Lake sound effects, gentler than the sea and full of small detail. Waves lapping at rocky shores, with birds calling across the surface. An outboard motor puttering past on a small boat. Underwater too, with bubbles and currents. Calm, mostly. The kind of water that lets everything else around it be heard.
Libraries
56
Publishers
37
Formats
Mono, stereo, M/S, surround, ambisonic
Sample rates
48 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$8 to $199
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Nearly 3 hours of high-quality nature sound effects, featuring lakeside ambiance, storms, and park atmospheres, recorded in 96k/24bit with comprehensive metadata for professional productions.
Multiple microphone positions capture detailed boat engine sounds, water effects, and exterior passbys, featuring a 60 HP Mercury motor with various RPM loops and sound effects.
This comprehensive collection features 94 ice sound effects recorded on a Swedish frozen lake, capturing diverse surface interactions and underwater sounds using multiple specialized microphones.
Natural lake wave sound effects captured in French Ardennes, featuring detailed water movements, foam ripples, and layerable splashes - ideal for creating authentic waterside ambiences in media projects.
Crystal-clear sound effects capture pristine water movements from the Northern Cascades, featuring diverse recordings of streams, rivers, whitewater rapids, and tranquil lake sounds.
Diverse wave sound effects captured at varying distances, featuring powerful North Pacific swells, serene Zaslavskoe Lake's rocky shores, and the historic Volga River's flowing waters.
Natural lake recordings capture diverse water sound effects, from gentle splashes against rocks to distant ripples, while windswept shores create authentic environmental ambiance.
These natural lake wave sound effects were captured at multiple distances using diverse recording techniques, offering both filtered and unfiltered variations in normal and wide stereo formats.
Oyo village sound effects recorded in 96kHz ambisonics, spanning lakeside water lapping and canoes, farmland crickets, bat calls, mosque calls to prayer, motorcycles, and shop walla in Yoruba, Hausa, and Idoma.
Swedish woodland sound effects capturing spring birdsong, crane and crow calls, wind in pines and treetops, grass rustle, and lakeside water lapping in AB, XY, and Double MS perspectives.
Underwater ice creak sound effects recorded on frozen lakes with an Aquarian H2d hydrophone and Schoeps CCM4, featuring resonant fractures, tension cracks, impacts, and debris in surface, hydrophone, and mixed perspectives.
A 67-minute collection of 24bit/96khz Vietnam sound effects capturing daily life in Hanoi, including street ambiences, restaurant cooking, traffic, and temple bells.
This collection provides 190+ environmental sound effects, including ambiences of forests, mountains, rivers, oceans, and rain, plus recordings of birds and insects.
This library contains over 1,600 water sound effects embedded with UCS metadata, covering pouring fluids, bubbles, natural flows, and emerging or submerging liquid motion.
Lake water is all about scale. Small waves have a quick, light lap, nothing like the long roll of the Ocean, and the shore makes a big difference, with pebbles hissing and rocks slapping. The recordings come from lakes across Europe and further east, at different distances from the edge. Layer in birds or summer insects and the scene comes alive. Close Splash recordings help with people wading or rowing out. Nature documentaries and calm game levels use these a lot.