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Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond
Harness the unique sonic properties of water in your next project! Create otherworldly sound design with bubble streams, air bursts, immersive perspectives and more.
Submerged is a boutique sound effects library of swirling, bubbling, whooshing sounds recorded using a hydrophone (underwater microphone).
The variety of sounds featured in Submerged include scuba inhale/exhale/hiss, ice impacts and cracking, air release whooshing and bubbling, dry ice, pool pump hum, underwater fireworks explosions, cannon bursts, underwater movement, rushing water, dripping water, and an assortment of underwater vocalizations both male and female. Submerged is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Pro.
Created in collaboration with Big Tree Media
Colin Hart: Recordist, Editor
Joseph DiMarco: Editor, Librarian
Álvaro Aparicio: Recordist
Sarah Swan: Performance, Vocals
Benny Maus: Performance, Vocals
Robb Nichols: Consultation (Aquarian Audio)
Spatial Cities is an immersive collection of audio ambiences for cinema, VR, videogames and any audiovisual or creative purposes.
The audios provided in this library are high quality recordings with Zoom H2n recorder in propietary Spatial Audio mode, horizontal-only ambisonic alike mic layout stored in an AmbiX format. W, X, Y channels of AmbiX provide immersive audio through the horizontal plane and they allow to decode the recording into Mono, Stereo, Binaural, Quad, 5.0, 5.1, 7.1 and more layouts with dedicated Ambisonic processors. Z channel is empty.
The library comes with 5.0 and Stereo version of the AmbiX original recordings.
Now UCS Compliant!
Various recordings made through several inner-city winters. This collection includes a diverse range of rain recordings, ranging from light to moderate & heavy rain. All recordings were done between 3am and 5am to minimise the intrusion of traffic noise as much as possible.
All sounds were recorded using the DPA 5100 and Sound Devices 788T.
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“Collected Ambiences“ – Series description:
Each library of the “Collected Ambiences“ series features 33 various Stereo Ambiences.
All recorded with Sound Devices 744T, Sonosax SX-R4+, Sennheiser MKH8040 ORTF, Sennheiser MKH8050 + MK30 MS, RODE NT1-A or Sony PCM-D100.
All files were cleaned, edited and most of the files loop seamlessly.
Collected Ambiences – Volume XIII
As volume X this volume also contains 50 various Stereo Ambiences.
City, Traffic, Car-Horn Chorus, Howling Wind, Roomtones, Train Control Room
The whole collection of Lesser Vibes sound libraries.
Included packs:
Artificial Life (sci-fi, user interface, designed)
Automatic Umbrellas (foley, cloth, mechanical)
Handheld Transceivers (radio, glitch, noise)
High Tech Interface Sounds (sci-fi, user interface, designed)
Urban Russia (environments, transport, crowds)
All libraries were created by Sergey Eybog, a sound designer and music composer from Russia.
Last Summer we visited California State for 2 weeks. We visited and recorded Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Santa Barbara, Morro Bay, Monterey, Carmel, Yosemite and finally San Francisco.
We recorded in each place, just to save the beautiful soundscapes from the marvelous Route 1, capturing around 40 beautiful tracks in ambisonic format, 48Khz and 24 bits HD. As always, top quality recordings specially designed for film audio projects. The library was decoded and mixed in Dolby ATMOS.
Included Ambix Ambisonic, 7.1.2 Atmos Bed, 5.1 and ST versions.
Sci-fi World Guardian is a library geared towards multiplayer games, space, dystopias, utopias, fantasy, magical places, serene game moments, RPG, MMO, and sci-fi games all alike and showcases sounds like automated shipyard, electron flow, data mining, engines, mothership hums, conversions, moons of Venus, deserted area, bioengineering lab, desolate space, holy house, a variety of pulses, tech-based loops, winds, & more.
Each loop is game ready, seamlessly loopable and around 1 minute in length. Each main ambience includes 1-2 alt mix versions + you get a variety of layers to accent your scene and games ambience. Having both full ambiences, alt mixes and layers allows you to truly orchestrate your game’s background sound how you want it. If the full loop has too much going on, then try using the minimal version without the sound you don’t like or by stacking a layer loop to boost the dynamic of the atmosphere.
SSL16 USA CONTRASTS is a great collection of American Ambiences. Recorded in Summer 2015, I traveled to some of the most beautiful cities of the country to explore the American way of Life.
From San Francisco to New York, visiting:
Room tones from the quietness of a Las Vengas Hotel vs the Wild Nature of California & Crowd and traffic of the big cities…. This is the real contrast of USA! As always, recorded in full 5.1 Surround format.
