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Sound Effects Library

Cannons

Cannon Sound Effects Library

Fifteen historical cannons were recorded with a 26-channel multitrack setup for Cannons, including shots, mechanics, fly-bys, and impacts on wood, metal, concrete, water, and sand. Naval battles, sieges, and period films are natural fits.

4,723

Total Sounds

714

WAV Files

up to 8×

Variation Files

24bit / 96kHz

Sample Rate

17.8 GB

Size

UCS Compliant

BLAST THROUGH YOUR PRODUCTIONS

This cannonade of 15 different cannons with is the most comprehensive cannon library ever to be released on the market. High-quality, 26-channel recordings of fort-smashing bombards, high-angled mortars, 16-pounder frigate loads, and more, these cannon blasts, impacts, and flybys are indispensable components of any sound design for any film or game action sequence set in the late medieval to early modern periods. Not just for cannon blasts, they can also be used to give trailer sound design and general explosions a much heavier punch.

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What’s Inside

Included Sounds – Keywords

Action

Artillery

Attack

Ball

Bomb

Breaking

Concrete

Crisp

Crushing

Debris

Detonation

Dynamic

Echo

Explosion

Firing

Gear

Gritty

Heavy

Historic

Impact

Mechanical

Metal

Microphone

Movement

Noise

Object

Plate

Rattling

Recorder

Resonant

Rock

Rolling

Rumble

Sand

Scrap

Shot

Single

Splash

Spray

Squeak

Steel

Stomp

Surface

Texture

Tonal

Transient

Water

Wide

Wood

Cannons Construction Kit

Material Impacts

Included in the Construction Kit is the entirety of the cannon’s action, from blast to impact. There is a huge variety of foley recordings for impact materials that could be needed in any cannon battle scenario, including water, sand, stone, rock, wood, sails, dirt, and more. The sounds were captured on a hill-top near a forest; the natural outdoor reverb providing ultra-crisp and full tails. With our array of modern mics – including shotguns to omnidirectional mics in AB, XY, ORTF configurations plus Ambisonics and ORTF 3D spatial audio setups – we were able to capture every sound in their full, rich intensity.

A Full Canonade

Across the smoky battlefield, cannons reign supreme. These high-quality sounds don’t include just the 26 channels of raw blasting power, but also the mechanical noises, impacts, and flybys (group shots) – everything you need for total audio realism in your production, whether it’s a film, game, or podcast. With the Construction Kit there are 8 variations for each cannon, and a sampling of a range of cannons of different sizes and types.

Let Freedom Ring

Recorded at a military base and an archery range, the hillside settings provided the perfect natural reverbs for these cannon blasts. Though with many sounds you might want a dry recording, with cannons (and other firearms) a nice, appropriate tail ensures it has a measure of realism.

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Cannons Designed

A Cannon For Every Occasion

Whether needing carronades or 16-pounders for your British naval vessels hunting pirates, bombards to take out castle fortifications, or culverins to unleash an inferno against oncoming troops, this library has got it. We’ve gone further with the Designed pack to make sure that each sound is polished and ready to use.

5 Sets Of Shots

Using the 26 channels and sound effects from the Construction Kit, we’ve designed for your immediate use 5 sets of 15 cannons with 6 variations each. Including: Distant: The sound of cannons blasting somewhere in the distance through the smoke. Mechanic: Cannons move and rock a lot when they go off – these include all that extra motion and are truest to the full sound of the cannon’s action. Modern: Processed to be more in-your-face than realistic, perfect for trailers and experimental uses. Loud: Designed with an extra boost of volume. Soft: For when you need dialogue over the cannons.

True Drag-and-drop

Our Designed sounds are always crafted with true drag-and-drop use in mind. Each of the 5 sets of cannon blasts should be more than enough for your production requirements, without you having to worry about any extra sound design. Combined with the Construction Kit to add the impacts, you will be fully locked and loaded for any cannon battle.

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THE BUNDLE - The best of both worlds at a discounted price.
The Construction Kit and Designed truly stand out when used together. In the Designed part, the Mechanical Shots were crafted to provide the full process of firing the cannons. While the Construction Kit comes with all the source material so that any sound you might want for further customization can be used.

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What we recorded

Creating such an extensive library of cannons is no easy thing. Accurate-to-the-era replicas had to be found, along with spaces that allowed the intense work that we needed to do. Luckily, the locations we found – a military base and an archery range – provided the perfect environment for our recording needs, creating the right reverb tails for any cannons featured in quality productions.

Cannons included:

16-pounder
18-pounder
30-pounder
Bombard
Burgundian 62

60 Caliber
Carronade
Culverin
Demi-cannon
Falconet

Long Gun
Loshult Arrow Gun
Mortar 45
Mortar 66
Mortar 80

But that’s not all. In the Construction Kit, we’ve also included impacts, mechanics, movements, flybys, and many more.

Impact materials included:

Wood
Metal
Concrete
Rock
Stone
Sail

Water
Dirt
Sand
Cloth
Debris
And more!

What makes Cannons special?

This cannon library stands alone as the most extensive of its kind. There are no other libraries out there that come loaded with such a long list of cannons, mechanical sounds, flybys, and impacts. All cannon blasts were made using accurate replicas – a necessity, since using original-period pieces would mean warped steel or other flaws leading to an inaccurate sound. Using replicas, the blasts sound just like they would have during their use.

26-CHANNEL MULTITRACK

We used a 26-channel microphone system to record CANNONS. This wide placement allows you to put the point of view almost anywhere in relation to the firing cannon. The 26 distinct channels are only available in the Construction Kit. In the Designed edition, we used various combinations of the 26-channel array to craft ready-to-use sounds in a variety of styles.

SCULPT THE SOUND

With so many available channels in your DAW, you can blend the various microphones to get the precise effect you're looking for. For example: Do you need a more mechanical sound? Simply boost the mic’s recording the mechanical aspects. Need something with more distance? The Sennheiser AMBEO VR Mic captured the sound from 100 meters away. With this set up, you have unlimited sonic possibilities.

Compatible Software

BOOM Library sound FX come as WAV files. This means you can import and work with them in any software that can handle this file type. Here are the most common audio and video editing software tools that work perfectly with our sound FX.

Most Common Audio Software

Logic Pro

Nuendo

Pro Tools

Cubase

Reaper

Ableton Live

Most Common Video Editing Software

Premiere Pro

Final Cut Pro

After Effects

Vegas Pro

Media Composer

Da Vinci Resolve

UCS Compatible Metadata embedded

To provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible, all files contain extensive metadata like file description & keywords. Metadata can be read and processed by audio management tools. Some digital audio workstations feature an included search tool that can also read embedded metadata. Here are the most common audio management tools:

Soundminer

Basehead

Soundly

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Cannons

BLAST THROUGH YOUR PRODUCTIONS

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What’s Inside

Cannons Construction Kit

Material Impacts

A Full Canonade

Let Freedom Ring

Technical Specifications – Edition: Construction Kit

Cannons Designed

A Cannon For Every Occasion

5 Sets Of Shots

True Drag-and-drop

Technical Specifications – Edition: Designed

Cannons

Technical Specifications – Edition: Bundle

What we recorded

Cannons included:

Impact materials included:

What makes Cannons special?

26-CHANNEL MULTITRACK

SCULPT THE SOUND

Compatible Software

Most Common Audio Software

Most Common Video Editing Software

UCS Compatible Metadata embedded

Royalty-Free License

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