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Wild explosion sound effects, from massive blasts, fireballs, and implosions, to fireworks, smaller bangs and debris sounds
Cataclysm is a vast collection of recorded, synthesized and designed sounds created to support important destructive moments and add a stronger sense of extreme consequence to any sound.
The recorded section of library features elements such as flash powder explosions, propane cannon blasts and artillery cannons recorded in unique natural environments with violent transients and lush, long and varied tails. It also features falling trees, forge burners, large trebuchet wood groans, rock smashes as well as more ordinary items recorded and designed to feel like an over the top version of themselves such as vacuum cleaner suctions, metal vase holders, ground pounders and more.
The synthesized section of the library features equally rich textures in the form of explosion sweeteners, other-worldly environmental reflections, scorching energy risers and more.
Finally, recorded and synthesized content was employed to develop the designed section, where the hyperrealism of the recordings meets the clean yet aggressive textures of the synthesized section in catastrophic assets themed around the library’s title.
Looking to blow stuff up? The EFX EXPLOSIONs Collection features a selection of grenade explosion & blast sounds – closeups, distant and muted/muffled explosion recordings included.
Explosion Sound Pack contains 37 high quality, professionally designed explosion sounds.
This pack also includes a variety of 150 bonus sounds effects from our full library Pro Sound Collection. ALL sounds from Explosion Sound Pack are included Pro Sound Collection so if you need more sounds be sure to check it out before purchase.
The War Zone sound effects library gets you whooshes, debris, cannon shots, beeps, countdown, explosions – ready to be used as they are in your projects, or layered to create complex war ambiences. A total of 170 sound effects are included, categorized into beeps, explosions, beeping mine explosions, debris, low whooshes, whooshes, shots and whooshes + debris.
Guns contains 266 gun sound effects. Guns included: Pistol, Revolver Pistol, Shotgun, Rifle, Sniper Rifle, Semi-Auto Rifle, Sub-Machine gun, Machine gun. (The Gun part of this sound library can also be purchased individually HERE)
Bullets contains 153 bullet sound effects (23 bullet flybys and 130 bullet impacts). Bullet impacts covers 16 different surfaces. Body Flesh, Body Thump, Concrete/Brick, Dirt, Grass, Rock, Gravel, Glass, Metal Light, Metal Heavy, Wood Light, Wood Heavy, Water, Mud, Snow and Ice. Each surface has 8-9 sound variations. (The Bullets part of this sound library can also be purchased individually HERE)
Explosions contains 37 high quality, professionally designed explosion sounds. (The Explosion part of this sound library can also be purchased individually HERE)
This is the perfect collection of guns, bullets and explosions at a very affordable price. Designed specifically for games, video and other media by award winning sound designers. All sounds come ready to use.
This pack also includes a variety of 160 bonus sounds effects from our full library Pro Sound Collection. Note that ALL sounds from this package are already included in our other premium sound packages Pro Sound Collection and WARFARE SOUNDS. So be sure to check out Pro Sound Collection and WARFARE SOUNDS before purchase.
WARFARE SOUNDS is a massive collection of 2492 professionally recorded, edited and designed sound effects. Including guns, bullet flybys, bullet impacts, silenced guns, explosions, footsteps, Foley, nature ambiances and more!
WARFARE SOUNDS contains sounds from our other sound packages, including:
Gun Sound Pack
Bullet Impact Sounds
Silenced Gun Sounds
Explosion Sound Pack
Footstep and Foley Sounds
Plus additional content from Pro Sound Collection! This is the ultimate sound package for anyone working on a military type film or game. Perfect for an FPS or any type of shooter.
ALL sounds from WARFARE SOUNDS are already included in our full package Pro Sound Collection. So if you need more sounds. Be sure to check it out before purchase.
Combustion is a sound effects library exploding with combustible sound design material. It encompasses explosions, chemical reactions, fires, and various other forms of combustion. It provides a vast scope of sound design elements for weapons, whooshes, vehicles, impacts, and so much more.
If you want to go straight to the source for making quality bangs and booms this is the pack for you! Contains 900+ source sounds, with a minimum of three distance layers for each bang environment.
Perfect for designing guns and explosion sounds that need to have different characteristics depending on distance. It’s how the pros do it!
