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Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond
Unleash the terror with our ultimate Horror Bundle, a spine-chilling collection of music and sound effects designed to make your audience jump. Whether you need the haunting melodies of Hollow Tales, the blood-curdling crunches from Rip & Tear: Gore SFX, the creepy atmosphere of Layered Horror Ambiences, or the terrifying growls and groans of Zombie Voices, this bundle has it all. It’s like having a horror project’s sound crew in your pocket—minus the nightmares! Perfect for games, films, or any project that needs a bit of fright, this bundle has everything spooky in one place.
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.
The streets of a city are invaded by thousands of spectators, the artists engage with them, from this encounter emanates an overflowing energy.
All files are embedded with extensive UCS compliant metadata.
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East River ferry immersion – pretty much all you’ll need to recreate a trip on the ferry – or how it sounds from the quayside/shore. Immersive binaural stereo locates you right by the ferry station with a groaning pontoon and creaking fenders and gentle river wave action. Then boarding and disembarking, as well as a suite of onboard sounds inside the main passenger cabin and out on deck. No wind buffet here … just awesome variable boat engine sounds and wave lap against the hull.
Binaural stereo – the next best thing to being there. Take a little trip … with the Audio Ninja.
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In the Nomad series we’ve captured a wide variety of locations and soundscapes in remote, hard-to-reach wilderness during a two month, 1,000-km thru hike trek across New Mexico state, Texas, Arizona and Utah following the Continental dive trail.
You’ll hear unique arid desert, deep canyon, wild river, mountain forest, desert silence, wild animals and a variety of New Mexico birds: raven, robin, turtle-dove, sparrow, hawk, coyote, prairie dog, etc….
In this collection you’ll find high quality audio recordings in ambisonic Ambix format with references pictures, detailed track sheet and a reaper session.
Bonus 1 : Outside impulse response audio files recorded with balloon explosion to complete the collection.
Bonus 2 : Audio files of city rumors and passing diesel trains encountered along the way.
Field recording locations : Monument Valley, Carlsbad cavern, Crazy Cook monument, Gila wilderness, Petrified forest national park, Bear Ears national monument and many other mythical wild places.
We used a Sound Device MixPre6 + ZOOM F6 Field Recorder and Reynolds 1st order Ambisonic mics.
In the Nomad series we’ve captured a wide variety of locations and soundscapes in remote, hard-to-reach wilderness during a six-month, 3,000-km thru hike trek across New Zealand following the Te Ararora trail ,
You’ll hear unique exotic birds and be immersed in soundscapes between the Tasman Sea and the Pacific Ocean, in the heart of primeval jungle, in the lost alpine mountains of the Richmond Range and the many Scottish-like pastures.
In this collection you’ll find rare high quality audio recordings in ambisonic Ambix format with references pictures, detailed track sheet and GPS location on both North and South Island.
Lower the sails, man the cannon and prepare yourself for an epic journey across the open sea! Dead men tell no tales so join us now before Davy Jones takes you to his locker with the perfect collection of handcrafted premium Pirate Game SFX featuring 3200 game ready audio assets made up of 555+ sound sets across over every sound type needed to completely pillage and plunder your next game audio experience! Dig for treasure, explore undiscovered islands, captain your wooden galleon, drop anchors, ignite TNT barrels, collect the ancient magic relics, and more importantly build an immersive audio experience for your projects.
The NSL Nature Bundle includes 4 New Sound Lab sound libraries.
382 high resolution WAV files – 180 minutes – 9 GB
This Nigerian voices library offers a diverse array of walla tracks that can enrich your projects. The collection features individual male and female voices, as well as mixed groups, allowing you to customize ambiences according to your needs.
With distinct layers for each group size, you can easily manipulate the density of the soundscapes. Whether you’re recreating the lively ambience of a bustling street, the relaxed chatter of patrons in a restaurant, or the energetic cheers of a concert crowd. This versatility makes it an invaluable resource for filmmakers, game developers, and audio professionals looking to infuse their productions with authentic Nigerian sound elements. Enhance your ambient backgrounds and transport your audience into the heart of Nigeria’s vibrant culture with this meticulously curated library.
Binaural soundscapes from Grand Central Station – recorded to have plenty of background (and some mid & foreground) voices without anything too recognizable – so you can add your own dialogue in the foreground, OR loop sections you like most without it being obvious. The central concourse soundscapes are fairly static – but others move at walking speed – between different locations from street level entrances, through the concourse to the platform. There’s even a couple of revolving doors and an empty escalator/platform to add your action onto. Recorded on (my) dummy head with high-quality omni mics – listening back in headphones instantly immerses you in the middle of the sound field. Binaural stereo – the next best thing to being there! And all with just two channels. So put your headphones on and take a little trip – with the Audio Ninja.
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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.
Design realistic sports ambiences with this feature complete bundle of crowd reactions and field-of-play interactions, recorded in crystal-clear stereo on a centered front-row seat position.
Inside Sports Ambience Bundle you’ll find everything from support chants, goal celebrations, booing, casual conversations, clapping, local team speakers asking for crowd backing, referee whistles, coach instructions, air horns, overenthusiastic children, pre-match drills, and plenty of other content spread through long and evolving audio files.
Sports included on this bundle are the following:
With over 48GB of content spread through 1522 minutes, this bundle serves as your seasonal ticket for any team sports project and its passionate crowds.
