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Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond
Shores of Senja is a collection of wave recordings from the second largest island in Norway. We spent three days on Senja and recorded a wide variety of waves on different surfaces. This collection includes small to big waves and surfaces like sandy beaches, pebbles, rocks and cliffsides.
We recorded everything with one cardioid stereo pair and one omni stereo pair for added flexibility and options in the mix. The library features 192kHz/24bit stereo broadcast wave files with embedded metadata, and also includes all files converted to 96kHz/24 bit stereo broadcast wave files with embedded metadata.
Extracted size: 5.27 GB (96kHz files), 10.55 GB (192kHz files)
We're proud to offer our inaugural bundle package, which includes the first four VSCRL libraries- The Park, The Road, The Snow, and The Beach. This collection comes at an incredible deal, and is the ultimate showcase of the immersive and VISCERAL quality of our ambisonics.
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!
Authentic Thailand Vol.3 is a brand new volume in addition of Authentic Thailand Vol.1&2.
This collection contains Wallasounds, Beaches, Nature and Village Sounds. It features typical Streets, Temple, Procession Day, Markets, Traffic Sounds, Walla, Island Beaches, Nature Sounds with Birds, Winds, Insects and Residential Village Sounds and traditional Thai-Percussion Music.
It also contains some Bonus Tracks with wooden Door Sounds with open/close from int/ext, Onboard driving on Minibus in the City of Bangkok, a Speedboat Transfer to Island and Bungalow Roomtones.
The Birds includes selections from some of my previous libraries: Forests and Mountains, California Grassland Wildlife, Forest Day, and Harbor and Ocean.
I’ve gone through all of these libraries and selected what I consider some of my favorite recordings and that only include birds. With this collection you get a wide variety of various birds in different environments, perspectives, times of the day, night. Birds together, more specific and separate, close, distant. The locations mostly include Southern California Foothills, Forests, and Mountains and Central California Grassland areas. There’s also some recordings from Washington and Oregon.
There’s a few different species of Owls, a number of Ravens, various Sparrows, Woodpeckers, Doves, Finches and all sorts of other fun birds singing away. Anyone looking for a bit more info should check out the library links up top to get a good idea.
I’ve provided the species listings by each library. The file names have been kept the same as they were in the original libraries so if anyone would like to compare metadata sheets to see what’s included it will be a bit easier.
Forests and Mountains
Acorn Woodpecker, American Coot, Barred Owl, Black-headed Grosbeak, California Quail, California Towhee, Canadian Geese, Fox Sparrow, Great Horned Owl, House Wren, Mallard, Northern Flicker, Nuttall’s Woodpecker, Oak Titmouse, Pacific Wren, Pied-billed Grebe, Pileated Woodpecker, Common Poorwill, Raven, Robin, Red-shouldered Hawk, Song Sparrow, Spotted Towhee, Steller’s Jay, Swainson’s Thrush, Western Wood-Pewee, Wilson’s Warbler, Wrentit, Yellow-throated Blackbird
Forest Day
Acorn Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Lawrence’s Goldfinch,Mountain Chickadee, Northern Flicker, Pygmy Nuthatch, Raven, Red Shouldered Hawk, Spotted Towhee, Western Bluebird, Williamson’s Sapsucker
California Grassland Wildlife
Ash-throated Flycatcher, Barn Owl, Bell’s Sparrow, Bullock’s Oriole, California Towhee, Cassin’s Kingbird, Common Nighthawk, Eurasian Collared-Dove, Horned Lark, House Finch, Great Horned Owl, Mourning Dove, Raven, Red-tailed Hawk, Say’s Phoebe, Western Kingbird
Harbor and Ocean
Crow, Herring Gull, Pelogagic Cormorant, Pigeon Guillemot
Grassland Micro
California Towhee, House Finch, Mourning Dove, Western Kingbird, White-throated Swift
Metadata
All files have been carefully edited. Detailed Metadata and labeling of species has been provided along with using UCS. Photos have been embedded with each file to help out with getting an idea of what birds are typical in particular landscapes. Markers have also been placed in the files to help out with navigating.
