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Environments & Ambiences

Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond

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    Nature & Countryside Ambiences Pacific Northwest: Quiet Nature Play Track 35+ sounds included, 199 mins total $75

    • In Pacific Northwest: Quiet Nature, get a peaceful collection of ambiences from the Hoh Rainforest, a temperate rainforest on the Olympic Peninsula in Olympic National Park. Hear the massive sparseness of one of the last pristine quiet places in the Continental US. Hear the natural cathedrals of sound created by Douglas fir and spruce. Hear wind gusts pluck autumn maple leaves and waft them to rest on forest floors. Hear massive halls of wet wood that envelop and transport you to a long-lost time when giant trees covered millions of acres of the Pacific Northwest.
    • This library offers you a large collection of quiet nature sounds from one of the wettest forests in North America. Some places on the Olympic Peninsula get over 200 inches of precipitation per year, and that abundance of moisture makes for a magical fern and moss filled ecosystem brimming with soothing ambiences.

    2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
    • Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
    • Carbon offset credits were purchased for the Pacific Northwest Series. Field Recording travel for these libraries was carbon neutral!

    KEY FEATURES:
    • Recorded near the One Square Inch of Silence
    • Sparse ambiences with minimal wildlife
    • Distant twittering songbirds high in the canopy
    • Mornings and afternoons in 300 ft forests
    • Eerie nights in old-growth titans
    • Barred Owl hoots
    • Sporadic drips and light soothing wind
    • One long unbroken natural soundscape. Thirty-five minute of natural silence!
    • This library is a portrait of the Hoh Rainforest. The rainforest is in a long river valley, so the distant soothing wash of the Hoh River can be heard in all recordings.
    TEXT MARKERS:

    • Named markers are included in each file to help find interesting events in an otherwise uniform waveform!
    • Marker text included in the Soundminer description and BWAV description fields.

    FILE LIST & METADATA:
    • View in Browser or Download CSV
    • Flora (plants) and Fauna (animals) are described in these terms:
    • fauna sparse
    • fauna constant
    • flora sparse
    • flora constant
    • flora and fauna sparse
    • flora and fauna constant
    • Included wildlife: Barred Owl, Pacific Wren, Hairy Woodpecker, Ruffed Grouse, Brown Creeper, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Varied Thrush, chipmunk, Douglas Squirrel, and ultrasonic insects. Overall, wildlife is very sparse during fall in the Hoh River valley.
    BLOG POST:
    • Read the full story on the A Sound Effect Blog – Sounds from the Quietest Place in the Continental US 
    MORE INFO:
    • Read 30+ user reviews for Thomas Rex Beverly Audio
    • Read my Field Recording Mastering Rules and learn more about how these recordings were mastered.
    • Browse the Library Info Master List to compare specs on all my libraries.
    • Browse the Metadata Master List to search my entire catalog.
    • MD5 and SHA 256 Checksums are included for each zip file in my catalog. Use these hashes to check the integrity of your downloaded files. 
    GEAR USED:
    • Sennheiser MKH 8040 Matched Pair in ORTF
    • Sound Devices 702
    • Rycote ORTF Blimp
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  • Nature & Countryside Ambiences Rural zone Play Track 21+ sounds included, 57 mins total $29

    This library consists of countryside sounds captured in the summertime. Recorded in Quadro and Stereo. There are sounds of a village and sounds of nature without human influence.

    Recording gear: Sounddevices 744t, Schoeps MS set, Nevaton QUAD MC 50, Oktava MC-012 Double-MS set

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  • Ice Sound Effects Icy Snow 2 HD Play Track 453 sounds included $35

    Icy Snow 2 HD is a followup to Icy Snow HD.  This collection contains even more icy snow cracks, impacts, scrapes, debris and footsteps.  The weather produced a foot of snow covered in a 1/2 inch of ice.  Pretty unique sounds!  And it comes in two formats: “Individual Clips” & “Consolidated Tracks”.

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  • Environments & Ambiences Ambiences from Iceland Play Track 41+ sounds included $34.99

    Iceland, a volcanically and geologically active island with striking landscapes is being visited by millions of tourists each year. It also inspired many creative artists such as Bjork, Olafur Arnalds, GusGus, Mum. This sound library includes sounds from Reykjavik and local areas on Golden Circle tourist route: ambiences from Gulfoss waterfall, Pingvellir national Park, Geysir and natural spas.

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  • City Life Sound Effects Ambisonic – Western Wall Play Track 10+ sounds included, 24 mins total From: $10

    Western Wall | HaKotel is a small collection of recordings performed at the western wall located at the heart of Jerusalem. The recordings mainly includes Judaism prayers, but also presents Islam prayers, such as the Moasin.
    The recordings took place at both internal and external locations.

    This collection is great for post production, VR/AR experiences, game developers and any real-time 3D audio engines.

