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Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond
FOREST LIFE is a diverse collection of 104 isolated Forest Ambiences and Wildlife Sounds. It includes all of the sounds from the FOREST DAY and the FOREST NIGHT Sound Libraries, along with the Rivers and Lakes featured in the OCEANS RIVERS LAKES library. In addition, I’ve included the free mini library FOOTHILLS.
FOREST LIFE came out of a love for hiking and exploring Mountains and Forests and capturing the wonderful soundscapes of that world. Most of these recordings took place in California, in particular, a number of areas throughout the Angeles Forest. You’ll also come across sounds from high atop the Eastern Sierras, San Jacinto Wilderness, Los Padres Forest, and the Olympic Peninsula in Washington.
A variety of different bird species are included, at lower elevation settings, higher Mountains, throughout the day and night, some in isolation, others sometimes alongside wind and when at night, insects.
Also included are isolated Mountain winds in different variations and with vegetation and tree creaks. There’s Cicadas along with different sounding Crickets throughout various times of the night and day.
In the water collection there’s everything from slow trickle creeks coming out of Abandoned Mines to the fast flow of the Hoh River to gentle lake laps high atop the glaciers of the Inyo Forest.
The FOOTHILLS bonus library includes 9 files of Winds and Birds, and a few of the wonderful sounds of an Abandoned Ranch.
Detailed metadata and markers have been provided so they’re easily searchable. Photos are embedded in every file to give an idea of what the location was like. Checking out the Metadata Sheet will give one a better idea of everything else that’s in the library.
Bird Species
Day
Acorn Woodpecker, Black-headed Grosbeak, California Towhee, Canyon Wren, Common Raven, Cooper’s Hawk, House Finch, Hummingbird, Lawrence’s Goldfinch, Lazuli Bunting, Mountain Chickadee, Mountain Quail, Mourning Dove, Northern Flicker, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Pygmy Nuthatch, Red Shouldered Hawk, Spotted Towhee, Steller’s Jay, Yellow Warbler, Western Bluebird, Western Wood-Pewee
Night
Common Poorwill, Great Horned Owl, Whiskered Screech-Owl, Western Screech-Owl.
The Gear
Sound Devices MixPre-6 II
Sony A10
Sony PCM D100
Zoom F6
The Mics
Sennheiser MKH 8040
Sennheiser MKH 8020
Sennheiser MKH 60
Clippy EM272
Line Audio CM4
LOM microUsi Pro
Introducing Immersive Wallas on Set vol.3 – Experience authentic cinematic ambiances with Wallas On Set Vol. 3. This third edition features genuine walla recordings captured on movie and series sets, as well as real-life locations from projects we worked on this past year. Recorded in first-order ambisonics, this collection delivers immersive and realistic crowd and environmental sounds, perfect for enriching your sound design.
At Blacktone Studio, we understand the vital role sound plays in storytelling. Wallas, the ambient background chatter found in diverse locations, provides the foundation for creating realistic atmospheres in film and television. As always, we’ve taken our commitment to authenticity a step further by recording in ambisonic format.
Our team meticulously captured the essence of real-life film sets, from the energetic buzz of big scenes to the subtle whispers on quiet real locations. These recordings are a testament to our industry knowledge and commitment to delivering high-quality audio content.
Whether you’re working on a feature film, a documentary, or a video game, our Immersive Wallas on Set vol.3 provides the versatility you need to enhance your project. Easily searchable and expertly categorized, this collection ensures you find the perfect background atmosphere effortlessly.
All the recordings include metadata in English and Spanish, and they are compatible with software of sound library management like Soundminnner.
We have decoded all the First Order Ambisonic recordings with HarpeX plugin into 7.1.2 Dolby ATMOS bed configuration, using the top channel to create totally outstanding ambiences tracks ready to use!
All our libraries are UCS compliant (universalcategorysystem.com). In this new category system all files contain extensive metadata like file description, Category & Subcategory. Metadata can be read and processed by the most common audio libraries management tools . Starting with Full support from Soundminer and more audio tools adopting this system, we are adopting metadata UCS system in our files!
