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Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond
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.
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.
An imaginative and supercharged collection of the next generation of modern, futuristic, and sci-fi vehicles, energy and engine sound effects. Introducing, Game Engines Sound Kit, a new breed of designed vehicle sound fx featuring a massive 10GB sound bank that fulfills all your needs related to spaceship engines, machines, robotics, mechs, power ups, power down, and super useful space background ambiences. The range of creative sound design and attention to quality in Game Engines is incredibly versatile and created for those who want to build compelling futuristic scenes in AAA games, film and TV. All game & production ready.
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.
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
Welcome aboard! Our sailboat today is a Bavaria 36ft, 30HP, with Volvo Penta MD2030 engine. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Bavaria 36 Sailing Boat
You will hear 58 unique files of 32m 35s duration, including sailing, sail foley, engine ignition starts and cut offs, water movements, different RPMs, interior and on-deck Foley and ambiences from different perspectives like front, rear, near the water, inside the hull.
These pristine sounds are broadly categorized as cruising, sailing, mooring, sailboat Foley, such as wheel anchor rope engine, engine takes and interior and deck ambiences.
You will experience windy and calm ambiences on a fine day on the Marmara Sea, far from the Istanbul shore. Recorded on our favorite DPA-4060 and Neumann KM184 pairs, making the most of the different ambiences of many spots on the sailboat.
These meticulously recorded 400+ sounds have clarity and lots of room for further usage and sound design with the flexible texture of the sounds for further customization. Plus, you get the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!
You can now set the bar higher for all your sailing game, motion and video projects with the 32 minutes of pristine sounds with their intuitive and detailed naming.
Keywords Actions, Mood, Style, PerspectiveSailboat, Bavaria 36, DPA4060, stable RPM, stern, pulpit sailing boat, boat, sailing, cruising, sea, lake, mooring, Foley, wheel, weighing, stowing, anchor, chain, rope, engine, interior, deck, ambiences, Water, splash, winch, starboard, creak, cabin, cabinet, toilet, kitchen, cleat, reverse, release engine, hydrophore, radio vhf, long, short, seagull, subtle, wind, idle, stop, start, accelerate, water tank booster, beep, creak, Italian, Russian, English, jump, firm, walk, slow, closet, open, close, curtain, lock, slide, Tascam DR-40X, tray clutch, kitchenware, moored boat, crank, ferry, pass-by, sail up, flap, mainsail, control, tension, float, ship, fog horn, flush, automatic, bow thruster, Raymarine Transducer, Room Tone.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Mechanicals SFX Pack for access to 600+ sounds of mechanics, tools, Foley and equipment sound effects and Suzuki Samurai 1.3 for 84+ rare sounds of Suzuki Samurai and four wheel drive (4X+) vehicle sounds.
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)
In this comprehensive collection you’ll discover an extensive array of pristine, isolated recordings capturing the nuanced vocalizations of a diverse range of farm animals. Included is maybe one of the most detailed distinctions between various sheep breeds – from the weak first calls of a lamb to the breathy but historic bleating of the Soay Sheep to the more robust calls of Suffolk Sheep up to the harsh burping of Scottish Black Face Sheep (and even more sheep). Explore the intricate world of poultry with detailed recordings of div. roosters and chickens, as well as some ducks, turkey and geese, each captured with exceptional clarity.
Beyond the ovine and avian, Farm Animals extends its sonic palette to include:
Each recording within the Farm Animal library has been captured using hd recording techniques, ensuring exceptional fidelity and minimal noise. These are meticulously documented sonic portraits, offering a wealth of textural detail and emotional resonance.
On top of these close up recording, the library also includes some farm ambiences. Inside the hen house, with sleeping hens or eery industrial noises from milk farms.
As honey bees are as much an industrial worker as cows, pics or sheep, some insects are included too.
