• In Northern Rockies: Quiet Nature, get a collection of the most serene ambiences from the mountains of Montana. Hear the massive sparseness of glacial valleys and still water. Hear majestic swaying of old growth forest and naked trunks left by wildfire. Hear Lodgepole pines creaking and Douglas fir slamming to the forest floor. This library is packed full of “quiet nature” tracks from the continental divide of North America, the crown of the continent where glacial meltwaters flow all the way to the Pacific, the Gulf of Mexico, and to the Hudson Bay. Perfect for use as the foundation of your designed environment, some stretches of rare natural silence are up to 35 minutes!
• Only 26 glaciers (of the 150 in 1850) remain in Glacier National Park and all are predicted to melt within 30 years. Hear the sounds of this stunning natural cathedral while the glaciers remain. The ecosystem won’t sound the same when they’re gone.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause. I view it as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased for the Northern Rockies Series. Field Recording travel for this library was carbon neutral!
KEY FEATURES:
• Quiet Nature recordings from the coniferous forests of the northern Rocky Mountains.
• If you need more “active” or “quiet” nature sounds check out: NR: Common Loons and NR: miNiATURE
• Desolate ambiences with no wildlife.
• Serene ambiences with minimal or distant flora and fauna.
• Large glacial and small shallow lakes
• Ruffed grouse “drumming” can be heard as distant bass thumps. Read more about how males create this sound by beating their wings on hollow logs – here.
• Close perspective meltwater was not the focus of this library, but water is unavoidable during summertime in the Rockies. Water was always recorded at a distant as, for example, “distant soothing river” as part of flora and fauna ambiences.
TEXT MARKERS:
• Named markers are included in each file to help find interesting events in an otherwise uniform waveform!
• Marker text included in the Soundminer description and BWAV description fields.
FILE LIST &METADATA:
• View in Browser or Download CSV • Flora (plants) and Fauna (animals) are described in these terms: • stillness – close to absolute silence • fauna sparse • fauna constant • flora sparse • flora constant • flora and fauna sparse • flora and fauna constant • Included wildlife: Swainson’s Thrush, Wilson’s Snipe, Common Raven, Chipping Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, White-crowned Sparrow, Townsend’s Solitaire, American Redstart, Northern Waterthrush, Yellow Warbler, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Red-naped Sapsucker, Western Tanager, Warbling Vireo, Tree Swallows, territorial beaver tail slaps, angry Chipmunks, and bats up to 90 kHz.
Junk Cars is a collection of on-board multi-channel recordings of old, barely-functioning European cars. The first car in the library is a 1995 Opel/Vauxhall/Holden Astra with a 1.6 liter Petrol engine, a broken exhaust and in a very sorry state. It wasn’t roadworthy when I found it, but with a little help from a car mechanic we managed to get it on the road.
Important! More cars will be added to the collection as they are recorded. Get your copy now and you will receive all subsequent updates for free.
4-channel recording of an old Dacia 1310 driving in the city and on motorway, recorded with 2 DPA 4061 mics (one on the engine and the other on the exhaust) plus a Sony PCM D100 in the boot. These sounds can be used to portray this specific model, but also as sound design material for old carburetor engine vehicles or rickety rattletraps.
DESCRIPTION:
• In Alaska: Quiet Nature, get a collection of serene ambiences from Lake Clark National Park, Alaska. Hear the immense sparseness of glacial valleys and still water. Hear massive halls of wet wood that envelop and transport you to a long-lost time. Hear the tranquil beauty of boreal forests untouched by human hands during days of endless light. Hear lonely moose tromping through beaver ponds andhaunting hoots of Northern Saw-whet Owls.
• This library is packed full of tracks with sparse flora and fauna from the lonesome landscapes of the Arctic. Hear the sounds of this stunning natural cathedral while the nearby glaciers remain. The ecosystem won’t sound the same when they’re gone.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased to offset my field recording travel for this library.
KEY FEATURES:
• Soothing quiet nature ambiences with minimal flora and fauna
• The haunting hoots of Boreal, Northern Saw-whet, and Great Horned Owls
• Eerie nighttime creature movement
• Wing flutters, flybys, and takeoffs
• Lone moose tromping through a beaver pond
• Wilson’s Snipe – winnowing
• Sparse forest birds singing
• Distant echoes of shorebird songs
• Days and nights in the beaver pond filled marshland
• Days and nights in the boreal forest
• Soothing distant water and wind
• Ultrasonic bats
TEXT MARKERS:
• Named markers are included in each file to help find interesting events in an otherwise uniform waveform.
