Sound effects tag

Insect Sound Effects

Insect sound effects from the tiny to the deafening. Crickets tick away on a summer night in Europe, and cicadas scream through the midday heat in Southeast Asia. Bees too. Some recordings isolate a single chirp, while others are full night ambiences where the insects are the whole landscape.

Libraries
124
Publishers
63
Formats
Mono, stereo, M/S, surround, ambisonic
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$10 to $699
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Recorded or designed
RecordedDesigned

Recorded means captured in the field or a studio. Designed means built from other material.

Channel format
MonoStereoM/SSurroundAmbisonic

Mono for 3D positional audio. Ambisonic and surround for immersive mixes.

Embedded metadata
Tagged for Soundminer or UCSUntagged

Soundminer and UCS fields written into the files.

All 124 libraries tagged Insect.
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All 124 libraries tagged Insect

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96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo, Ambisonic B.
Atenas, Costa Rica mountain town sound effects recorded in first-order ambisonics and binaural across a full 24-hour cycle, covering plaza life, church bells, bird song, tropical storms, rivers, and nocturnal insects.
35 files · 15.5 GB
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Temperate rainforest wetland sound effects capturing Pacific chorus frog choruses, dawn chorus birdsong from song sparrow, Pacific wren and robin, and wind in canopy across dawn, afternoon, evening and night in 96kHz/24-bit.
92 files · 20.9 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Karst rainforest sound effects recorded in Khao Sok and Khlong Pae, Thailand, capturing insect drones, cicadas, birdsong, bamboo creaks, rivers, and canopy wind in AB, ORTF, binaural, and AmbiX formats.
99 files · 10.1 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Bali wave sound effects recorded on reefs, rock shelves, sand, and inside a sea cave with MKH8050 mid-side, capturing breakers, water laps, sand sizzle, shore birds, and ocean roar across high and low tide.
84 files · 8.14 GB · Metadata
192 kHz, 32-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Village ambience sound effects recorded across 20 rural locations in Serbia, capturing natural soundscapes including birdsong, dogs, cows, distant tractors, insects, and wind in trees at 32-bit/192kHz.
20 files · 6.67 GB · Metadata
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96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
West African rural ambience sound effects featuring village life, bird chirps, crickets, cicadas, frogs, cockcrows, and nighttime insect beds recorded across farmland and riverside settings at 96kHz.
20 files · 1.86 GB · Metadata
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Insects are how a sound designer says what time it is and where. Crickets mean night and cicadas mean heat. A single fly buzzing round a room says something has gone off. Recordings of a lone Cricket or Cicada work as close detail, and full ambiences fill a whole field. A Jungle needs a dense insect bed underneath everything else, which is often the hardest part to get right. Fantasy designers pitch insect clicks down for giant bugs.

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