If your next project contains some raw backyard brawls or some highly trained special agents beating the brakes off of each other, your search for high quality fight sounds is finally over. Our “CLOSE COMBAT“ SFX library is definitely the place to go when you‘re in need of flying fists and roundhouse kicks. Some say, probably no one can beat the quality of this library – well, except Chuck Norris, of course…
Fight! – The punchiest combat library on the planet
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Included sounds - keywords
fight sounds, grabs, cloth, falls, impacts, guts, squeezes, movements, punches, drops, rustling, fluttering, throws, kicks, hits, smacking, fighting, combat, close, slaps, voice, attacks, hard, shouts, screams, painful, hurts, harsh, whooshes, fast
Close Combat Construction Kit
Complete and production-ready
Equipped with a great variety of PUNCHES, SLAPS, KICKS, WHOOSHES, CLOTHES, BONE BREAKS, IMPACTS and more, this library is your perfect toolkit for designing your own unique, dramatic action fight scenes.
Be prepared for what it takes
Besides the visuals, the right sound design makes or breaks a good fight scene. Impressive punches and kicks need impressive sounds and sweeteners to bring a scene to life. With our “CLOSE COMBAT“ CONSTRUCTION KIT we make all these different fight sounds available to you.
Designed, Construction Kit, Bundle: What’s the difference?
Close Combat Designed
Quick and convincing sound design needed?
Our CLOSE COMBAT – DESIGNED SFX library puts you in the comfortable position to handle any sound design challenge with ease – in highspeed. Choose from a great selection of high-quality fight sounds, pre-designed by the award-winning BOOM sound design team.
Different intensities and 4 variations per sound
This library contains a vast variety of high quality PUNCHES, KICKS, GRABS, WHOOSHES, SLAPS, BONE BREAKS reaching from soft to very hard intensity. Each file contains four variations of a single sound. All sound effects were designed using only the source files of the “CLOSE COMBAT“ CONSTRUCTION KIT.
Designed, Construction Kit, Bundle: What’s the difference?
Close Combat Bundle
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.
Designed, Construction Kit, Bundle: What’s the difference?
What's so special about this library?
Anyone designing for melee combat can tell you a thing or two about the amount of work and effort that goes into recording, processing and timing the material – and how hard it is to get those meaty punches and swift whooshes just right. Our CLOSE COMBAT fight sounds not only save you days upon days of production time, but because of their outstanding quality, they also take your sound design to and beyond the very level of Hollywood-grade action titles.
What our clients think about Close Combat
From time to time our clients directly approach us to tell us what they especially like about a specific sound pack.
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Close Combat is a great addition to my library. Lots of separate fight elements which you can combine into big custom designed body hits. Recorded at a high resolution so you can pitch and stretch the hell out of them without getting artifacts. A must buy!
How to Get Away With Murder, The Catch, Still Star-Crossed
BOOM libraries have quickly become an integral part of my sound fx library. The Close Combat library has made its way into every fight scene in 'Scandal', 'How To Get Away With Murder' and 'The Catch'. The fight cloth fx work great to glue a fight together and the designed impacts come in very handy on short turnovers when time is scarce. Â BOOM's recording quality and metadata is top notch!
Captain America: The First Avenger, RED 2: The Best Never Rest, Cinderella Man, Angels and Demons, Twisted etc.
I use BOOM libraries in my projects almost daily. My work on "TURN" used Historical Firearms almost exclusively for weapons. Now I'm working on "NCIS: New Orleans", in which I'continue to use Historical Firearms for gun design, as well as Close Combat and Magic for various fight and design moments. They are a great addition to my library, and a "go to" for anything that I need that sounds huge and clean (which is just about everything!)
Mulholland Drive, The Descendants, Twilight etc.
I finished an epic film Dracula the Dark Prince. A direct to video action pack starring Jon Voight as Van Helsing. The film required the intense use of the MEDIEVAL WEAPONS, CLOSE COMBAT, HORSES, CREATURES, WILDCATS, CINEMATIC TRAILERS, CINEMATIC HITS and CINEMATIC METAL. My goal was to make this film sound like a very expensive movie without having the big studio film budget at my disposal and the BOOM libraries help me achieve that. The quality and the power of the BOOM libraries make it fairly easy to create great sound designs by either using the already prepared sound or the Construction Kit. The sounds are fantastic and I always start using the BOOM libraries over anything else.
Guardians of The Galaxy, Lost In Oz, Dead Bullet etc.
The sounds of each library work brilliantly with my projects. Since the quality is so high, it's very easy for me to add lots of processing/pitch shifting to help create even more unique sounds. I use a lot of the Magic bundle, Mechanicals, Creatures, Destruction, Sci-Fi, Cinematic Hits, Cinematic Metal, Cinematic Trailers, Close Combat, Everyday Cars, and Medieval Weapons. As you can see, I owe a lot of my success to the amazing tools BOOM has provided me!
Compatible Software
BOOM Library sound FX come as WAV files, meaning 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
Audio Software
- Logic Pro
- Cubase
- Nuendo
- Ableton Live
- Pro Tools
- Reaper
Video Editing Software
- Premiere Pro
- Final Cut Pro X
- After Effects
- Vegas Pro
- Media Composer
Rich Metadata Embedded
To provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible, all files contain extensive metadata like file description & keywords to quickly find the sounds you’re looking for. 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