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City Life 101 Ambiences Play Track 101 sounds included, 384 mins total $60

This library gets you atmospheric ambiences from all over the world; from the UK, Greece, Spain, Morocco to Germany and America – and includes cities like Jerusalem, Las Vegas and many more. The recordings have been captured on land, at sea and in the air – and with over 6 hours of ambiences in total, 101 Ambiences offers a wealth of material for your projects.

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Environments Abandoned Shelters Play Track 71 sounds included, 165+ mins total $49

Abandoned Shelters – The Danish Bunker Coast features mysterious and eerie sounds recorded in and around abandoned bunkers along the Danish West Coast.

The gathered ambiences form a comprehensive resource of steady winds, heavy gusts, rustling undergrowths as well as single waves and strong surfs that constantly stream and break through these inhospitable areas with concrete remains all around.

A big part of the library was recorded inside the bunkers where the strong nature elements of wind and water are transformed into heavily comb filtered textures and dark atmospheres.

Read the full Bunker story here

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Environments AURA – STEREO, 5.0 & AMBISONICS Play Track 80 sounds included, 120 mins total From: $62

The AURA sound effects library gets you high-quality ambiences from an extensive array of locations around the UK.

It contains ambiences such as shopping centres, supermarkets, cafes, car parks, cemeteries, forests, gyms, highway traffic, bars, pubs, libraries, city backstreets, parks, London underground trains, over ground trains (interior and exterior), hallways, neighbourhoods, iconic British train stations, busy junctions, high streets, swimming pools, hustling offices and several windy environments.

AURA comes in three formats – Stereo, 5.0 and AMBISONICS, to increase versatility even further (5.0 version also includes stereo version).

KEY FEATURES for AURA | Stereo

Number of Files: 80 High Quality WAVS
Size Unpacked: 1.91 GB
Sample Rate: 48k/24-bit – stereo
Average file length: 1.5 minutes
Other Info: Meta-Tagged

KEY FEATURES for AURA | 5.0 + Stereo

Number of Files: 80 High Quality WAVS + 80 stereo files
Size Unpacked: 6.71 GB
Sample Rate: 48k/24-bit
Average file length: 1.5 minutes
Gear Used: Sound Devices 744T, Soundfield SPS200.
Other Info: Meta-Tagged

KEY FEATURES for AURA | AMBISONICS

Number of Files: 80 High Quality WAVS (A-Format)
Size Unpacked: 3.89 GB
Sample Rate: 48k/24-bit
Average file length: 1.5 minutes
Gear Used: Sound Devices 744T, Soundfield SPS200.
Other Info: Meta-Tagged
To fully utilise the powerful AURA | AMBISONICS collection, please download the free SoundField SurroundZone 2 plugin to convert the A-Format ambisonics into a format of your choice.

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Weather Blowing winds Play Track 12+ sounds included, 27 mins total ~~$14.99~~ $11

This library consists of several kinds of wind. There are recordings of soft wind in extremely quiet open spaces at winter time. Some recordings were made in a coniferous forest in winter time – and the library also features a few sounds of canes and leaves rustle.

Recorded on a Schoeps MS set.

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Environments City Thunderstorm Play Track 28+ sounds included, 67 mins total ~~$35~~ $24.50

Need the sound of thunder in the city? City thunderstorm delivers a series of atmospheric rain and thunder effects recorded in London. Rolls, rumbles and claps, close and distant, and three long thunder and rain sequences to help create your perfect city storm, including one complete storm from start to finish. More than one hour of sounds from thunderstorms in the city – all recorded at 24 bit / 96 kHz, and embedded with full Soundminer Metadata.

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Environments EXT Play Track 125 sounds included, 546 mins total $39

Over 9 hours of carefully recorded exterior ambiences, from cities, streets, squares and stations, to natural environments such as forests, parks and waterfalls.

These recordings were made over a four year period, mainly in locations across Europe, including the streets of Malta, the Black Forest in Germany and city squares in Lithuania.

Includes EXT ambience types such as:

• Busy city streets and roads with traffic, trams, people, etc
• Quiet suburban streets, parks and squares
• City and town squares with people and distant traffic
• Wet streets with traffic and people, during and after rainfall
• Canals and boats
• Airport Taxi area
• Outdoor parking lots
• Rooftop and balcony recordings
• Walla
• Countryside ambience with birds
• Forest and lagoon
• Sea and waves
• Waterfalls
• Rain and thunder

All sounds were recorded and edited at 24-bit / 96kHz, with embedded meta data.