Ambisonics allows you to transcode the B-format files into a a lot of formats, (by using the free RODE DECODER plugin, the amazing Harpex B Converter , NoiseMakers tools or the new AudioBrewers plugins) – including stereo, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0 or 7.1 surround and higher immersive formats!.
ambiX First Order Ambisonic, Dolby ATMOS 7.12, 5.1 and ST files have been mastered with Pro Tools Ultimate system, and are included in the purchase.
Andaman and Nicobar tropical islands library is a rare collection of soundscapes captured in one of the Earth’s most remote jungles positioned in the middle of the ocean. These extensive groups of islands not only hold great biodiversity with many endemic species but are also still inhabited by real tribes that have no contact with the outside world. Mindfully curated sounds captured by one of the world’s most silent and sensitive omnidirectional microphones.
Designed for game developers and sound designers seeking to evoke the charm and danger of steampunk worlds. Introducing the “Steampunk Game” sound effects library featuring an expansive story telling collection of over 5000+ meticulously crafted game audio asset library, capturing just about every detail of this retro-futuristic era. Hear the clangs of gears, the whispers of steam valves, and the rhythmic pulses of mechanical marvels that transport yourself to a Victorian metropolis brimming with the energy of the industrial revolution. Whether you’re crafting the atmospheric hum of a steam-powered engine or the intricate wood contraptions of a fantastical gadget, this expansive library offers endless possibilities to unleash your creativity at every turn of the cog.
“Quiet Interior Ambiences” is a collection of 3 libraries or a total of 152 files that are recorded in various quiet hotels and empty schools. Inside you will find more than 15 GB and over 8 hours of high-quality quiet ambiences.
Quiet Hotels At Night Vol 1:
Quiet Hotels At Night is the first one of themed library series in which you’ll go through night hotels. The package includes 27 stereo tracks with evening and night atmospheres from hotel corridors and rooms. The library is recorded mostly in large hotels in Bulgaria, Sweden and Romania. You will hear a variety of quiet atmospheres from empty corridors and rooms, air conditioners, bathrooms, an empty lobby bar with working refrigerators, to low activity from neighbouring rooms and backgrounds, screaming from a distant room, etc. Room tones and ambiеnces are suitable background for any audiovisual projects.
All files are meta-tagged in Soundminer
Gear used: Sound Devices 633. Neumann KM184 stereo set, Sennheiser MKH8020 stereo set
Quiet Hotels At Night Vol 2:
“Quiet Hotels At Night Vol. 2” is the second part of our most popular library “Quiet Hotels At Night”. Comprised of the best pieces of several years of recordings. Imagine you are in a game or a security guard who is doing his regular tour. You find yourself in different corridors, rooms, and stairwells, even in the kitchen of a restaurant late at night. Through the recordings, you can experience a wide variety of settings – from riding a hotel elevator to looking around the lobby. The idea of the library is to include a rich variety of room tones and quiet atmospheres very early in the morning, late in the evening, or at night. The atmospheres in hotels of different sizes and stages of construction are quite distinctive because of their different reverberation, density of walls, doors, etc. Most of the library is focused around silence. You can hear photo-cell lighting at times, distant faint voices at others, or just sporadic sounds coming from places such as doors or footsteps from an upper floor. The stairwells are also very interesting as you can hear the sound of moving elevators stopping on another floor or the sound of pure electricity. This library sequel also includes atmospheres from the interior of moving elevators. You will hear the sound of doors closing, traveling, and doors opening. Room tones from a handful number of bathrooms are included as well. This library has been recorded in Eastern Europe and more specifically in Bulgaria which makes the atmospheres even more diverse and intriguing.
All of the files are carefully and thoroughly meta-tagged in UCS.
Gear used:
Recorders: Sound Devices 833, 664, Sony PCM D100, Zoom H6,
Microphones: Neumann KM184 mP, Usi Pro
Quiet School Ambiences:
Fighting Game includes 2500 SFX & loops – After months of sonic conflict, 14 voice acting warriors, and countless source recording and editing sessions, we happily present you with Fighting Game – fight scene and close combat sound effects library. Never surrender or retreat from a sound design battle again. Now YOU get to become the ultimate fighter and master sensei to almost any type of game audio project where combat sound effects, aggressive voice articulations, are needed. It’s the most supercharged, conflict-generating sound FX library available. Strike now and get this highly versatile and wide-ranging production suite, a genuine knockout with Mortal Kombat & martial arts styled sounds effects, male and female karate voice vocalizations & royalty-free production music loops. All game-ready.