• Markers are included in the Soundminer and BWAV description fields starting with the prefix “Marker Text”.
FILE LIST &METADATA:
• View larger version or Download CSV • Flora (plants) and Fauna (animals) are described in these terms: • fauna sparse • fauna constant • flora sparse • flora constant • flora and fauna sparse • flora and fauna constant • Included wildlife:Moose, Swainson’s Thrush, Golden-crowned Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Lesser Yellowlegs, Spotted Sandpiper, Green-winged Teal, Wilson’s Snipe, Boreal owl, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Great Horned Owl, bats
96 kHz and 192 kHz: • I always record and archive at 192 kHz for conservation and preservation purposes. • However, all sounds are delivered in 96 kHz unless there was useful frequency content present above 48 kHz. Then the audio is delivered at 192 kHz. • 4 of 49 tracks are included at 192 kHz. Bats are the only wildlife above 48 kHz in these recordings.
STEREO AND QUAD FILES: • Stereo: front mid/side decoded to left and right. • Quad: double mid/side decoded to quad.
SPACES delivers high definition ambience recordings and designed backgrounds, and is the perfect addition for your workflow or mood-inducing production. Utilizing only the best microphones, design processes, and tones, SPACES is a well-rounded collection of atmospheric quality. While excellent in the genres of Sci-Fi and Horror, SPACES would also be well suited in many other situations where film standard sound is required.
Perfect for a sound designer or musician looking to sculpt the mood and soundscape, SPACES will aid you in creating your key base layer of setting and emotion. Created in collaboration with Sebastain Emling, SPACES contains a whopping 4.84GB worth of 24bit/ 96khz .WAV files and over 120+ files, embedded with both Soundminer and Basehead metadata.
The Black Hawk UH-60M sound fx collection features 1,145 sound clips in 44.39 GB from an American military helicopter performing during a military exercise. This bundle gathers 44 takes of tandem maneuvers from two General Electric T700-GE-701D engines with cowling.
This sound library includes both onboard and exterior field recordings. The onboard recordings include 3 perspectives of the vehicle idling with rotors and turbine at low, high, and medium speeds, including an Ambisonic take. The 22 exterior perspectives include 49 channels of the chopper starting, taking off, passing by, landing, and shutting off. There are also a wide selection of stationary idles from close, medium, and distant perspectives in front, behind, and to the side of the Black Hawk at high to low RPMs. Ambisonic, surround, and double MS perspectives join stereo and mono takes. The collection is complimented by a wide variety of cockpit instrument performed effects, doors, and more.
Bonus: Pro Tools and Reaper session files align each take for easy editing and mixing. Over 18 fields of professional metadata embedded in every clip.
Explore a large collection of beautiful, tranquil sounds from remote desert locations across the American southwest and enjoy listening to the morning sun awaken desert wildlife. This serene collection features sounds that will make you fall in love with the harmonious desert dawn. Sounds include doves cooing, woodpeckers hammering, White-throated Swifts in swirling flocks, and much more. Featured like never before are recordings of Swainson’s hawks so close you can hear the whoosh as their powerful wings cut through the air. For the second installment of my extensive nature sounds from the heart of the American Southwest, here is High Desert Ambiences 2: Active Nature.
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:
• This library is filled with the “Active Nature” sounds of desert mornings.
• Swainson’s Hawks – a male and female recorded near their nest in a 200-foot cliff. Recordings are from below the nest and include close, distant, circling, diving, and soaring perspectives.
• White-throated Swifts – flocks of small barn swallow-like birds circling, darting, and whooshing in front of a desert cliff.
• Other Birds/Wildlife Included: Canyon Wrens, Bewick’s Wrens, Montezuma Quail, White-winged Doves, Western Screech-Owls, Aoudad Sheep, Rufous-crowned Sparrows, Eastern Meadowlarks, and many more labeled as “songbirds” if not identified by species.
• Tracks starting with the filename “Quiet Desert” have low wildlife activity and are perfect “natural roomtones” to use as the foundation of a designed environment. If you need more “Quiet Nature” tracks check out High Desert Ambiences 3: Quiet Nature or the miniature pack of desert sounds in High Desert Ambiences 1: miNiATURE.
