjoy the beauty of spring in Bulgaria through its unmistakable sounds.
With over 400 bird species recorded, Bulgaria stands as a haven for birdwatchers and nature enthusiasts, offering a captivating glimpse into the vibrant and varied world of avian life.
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.
Hear the harmonic mood of Mount Ida in Northwestern Türkiye. Mount Ida’s ancient Greek mythology extends to Homer and its “vadi” (valley) is the epic setting for “The Iliad”.
The bountiful waterways and wildlife that we recorded surrounded the ancient city of Troy – at the verge of the Mediterranean.
An extensive collection of birdsong, wind, woodland, waterways, and animals in pure untouched nature. Different intensities and times of the day were meticulously captured with close and distant perspectives.
36 high-resolution files and 2 hours duration. All files in 96 kHz / 24 bit format. Includes detailed and easy-to-navigate metadata. Recorded with our favorite gear: DPA 4060s, Sennheiser MKH 8040s, Zoom F3.
Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
Keywords
Ambience, Mount Ida, Soundscape, Nature, Rural, Woodland, Water, Leaves, Rustle, Flow, Nightingale, Blackbird, Insect, Bee, Wind, Dawn, Dusk, Evening, Morning, Birdsong, Gurgle, Whistle, River, Stream, Frog, Dawn Chorus, Cricket, Jackal, Bird, Birdsong, Bubble, Waterfall, National Park, Field Recording.
What else you may need
Reach us to get access to more and longer nature and urban soundscapes.
You may also want to check out the City Perspectives & Ambiences for access to many urban ambience essentials. Room Tones and Interior Ambiences is another option for quieter spaces in 84 pristine sounds.
Sri Lanka Soundscapes Vol.2 – Countryside is the second volume in the Sri Lanka Soundscape Library Series.
This library features typical sounds recorded in the rice paddy’s and farms and beaches of Southern Sri Lanka. It features, ambiences containing local animals and birds (did someone say Peacock), insects, remote villages, Ocean waves all in quiet secluded environments. The library serves as a great palette of local and unique sounds within quiet countryside environments to really ground and localise any projects. Contains a mix of ambience recordings and some shorter animal specific SFX.
A particular highlight for me on this collection was capturing the sound of a duck farting as it plodded away (see movement and fart file at 00:07)- cutting edge stuff.
Sounds recorded in Stereo 24bit/48kHz and UCS compatible.
Get the other collections here:
Sri Lanka Soundscape Vol. 1-3 Collection
Sri Lanka Soundscape Vol. 2 – Rural Countryside
Sri Lanka Soundscape Vol. 3 – Vehicles
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.
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
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A: Yes, they're royalty free, and no attribution is required
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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.
This is a library complied of various animal footsteps on various surfaces. A one stop shop for all your wildlife documentary needs.
SynFauna is a series of sound libraries which contain a range of synthetic yet highly realistic animal sounds.
SynFauna: Flying Insects contains a varied selection of sounds based on insects that produce sounds while flying.
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The following insects are included:
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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.
The sounds were recorded in zoos and wildlife centers. The asset list includes but is not limited to: european red deers, monkeys, reindeers, hornbills camels, crickets, tamarins, boars, frogs, red ruffed lemurs, parrots, and many more.
The content has been recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K plus a Sennheiser 8050 for center image and a couple of Sennheiser MKH8040 for stereo image.
Part of the cheats section of the library features samples recorded at 384KHz. For these sounds an additional microphone was employed, specifically the CMPA by Avisoft-Bioacoustics which records up to 200 KHz. This microphone was used to record most of the library but the 384KHz format was preserved only where energy was found beyond 96KHz not to occupy unnecessary disk space.
All files are delivered as stereo bounce of these for mics, though in some instances an additional couple of CO100K was added to the sides.
The resulting ultrasonic spectrum is rich and allows for truly extreme manipulation of the content.
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