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Nature sound effects and recordings, from forests, jungles, plains and fields
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!
in stereo, binaural, ambisonics
7.6 GB of original sounds, 9.46 GB with the encoded ambisonic files in stereo included
• rough & authentic recordings in remote locations
• immersive & suitable for VR productions and mobile applications
• real binaural and ambisonics recordings
• clean edited, but not designed
• including long takes >15 minutes with a lot of sounds for further editing and looping
• with cave atmospheres, animals, and tropical wildlife
• metadata added
• incl. stereo versions of the ambisonics B-Format AmbiX files for instant use
• captured during three recording expeditions over the past five years in Colombia, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos
• Microphones: 2xDPA 4060, Sennheiser Ambeo, 2xMKH 40-P48
Niger Sahara Desert, ambiences and sound effects library By Iben Haahr Andersen
Back in 2004 Iben Haahr Andersen travelled to Niger on an amazing journey into the Sahara desert.
Her job was to follow a large group of nomads, travelling on camels back for 10 days to the desert town of Agadez to purchase sweet dates, which they would later sell to make a living.
Through 10 days of extreme heat and hard labour, Iben recorded everything from the most beautiful and quiet starry nights, to daily life and struggle of the nomad people, sandstorms and desert wind, an interior mountain well, and grunts and cries from nomads precious desert animals, the camels.
Iben came back to Denmark with a huge amount of DAT tapes, which now have been mastered in Protools, spectral repaired in Izotope RX, and with great help from Tim Nielsen & Michal Fojcik made UCS-Compliant in Soundminer, for a very special set of audio recordings!
117 stereo tracks recorded on to a portable DAT recorder @ 48khz 16 bit. Set is about 4gb big when unzipped.
Mics used, Sennheiser Mkh416 with an ATE 208 Emesser on top.
Sounds included are:
Immerse yourself with this collection of ambisonic zoo atmospheres, comprised of animal soundscapes ranging from grumpy flamingos, screaming gibbons, loud lories, curious geese, vocal chimpanzees, amongst other residents of Lisbon’s Zoo. You’ll also find plenty of crowd recordings, ranging from very quiet and distant conversations, to people passing-by from multiple directions and chair-lift discussions, all in different languages.
The zoo’s staff graciously allowed me to record before opening hours, resulting in neutral soundscapes alongside the regular crowded ambiences. This gives you flexibility in how you can use these sounds for your projects.
This sound library is available in both Ambisonics FuMa (B Format) and Stereo (Binaural) formats.
If you wish to support the animal conservation efforts of Lisbon’s Zoo, you can do so either as a company or as an individual. Given the ever-growing labors of zoos and shelters worldwide to protect and breed endangered species, every bit of support or exposure helps. Know how you can do your part through the hyperlinks above or contact your local sanctuaries for more information.
New Zealand Ambiences is a beautifully crafted ambience library exploring the incredible country and sounds of New Zealand (mainly focusing on the South Island). This library will take you on a sonic adventure exploring the many unique birds and creatures ranging from locations such as: Haast, Queenstown, Lake Paringa, Lake Wakatipu, Te Anau, the Clay Cliffs and Pukaki!
Recorded at 24 bit/192 kHz you’ll have the flexibility to pitch these ambiences and bird songs to create some truly amazing other worldly atmospheres!
Coastal Spain is a collection of 21 ambiances recorded in a Spanish costal city.
From empty, quiet places to loud, bustling streets. City parks, distant churches, close and distant traffic, restaurants, pedestrians, walla, city hall bells, floating creaky marina docks, doves, sparrows, birds, old Vespas, city presence heard from hills, railway terminal, tiny restaurants, playgrounds and more.
All audio clips loop seamlessly.
All SFX have baked-in Soundminer’s meta data
Download includes additional 44.1kHz 16Bit version for Unreal Engine.
LOCATION: Spain, Costa Blanca
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre-6 + 2x DPA4060
EDITED WITH: iZotope RX, Pro Tools.
Do you want to add some tension with thunder sound effects? Are you looking for immersive rain? Do you need perfect loops of rain in your game?
'Rain and Thunder' is a collection of high-quality sounds recorded over a timespan of several years at different locations with a Mid-Side and XY rig. This sound pack contains variations of rain: soft, hard, under metal, under plastic, on top of plastic, and with and without thunder rumble.
