30.1.23
kuku yalanji country

puddle on the edge of the road in rural area with surrounding remnants of tropical rainforest and vine forest.

Nyctimystes infrafrenatus, Litoria rubella, Rhinella marina + Litoria caerulea and Ninox rufa in the background. i haven't ID'd the little squeaky frog.

frog chorus, julatten

Thunder Drums is a sound effects library designed to deliver powerful low-frequency impacts, rumbles, and strikes for cinematic sound design. It features non-traditional percussion instruments, including a thunder tube (spring drum), loose drumheads, and large plexiglass sheets, struck with mallets and drumsticks to produce a wide range of impacts, thunder-like rumbles, deep strikes, and heavy drum hits.

In addition to raw recordings, the library includes designed elements enhanced with granular processing, distortion, and impulse response reverbs. Perfect for sound design in film, games, and trailers where powerful hits and low-end energy is needed.

All sounds were captured using a Sennheiser MKH 8050 microphone and Zoom F6 recorder at 32-bit / 192kHz, and are delivered as 24-bit / 192kHz WAV files. The library includes 185 files (512 sounds), is 3.7 GB in size, and is fully UCS-compliant with embedded metadata.

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Recording of small ice floes on the lake, which are pushed by the wind and waves against the rocks on the shore and rub against the rocks and each other. 

Date: 2023/04/01 15:25:47
Location: Sweden, Tiveden National Park, Lake Stora Trehörningen, Käringaudden, 14.5603618°E 58.7262492°N
Recording: Zoom F3, two Lewitt LCT540s, two Cyclons medium with windjammer, ORTF, tripod
Postprocessing: gentle low cut, normalized to -35 db LUFS

Ice Floes, Lake Stora Trehörningen, Tiveden, SE,  LCT540s ORTF, 2023/04/01 15:25:47

from Shell Songs, out august 28th
https://erikm1.bandcamp.com/album/shell-songs

pre order

touch

Sparrowhawks

Crayfish sound recorded underwater.
Species: Signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus), originally from North America, recorded in Lake Geneva (Lac Léman), Switzerland.

The main recording was made in an aquarium and lightly edited with RX denoise. It is mixed with an underwater recording made in Lake Geneva, creating a continuous soundscape between the aquarium and the lake.

All recordings were made using Aquarian H2a hydrophones and a Sound Devices MixPre-6 II.
WAV, 48 kHz, 24-bit, stereo.
Sound Ref: CH-260810-012
August 2026
Same sound on Freesound https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/866241/ 

Recorded during a residency at Utopiana, Geneva, for an upcoming project by Félix Blume and Sara Lana, commissioned for the Archipel Festival 2027, Geneva, Switzerland.

Crayfish (Leman Lake, Geneva)

Imaginary Waters 4

FINDING JOY IN IMPERFECTION


Years ago I made this recording of a heavily loaded freight train pulling out of a rail yard. I love this recording because it sounds like a crazy, metal animal.

Fright Train Animal

New Sound Lab produces high-resolution sound effect libraries used by post-production studios, AAA game developers, and sound designers worldwide, offering distinctive recordings engineered for professional use.

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