Don’t get caught with your hands down to a client again or compromise on quality work – now it’s easier than ever to exchange blows to the face, create fight scenes with weight & emotion as well as inflict high levels of audio precision on your projects! With the Fighting Game, the battle has already been won. Kick off an action-packed adventure today! Hi-yah!
• 2500 sound effects & loops
• 600+ designed game ready – combat sound effects
• 900+ source/organic sound effects – build your own combat sounds or sweeten
• 800+ fighting voice sound effects (from 14 voice actors)
• 100+ royalty-free gameplay & menu music loops
• Over 2.5 GB of audio samples
• Over 73 minutes of game audio & SFX
• All in 96k/24bit .wav
There’s a lot of material here – recorded and organized with a sound editor’s sensibility.
The recordings started out by chance – I’d end up in protest situations, and happened to have a recorder with me. This year I was a little more proactive, especially for the rally in Washington Square Park after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade.
Also in this collection: A Downtown Brooklyn BLM march, A 2019 Foley Square rally in response to border camps/family separation, A UFT protest at City Hall, and a couple different mics on the jubilant reaction to Biden’s presidential win on the corner of Atlantic and Court in Brooklyn. There’s not much underpinning music or other legally difficult material, but there is some. I’ve chosen to leave it in, for the most part, as this is also a historical record.
Quite a few takes are very long, and encompass changing circumstances. I’ve opted to use WAV markers, which I’m also providing as “Notes” metadata – making phrases, cheers, and other things I’ve noted searchable and findable!
Everything is UCS complaint.
*Most material was recorded on a Sony PCM-100, and originated 96k/24bit; Some material was recorded with the Sennheiser Ambeo Headset, and was upsampled to 96k/24bit from 48k/24bit
EMPTY CITIES DURING LOCKDOWN (restrictions due to Covid-19)
The lockdown was such a restrictive and devastating measure for all the societies we live in. At the same time though, it created a unique opportunity in history from a soundscape point of view.
This sound library frames that moment.
I believe it could have, in first place, an historical and anthropological value.
Attentive listeners will be able to appreciate how a reduced human presence did actually set free sounds that were barely audible, changing the perception of them. If earlier our ears used to meet constant sound streams, compact drones due to omnipresent traffic, now they can perceive a microcosm of sounds, small details, sound objects that bounce in the empty cities, finally free. Voices and murmuring of the few people around are all muffled by the use of face masks.
Sound designers will be able to make full use of this microcosm to paint their backgrounds with lively environments, full of small sounds, buzzes, scattered voices, thuds, bells, and so on, all reverberated in empty open spaces.
With human beings locked up, sounds got unlocked!
Enjoy listening and feel free to get in touch for feedbacks at [email protected]
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> 5 cities in north-eastern Italy: Trieste Udine Palmanova Grado Venezia.
> 30 locations, 79 sounds, 387 minutes total time running.
> Very long tracks, over 5 minutes each!!!
> All sounds recorded in a stereo ORTF configuration with Neumann KM140 (pair), Sound Devices Mixpre3, 48kHz-24bit.
Wind collection Vol 2 offers gentle breezes to strong gusts, spooky drafts to rare old bamboo field wind sounds. All files are clean and contain no traffic noise or any other human made annoying sounds. This means the wind sounds can cover many productions including documentary, game sounds, movie background, and for all time periods! From medieval settings to unknown times and places, these wind recordings offer a credible background. During 3 years this collection was growing bit by bit, adding variations and useful situations. The rare presence of insects or birds is mentioned in the metadata, but they apply to less than a handful of files.
The acoustic wind collection covers over 3,5 hours of stereo recordings, binaural recordings for immersive wind sounds, and some mono files for specific use.
