Spring in the Pacific Northwest – Essentials

I am very excited to share the natural sounds of spring where I call home in Spring in the Pacific Northwest. This library brings you ambiences, water and animal sounds from four of the many climate zones found in Washington State, the Quinault temperate rainforest of the Olympic Peninsula, the postcard maritime temperate forests of Western Washington, the Shrub-steppe of Central Washington and the drier pine forests and mountains of Northeastern Washington.

Recordings were made in multiple locations within each zone and during different times of day and night. The library includes ambiences, bird songs, frogs and different water sources. Care was taken to avoid sounds from human activity and processing in post production was kept to a minimum in order to provide a more peaceable natural soundscape. This meant many hours researching locations that would be remote enough to record without human interference, camping on site and getting up before dawn as well as being accosted by a porcupine, but it was well worth it to capture honest sounds from these amazing locations. And not to worry, both the porcupine and myself came out of the encounter unharmed and with a better understanding of each other, you could even say we’re pals now.

For fun, listen to the preview sound with the Wilson’s Snipe and listen to the stereo effect as the winnowing swirls around your head. This wasn’t a fancy production trick, they really do this with their feathers and I have no idea how it projects itself in such a strange way.

The Essentials version of this library contains 12 sounds pulled straight from the premium library and is a great value to anyone who wants a variety of sounds without the strain in storage space.

The library is UCS compliant and tagged with metadata using Soundminer.

Sale Policy: To keep things simple, I never put any of my libraries on sale or offer any kind of discount. I sell them at a reasonable price given the effort to record and compile them, I find this is the most honest and transparent approach to the sale of sound effects.