Explosion Sound Effects

The definition of an explosion sounds like this: 'An explosion is a rapid increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner, usually with the generation of high temperatures. And so on...' In short, an explosion is a very loud noise, created if you blow something up. On this page from the Avosound Online Sound Effects Library, we have a closer look on explosion sound effects, how to record them without loosing finger, arms or even your life.

Explosion Sounds Effects - Read this first

If you plan to record explosion sounds, keep in mind that an explosion can kill you. So, if you do not want to drastically shorten your lifetime, or you do not want to life without helpful things like fingers, hands, feet, arms or the ability to hear, ask someone who knows what he is doing and focus yourself on your recording! Avosound is not responsible for the above.mentioned losses of beloved body parts, your ability to hear, beloved humans like your husband, wife or anyone else. Explosions are dangerous and can be extremely loud. So if you are a pyrotechnic enthusiast but do not want to shorten your lifetime, we highly recommend our explosion sound effects archive with lots of great recordings with explosion sound effects, blast and detonations.

Explosion Sound Effects - An Overview

The Avosound Sound Effects Library features a large collection of explosion sound effects, blasts and detonation or different intensities and varying sizes - without bringing anyone in danger! Military equipment often provides the source of classic explosion sound effects. Shots from big cannons or guns from tanks or ships provide a good basic sound to use for explosion sound effects.

Blasts vs Explosion Sounds

When using explosion sound effects as a sound editor, we distinguish between blasts and explosions. The character of an explosion sound effect usually should be a pure explosion to underlay a secondary explosion sound to create a bigger or more intense explosion sound effect. This technique is called layering sounds. Sound effects and sound recordings of blasts are often mixed with debris, for example when blasting a building that collapses.

The Sound of Explosion

In this section we consider the pure acoustic event of an explosion without its moral or ethical intent. The original sound of an recording from an explosion often does not meet the expectations from an audience. Therefore, the sound fo an exploding bomb is usually a creation of various sounds, layered and mixed together in post production to create the impact and intense of a massive explosions.

Explosion sound effect often are recorded by extra sound recordings. For this purpose, a professional pyrotechnician uses appropriate material to create a strong and loud explosion blast to get a realistic explosion sound effect. The sound of an explosion, we want to use in cinema should be strong and loud, a sharp attack and lot's of low end. To record an explosion sound effect with all those elements in it is probably not possible, so cutting them together with different elements that combine those elements gives you the necessary size of your explosion sound effect you want. This techique is called: Layering of Sounds and you will find an article about this in the article section of the Avosound website.

Avosound Explosion Sound Effects

The Soundstorm and Sounddogs sound libraries contains a wide variety of all kind of explosion sound effects. No matter if you want to blow up a house, tower or a whole landscape, you will find the appropriate sound material (If you want to blow ap something in real life, please read the Appendix below). Explosion sound effects with a sharp attack creates the the illusion of a close an strong explosion. If you want to make it bigger, add another explosion sound effect with a 'strong body' to the sharp attack. With 'strong body' we mean a general loud explosion sound with lots of low end. And if you want to have your explosion sound more in the distance, reduce the sharp attack and add a reverberant explosion sound effect with natural echos to the track. By plain around with the sound level of two or three explosion sound effects, you can create your individual explosion sound from the size and perspective you need.

Finish Edited Explosion Sound Effects

The Avosound Online Sound Library provides you a great selection of explosion sound effects from the size and perspective you need. You will find explosion effects with debris, simple explosion sound effects from small size, explosion from black powder bombs, pipe bomb explosion sounds up to massive destruction of an atomic bomb. Also there are other syles of explosion sound effects like gas explosion. Gas explosion sounds different than powder explosion. Gas or explosion from liquids like petrol or diesel creates a fireball with a large whoosh. Also this styles of explosion sound effects can be found in the online library as finish tracks or as sound elements.

Explosion Sounds - Appendix

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Library Waveform Filename add Description info Channels Duration ShortID Category Subcategory
1 SoundStorm Library SoundDesign-ShotBurst_2.wav Sound Design - Shot Burst
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2.0 0:01

