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Weather sound effects and recordings, including rain, wind, thunder, storms and lightning
Recorded in Chongqing, a municipality roughly the size of Austria this region is home to the most infamous and spicy hotpot in China. The city of Chongqing boasts a population of over 30 million and is subsequently filled with a wide array of bustling and distinctive sounds.
Featuring recordings of the urbanized city center, multiple restaurant ambiances, suburban alleys and streets, and Chinese crowds + conversations. Includes 21 audio tracks all recorded at 24bit / 96 kHz with UCS metadata.
THE COMPLETE NATURE AMBIENCE TOOLKIT
NATURE ESSENTIALS is the first SFX library from a series of absolutely stunning nature recordings by Emmy-winner and nature recording genius Gordon Hempton. Hempton has searched the globe for more than three decades to record nature at its most pristine.
PREMIUM SELECTION OF NATURAL SOUNDSCAPES
NATURE ESSENTIALS offers all the necessary ingredients to immediately produce stunning natural soundscapes. The sonic palette includes wind, rain, thunder, streams, surf and a wide selection of ambiences and wildlife vocalizations. These sound files are unmixed so you can confidently present actual places or creatively mix something uniquely yours.
USEFUL CATEGORIES AND GUIDES
In addition, these files are embedded with metadata offering geographic location, the bird species or animals that are heard, plus advice on how to use a particular sound to achieve best results.
This Library is also part of The Complete Quiet Planet Bundle.
Libraries from Quiet Planet are covered by a special EULA - read it here.This sound library captures the unique acoustics of New Zealand’s caves, abandoned mines, and tunnels, recorded in stereo and surround.
You will find a variety of ambiences, from vast, echoing caverns to narrow passageways with close, damp acoustics. From the delicate trickle of water on mossy stone and heavy drips on dirt to the distant rumble of underground streams and the wind through old miner houses, these recordings bring the underground world to life.
This library reveals the rich echoes and shifting textures of these hidden spaces, where sound bends, fades, and resonates through stone and water.
This library is also available in The New Zealand Collection bundle.
Cover photo by Harry Bradley.
Recorded Locations
Aranui Cave • Ballroom Overhang • Box Canyon Cave • Cave Stream Scenic Reserve • Collins Drive • Denniston Mines • Glenorchy Mining area • Harris Bay Cave • Mangapohue Natural Bridge • Moria Gate Arch • Oparara Arch • Piripiri Cave • Tatare Gorge • Tunnel Hill • Waipu caves • Welshtown
Stereo and Surround
Recorded with double mid-side and AB microphone setups, this library is delivered in 5.0 (L/R/C/Ls/Rs) and Stereo.
Gear used
Zoom F3 • Zoom F6 • Usi Pro • MKH30 • MKH8040
Metadata
This sound library is UCS compliant and comes with fully embedded metadata compatible with Soundly, Soundminer and Basehead.
This Collection of Room Tones contains Recordings made in empty, abandoned old Buildings and Medieval Ruins. Unsettling Draft Sounds from different perspectives. Wind Gusts heard from inside, Wind Storm echoing in old Chapels or Church, eerie humming inside abandoned spaces, Tonal Draft creating creepy atmospheres… Over 2,5 hours of Urbex type ambiences, containing long files and loops for easy use and variety. Recorded in stereo inside and outside interesting, and secret places, which is a rule for urban exploring ;-)
These are not common Room Tones with only presence of a silent room, but more ambiences that are suited for games/movie where characters are supposed to be in shelter, in abandoned places, in castles, dungeons, prisons, machine rooms etc. Cracks, moving structures, rattling objects are left in purposely to really have a detailed and convincing setting for game, documentary or any visual content. Best is to keep the volume low enough to not overdo the atmosphere.
Care is taken to not have any disturbing human traffic in the recordings, so these will fit for most time periods and geographic locations.
