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Nature sound effects and recordings, from forests, jungles, plains and fields
For many people, rain is high on their list favorite sounds to relax, study, or sleep to. For how soothing and common of a sound it is, it happens to be one of the most difficult to record – that is, if you want to still be able to use your gear afterwards.
In early spring of 2023, a little rain recording experiment on the fire escape leading to my somewhat sheltered backyard revealed that little to no city noise would actually make it onto the recording. Surprised by how clean these recordings came out, and by how wet of a summer we’ve been having this year, I proceeded to record in the backyard of my apartment almost every time it rained.
Over a period of 6 months, I recorded hundreds of gigabytes of rain and ultimately narrowed it down to the 3 hours contained in this library. If you are looking for rain recordings that are clean and work well for layering while still clearly anchoring your soundscape in suburban spaces, this is the library for you! Also included are two long thunderstorms that can be heard moving into the distance.
These recordings contain no distinct car sounds, people, or sirens, and have been minimally processed to make them flexible for use in films, games, and video productions.
As an added bonus, this library contains immersive, Ambisonic (AmbiX) recordings of rain captured from the inside of a tin shed. To convert these recordings to binaural or surround formats I recommend downloaded the free SoundField by RØDE plug-in.
Total number of Files: 19
Total Duration: 3hrs 2min 33sec
Metadata: UCS file naming, SoundMiner, Soundly, BWF
Recording Specs: 24 Bit / 96 kHz
Channel Formats: Stereo, AmbiX (Ambisonics B-Format)
File Format: WAV
Size: 7.3 GB
Gear used: LOM Uši Pro Mics, RØDE NT-SF1 Ambisonic Mic, Zoom F3, Zoom F6, Zoom H1n
Processing: Level adjustment, Crossfades, Low-Shelf Filtering where necessary.
A Comprehensive, Curated Hong Kong Sound Effects Library
Recorded in early 2023, this library contains iconic, instantly recognisable Hong Kong sounds – a pedestrian crossing bleeping rhythmically against the hum of the city, the bell of the tram that goes “ding ding” as it passes, the intense chorus of black-collared starlings during sunset hours as you pass through a park.
Construct an accurate and genuine soundscape of Hong Kong with a full range of urban and suburban atmospheres, and sprinkle on carefully curated details like metro and bus PA announcements, car and boat passes, and individual voices chatting away.
What else?
The Full edition contains 193+ sounds and a total duration of 3h 44mins while the Lite edition contains a selection of 50 sounds from the full library, with a duration of 1h 12mins
All files are USC compliant and rich with metadata and keywords, ready to be used in your projects.
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.
Garden and nature in winter: sparse birdsong, busy gardeners, dogs barking with pleasant echoes, roosters crowing, jets and propeller planes passing overhead, as well as the dead silence and eerie rustling in the depths of the night; the awakening of nature and residents in the early morning hours, and much more.
‘Suburban Wilderness III’ is the third library in my series of long-term recordings from a German allotment environment. This remote area, surrounded by forest, features cottages, ponds, and an abundance of natural sounds. The library captures a blend of suburban, residential, and forest ambiences.
‘Suburban Wilderness III’ includes 36 unique ambiences recorded in Germany during spring, specifically in January 2023, from 1 p.m. to 11 a.m. the following day. From these 23 hours of recordings, I have carefully edited and curated the best moments, creating a 4 GB auditory journey through the afternoon, evening, night, 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 noise, paired with a Tascam HD-P1 recorder.
The total duration of the library is approximately 3.5 hours, with most ambiences ranging from 5 to 10 minutes. Some are longer, while a few are shorter.
‘Suburban Wilderness III’ was recorded in AB stereophony at 48 kHz, 24-bit.
Out of ice? Please help yourself. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Breaking Ice
This cinematic ice sound effects bring you 103 files and 250+ sounds – in both basic organic and designed formats.
You will get different types of ice cracking, squeaking, and creaking that you need for your related projects and room for further sound design with the flexible texture of the sounds for customization.
Performances include single or multiple crashing, smashing, shattering, debris movements, falling on different surfaces, rolling, stabbing with different tools, tiny-medium-large ice breaking, sweeping through, scatters and more. Breaking ice can level up your projects with fresh high quality sound effects with variety and quality of recording. And the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!
All sounds are in mono and stereo 24bit/96 KHz Wav format and they are just great for Foley, film, video, game, advertisement and music.
