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Nature sound effects and recordings, from forests, jungles, plains and fields
Garden and nature in 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’ are the two 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’ contains 85 unique ambiences, recorded in Germany during summer, August 2021 and spring, in April 2022 from. Out of 40 hours of ambiences I edited the best parts and collected them to a 9 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 9 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.
Australian Lakes: Active Nature is a collection of recordings made around Lake Nuga Nuga, in the remote Central Highlands Region of Queensland. Recorded over several days after having recently rained, the area was alive with active vibrant birdlife and insects. Several recordings were done using dual microphone setups, with stereo and shotgun mics used to capture both a wide stereo atmosphere and a focused mono, close perspective on the birds. These recordings are phase aligned so can be used in LCR if desired, however are provided as a seperate mono and stereo file. Ranging from pre-dawn to evening, all recordings are meticulously mastered with sound designers and FX editors in mind, including extensive UCS metadata and species identified where possible. A separate folder includes several individual bird calls, some removed and mastered from the longer recordings, and some as standalone where a longer atmosphere wasn’t desirable. Identified bird species include:
Fully UCS compliant
From gentle wispy winds recorded in rushes to gale force winds bending branches.
All sounds were recorded during a trip home to Ireland.
Check out the video below to see some of the recording session.
Equipment:
LOM Usi Pros
Sound Devices MixPre-3II
The NSL Nature Bundle includes 4 New Sound Lab sound libraries.
382 high resolution WAV files – 180 minutes – 9 GB
The 2020 update to Farm Equipment features modern and older tractors, smaller motors including gators and mowers, as well as farm atmos elements like parlor motors and pumps.
All recorded on farms across Devon, uk.
The Nature and Wildlife bundle by Mindful Audio is a collection of libraries that covers a wide variety of natural environments and animals. These recordings have been captured in pristine areas like deserts, rainforests, cloud forests, temperate forests, woodlands and wetlands. The wildlife includes elephants, baboons, monkeys, frogs, cicadas and a varied assortment of bird species, all recorded wild in their habitats. This is the content you’re getting:
Atacama Desert
African Jungle
Amazon Jungle
African Cloud Forest
African Desert
African Wild West
Woodland Atmosphere
Eerie Forest
Wetland Atmosphere
Wild Rain
Arabian Desert
Volcano
Whale Song
A versatile collection of tropical island sounds from the beautiful Island of Mauritius, situated in the Indian Ocean to the east of Africa. The pack covers a range from town and city traffic, restaurant and market crowds to calm ocean waves and the birds, insects, amphibians and other wildlife native to islands in the Indian Ocean and Africa. Suitable for a variety of applications in need of high quality sounds of island life.
Please note: Some of the recordings were made at 44.1k and some at 96k. They have all been resampled to 48k for the download but the 96k recordings are also available as a separate download.
Water Flowing features lots of flowing, from a single drip to the roar of the ocean. All recordings are completely clear and free from any birds and traffic in the background. This library contains recordings of waves, rivers, streams, waterfalls, drips onto different surfaces, sprinklers, pipes, street drains and much more, with near and distant perspectives of calm and turbulent flows.
Key features:
Ethiopia is a unique collection of 62 sounds recorded through central and northern part of Ethiopia during a period of holly festivities.
All these sounds has been recorded and produced with high quality equipment.
This library provides authentic and interesting sounds, recorded with DPA, MBHO and Neumann mics powered by an Aeta 4minX.
All Faunethic tracks includes metadata carefully edited, compatible with Soundminer, Soundly and Basehead.
What do you get when you combine a nature preserve, a small lake with a stream, and a nearby airport? You get beautiful scenery and a confusing soundscape. Walk along the path in the Barbara Key Nature Preserve in Illinois. But careful not to step on any plants of flowers.
Park N Planes includes recordings of a small fishing lake inhabited by families and birds. Attached to the lake is a small stream, additionally recorded with a stereo pair of Aquarian H2a hydrophone microphones for low rumbles and high popping sounds. Listen as the birds chirp, bugs buzz and fly past the microphones, not to mention planes and helicopters flying overhead. Along with planes and helicopters, you will also hear distant vehicles.
Park N Planes has over three and a half hours of recordings packed into 27 files, over 1500+ sounds, and 15.17GB. All files are recorded using the Sennheiser MKH8050 and MKH30 into a Sound Devices Mix Pre-6. All Metadata tagged and updated using the Universal Category System in Soundminer, Basehead, and Soundly.
A larger focus on wind – with trees, brush, crickets, and other sounds often included. There are also plain wind sounds recorded on exceptionally quiet wilderness winter nights that can be layered over most every project for several minutes or longer. Additionally includes some branches breaking in high winds and rain patter.
Natural soundscapes in Ambisonic recorded in Summer, late Summer, Autumn and late Autumn. Forests, meadows, lake, river, streams ambiences. Nocturnal recordings included. Immersive recordings.
Recorded with Sennheiser Ambeo VR mic (Rycote blimp) 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.
Atacama Desert is a collection of stereo and quad soundscapes recorded in the barren but amazingly beautiful desert plateau of Western Chile. This is the most arid desert on Earth, with some weather stations here having never recorded any rain. It’s a breathtaking place with incredible silence and powerful winds. The soundscapes in this collection were recorded around giant rock pillars, endless rock plains and fields of sparse dry vegetation.
This library is the perfect way to portray the barren expanse of the Atacama desert. Some of the soundscapes recorded are the lightest of desert airs. The others feature wind, from light and soft to heavy and gusty. Lastly, some of the recordings also include flies buzzing around.
This library was recorded in several locations on the border between Chile, Argentina and Bolivia . Reaching this part of the world was no easy task, as you can see in the second part of the teaser video.
