BOOM Library Boom Urban Explosions Construction Kit

Explosion sound effects to the fullest

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.

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.

Sweetners

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 672 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 really outstanding sound designers that know their trade and left bright traces in the world of sound design.

THE BUNDLE – The best of both worlds

The Bundle gives you the full sound design power as it contains both – the DESIGNED and the CONSTRUCTION KIT edition

Features

• Explosion sound effects to the fullest
• Recorded in real urban environments
• Multi-channel recordings with up to 42 channels
• Stereo & 5.1 Surround
• Designed by 4 award-winning sound designers
• 651 Files
• 2417 Sounds
• WAV - 24bit - 96kHz

DESIGNED, CONSTRUCTION KIT, BUNDLE - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?

CONSTRUCTION KIT – THE SOURCE SOUNDS

A CONSTRUCTION KIT generally contains thousands of sounds as raw as possible and only as processed as needed for a specific topic, 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 within the given topic from scratch. For some topics it is difficult to provide recordings only, so you will find some pre-processed or synthesizer based sounds in those collections as well, but still only basic material, since we don’t want to offer it compressed to the maximum or similarly mutated. After all, the CONSTRUCTION KIT serves as such for ourselves, namely in the following process of creating the respective DESIGNED collection.

DESIGNED – THE PRE-DESIGNED & READY-TO-USE SOUNDS

The DESIGNED collections feature fully designed sounds which originate from the CONSTRUCTION KIT stock. The sounds are of a specific topic and ready to use: mixed, processed, compressed, mastered etc. They can be easily put into all kind of projects, for example trailers, commercials, movies, TV shows and so forth or used as in-game sounds. This collection provides a quick and easy workflow and you can still use those sounds as a basic and layer, stretch or otherwise adjust them to suit your specific needs.

BUNDLE – THE MONEY-SAVER

The bundle is the best option as it contains both, the DESIGNED and the CONSTRUCTION KIT at a reduced price.

WHAT WE RECORDED

Finding an urban environment where we can detonate a pile of explosives wasn’t easy to accomplish. It had to be an abandoned area with buildings that are constructed and placed as in a modern city. After some intensive research we found a place that was just perfect. We found it in the former USSR. To get the most out of the recordings, we picked 15 interior and outdoor detonation spots and recorded the explosions with up to 42 microphone channels.