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Nature sound effects and recordings, from forests, jungles, plains and fields
Rain Bundle provides a wide range of high-quality rain recordings captured in rural and urban environments. By purchasing this bundle you will benefit of a 20% discount.
Hā luō China! Travel through Shanghai, Dali, Shangri-La; the cities, farms, temples and the grasslands. Authentic high-quality ambiences in 77 pristine files will serve as ideal background tracks. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
As hard as it is to capture all of China in one library, this one offers a pleasant natural feel from some of its landmarks.
You will get fine farm atmospheres with the lakes, farms, crickets, frogs, birdsong in Dali. Listen in awe to the monks singing and chanting in Buddhist temples in Shangri-la and stroll through the ancient town.
Get the gist of Shanghai in busy intersections, constructions, cafes, walla of basketball players at the park, old people playing mahjong, Pudong airport, subways, highways and rich walla. Find peace at the grasslands with strong atmospheric sounds of yaks, cows, bees, horses, birdsong, wind and rain.
This is the toolkit to create the perfect cinematic atmospheres, with or without being in the foreground. The length of the ambiences is mostly enough to meet your needs without loops. Some can be adapted to other urban or rural ambience needs. It gives you access to varying activity levels in close, medium, and distant perspectives.
Recorded in 24bit/96 kHz .wav, comes with intuitive naming and thorough metadata. Compatible with all DAWs, middleware, video editing tools and 100% royalty free.
SOUNDS OF FLOWING WATER
Creating this library we travelled to many secluded places to capture the pure sounds of flowing water: gently gurgling springs and small streams in deep forests, calm rivers between rocks or fields and thundering waterfalls splashing down mountains. Bring your projects to life by using, layering and transforming our water sounds in a creative way. Streams and rivers are an important part of our world and they form a big part of our aural experiences. Large rivers may flow majestically quiet, but other aqueous entities produce a lot of interesting sounds: they bloop, splash, spray, sprinkle, burble, roar, rumble, dribble, drip and drizzle. Every stream sounds different and mostly the variations consist of small, subtle changes.
DESIGN YOUR OWN WATER SOUNDS
Create all kinds of flowing water, layer waterfalls into a loud roaring mass or design the pure and gentle sound of a fresh spring.
Included are 120 unique sound effects, all carefully metadata tagged and seamlessly loopable to give you the highest possible comfort.
Naturescape is a high quality stereo library recorded at 96khz/24bit featuring 100 files and more than 4 hours of immersive nature soundscapes. Most of the library has been recorded in Tuscany-Italy showing the best sound of the countryside, hills, woodlands and forests of this Mediterranean area. There are also some files recorded on the Alps and some exotic soundscapes recorded in South Africa. This library contains the four seasons nature ambiences including a range of quiet and windy forests, woodlands, grass fields, savannah and jungle, a wide selection of various birds chirping and insects soundscapes, snow melting, dogs barking, roosters, deers, monkeys, gibbons and flamingoes
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.
WHAT’S INSIDE
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.
COMPREHENSIVE GUIDES
In addition, there are two useful guides: Sound Designing with UPWELLINGS provides helpful tips about where to use geothermal sounds. How to Record UPWELLINGS provides professional advice on where to go, when to record, and the best position for your microphones.
This Library is also part of The Complete Quiet Planet Bundle.
Libraries from Quiet Planet are covered by a special EULA - read it here.• In Great Lakes: Sandhill Cranes, get a collection of ambiences from some of the largest freshwater lakes in the world. Hear the calming openness of still water and the magical echoes of regal waterbirds. Hear the startled alarm cries of Ospreys and the prehistoric calls of Sandhill Cranes so visceral you’ll think pterodactyls are still alive.
• This library offers you an extensive collection of Sandhill Crane ambiences from the pristine lakes of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Hear these majestic birds and feel the power of their intense calls as they sing across the Great Lakes of North America.
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.
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.
We all know what central London sounds like. It’s noisy, crowded, and full of people trying to sell you watches. Ok, maybe that last point wasn’t that relevant, but have you ever wondered what lies beyond?
A short drive towards the suburbs will reveal a world filled with warm beer, cricket, and endless parks, where deer roam free.
When planning this library, the intention was to capture the quieter side of the metropolis, all year round! As a result, this library will receive multiple updates over the coming months. There will be one more summer update soon, along with an autumn update, winter update, and spring update.