    To create this product a Sennheizer Ambeo microphone paired with Zoom H8 was used.

    This package includes 10 Samples – Total 24:00 minutes of content.
    Supported formats: B-Format AmbiX and Stereo (Total of 20 files).

    Want to hear an example of the included recordings? Download a B-format Demo here

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  • City Life Sound Effects City Balcony Ambiences Play Track 10+ sounds included, 125 mins total $30

    In City Balcony Ambiences you will get the sounds of 10 different stereo recordings of city atmospheres, all of them recorded from the perspective of a balcony.

    Recordings have been done during different periods of a day and in different locations:

    1. Three recordings from Dublin (Ireland): featuring a general construction ambience, a residential street and a busy street at rush hour (Irish sirens are included).
    2. Two recordings from Menorca (Spain): recorded from a balcony facing a sea front. Restaurants and distant voices are the main character of these files.
    3. Two recordings from Dusseldorf (Germany): the classic German tram is present in both recordings. There are also traffic, pedestrians and German sirens.
    4. One recording from Thessaloniki (Greece): recorded during a rainy day, so the sound of the wet road makes it characteristic.
    5. One recording from Barcelona (Spain): facing an inner patio. The construction crew present in every Spanish building make an appearance.

    Recordings feature sounds such as traffic, people talking, pedestrians walking by; cars, trams, trucks, motorbikes and scooters passbys, dogs barking, all of them from a distant perspective.

    Descriptive markers have been included to highlight interesting events in an otherwise featureless waveform. These markers can be read in programs such as Izotope RX, Reaper, and Soundminer. The markers are also included as .txt files in separate folder.

    All files (except one) have been recorded in 96 kHz/24 bit, with Soundminer and BWAV embedded metadata. Recordings go from 4 minutes up to 22.

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  • Nature & Countryside Ambiences Northern Rockies: Common Loons Play Track 26+ sounds included, 83 mins total $55

    • 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!

    KEY FEATURES:
    • Nesting pair of Common Loons recorded in Glacier National Park, Montana
    • 22 clips including Loons
    • Close, medium, and distant perspectives
    • Isolated solo nighttime calls
    • Loons mixed with full dawn choruses
    • Included Loon calls: wail, yodel, tremolo, hoots, flapping takeoffs, and tremolo call flybys
    • 4 clips of Quiet Nature recordings from the same location. These recordings have sparse wildlife and are perfect for use as nature roomtones for the Loons included in the library.
    • Ruffed Grouse “Drumming” can be heard in several recordings in this library as distant bass thumps. Read more about how males create this sound by beating their wings while sitting on hollow logs – here.
    • Other included wildlife: Swainson’s Thrushes, Wilson’s Snipes, Red-winged Blackbirds, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Beaver tail slaps, angry Chipmunks, and bats up to 90 kHz.
    • All tracks have an integrated loudness of approximately -35 LUFS.
    • This is NOT a parabolic dish library of close up and isolated Loons. It is an ambience library of Common Loons within their natural habitat.
    • *Note – I self-identified all birds using several iOS apps and bird identification websites, so I cannot guarantee 100% accuracy in species identification.

    TEXT MARKERS:

    • 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.


    GEAR USED:
    • Sennheiser MKH 8040 Matched Pair in ORTF
    • Sound Devices 702
    • Rycote ORTF Blimp

    FILE LIST: 
    • View in Browser or Download CSV

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    World Sounds Chile Play Track 47+ sounds included, 104 mins total $50

    The Chile Faunethic sound library is a unique collection of 47 sounds recorded during a month and produced with high-quality equipment.
    From the north mountains above 4000 meters surrounded by lakes and deserts, to the southern wet Patagonian landscapes, this collection includes:

    -Villages from desert environments to wet Patagonia.
    -Shy wildlife, Flamingo and southern birds.
    -City of Santiago de Chile, Puerto Montt and Valparaiso.
    -Forests, always wet and rainy.

    This collection provides authentic sounds recording with high-quality equipment. All Faunethic tracks includes metadata carefully edited with Soundminer. All these sounds are delivered at 24/96Khz .wav files downloadable as a zip file.

    Gear Used: DPA and Neumann mics, powered by an Atea 4minX.

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  • Wave sound effects library
    Wave sound effects library
    Environments & Ambiences Wave Break Vol. 2 Play Track 50 sounds included, 286 mins total $50

    ‘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.

    Please note that my sound libraries do not go on sale (this is so prices are fair all year round), and they are sold exclusively on asoundeffect. :-)

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  • The Beach ambisonic sound effects
    The Beach ambisonic sound effects
    Ambisonic Sound Effects The Beach Play Track 35+ sounds included $79

    It took a lot of sunscreen to record this collection of ocean waves, gentle currents, and life on the Boardwalk. From Venice Beach, to Santa Monica and Malibu, Southern California boasts some of the world's greatest resources for coastal recording. This is a terrific library that features a variety of beachside sounds, including huge wave crashes on rocks, calm estuaries, and even amusement parks on the Pier. 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!

