SOUND DESIGN MATTERS
The sound of battle isn’t just weapons clashing — it’s the voices, cries, and groans that bring the chaos to life. CROWDS – WAR & BATTLE delivers professional crowd recordings featuring both male and female actors, capturing the raw emotion and energy of combat. From rallying cries over visceral struggle to crowd cheering sound effects, this library immerses your audience in the human side of battle crowd noise.
Recorded with male and female actors, this library captures a dynamic range of human reactions. From shouts of triumph to desperate screams and panicked cries, every sound embodies the raw emotion of combat.
Perfect for medieval battle sound, viking sound effects and fantasy war sound effects, CROWDS – WAR & BATTLE is equally at home in modern or futuristic settings. Whether it’s a crowded marketplace descending into chaos or a full-scale battle, this library adapts to any environment.
Designed to complement BOOM Library’s iconic weapon libraries, such as Medieval Weapons or Historical Firearms, this library forms a cohesive toolkit for cinematic-quality soundscapes for your movie, TV show, or game.
Recorded outside the studio in optimal environments, the sounds in this library are captured with BOOM Library’s signature attention to detail. Every file is Hollywood quality production-ready, ensuring seamless integration into your workflow.
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From triumph to desperation, anger to fear, the recordings capture the emotional depth of combat. These layers bring tension and drama to every scene you craft. Among others, the following Emotions are featured in the library: Agony, Moan, Fear, Pain, Celebrate, Fight, Beg, Death, Protest, Work, War Cry
Whether you need intimate skirmishes or immersive battles, this library offers sounds to fit every scale, all perfectly edited and ready for immediate use. It features single highlight voices as well as huge crowd background washes to offer an unmatched scalability.
Creating CROWDS – WAR & BATTLE was quite challenging, because in order to be able to achieve the flexibility we tested for years how to combine most effectively very granular recordings with actually complete crowds. Eventually we started by recording a vast collection of single voice one-shots with local actors, capturing everything from attack shouts to pain and fear screams.
These raw performances became the foundation for creating dynamic sequences and group shouts of varying intensities, sizes, and distances using various methods of processing. To get a more open spacing and reflections, we recorded a group of actors in the field, separating male and female actors to make it as versatile as possible. We positioned different mic setups for multiple distances and perspectives.
We also recorded big stadium crowds and riots and used this material to create realistic background “wash” layers, which can be used highly controllable to get the realistic depth of such huge crowds. The result is a versatile Battle Crowds Toolbox, giving you all the building blocks — individual voices, different group sizes, intensities, mic positions, and a vast amount of different actions to craft the perfect battle scene for your project.
CROWDS – WAR & BATTLE stands out for its versatility and depth, giving you full control over your battle crowd sound design. It combines real outdoor group recordings — captured with a 22-channel mic setups for different perspectives — with expertly crafted assembled groups that offer a range of sizes, distances, and intensities. This ensures you get both authenticity and flexibility in your mix.
Additionally, a dedicated set of single voices allows you to highlight key moments, like a lone warrior’s scream or a panicked shouts cutting through the chaos. By layering these elements, you can build anything from an intimate skirmish to a full-scale war, making it perfect for films, games, and immersive battle scenes. For the best results, start with the assembled groups as your foundation, enhance realism with the outdoor recordings, and use single voices to add detail and impact where needed.
Whether you’re designing for film, TV, or games, the library is a solution tailored for professional use. Pair it with other BOOM Library products to create immersive combat soundscapes that captivate audiences and enhance storytelling.
Explore six great battle scenes in movies and TV, from 300 to The Lord of The Rings, and learn how the use of crowd and vocal elements played a key part in making them legendary in this in-depth article.
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:
Logic Pro
Cubase
Nuendo
Ableton Live
Pro Tools
Reaper
Premiere Pro
Final Cut Pro X
After Effects
Vegas Pro
Media ComposerTo 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
Universal Category System 
Crowds – War & Battle is part of the Signature Series Bundle. By purchasing the Signature Series Bundle, you save thousands of dollars compared to buying each of the 96 packs individually. This bundle offers exceptional value, making high-quality sound design accessible at a fraction of the cost.
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We differentiate between sound FX and sound file. Each sound file can contain multiple variations of a sound (up to 6 variations based on the product).
That way, we assure to provide you with different styles of a single sound in one file instead of multiple files, keeping your database nice and clear and speeding up your workflow as you have multiple variations available by dragging only one file to your audio host software.
Having multiple variations of a single sound effect also guarantees you a less repetitive overall soundscape when using the effect multiple times in a row or over and over again in several projects.