The Gear
Sound Devices MixPre-3
Sound Devices MixPre-6
Zoom F3
Mics
Sennheiser MKH 8020
Sennheiser MKH 8040
Sennheiser MKH 8040+MKH 30 MS
PLANES & HELICOPTERS contains flybys, takeoffs, and landings of 13 aircraft models and 5 helicopter models, including small and medium-range passenger planes, private jets, tiny planes and firefighting aircraft. Recorded as close as possible to the aircraft, in airports. You’ll find turbojet, turboprop, and propeller-powered aircrafts. You’ll also find military and civilian helicopters sound effects.
The sounds can be used for a realistic purpose but you can design spaceships or futuristic vehicles.
A comprehensive library of crowd sounds for every scenario. Features sports stadiums, concert cheers, panicked screams, laughter, and intimate conversations. Essential for creating believable backgrounds in film, games, and media productions.
Crowds Volume 3 is an extensive collection designed to provide sound editors with every possible human crowd reaction. This versatile library of 150 files captures the full spectrum of group dynamics, from the organized chaos of a European soccer match with constant chanting to the subtle murmur of a golf gallery. It includes powerful assets like massive stadium applause, explosive cheers at rock concerts, and genuine laughter from studio audiences. For intense scenes, the library offers a wide range of panic screams, horrified gasps, and angry mob reactions. Also featured are specific crowd elements such as boos, jeers, individual shouts (“Go!”, “Now!”), and atmospheric walla for settings like prisons or basketball games. This volume is an indispensable resource for building tension, conveying scale, and adding authentic human presence to any project.
MASSIVE PUNCHES – 505 files of punch sound effects, from several sparring sessions. From quiet taps and hits to thudding and cracking impacts. Massive Punches comes in at over 1 minute, of real skin on skin body and head shots. Bring the power of bare knuckle to your next project. Recorded at 192kHz and 32bit, using microphones capable of recording ultrasonic frequencies. Massive Punches filenames are in the Universal Category System format with additional Metadata baked-in.
Don’t need a Massive amount of Punch sound effects? We offer ‘Mini’ sound effect libraries as companions for all of our ‘Massive’ sound effect libraries. All recordings are unique to each library with no overlap. Go Mini today, and upgrade to the corresponding Massive library later, when you need more of that particular sound effect.
Aquatic Depths Sound Library plunges you into the mysterious world beneath the surface, offering 27 immersive underwater recordings captured with pristine clarity. From bubbling streams and shifting currents to the subtle rumble of deep aquatic pressure, this collection provides a versatile palette of submerged textures perfect for sound design, film, games, and ambient music production.
Whether you’re crafting an underwater scene, designing atmospheric layers, or searching for unique organic textures, Aquatic Depths delivers authentic aquatic soundscapes with professional precision.
Bring the power of the production floor into your projects with this collection of authentic manufacturing ambience recordings. Captured in a working factory environment, this sound library delivers the raw industrial character of machinery, workspaces, and the constant rhythm of automated production.
Inside, you’ll find 51 high-quality audio files featuring factory-wide ambiences and individual machine operations. From the steady hum of automated equipment to the layered mechanical textures of an active industrial space, these sounds provide the perfect backdrop for film, TV, games, and immersive sound design.
Whether you’re building realistic industrial environments, enhancing documentary soundscapes, or layering mechanical textures into your designs, this pack gives you a versatile toolkit of rich, authentic factory atmospheres.
Explore the essence of Earth’s raw energy through Elements Enhanced, the latest sound effects library from 344 Audio. This collection captures the core forces of the natural world, offering creatives a rich variety of recorded and designed sound effects to elevate their projects and spark new levels of inspiration.
This is not a weather library, it’s something elemental, immersive, and designed to capture the raw forces of nature in their most creative and cinematic form.
