Product Description
FOREST LIFE is a diverse collection of 104 isolated Forest Ambiences and Wildlife Sounds. It includes all of the sounds from the FOREST DAY and the FOREST NIGHT Sound Libraries, along with the Rivers and Lakes featured in the OCEANS RIVERS LAKES library. In addition, I’ve included the free mini library FOOTHILLS.
FOREST LIFE came out of a love for hiking and exploring Mountains and Forests and capturing the wonderful soundscapes of that world. Most of these recordings took place in California, in particular, a number of areas throughout the Angeles Forest. You’ll also come across sounds from high atop the Eastern Sierras, San Jacinto Wilderness, Los Padres Forest, and the Olympic Peninsula in Washington.
A variety of different bird species are included, at lower elevation settings, higher Mountains, throughout the day and night, some in isolation, others sometimes alongside wind and when at night, insects.
Also included are isolated Mountain winds in different variations and with vegetation and tree creaks. There’s Cicadas along with different sounding Crickets throughout various times of the night and day.
In the water collection there’s everything from slow trickle creeks coming out of Abandoned Mines to the fast flow of the Hoh River to gentle lake laps high atop the glaciers of the Inyo Forest.
The FOOTHILLS bonus library includes 9 files of Winds and Birds, and a few of the wonderful sounds of an Abandoned Ranch.
Detailed metadata and markers have been provided so they’re easily searchable. Photos are embedded in every file to give an idea of what the location was like. Checking out the Metadata Sheet will give one a better idea of everything else that’s in the library.
Bird Species
Day
Acorn Woodpecker, Black-headed Grosbeak, California Towhee, Canyon Wren, Common Raven, Cooper’s Hawk, House Finch, Hummingbird, Lawrence’s Goldfinch, Lazuli Bunting, Mountain Chickadee, Mountain Quail, Mourning Dove, Northern Flicker, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Pygmy Nuthatch, Red Shouldered Hawk, Spotted Towhee, Steller’s Jay, Yellow Warbler, Western Bluebird, Western Wood-Pewee
Night
Common Poorwill, Great Horned Owl, Whiskered Screech-Owl, Western Screech-Owl.
The Gear
Sound Devices MixPre-6 II
Sony A10
Sony PCM D100
Zoom F6
The Mics
Sennheiser MKH 8040
Sennheiser MKH 8020
Sennheiser MKH 60
Clippy EM272
Line Audio CM4
LOM microUsi Pro