This pack is guaranteed to immerse the listener with the pattering drips of water and the roaring thunder!
All sounds included are tagged with metadata (keywords and description) for use in Soundminer/Basehead, etc.
The Eurasian Cranes sound effects library gets you the sound of almost 1500 Eurasian Cranes (Common Cranes) singing their song at the same time. It features 13 stereo wav files and nearly 70 minutes of these unique recordings.
Rural Rain is a unique collection of rain recordings in rural environments, far away from the noisy human world. More than two years getting slowly cooked and dozens of recordings discarded due to unwanted noises or ruined by too much rain have finally been worth the effort.
DESCRIPTION:
• In Pacific Northwest: Quiet Nature 2, get a collection of ambiences with sparse flora and fauna from the Eastern Cascades, Washington. Hear playful croaks of a ravens perched in snow-capped canopies. Hear the counterpoint of nature’s cellos as Great Horned owls sing haunting duets. Hear the hungry knocking of woodpeckers pecking to find their dinner and the majestic sparseness of winter forests empty of all but a few species of wildlife.
• This library offers you an extensive collection of ambiences with sparse flora and fauna of winter in a coniferous forest. I hope you enjoy the sparse wildlife of this winter wonderland.
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.
This library features a large variety of waves crashing on the coastline, including big waves rolling on sandy beaches, gentle water lapping on a rocky shore, calm waves gurgling between rocks and many more!
Recorded during a trip along the Gulf of Morbihan in Brittany, this collection of ambisonic sounds offers a combination of close and medium-ranged recordings, as well as some very close ones where we were standing in the middle of the waves, hoping not to damage our gear!
AmbiX and stereo
Each recording is delivered in both AmbiX and decoded stereo format, for quick and easy integration.
Gear used
Sound Devices MixPre-6 II • Rode NT-SF1
Metadata
This sound library is UCS compliant and comes with fully embedded metadatas compatible with Soundly, Soundminer and Basehead.
• In Avalanche and Tree-alanche, get a powerful collection of sliding snow and ice from the pristine wilderness of the Eastern Cascades, Washington. Hear massive slabs of snow break free and tumble down mountains with majestic power. Hear chunky slides as refrigerator-sized chunks of ice careen down slopes and waterfalls of powder moving like rivers of sand. Hear tree-alanches as snow and ice plastered to branches is dislodged by sun-melt and wind. Hear hellacious debris clouds as gusts hit local canopies and dislodge snow hurricanes of powder, ice, and branches.
• This library offers you a collection of sounds from an awe inspiring natural event. Avalanches are dangerous and extremely difficult to record. They have the natural power akin to tornadoes or wildfires. I hope you enjoy listening to the roars of wintertime in the remote mountains of Washington.
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.
DESCRIPTION:
• In Alaska: Active Nature, get a collection of the energetic ambiences from Lake Clark National Park, Alaska. Hear the resounding sound of glacial valleys as the endless sun fuels the ecosystem. Hear playful shorebirds energetic calls and whooshing flybys. Hear the sweet singing of Swainson’s Thrush and resonant woodpeckers that ring for miles. Hear cottonwoods creaking and the eerie winnowing of Wilson’s Snipe circling overhead.
• This library is packed full of tracks with vibrant flora and fauna from the lively summer landscapes of the Arctic. Hear the sounds of this stunning natural cathedral while the nearby glaciers remain. The ecosystem won’t sound the same when they’re gone.
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.
Authentic Thailand Vol.4 is the latest volume in the Authentic Thailand series.
This massive collection contains various City and Village Sounds, Beaches, Jungle, and Nature Sounds. As a special it contains Transportation Sounds such as a Offroad ride with 4×4 Pickup, a Longtailboat, Ferry Boat, Public Taxi, driving with a TUK TUK, Railway Station Platform and Sports Sounds such as traditional Muay-Thai-Boxing in many situations, Indoor Volleyball Competition, Snooker-Club, Ping Pong and Volleyball Training in Elementary School etc.
It features typical Streets, Temple, Funeral Mass, Procession Day, Markets, Traffic Sounds, Walla, Island Beaches, Nature/Jungle Sounds with Birds, Winds, Insects and Residential Village Sounds.