Oslo central station is the largest station in the Norwegian railway station and the main railway station in Oslo. This collection contains recordings from three recording sessions. This ensures plenty of variation.
Forest and Mountains features nature and wildlife sounds from California, Washington, and Oregon. Included are a number of bird recordings and forest ambiences, along with some insects, winds, rivers, and rain.
These were recorded over the past three years in various forests, foothills, and mountain environments. A lot of these took place in or near Southern California’s Angeles Forest and San Gabriel Mountains, an area that spans 1200 Square Miles and varies vastly in terrain.
Also included are some sounds from Northern California, along with recordings from the Pacific Northwest.
The recording techniques for this varied as sometimes I went with the recorders running unattended to capture night, dawn and early morning. Other times I’d record while being close by.
Working as a Sound Effects Editor I’ve curated this collection with Editors in mind. Background Ambiences and Spotted FX can really bring a location to life and give it so much story and character and that was a lot of the inspiration behind putting this all together.
The Locations
California (61 Files) – This is where a majority of the sounds from this library were recorded and specifically Southern California. Variety of areas and different environments, mostly around Angeles Forest, from Lower Elevation Foothills to more rugged mid-elevation Mountain Canyons and then much Higher Elevation and more remote terrain. Also included are a few recordings from the Eastern Sierras and Northern California.
Washington (19 Files) – Southern WA in Gifford Pinchot Forest and various Northwest Forest areas near Puget Sound.
Oregon (16 Files) – Lakeside Recordings in forest and marsh at Klamath Lake in SE Oregon.
The Birds
Prominent / Specific Birds (36) (Closer Mic Perspective and more detailed) (* denotes multiple versions)
Acorn Woodpecker, Barred Owl, Black-headed Grosbeak, California Towhee, *Canadian Geese, *Fox Sparrow, *Great Horned Owl, *House Wren, Northern Flicker, Oak Titmouse, Pacific Wren, Pileated Woodpecker, *Raven, Robin, *Song Sparrow, Spotted Towhee, Swainson’s Thrush
Other Birds Featured (17) (Mixed together from various perspectives, calm to busy depending on time of day, and then closer to more medium and distant sounds.)
Acorn Woodpecker, American Coot, California Quail, California Towhee, Cassin’s Finch, Fox Sparrow, Great Horned Owl, Hose Wren, Mallard, Mountain Chickadee, Northern Flicker, Nuttall’s Woodpecker, Oak Titmouse, Pied-billed Grebe, Common Poorwill, Raven, Red-tailed Hawk, Spotted Towhee, Steller’s Jay, Western Tanager, Western Wood-Pewee, White-breasted Nuthatch, Wilson’s Warbler, Wrentit, Yellow-throated Blackbird, Zone-tailed Hawk
The Gear
Sound Devices MixPre-3 & 6 | Zoom F3 & 6 | Sony PCM-D100
Mics
Sennheiser MKH 8020 | Sennheiser MKH 8040 |
Sennheiser MKH 30 | Clippy EM 272
A Complete Collection of Immersive Environmental Soundscapes
Bring the beauty, serenity, and raw power of the natural world into your projects with this premium bundle of professionally recorded nature ambience libraries. Featuring over 190 field recordings across a wide range of environments—from tranquil forests and flowing rivers to crashing ocean waves and vibrant bird choruses—this collection is designed to give creators an unparalleled palette of authentic natural sound.
Captured in pristine outdoor locations with broadcast-quality equipment, every recording offers rich detail, depth, and clarity—ideal for film, TV, video games, documentaries, meditation, wellness apps, virtual reality, and music production.
🌲 What’s Inside:
• Birds – Nature Ambiences Edition – 14 immersive springtime bird recordings from forests and meadows.
• Birds in Various Ambiences – Field Recordings Collection – 7 authentic birdsong recordings from diverse natural habitats.
• Crickets – Nature Ambiences – 17 twilight forest ambiences featuring the calming chorus of crickets.
• Forest – Nature Ambiences – 13 recordings of forest soundscapes with rustling leaves, distant birds, and natural depth.
• Mountain Ambiences – 13 high-resolution recordings of still alpine landscapes and wilderness atmospheres.
• Mountain Streams – 22 authentic stream recordings, from babbling brooks to rushing mountain currents.
• Nature Ambiences – 10 varied tracks featuring forests, rivers, lakes, and birds.
• Rain Soundscapes – 9 recordings of natural rainfall, from light drizzles to steady downpours.