Sounds included:
• Debris
• Embankment A and B (close, distant, far)
• Field A, B, C and D (close, distant, far)
• Field Container A and B (close, distant, far)
• Forest A, B and C (closest, closer, close, distant, far)
• Forest Damped A and B (close, distant, far)
• Forest mortar air detonation and launch (closest, closer, close, distant, far)
• Quarry (close, distant, far)
• Urban (closest, closer, close, distant, far)
• Urban mortar air detonation and launch (closest, closer, close, distant, far)
The Red Libraries teamed up with Thibault Csukonyi and Frederic Devanlay to create this new collection called Space Battle Artillery – the first in a series of sound libraries offering sounds from a futuristic fight universe.
This first volume, Artillery, is a series of heavy weapons designed for spaceships, vehicles, robots or on a base.
A mix between Sci-Fi and Steam punk, suited for all types of Sci-Fi universes.
• 20 weapons designed with single shots and bursts (Cannons, Rocket launchers, Gun turrets, Lasers)
• Separate components of each each weapon in the form of synchronized layers, allowing you to make up your own creations by interchanging the different layers.
• A toolbox containing textures, servos, mechanisms, impacts and much more items.
Crafted with Kyma, Reaktor, Synths and with Nuendo 10
If you're after fireworks sound effects, this collection gets you more than 300 explosions, one-shot fireworks blasts as well as longer sequences and whistling sounds. Great for, well, actual fireworks sounds – but can also be used for war soundscapes, distant explosions and more.
For those who need to design indoor explosions and gunshot acoustics this pack is for you! Contains 773 source sounds, with a minimum of three distance layers for each bang environment.
Perfect for designing guns and explosion sounds that need to have different characteristics depending on distance — it’s how the pros do it!
• Bathroom Large
• Bathroom Medium
• Bathroom Small (only close distance)
• Corridor A
• Corridor B
• Corridor C (has 4 distances)
• Corridor D
• Corridor E
• Elevator (only close distance)
• Entrance (has 2 distances)
• Room Large A
• Room Large B (has 4 distances)
• Room Medium A (has 5 distances)
• Room Medium B (has 2 distances)
• Room Small A
• Room Small B
• Stairwell A (has 5 distances)
• Stairwell B (has 5 distances)
• Stairwell C (has 5 distances)
• Stairwell D (only close distance)
All shots and explosion have close, distant and far layers, except where noted.
This pack contains everything you need for gunshots and explosion acoustics! Features three different environments, together with three different distance layers for each sound.
The gunshot acoustics can be used with some sort of close recording of a gun to give each weapon its own characteristics.
All of the files are mixed and mastered and ready to use immediately in any type of media production. All sounds in this pack made with material in the source version of this library.
Sounds included:
• Debris
• Field Explosion (close, distant, far)
• Field Shot (close, distant, far)
• Forest Explosion (close, distant, far)
• Forest Shot (close, distant, far)
• Urban Explosion (close, distant, far)
• Urban Shot (close, distant, far)
Welcome to the world's biggest explosion sound effects library:
When you carry the word „BOOM“ in your company name, your first dedicated explosion sound effects library should be a decent one. For the recordings, we teamed up with the sound department of EA DICE (Battlefield, Star Wars Battlefront) and we created the biggest explosion sound FX library ever. DICE uses the recordings heavily to impressively blow up the world in their AAA title Battlefield V and now you can get the recordings and our ready-to-use designed sounds in stereo and 5.1 surround for your very own projects. It’s a highly explosive pack with 13.4GB of explosion sound effects.
Recorded in real urban environments
Why Urban Explosions? Most explosions in movies, games or trailers don’t happen out on a plain field, they happen in urban environments with buildings around them that shape the character of the explosion sound in a very specific way. The special thing about our urban explosions sound FX library is that it has been recorded in a real urban environment, so you get super-realistic reverbs and tails instead of artificially processed post-production reverbs or tails that don’t sound urban at all. For the sake of completeness, we also recorded a non-urban explosion on a plain field, so you’re covered here as well.
Multi-Channel Recordings with up to 42 Channels
We had a lot of microphones with us and we placed them in all possible positions around the explosion spot. We have very close mics, close mics, medium distance mics, distant mics, mics in front of buildings, mics behind buildings, mics inside of buildings. Each explosion in the URBAN EXPLOSIONS CONSTRUCTION KIT comes with a minimum of 24 channels, including a 4 channel ambisonic file, so you can simply drag all channels to your DAW and easily mix the sound exactly as you want.
