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Environment recordings, ambiences and soundscapes – from all over the world, and beyond
Metallic Atmospheres is a collection of designed ambiences crafted entirely from metallic source material. Our team recorded a wide variety of metal objects and surfaces, then applied advanced sound design techniques to transform them into evocative atmosphere tracks.
This diverse assortment captures an extensive range of textures and emotions, from eerie resonances and unsettling tonal beds to harsh industrial environments. Perfect for quickly establishing a dark, immersive mood, these sounds are ideally suited for sci-fi, horror, dystopian, and post-apocalyptic productions.
Every file has been meticulously edited for immediate use, so you can drag and drop them straight into your DAW timeline without extra cleanup. All sounds are delivered at 96kHz / 24-bit for maximum fidelity, giving you the flexibility to manipulate, stretch, and layer them further in your own designs. Each file has been tagged with UCS-compliant metadata, ensuring seamless integration into any professional sound effects workflow.
The following pack is about sounds from the holy land and is a collection of mainly ambience recordings from sacred places for all 3 main religions in the middle east, Christianity, Islam and Judaism. From prayer places full of people to quite and serene room tones, bustling markets and peaceful gardens this is a picture of those religions coexisting side by side
344 Sound Effects proudly presents World Ambiences, a masterfully crafted collection capturing the sonic essence of some of the world’s most iconic destinations.
This bundle invites you to explore curated ambiences from around the world, captured by our dedicated in-house team. After countless hours of fieldwork, World Ambiences delivers rich, detailed recordings from the USA, Brazil, India, Macao, Hong Kong, Japan, Spain, the Netherlands, Iceland, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, and Serbia.
Experience the vibrancy of American life, from bustling markets in Orlando and serene forests in Connecticut to the urban-rural blend of Washington and Oregon, including rainforest wildlife, farm rides, ocean scenes, and Portland’s city buzz. Not to mention the iconic pulse of Chicago, subway rides, and classic American traffic.
Hear the natural chorus of Brazilian cicadas, then cross to East Asia for markets, public spaces, and coastal cityscapes from Japan, Hong Kong, and China. Head further west to India, where the lively soundscape includes highways, temples, busy streets, train stations, and atmospheric public spaces.
In Europe, soak up the energy of Madrid’s Casa de Campo and Atlético fans, or discover the charm of Amsterdam’s city center. For a quieter touch, the lush Irish countryside awaits. Eastern Europe offers a rich mix of city life, traffic, wetlands, and hotel ambiences from Bulgaria, Romania, and Serbia. And finally, experience the coastal beauty of Crete and Iceland’s waterfalls, town centers, beaches, and geothermal eruptions.
Carefully crafted over time, these sounds have supported top-tier professionals on projects for Netflix, Warner Bros, Activision, Infinity Ward, the BBC, and more.
With 43GB+ of content and 567 professionally recorded ambiences in 24-bit, 48kHz, and 96kHz, World Ambiences gives creators the tools to build authentic, immersive global soundscapes.
City Exterior Ambiences offers 80 urban recordings, featuring over 4 hours of authentic city soundscapes, ideal for film, TV, games, and podcasts.
Moody wind drafts for game & cinematic sound design can always give depth and realism to your production. This collection of airflow sounds covers structural air pressure, howling and whistling wind through doors, rattling frames and cracking stuff. Perfect for creating bunker-like atmospheres, tense survival settings, or immersive environmental layers, these sounds bring authenticity and emotion to your projects. Whether you need subtle drafts creeping through an abandoned shelter or violent gusts shaking a refuge, this library delivers a versatile toolkit ready for games, trailers, and film sound design.
Only acoustic recordings are used, no designed sounds. UCS compatible file names and embedded file descriptions for your comfort.
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 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.
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.
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.