Sports Ambience Bundle contains:
Bonus Content: Sports Ambience Bundle offers an additional three and a half hours of recordings from Portugal’s main soccer league in a crowded stadium, alongside outdoors youth drills.
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.
This bundle includes 4 different libraries.
The Baltic Sea sound library is compilation of 56 WAV files recorded with Sound Devices 702, Rode NTG3, Sony PCM-M10, two Oktavas MK012 set in MS, XY and ORTF setup. All the sounds were recorded far away from the cities and roads. Since most of the sounds were recorded in late winter, there are no insects or birds in background. There are few files that includes the sound of birds, but I left them on purpose, because of the overall feel of the files. In this library you will find beautiful sound of waves crushing on the rocks and shore, recorded from different perspectives in different stereo configurations, during calm and windy days. In addition to those sounds, there’s foley like walking, running and swimming in the water.
The Harbours Of Norway sound library features 25 files with ambients recorded in Myre, Sto and Nyksund, very small towns with direct access to the sea. Most of the sound effects were recorded at night, but since it’s a polar day time of the year, it was very pleasurable to walk and look for convenient places to set up my gear. Everything was recoded with ORTF setup built from two Sennheisers MKH 8040. Inside this library, you’ll find a lot of seagulls, waves crushing on the rocks and plants, windy ambients from the cliff, industrial sound from port in Myre with ship unloading the cargo, walla with steam engine boat and additional sounds from boat engine market and air cooling aggregates from food containers. Every file was recorded in 96kHz, edited (i removed any unintentional bumps, pops and unwanted sounds). I limited EQing to removing harsh frequencies, or enhancing a little bit the good sounding ones. At the end of the chain there is a small compression, for louder sounds.
The Summer Ambients sound library contains 33 beautiful WAV files recorded with Sound Devices 702, Rode NTG3, two Oktavas MK012 in MS and stereo XY pattern. All sounds were gathered in different and beautiful places like forests, lakes, meadows or swamps. You can expect amazing ambients, textures, different birds, insects, forest during rain, calm and windy days. It’s a perfect library for designing background sounds. Everything was recorded in amazing Masuria in Poland.
Summer ambients Update – library got 2x bigger and heavier than the original library. 59 additional files, 123 minutes of high quality audio recorded with Sennheiser MKH 8040 ORTF setup, Rode NTG3, Oktava MK012 XY setup plugged into SD702 and Sony PCM-10. It features ambients from the forests, ponds, swamps, meadows, lakes and suburbs recorded is very quiet locations, mostly just before the sunrise, during the day and before sunset far away from the cities.
Water Flow sound library took me about six months to record, consumed about 15 thermoses of tea and 42 litres of gasoline to get to all locations. It offers 90 BWAV files recorded in different locations. Huge part of this library is based on the recording sessions on the rivers. Two completely different locations, recorded regularly for the last 5 months allowed me to create this unique sound library. Most of the recording sessions took place during winter just before the sun was rising to reduce the amount of unwanted sounds. Almost all recordings are completely clear and only few have birds in background, since it was my intention to record some location ambients with natural backgrounds.
You can see the metadata and sound list below.
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.
The NSL Transit Bundle includes 3 New Sound Lab sound libraries. 204 high resolution WAV files – 180 minutes – 9 GB
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
Essential Sound New York & Subway Bundle
This bundle includes both the top selling New York City libraries: Essential New York City, and Essential New York City – Street and Subway.
These two libraries combined give you access to the rich urban intercity, under-city and rural ambiences that keep making New York sound unique. Sirens, skyline drones, and the beating heart of NYC are all covered in this bundle.
Included sounds are: wet and dry close and distant perspective traffics, skyline dins, subway interiors, bys, through walls, etc. Pedestrians on busy sidewalks, quiet side streets, and dozens of other locations and situations.
All tracks have been meticulously recorded and mastered with Sony D10-D50 and similar field recorders and Pro Tools.
All recordings have full metadata created in Soundminer.
24bit/48Khz
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!
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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.
Gain instant access to the sounds of magic, mystery, fascination and adventure with the Fantasy Game 2 – Sound Kit for Enchanted Realms. Discover a vast collection of interactive sounds specially crafted for RPGs, open-world adventures, and epic fantasy narratives, games, film, interactive media. Experience the clash of steel of epic battles to the ethereal chime of enchanted spells. It’s all you need to make every action, spell, and encounter feel and sound truly magical. Whether you’re exploring forgotten ruins, summoning arcane forces, or waging valiant combat, Fantasy Game 2 – Sound Kit for Enchanted Realms is your instant gateway to an unforgettable fantasy soundscape.
Volume 3 – AR of the Esoteric Series is a fully immersive SFX library dedicated to the natural element of air. From the gentle rustling of leaves in a soft breeze to the ferocious howls of raging storms, and even the sonic ruptures created by massive moving structures tearing air molecules apart, this collection captures the complete spectrum of moving air.
Every sample stems from meticulous field recordings in both urban and wilderness environments, then noise‑cleaned and enhanced to deliver crystal‑clear quality. Backed by years of research and expert sound design, Volume 3 offers an unparalleled aural journey through the limitless variations of wind SFX—perfect for film, video games, VR, trailers, and immersive installations.
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 >
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