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Nature & Countryside Forest Ambience 1 Central Florida Play Track 73 sounds included, 87 mins total ~~$30~~ $25

The Forest Ambience 1 library focuses on the ambient sounds of Central Florida’s forest ecology. The focus of this library is a collection of as much general background ambience as possible with minimal focus on any one individual element. It also focuses on a Mid Day – Early Dusk time frame.

The range of ambiences include windy gusts through thick canopies, forests alive with birds and bugs, and erie dead silences void of any life recorded near one of the nation’s largest active bombing ranges. Also included are a few plane flyovers and some outdoor trail ambience near an apartment complex as a bonus.

Captured in environments such as:
• Bottomland hardwoods
• Pine Flatwoods
• Scrub
• Upland hardwoods
• Urban nature trail

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Environments Forest Ambience One Play Track 21 sounds included, 90+ mins total
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$35

‘Forest Ambience One’ is the first library in my nature ambience series where I intend to record the vast and unique forests of Finland and their changing sound between the four seasons.

This library consists of 21 unique pine and birch forest ambiences recorded in Northern Finland during summer. Most of the ambiences have occasional birds in them but I was lucky to capture the sound of the forests without the birds too.

Due to the varying weather during the summer I also decided to record some of the locations when it was raining lightly and also when the rain had passed to get that after rain dribble.

The average length of each ambience is between 3-5 minutes so you can easily create your own ambience loops for e.g. video games.

Forest Ambience One is recorded with Sound Devices 702 and a stereo pair of Sennheiser 8040’s in ORTF – and you get the sounds in two formats: 96 kHz, 24 bit and in 44.1 KHz, 16 bit, for more convenient ways of utilizing the sounds in games and other media.

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Weather Gutters & Drains Play Track 29 sounds included, 35 mins total $15

This library is full of watery sounds to give your urban and residential soundscapes detail and character. This collection has 29 recordings of these troughs after various storms, offering everything from water lightly dripping into a sewer to heavy flowing drains. All sounds were recorded using the Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 and a stereo pair of Sennheiser MKH 8020s.

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Drones & Moods Harmonic Series Drones Play Track 48+ sounds included, 48 mins total $29

• Harmonic Series Drones is an extension of several of my music compositions. Over the past few years, I’ve been very interested in data sonification, writing several pieces that turn real-time weather data into music. This library was created using a drone generator that turns weather data into sound. I built this drone generator for my piece Sitka for piano and seasonal electronics.

• Instead of pulling weather data from Sitka, Alaska, as I did in the piece, I used 2016 daily temperature data from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a fragile place wrapped up in current political drama and now open to drilling. This library is a sonification of 2016 temperature data in ANWR. The highest global temperature on record was recorded in 2016 (2016 Global Climate Report). It is even worse in the Arctic where temperatures are warming at twice the rate of lower latitudes (2016 Arctic Report Card). With this library, you’ll be able to hear the warming, and I hope this library helps to draw attention to the rapidly changing environment of the Arctic.

• Each of the forty-eight drones corresponds to the average temperature of a day in 2016, with twelve drones from each of the four seasons. The drones are built from pure tones made from tightly filtered pink noise. These pure tones are then stacked in harmonic series relationships. For instance, a winter drone might consist of the fundamental and four lowest partials. A summer drone could have the fundamental and partials seven, fourteen, and thirty-two.

• The drones stand on their own without the story. If you never knew they started with weather data, you would still find a variety of pure, rich, microtonal drones with enough variety to fit the mood of any project.

2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause. I view it as an “artist royalty” for the planet!

KEY FEATURES:
• All files are sample seamless loops. So, there are no fade-ins and outs and the files are ready for looping in any DAW.
• Consonant and dissonant drones
• Simple and complex drones
• Each of the 48 drones is between 1 and 1.5 minutes in duration
• Non-periodic undulating drones
• Each harmonic has a randomized gain, so the drones pulse non-periodically.
• Drones were made from tightly filter pink noise, so drones have a small amount of soothing and airy pink noise.
• Microtonal harmonic series relationships create beautiful beating between drone harmonics.
• All drones have a fundamental of G1 (49Hz). Transpose them as needed to fit any project.
• Partials are included in the metadata, for example, “fundamental_G1_harmonics_1_2_3_4_7_16”.