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  • Water & Ocean Sounds River Mountain Runoff Play Track 21 sounds included, 63 mins total $15

    With the warm weather of spring comes this sound pack full of moving water sound effects. From the gentle babble of a brook to the rushing speed of a waterfall to the soft trickle of a nearby stream, this pack is designed to add realism and movement to your next project.

    Recorded in a variety of provincial parks around beautiful British Columbia, Canada, all sounds were recorded in 5 minute takes, then edited down to 3 minute loopable stereo files. Extreme care was taken into isolating all recordings from the surrounding environment, all while capturing a natural and lifelike sample of the snow melt and other natural water sources.

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  • Colombia: Caribbean Coast Sound Effects
    Colombia: Caribbean Coast Sound Effects
    Environments & Ambiences Colombia: Caribbean Coast Play Track 35+ sounds included, 64 mins total $8

    The Caribbean coast of Colombia is full of magical places and unique environments. Tayrona Natural Park is an indigenous reserve far from civilization and with the perfect blend of beach, forest and harmony. In the far north of the country lies “El Cabo de la Vela” where the sounds are a direct connection with nature.

    This library brings you beach, desert and forest ambiences along with wave movement of 7 different beaches.

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  • Environments & Ambiences Variety 1 Play Track 150 sounds included $17

    Variety 1 is a selection of our favourite, most popular sound clips. It includes 150 sound effects from babies to burps, crowds to computers, subways to switches.

    It is a mix between vehicles, household, office, human sound effects and more in both specific sound effects, and lush stereo ambiences, weighing in just under 2 gigabytes of audio. Includes 18 fields of bonus Soundminer metadata.

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  • Environments & Ambiences Rustling Winds Play Track 43 sounds included, 108 mins total $59

    Rustling Winds captures the many nuances of wind as it moves through fields, grasslands, forests, and dense shrubs.

    You’ll hear soft breezes brushing through tall bamboo, strong gusts sweeping across wheat and cornfields, leaves rustling high in forest canopies, and frozen branches creaking in the winter cold. Each recording reveals a different texture shaped by its environment.

    Recorded in multiple countries using various microphone setups, and delivered in both stereo and surround, this library offers a rich variety of natural winds in vegetation.

    ‍‍Vegetation Types

    Cornfield • Wheat field • Bamboo • Frozen branches • Dry & green grass • Palm tree • Dead pine • Eucalyptus • Bushes • Ferns • Poplar • Beech • Kauri • Raupo reeds • Alpine forest • Deciduous & coniferous forest


    ‍‍Stereo and Surround

    Recorded with multiple microphone setups, this library is delivered in 5.0 (L/R/C/Ls/Rs) and Stereo.
    43 Stereo files + 10 Surround files


    ‍Gear used

    Zoom F3 • Zoom F6 • MixPre-6 II • Usi Pro • MKH30 • MKH8040 • H1n • mikroUsi • NT-SF1


    ‍Metadata

    This sound library is UCS compliant and comes with fully embedded metadata compatible with Soundly, Soundminer and Basehead.

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  • Environments & Ambiences Quiet Rooms Play Track 170 sounds included, 587 mins total $99

    ‘Articulated Sounds’ presents ‘Quiet Rooms’, a curated collection featuring 150 ambiences and 20 specific sounds. This library focuses on interior background ambiences, with all-new, unique recordings from over 20 countries.

    The collection offers a diverse range of room tones and subtle background noises, captured at various times and in a wide variety of settings. It spans residential spaces, industrial factories, public areas, offices, and rooms of all sizes, even extending to caves and specially crafted soundscapes. You’ll also find interior recordings of rain, wind, and other invaluable elements.

    Whether you’re designing a quiet environment or adding texture to an intricate scene, ‘Quiet Rooms’ provides a solid foundation for interior backgrounds.

    Location Keywords

    Bedroom, Study Space, Factory, Prison, Atrium, Abandoned House, Museum, Cafe, Bathroom, Kitchen, Machine Room, Temple, Cathedral, Living Room, Hospital, Bungalow, Mountain Cabin, Restaurant, Home, Courtyard, Hallway, Old House, Submarine, Warehouse, Hostel, Mill, Office, Lounge, Metro, Staircase, Library, Hall, Conference Center, Basement, Hotel, Studio, Cave, Attic, Underground, Interior, Vehicle, Train, Bus, Airplane

     

    Our Creation Process

    We collected these interior recordings over the years, capturing the unique atmospheres of rooms and places during our travels. Our equipment varied across sessions, adapting to the setting—whether in bustling cities, quiet small towns, remote countryside, the Himalayas, the Amazon, or distant islands. Our goal was to document the essence of each space, preserving the aural footprint of every location we visited.