A GMC cable tool Sterdrill Keystone USA (1953) – I found one rusting away in a fjord in Iceland and attached a LOM Geofon and Stille and Klang contact microphones.
The results were varying textured breezes moving long grass and decaying loose metal to create rustling, scratching sounds, resonant knocks and also insect and gnawing rodent like sounds.
Further Library Info
This sound library is included in the Wind Born Movement Library
Multiple Microphone Perspectives : Yes
Type : Source Files – WAV Stereo
Mastered : No
Normalised : No
Looped Files : Yes
Recorder : Sound Devices Mix Pre 10II
Microphones : LOM Geofon, Stille and Klang Contact Microphones
Microphone Perspective : Magnet / Contact
Documentation Included : Copyright, EULA, Images, Metadata (exported in multiple formats)
Metadata : Files are stamped with detailed UCS compliant metadata in Soundminer
License : A Sound Effect EULA / Terms and Conditions https://asoundeffect.com/license-agreement/
Wind in urban and natural environments, recorded all year round. Windy room tones, wind whistling under doors and windows, wind on the boats, in trees, in the city, windy ambiences, lakes, mountains etc. Check the list of sounds for full info. All files are metadata tagged, with detailed description of equipment, mic technique used and position of mics.
Recording equipment used: Sennheisers MKH serie mics, LOM Usi, Primo, Rode mics; Rycote blimps, Sound Devices recorder/mixer, Sony and Tascam hand recorders with LOM Usi mics (in Rycote BBG windshields); Mogami cables, tripods, etc.
Maximum peak level on all recordings is -5 dBFS (for great dynamic range, great headroom), originally recorded with great headroom keeping in mind and to maintain great dynamic range of this natural phenomena.
HQ recordings from the most isolated and unspoiled areas of the Himalayas. Documented in many different locations and diverse habitats that can be found within these vast mountains. The sound library is compiled for sound designers, filmmakers and bioacoustic researchers.
Gentle drizzle to thundering rain storm
Rain ambiences is a collection of detailed dripping, splattering and pouring rain. It has a little more than four and a half hours of rain recorded in ORTF or NOS in nature preserves, rural and urban areas.
I looked for the most wet sounding spots and spent hours relaxing to the sound of rain. It was really fantastic to record!
The sounds were mostly recorded at night and the ambiences have texture and detail with a range from rain aftermath to stormy downpour on many different surfaces. All files are thoroughly and carefully tagged with metadata and have UCS-compliant file naming.
From the art filled halls of the Louvre and the hustle of Gare Du Nord to the side streets of ‘Le Marais’ and the balconies of Monmartre, experience the soundscape of a romantic parisian getaway.
Crowds, the metro, patisseries, sunrise from our balcony, street cleaners, party goers and 9-5’ers rushing through train stations.
‘A Trip to Paris’ was recorded during… wait for it… a trip to Paris, in the summer of 2023.
Is is an library of primarily ambiences with very little processing.
Special thanks to my partner Kathy for tolerating my continued efforts to ruin our romantic getaway with my recorder.
For many people, rain is high on their list favorite sounds to relax, study, or sleep to. For how soothing and common of a sound it is, it happens to be one of the most difficult to record – that is, if you want to still be able to use your gear afterwards.
In early spring of 2023, a little rain recording experiment on the fire escape leading to my somewhat sheltered backyard revealed that little to no city noise would actually make it onto the recording. Surprised by how clean these recordings came out, and by how wet of a summer we’ve been having this year, I proceeded to record in the backyard of my apartment almost every time it rained.
Over a period of 6 months, I recorded hundreds of gigabytes of rain and ultimately narrowed it down to the 3 hours contained in this library. If you are looking for rain recordings that are clean and work well for layering while still clearly anchoring your soundscape in suburban spaces, this is the library for you! Also included are two long thunderstorms that can be heard moving into the distance.
These recordings contain no distinct car sounds, people, or sirens, and have been minimally processed to make them flexible for use in films, games, and video productions.
