A fresh and deep sonic composition emerges with the changing of each season, adding beauty and mystery to the world’s auditory landscape. With SEASONS OF EARTH, we strive to capture the most captivating and iconic nature ambiences using our unparalleled Schoeps ORTF3D Surround Set in a way that properly reproduces the planet’s distinctive sound signatures. Create fully immersive 360° Surround or Stereo environments using these premium audio files.
WINTER WITHOUT THE FILTER
SEASONS OF EARTH – EUROPEAN WINTER: AUTHENTIC SNOW & ICE SOUND EFFECTS
Step into a world of pure winter ambience where every snow sound, creaking tree and distant wolf howl is captured exactly as it happened. European Winter gives you ice sound effects and snow sound effects that aren’t dressed up or sweetened – they’re field recordings, honest and raw. Perfect for when your scenes need authentic winter sounds that feel truly alive.
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Why This Library Exists
Winter is more than gusts and blizzards. It is the stillness before snow falls, the tension of ice under stress, and the sudden call of a fox across a frozen field. European Winter brings you these overlooked details, recorded across Europe with Schoeps ORTF-3D for spatial realism, phase accuracy and mix-ready precision.
Real Snow, Not Foley
Every snow sound effect here is a direct capture. Snow hitting rock, grass, ice or water with no studio trickery. Just microphones and patience.
Rare Singing Ice & Moving Streams
Includes ice sound effects like lakes groaning under cold stress, plus semi-frozen water shifting under fragile crust. Hard to find, harder to record.
Winter Wildlife That Adds Tension
From wolves to ravens, this library captures Europe’s winter wildlife in their natural element. These sounds cut through the quiet and heighten the drama in your scenes.
Surround & Stereo Done Properly
Not a simple fold-down. True 3D Surround recordings plus dedicated stereo mixes, all phase-coherent and metadata-rich for seamless placement.
SUPPORTING THE ART OF CINEMATIC SOUND
Designed for sound designers who shape the world of film and television.
“I haven’t had an ambience library with such long files, high sample rate, or ready for Atmos. The recordings of SEASONS OF EARTH – EUROPEAN WINTER are expertly captured and prepped so well for the end-user that I could just drag and drop height, lower quad, or stereo files straight into my template. It’s a powerful and beautifully thought-out library.”
Ryan D. Young
ADR Mixer/ Sound Supervisor – Golden Reels Awards Winner
The Batman • Wonder Woman • Interstellar
ADR Mixer/ Sound Supervisor – Golden Reels Awards Winner
The Batman • Wonder Woman • Interstellar
“The audio quality is exceptional, particularly considering the challenges of recording outside without unwanted noise. Using the 3D Surround version with Atmos, I was able to create a very credible immersive sound field, with wind at ear level and birds and leaves above.”
Roger Guérin
Sound Designer – CAS MPSE
Building Star Trek • R.E.D. 2 • Ascension
Sound Designer – CAS MPSE
Building Star Trek • R.E.D. 2 • Ascension
“The recordings are superb, with brilliant detail and some truly unique material. The wildlife elements lift it beyond a standard nature collection, and the high-frequency detail in the snow recordings is remarkable — delicate sounds that are often so hard to capture are rendered with real clarity here.”
Enos Desjardins
Sound Designer
Mission: Impossible • Black Mirror
Sound Designer
Mission: Impossible • Black Mirror
What’s Inside
Included sounds - keywords
BIRDS, CANYON, CAVE, CREEK, EVENING, FOREST, FOX, FROZEN, GEESE, GRASSLANDS, ICE, JAY, LAKE, MELTING, MIDDAY, MORNING, NIGHT, OWL, RAIN, RAVEN, RIVER, SNOW, SNOWFALL, TREES, TUNDRA, WATER, WATERFALL, WAVES, WIND, WOLVES, WOODPECKER
Atmos-Ready 3D Surround
Drop these straight into Atmos, VR or other immersive projects. Clean, immersive files ready to go with no fiddly alignment needed.
Detailed Layers, Naturally Placed
From whispering snow to distant tundra winds, everything is positioned with precise mic arrays. Spatial by nature, not by post.
Effortless Integration
Rich metadata tags mean your DAW knows exactly where each channel belongs. That keeps your workflow smooth and your mixes tight.
STEREO VERSION INCLUDED
The stereo version features identical sound material as the 3D version. It is also included when you buy the 3D Surround set.