So far, the first version of the library contains 15 .WAV stereo files at 96kHz/24 bit, recorded with a Sony PCM-D100/1, and contains approximately 35 minutes of summer ambiances in different locations throughout suburban London. Over the following months, I’ll keep traveling around the suburbs, collecting more and more ambiances, each update representing its own season.
Each file has been carefully edited in iZotope RX in order to remove as much unwanted noise as possible, such as random shouting, barking, etc. This will provide you with clean ambiences that will add character to your projects, without distracting the audience. That being said, do please note that the recordings contain some amount of traffic noise, and some also contain airplane noise. This is, of course, unavoidable when recording in a city such as London.
In addition to that, each file has been filled to the brim with SoundMiner metadata, allowing you to quickly search through the files, waste less time and dedicate more time to what you love doing!
La Gomera’s Spirit is a sound effects library featuring authentic sounds of the small Canarian island’s life.
This collection contains sounds of Villages, Beaches and Nature Sounds.
It features typical Streets, Walla, Traffic Sounds, Beaches, Nature Sounds with Birds, Residential Village Sounds.
DESIGNED HYPERREAL INSECT AMBIENCES
Periodical Cicadas features the sounds of millions of periodical cicadas singing en masse. This library has extended drones and screeches, up-close wing-fluttering pass-byes, multiple pharaoh (mating) calls and distant cicadas singing from the treetops. With my latest recordings in May 2025, three broods are now featured: Brood XXII was recorded in south Louisiana in 2014, Brood V was recorded in Ohio in 2016 and Brood XIV was recorded in the hollows of West Virginia in 2025.
Periodical cicada choruses can differ in sound from species to species. Throw in variables like wind conditions and where exactly a species sings from, and you have a range of distinct sounds, bordering on the creepy at times, to include in your next insect-ridden project.
Low-price. High-quality. Essential.
An essential collection of 250 bird sounds, including crows, magpies, chicks, hawks, owls, seagulls, wrens, finches, robins and more!
Each sound was created at 96kHz / 24-bit stereo and is fully compatible with the Universal Category System (UCS) – a public domain initiative establishing a standardized category list for the classification of sound effects.
Note: All of these sounds (and more!) are included in the 96 General Library (get 3,000+ SFX for FREE!)
The Pyrenees brings you a collection of quad and stereo recordings taken in spring and summer time across several locations of the Regional Natural Park of the Ariège Pyrenees.
The sound of a volcano is an awe-inspiring symphony of raw power and untamed energy. It is a cacophony that reverberates through the air, leaving an indelible mark on anyone fortunate enough to witness it. As the molten rock churns and rises within the depths of the Earth, a rumbling bass begins to emerge, like the distant growl of a slumbering giant. We recorded the Yasur Volcano on Tanna island with the amazing immersive Schoeps ORTF3D microphone system powered by the precise preamps of the Sonosax R4+ and AD8+.
The Library include sounds like
VOLCANO, ERUPTIONS, EXPLOSIONS, CRISP, MUFFLED, CLOSE, DISTANT, WIND, PLAIN
Key Features:
The GENERAL AMBIENCE SERIES: A modular approach to the ambitious project become one of the largest and most versatile ambience libraries on the marked. High quality, detail, versatility and diversity will set this library apart from other products. You can expect monthly releases of small ambience packs in the future to keep the quality standards high and constantly grow the library over time.
This is one of the biggest and most diverse night-time ambience sound effects libraries on the market. More than 100 hours of recording production time has gone into this release. This is literally worth one month of good and healthy sleep.
Fall has come and it is getting colder, the nights are getting longer. I ventured out into the dark to capture those magical moments at midnight. Hear lush wind rushing though the cornfields and relaxing cricket choruses sooth you into the night. Be witness of amorous foxes exercising their considerable vocal talents with their terrific barks and unsettling vixen screams. Hear eerie forest ambiences featuring screeching owls and lonely wolves howling in the pitch-black dark, perfectly suited for your next horror movie production.
Listen to the magical silence of dormant villages and moody church bells ringing in the distance providing you that uncomfortable ghost town mood. The scene that I recorded could be so quiet, that I was really pushing the limit of my Sennheiser MKH 8000 Microphones. When it gets that quiet, single sound events travel longer through the air in a way that they melt beautifully into the background. As I recorded these sounds I was witness of the ritual of silence that happens every night providing to the careful listener those special moody moments.
Nights in the Suburbs consist of very light pedestrian and traffic activity. You can hear quiet streets, dogs barking and cats yowling and hissing in the distance. The anthrophonic sounds do dominate, but they are much lighter and more reduced than during the day. This is especially true for urban nights, where you still got the most human activity at night, but it’s still more reduced that during the day. This is especially true for traffic noises. Wide square really begin to shine with a more reduced background noise level. I also tried to highlight the more subtle buzzing and hum sounds to build you a nice construction set for you ambience design toolkit.