Over an extended period, our expert team at 344SFX has meticulously synthesized, recorded, and shaped sounds drawn from the earth’s most formidable elements, delivering a bundle that puts the raw power of nature at your command. We braved the elements, so you don’t have to.
This bundle includes an array of elemental textures, from designed air thrusts and sweeping pass-bys to electromagnetic ambiences, glitches, movements, and surging currents. Hear fire in all its forms: from subtle crackles and sharp pops to roaring flames and bubbling geothermal lava flows. Shape scenes with intricate leaf rustles, foliage movements, and glass impacts, scratches, and shatters. Add depth with designed liquid bubbles, splashes, whooshes, and surreal ambiences. Embrace the grounded weight of wooden impacts, gritty rock movements, and shifting dirt layers. This library offers the tools to craft immersive environments, heighten dramatic moments, maintain realism, and bring elemental forces to life across film, TV, games, and beyond.
Inside, you’ll find a blend of pristine natural recordings and imaginative, expertly designed assets from our in-house audio artisans — making this library suitable for a wide range of film, television, and video game genres.
With over 1900+ sound effects, each embedded with UCS metadata and delivered in both 24-bit / 96kHz and 192kHz, Elements Enhanced is your toolkit for elemental sonic storytelling.
UK Football brings the energy, passion, and excitement of the beautiful game to your projects, with over 270 professionally recorded sounds that are synonymous with the football/soccer world.
Our expert team has perfected the art of capturing authentic sounds discreetly, ensuring a natural and immersive experience without disrupting the sporting environment. This approach allows us to deliver the most genuine and realistic audio representation of the players, seamlessly blending into your project.
The library provides a wide array of assets and passionate atmospheres captured from real football matches, from both the men’s and women’s game, with varying professional levels, fan commentary with roaring cheers, crowd chants, and celebrations. It even offers a selection of footballing foley, from kicks, dribbles, handling, saves, and more—providing everything you need to achieve your project ‘goals’.
Elevate your project with the UK Football collection—the ultimate resource for authentic, high-impact football sound. Capture the intensity of the game with premium 24-bit, 96kHz recordings with UCS metadata embedded.
Bathroom Ambience is a collection of high-quality field recordings capturing the natural reverb and unique soundscape of a bathroom interior. This album includes a variety of room tones and subtle details such as dripping water, faucet sounds, toilet flushes, ventilation hum, shower water flow, and echoing footsteps on tile.
Perfect for film, TV, podcasts, video games, and sound design projects, these recordings deliver authentic bathroom interior ambience with realistic echo and acoustic reflections. Whether you need clean room tone, background layers, or detailed water and plumbing sounds, this album provides versatile audio textures ready for professional use.
Roomtones Bundle compiles nine hours and twenty-five minutes of long, evolving, and varied ambiences recorded in four distinct ground and first-floor apartments. Both busy and quiet urban soundscapes can be found in these audio files, allowing you to create vivid backgrounds for your Virtual Reality projects. Additionally, rainy recordings are included, providing versatility alongside cityscapes that range from quiet traffic in the distance to bustling pedestrians, strange bathroom rumblings, construction work, barking dogs, and moments of dead silence.
Busier soundscapes also abound, such as the heavy hum of a fridge in a kitchen facing a street with sporadic vehicles and conversations, quiet living-room takes with distant voices and a dog snoring, persistent machine sounds from a pump, porch recordings on a rainy night, and a busy morning with varied traffic passing by.
Holiday beach house recordings are also included, featuring distant birds chirping, barking dogs, chatty neighbors, moderate to low traffic, intense fridge hum, and upstairs bumps. Quiet and neutral takes are also provided, which can be filled later with additional content. Each division includes two different takes with open and closed windows (where applicable), adding an extra dimension to these sound files. They are perfect for creating both quiet and languid roomtone soundscapes, conveying multiple moods for any desired VR experience.