It also contains some Bonus Tracks with wooden Door Sounds with open/close from int/ext, and Condominum Roomtones in the Heart of Bangkok.
This library contains various kinds of small to mid-size streams and waterfalls captured close and at a distance, for designing and spicing up your project. In addition, it features creepy water drips in a cave and water well pump sounds.
Recorded @ 24bit 96kHz / stereo and carefully edited.
Over the course of a week I captured the sounds of Tasmania, an island off the coast of Victoria, Australia with all its life and beauty. It shows off the island’s tranquil birds, delicate waves on the rocky shores, mountain streams, light wind and rain in the forest, and much more. Tracks last from 2.5 to 6 minutes, giving you over 3.5 hours of these unique wilderness ambiences.All sounds were recorded using the Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 and a stereo pair of Sennheiser MKH 8020s.
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The Norway sound library comes with 44 unique Norwegian sounds (58+ minutes of playtime), featuring recordings of animals and insects, atmosphere, beach waves, glacier sounds, mountain stream, steps and vehicles.
Surround In the Night features 25 HD 24bit/48khz 5.1 Surround Sound Effects with a large selection of urban crickets and cicada recordings in parks and residential areas. Recorded with discrete Quad microphones, and mastered in 5.1 surround (L-C-R-Ls-Rr-Lf Embeded .WAV format).
Recording locations are all from center perspective – captured in the middle of a park or residential area, to create the widest possible sound. A stereo version of each cue is included, as well as embedded metadata. From veteran Hollywood Sound Designer Lenny Jones.
Want a taste of what's included? Download the 5.1 Surround Demo file here and try it out on your own system!
California Grassland Abandoned is a collection of 65 Stereo and 18 Quad Recordings focused on Abandoned old structures, various Int / Ext Winds, Metal Latches, Gates, Wood Creaks, and an assortment of other interesting sounds.
The recordings from this library took place in The Carrizo Plain, an open expanse of Grassland that is located West of the Mojave Desert in California’s Central Valley. Abandoned and weathered dilapidated remnants of old ranches, water tanks, barns, metal sheds, farm machinery, and corrals from a bygone era of the West can be discovered if one ventures off the beaten path.
An old rusted corral gate’s latches, hinges, locks, and ronks. A 1950 Ford Truck’s wild sound door creaks. The still quiet of morning ambiences. A very animated barn door. A water tank in the middle of no man’s land bending and booming as the elements of nature have their way. Calm, medium, and higher winds in metal sheds, small houses, barns, tall dry grass, and in some exterior locations out in the Plain.
The goal was to try to capture anything I could that had a lot of character along with providing a sense of what a lot these areas sound like. These recordings aren’t meant to be absolutely desolate so in a few of the wind and ambience tracks there is some light birds, and sometimes a few insects.
The companion library to this, California Grassland Wildlife contains a number of different bird species and a couple of other animals and insects native to the environment.
The Gear
Sound Devices MixPre-6
Mics
Sennheiser MKH 8020
Sennheiser MKH 8040
Sennheiser MKH 8040+MKH 30 MS
Sennheiser MKH 8040 Pair + MKH 30 DMS
Barcus Berry Contact Mic
A / B Spacing was used with the MKH 8020’s. ORTF with the MKH 8040, along with a MKH 30 in MS and Double MS.
MS Recordings have been decoded to Stereo and Double MS have been decoded to Quad Format.
Recorded over an entire year, Ultrasonic Insects Volume 2 contains dozens of new insect songs recorded with love, precision and a lot of patience! More than 3 000 kilometers were traveled to get to 12 beautiful french sites sheltering common and endemic species. All insects were recorded in quiet environments with close-miking for unparalleled quality.
Want to get brand new sound material from nature? Listen to the songs of those tiny creatures, pitch them as much as you want and find inspiration for your next sound design.
• 22 species of grasshoppers, crickets, bush-crickets and cicadas
• Rare death’s head hawk-moth vocalisations
• 5 species of flying insects
• Solo insects recorded with Sanken CO-100K
• 8 bonus stereo ambiances recorded with MKH 8040
• 192 KHz/24 bit
• Metadata UCS-compliant
• Each species is identified with scientific name, common name and picture
• No insects were harmed while recording this library (except a few mosquitos!)