With a huge number of very reduced background elements and air tones, you gain a lot of control over your backgrounds. What makes this library special, besides human and wildlife nighttime activity, is that you will find a lot of far and very far perspectives, due to the reduced general background level. In addition, is this library is manly bird free (besides the species that are active at nigh). You get urban city ambiences that aren’t too busy. You get a variety of environments like cemetery, forest or urban riverside at night. Due to the reduced nature of the ambiences, and the lack of birds, they include a lot of geographically unspecific exteriors, which can be handy for any type of production.
In this library you will find features recordings of outdoor ambiences captured in the peaceful location in Ludo in the middle of Ria Formosa.
Most of this protected area corresponds to the Ria Formosa lagoon system, a string of islands and sandy peninsulas that extend parallel to the coast, thus protecting a lagoon where a labyrinth of marshes, channels, mudflats and islets develops.
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 12 incredible nature ambient sounds.
The second installment of the Epic Nature Loops sound effects series is here! Welcome to a freshly field recorded and curated ambient sound pack collection of over 100+ game ready nature loops! Epic Nature Loops 2 features many essential habitats of real life & sound types needed for video games & movies. The sound files are game ready & seamlessly loop-able. You, & your users, can experience new & exciting natural locations captured across the rolling hills of Tennessee, Cades Cove, the Smoky Mountains, Breckenridge Mountains, Natchez Trace, North Carolina, New York & the countryside of Italy.
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.
Eastern European Wetlands is our new sound effects library, made in collaboration with our friend and acclaimed field recordist Georgi Valchev from West Wolf Audio.
This outstanding collection of sound effects contains stunning ambient recordings from a variety of rural locations within Eastern Europe, such as Bulgaria and Romania. These real-world locations include wetlands, marshes, swamps, forests and city outskirts, and features a diverse line-up of wildlife local to each area.
Our team of audio craftsmen have edited and processed each sound with the upmost precision, so that you can drop your sounds straight into your project timeline and get down to work with minimal fuss.
All files in this library come at a sample rate of 24Bit 96kHz allowing for further sonic manipulation, and have been tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
From the busy streets of Jakarta to the deep jungles of Borneo MWS Indonesian Ambiences is providing a diverse snapshot of Indonesia soundscape.
Carefully recorded over a 40 days trip it covers many islands of the Indonesian archipelago.
MWS Indonesian Ambiences includes urban scenes like squares, markets, small streets and avenue with bustling life and many calls to prayer singing through PAs. Suburban and villages scenes for quieter purposes, sea sides from near to desert Islands, a floating market and deep jungles ambiences at various time of the day.
The sounds are fully Meta-Tagged and are UCS compliant.
Weather Bundle includes eight different sound libraries, featuring rain and wind both in urban and rural environments, at 30% discount.
This bundle brings together an incredible collection of rain and wind sounds hitting and blasting different surfaces at several intensities.
Ambience Colors is a surprisingly diverse, vast collection of atmosphere tracks and sound effects. Pack of unforgettable memories collected over few years and places. Let’s go deeper into the highlights:
Herde of cows on a meadow | Inside a wasp nest | Bali hindu ceremonies with crowds, brahmins and announcers | Bali Village with dogs, roosters and crickets | Cambodia village around a marketplace and calm streets | Latin church mass catholic with a quiet crowd | Diffused city noise | Distant fireworks on New Year’s Eve| Inner courtyards of old Prague houses | City streets | Crowd indoors at film shooting locations, restaurants and celebrations | Crowd outdoors around beer gardens | Industrial indoors with a meat processing factory | Huge poultry farm | Industrial outdoors on a building site or foresters machinery | International airports with crowds and announcers | Nature day in jungle, forest, swamp, pond, lake and meadow | Nature night in Asia and Europe | Ocean waves | Rain inside a tent or behind windows | Heavy rain outdoors | Roomtones and quiet places | Trains passing by and inside | Craftsmen workshops with power and hand tools
Enjoy the pristine sound of varied ambiences recorded across Asia. Dive into the vast sonic landscapes featuring FORESTS, INSECTS, LAKESHORES, VILLAGES, BIRDS, WATER, RAIN, THUNDER, WIND and more. While many base sounds can be used in any setting, others will take your audience to characteristic places – control the mood, setting and even temperature to your liking!
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