When Loop is indicated in the filename, the file can be looped as you would expect, but these files are unlike sample loops, or instrument loops: they are of course longer and loop after a good amount of time, sometimes several minutes. The looped files are chosen by their contents and have no moments that are too recognizable if heard a second time, so they are useful for backgrounds.
All files have UCS compliant names and include metadata with useful descriptions.
You can find a Draft folder with stereo and binaural recordings in interesting abandoned places that had a draft close to a door or window. You might hear some dark reverb or cracks in those places that deliver a great ghostly atmosphere.
The bamboo wind recordings are also very special as these were made in old bamboo fields that were not cleaned. This means there were old and broken parts between the weeping bamboo, assuring nice clunks and squeaks.
Other than that you will find many winds, through air, through vegetation, in empty villages, in a small van for specific perspectives, wind through tunnel, very bad recordings with no wind protection for typical interview fails…
You can find the following libraries in this collection >
This construction kit creates the world of various rotating gear sounds. Medieval astronomical clocks, fantasy inventions and steampunk gizmos with a lot of wooden shafts, cogs, sprockets and other parts. From tiny to large objects, you can hear the wooden material working in all its nudity – friction, knocking, clacking, rattling, squeaking, crackling, howling and so on.
The product includes 75+75 source recordings and 65 designed tracks of different wooden and sometimes metal gears, variety of styles, types, speeds and timbres.
ROAR By Stags is sound effects library constructed with high quality recordings of deers roaring in the middle of the forest. Everything was captured at night, during the high time of rut. It’s time when the stags are most vocal, calling to attract the attention of hinds. During those 2 to 4 weeks they are less cautious and easier to record. Inside this package you’ll find 267 files with total length of 291 minutes, both stereo and mono recorded in few different places, covering a wide range of sounds from general ambients with distant and washed out calls, through middle range roars, up to very close ones. There are also few foley like recordings of deers walking or rubbing their antlers against the trees. This is a complete package for any nature documentary, horror-ish scenes or a great set of sounds for monster / creatures sound design.
This library in numbers:
Punches, Kicks & Swooshes Bundle combines our ‘Vintage Fight Vol. 1’, ‘Cinematic Fight Vol. 1’, and ‘Realistic Fight Vol. 1’ libraries. Including over 115 sounds performed and designed to create or enhance your film, TV or game fight sequences.
This bundle is filled punches, kicks, blocks, swooshes and vocal grunts. Whether you’re looking to re-create the chaotic whirlwind of a Kung-Fu showdown, the epic, adrenaline fuelled rollercoaster of an action punch up, or transport your audience to a heart poundingly realistic street fight. This collection includes everything needed to elevate your fighting sound design.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 192kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation, and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Dive into a collection of ambiences recorded across Quebec, with a focus on the beautiful Gaspé Peninsula. Captured during the lively summer and spring months, this library offers a mix of natural and urban sounds that bring the essence of the province to life.
From the haunting calls of a thousand gannets in their colony to the gentle sound of raindrops on dead leaves, you’ll find yourself immersed in the peaceful quiet of Canadian forests and the lively energy of Montréal and Quebec City streets. Hear the chattering of aggressive squirrels, the bustling atmosphere of city life, and the mesmerizing sound of a starling murmuration taking off.
This collection gives you a taste of both Canada’s wild landscapes and its lively urban environments, perfect for creating the right atmosphere in any project.
Recorded Locations
Montreal • Quebec City • Gaspésie National Park • Forillon National Park • Gaspé • Bonaventure Island • Chaudière Falls Park • Jean Larose Falls • Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area • Saint-Donast • Mont-Bélair Natural Park • Jacques-Cartier National Park • Bic National Park • Causapscal
Referenced Species
American Crow • American Red Squirrel • American Robin • Black-backed Woodpecker • Black-capped Chickadee • Blue Jay • Boreal Chickadee • Common Grackle • Common Raven • Dark-eyed Junco • Golden-crowned Kinglet • Northern Flicker • Northern Gannet • Red-breasted Nuthatch • Red-winged Blackbrid • Ring-billed Gull • Snow Goose • White-throated Sparrow • White-winged Crossbill • Yellow-rumped Warbler
Gear used
Zoom F3 • LOM Usi Pro
Metadata
This sound library is UCS compliant and comes with fully embedded metadatas compatible with Soundly, Soundminer and Basehead.
