272 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Cicada"

A clip of an ice cream truck passing by my skylight on a sunny summer day. Recorded using tascam pocket studio internal microphones. Truck approaches and passes by, followed by cicadas singing in the breeze. Quality is rather low. Content is in the public domain.

I recorded this in my backyard at dusk in july of 2010. As night falls, the cicadas start up, the birds die off, and you can hear owls if you listen closely enough. Also a few sounds of traffic and briefly can hear the neighbor kids.

A wonderful typical mid-summer soundscape of cicadas, and some katydids recorded on the edge of a small town in illinois. Towards the end of the recording you will hear a very cool doppler-effect as the truck passes from right to left. Recorded about 8:00 at night with my zoom h4-n recorder using it's internal microphones. I had the volume level set fairly high -- 80 -- so you will probably also hear the constant hum of the various central air conditioning units. .

This is the sound of the broken fan at the bathroom in my friends house. It sounds a lot like a cricket, but i can assure you it’s a machine- once again this was straight off my phone so sorry if the quality is pretty bad. I hope this can still be of use to you. You don’t need permission but i would like to know if anyone does use it, just for the sake of curiousity :).

A recording taken in my neighbors garden of the cicada.

Thousands of cicadas occur in endless cycles for roughly one minute, at least where i was in my backyard in san antonio, texas. At the beginning of the cycle, they truly sound like a jet with engines idling on a runway, growing louder as it maneuvers into a take-off position. After several more seconds, the soft whirring grows louder and louder for about ten seconds or so, and at the closing of the cycle crescendos into a a sustained cacophony like crickets on crack.

Cicada sounds in a rainforest in new zealand.

Soundscape field recorded in japan, a loud cicada chant, some vehicles sound in the background. H4n intern mic, wav, 24/96.

Grassland/woodland ambience.

Cicadas al corbera d´ebre.

Late august cicadas in brooklyn, ny.

Crickets or cicadas in carinthia, austria.

This is the sound of a single cicada that i found resting in my outdoors furniture. I picked it up and it started making this sound. I used a zoom h6 field recorded with a xy mic.

Dawn sounds in the gambia africa.

Recording of cicadas in hiroshima, japan in august.

Cicadas in georgia, usa, on hot summer night. Crickets in background.

Cicadas in the pick of summer in greece. Full orchestra. . . :).

Loud chorus of cicadas. Recorded in may 2011 in italy.

Cicadas in the evening with local birds virginia.

Cicadas in a dense forest. Recorded in "la quebrada de córdova", chile.

Recorded august 21, 2007 on a sony himd minidisc recorder using a rode nt-4 stereo microphone with a rycote windscreen.

Wide stereo ambience, summer cottage by lake, cicadas, kids playing, wind in trees. Stereo spaced em172s. Ontario.

This is a field recording done with an h4n in centralia, pennsylvania, usa in october 2013. Lots of different kinds of bug noises.

A night in august, standing in the woods, the cicadas fill the air. In the distant a train, upclose a phone alert!.

Recorded at gakwonsa temple, a buddhist temple in cheonan, south korea. The recording was made standing outside as monks chanted in the temple. The sound of cicadas can also be heard.

Sound of cicada at tokyo, summer afternoon48khz 24-bit.

My 1st recording with my marantz pmd661, with enhanced preamplifiers by oade brothers. I used my two matching stereo samson co2 microphones with the input level on 7. Recording made around 9pm at night on august 1st, 2014 in a small midwestern town. The chorus of cicadas and tree frogs is very steady on this one.

Looped recording of summer forest full of cicadas. Audiogeek note>> rode nt4 and tascam dr 60d.

Me and my friends visiting a small village with small river in august 2020.

An extra on set caught a cicada and let me record it flapping its wings. I used an at-897 to record this into a 664. It's very close mic-ed.

Recording of cicadas in the south of france.

A field recording made near the coralville dam.

Rec in offida, italy, 2 august 2020 14:45.

A sound of mosquito, wasp or fly synthesized on software operator synth.

Evening in the village near ivanovo, russia. Free for commercial use.

Some noisy cicadas in the italian country, a summer night. Recorded with a tascam, stereo, 48khz.

This is a mono recording of cicadas early morning crescendo. Recorded with dpa-4017 -> sd-552.

Residential night, cicadas, crickets, jet flyover. Zoom h4n 48khz, 24 bit.

Summer morning cicadas in brooklyn ny. Subway train in the distance & light air conditioner hum.

Recording of cicadas in my back yard, featuring birds chirping, distant traffic, the occassional fly passing by, and a faint industrial air conditioner.

Recording of cicadas in my back yard, featuring birds chirping, distant traffic, the occassional fly passing by, and a faint industrial air conditioner.

15 minutes of cicadas. Brood x 2021. Bit of walking on the deck/thumping at the beginning and end, but otherwise a clean recording.

4 a. M. Just before dawn. Not light enough yet. I happened to wake not to be able to fall into a sleep again. Grabbed my at835st and a recorder, korg mr-1.

Partie de pétanque un après midi en été dans le sud de la france/part of pétanque one afternoon in summer in the south of france.

Outdoor recording of cicada in australia.

Cicadas of south city at summer night recorded from a window. Hi-pass filtered of various car sounds, and so timbre is not so natural — but maybe it’s what you are looking for?. Recorded by nokia 700, processed in audition.

The most recognizable sound of greek summer. A single cicada in its field.

The 13-year periodical cicadas in the midwest. In this recording i was lucky enough to have some forest birds also sing throughout the steady drone. Recording made with marantz pmd661 (**with beefed up and extra quiet pre-amplifiers by oade brothers electronics), running samson co-2 matched true stereo microphones. My original recording was made at the highest bit rate allowable on my machine -- 98khz.

Large ambiance inside fields of dry grass. From various field recordings during a shooting in france, aubagne near marseille. We call "mistral" this typical strong wind blowing in this area. Hot in summer, it's really cold in winter. Recorded using 2 a/b microphones neumann km 84 in a fostex pd4.

This is a recording of the six o'clock cicada taken near to the danum valley rain forest lodge in the primary rain forest of borneo. The 6 o'clock cicada is the loud horn type of sound that can be heard in the fist few seconds of the file. Later in the file other insects come in one sounding more like a car alarm.