Take a journey to Kenya with this collection of authentic ambient sound effects, recorded on location in the country. With 80 individual WAV files recorded in mono at 24bit, 48kHz. Remote village. Midsized markets. Nature soundscapes. The streets of Nairobi.
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
A comprehensive collection of recordings from India. Covering rural atmospheres, birdlife, city traffic and village life plus many more.
Wilderness Americas : Central American Jungle is a collection of sounds captured in the different Tropical Forests of central America across many countries. For this first chapter, we will focus on : North Colombia and Costa Rica.
This library focus on the wildlife and wilderness sounds of the different type of forest encountered across these countries : rainforest, cloud forest, montane tropical forest, Tropical Dry Broadleaf Forest, primal forest, bamboo forest, etc.
As you can see there is not just one type of jungle or forest, but rather a multitude of very different ecosystems that we have tried to record.
In this places, the ecological variety is quite stunning and preserved. Maybe because there is few people and maybe because of the weather conditions who are very rude for human (and audio equipment : extrem humidity, rain and heat don’t works great with microphones and recorders.)
We have selected audio gear for this purpose : tropicalized microphones : sennheiser MKH 8020 and MKH 8040-30 series in a surround configuration + world known recorder : Sound devices Mixpre10T. We have taken also a humidity proof microphone basket (Cinela)
This weather proof setup permit us to record even under tropical rains. (We have also a special mic cover which reduce the sound of rain drop on the microphone basket)
We have always focus on places, where they protect and respect the wilderness.
-> We went record in this different places : In north Colombia, around Minca inside the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, where you evolve inside a Montane Tropical Forest at 3000 m altitude, but also in a lonely valley near the Cocora valley region.In Costa Rica, we met the primal tropical forest, in the Osa Peninsula and the Corcovado National Park : The ecological variety of this place is quite stunning. National Geographic has called it “the most biologically intense place on Earth in terms of biodiversity”. We also went to the Monteverde region to meet the cloud forest, who is a hight altitude tropical forest, where the cloud meet the tropical forest. We also explored the biological reserve “Lomas Barbudal” which is a “Tropical Dry Broadleaf Forest” and finish our journey near the Arenal volcano.
To sum up:
In Colombia we were around Minca, in the montane tropical forest, we spend more than two weeks, recording birds and animals inside the forest.
In Colombia we were in a parallel lonely valley of the famous Cocora Valley, also in the montane tropical forest.
In Costa Rica we were inside the Corcovado National Park, we spend here one week, exploring this protected area, nights and days inside the primal rainforest.
In Costa Rica we were in the cloud forest inside the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve.
In Costa Rica We were inside the “Biological Reserve Lomas Barbudal“, inside the dry broadleaf tropical forest, looking for spider and howler monkeys.
In Costa Rica we were freely explore the Arenal region.
We have used “sound trap” technics for long and immersive recording :
we have hide microphones and protect recorder in a waterproof bag and let it for days and night in the middle of the tropical forests (usualy 24 hours non stop recording).
This system allow us to record the sunrise, dawn chorus, and sunset, time where the animals are more active.
Here is some animals we have recorded :
Exotics Birds and more especially : parrots, parakeet, macaw, toucan, woodpecker, Oropendola, cacique, humming-bird, etc.
Insects and more especially : cricket, cicada, bumblebee, etc.
Mammal : spider monkeys, howler monkey, brown monkeys, etc.
Amphibien : frogs, toads
We have record using a surround setup (Sennheiser DMS (Double M/S)) using 3 mic capsules
The DMS signal can be decode in many different format (5.0, stereo (XY/ORTF/AB), mono, binaural). for decode it you can simply use your DAW or for more convenient the Harpex plugin or the free Shoeps DMS plugin.
With the DMS you can adjust the stereo spread/imaging, or even make rotation in the surround pan field.
In some few cases, with have record with a parabola dish + Sennheiser MKH 8020. (animals)
Each sound recording are located with GPS coordinate and a full soundminer metadata.
–The Full sound bank (Stereo + Surround) contains 114 sound takes record in 24/96khZ (Total length : 661 minutes) and decline in 330 files
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