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
Take a journey back in time with Ultimate Medieval SFX Bundle! Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Ultimate Medieval SFX Bundle
With this collection you will have access to a carefully curated collection of Medieval Warfare, Medieval Town and Green Witch’s Cauldron sound effects. It covers your most essential historical needs with 1.200+ sounds, recorded and designed professionally.
You can find rope stressing sounds, listen to the rain on a beach from a bush perspective, bottle up potions, and hear a soldier as he gets ready for a battle. Listen to barn animals, horses, weapons and tools; town ambiences, mine, blacksmith, tavern, field, church bells; dried seeds and herbs, defensive spells and transfiguration spells. Go ahead and check out the contents of these three different collections included in the Ultimate Medieval SFX Bundle one by one and start imagining a story already!
You’ll find yourself first on a brutal battlefield, then come back to the busy town a little. Don’t be afraid to ask for some healing magic from the Green Witch! Travel back to the Middle Ages and take Ultimate Medieval SFX Bundle with you!
These sounds are available in 24-bit / 96kHz, were recorded delicately with DPA 4060s and Neumann KM184 pairs, have clarity and room for further sound design with the flexible texture of the sounds for customization.
About Medieval Town SFX Pack
400+ sound effects from a simple town’s parts such as; barn, field, grassland, tavern, blacksmith, carpenter, library, church, graveyard, mine, and many more a medieval town could offer. With the Medieval Town Sound Effects Bundle you will have access to dressage sounds, kitchenware sounds, church bells, town ambiences, medieval mechanical devices, mining sounds, animals, tools, weapons and more. Medieval Town Sound Effects Bundle was recorded and designed delicately for all your historical needs.
About Medieval Warfare SFX Pack
Medieval Warfare Sound Effects Pack brings the most realistic 350+ medieval sound effects that you may need for your game/film/creative projects. It includes sound effects of; warriors, explosions, barn animals, horse sound effects, medieval life sound effects, weapons, and tools, human voices, and many more to find out.
You will have access to weapon sound effects, animals, horse items, ambiences, medieval life items, sword hits, catapult, crossbow, arrow whooshes, battle cries, castle gates, foley sound effects and more. Medieval Warfare Sound Effects Pack is specifically designed for all your historical needs, with the texture of the sounds flexible for customization. Plus, you get the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!
Great for film, video, game, advertisements, Foley and suitable further as sweeteners outside of the medieval genre as well.
Green Witch’s Cauldron SFX Pack
Green Witch’s Cauldron brings you the 450+ sounds of healing white magic and spells of a playful and sometimes wicked witch. It includes collecting and drying herbs, bubbling boiling potions, bottling, casting spells with elemental magic, and many more you can find in a cauldron. With this pack, you will have access to cat sounds, witch reactions, dried seeds, dried herbs, defensive spells, attacks, transfiguration spells, whooshes and transitions and elements.
Green Witch’s Cauldron Sound Effects Bundle was recorded and designed exquisitely for all your magical needs and covers all sound effects needs for any white magic, potion-brewing, voices and subtle sounds of a witch’s life for the relevant projects and games that you are working on.
These meticulously recorded sounds have clarity and lots of room for further usage and sound design with the flexible texture of the sounds for further customization. With 24-bit / 96kHz Wav format and easy to navigate naming, you can now set the bar higher for all your film, game, motion and video projects, advertisement, animation and all witchy projects.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Gore for warfare, Essential Magic for darker magic and spells and All About Games Master Collection for a mega collection of 23 different packs for game audio sound effects.
European wetlands/marshes sounds: soundscapes and animals recorded in spring, summer and autumn on various location. Soundscapes of the forest swamp with individual birds call/song included.
Recorded in MS stereo, SASS stereo, with parabolic reflector and underwater mics (hydrophones). Background soundscapes for film. Individual sounds of most common birds/amphibian included (scientific name included in metadata). Check the sound list for additional info.
Recorded with Sennheiser MKHs, Telinga parabolic mic, Sound Devices recorder/mixer, etc.