Every sound designer’s worst nightmare is also fully realized with ten long takes of drilling, hammering, polishing, occasional conversations, and thuds from a ground-floor apartment undergoing heavy renovations. These audio files are ideal for roomtone soundscapes containing construction noise from neighbors or, with some clever tweaking, for simulating sounds from a nearby building.
This sound library is available in both Ambisonics FuMa (B Format) and Stereo (Binaural) formats.
STONE PROCESSING FACTORY is a sound library that captures the process of stone materials being transformed into slabs within heavy machinery.
It includes a wide range of metallic machinery sounds, the deep rumble of heavy stone vibrations, squeaks of friction, and the hiss of air valves releasing pressure. From cutting, rinsing, grinding, heating, flaming, manual back glue scraping, to transport operations, every step and every machine sound is thoroughly recorded. And of course, the noisy, industrial atmosphere of the factory itself.
It is more than just an industrial site. Here, machinery condenses the slow forces of nature into bursts of mechanical power. For example, water mixed with sand can cut through stones, same way as the constant erosive action of canyons. The friction of countless tiny particles swings back and forth between stereo channels. And the stones resisting the machinery create vibrations that resemble the heavy bass strikes of techno music, pounding directly into our nervous system.
In the preview, these various sounds are woven together in a montage, unfolding like a cyberpunk dream.
This library includes total 47 files, consisting of 22 mono files and 25 stereo files recorded in spaced pair at 96 kHz. Approx. 1 hour and 31 minutes total.Certainly, this library was carefully tagged with rich Soundminer metadata, including marks in the recordings highlighting interesting sounds.
All the recordings were recorded, edited and mastered with love and care.
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Immerse yourself in the raw passion of Basque football with this high-resolution 3rd order ambisonic recording, captured live inside the legendary San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao. From rhythmic chants and thunderous applause to collective gasps and the intense atmosphere unique to Athletic Club matches, this library delivers a powerful, immersive crowd experience like no other.
Designed for use in film, television, games, or VR productions, this sound library provides the emotional weight and spatial accuracy needed to recreate the unmistakable intensity of European football from inside the stands.
⚠️ Legal Notice:
This library was recorded in a public environment during a live football event. As such, it may contain spontaneous crowd chants or vocal expressions that resemble existing musical works. While Surround Sound LAB captures and distributes these recordings as real-world ambiences, we do not claim rights over any third-party content that may be incidentally present. Users are solely responsible for ensuring that the use of this material complies with applicable copyright laws, especially in commercial or high-profile productions.
Bat Cave is an immersive field recording album by Sound Effect Stacks, capturing the rich acoustic environment of a bat-inhabited cave from noon to dusk. Recorded deep in a natural cave setting, this collection highlights the unique bat activity throughout the day—featuring detailed cave room tones, fluttering wingbeats, bat vocalizations, and the intensifying sounds of hundreds of bats preparing to emerge at dusk.
From quiet ambient textures to dynamic bursts of movement and communication, this album offers an authentic soundscape ideal for use in films, games, installations, or deep listening. Perfect for sound designers, nature lovers, and audio storytellers seeking rare and high-quality wildlife recordings.
Ambience – Atmosphere is a sound library of 85 loopable background ambience sound effects designed specifically for video game environments and interactive scenes.
These ambiences are minimal, versatile, and made to blend in. They’re the kind of background sounds you can drop into almost any setting.
Whether you’re working in Unity, Unreal Engine, FMOD, or Wwise, this pack makes ambience simple, subtle, and effective.
This sound effects library features 53 unique high-quality stereo recordings of public interior ambiences, including offices, hotels, cafes, and more.
Rainforest Insects, a richly detailed audio library capturing the vibrant soundscape of jungle life.
“Ping Pong” is a sound library containing many recordings of Ping Pong/Table Tennis. Includes the sound of rallies, individual hits, drops, and more!
