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Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond
Thunders, rain and storms are great natural recordings, and this library features a wide view of Spanish storms! The sounds include electrical thunders, rain storms, close thunders and more, recorded since 2009 in Spain.
All the files have metadata embedded for great Soundminer type programs. They both include Spanish and English descriptions.
This is the windmills sound effects archive from Morten Green Sound FX
27 soundfiles of totally 62 minutes of sound in 96 kHz 24 bit.
The windmills recorded in this archive are 6 old 45 metre tall windmills, generating electricity on the coast of the small Danish island Orø. They are rather old and worn out, so they generate a lot of interesting noises, especially when you get very close to them.
The structures are from metal, bolted into a concrete foundation with small openings, so you can actually get the microphones underneath the reverberant structure itself, for sounds from inside the windmills. The blades are made from glass fibre and pretty worn, so they give a lot of nice whistling noises.
There are recordings from many different distances to the windmills, ranging from 150 m to right underneath the windmill structure.
Most of the sound files are more than 2 minutes in length.
Enjoy!
• In Northern Rockies: Common Loons, get a collection of the strange and mythical calls of Common Loons. These beautiful birds have haunting calls that sing across the boreal lakes of North America. One of the greatest pleasures I’ve had as a field recordist was hearing their majestic wails echo across still waters. This library includes sounds of a nesting pair captured during a full week of nighttime and dawn recording in Glacier National Park, Montana.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause. I view it as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased for the Northern Rockies Series. Field Recording travel for this library was carbon neutral!
• Named markers are included in each file to help find interesting events in an otherwise uniform waveform. Starting in Soundminer 4.5Pro_v271 you can now read text markers from within Soundminer!
• Marker text included in the Soundminer description and BWAV description fields.
Urban Berlin Volume 3 is the brand new library in addition to volume 1 and volume 2 capturing the many sounds of the German capital.
We recorded in the districts: Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain. This Library contains roomtones of a Hospital, a Playground, Trainstations and other crowded places. For further details about the locations, please read the spread-sheet and take a look on the location photos.
‘Wave Break Vol.2’ is a compilation of 50 recordings (286 minutes total) capturing the natural sounds of the sea breaking on land. This library follows on from ‘Wave Break Vol.1’ but is uniquely different as it features pristine tropical water recordings from Taveuni, a tropical Island in Fiji.
Jungle gyms, sports fields, whistling birds, and barking dogs. This is a diverse collection of recreational Parks that spans the Southern California area. From quiet city plazas to busy skate parks, this library provides a variety of ambisonic ambiences suited for your next project.
Recorded with the stunning Sennheiser Ambeo microphone, each ambience is delivered in both AmbiX and FuMa formats, as well as Stereo, 5.1, and 7.1.
What’s more- a 360 video reference is provided to offer a fully immersive image of the sound effect being captured!
East End used to be synonymous with poverty, overcrowding, disease and criminality, but these days it’s one of the most exciting and inspiring areas in London. Stretching from the City to the River Lea, it is a perfect area for night clubbing, visiting galleries, admiring street art and spotting fashion trends. This library includes sounds from multi-cultural Whitechapel, Bethnal Green, Shoreditch and the City. Experience the atmosphere of Sunday flower markets, parks, museums and even festivals.
The Eurasian Cranes sound effects library gets you the sound of almost 1500 Eurasian Cranes (Common Cranes) singing their song at the same time. It features 13 stereo wav files and nearly 70 minutes of these unique recordings.
The TRAINS SFX library gets you a massive selection of clean, HD train sound effects. Sources include trains such as heavy freight trains, old and modern passenger trains with electric, steam and diesel engines.
The interior recordings were made on different locations such as the cockpit, the wagons, engine rooms, cabins, and even the restrooms. SFX from the outside contain drive-bys, departing and arriving trains, wheels, horns, grinding, rattling, squeaking, clacking, coupling, braking, air releases, and much more! To give you the full package, you get a mass of great interior and exterior handling sounds on top. Simply any sound you need for a realistic train environment, as always, delivered in high quality with 96kHz / 24-bit.
We recorded an old abandoned school and gained a lot of nice and very unique sound fx for your next sounddesign project. You’ll get up to 1.26 GB / 172 mono & stereo files, tagged (for trouble free use in your loved data base program) and carefully mastered in 24Bit/96kHz.
A meticulously crafted sound library that offers a plethora of workplace ambiences and sounds, transporting your audience to bustling offices, serene lobbies, humming server rooms, and much more. Immerse your audience in the essence of bustling urban workspaces.
A collection of various objects moved by varying strengths of wind.
Textured and tonal friction, scrapes and squeaks, erratic rattles, knocks, taps and vibrations.
Perfect or adding background elements to eerie, deserted, abandoned environments and atmospheres.
