Canyons
Canyons have bright reflections and a deep resonant echo, making them a Holy Grail for nature sound libraries. The key to using Canyons to produce compelling sound designs is paying attention to the echoes as they vanish into a seemingly never ending space, allowing them to change and transform as they flow down a rock-walled corridor to ultimately disappear below the threshold of hearing. This pristine collection of 135 carefully mastered recordings from the American West, made with state-of-the-art equipment, offers a complete kit to help you meet your most demanding needs, day or night, calm or windy conditions. Reverberant birdsong? Check. Haunting coyote chorus? Check. Soft murmur of evening insects? Canyons offers a treasure trove of new opportunities. Included are two helpful guides: Sound Designing with Canyons and How to Record Canyons. Metadata provides valuable information such as species ID, event description, and geographic location (SoundMiner® readable). View content: Download PDF
Coniferous Forests
Four hundred million years in the making, Coniferous Forests are simpler, quieter, and more spacious habitats than other forests, and yet they still resound with more than enough sonic diversity to mesmerize your audience. It’s all here--from the faint phip of a needle drop onto the forest floor to the adrenalin surging bugles of Roosevelt Elk, the screech of Red-tailed Hawk, the jackhammer drumming of numerous woodpeckers and the howling of wolves, both, both far away and near at hand. This pristine collection of 181 carefully mastered recordings offers birdsongs, insect choruses, and a wide selection of ambiences to help you meet your most demanding design needs. Included are two helpful guides: Sound Designing with Coniferous Forests and How to Record Coniferous Forests. Metadata provides valuable information such as species ID, event description and geographic location (SoundMiner® readable). View content: Download PDF
Deciduous Forests
Deciduous Forests (aka, Hardwood Forests) are among the most important natural environments for sound designers to master, owing to the fact that most of our audiences reside at temperate latitudes, home to the sounds of deciduous forests. This collection is especially rich with songbird and insect ambiences. Many sound files have a pronounced forest acoustic-- the echo or afterlife of the original sound--that characterizes these natural cathedrals. Winter, spring, summer, or fall, you’ll have ample ingredients to assemble just the right combination of sounds to satisfy even the most demanding sound design. All 192 sound files from North America (more than six hours) have smart metadata with geographic location and species ID (SoundMiner® readable). In addition, there are two valuable guides. Sound Designing with Deciduous Forests provides helpful instructions on how to use soundscape pyramids to build authentic soundscapes quickly and meet production deadlines. How to Record Deciduous Forests is filled with professional advice on how to create clean and pristine nature recordings. View content: Download PDF
Deserts
Deserts are quieter than any other habitat type, owing to naturally high atmospheric attenuation rates and a pronounced absence of echoes. This makes for a perfect setting to emotionally challenge your audiences with sound design strategies unique to this habitat, even omitting sounds of distant visual events. This hard-earned collection of pristine desert sounds was acquired over three decades from North America (92 files) and Africa (63 files). Included are two helpful guides: Sound Designing with Deserts and How to Record Deserts. Metadata provides valuable information such as species ID, event description and geographic location. (SoundMiner® readable). View content: Download PDF
Essentials
This unique sound library 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. 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. (SoundMiner®readable). View content: Download PDF
Flowing Water
Trickles, babbles, gurgles, glugs, roars, splashes, surges, swishes, booms, and more sounds of flowing water are provided by 118 loops and two compilations for sampling (one above water and one below). Metadata provides value information such as description and geographic location (SoundMiner® readable). In addition to two valuable guides: Sound Designing with Flowing Water and How to Record Flowing Water. This is a complete kit to produce whatever stream, river, or waterfall sound that you may need. View content: Download PDF
Hawaii
Quiet Planet® has saved the best for last, as Hawaii is the Earth-in-miniature, providing nearly all habitat types and 10 of the world’s 14 climate zones in merely 6/1000ths of one percent of the world’s land surface area. To meet such a challenge of diversity, this unprecedented library was accomplished over two decades of repeated visits to Maui, Kauai, Oahu, and the Big Island. This library includes 40 species vocalizations (including the Hawaiian Crow, now extinct in the wild) and105 ambiences which are conveniently divided into coastal and Up-Island, as well as day and night, to simplify workflow. Included are two helpful guides: Sound Designing with Hawaii and How to Record Hawaii. Metadata provides valuable information such as Species ID, place description, and geographic location (SoundMiner® readable). View content: Download PDF
Ocean Shores
This spatial collection of 101 carefully mastered shoreline sounds allow you to balance just the right amount of wave presence with appropriate wildlife to fit nearly every mood. Day or night, dune or forest, calm or windy, you will be able to craft your most compelling soundscapes. For example, distant ocean waves and clear gull cries or inspiring songbirds will produce a full frequency spectrum and depth of field. Need something more sheltered? One of the many cricket medleys combined with windblown dune grass will render an acoustic safe harbor for your audience to enjoy many pleasant vacation memories. Included are two helpful guides: Sound Designing with Ocean Shores and How to Record Ocean Shores. Metadata provides valuable information such as Species ID, place description and geographic location (SoundMiner® readable). View content: Download PDF
Prairies
This carefully recorded collection of nature sounds from North American grasslands provides an important resource for sound designers to engineer the perfect match to any prairie setting. Inspiring birdsongs, relaxing cricket medleys, winds of nearly every variety, thunderstorms and even wildfires are found in more than one hundred choices of ambient loops and sfx. Metadata provides valuable information such as sound description, bird ID’s, geographic location and useful hints about how to use a particular sound to achieve best results (SoundMiner® readable). In addition there are two valuable guides: Sound Designing with Prairies and How to Record Prairies. This well organized collection will allow you to work quickly and confidently to meet your demanding production schedules. View content: Download PDF
