DESCRIPTION:
The claw snaps shut.
A water jet shoots out at 60 miles per hour.
A low pressure zone is left in its wake.
Pressure's so low, the water vaporizes.
A bubble forms.
Surrounding water fights back.
The bubble implodes like a tiny atomic bomb with temperatures as high as 8,500 degrees Fahrenheit.
A 200 dB click is formed with frequencies up to 200 kHz. This is one of the loudest sounds in the animal kingdom. Only sperm whale clicks are louder at 230 dB.
Now imagine thousands of shrimp doing this all around you on a coral reef. It sounds like the water has come alive with electricity. Then visualize a large sailboat drifting in the dark off the coast of Moorea, an island in French Polynesia that looks like Jurassic Park. I'm laying on the deck of the sailboat with my headphones on, sipping some rum and listening live through a seven meter by seven meter by seven meter cube of eight hydrophones. The mix down of this 3D rig in my headphones teleports me to another planet. I listen for several hours as the boat drifts. That's a wrap on my 140th sound library from the natural world, and I hope you enjoy listening. I'll talk to you again soon.
KEY FEATURES:
- The underwater electricity of snapping shrimp claw clicks
- Short, 30 to 120 clips of snapping shrimp
- Rich ultrasonic energy up to 96 kHz
- Sparse ambiences
- Dense ambiences
- Close visceral clicks
- Distant cicada-like swarming noises
- Shallow water
- Deep water
- Hawaiian species
- French Polynesian species
SPECTROGRAM DEMO:
- A compilation of my favorite sounds from this collection.
FILE LIST:
- Click "View larger version" in the bottom right corner of the File List below to open in a new tab for easier viewing. This works best on a desktop computer.
- View spectrograms for each track, search, and filter in the Airtable spreadsheet.
FILE TYPES:
- Stereo – AB (7 meter spacing or 1 meter spacing)
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3D – these recordings were made with a 3D-Cube of 8 hydros:
- 3D-Cube: 7 meters by 7 meters by 7 meters (LxWxH)
- Channel Layout: L (1),R (2),Ls (3),Rs (4),Ltf (5),Rtf (6),LTr (7),Rtr (8)
- All 3D files are delivered as 8-channel WAVs that can be mixed into the 3D format of your choice, for example, a 7.1.4 Atmos mix.
LIBRARY INFO:
| Stereo Specs: 10.4 GB – 192 kHz / 24-bit – 190 stereo WAV files – Approx. 2.5 hours total |
| 3D Specs: 23 GB - 192 kHz / 24-bit – 119, 8-channel WAV files – 1.5 hours total |
| Stereo + 3D Specs: 33.4 GB – 2.5 hours total |
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Metadata: Universal Category System, CSV, Soundminer, BWAV |
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Categories: ANMLAqua, Snapping Shrimp, Crustacean
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Location: Hawaii, February 2025 and French Polynesia, October 2025
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| Mastering: read my Field Recording Mastering Rules for more info. |
| Delivery: Instant - blazingly-fast - digital download |
| License type: Single user, royalty-free - for a multi-user license, click here |
| Sound Library Guarantee: If you're unhappy with my field recordings in any way, I'll give you store credit equal to the cost of the sound library. Read the full details – here. |
GEAR USED:
- Gladys hydrophones (x8)
- Cetacean Research CRT-90P hydrophones (x2)
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Ambient ASF-1 MKII hydrophones (x2)
- Zoom F3, F6, and F8n Pro