Sweeteners
You’re looking for a more supernatural sound or your mix misses a bit of impact, smack, punch, tail, cackling, rumbling or character? No problem, the CONSTRUCTION KIT has a lot of great high-quality sweeteners that will easily enrich your mix in the desired way.
Incredibly versatile
Our DESIGNED edition comes with a myriad of ready-to-use explosion sound FX in the categories INDOOR, NEUTRAL & URBAN, each of them in SMALL, MEDIUM & LARGE explosion sizes. Beyond that, you have the choice between MEDIUM and FAR distances, FAST or SLOW explosions and a MODERN, SOFT, CRISP or DISTORTED character. With this range of sounds, you’re certainly sure to find the right one for your scene.
Stereo & 5.1 Surround
In addition to the stereo version our sound designers created 5.1 surround versions for each sound so you are fully prepared to implement your creative surround vision with ease.
Designed by 4 Award-Winning Sound Designers
We consider sound design as a craftsmanship and we’re very happy and proud to rely on the talent of four awesome sound designers that really know their trade.
THE BUNDLE – The best of both worlds at a discounted price
The Bundle gives you the full sound design power as it contains both – the DESIGNED and the CONSTRUCTION KIT edition at a discounted price.
This pack contains eight different indoor environment shot and explosion acoustics, together with three different distance layers for each sound.
The sounds can be used as they are or paired with other layers to give the sounds more unique characteristics (such as layering in a close recording of a gun etc).
All of the files are mixed and mastered and ready to use immediately in any type of media production. All sounds in this pack made with material in the source version of this library.
• Debris
• Bathroom Explosion
• Bathroom Shot
• Corridor Explosion
• Corridor Shot
• Hall Explosion
• Hall Shot
• Room Large Explosion
• Room Large Shot
• Room Medium Explosion
• Room Medium Shot
• Room Small Explosion
• Room Small Shot
• Stairwell Explosion
• Stairwell Shot
• Warehouse Explosion
• Warehouse Shot
All shots and explosion categories have close, distant and far layers.
Explosive Energy is a sound design toolkit built for creating next-gen sci-fi explosions.
This library is divided into 3 modular categories (transient, body, tails), allowing you to mix and match layers and build your own unique explosion designs.
Do you want to make some realistic firefights? Do you want the sound of the Swedish Carl Gustav anti-tank rocket? Got a sudden need for tanks and explosions?
Modern Combat is a collection of high quality sounds recorded from a real Swedish military drill, captured with a mid side rig and two mics in XY configuration. This pack contains weapon handling and reload sounds, rockets being fired, close-up and distant machine guns, rocket launchers, explosions, flares, distant yelling and firefights. As a bonus we've also included some military jeep and tank driving sounds.
This sound pack is guaranteed to spice up any modern combat scenario!
All sounds included are meta data tagged(keywords+description) for use in soundminer/basehead etc.
This library makes the walls shake! Massive cannon shots, ancient hand mortars and large saluting guns let you revive the old days of gun battles.
You're looking for a huge cannon shot to end a sea fight? That big explosion at the end of the movie is missing that one amazing crispy impact sound?
Use BLACK POWDER and your search is over!
Don’t miss your drop zone. Escape domination by your opponent. Be the first to rank up and experience military-grade gameplay audio. Introducing our newest and most exciting sound library yet, Battle Royale Game, a first-person shooter game sound effects library that features over 900+ battle-tested and game ready SFX.
Inspired by hit PC & console games like Apex, Fortnite, PUBG. Battle Royale Game is an expertly crafted and thoughtfully imagined military sound base of natural and minimally processed source sounds plus a significant cache of hybrid & highly designed game audio assets. This storehouse of sound will outfit any project where FPS styled sound effects are needed.
Implosion is a sound effects collection of buildings being destroyed with explosives. It features 10 unique building implosions recorded across the country.
Each implosion was recorded with 4 to 14 channels of audio. To offer multiple perspectives, mics were placed as close as 150ft (~50m) and as far away as 2000ft (~600m) from the various explosive demolitions.
Low-price. High-quality. Essential.
A collection of 100 essential firework sound effects, including launches, crackles, whistles, close, distant, full displays and loops!