As an added bonus, this library contains immersive, Ambisonic (AmbiX) recordings of rain captured from the inside of a tin shed. To convert these recordings to binaural or surround formats I recommend downloaded the free SoundField by RØDE plug-in.
Total number of Files: 19
Total Duration: 3hrs 2min 33sec
Metadata: UCS file naming, SoundMiner, Soundly, BWF
Recording Specs: 24 Bit / 96 kHz
Channel Formats: Stereo, AmbiX (Ambisonics B-Format)
File Format: WAV
Size: 7.3 GB
Gear used: LOM Uši Pro Mics, RØDE NT-SF1 Ambisonic Mic, Zoom F3, Zoom F6, Zoom H1n
Processing: Level adjustment, Crossfades, Low-Shelf Filtering where necessary.
Wind collection Vol 2 offers gentle breezes to strong gusts, spooky drafts to rare old bamboo field wind sounds. All files are clean and contain no traffic noise or any other human made annoying sounds. This means the wind sounds can cover many productions including documentary, game sounds, movie background, and for all time periods! From medieval settings to unknown times and places, these wind recordings offer a credible background. During 3 years this collection was growing bit by bit, adding variations and useful situations. The rare presence of insects or birds is mentioned in the metadata, but they apply to less than a handful of files.
The acoustic wind collection covers over 3,5 hours of stereo recordings, binaural recordings for immersive wind sounds, and some mono files for specific use.
When Loop is indicated in the filename, the file can be looped as you would expect, but these files are unlike sample loops, or instrument loops: they are of course longer and loop after a good amount of time, sometimes several minutes. The looped files are chosen by their contents and have no moments that are too recognizable if heard a second time, so they are useful for backgrounds.
All files have UCS compliant names and include metadata with useful descriptions.
You can find a Draft folder with stereo and binaural recordings in interesting abandoned places that had a draft close to a door or window. You might hear some dark reverb or cracks in those places that deliver a great ghostly atmosphere.
The bamboo wind recordings are also very special as these were made in old bamboo fields that were not cleaned. This means there were old and broken parts between the weeping bamboo, assuring nice clunks and squeaks.
Other than that you will find many winds, through air, through vegetation, in empty villages, in a small van for specific perspectives, wind through tunnel, very bad recordings with no wind protection for typical interview fails…
You can find the following libraries in this collection >
The third volume of the Useful Sound Effects Wind collection contains magic wind spells, air suction, air pressure, wind pipes, thin surfaces making sound by wind, wind made by breath, wind whooshes and more. 342 Files give a vast array of useful sounds that are based on wind or on air movement.
Classed in folders you can find Air suction, Breath Winds, Designed wind/air, Pipes, Pumps, Thin surfaces moving by wind. The Designed folder contains magic wind or air spells, sounding like whooshes, risers, sweeteners, spooky voices (both male and female) pronouncing Latin language. You will also find more processed sounds for simple use as sound effect or as background sound for setting a specific atmosphere.
Metatagged and UCS compliant, all files indicate a possible use, but sounds can be placed anywhere in a project, whether it is in a film, a game, a dialogue setting, or any media presentation.
You can find the following libraries in this collection >
This library features outdoor ambience recordings captured at a number of quiet locations around Hong Kong during the winter season. These locations includes: wetlands, large beaches, forests, lakes and meadows.
These sounds are perfect for background sound design in film, games, documentaries, art installation and etc.
Featuring;
All sounds were recorded using the Sennheiser MKH 8020 Stereo Pair and Sound Devices 788T.
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Ankers Audio presents a collection of stereo ambiences recorded during a 12 month travel around Spain. Recorded in 9 different parts of the country and featuring everything from busy city life to tranquil mountain ranges. Includes church bells, fireworks displays from Las Fallas festival, cafes, nature and several tracks of protests with large crowds. All tracks were recorded in 24Bit/48kHz with a Tascam DR100MKII.
Ready to use and filled with metadata.