Welcome to Real Madrid Home. Feel the electrifying energy of one of the world’s most iconic football venues with this high-resolution 3rd order ambisonic recording, made inside the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid. Recorded with state-of-the-art ambisonic equipment, this library delivers an immersive crowd experience filled with chants, reactions, tension, and spatial detail that transports listeners right into the heart of the action.
This library is perfect for film, television, or game projects that require authentic stadium crowd atmospheres with a natural immersive feel. Whether you’re recreating a live match atmosphere or building large-scale sports ambiences, the Bernabéu delivers.
⚠️ 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.
Step into the soundscape of daily life with this curated collection of 61 authentic public ambiences. From the quiet reverence of churches and the scholarly hush of libraries to the bustling rhythms of train stations, parks, airports, and shopping malls each recording captures the unique sonic character of communal human spaces. Designed for film, games, and immersive audio, this library brings atmosphere, realism, and context to any urban or narrative setting.
Tropical City Ambiences offers 59 stereo exterior recordings from cities along the Gulf of Mexico in diverse weather and time setups.
Capture the essence of iconic locations, from the bustling streets of London to the peaceful countryside of the Lake District, the tranquil atmospheres of Scotland’s landmarks, and the serene sounds of seaside towns, forests, parks, and pubs.
This collection is your ultimate toolkit for adding authentic British soundscapes to your film, TV, or video games. With over 400 meticulously recorded files and embedded UCS metadata, these high-quality recordings offer a true-to-life acoustic representation of each environment. Whether you’re looking to create a specific mood or build your own custom soundscapes, this sound effects library provides the flexibility and pristine clarity needed to enhance your creative projects. Bring scenes to life with the UK Ambiences library—your gateway to a world of immersive, original sounds.
This sound library contains over 400 audio files, all with embedded UCS metadata. It has the deepest collection of ambiences from Northern England, including voices, crowds, wildlife, and tourist attractions. Uncover diverse and captivating soundscapes that transport you straight to the heart of Britain with the UK Ambiences library.
Capturing the essence of water sounds can be a challenging endeavour, but with our expertly crafted sound library, you’ll have everything you need to help shape the sonic flow of your projects.
Whether you’re searching for pouring fluids, the everchanging diversity of bubbles, the seamless flow of natural water, or the dynamic motion of emerging and submerging liquids, this collection offers everything you need to craft the unique elements of moving water. Designed for ultimate flexibility, these sounds are ideal for layering, editing, and stretching to meet the needs of your creative vision. With exceptional clarity and versatility, the Water In Motion sound library will become a valuable addition to your collection, offering endless possibilities for your next project.
This comprehensive library, embedded with UCS Metadata, offers a vast selection of over 1,600 individual files. Take control of your sound design work ’flow’, and don’t let this collection slip through your fingers.
This Sound-Pack features a diversity of 51 Punctual Sounds, including Train Pass by, Onboard High Speed Rolling, Raw Metal Railway Sounds, Train Doors, and a lot more !
Immerse your projects in authentic atmosphere with our premium Room Tone Ambience Sound Effects Library. Featuring a diverse collection of ambient recordings from various indoor and outdoor environments, each file is professionally captured for rich, natural presence. Fully UCS-metatagged for seamless integration into your workflow, this library ensures fast, accurate search and organization. Perfect for film, TV, games, and podcasts, it delivers clean, loopable ambiences to bring realism and depth to any audio production.
Fully Universal Category System (UCS) compliant sound effects library of Sanja Matsuri 2025.
Recorded on location in Asakusa, Tokyo during Sanja Matsuri (May 2025) and Torigoe Matsuri (June 2025), this sound library captures the vibrant energy of two of Japan’s most iconic traditional festivals.
Featuring 41 high-quality recordings (24-bit / 96kHz), totaling 2 hours and 22 minutes (4.92GB), the collection includes:
Captured using the Audio Technica BP4025 stereo microphone, this library offers rich, immersive textures perfect for film, games, or any project needing authentic Japanese festival atmosphere.
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