Breaking ice can level up your projects with fresh high quality sound effects with variety and quality of recording and the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Crafting & Survival SFX Pack for access to 1000+ sounds of drawers, electricity, fire, tactical and sports equipment, explosions, cloth, weapons, food and drink, glass, gore, mechanical gear, lots of metal impacts and movements on different surfaces, paper and other objects, robot, rifle and guns, rope and other vital tools, vegetation, vehicles, other weaponry, whoosh, wood, bags, doors, chains, destruction.
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.
UK Ambiences Bundle comprises rural and urban ambiences from across the UK designed to add authentic British textures to your Film, TV and Game projects. Our Audio Craftsmen, captured original recordings across Scotland, Gloucester and northern English countryside. This bundle is perfect for projects with both a rural and urban setting, or for crafting your own custom soundscapes.
The sounds in this library are supplied in both 24 bit / 192 kHz and 96 kHz format and have been tagged with extensive UCS metadata for ease of use.
In this library you will find recordings of outdoor environments captured at the salt flats near the Olhão city, such as birds, wind, water and some city background noise.
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 8 incredible salt flats ambient sounds.
This library features outdoor ambience recordings captured at a number of quiet locations around Hong Kong during the winter season. These locations includes: wetlands, large beaches, forests, lakes and meadows.
These sounds are perfect for background sound design in film, games, documentaries, art installation and etc.
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.
Lake District – UK is a collection of 18 ambiences (43+ minutes) recorded in the popular lakeside village of Windermere. Featuring locations throughout this beautiful English haven such as various lakeside positions, piers, promenades, harbours and more! Included on top of the 18 ambiences are 2 MS-RAW files of recordings to allow you to create the stereo image desired. Furthermore all tracks are delivered in 24bit/96kHz for the best quality sounds, and tagged with extensive USC compliant metadata.
The essentials collection contains 12 sounds pulled straight from the premium library, and presents a great value if you only need a few ambiences, but still need to maintain the integrity of your sound.
A useful volume of high quality sounds to create your Icelandic sound palette. Interior chat, shops, village activity, air, wind & transport. Recorded in Stereo and LCR.
Day and night recordings of the incredible wildlife.
Giant otters, birdlife, open plains to lush jungle. Stereo, LCR & 5.0 multitrack recordings all with meta tag and correct wildlife identification.
Into the great outdoors! This iconic Dutch classic – the Kip Hy-Line KH40EK caravan – was recorded in the middle of a nature reserve. All the elements in this tiny space were captured to allow for the perfect recreation of the real deal or to aid in re-imagining this tiny space in another way.
The caravan has a fresh white interior that was designed by the late Jan de Bouvrie and is very practical and has comes with plenty of cabinets and other storage options, a small fully furbished kitchen and is well insulated against temperature differences and noise.
This library contains the unique interior sounds of the caravan and its characteristic cabinets, doors, drawers, windows, fans, appliances, switches, locks and more with rich textures of squeaking hinges, wood and plastic friction.
The result is this 200+ sound, 900MB sized library.
The 177 files come in 24-bit, 96 kHz resolution .WAV format.
All files include UCS compliant and descriptive metadata.
Featuring;
All sounds were recorded using the Sennheiser MKH 8020 Stereo Pair and Sound Devices 788T.
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Ankers Audio presents a collection of stereo ambiences recorded during a 12 month travel around Spain. Recorded in 9 different parts of the country and featuring everything from busy city life to tranquil mountain ranges. Includes church bells, fireworks displays from Las Fallas festival, cafes, nature and several tracks of protests with large crowds. All tracks were recorded in 24Bit/48kHz with a Tascam DR100MKII.
Ready to use and filled with metadata.
Generic walla present in most tracks will be in Spanish (Castilian)
Immerse your audience into realistic NATURE settings of the highest quality! This audio library offers you hours of different background ambiences, including:
…and much much more!
NATURE & WEATHER ENVIRONMENTS is the perfect choice to transport your players or users to any natural environment around the Earth you require!
GET IT NOW to 100% immerse your users into perfect scenes and settings!
EXPLORE the EARTH’S ENVIRONMENTS
Whether your adventure takes place on in the GRASSLANDS, COUNTRYSIDE, FOREST, JUNGLE, BEACH, ISLAND, or DESERT WASTELAND, we’ve got you covered! Each ambience contains MULTIPLE VARIATIONS & WEATHER CONDITIONS, and MULTIPLE INTENSITIES to cover each and every setting. This sound effects library is perfect for any environment on Earth you can imagine.