• Most files are 3-6 minutes in length
• Named markers included in each file to help find interesting events in an otherwise uniform waveform. 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.
• Recording Location – Davis Mountains, Texas
• *Note – Birds were self-identified using several iOS apps and bird identification websites, so I cannot guarantee 100% accuracy of species identification.
Sounds from this library were used in the upcoming movie Woman Walks Ahead starring Jessica Chastain!
FILE LIST:
• View in Browser or Download CSV
• UPDATE – the name of this library was changed from High Desert Ambiences 2: Dawn Choruses to High Desert Ambiences 2: Active Nature on 11/28/2017.
• In Whoosh: Leafy Foliage, get an fluttering and rustling collection of flying foliage. Swing a 6-foot cottonwood branch and hear the delicate dancing of hundreds of heart-shaped leaves. Hear stringy fern root bundles cutting the breeze like bullwhips. Hear sago palms swishing with breathy whistles. Swing massive maples branches and hear the crunchy whoosh of deciduous leaves rich with ultrasonic energy up to 50 kHz.
• This library offers you an extensive collection of whooshes created exclusively from organic sources. Enjoy listening to a variety of deciduous and evergreen foliage as it cuts through cold autumn nights.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
KEY FEATURES:
• Rich, crunchy maple leaves
• Cottonwood leaves dancing
• Slow moving sounds of rustling leaves. Use these crackling leaves to add leafy wind textures to an atmos bed.
• Various branch sizes
• Mostly outdoor with a few indoor recording sessions
• Variation files with multiple similar whooshes
• Single whooshes
• Wild circling and spinning whooshes
• Extended whipping gestures
• All whooshes include fade in/outs and are aligned to the 0.5 second grid
• 300 single whooshes
• 50 extended whooshing gestures
• 350+ total sounds
• Deciduous: cottonwoods and maples
• Evergreen: cast iron plant, sago palm, fern root, Japanase aralia
• Please note: the “Pitch Shifted Demo” was made to demonstrate the potential of the sounds in this library. However, Whoosh: Leafy Foliage does NOT include pitch shifted sounds, only mastered field recordings.
TEXT MARKERS:
•Named markers are included in each file to help find interesting events in files with multiple variations.
•Markers are included in the Soundminer and BWAV description fields starting with the prefix “Marker Text”.
• In this library, get a collection of the hypnotic and meditative calls of a handmade wooden didgeridoo. These beautiful wind instruments have guttural calls that sing like wild animals. Hear overtone filled whooshes and aggressive barking attacks. Hear snarling vocalizations and gravelly growls. Hear lengthy mesmerizing drones and oscillating overtones. This library is packed full of tracks showcasing the full range of possible didgeridoo vocalizations and drones. Perfect for use as the foundation for all your designed animals and creatures.
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:
• Hypnotic and meditative drones
• Oscillating overtones
• Gravelly growls
• Guttural attacks
• Singing vocalizations
• Buzzing and humming drones
• Whooshing drones
• These recordings were not made using circular breathing, so each drone ranges from approximately one to 30 seconds in length.
• Multiple similar sounds are grouped into single audio files with silence and fade ins/outs between each sound.
• 645+ drones and attacks
• 130+ whooshes
• 775+ total sounds
• Please note: the “Pitch Shifted Demo” was made to demonstrate the potential of the sounds in this library. However, Didgeridoo does NOT include pitch shifted sounds, only mastered field recordings.
TEXT MARKERS:
• Named markers are included in each file to help find interesting events in files with multiple variations!
• Marker text included in the Soundminer description and BWAV description fields.
Galactic Assistant is the first synthesizer software specifically made for creating hi-tech interface sounds. Developed for sound designers and musicians alike, it's the perfect companion for creating a new sonic universe. Use it to design your own hi-tech interface sounds or create glitch or highlights for your musical project.
If you need even more interface sounds, Galactic Assistant is still included for free with our Users of Tomorrow soundpack, which contains over 1,800 different high-tech interface sounds, created by our sound design team using some of the most leading audio tools and software.
Galactic Assistant is now for Reaktor, Max4Live, and Standalone – all three versions included here
Features:
• One tone generator
• Two beep generators
• One FM synth module
• Save and recall presets
• Randomized parameters
• Record and export audio files within the synth while performing
• Shift click on knobs & sliders to midi learn and control them
• Compatible with Mac and PC (32 bit and 64 bit) Reaktor5.5 or higher, Max4Live, and Standalone
System Requirements:
An Intel® Mac with Mac OS X 10.7 (or later), OR a PC with Windows 7 (or later); Multicore processor; 2 GB RAM; 1024×768 display.
