Ambient sound effects
Ambient soundscapes, textures, drones, and atmospheric beds for scenes that need space and mood. 1,235 sounds available.
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1,235 soundsWATRFlow_ Outdoor, Canalside, Flowing Water, Small Stream, Inside Tunnell, Footsteps, Distant Hum, Substation, Tascam DR-05X, Stereo, 48Khs, 24 bit_JW Audio
A recording of me walking through a small tunnel with water flowing through a stream next to me. Distant hum of a substation can also be heard.
WATRFlow_ Outdoor, Canalside, Flowing Water, Small Stream, Inside Tunnell, Distant Hum, Substation, Tascam DR-05X, Stereo, 48Khs, 24 bit_JW Audio
A recording of water flowing through a stream through a small tunnel. A distant hum of a sub-station can also be heard.
WATRFlow_ Outdoor, Flowing Water, Small Stream, Distant Hum, Substation, Birds, Tascam DR-05X, Stereo, 48Khs, 24 bit_JW Audio
Another recoding of water flowing through a small stream with the sound of distant hum from a substation. Birds can also be heard.
Small Creek Idyllwild California
Small creek in Southern California (Idyllwild)
Chimney Wind with Ceramic Taps and Coffee Pack Textures
An experimental layered soundscape built from everyday acoustic recordings. The foundation is the haunting sound of wind resonating through a chimney, enriched with the textured scratching of Nespresso coffee capsules and delicate finger taps on a ceramic plate. Together these ordinary sounds transform into an evolving ambient organic composition with experimental textures, and an atmospheric character. Suitable for experimental music, cinematic sound design, ambient compositions, and electro
Footsteps on Forest Summer Leaves Granular Drone
An experimental soundscape created from recordings of footsteps crunching through dry summer leaves. The original rhythm is looped three times, while a deep atmospheric drone provides a continuous backdrop. Granular fragments and glitch-like textures extracted from the footsteps drift through the background, transforming a simple field recording into an evolving organic composition. Ideal for ambient music, experimental productions, cinematic sound design, horror, and nature-inspired audio pr
Extreme_Ambience
I took a random image I made of a triple spiral and ran it through the VirtualANS. This could be used for some crazy ambient sounds in a game.
mashedhams
Synth loop. https://www.patreon.com/sethmakessounds
apoteg loop02
ancient bits of sound I had rendered a long time ago for a friend's music project I secretly collaborated on ;) These are old programmed synthesizers with heavy effects, each one slightly different. And they're perfectly loopable if you want!
Free Style Sitar
Short tune using a Sitar sound. Made in FL Studio 2024 using the Morphine plugin. Plugins: LuxeVerb and Fruity Multiband Compressor.
Techno percussion loop zoom 506 fx
Techno percussion loop made from samples and processed through a Zoom 506 bass multi fx pedal. Suitable for electronic music like dark-techno, dub-techno, house, ambient, dub-step.
tXgDrX153.41-01
This loop can be used in modern electronic music and other musical categories such as free forms like live dj-sets or jazz-like compositions etc. Film-makers, djs, instrumentalists or vocalists can use it as a background for own pieces since this material are premastered and ready for use. We release this source-track under Creative Commons Zero License (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) which allows copying, modifying, distributing and performing commercial use of derivative ar
from a dream - 120 bpm
Sleepy, slow synth bell and celeste notes float by from a dream. 120 bpm, 4/4, E flat major. Made with my MIDI keyboard, Ableton, and BandLab.
Medium Suburban Stream
Water flowing in a medium-sized suburban stream in a residential neighbourhood. Sounds like rounding a corner and encountering it. Recorded with an H4n recorder and Shure SM63LB omnidirectional mic. No need for attribution but if you like it leave a comment!
Waterfall close.
This is the sound of a small waterfall flowing into a river. Recorded with a Sony PCM-D100 in stereo.
Rio Stava in Pampeago
A recording of river Stava in Pampeago. River Stava: The Stava stream is a torrent located in the Stava valley , the northern side of the Fiemme valley in Trentino , which rises at the Pampeago pass and flows into the Avisio , the main watercourse of the Fiemme valley. [Wikipedia] Youtube video: https://youtu.be/fujWuvDnr0I
Waterfall medium size.
This is the sound of a small waterfall flowing into a river. Recorded with a Sony PCM-D100 in stereo.
Waterfall and river.
This is the sound of a waterfall flowing into a small river. Recorded with a Sony PCM-D100 in stereo.
Medium strength stream flowing - Loopable!
Came across this stream in Switzerland with a small waterfall. No city background noise! The sound can easily be looped. Minimal processing, recorded on Zoom H5n, 2024 Use my sounds for whatever you feel like and comment how you used it! :D
Waterfall sound.
This is the sound of a small waterfall flowing into a river. Recorded with a Sony PCM-D100 in stereo.
Waterfall sound.
This is the sound of a small waterfall flowing into a river. Recorded with a Sony PCM-D100 in stereo.
river (very close) not edited
wav, 44100 kh, 24 bit, reaper, condenser microphone Rastrillo stream or Chorranca stream. Pineforest in El Real Sitio de San Ildefonso or Valsaín. 24/11/2023, 11:30 peak (-0.6), LUFS-I (-19.9), mono I adjusted the amount of sound signal during the recording, resulting in a fade out and a fade in tags: gradual nature river flow water crescendo diminuendo cresc dim landscape accurate-frequency-response morning meditative winter forest segovia pine field-recording ambient fade-in fade-out
Marsh Wrens in Redwood Wetlands
A organic recording of beautiful Marsh Wren birds tweeting and fluttering by in a Redwood Marsh in Arcata, CA. Recorded with a Tascam field recorder, lightly processed to remove wind sounds in Reaper with Isotope RX and Fab Filter Pro-Q.
Crows Echoing through a Deep Forest
A field recording of Crow calls echoing through a Deep Forest, wind and other forest ambience looming about. Created using various clips of nature stitched together with Reaper, with use of various VSTs including Convolution Reverb, Raum, Fab Filter, and Object Delay
splunk
A 36 second long 160-bpm musical beat loop created in FL Studio. Feels appropriate as a mining/underground video game track perhaps.
Atmosphere Trance (Naden style music)
This sound was created using the "Syleth1" synthesizer BPM 132 Check it out: https://presetshare.com/preset/view?id=1240
River flowing below waterfall.
This is the sound of a small waterfall flowing into a river. Recorded with a Sony PCM-D100 in stereo.
WaterRunning01
This was a fountain running on a farm, there was a lot of water running through so it sounds heavier.
River flowing sound.
This is the sound of a babbling little river flowing. Recorded with a Sony PCM-D100 in stereo.
River flowing.
This is the sound of a small waterfall flowing into a river. Recorded with a Sony PCM-D100 in stereo.
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What can I use ambient sounds for?
Ambient soundscapes, textures, drones, and atmospheric beds for scenes that need space and mood. Common use cases include background ambience, sci-fi scenes, meditation apps, horror atmosphere.
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