Looking to create explosion sound effects in an urban environment for the silver screen? Check out the BOOM LIBRARY URBAN EXPLOSIONS CONSTRUCTION KIT, a sound library dedicated explosion sound effects. For the recordings, BOOM teamed up with the sound department of EA/DICE (Battlefield, Star Wars Battlefront), and they created the biggest explosion sound FX library ever. The 24-bit / 96 kHz WAV files are compatible with Windows and Mac.
ript>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 BOOM's 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 postproduction reverbs or tails that don't sound urban at all. For the sake of completeness, BOOM also recorded a nonurban explosion on a plain field, so you're covered here as well.
Multichannel 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.
Keywords
You can search by the following keywords: Explosions, Phasings, Crackling Lights, Rumble Impacts, Echoing Impacts, Hits, Swallows, Squashes, Punches, Kicks, Smacks, Crunches, Crackles
CONSTRUCTION KIT: The Source Sounds
A CONSTRUCTION KIT generally contains thousands of sounds, provided as raw as possible, processed as needed for a specific topic, and perfectly organized to make it easy for you to use them. Carefully selected, those sounds give you all the freedom and possibilities you need to design your own sounds from scratch within the given topic. For some topics, it is difficult to provide recordings only. So, you will find some preprocessed or synthesizer-based sounds in those collections as well, but still only basic material, since BOOM doesn't want to offer sounds that are compressed to the maximum or similarly mutated. After all, the CONSTRUCTION KIT serves as such for BOOM, namely in the following process of creating the respective DESIGNED collection.