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.
European mountain forest Soundscapes, Ambiences and Textures,
sound library with more than 5h 30 mins of recordings. In total 11.6 GB, 100 files of high-quality recordings.
Long nature recordings. Without noise pollution and air traffic.
Soundscapes of the forest recorded in all seasons.
Soundscapes and ambiences, backgrounds and textures for your project. Some recordings are
more present others are more in the background. Nocturnal recording included as well as “background silence”.
Anthrophony (human made) sounds in the woods included (logging, vehicles, etc.).
The maximum peak level on all recordings is -5 dBFS (for great dynamic range, great headroom, no dynamic compressors are applied on recordings). Recorded with various microphones and microphone techniques. Recording info included in metadata chunk (equipment, microphone technique).
Nature library is a collection of background ambiences covering lots of terrain from seas and lake shores, rivers, desert, grasslands, forests with birds, swamps, mountains and tropical areas all recorded in the North and Central Americas and Pacific Islands.
Rural countryside recordings, soundscapes and textures contains:
villages and countryside, seaside (rural-island), woods, works, soundscapes, people, children, animals, machines, moods, daytime, evening, nighttime, morning, in spring, summer, autumn, winter…
Recorded in Croatia.
Long recordings, metadata tagged with detail description of equipment used and mic technique applied.
Recorded with Sennheiser MKH 60/40/30, Primo mics, …SASS (stereo ambient sampling system) array, Olson’s wing stereo array,
MS stereo, XY stereo, NOS stereo… Rycote blimps, Mogami cables, Sound Devices 744T, Sound Devices Mix Pre, Sony PCM-M10…
REMARKABLE SIGNATURE SOUNDS
UPWELLINGS holds exceptional geothermal sounds such as churnings, thuds, bubbly hiss or sloshing brews. This exotic power captures and holds the audience’s attention.
GIGANTIC POOL OF AMBIENT RECORDINGS
Shipping with over 8 GB of audio material, a total playtime of over 8 hours and a total of 181 high-quality audio files, the CONIFEROUS FORESTS library will add depth and nuance to all natural environments you will envision in your sound design.
PURER, SIMPLER, SPACIOUS
The overall quieter and more serene environment of CONIFEROUS FORESTS inspires otherwise subtle and hidden treasures to take the spotlight: Going into fine detail and capturing signature sounds and isolated messages to hallmark a particular moment is one of this library’s many strengths. From lone elk boldly declaring the extent of their territory to a beetle taking off – CONIFEROUS FORESTS effortlessly places vast dynamic ranges within your grasp to achieve profound and impeccable sound design.
This Library is also part of The Complete Quiet Planet Bundle.
Libraries from Quiet Planet are covered by a special EULA - read it here.Since our beginning, we have the opportunity to travel around different places and record many ambiences. Here is a package that we have built with the better of them.
Recorded from City, Country, Forest, and outside and inside places.
The library contains 117 files, 2 hours 54 minutes and 5.74 gigs of stuff.
Each sound has been meticulously edited individually, all files were recorded and are delivered in 24 Bit 96 kHz Broadcast Wave files, all embedded with metadata information for easy import and ensure fast and easy workflow.
SHORES island edition features varieties of beaches and cliffs from Oshima island, Japan, and extra harbors & boats are also included.
While calm beaches have relaxing atmospheres, cliffs sound aggressive that like onboard ships. And others like rocky beaches create colorful sounds.
Recorded with ortf, spaced omni, wide A-B and carefully edited.
Suburbs of Chicago: Forest Preserve 2 is the fourth in the Suburbs of Chicago series, and 2nd trip inside a suburban Forest Preserve.
Included you will hear bird chirps, tree rustles, bike passes, distant chatter, a small brook and families near a small lake, and more! Every wonder what it sounds like inside a hollow tree trunk? Wonder no more! This pack consists of 12 audio files, all metadata tagged and updated using the Universal Category System in Soundminer, Basehead, and Soundly.
Recorded at 24 bit, 192 kHz using the Sennheiser MKH8050 and MKH30 into a Sound Devices Mix Pre-6. About an hour and a Half of recordings! Like in the other packs in this series, you will always hear distant traffic and planes.
Spain and Portugal represent two countries with truly vibrant and distinct cultures. At anytime, day or night, you can expect an abundance of ambient sounds and vocalisations on every corner, except for during the afternoon siesta of course.
We roamed the streets of Seville, Granada, Lisbon, Coimbra, Porto and beyond recording everyday life in tapas bars, restaurants, markets, public transport, universities, local football matches, cultural and religious events and more to bring you an accurate sonic representation of these great countries
All tracks were recorded in high definition by Evan Buist, sound engineer and field recordist (National Geographic, DreamWorks, Paramount Pictures).
G4F SFX07 – YellowStone Geyers is a sound effect library dedicated to sounds of geysers.
G4F’s Geysers soundbank comprises high quality recordings of most of the geysers in Yellowstone National Park, USA. It also contains five eruption designs, carefully put together and designed for an instant use.
The bank is sorted by categories : Mudpots, steam, water bubbles, water splashes, water streams and water lapping from Yellowstone’s amazing lake as a bonus. Finally, you will find sounds from the Dragon’s Mouth Geyser, the Porcelain Basin and a massive eruption of the Steamboat Geyser from September 3rd, 2014.
The bank was created by Marie Doyeux and Arnaud Roy. It was entirely meta dated for SoundMiner, and every file comes with an artwork.
Nb Files: 54 wavs
Nb SFX: 75
Size: 3,50 Go (zip archive of 3,24 Go)
UCS Naming and Classification
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