• Rivers – High-Resolution River & Nature Ambience – 14 pristine river recordings with layered birdsong and textures.
• Rivers Soundscapes – 10 versatile river recordings, from gentle flows to rushing water.
• Seaside Soundscapes – 23 recordings of remote Black Sea coastlines with waves, insects, and coastal wildlife.
• Water and Birds – Nature Ambiences Edition – 15 recordings blending rivers, waterfalls, and melodic birdsong.
• Waves – Nature Ambiences – 29 ocean wave recordings, from tranquil surf to storm-driven swells.
🎧 Key Features:
• High-Resolution Audio: 48 kHz – 96 kHz / 24 bit WAV
• Wide Variety of Natural Environments: Birds, forests, rivers, rain, mountains, seaside, streams, and more
• Loop-Ready & Metadata-Embedded for seamless use in professional workflows
• Total Runtime: Over 7 hours + of immersive ambience
• Format: Stereo, royalty-free for personal & commercial projects
🎬 Perfect For:
• Film, TV & Documentary Sound Design
• Game & VR Development
• Meditation, Relaxation & Sleep Apps
• Podcasts & Creative Audio Projects
• Ambient Music & Sound Art
Whether you need the delicate song of birds at dawn, the steady hum of crickets at dusk, the roar of ocean waves, or the tranquil flow of a mountain stream, the Nature Ambiences Bundle delivers a complete toolkit of authentic environmental soundscapes to bring your projects to life.
Quietsub FX Complete Bundle
Quietsub FX is a library of 15,055 sound effects at 24 bit 96,000 BWF. The library is organized into a number of collections related to specific categories, and a large miscellaneous category. The library was recorded to be as comprehensive as possible with an emphasis on quality and choice for users.
The Complete Bundle includes the following parts:
Quietsub FX gives you a wide ranging library of sound effects. Production of the library focused on creating high quality and choice for users, which ultimately is what creators want. This package is ideal for film, video, radio, podcast, and wherever sound effects are used.
All files include metadata.
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.
Quietsub FX Transportation
An extensive collection of 1,321 Transportation sounds. If it has means of movement to carry people or goods, whether by engine or human propulsion, you’ll likely find it here.
This collection comes in two parts. The transportation portion, and Transit Chimes.
Transit Chimes: Transit Chimes are the sounds you hear all the time on public transportation. Dings, dongs, attention getters. This collection of 70 sound effects gives everything you need to satisfy your craving for these noises. Use them in your productions, or start your own transit system.
Transportation: People are always going somewhere. And they sure make lots of noise doing it. Just about anything that moves people or freight can be found here.
Recording for this category is outside the studio affair. A tremendous amount of time driving and walking around, as well as planting yourself in strategic locations where vehicles do their thing.
This extensive collection touches all the bases.
Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.
Quietsub FX Construction
A large collection of 1,097 Construction sound effects. This contains the sounds made fixing around the home and noises made by professionals, as loud as they may be.
It seems people are always building something. They also make a lot of noise doing it. From home building, workshops, public works projects, home renovation and plumbing, even Blacksmiths! This collection covers all the bases.
Production of this collection was challenging. Although recording stationary sounds like hammers and saws is relatively simple, they still have to be located and gain permission to record items. Also, large construction equipment has be recorded on-site. Getting close enough can be difficult. Being polite and respectable to workers always helps. It can be dusty, dirty, and you deal with conflicting background sounds such as road traffic.
Sounds in this collection:
Everything you need for your next construction project!
Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.
Quietsub FX Backgrounds Outdoor
The great outdoors has never sounded better with this collection of 93 Outdoor Backgrounds. These are important to set a mood and add realism to productions.
This collection gives you the basic of indoor backgrounds. This includes:
Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.
Simple Winds is a synth/synthetic based wind instrument (Requires full Kontakt from 5.8.1 upwards)
Simple Winds has 8 looped noise samples White, Brown, Pink, Purple, Red, Blue, Grey and Black and 1 looped rumble audio.
We’ve added two Volume buttons so that you can mix better between The Noise and Rumble samples
There is also an adjustable knob to remove/add whistle dependant on need
The Noise and Rumble sample can be modified together by using the movement parameters, you can also shape the sound by using the ADSR and HP/LP Filters.
The main aim of this instrument was to make creating synthetic wind simple for any project.
You can also access all these samples independently via the samples folder.