Farm Animals provides you with the raw sonic ingredients to craft immersive and believable rural environments, adding layers of authenticity that will elevate your countryside projects or give you unique source material to design alien voices or monsters, dinosaurs, zombies and more. Whether you’re working on film, television, games, or interactive installations, this library offers the depth and breadth of sounds required to truly bring your scenes to life. On top, no animals have been harmed, handled or annoyed by me, all vocals occured naturally.
Animals included: Antwerp Belgian Breed, Barnevelder Bantam, Bielefelder Kennhuhn, Brown Hen, Minorca Hen, Other Chicken, Rooster, Cows / Cattle, Highland Cattle, Donkey, Goat, Honey Bee, Bentheim Black Pied Pig, Other Pigs, Camerun Sheep, Coburg Fox Sheep, Domestic Sheep, German Heath Sheep, Scottish Blackface Sheep, Soay Sheep. Suffolk Sheep, Lamb, Horse, Pony, Shetland, Mallard, Red Crested Pochard, Rasseflügel Limburg, House Goose, Steinbacher Kampfgans, Indian Runner Duck, Black Swan, Turkey, Fantail Pigeon, Sparrows, Short toed tree creeper, dogs – for vocalization and amount of calls, check the file list
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 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.
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.
This Nomad series collection features recordings made on two sailboats navigating the North Atlantic Ocean.
Beneteau 15-meter monohull between Puerto Rico and Montreal, via New York, the Hudson River and Lake Champlain.
Fontaine Pajot Aura 15.5-meter catamaran from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Halifax, Nova Scotia, then up the St. Lawrence River to Montreal.
Enjoy the many indoor and outdoor perspectives, with or without the diesel engine, in different wind and sea conditions, as well as winch handling, rigging noises, anchor drop…
In this collection you’ll find high quality audio recordings in ambisonic Ambix format with references pictures, detailed track sheet and GPS location on from both boat conveyance.
We used a Sounddevice MixPre6 field Recorder and Ambeo 1st order Ambisonic mics.
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.
Essential Sound Urban Background Ambience & Traffic 2 Pack Bundle
This bundle contains 80 tracks of clear and dynamic field recordings. A select collection of captured background ambiences from various locations around Southern California and Los Angeles.
Some of the locations include; West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Pasadena, Ojai, Joshua Tree, San Bernadino Forest, and much more.
There is a good mix of interior and exterior files, as well as day and night versions. This includes; light and heavy traffic, near and distant. Rainy wet traffic. Room-tone versions with light/heavy traffic. Quiet desert bird and cicada ambience, as well as active park and street ambiences.
There is a little bit of everything, and a great way to bolster your existing library.
All material has embedded Metadata. Also, where there are notable moments that stick out in a track, there are meta-tags for easy spot viewing in programs that support meta-tags, such as Soundminer.
Recordings were captured at 24bit/96Khz, with Zoom F6, H6 recorders, with Rode Shotguns and Stereo mic setups. All files are cleaned up and mastered in Pro Tools, with light compression and the necessary EQ to ensure clarity is preserved without sounding muddy.
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!
Warehouse Bundle contains three volumes of authentic recordings of warehouse tools and machinery. It offers a huge selection of industrial sounds, sourced from electric forklifts, roller shutters, pallet trucks, gas cannisters, metals and much, much more. This bundle is ideal for crafting realistic industrial soundscapes or as source material to manipulate into designed sounds.
Each library is delivered in 24Bit 192kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation, and has been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
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).
In this bundle you get all currently available parts of the ANGST | Surrounding Horror Series:
ANGST is a collaboration of the sound designers Bony Stoev and Saro Sahihi is the long awaited successor and main chapter of “Surrounding Horror – Prologue”.
It brings you a comprehensive collection of thrilling, abstract horror ambience sound effects in 5.1 surround (SMPTE).
Each soundscape was painstakingly handcrafted to 2:30 minute length with lots of frightening and terrifying sonic events.
It gives your horror-related production just the right amount of heart-stopping texture, leaving your audience with fear crawling up their spines to hold ’em tight.