DESCRIPTION:
• In Alaska: Lake Waves, get a small collection of soothing waves from Lake Clark National Park, Alaska. Hear the power of the wind as it builds waves down the 40-mile lake. Hear gentle crackling through rounded pebbles and sloshing boats at dock. Hear crashing swells and trickling water percolating through wet rocks.
• This library is full of tracks with soothing water from the rocky shorelines of the Arctic. Enjoy the melodic, gurgling water only rocky shorelines can create.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased to offset my field recording travel for this library.
KEY FEATURES:
• Rock and pebble filled beaches
• Close and distant waves
• Crashing, Sloshing, and Gurgling
• Crackling and Swishing
• Docked boat movement
TEXT MARKERS:
• Named markers are included in each file to help find interesting events in an otherwise uniform waveform.
• Markers are included in the Soundminer and BWAV description fields starting with the prefix “Marker Text”.
FILE LIST &METADATA:
• View larger version or Download CSV
• A spectrogram is included for each audio file. Double click on the photo to enlarge.
• In High Desert Ambiences 5: Crickets, I revisit the place where my field recording journey started: West Texas. The heavy summer rains spawned a lively cricket chorus unlike anything I had heard before. Hear 10,000 cricket chirps weave into lush blankets of sound that gently float through mountain valleys. Hear the slowly sagging pitch of lush choruses as nighttime temperatures fall. Hear the joyous chirps of countless crickets that will make you want to take out your tent immediately.
• This library offers you an extensive collection of crickets from a unique slice of time in the life of a desert. Hear the rejuvenating summer rains fill a desolate desert with 10,000 tiny violins.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased to offset my field recording travel for this library.
KEY FEATURES:
• 27 cricket choruses containing only crickets. Some of these 27 tracks also include bats in ultrasonic frequencies or other occasional ultrasonic insect sounds.
• 4 clips of crickets with Western Screech-Owls or Great Horned Owls.
• All tracks are 3-6 minutes in length
• Recordings from 4 nights in 15 different locations.
• Recordings are ordered by night, then location, then part. Listen to nights and parts in sequence to hear the pitch drop with the falling temperature.
• This is a library of cricket choruses. Individual crickets can be hear as part of a chorus, but this library does not contain solo, single crickets.
• The pitch shifted demo is the normal demo at quarter speed. Please note: the “Pitch Shifted Demo” was made to demonstrate the potential of the sounds in this library. However, HDA5: Crickets does NOT include pitch shifted sounds, only mastered field recordings.
TEXT MARKERS:
• Named markers are included in each file to help find interesting events in an otherwise uniform waveform.
• Markers are included in the Soundminer and BWAV description fields starting with the prefix “Marker Text”.
• 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.
DESCRIPTION:
• In Hoot, get an eerie collection ofNorth American owl ambiences. Hear lonesome Great Horned Owls calling on dark nights in the desert and cute bouncing ball calls of Western-screech Owl duets. Hear the haunting hoots of the arctic as the rising calls of Boreal Owls float through boreal forests. Hear the resonant calls of Barred Owls in the old growth of the Pacific Northwest and the almost-silent whooshes of Burrowing Owls soaring through the big sky of West Texas.
• This library offers you an extensive collection of sounds from a majestic night time hunter. This library grew out of hundreds of hours of nature recordings and several case of mistaken identity. Lucky for my mics the owl realized my furry blimp wasn’t a tasty rabbit at the last second! I hope you enjoy these sounds. Thanks for listening.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased to offset my field recording travel for this library.
KEY FEATURES:
• Lonesome hoots of Great Horned Owls
• Cute Western-screech Owl “bouncing ball call” duets
• Eerie hoots of Boreal Owls
• Haunting flute-like hoots of Northern Saw-whet Owls
• Boreal and Northern Saw-whet owls in the Alaskan arctic
• Great Horned, Burrowing, and Western-screech Owls in West Texas
• Barred Owls in the Pacific Northwest
TEXT MARKERS:
• Named markers are included in each file to help find interesting events in an otherwise uniform waveform.
• Markers are included in the Soundminer and BWAV description fields starting with the prefix “Marker Text”.