Generic walla present in most tracks will be in Spanish (Castilian)
Immerse your audience into realistic NATURE settings of the highest quality! This audio library offers you hours of different background ambiences, including:
…and much much more!
NATURE & WEATHER ENVIRONMENTS is the perfect choice to transport your players or users to any natural environment around the Earth you require!
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EXPLORE the EARTH’S ENVIRONMENTS
Whether your adventure takes place on in the GRASSLANDS, COUNTRYSIDE, FOREST, JUNGLE, BEACH, ISLAND, or DESERT WASTELAND, we’ve got you covered! Each ambience contains MULTIPLE VARIATIONS & WEATHER CONDITIONS, and MULTIPLE INTENSITIES to cover each and every setting. This sound effects library is perfect for any environment on Earth you can imagine.
MULTIPLE CHOICES for a PERFECT FIT
Our expert team of sound designers have meticulously crafted each ambience into CONTINUOUS, NON-REPETITIVE, DRAG AND DROP-READY LOOPS that will serve as perfect background audio for your game, film, animation, live event, or even as relaxing background audio! We have even included FULL and SIMPLIFIED MIXES, SHORT and LONG non-repetitive variants, multiple choices for INTENSITIES, and numerous other options for your convenience!
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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:
Captured over five years in a secluded forest house — THUNDER CLAPS delivers the raw, untamed power of nature.
Recording lightning strikes at close range is one of the most difficult — and dangerous — things in field recording. Capturing them in a secluded home in the heart of the countryside has made this process a bit easier.
Now sit and feel the intensity of authentic close, medium, and distant thunder strikes, booms, and rumbles — recorded at up to 32-bit / 192kHz resolution for unmatched detail and dynamic range.
There are no other sounds in these files but the booming of the strikes. All tracks feature clean, isolated thunder claps — NO rain, NO wind, NO background noise — so you won’t waste time cleaning or editing. Just drag, drop, and unleash the storm.
Note: The SoundCloud demo includes a rain texture just for protection purposes. This is not included in the library.
A collection of sounds with seamless loops of wind sounds.
This small wind sound pack contains 21 non-looped and 21 looped sounds.
Gain instant access to the sounds of magic, mystery, fascination and adventure with the Fantasy Game 2 – Sound Kit for Enchanted Realms. Discover a vast collection of interactive sounds specially crafted for RPGs, open-world adventures, and epic fantasy narratives, games, film, interactive media. Experience the clash of steel of epic battles to the ethereal chime of enchanted spells. It’s all you need to make every action, spell, and encounter feel and sound truly magical. Whether you’re exploring forgotten ruins, summoning arcane forces, or waging valiant combat, Fantasy Game 2 – Sound Kit for Enchanted Realms is your instant gateway to an unforgettable fantasy soundscape.
Rolling thunder, rain in the city or in the countryside – these are the sounds that are included in the collection “Thunderstorm Rain Vol.1”.
These sounds are well suited for creating a stormy, rainy atmosphere for movies, games and other audio-visual content.
All sounds are recorded in WAV format, 96 kHz, 24 bit.
The following sounds are included:
Product Details:
Embark on an auditory journey through the Netherlands with our collection of 359 recordings, encompassing 45GB and 17+ hours of audio. From the serene birdsong at dawn in Texel’s quaint towns to the ambience of a busy supermarket, each sound tells a story of Dutch life and nature.
Recorded with DPA 4006a, Sennheiser mkh 8040 and Sound Devices 744T.
NSL – Ubrique is a 44 Files Sound-Pack composed of Spain Life Sounds, All Royalty-FREE to use in your productions. You will have access to many samples: Spain Neighbourhoods, City Life, Farm Animals, Nature Winds, and many more sounds…
A great variety of Patagonian Wind textures and Natural Ambiences. Including winds of different character such as tonal, hollow, wispy, crispy, swells, gusts, dry vegetation rustles, small debris, and many other textures to build you custom atmospheres.
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