    Some recordings feature little more than stillness, while others include traces of local wildlife heard through windows or thin walls. You may also detect ambient noises like heaters, distant hums, machinery, traffic, or neighbors, resonating differently depending on the surrounding architecture.

    We meticulously selected the best recordings, refining them to remove sections with excessive variation. Each sound was carefully edited to maintain a level of noise within the ‘subtlety’ range, ensuring they work seamlessly as background atmospheres that smooth out the sonic environment of any scene.

    We are proud to present this collection, featuring some of the finest indoor silences we’ve ever captured—rich with delicate, everyday sounds at the edge of human perception. These recordings will help you effortlessly recreate beautiful, immersive spaces with natural charm.

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  • Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Bells of Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral Play Track 13 sounds included, 35 mins total $15

    Notre Dame de Paris and other monuments large bell rings hours and mass – close recording

    Melodic – Single Hit – Multiple Bells

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  • Ultrasonic Insects Vol 2
    Ultrasonic Insects Vol 2
    Animal Sound Effects Ultrasonic Insects Vol 2 Play Track 1000+ sounds included, 87 mins total $79

    Recorded over an entire year, Ultrasonic Insects Volume 2 contains dozens of new insect songs recorded with love, precision and a lot of patience! More than 3 000 kilometers were traveled to get to 12 beautiful french sites sheltering common and endemic species. All insects were recorded in quiet environments with close-miking for unparalleled quality.

    Want to get brand new sound material from nature? Listen to the songs of those tiny creatures, pitch them as much as you want and find inspiration for your next sound design.

    KEY FEATURES:

    • 22 species of grasshoppers, crickets, bush-crickets and cicadas
    • Rare death’s head hawk-moth vocalisations
    • 5 species of flying insects
    • Solo insects recorded with Sanken CO-100K
    • 8 bonus stereo ambiances recorded with MKH 8040


    SPECS:

    • 192 KHz/24 bit
    • Metadata UCS-compliant
    • Each species is identified with scientific name, common name and picture
    • No insects were harmed while recording this library (except a few mosquitos!)

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  • Ambisonic Sound Effects Houses and Apartments Ambience Kit Play Track 183 sounds included, 113 mins total $20

    A remarkable sound library of ambient loops and isolated elements meticulously captured from domestic interiors, appliances, and Foley.

    Houses and Apartments - Full Library Presentation

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  • Winter Sound Effects Frost Mage Premium Edition Play Track 1339 sounds included $99.99

    The FROST MAGE PREMIUM EDITION is a great option if you are looking for sharp, splintering and crispy sound effects for that extra layer of magic in you sorcery sequences. Construction kit included!

    • It features 599 Designed  SFX (96khz 32 bit) .wav files

    • Includes the Construction Kit with over 740 SFX (96khz 32 bit) .wav files

    • Sound effects of the same category are grouped in the same file with 0.5 silence intervals.

    • Organized in folders and named under the Universal Category System (UCS)

    It’s all ready-to-use!

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  • City Life Sound Effects Greek Island Ambiences Vol. 1 Play Track 19 sounds included, 49 mins total $25

    Welcome to the exotic islands of Greece!

    Greek Island Ambiences Vol. 1 contains a diverse selection of ambient field recordings captured in the islands of Greece. This stunning collection of sounds features a range of settings including suburban ambiences, ocean, water, beach and town locations.

    This library can be used for a range of exterior environments and is perfect for designing your own bespoke backgrounds, or for manipulating further into custom atmospheres.

    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.

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  • Nature & Countryside Ambiences Camping And Hiking Play Track 163 sounds included $24.95

    My wife told me to take a hike, so I literally did and recorded these mountain and forest sounds.

    Meet a few animals, cross a few rivers, set camp, make a fire and sort through your camp gear foley, campsite elements, and several background ambiences to create your outdoor getaway.

     

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  • Weather Sound Effects Spirit of Sound Effects: Winds Volume 1 Play Track 57 sounds included, 216 mins total $175

    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.

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  • Environments & Ambiences Sounds of England Volume One Play Track 50 sounds included, 117 mins total $5

    A collection of random soundscapes from Everyday England.

    Like an up-to-date version of one of those classic ‘BBC Sound Effects LPs’, ‘Sounds of England Volume One’ showcases just a few of the soundscapes you might hear in everyday England (the one of people going beserk when England win a big soccer game isn’t everyday but is glorious).
    Parklife, skateboarders, traffic, police helicopters, a distant pub, fireworks night and much more make up the first volume in this series.

    MP3 and WAV included.

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  • Bundles Haunting Ambiences Bundle Play Track 236+ sounds included $48.50

    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

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