Sound Effects

Hello, I am Stratis Skandalakis, the founder of Binaural Recordings.

I am a musician, composer, and field recordist, traveling to remote, unspoiled ecosystems all around the world, equipped with my portable recorder, a backpack, and a bunch of high-tech microphones. I gather these recordings with the aim to sensitize the public about the beauty of the sonority in nature and the necessity to preserve it. I write about my trips and experiences on my blog.

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Nature & Countryside Ambiences Tropical Caves Play Track 41+ sounds included, 166 mins total $65

in stereo, binaural, ambisonics

7.6 GB of original sounds, 9.46 GB with the encoded ambisonic files in stereo included

• rough & authentic recordings in remote locations
• immersive & suitable for VR productions and mobile applications
• real binaural and ambisonics recordings
• clean edited, but not designed
• including long takes >15 minutes with a lot of sounds for further editing and looping
• with cave atmospheres, animals, and tropical wildlife
• metadata added
• incl. stereo versions of the ambisonics B-Format AmbiX files for instant use
• captured during three recording expeditions over the past five years in Colombia, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos
• Microphones: 2xDPA 4060, Sennheiser Ambeo, 2xMKH 40-P48

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Water & Ocean Sounds Tropical Oceans Play Track 44+ sounds included, 218 mins total $80

in stereo, binaural, ambisonics (incl. 5.1 surround )

11.88 GB of original sounds, 26.55 GB with the encoded ambisonic files in 5.1 and stereo included

• rough & authentic recordings in remote locations
• 99.9% free of any human-made noise
• immersive & suitable for VR productions and mobile applications
• real binaural and ambisonics recordings
• clean edited, but not designed
• including long takes >20 minutes with a lot of sounds for further editing and looping
• with beach atmospheres, pure waves, and tropical wildlife
• incl. seamless loops
• metadata added
• incl.. 5.1 surround & stereo versions of the ambisonics B-Format AmbiX files for instant use
• captured during three recording expeditions over the past five years in Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia
• Microphones: 2xDPA 4060, Sennheiser Ambeo, H2a-XLR hydrophones

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With A Sound Effect, Asbjoern has created a web site where our international community can browse, learn, and share the vast fruits of our labors. Together we are accelerating the very real potential power of sound design as a recognized art form.

Wylie Stateman

Supervising sound editor,
The Hateful Eight, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill: Vol. 1

A Sound Effect is an excellent resource for us to keep our animated films sounding unique and exciting.

Gabriel Guy

Re-recording Mixer, Walt Disney Animation Studios:
Frozen, Big Hero 6

A Sound Effect is a great asset to have discovered.

We found the site very easy to navigate, purchasing and downloads were effortless and the effects themselves are awesome! Asbjoern has done us all a great service.

We’ll definitely be back!

Wayne Pashley

Supervising Sound Editor/Re-recording Mixer, The Lego Movie & Mad Max: Fury Road

There are many great independent sound effect libraries available these days. The main problem with having so many, is keeping track of them!

A Sound Effect is a great hub, and is one of the first places I visit to look for sounds by category or genre. I started coming here to see if I could find libraries that I knew I had heard, but forgot WHERE I had heard them.

And in the process discovered libraries I never would have found otherwise. Great work! Keep it up!

David Farmer

Sound designer:
Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit trilogies

We're always looking for new sounds to mangle, so when A Sound Effect had a holiday sale, I tried them out.

The purchase experience is really smooth and quick, and delivery is almost instant.

I'll definitely come back to them again in the future!

Charles Deenen

Director, Digital - Source Sound Inc.

A Sound Effect is a wonderful resource for indie sound effects libraries. On top of that, it has some of the finest sound design, film and game audio interviews!