DATA SONIFICATION:
• Weather data included in the Soundminer Description and BWAV description fields.
• Temperature data was translated as a combination of lowest harmonic, number of harmonics, and highest harmonic.
• Generally, lower temperatures include bass harmonics and higher temperatures include treble harmonics. For example, the hottest day of the year only included harmonics 18 and 24.
• Location: weather data is from the NOAA station at Helmut Mountain, Alaska in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

FILE LIST & METADATA:
• View in Browser or Download CSV

GEAR USED:
• Max/MSP 7

REFERENCES:
• Harmonic series artwork by Jason Charney: http://www.jasoncharney.com/
• 2016 Arctic Report Card: http://arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card/Report-Card-2016/ArtMID/5022/ArticleID/271/Surface-Air-Temperature
• 2016 Global Climate Report: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201613
• NOAA Weather Data: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/

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Weather High Desert Thunderstorms Play Track 124+ sounds included, 137 mins total From: $29

High Desert Thunderstorms has the vast, beautiful crackling of Southwestern summer thunderstorms. These powerful storms travel for miles in all directions with rumbles that feel physically and emotionally immersive. Plus, you receive many types of Texan storms with rainstorms, dry thunder, echoing thunderclaps, and much more. If you need storm ambiences that ripple across barren valleys, listen to High Desert Thunderstorms.

2% for the Planet:
Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause. I view it as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
Key Features:

• Hand-picked sounds from over 20 summer thunderstorms
• Three-part library: Dry Thunder, Wet Thunder, and Rain and Thunderstorm Ambiences
• Thunder echoing in mountain valleys
• Unraveling explosions as close as 2,000 feet
• Sub-bass growls as far away as 20 miles
• Approaching and fading storm cells
• Descriptors: close, distant, rippling, rolling, growling, rumbling, unraveling, sonic boom, Zeus, and sub-bass
• multiple microphone perspectives for a variety of stereo images and uses
• Location: Near Marfa, Texas, summer 2016, mountain valley at an altitude of 6,000 ft.
• 95% Bird Free
• Library can be purchased in parts or as a bundle to save 20%

Dry Thunder:
• Specs: 690 MB – 192 kHz / 24-bit WAV – 26 stereo files, 26+ sounds – MS recordings decoded and library does not include the RAW MS files
• Duration: Approx. 10 min total
• Isolated rain-free thunderclaps from nearby supercells
• Thunder with wind in summer grass
• Clips ranging from 7 to 44 seconds

Wet Thunder:
• Specs: 2.37 GB – 192 kHz / 24-bit WAV – 67 stereo files, 67+ sounds – MS recordings decoded and library does not include the RAW MS files
• Duration: Approx. 34 min total
• Isolated thunderclaps with rain
• Heavy, medium, and light rain
• Clips ranging from 10 to 64 seconds

Rain and Thunderstorm Ambiences:
• Specs: 6.47 GB – 192 kHz / 24-bit WAV – 31 stereo files, 31+ sounds – MS recordings decoded and library does not include the RAW MS files
• Duration: Approx. 93 min total
• Dry and Wet thunderstorm ambiences, including thunderclaps
• Heavy, medium, and light rain without thunder
• Metal rooftops, storm drains, small hail stones
• Clips ranging from 1 to 20 minutes

High Desert Thunderstorm – Full Library:
• Specs: 9.54 GB – 192 kHz / 24-bit WAV – 124 stereo files, 124+ sounds – MS recordings decoded and library does not include the RAW MS files
• Duration: Approx. 137 min total
• All Dry Thunder, Wet Thunder, and Rain and Thunderstorm Ambiences included

Gear Used:
Sennheiser MKH 50/30 MS pair
MS recordings decoded
DPA 4060 A/B pair
Sound Devices 702
Rycote AG MS Blimp

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Weather High Desert Winds 1 Play Track 52+ sounds included, 200 mins total $59

In this collection, get the blustery sounds of High Desert Winds 1 recorded in the resonant mountains of west Texas. This library includes sounds of the mountain ridge tops of the David Mountains with 15-50 mph gale force gusts, low whistling drones, breezes through pinyon pines, mesquite and much more. There are also seasonal recordings with leafy gusts, pouring rain, broad spectrum wind through winter grass, and crickets at night braving the weather. If you need sounds of the blustery wide open American Southwest, this is the library to check out.