(equipment – info included in metadata)
Take to the skies with “Planes of LAX,” a sound library that thrusts you into the thunderous symphony of jet engines soaring down into and roaring up out of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Tailored for professionals in film, games, and immersive formats, this collection will take your jetliner flybys to the next level.
Immerse your audience in a three-dimensional auditory experience with Ambix Ambisonic recordings and decoded 7.1.2 Atmos Bed, 5.1, and Stereo versions.
Decoded and referenced in Dolby Atmos at Cheviot Sound, ensuring top-quality playback.
Along with decoded stereo files, choose from separately recorded stereo and mono recordings, adding flexibility to meet the unique demands of your projects. Stereo recordings were expertly captured using a Tascam X8 in an XY configuration, while mono recordings were taken with a Rode NTG5.
Immerse yourself in the distinctive roars, whines, and rumbles of various planes, including but not limited to:
Airbus A320, A321, A350, A380
Boeing 737-7H4, 737-823, 737-824, 737-825, 767-332ER, 777-223, 787-9 Dreamliner
Boeing C32A Airforce Two
Bombardier Challenger 605
Embraer 175LR, E175LR-04, E175LL, Phenom 300, Phenom 300-02
Mitsubishi CRJ-701ER
Decode to 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0, 7.1 and higher immersive formats, Change orientation, and Emulate microphone polar patterns using ambisonic decoder plugins:
RODE SoundField – FREE
Harpex B Converter – PAID
Recording-
Jack Weiss
Roy Berardo
Editing-
Jack Weiss
Photos-
Jethro Tai
Dive into the authentic urban atmospheres of French cities with our dedicated sound bank. Recorded in various locations such as Nantes, Strasbourg, Paris, Montpellier, Orléans, and more, our recordings offer a total immersion into the daily life of French city-dwellers.
Our collection is divided into two parts: a binaural section for an immersive spatial listening experience, and a stereo section for use in audio or audiovisual post-production.
You’ll find a wide variety of typically French urban environments, including restaurants, terraces, markets, parks, as well as street atmospheres, tourist areas, and traffic.
Each sound is captured with great precision to faithfully reflect the atmosphere and essence of the recorded locations. This sound bank is designed to meet the needs of sound professionals, offering a valuable resource to enhance their creative projects with realistic and evocative urban atmospheres.
FOREST DAY is a diverse collection of 59 isolated Forest Ambiences and Wildlife Sounds.
This library came out of a love for hiking and exploring Mountains and Forests and capturing the wonderful soundscapes of that world. Most of these recordings took place in California, in particular, a number of areas throughout the Angeles Forest. You’ll also come across sounds from high atop the Eastern Sierras, San Jacinto Wilderness, Los Padres Forest, as well as a few other Forests.
A variety of different bird species are included, at lower elevation settings, higher Mountains, throughout the day, some in isolation, others sometimes alongside wind.
Also included are isolated Mountain winds in different variations and with vegetation and tree creaks. There’s Cicadas and a few day crickets.
Detailed metadata and markers have been provided so they’re easily searchable. Photos are embedded in every file to give an idea of what the location was like. Checking out the Metadata Sheet will give on 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 at night can pick up FOREST LIFE. That comes with multiple libraries at a bit of a discount along with the bonus mini library FOOTHILLS.
Bird Species
Day
Acorn Woodpecker, Black-headed Grosbeak, California Towhee, Canyon Wren, Common Raven, Cooper’s Hawk, House Finch, Hummingbird, Lawrence’s Goldfinch, Lazuli Bunting, Mountain Chickadee, Mountain Quail, Mourning Dove, Northern Flicker, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Pygmy Nuthatch, Red Shouldered Hawk, Spotted Towhee, Steller’s Jay, Yellow Warbler, Western Bluebird, Western Wood-Pewee
The Gear
Sound Devices MixPre-6 II
Sony A10
Sony PCM D100
Zoom F6
The Mics
Sennheiser MKH 8040
Sennheiser MKH 8020
Sennheiser MKH 60
Clippy EM272
Line Audio CM4
LOM microUsi Pro
Dive down in the dark abyss and experience the cold otherworlds with sharp currents and muddy bottom…
Following the legacy of Dive Deep 1 from 2016, here comes Dive Deep 2 with a new generation of underwater ambiences. The sounds of rushing, bubbling currents have been created with more impressive details, clarity and definition. And there are other design styles at your disposal too, such as flat pads, grainy trickling, otherworldly drones or deep kicking moves.