MULTIPLE CHOICES for a PERFECT FIT
Our expert team of sound designers have meticulously crafted each ambience into CONTINUOUS, NON-REPETITIVE, DRAG AND DROP-READY LOOPS that will serve as perfect background audio for your game, film, animation, live event, or even as relaxing background audio! We have even included FULL and SIMPLIFIED MIXES, SHORT and LONG non-repetitive variants, multiple choices for INTENSITIES, and numerous other options for your convenience!
MASSIVE SAVINGS: The Pirate Sound Effects Bundle combines essential pirate-themed sounds—weapons, ships, ambiences, voiceovers, and more—into one comprehensive package. Save significantly by purchasing the bundle instead of individual packs. Click here to explore the bundle and save!
EVERY WEATHER, DAYTIME AND VEGETATION
This spatial collection of 101 carefully mastered shoreline sounds allow you to balance just the right amount of wave presence with appropriate wildlife to fit nearly every mood. Day or night, dune or forest, calm or windy, you will be able to craft your most compelling soundscapes.
DIFFERENT EXPOSURES
For example, distant ocean waves and clear gull cries or inspiring songbirds will produce a full frequency spectrum and depth of field. Need something more sheltered? One of the many cricket medleys combined with windblown dune grass will render an acoustic safe harbor for your audience to enjoy many pleasant vacation memories.
This Library is also part of The Complete Quiet Planet Bundle.
Libraries from Quiet Planet are covered by a special EULA - read it here.WHAT’S INSIDE
A CLEAN STAGE TO SHAPE YOUR EXPERIENCE
DESERTS are simple, spacious and lack echoes. Quiet prevails. Even so, you’ll want to challenge your audience, jolt them from their comfortable seats and immerse them in this inhospitable habitat. Do not be afraid to use harsh insects, driving winds, or even startle your listeners with a sudden, loud, unexplained alarm call of a strange bird nearby. Then settle them with expansive concerts, such as a reassuring gecko chorus composed of thousands of point-source clicks in step with the setting sun. All this is included in DESERTS – WEATHER & WILDLIFE which gives sound designers the easiest access to super-authentic soundscapes.
COVERING EVERY ANGLE
We offer you super-clean sounds from different deserts (temperate vs tropical), different times of day (morning, day, dawn) and different weather conditions. In addition you get very rare and clean sounds of desert wildlife.
This Library is also part of The Complete Quiet Planet Bundle.
Libraries from Quiet Planet are covered by a special EULA - read it here.WHAT’S INSIDE
RECORDED BY GORDON HEMPTON – THE SOUND TRACKER®
New and truly fascinating: CANYONS is a SFX library from our remarkable series of high quality nature recordings by Emmy-winner and nature recording genius Gordon Hempton. He has searched the globe for more than three decades to record nature at its most pristine.
BEAUTIFUL ECHOES FOR ABSOLUTELY AUTHENTIC AMBIENCES
Canyons have bright reflections and a deep resonant echo, making them a Holy Grail for nature sound libraries. The key to using Canyons to produce compelling sound designs is paying attention to the echoes as they vanish into a seemingly never ending space, allowing them to change and transform as they flow down a rock-walled corridor to ultimately disappear below the threshold of hearing.
This Library is also part of The Complete Quiet Planet Bundle.
Libraries from Quiet Planet are covered by a special EULA - read it here.Several waterfalls and rivers recorded in the Vosges Mountains in France.
It tooks place in three different location: Cascade Charlemagne, Pont des Fées, Saut des Cuves.
For almost every place, several microphones placements were used at close, medium and far distance.
In addition to the 2 stereo microphone pairs, a hydrophone track is also available to allow you to modulate the low end and to add more movement.
43 locations from various perspectives.
STREAM / RIVER & WATERFALL features WATER MOVEMENT from JAPAN and NEW ZEALAND.
Each STREAM / RIVER has unique flows, and the various terrains produce distinctive sounds, WATERFALLS from small to medium add a natural feeling.
In addition, this library also features places where SPRING WATER GUSHES, a huge ELECTRIC WATER PUMP from New Zealand, and more.
15GB / 88.WAV FILES TOTAL
Recorded @ 24 bit 96 kHz / ORTF, SPACED OMNI, XY and carefully edited.
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