FILE LIST &METADATA:
• View larger version or Download CSV
• A spectrogram is included for each audio file. Double click on the photo in the file list to enlarge. • Included wildlife: North American Owls – Boreal owl, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Great Horned Owl, Western-screech Owl, Barred Owl, Burrowing Owl, Bats
GEAR USED:
• Sennheiser MKH8040 pair in ORTF
• Sennheiser MKH8040 pair and MKH30 in Double Mid/Side
• Sound Devices 702
• Sound Devices MixPre-6
• Rycote ORTF and Mid/Side Blimps
• Cinela Pianissimo Double Mid/Side Blimp
96 kHz and 192 kHz:
• I always record and archive at 192 kHz for conservation and preservation purposes.
However, all sounds are delivered in 96 kHz unless there was useful frequency content present above 48 kHz. Then the audio is delivered at 192 kHz.
• 5 of 56 tracks are included at 192 kHz. Bats are the only wildlife above 48 kHz in these recordings.
STEREO AND QUAD FILES: • Stereo: mid/side decoded to left and right or ORTF recordings. • Quad: double mid/side decoded to quad.
STEREO ONLY FILES: • These recording were made in stereo and do not include a quad version.
DESCRIPTION:
• Alaska: Rain has the vast, beautiful crackling of arctic thunderstorms. Hear soothing rain deep in the boreal forest. Hear massive post-rain drips plopping and the musical call of Swainson’s Thrushes singing in the rain. Hear thunderclaps that ripple across glacial valleys and the soothing noise of a million raindrops on cottonwood leaves. • This library offers you a large collection of arctic rain. I hope you enjoy listening to the natural music of the weather as it sings through the boreal forests of Alaska.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased to offset my field recording travel for this library.
KEY FEATURES:
• A Cinela Kelly Rain Cover was used. So, all recordings were captured deep in the forest.
• Rain in the boreal forest of cottonwood, birch, and spruce
• Light, moderate, and heavy rain
• Post-rain canopy drips broken loose by the wind
• Rippling thunderclaps
• All recordings include birds
RECORDING TIPS – HOW TO RECORD RAIN:
• Use microphones known to perform well in high humidity. I use Sennheiser microphones. View my full gear list – here.
• Use cables made with Neutrik X-HD Series waterproof connectors. This keeps water from getting into your cable connection points.
• Use a dry bag for your recorder. I like the Sea to Summit 65L bags because they have a wide mouth and can easily fit a recording bag through the opening. • Put your dry bag at least 25 feet away and cover it with local foliage. Otherwise you’ll just record the sound of rain hitting a dry bag.
• Use a Cinela Pianissimo Double Mid/Side blimp with a Kelly Rain Cover.
• Coat the inner cover of the Cinela Pianissimo with NixWax as Cinela directs on their website. This is a water repellant molecule that is also acoustically transparent. The water repellant causes the water to bead up and roll off while also letting the air through. Read more about how NixWax works – here.
• The honeycomb of the Kelly Rain cover disperses drops as they hit the blimp which minimizes thumps. However, don’t use the Kelly Rain cover in areas with lots of insects because they tend to get stuck in the honeycomb, buzz for hours, and ruin recordings. The honeycomb cover also doubles as excellent protection for the blimp if a bear/moose/elk decides to chew on it. • Find a section of forest with low and dense deciduous leaves. These leaves catch the rain so drips don’t thump on the blimp. Occasional thumps during heavy rain are okay because they are easy to edit out in post.
• Waterproofing a microphone blimp is totally game changing. I can now leave my rig out in the elements for 24 hours without fear of rain. Waterproof blimps and 32-bit float recorders have opened up a whole new world of recording for me and I couldn’t be more excited.
• Build a platform of local foliage to cover the blimp for extra protection. George Vlad has an excellent video on how to build a natural rain canopy – here.
• I learned many of these rain recording techniques from George Vlad, so make sure you check out his work at Mindful Audio.
TEXT MARKERS:
• Named markers are included in each file to help find interesting events in an otherwise uniform waveform.
• Markers are included in the Soundminer and BWAV description fields starting with the prefix “Marker Text”.
FILE LIST &METADATA:
• View larger version or Download CSV
• A spectrogram is included for each audio file. Double click on the photo to enlarge.
• In Curious Bears, get an inquisitive collection of sniffs and snorts from the grizzlies of the Alaskan wilderness. Leave a microphone alone in the woods and hear curious bear’s energetic investigations. Hear aggressive sniffs and slow panting breaths. Hear massive footsteps in the mossy and leafy ground. Hear smacking lips and aggressive sniffs as a grizzly decides whether or not to eat my microphones.