Every now and then an opportunity comes along that you just cannot pass up. The chance of going on a recording trip to Zimbabwe alongside someone who knows the area and many locals was exactly that.
I traveled to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe in August of 2023. As the dry season and the coldest time of year was still in full swing, the land is dry, and animals travel long distances to reach watering holes and rivers to drink. With the trees dried out and few insects in sight, the soundscape across the steppes is eerily quiet day and night, save for the large number of helicopters flying tourists around during the day.
Not only was it an utterly inspiring experience just taking in the beauty of nature and the warm spirits of the people I have met, it was also an exercise in navigating the challenges of anthropogenic noise becoming more prevalent around the globe. With this time of year being the height of tourism season, capturing the sounds of nature meant having to find pockets of silence to avoid the sounds of helicopters, safari trucks, and trains carrying coal.
By resorting to drop rigs, overnight recording, and getting up before sunrise to record, I captured a wide range of birds, mammals, and ambiences that will let you recreate the soundscapes of this vivid nation in your projects. Of course, I also had to capture the incredible majestic power of Victoria Falls’ namesake waterfalls, both in stereo and Ambisonic format.
A portion of the sales proceeds for this library will be donated to local conservation efforts including Painted Dog Rescue, African Wildlife Foundation, as well as CARE‘s efforts in providing food and nutrition security, climate resilient livelihoods, economic development, education, and water.
Read my Article about the Trip here!
Farm Game includes 1000 SFX – Create cute & cozy farming sound design & atmospheres at light speed with Farm Game, a casual farming simulation sound effects library inspired by Stardew Valley & the Sims. From cows in the pasture, to building a pigpen, Farm Game provides a wide range of professional sounds creating a perfectly balanced mix of designed and hyper-realistic sound assets, all aiming to enrich and enlarge your creative possibilities with sound. In addition to a broad and solid foundation of farm game and country lifestyle sound effects, the Farm Game collection highlights sound effects that are full of detail and vibrance and at the same time leave enough room for further sound design and processing.
Designed to give you the essential tools to craft unique, ice-themed audio, this toolkit goes beyond just frozen environments. It includes a mix of authentic ice sounds alongside complementary elements, all focused on the central theme of ice. Whether you’re working on icy landscapes, frost weapons, or other frozen elements, this library provides you with the freedom to build your own custom soundscapes.
Frozen Core Vol. 1 – Forge is all about giving you the freedom to build, experiment, and create with sounds that fit your unique vision of ice and frost. With this library, you have the perfect foundation for your projects, while the Source and Processed categories offer the flexibility to take your designs as far as your creativity will go.
Sounds of Asia explores the sounds native to this diverse and vibrant area of the world.
These sounds were recorded in Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia over a period of several years.
From various foreign accents, to food courts in Thailand, the famous Tokyo fish markets and metro, wildlife in rural Indonesia, the hill tribes of Vietnam, Jakarta’s omnipresent Islamic call to prayer, and the general chaos of South East Asian traffic and markets, this collection is a true snapshot of Asia. Please check out the Tracklist below for specific track information.
Sounds of Asia was recorded with the intention to be particularly useful in post-production environments with a range of genuine and rare sounds you can genuinely expect to hear in these countries.
We really hope you enjoy this extensive, high-quality sound pack.
All tracks recorded by Evan Buist, sound engineer and field recordist (National Geographic, DreamWorks, Paramount Pictures).
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A Sound Effect is a wonderful resource for indie sound effects libraries. On top of that, it has some of the finest sound design, film and game audio interviews!
I often need very specific types of sounds so I've become a big supporter of independent recorders.
Until now I've always had to go to their individual websites. Now I can find them all in one place.
And, Asbjoern is great to work with!
A Sound Effect is a well curated boutique sound effects shop and a great place to find industry interviews and learning resources.