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2017 Holiday Freebies

December 22, 2017

2018 update: there’s a new freebie library available. Get it here!

2017 is almost over and I can say it's been a great year for field recording. I spent more than 3 months in places such as England, Romania, Sweden, Wales, Scotland or Senegal and collected several Terabytes of recordings. I have many libraries in various stages of completion and I look forward to releasing them early next year.

Until then I put together a new freebie library to show my gratitude to everyone who has purchased libraries from me. These are all new sounds, not lifted from any existing or future library. You'll find a lot of nature and wildlife (as expected) along with vehicle and aircraft recordings. The sounds will be up until January 31st so move fast!

If you like them feel free to share, comment, tweet and chirp about it. You can check out my other libraries in case you need more awesome sound effects.

 

In Sound effects libraries Tags free sounds, nature sounds, wildlife sounds
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