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Nature sound effects and recordings, from forests, jungles, plains and fields
Our planet has a fascinating sonic spectrum, and every season, nature offers us an impressive and multi-faceted sound composition. We have recorded the most interesting and iconic ambiences the only way that truly reflects the sonic character of Earth as precisely as possible: Using the unparalleled Schoeps ORTF3D Surround Set. Harness these first-rate sounds to shape your projects in the most authentic way possible, from the ground up in 3D Surround or Stereo.
Geothermal Fields is a high quality royalty-free sound library recorded in Iceland during different parts of the year to include the most diverse range of soundscape variations. It includes ambient sounds as well as underwater and underground recordings.
It features eruptions, boiling, hissing, wave, humming, sputtering, chugging, roaring, surging, splashing, gurgling, mud pot, vent, geyser, volcanic debris, bubble.
Our libraries are recorded with top quality gear like Sound Devices MixPre 6 MkII, DPA 4006A stereo omni condensers, binaural head with DPA 4060, Rode NTG5, LOM Geófon geophone, Jrf and Ambient ASF-2 MkII hydrophones.
Universal Category System compatible metadata
From Sacred Valley to the Amazon Jungle and the vibrant cities of Cusco & Puno beside the great Lake Titicaca. PERU covers all aspects of life across this incredible nation. Stereo, LCR & 5.1 multitrack recordings all with meta tag and correct wildlife identification.
Wild life and urban activity, covering a wide variety of necessities for your South American post production project. Identified wildlife with their respective images embedded.
Water and Waves is our new sound effects library created in collaboration with our friends at West Wolf Audio.
This library features an inspired selection of authentic water ambiences from a range of stunning locations, including Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, as well as recordings taken from The Black Sea and The Agean Sea.
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.
Some of the sounds included in this library include rough seas with crashing waves, calm water lapping, lakeside ambiences with boat engines, various cave ambiences with dripping and rushing water, forest streams and water splashing against the hull of a sailboat.
This epic collection of sound effects gives you all the tools you need to design detailed and authentic aquatic soundscapes and is perfect for use in film, tv and video games with a seaside or lake setting.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
EUROPEAN LIFE – 3D SURROUND AMBIENCES
We wandered the European countryside to capture the unique flavors of the different small towns, villages, and suburbs.
Now Europe can be enjoyed from farmstead to cottage with this ambient sound effects collection that encompasses all the rural sound palettes from the North Sea to the Mediterranean. The sounds provide genuine atmospheres for each setting without any distractions in the foreground; perfect, countryside soundscapes for authentic audio layers in your production.
Varying from calm restaurants to small town cafes, rivers and creeks to traffic and streets, EUROPEAN LIFE contains an entire sonic palette of the European rural life. Recorded in 3D, you can choose the exact listening angle or use the stereo version (also included). EUROPEAN LIFE makes for an excellent addition to our TOWN & COUNTRY collection to broaden the agrarian scope, or as a companion to URBAN EUROPE to round out the sounds of the European continent.
VARYING AMBIENCES WITH EVERY SEASON
DECIDUOUS FORESTS are intimate and harmonious spaces. Their sound character is much quieter than that of tropical forests – but nonetheless spectacular. Their loudness varies and changes with the seasons, as the angle of the arriving solar energy gradually impacts their character. Winter, spring, summer or fall – you’ll find what you need to create the whole acoustic range of different weather conditions and day times in this collection, e.g. dawn onsets with early birds, day birdsongs and insects, wind drips and frogs, passing flocks, rainy storm aftermath…
LIVELY ABUNDANCE
DECIDUOUS FORESTS is especially rich with songbird and insect ambiences. The sheer selection of birds included in these all-natural hardwood ambient recordings ranges from American Robin, Barred Owl and Darkeyed Junco to Ruffed Grouse, Tufted Titmouse, Whippoorwill and so many more. Whether talkative, rhythmic, active or relaxed, their bird songs shape the unique characteristic of these natural cathedrals as the echo or afterlife of the original sound has a pronounced forest acoustic.
This Library is also part of The Complete Quiet Planet Bundle.
Libraries from Quiet Planet are covered by a special EULA - read it here.RAIN features various kinds of RAIN AMBIENCES and EFFECTS from different parts of CITIES and FORESTS.
RAIN AMBIENCE SET includes RAIN FALLING ON DIRT & LEAVES, RAIN COMING OUT FROM PIPES, HITTING THE ASPHALT, and various kinds of RAIN POURING ON ROOFS such as PORCHES and LARGE PARKINGS and more. And THUNDERS!!
RAIN VEHICLE SET includes CAR PASSING BYS and RAIN TRAFFICS in cities.