2% for the Planet:
Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause. I view it as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
Key Features:

• 80% bird and insect free
• High altitude desert wind: 6000 ft. average elevation
• Turbulent gale-force gusts ranging from 15-50 mph
• Mountain ridge tops
• Indoor window perspectives
• Dead winter and spring grass
• Pinyon Pine
• Scratching Mesquite
• Bats above 20kHz
• Locations: Davis Mountains, Texas
*Bowed metal sounds in demo not included

Gear Used:
• Sennheiser MKH 50/30 Mid/Side pair
• Mid/Side recordings decoded to LR stereo
• DPA 4060 A/B pair
• Sound Devices 702
• Rycote AG MS Blimp

Need More Winds? Listen to High Desert Winds 2!

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Weather High Desert Winds 2 Play Track 59+ sounds included, 165 mins total $59

In the second installment of the High Desert Winds Series, get the blustery sounds of High Desert Winds 2 recorded in the resonant mountains of West Texas. This library was recorded during a massive two-day wind storm with gusts up 75 mph! These extreme winds rattled and shook the house in wonderful ways. The creaking and groaning windows, doors, and walls were vibrating so much that I could record wind for the first time using a contact microphone! There are also recordings of leaf vortexes, sand blasts, tarps popping, umbrella destruction, and much more. If you need the sounds of a stunning desert storm to complement the recordings in High Desert Winds 1, this is the library to check out.

2% FOR THE PLANET:

Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause. I view it as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
KEY FEATURES:

• 90% bird and insect free
• Turbulent hurricane-force gusts ranging from 20-75 mph
• Droning and singing wind whistles
• Open plastic bottle and wine bottle wind whistles
• Mountain ridge top wind
• Desert grass, scrub oak, and pinyon pine wind
• Indoor ORTF perspectives: adobe house, wooden storage shed, and mid-sized truck
• Indoor contact mic perspectives: chimneys, windows, doors, and walls
• Plastic tarps and umbrellas whipping in 50-75 mph winds
• Locations: Davis Mountains, Texas
• Named markers included in each file to help find interesting events. Starting in Soundminer 4.5Pro_v252 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
• Aquarian Audio H2a-XLR Hydrophone – Used as contact microphone
• Sound Devices 702
• Rycote ORTF Blimp

FILE LIST:
• View in browser or Download CSV

Need More Winds? Listen to High Desert Winds 1!

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Environments Howling Winds – Interior Play Track 42 sounds included $28

Howling Winds – Interior is 1.4 GB of high-velocity air molecules in 42 separate files – recorded in 24bit/96kHz stereo – from an interior perspective.

It is a collection of highly expressive, sometimes vocal, sometimes violent gusts of wind, squalls of rain and sleet – as heard from within the safety of a home.

KEY FEATURES

• Howling, moaning, whistling wind sounds
• Roofs and windows pummeled with rain and sleet
• Bad weather in an urban setting

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Environments Hurricane Winds Play Track 38 sounds included, 117 mins total $25

Hurricane Winds features some of the biggest and most violent winds hitting the Danish coastal area in many, many years. Both both interior and exterior recordings are included.

In hindsight, it's been crazy and stupid to be recording at some of these locations, but here they are – three years of unique storm recordings.

Key features of Hurricane Winds:

• 21 tracks of hurricane/storm recordings from a yachting and commercial harbor. Wind screaming as it flies through rigging, wires, masts etc. Plastic covers, structure, flags moving.

• 6 tracks of hurricane/storm in the city. Trees moving, wind howling, small debris passing.

• 2 tracks of storm in the forest. Trees creaking, as wind moves through tree tops.

• 9 tracks of interior recordings. Roof moving, draft from windows. Small debris hitting window.

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Environments Nature and Urban Ambiences Play Track 23+ sounds included, 27 mins total $12

This small library contains 23 unique ambience tracks recorded in the Central Florida area. The nature ambiences range from forests to oceans in both the night time and during the day. Urban ambiences range from industrial warehouse settings, to small city parks and parking garages. One particularly unique track included is a recording from inside a home during hurricane Irma.