• This library offers you a small collection of sounds from a wild animal. These are the curious sounds of a happy and healthy wild bear, not the sad sounds of a sad animal confined to a cage at a zoo.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased to offset my field recording travel for this library.
KEY FEATURES:
• None of these recordings were made in zoos. All bears are wild animals.
• Grizzly Bears
• Curious sniffs
• Aggressive sniffs
• Panting
• Footsteps
• Rustling movement
• In Sika Deer, get a hellacious collection of elk-like bugling. Hear haunting calls floating in the distance and visceral screams so close they could cause nightmares.
• This library offers you a small collection of sounds from a fascinating species. I didn’t know deer made such haunting vocalizations and it was a joy to hear them for the first time. I hope you enjoy them too. Thanks for listening.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased to offset my field recording travel for this library.
KEY FEATURES:
• Close hellacious bugling
• Distant bugling with haunting echoes
• Short barking alarm calls
• Movement and alarm snorts
FILE LIST &METADATA:
• View larger version or Download CSV
• A spectrogram is included for each audio file. Double click on the photo to enlarge.
DESCRIPTION:
• In Alaska: Wind, get an expansive collection of forest winds from the pristine wilderness of Alaska. Hear the power of the Alaskan Range as gusts whip down from the high mountains. Hear blustery blasts whipping through the birch and cottonwood canopy and scrappy tundra spruces straining to stay vertical.
• This library offers you a large collection of arctic wind. I hope you enjoy listening to the natural music of the windas it sings through the boreal forests of Alaska.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased to offset my field recording travel for this library.
KEY FEATURES:
• Zero birds, insects, or other wildlife in all recordings
• Deciduous winds of Cottonwood and Birch
• Coniferous winds of Spruce
• Canopy winds
• Swirling gusts
• Squeaky trees and creaking branches
• Close deciduous leaves fluttering
TEXT MARKERS:
• Named markers are included in each file to help find interesting events in an otherwise uniform waveform.
• Markers are included in the Soundminer and BWAV description fields starting with the prefix “Marker Text”.
FILE LIST &METADATA:
• View larger version or Download CSV
• A spectrogram is included for each audio file. Double click on the photo to enlarge.
GEAR USED:
• Sennheiser MKH8040 pair and MKH30 in Double Mid/Side
• DPA 4060s in AB
• Sound Devices 702
• Sound Devices MixPre-6
• Cinela Pianissimo Double Mid/Side Blimp
STEREO AND QUAD FILES: • Stereo: front mid/side decoded to left and right. • Quad: double mid/side decoded to quad.
STEREO ONLY FILES: • These recording were made with two DPA 4060s and do not include a quad version. • The “stereo only” files are included in the specs for the “Stereo Specs” below.
Ringing Rocks has the chiming, beautiful tones of an ancient boulder field. As hammers strike stone, the powerful clangs resonate like church bells and bring to life a natural sonic wonder. Plus, you receive many types of melodic tones, hammering rhythms, grinding metallic stone, resonant scrapes, and much more. If you need rocks unlike any you’ve heard before, listen to Ringing Rocks.
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:
• Featured on Designing Sound: “Our Favorite Sounds of 2016”
• 237 files, 500+ natural chime and bell-like rock sounds
• Captured in 192 kHz for exquisite detail and sound designing potential
• Location: Near Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania
• A small hammer, medium sledgehammer, and crowbar were used to create a variety of timbres
• Audio files with single rock strikes alone
• Audio files with many sequential, varying strikes
• Resonant scraping of hammers on rock for tactile textures that are perfect source material for rich metallic drones
How It’s Made
Read the full story of these mysterious rocks on the – A Sound Effect Blog!
Gear Used:
Sennheiser MKH 50/30 MS pair
Mid/Side recordings decoded to LR stereo
Sound Devices 702
Rycote AG MS Blimp
Atacama Desert is a collection of stereo and quad soundscapes recorded in the barren but amazingly beautiful desert plateau of Western Chile. This is the most arid desert on Earth, with some weather stations here having never recorded any rain. It’s a breathtaking place with incredible silence and powerful winds. The soundscapes in this collection were recorded around giant rock pillars, endless rock plains and fields of sparse dry vegetation.