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“Yogyakarta River Stream” is the latest immersive auditory creation from Sound Effect Stacks, a master of capturing the unseen and the unheard. This album invites you to experience the untouched rhythms of Indonesia’s Yogyakarta, where the heartbeats of the land are woven into every ripple and rush of water.
Through meticulous field recordings, Sound Effect Stacks has crafted an evocative journey along the myriad streams and rivers that flow through this mystical region. Each track serves as an intimate snapshot of the dynamic waterways—some gentle, others powerful—all unified by the hum of nature’s constant motion.
From the soft murmur of a mountain spring to the louder cascades of rivers cutting through Yogyakarta’s vibrant landscapes, the album invites listeners to close their eyes and let the water’s story unfold. The clear, flowing currents, the delicate sounds of rain-soaked leaves, and the ambient sounds of distant wildlife blend to create a rich tapestry of auditory experiences.
In “Yogyakarta River Stream,” Sound Effect Stacks showcases a deep respect for both the power and the stillness of water. This album is more than just a collection of field recordings—it’s a spiritual journey, capturing the essence of Indonesia’s rivers and the balance between nature’s raw force and its peaceful tranquility.
Let yourself be carried by the rivers of Yogyakarta, guided by Sound Effect Stacks’s carefully layered soundscapes. Perfect for those seeking to escape into nature, to meditate, or to simply be swept away in the beauty of the world’s most ancient sound—the flow of water.
Add a new layer of realism to your project with our Water Foley Sound Effects Pack. This collection features a variety of high-quality water sounds designed to bring dynamic energy to your gameplay. Whether you’re creating flowing water, splashes, underwater rivers these effects will enhance your scenes with authentic, immersive audio. Perfect for games, films, or any project that requires realistic water sounds, this pack ensures that every water-based moment feels vivid and alive, adding depth and atmosphere to your environment.
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PSYCHIS is a massive collection of 650 high-definition, one-of-a-kind sounds of chaotic energy, intricate imperfections, and cinematic punch, all wrapped in a beautifully damaged, futuristic aesthetic.
Created in collaboration between Alessandro Romeo of HorroSound and multi-nominated French sound designer Frederic Devanlay, whose two decades of sonic mastery have shaped countless blockbuster movies and AAA video games, PSYCHIS delivers unparalleled soundscapes that captivate and inspire.
With over 650 high-definition sound effects, from stress and friction to sonic anomalies, gritty impacts, crushing textures, and clean elements, PSYCHIS puts bold, unconventional inspiration right at your fingertips.
PSYCHIS is packed with emotion, making it perfect for industrial cinematic scores, trailers, or experimental music. With layers of distortion, crackle and punch, these sounds create a sense of tension, energy and bold artistic impact.
Every sound is a signal, designed to disrupt and shape raw, beautifully damaged soundscapes, unlocking a world of evocative, modern sonic storytelling.
Whether you’re scoring blockbuster trailers, designing experimental music, or shaping immersive game audio, PSYCHIS hands you the tools to break sonic boundaries.
Perfect For:
🎬 Cinematic Scores & Trailers
🎮 Video Games Sound Design
🎧 Experimental & Electronic Music
📽️ Film & TV Soundtracks
Yogyakarta Thunder is a raw, immersive field recording project that captures the electric soul of a storm in Kulon Progo, a rugged region west of Yogyakarta. Recorded entirely on location, this album documents the raw force of thunder, the whisper of wind through tropical trees, and the intense silence between lightning strikes.
Every track is a real moment—unfiltered and alive—delivering the atmosphere of a storm as it unfolds in the heart of Java. From distant rumbles to sky-splitting crashes, Yogyakarta Thunder invites listeners into a sonic experience that is both meditative and powerful.
Created by Sound Effect Stack, this album is part of our mission to bring authentic environmental sounds to life. Whether you’re a sound artist, ambient enthusiast, or simply drawn to the rhythm of nature, Yogyakarta Thunder offers a deep connection to the elements.
Let the storm tell its story.
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