Overall, This collection covers a lot of ground for 23 tracks. Each track contained is fairly unique within the set.

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Environments Nature’s Fury: Rain, Wind, Thunder Play Track 197 sounds included, 300 mins total $135

Nature’s Fury: Rain, Wind, Thunder is a massive collection of storm sounds to help you build your environments.

Whether you need a light rain ambience all the way up to heavy rain, howling winds, and cracking and rumbling thunder blowing through your scene – we have you covered. We even isolated some low rumbling thunder to be used in your sound design.

Consider this a storm toolkit that comes with three 4-minute long 5.1 surround designed thunderstorms to get you started!

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Environments Organic Nature Play Track 160 sounds included, 180 mins total ~~$49~~ $29

Organic Nature gets you more than 3 hours of ambient nature sound recordings, capturing the sounds of forests, woodlands, beaches and more in Tennessee, South Carolina and Washington State. It also delivers weather sounds such as rain, thunder, and freezing rain – and even comes with a collection of campfire / burning sounds. + Includes embedded Soundminer meta data.

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Ambisonics Rain 1 Play Track 17+ sounds included, 29 mins total $75

It's raining today, wherever you are, in the house or in the garden, you will be surrounded by bad weather.

About Ambisonics:
This is an Ambisonics sound effects library - and by using the free SoundField SurroundZone 2 plugin you can convert the B-format files into your preferred format (stereo, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0 or 7.1 surround). Note: The library also contains ready-made stereo mixdowns for your convenience.

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Weather Rain and Thunder Play Track 73 sounds included, 39 mins total $30

Do you want to add some tension with thunder sound effects? Are you looking for immersive rain? Do you need perfect loops of rain in your game?

'Rain and Thunder' is a collection of high-quality sounds recorded over a timespan of several years at different locations with a Mid-Side and XY rig. This sound pack contains variations of rain: soft, hard, under metal, under plastic, on top of plastic, and with and without thunder rumble.

This pack is guaranteed to immerse the listener with the pattering drips of water and the roaring thunder!

All sounds included are tagged with metadata (keywords and description) for use in Soundminer/Basehead, etc.

Rain and Thunder includes:
• Rain Hard Loop (12 sounds)
• Rain Hard and Stream Loop (2 sounds)
• Rain Pouring Loop (1 sound)
• Rain Pouring and Thunder Rumble Loop (1 sound)
• Rain Soft Loop (11 sounds)
• Rain Soft and Bird Loop (1 sound)
• Rain Soft and Stream and Bird Loop. (1 sound)
• Rain Soft and Thunder Really Long Loop (2 sounds)
• Rain and Distant Thunder Loop (5 sounds)
• Rain and Distant Thunder Rumble Loop (11 sounds)
• Rain and Stream Loop (5 sounds)
• Rain from Inside Loop (2 sounds)
• Rain on Plastic Inside Loop (1 sound)
• Rain on Plastic Outside Loop (1 sound)
• Rain on Rocks Loop (1 sound)
• Rain on Water and Bird Loop (1 sound)
• Rain under Metal Loop (4 sounds)
• Rain under Metal and Thunder Rumble Loop (6 sounds)
• Rain under Umbrella Loop (1 sound)
• Rain, Distant Thunder Rumble and Bird Loop (1 sound)
• Rain, Distant Thunder and Bird Loop (1 sound)
• Thunder and Bird Loop (1 sound)

Gears & Specs
• Every file included is tagged with metadata keywords and a description for use in Soundminer, Basehead, etc.
• Recorded with a Oktava MK-012 in Mid Side configuration and Zoom H6 XY.

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Weather Rain and Water Flow Play Track 123 sounds included, 76 mins total $30

Enjoy hearing rain recorded on several surfaces from a household perspective in San Francisco. Concrete, dirt, plastic, etc. Loops included as well. Also, heavy and light creeks recorded from several distances in Lake Tahoe.
Equipment used for these recordings was a Sound Devices 702 recorder along with DPA 4006 and Sennheiser 418s microphones.

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Weather Rain City Play Track 84 sounds included, 230 mins total $49

Rain City is a HQ sound effects library featuring 84 recordings captured at various indoor and outdoor locations, in a quiet urban environment.
Inside, you will find various types and intensities of rainfall, from soft, detailed dripping on roof tiles and heavy machinery in an idle construction site, to heavy rain in the city at night, to torrential downpour against car windows, Plexiglas rooftop panels, umbrellas and more.