Recorded @ 24bit 96kHz / ORTF, SPACED OMNI, XY and carefully edited.
Jungles, walla, rivers, crickets, waterfalls, streets and rural villages all unique to Laos.
All sounds were recorded using the Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 and a stereo pair of Sennheiser MKH 8020s.
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This library consists of 59 recordings from the beautiful Italian island of Sardinia. Centred around the North East town of Olbia and surrounding areas, this library includes everything you need to get a real feel of this jewel of the Mediterranean. It includes everything from town ambiences to beaches (both busy and quiet), traffic, harbour sounds, church interiors, transport and much more.
Almost 4 hours of audio, with most ambiences over 3 minutes in length.
Perfect for film makers, theatre sound designers and anyone who needs that authentic, everyday sound of Sardinia.
All recordings are at 24Bit/96KHz with Soundminer, ID3 v2.3.0 & RIFF metadata embedded.
Streets and stop signs, freeways and highways, and yes, even a roundabout! This is a massive library featuring traffic ambiences that range from quiet suburb avenues, to downtown rush-hour. Not just urban environments, we also “hit the road” and drove north to sleepy desert towns, and single lane canyons. There's a ton of variety here!
Recorded with the stunning Sennheiser Ambeo microphone, each ambience is delivered in both AmbiX and FuMa formats, as well as Stereo, 5.1, and 7.1.
What’s more- a 360 video reference is provided to offer a fully immersive image of the sound effect being captured!
Cambodia Environments features more than 1 1/2 hours of diverse ambience – capturing the country’s lively urban centres, coastal communities, dense forests and serene countryside. This collection offers a vivid portrayal of daily life in the country, with an array of traffic, transporation and city market sounds, as well as rural village ambience and tranquil natural soundscapes.
All files are UCS compliant, 24 bit/ 96k and metadata is included (via soundminer), with keywords and detailed markers embedded to quickly locate specific sounds/ regions. Recorded with Usi Pro, Sony PCM-D100 and Wildtronics Stereo microphones.
Garden and nature all over the year: the fresh spring air filled with a morning concert of birds, crickets and summer ambiences, echoing neighbourhood chatter, gardening sounds, dogs barking, roosters crowing, jets and propeller planes passing overhead, as well as the profound silence and eerie presence of nocturnal animals in the depths of the night; the awakening of nature and residents in the early morning hours, and much more.
‘Residential Forest Complete’ combines all four libraries of long-term recordings from a German allotment environment into one. This remote area, surrounded by forest, features cottages, ponds, and an abundance of natural sounds. The library provides a rich blend of suburban, residential, and forest ambiences.
‘Suburban Wilderness’ includes 155 unique ambiences recorded in Germany during summer (August 2021), spring (April 2022), winter (January 2023) and autumn (October 2024). From these 96 hours of recordings, I have carefully selected and edited the finest moments, creating a 19 GB soundscape that takes listeners on a journey from afternoon to evening, through the night, and into the morning and midday hours in this residential forest setting.
To capture the profound silence of the night, I used a matched pair of Rode NT1-A microphones with exceptionally low self-noise, paired with a Tascam HD-P1 recorder.
The total duration of the library is approximately 13 hours, with most ambiences ranging from 5 to 10 minutes in length. Some are longer, while a few are shorter.
‘Suburban Wilderness’ was recorded in AB stereophony at 48 kHz, 24-bit.
Low-price. High-quality. Essential.
An essential collection of 100 seaside beach sounds, including ocean waves from various perspectives with seamless loops, as well as seagulls.
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 sound of rural France
High-quality recordings will transport your audience to the heart of rural France, where the sounds of nature is ever-present.
Cockerels crowing loudly in the distance
The chirping of crickets and buzzing of flys
The tweeting of nocturnal birds
The gentle hum of crickets and the occasional hoot of an owl as night falls
Recorded and exported in 32-bit 192Khz
We took several samples from the submerge sample pack, re edited and then designed them to sound like cave ambience’s
We’ve given you 18 Cave Design Ambience Samples further more we created an extra 6 specific single water drops all washed in the same reverb for consistency
So what if the reverb doesn’t match your cave? well we’ve covered this as well, We’ve given you all the samples dry, so you can wash these samples in your own preferred reverb.
Cave Design will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of Cave Ambience boosting your project to the next level. Cave Design has been edited to allow a drop in ready and Royalty Free sample pack. These Samples can be used in a variety of projects from Sound Designing/Compositions for TV, Film, Documentaries and Video Games. UCS Compliant and Metadata is attached to the samples
Feel the coldness of winter landscapes. In the heart of the Cantal mountains in France, immerse yourself in a soothing nature or in the cold winter wind.
