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Crickets and Cicadas

Just Sound Effects
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Just Sound Effects

Crickets and Cicadas

The Musical Sounds of Nature

Singing insects, from a single cricket up close to a whole field of them.

3Kinds of insect named
2Regions recorded
7Words the field offers
Close → FarPerspectives
+And more

Crickets●Cicadas●Grasshoppers●Europe●Southeast Asia●Single insects●Swarms●Close perspective●Far perspective●Low noise floor●& more

Extremely low noise floorSingle insects to swarmsClose to far perspectives

Good crickets and cicadas are a sound designer’s staple, and this library was recorded in two very different climates to get them.

Crickets, cicadas and grasshoppers turn up in open fields, in trees and in primeval forest wherever the temperature stays warm. What comes out of them is an exotic soundscape, a dry desert or a mild summer evening, depending entirely on which recording you reach for.

At a Glance

  • Three insects crickets, cicadas and grasshoppers
  • Two regions Europe, and the jungles of Southeast Asia
  • Extremely low noise floor so the recordings layer as a construction kit rather than fighting each other
  • Close to far perspectives that let you build the depth of your own environment
  • Single insects to ambiences from one cricket singing in close perspective up to a full cricket bed
  • Daylight cicadas the buzzy, raspy side of the collection

Content & Detail

01What Is In Itfrom one insect to a field of them▾
Single cricketsMusical songs recorded in close perspective
Cricket ambiencesThe same insects as a bed rather than as a subject
CicadasThe buzzy and raspy sound of daylight
GrasshoppersNamed alongside the other two as part of the same recordings
PerspectivesClose through to far, so environments can be built with depth
02The Vocabulary Problemwhy the demos matter more than the description▾
The words availableBuzz, click, rasp, whirr, rattle, trill, chirp — seven, and mostly onomatopoetic
The problemUsually only one of them gets used, while the insects produce a far greater number of different noises
The honest answerSinging insect sounds are hard to describe and much easier to listen to

Seven words for a sound that has hundreds. The field says as much itself, which is why the useful part of this library is the range between a single close cricket and a full warm-evening bed, not any one adjective for it.

Product Information

Features
Files: 78
Duration: 81 Minutes
Size: 1.57 GB
Format: 48/96khz/24bit
Channels: Stereo-Wav