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Weather Rain In The City Play Track 41 sounds included, 66 mins total $39

RAIN IN THE CITY features 41 HD 24bit/96khz Sound Effects with a large assortment of rains, drippings, gutters, traffic, streams and other water movements. Recorded during Los Angeles's heavy El Nino Weather storms in 2015. All new and original recordings.

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Weather Rain in the City – by Phonophilist Play Track 70+ sounds included, 190 mins total $49

'Rain in the City' has 70 files and more than 3 hours of recordings of light rain and storms in the city. This collection includes both indoor and outdoor ambience recordings from the 9th floor of a city building, within a vehicle, and on the street. There are also recordings of rain drops from the roof and drip cap, as well as rare recordings of a hail shower, flowing rain water through drain pipes and storm drains, and rain onto umbrellas, a car, and metal surfaces.

Details:
• Unique recording of a storm in the city of Minsk from the beginning to the end.
• The storm caused a lot of thunder, heavy rain, and over 100 fallen trees in the city (24 liters of rainfall per square meter).
• Ambience rain recordings have light, moderate and heavy storm intensities.
• Indoor recordings with opened and closed window for scenes in the buildings.
• Designed short loops of diffuse rain sound with 3 levels: heavy, moderate and light.

Gear Used:
• Neumann 185 MT stereo matched microphone pair with Sound Devices 702 recorder

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Environments Rain Indoor Ambiences Play Track 26+ sounds included, 96 mins total $26

Get the sound of rain – recorded from an interior perspective.

This library contains various types and intensities of rain, from soft dripping to downpour, and the files are long enough to cover the rainbursts from start to end. Most of the files are also easily loopable.

Some of the sounds are recorded with closed windows for a realistic indoor perspective. In other takes a window is left ajar to enhance the sound of the rain outside and four files gives you an exterior perspective from a porch.

Locations covered: two greenhouses, two cars, a privy, a shed, a boathouse, a variety of rooms and roof materials.

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Nature & Countryside Rain Thunder & Storm Play Track 30 sounds included, 90 mins total $60

Thunders, rain and storms are great natural recordings, and this library features a wide view of Spanish storms! The sounds include electrical thunders, rain storms, close thunders and more, recorded since 2009 in Spain.

All the files have metadata embedded for great Soundminer type programs. They both include Spanish and English descriptions.

Another way to get this library: Also included in the Surround Sound LAB Complete Bundle, featuring 25+ SFX libraries at a huge discount.

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Environments Rain, Rivers & Waves Play Track 97 sounds included, 230 mins total $79

Spanning five years of meticulous field recordings “Rain, Rivers & Waves” gets you nearly 8 GB of pristine water sounds in all shapes and sizes.

The collection includes 97 files recorded in stereo at 96 kHz.

The library delivers around 4 hours of tropical rains, urban storms, shallow streams, large roaring rivers, gentle lapping, heavy surf waves and much more!

We hope this collection will be of great value to anybody looking for outstanding water sounds.

As usual, all our sounds are meticulously recorded, edited with patience and mastered with love.

Sincerely,

Bonson Team

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Environments Rolling Thunder Play Track 1 sounds included, 11 mins total $13.50
This clean, stereo nature recording beautifully captures the tranquility of a typical British summer thunderstorm from the moment the birds stop singing as the first spots of rain roll in, to their re-emergence as the storm passes.

Recorded in the heart of rural Norfolk, England.

Features:
- No sudden crashes: Ideal for relaxation and sleep aid.
- Eleven minutes of pure natural ambience with no disturbance from passing traffic or other artificial disturbances.
- A complete recording capturing the storm before the rain approaches, through until the rain eases after the storm.
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Environments Sounds of Nature: MOUNTAINS of Europe Play Track 20 / 60 sounds included, 78 / 234 mins total $69

Mountains of Europe features nature sounds and ambiences, captured in different mountain forests and areas of Central Europe at different times of day. All ambiences are very quiet and serene and recorded at high altitude.