All files are embedded with extensive UCS compliant metadata.
So We’ve been wanting to record in a deep dense Forest for sometime and this one was not only enjoyable but absolutely beautiful
We travelled to the Forest of Bowland, to record the beautiful sounds this Forest had to offer.
We were surrounded by Dense Conifer tree’s on a slightly damp/windy day which added to the atmosphere and extraordinary sounds the Forest created, with a constant variety of Bird songs and on occasions Sheep Bleating, it truly added to the recording experience.
Bowland was a hive of activity with some recordings capturing Aeroplane noises and vehicles driving around the Forest but we also got a variety of just natural Forest sounds without these disturbances.
The Forest will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of a UK Forest boosting your project to the next level. The Forest has been edited to allow a drop in ready and Royalty Free sample pack. These Samples can be used in a variety of projects from Sound Designing/Compositions for TV, Film, Documentaries and Video Games. UCS Compliant and Metadata is attached to the samples
NSL – ATMOS Vol.1 is a 40 Files Sound-Pack composed of Backgrounds Sounds made to be used in Dolby Atmos Format. You will have access to many samples: Forests, Rivers, Airfields, Alpine Mountains, Winds, and many more sounds…
The sounds of our world are full of beauty and intrigue, with each season bringing out a new and profound sound composition. Using the unmatched Schoeps ORTF3D Surround Set, in SEASONS OF EARTH we aim to capture the Earth’s most fascinating and iconic ambiences in a manner that faithfully reproduces the planet’s unique sonic signature. Use these high-quality audio files to create fully immersive 3D Surround or Stereo environments from scratch.
Once the snow has melted and the flowers have begun to bloom, Mother Nature overwhelms the senses with new sounds, colors, and experiences. Entire orchestras of sound rise to their climax as animals wake and continue the cycle of life while the skies open to pour out Earth’s nourishing rain.
EUROPEAN SPRING takes on a different dimension than our previous SPRING library, which was recorded in environments throughout the United States. EUROPEAN SPRING captures the outdoor atmosphere of Europe. It contains different birds, frogs, and other wildlife captured in stunning detail. In general, Europe is much more temperate, while the United States has a much more< diverse palette.
Now available in immersive 3D Surround.
An extraordinary sound library boasting high-quality recordings, rich with the authentic sounds of urban and suburban parks, lush gardens, and tranquil neighborhood backyards.
Ambiences from rural Southern Spain is a collection of sounds recorded over summer in a couple of rural areas in Andalusia – Antequera and Los Malagueños, near Malaga. Listen to the stillness of nature, sparse animals and insects in the morning, afternoon and at night. Walk down the quiet alleys and streets in scorching weather to experience what Southern Spain’s soundscapes have to offer.
This library is compliant with UCS (Universal Catalogue System) and recorded at high quality – 192kHz, 24bit.
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.
In this library you will find sounds of the countryside, nature and rural soundscapes recorded in the heart of agricultural areas, farms and different woodlands. Get the sounds of the pasture, hear the solo woodwinds that always paints the pastorale in an intimate archetypal way. The main inhabitants of this idyll are songbirds and their beautiful songs constitute the second main element of these quiet, tranquil and open soundscapes. Let the beautiful songs of Nightingales, Golden Orioles, Thrushes, Skylarks or Red Robins take you to a peaceful summer garden.
The different recording locations where carefully selected to provide a good amount of variety featuring different times of day. Besides the main two elements, wind and songbirds, I’ve recorded the noises in the rural soundscape as well as it’s quietudes. Hear the wind rushing through open planes, soft rain dripping on foliage, wheat field sizzling in the summer sun, tractors and farm animals, leisure activities, etc. Add a sense of space and openness to your project with these beautifully recorded tranquil nature back drops.
Ambience, Bee Hive, Birdsong, Bugs, Cattle, Coniferous Forest, Countryside, Crickets, Deciduous Forest, European Songbirds, Fall, Farm Animals, Flies, Foliage Rustling, General Ambience Series, Insects, Lake Site, Meadows, Monastery Garden, Natural Stone Cave, Open Fields, Planes, Rural Area, Silent Valley, Soundscape, Spring, Summer, Frogs, Wetlands, Wind, Woodlands.
Introducing the second instalment of our captivating “South African Interiors” ambiences sound effects library that transport you straight to the heart of vibrant local life! Dive into this eclectic collection that features a rich tapestry of interior ambiences, from the warmth of cozy shacks to the bustling energy of spaza shops and the rhythmic hum of taxi rides.
Don’t miss the opportunity to enrich your work with these distinctive soundscapes that resonate with the pulse of South Africa! Also available as part of the “South African Bundle” collection.
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