The sounds are fully compatible with the Universal Category System (UCS) – a public domain initiative establishing a standardized category list for the classification of sound effects.
Note: All of these sounds (and more!) are included in the 96 General Library (get 3,000+ SFX for FREE!)
Get a complete arsenal of unique and original explosion sound effects. All sounds in Explosion SFX Pack are drag-and-drop ready for your project. Every audio file is easily searchable as they were meticulously organized into categories to make it easy to find the perfect sound for your project.
Discover a wide range of sounds perfect for realistic and sci-fi explosions. Acquire sounds for all your destruction needs including grenades, ripping wood, shattering glass, underwater torpedo blasts, distant explosive tails, as well as car and building demolitions among many others. Professionally recorded and designed, these sounds are a must-have to bring your game the polish you are looking for.
Game Weapons – Gun & Firearm Sound Effects library includes 1557 gun, firearm and war SFX – After months of development, and countless source recording and editing sessions, Game Weapons – Gun & Firearm Sound Effects library is ready for the most exacting of productions. Built from extensive research, and raw sounds recorded from real life (IRL), this library provides producers with a complete armory of weaponry and firearm sounds made specifically for games and video application.
This all-original collection features various weapons styles, from classic firearm sounds to imaginary sci-fi weapon sounds. Easily take on any type of audio project where gun sound effects & cinematic firearm sound design is needed. This library is highly practical and features a wide-ranging catalog of Halo & Borderland weapon styled sounds effects, snipers, rifles, shotguns, gun handlings, explosions, royalty-free firearm sounds & much more.
A sound library featuring the sounds of war: grenade launchers and cannons firing, RPGs, assault rifles, and pistols firing at an armor plate, and a mix of claymore, grenade, and various mine explosions.
The Warfare 2 Library sound bundle showcases 627 field recordings in 19.82 GB from a genuine military exercise.
A total of 22 perspectives arrayed around the location capture recordings from dozens of microphones at close, medium, and distant positions as well as from inside a bunker in 37 exterior and 4 interior channels.
The field recordings gather sounds of grenade launchers and cannons firing and reloading, troop mines, vehicle mines, and tank mines detonating and exploding, as well as artillery grenade and C-4 plastic explosive blasts. Many takes depict exploding wood and stone with extended debris settling. Assault rifles, RPGs, and pistols firing at a metal plate as well as skirmish shooting share long, clean tails.
Also included are 18+ fields of Soundminer metadata, BWAV, and iXML metadata and MacOS Finder comments, as well as Pro Tools and Reaper mixing sessions.
Explosion Fireworks is a 182-track collection of fireworks recordings captured during the local holiday “Nit de L’Alba,” located in Spain, where hundreds of thousands of fireworks are launched. It also includes 8 additional tracks, featuring explosions designed exclusively from the audios in this high-quality library.
The audios are organized with an intuitive nomenclature that allows for easy switching between different microphones, providing the flexibility to select or combine the best recording options. For this collection, high-end microphones such as the Sennheiser MKH 8050 and the Sanken CO-100K were used, along with a Zoom H6 recorder to capture stereo sound. The recordings were made at 24-bit and 192 kHz/96 kHz, ensuring exceptional clarity and depth.
This collection covers a wide variety of fireworks sounds, including firecrackers, close-up explosions, mid-range explosions, ground fireworks, ground spinners, palm tree explosions, roman candle, Whistling Rockets, and various fireworks atmosphere loops. Each audio contains multiple variations, providing the flexibility needed for any production requiring fireworks or explosion sounds.
All recordings have been meticulously edited to remove external noises such as wind, people, or background noise. Additionally, thanks to the ultrasonic microphones used, it is guaranteed that even when lowering the pitch, the richness of the frequencies will be maintained.
Ideal Applications:
– Video games: Add realism and depth to the natural environments of your games.
– Cinema and Documentaries: Enrich your audiovisual productions with authentic sounds.
– Multimedia Projects: Ideal for any project that seeks to enrich the user’s listening experience.
Technical details:
– Total Audios: 182 (907 sounds individually)
– Format: 192kHz – 96kHz/24bit
– Equipment Used: Zoom F6 recorder with Sennheiser MKH 8050, Sanken CO-100K, plus a Zoom H6 recorder for stereo sound.
– Duration: 16 minutes and 07 seconds.
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