Mostly the birds are at distance and you can also find some tracks with only wind blowing through the trees and rustling leaves. Sometimes a buzzard circles around in the sky or a raven flies by. You really get the sensation of being in a rough and remote mountain landscape, the ultimate ‘in the middle of nowhere’ feeling.
All nature recordings are clear and completely free from external noise and other human disruptions, which is why this library will be especially useful for productions taking place in medieval times and nature documentaries. The average length of each file is between 3-5 minutes, so enough time to use in longer scenes without looping.

All of these nature ambiences are recorded using three different microphone set-ups. A Stereo set-up. A wide stereo set-up. And a spaced omnis set-up, which also offers extended frequency response. This brings you 3 variations of each recording. Within these variations the differences are sometimes subtle and sometimes more extreme. These three perspectives can provide flexibility for crosscutting within scenes.

Get approximately 4 hours of unique, royalty-free and especially high quality recordings with this library. Recorded in 24 bit / 96 kHz. Accurately edited and mastered to sound as natural as possible. For more detailed descriptions about the ambiences in this collection see the metadata in our file lists or listen to the preview montage.

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World Sounds Sounds of Senegal Play Track 41 sounds included, 213 mins total $40

Get the sounds of Senegal in this interesting collection from Eneas Mentzel. Covering everything from city and village ambiences to night and day atmospheres and much more, this library is a rich source of authentic Senegalese ambiences. More than 3.5 hours of recordings total are included.

All files in unprocessed M/S format for maximum flexibility in audio post !!!

Artwork by Annemie Van Roey.

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Sci-Fi Space Whooshes & Winds Play Track $50

This collection features 200 Space Whooshes and Wind Science Fiction sound effects. These sounds have been hand-picked from the Sound Ideas HD – Space Whooshes and Winds library.

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Environments Suburbs of Chicago: Forest Preserve 2 Play Track 400+ sounds included, 90 mins total ~~$20~~ $10

Suburbs of Chicago: Forest Preserve 2 is the fourth in the Suburbs of Chicago series, and 2nd trip inside a suburban Forest Preserve.

Included you will hear bird chirps, tree rustles, bike passes, distant chatter, a small brook and families near a small lake, and more! Every wonder what it sounds like inside a hollow tree trunk? Wonder no more! This pack consists of 12 audio files, all metadata tagged using Basehead and Soundly.

Recorded at 24 bit, 192 kHz using the Sennheiser MKH8050 and MKH30 into a Sound Devices Mix Pre-6. About an hour and a Half of recordings! Like in the other packs in this series, you will always hear distant traffic and planes.

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Environments Suburbs of Chicago: Woods Play Track 500+ sounds included, 103 mins total ~~$22~~ $18

Suburbs of Chicago: Woods is the 6th in the Suburbs of Chicago Series. This pack takes us deep into another suburban forest preserve. This one drapes the sky in tall trees, providing shade and plenty of trails to walk through. Watch out for small critters jumping around as one recording in this pack caught a squirrel hopping through tall grass and weeds. There are plenty of grass and leaves rustles along with bird chirps. There is also a recording over 10 minutes at the intersection, filled with passing and idle vehicles, right out side the wooded forest preserve. Recorded at 24 bit, 192 kHz using the Sennheiser MKH8050 and MKH30 into a Sound Devices Mix Pre-6.

Over an hour and a half of recordings, all metadata tagged using Basehead and Soundly. As in the all the other packs in this series, you will hear distant traffic and planes throughout.

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Weather Surround In The Rain 5.1 + Stereo Play Track 30 sounds included, 100 mins total $69

Want the sounds of urban rain storms, gutters, drains and wet traffic? Surround In the Rain features 30 HD 24bit/48khz 5.1 Surround Sound Effects with exactly that. Recorded with discrete Quad microphones, and mastered in 5.1 surround (L-C-R-Ls-Rr-Lf Embeded .WAV format). Recording locations are all from center perspective to create the widest possible sound, and a stereo version of each cue is included, as well as embedded metadata. Want a taste of what's included? Download the 5.1 Surround Demo file here and try it out on your own system!

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Environments The Drip Play Track 57+ sounds included $45

The Drip delivers a comprehensive set of dripping sound effects that could be used in movies, video games etc. with both ambience sounds for backgrounds, and single sounds for spotting individual drops on various surfaces.