Quietudes
Quietudes is the first collection of its kind--habitat ambiences that occur at or near the threshold of human hearing. Verging at the edge of design, these experiences add depth of field and enhance continuity. Quietudes also restore frequencies that may have been lost during audio processing. All of the Quiet Planet® habitat types are covered here, offering a careful selection of 100 ambiences from around the world (Prairies, Tropical Forests, Deciduous Forests, Wetlands, Coniferous Forests, Canyons, Deserts, Riparian, Ocean Shores, and Hawaii). These hard-to-hear but easy-to-listen-to sounds will quickly become your finishing touch coup de grace. Included are two helpful guides: Sound Designing with Quietudes and How to Record Quietudes. Metadata provides valuable information such as habitat type, geographic location, time of day, and usage tips for best results (SoundMiner® readable). View content: Download PDF
Riparian Zones
Riparian Zones are areas bordering flowing water. These areas sound differently from the forests, prairies, or other habitats that lay inland. Increased biodiversity, microclimate stability, and acoustic competition for wildlife from the sounds of flowing water combine to provide Nature’s ultimate performance hall. Stop simply adding water to your habitat ambiences and use Riparian Zones instead to produce incredible spaces. These meticulously recorded soundscapes were collected from North America (79), Central America (10), South America (22) and Asia (21). Both temperate and tropical environments are represented to accommodate most design needs. Included are two helpful guides: Sound Designing with Riparian Zones and How to Record Riparian Zones. Metadata provides valuable information such as species ID, event description and geographic location (SoundMiner® readable). View content: Download PDF
Thunder & Rain
This collection provides everything you need to produce the perfect storm–22 isolated thunders, including close strikes, resonant peels and distant rolls; plus 35 different rain intensities, and nine storm recordings. There’s one entire, hour-long rainstorm (61 min.) and one complete thunderstorm (41 min.) for quickly finding just the sound you need at the length you want. None of these thunder and rain files appear in the Essentials Collection. SoundMiner® readable metadata include: description, type of substrate, and geographic location. View content: Download PDF
Tropical Forests
This diverse and well-balanced collection of jungle ambiences includes insects, frogs, birds, monkeys, and more, recorded on four continents and in varying ecosystems. If you need a lush sounding animal symphony, it’s all here. Dry or wet, low along river basins, or even high on mountainsides. How about a pristine dawn arriving from miles away, a passing breeze, or even a drenching thunderstorm? All 153 sound files (more than ten hours) have smart metadata with geographic location and indicate which animals are audible (SoundMiner® readable). Howler Monkeys, Great Potoos, Red- tailed Black Cockatoos, Trogons, Macaws, Toucans, all in their natural habitats, plus 600 more species are identified. In addition, there are two valuable guides. Sound Designing with Tropical Forests and How to Record Tropical Forests. Learn how to pair sound pyramids with ecological information to confidently design authentic soundscapes and receive helpful tips about how to avoid physical dangers and stay safe and tips on how to keep your equipment running to record the Earth’s living music. View content: Download PDF
Upwellings
This mini-collection of geothermal sounds from geysers, mineral springs, steam vents, mud pots and fumaroles gargle, spurt, trumpet, boil, and gush with an amazing variety of sounds that are sure to attract listeners and strengthen volcanic sound designs. All 31 sound files have smart metadata with geographic locations (SoundMiner® readable). In addition, there are two useful guides. Sound Designing with Upwellings provides helpful tips about where to use geothermal sounds. How to Record Upwellings provides professional advice on where to go, when to record, and the best position for your microphones. View content: Download PDF
Waves
Waves are among the most universally appealing of all nature sounds. They range from the gentle wash of spring tide that gently tinkles coastal seashell shards to winter’s thundering onshore stampede of white-maned giants. This carefully recorded collection of 111 loops is classified by wave size and beach substrate (solid rock, boulder, pebble, sand) for fast and accurate sound design. Lake ripples, wave-tossed boulders, seawater spouting through lava tubes, even the roar of a sandy beach from a mile away—they’re all here. Metadata provides valuable information such as description, geographic location, and helpful tips on how to use a particular file to achieve best results (SoundMiner® readable). Includes two valuable guides: Sound Designing with Waves to unlock the true power of waves for Sound Designers and How to Record Waves for field recordists who are ready to explore. View content: Download PDF
Wetlands
Wetlands provides a sonic wonderland at the intimate embrace of water and land. Places with standing fresh water include swamps, marshes, ponds, and lakes, and offer sounds as delicate as the flight of a solitary mosquito to those as bold and uplifting as the calls of Canada Geese and Sandhill Cranes in flight. Besides numerous ambient loops listed by time of day, there are also many individual species of waterfowl and frog voices. Need something not so dramatic? Chose from an ample supply of tranquil soundscapes. Perhaps an afternoon breeze through reeds, evening trout splashing on a lake, or a distant frog chorus at night. There are five thunderstorms and 22 loops of lapping water to give your wetlands design just the right amount of wetness. All 196 sound files from North America (more than nine hours) have smart metadata with geographic location and species ID (SoundMiner® readable). In addition, there are two valuable guides. Sound Designing with Wetlands provides helpful instructions on how to simultaneously use multiple pyramids to streamline workflow and meet production deadlines. How to Record Wetlands is filled with professional advice on how to assess sunlight, water conditions, and auditory horizons to place your microphones at the precise location within the boundary layer where even distant events sound close. View content: Download PDF
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