This library is the perfect way to portray the barren expanse of the Atacama desert. Some of the soundscapes recorded are the lightest of desert airs. The others feature wind, from light and soft to heavy and gusty. Lastly, some of the recordings also include flies buzzing around.
This library was recorded in several locations on the border between Chile, Argentina and Bolivia . Reaching this part of the world was no easy task, as you can see in the second part of the teaser video.
Get the sounds of an Aston Martin DB9 with a 5.9 litres V12 engine and 456 hps. The recording consists of eight channels, interior left and right, exhausts left and right and four engine channels.
It contains start, stop, idle, blipping, revving on constant rpms without gear, accelerations, decelerations and driving. Full surround drive away and drive by added in the end. The recording length is 11 min 59 s.
Introducing ‘COLLISION’ by Rock The Speakerbox: The ultimate impact sound library crafted for game, trailer, and film sound design. ‘COLLISION’ delivers over 3700 dynamic, punchy sounds tailored to meet the needs of modern, high impact productions. From deep, cinematic slams to distorted synthetic hits, this library offers everything you need for powerful and immersive soundscapes.
Structured into three comprehensive packages:
Construction Kit (2,820 Sounds):
The core of ‘COLLISION’, this kit boasts a massive range of sound elements. From destructive debris blasts to deep, cinematic drums and complex metal scrapes, this package offers unlimited creative possibilities. Includes everything from subtle tonal drones to intense, raw impacts. Ideal for creating high-energy soundscapes that captivate and engage.
Building Blocks (756 Sounds): Streamline your production with pre designed layers that include Intros, Outros, Hits, and Whooshes. These sounds are designed to bring instant structure to your game or UI audio, ensuring smooth transitions and dynamic moments. Perfect for layering elements in fast paced sequences or enhancing atmospheric moments with polished audio components.
Design Kit (160 Sounds): Expertly organized into four categories:
Whoosh Hits, Physic Impacts, Game Impacts, and Regular Impacts.
Each sound is meticulously crafted for versatile cinematic uses, providing extended, atmospheric sounds that enhance any scene with depth and power.
With ‘COLLISION,’ you can elevate your sound design to new heights. This comprehensive library provides everything you need to build immersive, high-energy audio for games, trailers, and cinematic projects.
Now you can own the Future Weapons trilogy in this massive new bundle collection. With over 60 different weapons and utilities, 1,725+ files you get alot of bang for your buck. Just click on any of the boxes below to hear previews or read more about each library. If you already own one of the Future Weapons libraries, you can upgrade to the bundle within your account. Just sign in and go to the ‘Upgrades’ tab where you will see a discounted price.
DESCRIPTION:
• In Pacific Northwest: Quiet Nature 2, get a collection of ambiences with sparse flora and fauna from the Eastern Cascades, Washington. Hear playful croaks of a ravens perched in snow-capped canopies. Hear the counterpoint of nature’s cellos as Great Horned owls sing haunting duets. Hear the hungry knocking of woodpeckers pecking to find their dinner and the majestic sparseness of winter forests empty of all but a few species of wildlife.
• This library offers you an extensive collection of ambiences with sparse flora and fauna of winter in a coniferous forest. I hope you enjoy the sparse wildlife of this winter wonderland.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased to offset my field recording travel for this library.
KEY FEATURES:
• Winter ambiences with sparse flora and fauna
• Ravens, owls, woodpeckers, and small twittering songbirds
• Lonely solo owl hoots and haunting duets
• Gentle canopy winds
• Distant roaring wind
• Distant soothing water
TEXT MARKERS:
• Named markers are included in each file to help find interesting events in an otherwise uniform waveform.
• Markers are included in the Soundminer and BWAV description fields starting with the prefix “Marker Text”.
FILE LIST &METADATA:
• View larger version or Download CSV.
• A spectrogram is included for each audio file. Double click on the photo in the file list to enlarge.
GEAR USED:
• Sennheiser MKH8040 pair and MKH30 in Double Mid/Side
• Lom Usi
• Sound Devices MixPre-6
• Sony D100
• Cinela Pianissimo Double Mid/Side Blimp
STEREO AND QUAD FILES: • Stereo: mid/side decoded to left and right. • Quad: double mid/side decoded to quad.
STEREO ONLY FILES: • These recording were made with LOM Usi and do not include a quad version. • The “stereo only” files are included in the specs for the “Stereo Specs” below.
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