A variety of microphones were used to capture the different sounds in this collection: Telinga Microphones for a real zoom perspective, Mkh8040+30 for ambiences, a Mkh416 & Emesser mic for certain sfx sounds, and a set of Mkh 8020 for the real quiet sound effects sources.

The Drip features:
• Rapid and slow, loud and quiet water dripping sounds, easily loopable
• Water dripping sounds, from wet clothes and faucet, onto different materials (porcelain, plastic, metal, wood, paper, cups, bottles, bowls, stone)
• Rain on roofs, tents, porches, grass, car windshields and car roof (interior and exterior perspective)
• Exterior water/mud dripping sounds recorded with a Telinga Parabolic mic
• Interior big hall water dripping sounds recorded with a Telinga Parabolic mic
• Sewer water dripping sounds
• Radiator water dripping sounds
• House drain water dripping sounds

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Environments The Rustle Play Track 58+ sounds included, 165 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$59

The Rustle is a sound effects library with recordings of grass, leaves, scrubs, branches, rods, twigs & trees rustling in the wind.

It gets you a versatile collection of high-quality recordings of natural sounding ambience and foley sweeteners – and includes sounds from sources such as small leaves, large leaves, grass rustling, scrubs, small and large hedge leaves, bamboo leaves, thick leaves, dangling bamboo rods, bamboo fields, maple tree branches, dry field grass, trees – and more!

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Environments Thunder & Rain Play Track 46+ sounds included, 23 mins total $13

Thunder & Rain is a sound library that delivers the recordings of two storms. It includes a total of 46 audio files, split into three folders: STEREO, MS and UPMIX 5.1. It also comes with 40 audio files in the AS REC MS (NO De-Noise) folder.

De-noise was applied to most of the recordings, to only preserve thunder FX, but you have the NO De-Noise folder included too.

Create your own thunder ambiences with the included Winds/Storm/Rain files (in the preview below, I used the Rain file in addition to thunder files).

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Environments Thunder and Rain Play Track 43+ sounds included, 152 mins total $40

Looking for sounds that make you want to grab a warm blanket and stay inside? This collection has thunder and rain recordings collected during window-shaking storms from 2012 to 2015.

Most sounds are recorded in Helsinki, where summers contain a few weeks of hot weather accompanied by dramatic thunderstorms.

It also features a hot, violent storm captured in France that lasted several hours.

With recordings that last from 13 seconds to over a half hour, you're sure to get all the drizzling and cracking thunderclaps you're looking for!

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Weather Town Winds Play Track 34 sounds included $25

From winds rushing through empty streets to winds whistling and whipping across a marina, “Town Winds” offers a broad spectrum of wind ambiences in urban environments.

This library includes the sounds of wind blowing through flagpoles, strong wind gusts at a railway station, and wind whirling around a backyard. There are recordings of clattering masts, fluttering plastic, rattling fences, and much more.

Taken in very calm spaces, these recordings have minimal traffic bleed and are nearly bird free. Recorded with a Shoeps MK4/MK8 MS, paired with a Sound Devices 702 recorder.

Whether you’re designing a stormy scene in a city or a suburban environment, this is the library for you.

Locations captured:
Empty streets, parking lots, railway stations, school, rural street, marina, harbor, lighthouse, athletics field, backyard, town square

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Weather Urban Rain Play Track 50 sounds included, 200 mins total $40

Urban Rain is a sound library that delivers 50 city rain sounds recorded in 96 kHz/24 bit, with Soundminer and BWAV embedded metadata. The library contains various types of rain at different intensities, from very light to downpour. Several thunder claps and rumbles are present as well. Locations are as follows: a terrace, a balcony, a backyard, several streets, a rooftop, a garage, inside a car, a loft (from inside), Chelsea FC Stadium and two patios (interior). All files have been recorded at night so human activity is minimum, although you will hear a tiny bit of traffic rumble in the background.

The library also includes 8 Ambisonics files (B-Format, both in FuMa and ambiX, along with a downmix in stereo) and other sounds related to water in the citylife, such as pipes, a drain and a gutter, which are loopable. By using the free SoundField SurroundZone 2 plugin you can convert the B-format files into your preferred format (stereo, 5.0, 5.1, 7.1).

Descriptive markers have been added to several files 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.

The total length of the library is 200 minutes.

Gear used: Zoom F8, Sennheiser Ambeo, Sony D100.

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