YOU ONLY NEED THIS LIBRARY IN STEREO? HERE YOU GO!
What We Recorded
Frozen lakes singing under tension, foxes breaking the quiet, trees popping in cold air, snow of different weights landing on different surfaces. Captured across Scandinavia and central Europe with gear tough enough for minus fifteen.
What’s so special about this library?
This isn’t a studio simulation. It is Europe’s winter, alive and unpolished. Ideal for building tension in a thriller, layering quiet for a documentary or shaping the open worlds of a game. These are winter sound effects that sound exactly like being there.
Capturing Europe’s Winter: Extracts from Shane’s Travelog
From the eerie songs of frozen lakes to the tense hush of windless tundras, sound recordist Shane Witzler’s winter travelog captures Europe’s cold season in all its raw detail. With wolves calling, foxes mating, and streams gurgling beneath thick ice, this is winter as it truly sounds: unpredictable, haunting and alive.
Discover the full story behind the SEASONS OF EARTH – EUROPEAN WINTER library in our latest blog and bring these authentic moments into your own projects.
Compatible Software
BOOM Library sound FX come as WAV files. This means you can import and work with them in any software that can handle this file type. Here are the most common audio and video editing software tools that work perfectly with our sound FX
Audio Software
Logic Pro
Cubase
Nuendo
Ableton Live
Pro Tools
Reaper
Video Editing Software
Premiere Pro
Final Cut Pro X
After Effects
Vegas Pro
Media Composer
UCS Compatible Metadata Embedded
To provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible, all files contain extensive metadata like file description & keywords. Metadata can be read and processed by audio management tools. Some digital audio workstations feature an included search tool that can also read embedded metadata. Here are the most common audio management tools:
Soundminer
Basehead
Soundly
According to the new UCS standard
Universal Category System 
Enter A New Era of Surround Sound FX Libraries
Suitable for any surround application, even and especially immersive audio like Auro 3D, Dolby Atmos, 360° Videos and VR
Our sound effect series 3D SURROUND continues a new era of surround sound FX libraries with unprecedented precision, spatial impression and clarity. 3D Surround delivers better results where conventional surround techniques reach their limits. This occurs especially, although not exclusively, in VR, where events must sound 100% convincing depending on the rotation and tilt of the user’s head. With our new 3D SURROUND series, you are ideally equipped for not only VR, but any other application that requires high-definition and crystal-clear surround sound.
What is so special about 3D Surround?
3D Surround has two enormous advantages over conventional surround sound. On the one hand, individual sound sources can be located much better and more clearly with 3D Surround. On the other hand, 3D Surround also reflects height differences much better. This results in a more extensive and much clearer sound image in a quality that cannot be achieved with conventional surround sound.
REGULAR SURROUND
3D SURROUND
HIGH-PRECISION SOUND LOCATION
Conventional surround sound often provides a somewhat diffuse image of the sound source, making it hard to precisely pinpoint the direction where the sound is coming from and where it is moving to. 3D Surround draws a crystal-clear picture of the source recording for a complete sound experience.
THE 3RD DIMENSION – SUITED FOR VR & Dolby Atmos
3D Surround adds a height layer as a third dimension compared to regular surround. The sound not only reaches the listener’s ear from the side, but also from above. This results in a much better localization of the sound source and a much more immersive listening experience which makes it the perfect surround type for VR applications and Dolby Atmos.
RECORDED WITH THE MOST ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
Our 3D Surround libraries are recorded with the highly-acclaimed SCHOEPS ORTF-3D setup, a cuboid 8ch level/time difference ambience setup. The main benefit is an additional height layer compared to regular surround recording setups. It consists of 8 supercardioid microphones.
The height layer offers a much wider range of spatial sound effects and a more realistic three-dimensional reproduction. Therefore, it provides a clearer representation of spatial depth, a more natural surround impression, improved envelopment, and an authentic feel.
Significant Savings
Seasons Of Earth – European Winter is part of the Signature Series Bundle. By purchasing the Signature Series Bundle, you save thousands of dollars compared to buying each of the 96 packs individually. This bundle offers exceptional value, making high-quality sound design accessible at a fraction of the cost.
Subscription Option
To make the BOOM Signature Series even more accessible, you can subscribe at a reduced rate and get instant access to every new release in the Signature Series. This flexible option allows you to enjoy the full benefits of the series without the upfront investment.
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