Simple Winds will give you the ability to create simple wind textures, boosting your project to the next level. These Samples can be used in a variety of projects from Sound Designing/Compositions for TV, Film, Documentaries and Video Games. UCS Compliant and Metadata is attached to the samples.
Presenting EXCAVATOR MAYHEM — a vast collection of massive sounds captured from a real backhoe loader in action with its engine off. Mud & Water is the first volume in this series, packed with everything you need to shake your audience with authentic, colossal recordings drawn from every imaginable liquid texture. No layering, no sound design — what you hear is exactly how it sounded on site.
This library condenses more than 5 hours of recordings from 4 sessions into a curated collection, captured at a riverbank, a swamp, and a pit dug with the excavator, where a spring began filling it with groundwater, creating a massive water pool. Combined with the excavator’s boom, this setting allowed me to perform large-scale foley actions such as impacts, drops, splashes, splatters, bubbles, drains, waterfalls, and much more.
Some recordings were captured with up to 10 channels across 4 microphone perspectives, including A-format ambisonics and an experimental stereo geophone that managed to capture rich underwater textures without the need for a hydrophone. These are available in the RAW folder, while the PROCESSED folder contains both downmixes from all microphones and subtly refined versions of the sounds with light compression and EQ—nothing too aggressive, just to give you more “ready-to-go” files.
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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Step into the soundscape of a real commuter journey across Yogyakarta to Central Java. This album captures the authentic atmosphere of Indonesia’s bustling railway life, featuring immersive recordings from station platforms, lively passenger coaches, and the powerful rush of trains passing by.
From the anticipation of waiting at Wates Station, the layered chatter of commuters and footsteps on the platform, to the rhythmic hum inside the train as it glides through villages, towns, and open landscapes toward Palur Station in Solo, each track transports you directly into the experience of daily rail travel.
Perfect for filmmakers, sound designers, game developers, or anyone seeking the genuine ambience of Indonesian commuter trains, this collection blends urban life with the natural rhythms of movement, creating a versatile library of transport soundscapes.
Whether you need the energy of crowded platforms, the calm of steady train motion, or the thrill of locomotives rushing past, Commuter Line Ambience delivers an inspiring set of authentic recordings that bring realism and depth to any project.
You’re invited to a one of a kind exploration into the subtle sensory sound of close mic, close proximity recorded sounds. ASMR Style Close-up Sound Effects library is a unique collection of sound that is specially crafted to enhance interactive media formats where you want to highlight delicate interactions, foster feelings of closeness, and promote a sense of relaxation. Filled with sounds that serve as calming audio cues, this sound effects library will encourage user engagement and interaction without disrupting the flow.
Design your next project with ASMR Style Close-Up Sound Effects for Interactive Sound Design and you just might find that you literally provoke a physiological and psychological reaction from your audience. They might get the “tingles” or ironically, your content could be so soothing that it lulls listeners to sleep! Now, that’s the power of engaging interactive sound design.
Whether you’re designing a cozy simulation game, a wellness app, a narrative-driven video experience, or a calming UI ecosystem, this collection offers a rich palette of soft, subtle, and highly detailed audio textures that will certainly bring your project to life.
EXTRA RAIN – is an auxiliary sound library containing 106 unique sound effect files of rain. From distant showers to slow growing down pours and rainy days by the window. Whether it’s a gentle background shower or a wall of rain you’re looking for; This Extra sound effects library will help supplement the rainy day needs, for your next project. Extra Rain comes in at over 2 hours and was recorded at 192kHz / 32bit using an ultrasonic microphone. All of our libraries comply with the Universal Category System naming convention standard, allowing for accurate and easy granular searches.
EXTRA THUNDER – is an auxiliary sound library containing 166 unique sound effect files of thunder. From distant bellowing booms and rumblings to loud cracking and strikes. Whether it’s a background boom of thunder or close lightning strike you’re looking for; This Extra sound effects library will help supplement the electrically charged needs, of your next project. Extra Thunder comes in at over 18 minutes and was recorded at 192kHz / 32bit using an ultrasonic microphone. All of our libraries comply with the Universal Category System naming convention standard, allowing for accurate and easy granular searches.
Namibia Faunethic sound library is a unique collection of 41 sounds recorded through several national parks of the country (Etosha, Bwabwata, Caprivi…).
From wetlands next to the Okavango river to the desert of Namib, this collection offer a wide array of authentic and preserved soundscapes.
All these sounds has been recorded and produced with high quality equipment in ambisonic format.
The collection comes in two versions:
All Faunethic tracks includes metadata carefully edited, compatible with Soundminer, Soundly and Basehead.
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