Also in this bundle is a huge and versatile bundle of construction-kit layers, which can be combined to countless variations and serve as inspiration for your own dreadful sonic nightmares. Some layers were left dry, others were treated with FX. Some are mixed in 5.1 surround others in stereo. To give you both flexibility and instant usability at hand.
Additionally you get all sounds from the Surround Horror Soundscapes library downmixed to stereo.
Football SFX Bundle Vol. 1 showcases 176 candid recordings of English football crowds, five-a-side football gameplay, and foley effects. These sounds are perfect for enhancing sports-based films and video games.
This bundle includes a wide range of sounds, such as spectator cheers, chants, claps, and groans. It also features referees’ whistles, Tannoy announcements, player voices, footsteps, kicks, saves, and much more!
If you’re looking to add an authentic touch of football passion to your TV, film, or game scenes, this collection is perfect for you. Use it to enhance sport backgrounds or create a suspenseful atmosphere during on-screen competitions.
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.
Football SFX Bundle Vol. 2 includes more than 1.53 GB of authentic recordings capturing the enthusiastic atmosphere of women’s and men’s football matches.
This bundle is filled with the energetic voices of sports fans, making it perfect for TV, film, and game scenes that require passionate voices and performances. It can be used to enhance sports backgrounds or intensify tension during on-screen competitions.
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.
Ambiances recorded in South and middle of France and Sweden during the summer.
In this bank you will find many different ambiances : Wind, Forest, Lake, Sea, Rain, Storm, Village, Crickets…
I’m a sound designer in a video games studio, in this bank that I personally use, you will find everything to create your own environnement in post production or in a video game.
There is also some bonus sfx.
All sound are well described in the title, and in 96khz 24bit.
Haunting Ambiences Bundle includes three of our fastest selling Horror Sound Effects Libraries to date. With a total size of 29.5 GB and 236+ files (690 mins approx.), this product includes 39 dense, multi-layered construction kits, everything you need to build a world around your horror scenes with separated stems.
The team in collaboration with Georgi Valchev from West Wolf Audio captured creepy ambiences and sounds from different countries across Eastern Europe, various vocalisations, instruments and synthesizers. We even recorded sounds from the cellblock where a couple of notorious killers (The Moors Murderers) were held at The Old Courthouse, Manchester.
Our Audio Craftsman meticulously edited the sounds and designed them to make menacing shipyards, abandoned mansions, forgotten forests, mental asylums, gas chambers, underground prisons, experimental labs, haunted sewers, haunted houses, zombie apocalypse and much, much more.
These dense ambiences include split stems with the same running length to encourage experimentation, allowing you to add or subtract certain elements, balance them or combine them with sounds from other construction kits in the pack. In addition all of the files are tagged with extensive metadata to integrate seamlessly with your workflow.
You will be more than 15% of the total cost of the individual libraries when purchasing this bundle, an excellent value for money addition to your films, documentaries, video games, escape room/live experiences and other horror/sci-fi projects.
Included libraries:
Haunting Ambiences Vol.1
Haunting Ambiences Vol.2
Haunting Ambiences Vol.3
Combat Sport Ambiences Bundle includes over 2.3GB of recordings captured at authentic combat sporting events including Boxing, Kickboxing and Mixed Martial Arts.
This bundle contains general atmosphere recordings throughout multiple matches, impacts and reactions, alongside cheers, passionate shouts of encouragement from both audiences, coaches and fighters. Use this collection to add tension and a realistic edge to any on-screen sporting event.
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.
Rule the lands of old and gain dominion over your games audio by military, economic and political means. Empire Game, ushers in the ultimate medieval RTS game audio starter kit which empowers game developers and sound designers to build & manage immersive ancient settlements, outfit village life, trade posts, ports, farming, professions, and armies. Wield the ferocious power of Empire Game now featuring more than 600 mixed and mastered game ready sound effects guaranteed to have your enemies on the run & vivid fantasy worlds created.
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