Recorded at various locations with Sound Devices Mix Pre recorders and microphones include LOM Geofon and Usi’s / Stille and Klang Contact Mics / DPA 4060’s / Sennheiser MKH 8000 series mic’s
Files are stamped in Soundminer with detailed UCS compliant metadata.
Gorgeous sounds of the movement of various Icelandic trees and varying strengths of winds, captured through Stille and Klang contact microphones.
Strong knocks, woody rattles, subtle rustles, eerie creaks and squeaks and textured wind gushes.
Perfect for layering to create rich forest ambiences.
Want the SUBSCRIPTION version instead? Find it here
“Audience” by SpillAudio is a one-stop solution for all your audience-related needs.
Inside, you’ll find 32 unique samples including reactions, laughter and claps. Each individual sound within this collection can be manipulated and pitched to create countless variations that will help bring you closer to the emotion in any scene.
You will receive both DRY and WET samples.
All sounds were recorded and edited at 192kHz / 24it.
This library features a broad variety of rain sounds.
Interior – Inside various cars, in attics, houses, wood sheds and garages
Exterior – In the forest, on roofs (house, cabin, car), on concrete, dry leaves, bodies of water, metal, umbrellas and more
The single drops section is the heart of the library. There is a big amount of drips, that can be used to sweeten your rain ambience layers but also to design rain from scratch f.e. with software like Sound Particles or granular samplers. I recorded three kind of isolated dripping sounds in a studio setting:
Single Drops – Isolated tiny to bigger drops / splashes on plenty of surfaces, from glass, dirt, grass (real & artificial), wood, stone, concrete, water, cloth, plastic to metal and more
Multiple Drops – Clusters of water drops on various surfaces
Pour – Small extracts of poured water on various surfaces
Artifical Sweetener – two kind of Rainmaker and several frying tempeh (vegan variation of bacon) sounds, that add movement and wetness to your rain layers
If you are working with Sound Particles, this library includes a couple of projects, that you can use as is or as a starting point to create your own rain with included samples. That way you can fit your rain sounds to the exact intensity, gusts and dynamics of your picture or pictured rain.
Recorded in many different locations in at least 4 states over 36 years, I present you a very large (11.97GB) and thorough collection of winds. It is my aim that this be “one-stop-shopping” for you as there is so much and so varied.
Warm Countryside is a collection of countryside recordings taken from late April until early September across several locations of Spain.
The sounds of Rio De Janeiro’s metro, buses, skylines, cafe’s and street sounds…and more.
36 high-quality recorded ambiences in a south-German city with 100.000 inhabitants. Recorded on different spots in different seasons and weather situations. Day and night, with or without people, downtown or suburban, next to busy streets, in a forest and much more.
Available in 7.0 and 5.0 surround, so it‘s perfect for sounddesign for motion pictures. Most of the files have a duration of five minutes and more, so you don‘t need to loop them.
If you only need the stereo-versions of the recordings you can get them here for half the price.
River flows recorded in Ambisonic, near, mid, far field/distance, soundscapes nearby the river.
tech note:
Ambisonic recording (3D audio, VR360 audio) – Immersive Audio, Spatial audio;
Recorded with Sennheiser Ambeo VR microphone (tripod, Rycote blimp/windjammer included) and Sound Devices recorder. All channels matched with pink noise generator.
Stereo files rendered via Reaper/Ambeo (Sennheiser), A to B format converter (Ambix) and they are ready to use.
RAW files are 4 Ch. original Sound Devices files (A format). You can import them to Reaper and with Sennheiser Ambeo plugin
here is free download link:
https://en-us.sennheiser.com/ambeo-abconverter
you can then manipulate in 360º audio image to get sound image/source to your taste/need/application.
Ankers Audio presents a collection of stereo ambiences recorded during a 5 month visit to Australia. Consisting mainly of wildlife recordings in various outback parts of several states including quintessential Australian bird song, insects, amphibians, marsupials but also humans in the city and local life.
All tracks were recorded in 24Bit/48kHz with a Tascam DR100MKII.
Ready to use and filled with metadata.
Take a trip to the Caribbean with this beach resort walla and ambience library! You’ll get the sounds of the beach, various pools and poolside bars, quiet outdoor/open air balcony tones, noisy beach ambience, quiet beach ambience, birds and palm trees, dining halls, waves breaking, and people splashing and having a good time in the sun! Enjoy the Beach Resort Sound Library!
The Audio Hero Police collection features 60 professionally recorded sound effects, ready for use in your productions. Included in this library are police cars, sirens, handcuffs, batons, whistles, helicopters and much more! These sounds are all hand-picked from the Sound Ideas General HD, Emergency, Classic TV and Digiffects libraries.
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