Explosion

Burst

2 SoundStorm Library SoundDesign-ShotWDecay_1.wav Sound Design - Shot W Decay
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2.0 0:05Explosion Burst
3 SoundStorm Library SoundDesign-ShotBurst_4.wav Sound Design - Shot Burst
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2.0 0:01Explosion Burst
4 SoundStorm Library SoundDesign-ShotWDecay_3.wav Sound Design - Shot W Decay
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2.0 0:08Explosion Burst
5 SoundStorm Library SoundDesign-ShotBurst.wav Sound Design - Shot Burst
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2.0 0:01Explosion Burst
6 SoundStorm Library SoundDesign-ShotWDecay.wav Sound Design - Shot W Decay
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2.0 0:05Explosion Burst
7 SoundStorm Library SoundDesign-ShotBurst_3.wav Sound Design - Shot Burst
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2.0 0:01Explosion Burst
8 SoundStorm Library SoundDesign-ShotWDecay_2.wav Sound Design - Shot W Decay
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2.0 0:06Explosion Burst
9 SoundStorm Library SoundDesign-ShotBurst_1.wav Sound Design - Shot Burst
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2.0 0:01Explosion Burst
10 SoundStorm Library SoundDesign-CannonShots-MCU.wav Sound Design - Cannon Shots - MCU - Thunderous Bang, Reverberant, Several Shots
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2.0 0:14Explosion Cannon Military
11 Sonopedia ExplosionCrash_S08WA.133.wav Warfare, Explosion, Crash, Debris, Large, Military
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2.0 0:05Explosion Explosion
12 SoundStorm Library Explosions-ArtilleryShell_7.wav Explosions - Artillery Shell Explode - C U - Explode W Debris
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2.0 0:11Explosion Explosion
13 Sonopedia ExplosionBlast_S08WA.117.wav Warfare, Explosion, Blast, Large, Military
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2.0 0:09Explosion Explosion
14 Sonopedia MolotovCocktail_S08WA.1394.wav Warfare, Molotov, Cocktail, Glass, Fireball, Explosion, Fire
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2.0 0:05Explosion Explosion
15 Sonopedia GrenadeExplosion_S08WA.218.wav Warfare, Grenade, Explosion
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2.0 0:02Explosion Explosion
16 SoundStorm Library Explosions-ArtilleryShot-MC.wav Explosions - Artillery Shot - MCU To Distant - Shell Whine Whistle, Distant Whump Of Artillery Shot, With C U Incomming Shriek
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1.0 1:18Explosion Explosion
17 Sonopedia ExplosionBlast_S08WA.121.wav Warfare, Explosion, Blast, Military, Black, Powder, Large, Distant, Artillery, Shell, Military
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2.0 0:07Explosion Explosion
18 SoundStorm Library Explosions-2PoundExplosio_1.wav Explosions - 2 Pound Explosion - C U - Medium W Echoey Decay
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2.0 0:06Explosion Explosion
19 Sonopedia GrenadeExplosion_S08WA.222.wav Warfare, Grenade, Explosion, Blast
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2.0 0:02Explosion Explosion
20 Sonopedia ExplosionMilitary_S08WA.141.wav Warfare, Explosion, Military, Blast, Trail, Off, Military
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2.0 0:03Explosion Explosion
21 Sounddogs Sound Library Rumble,Explosive,Approach2.wav Explosion: Rumble Explosive Approach 2
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2.0 0:02Explosion Explosion
22 Sonopedia ExplosionBlast_S08WA.125.wav Warfare, Explosion, Blast, Military, Black, Powder, Large, Military
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2.0 0:06Explosion Explosion
23 SoundStorm Library Explosions-ArtilleryShell_1.wav Explosions - Artillery Shell Launch And Explode - Distant To C U - Launch, Whiz By And Explode W Debris
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2.0 0:15Explosion Explosion
24 Sonopedia ExplosionBlast_S08WA.111.wav Warfare, Explosion, Blast, Debris, Hard, Military
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2.0 0:04Explosion Explosion
25 Sonopedia GrenadeExplosion_S08WA.226.wav Warfare, Grenade, Explosion, Debris, Blast
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2.0 0:02Explosion Explosion
26 Sonopedia ExplosionMultiple_S08WA.145.wav Warfare, Explosion, Multiple, Debris, Blasts, Military
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2.0 0:12Explosion Explosion
27 Sounddogs Sound Library Rumble,Oscillating,Subsonic.wav Explosion: Rumble Oscillating Subsonic
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2.0 1:01Explosion Explosion
28 Sonopedia ExplosionCrash_S08WA.131.wav Warfare, Explosion, Crash, Debris, Large, Military
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2.0 0:06Explosion Explosion
29 SoundStorm Library Explosions-ArtilleryShell_5.wav Explosions - Artillery Shell Explode - C U - Explode W Debris
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2.0 0:15Explosion Explosion
30 Sonopedia ExplosionBlast_S08WA.115.wav Warfare, Explosion, Blast, Large, Demolition, Blast, Trail, Off, Military
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2.0 0:08Explosion Explosion
31 Sonopedia GrenadeExplosion_S08WA.230.wav Warfare, Grenade, Explosion, Dirt, Debris
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2.0 0:03Explosion Explosion
32 Sonopedia ExplosionsDistant_S08WA.149.wav Warfare, Explosions, Distant, Military, Ambience, Battlefield, War, Fire, Loop, Military
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2.0 2:20Explosion Explosion
33 SoundStorm Library Explosions-ArtilleryShellEx.wav Explosions - Artillery Shell Explode - C U - Explode W Whiz
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2.0 0:14Explosion Explosion
34 Sonopedia ExplosionBlast_S08WA.119.wav Warfare, Explosion, Blast, Large, Trail, Off, Military
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2.0 0:10Explosion Explosion
35 SoundStorm Library Explosions-1PoundExplosion-.wav Explosions - 1 Pound Explosion - C U - Medium W Echoey Decay
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2.0 0:09Explosion Explosion
36 Sonopedia ExplosionAuto_S08WA.129.wav Warfare, Explosion, Car, Metal, Debris, Military, Autos
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2.0 0:07Explosion Explosion
37 Sonopedia GrenadeExplosion_S08WA.220.wav Warfare, Grenade, Explosion, Blast
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2.0 0:02Explosion Explosion
38 Sonopedia ExplosionGas_S08WA.139.wav Warfare, Explosion, Gas, Station, Building, Fireball, Fire, Military
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2.0 1:00Explosion Explosion
39 Sounddogs Sound Library Rumble,Explosive,Approach,L.wav Explosion: Rumble Explosive Approach Lo
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2.0 0:05Explosion Explosion
40 Sonopedia ExplosionBlast_S08WA.123.wav Warfare, Explosion, Blast, Military, Black, Powder, Large, Distant, Military
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2.0 0:05Explosion Explosion
41 SoundStorm Library Explosions-2PoundExplosion-.wav Explosions - 2 Pound Explosion - C U - Medium W Echoey Decay
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2.0 0:07Explosion Explosion
42 Sonopedia ExplosionBlast_S08WA.109.wav Warfare, Explosion, Blast, Close, Up, C-4, Plastic, Debris, Long, Military
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2.0 0:09Explosion Explosion
43 Sonopedia GrenadeExplosion_S08WA.224.wav Warfare, Grenade, Explosion, Debris, Blast
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2.0 0:02Explosion Explosion
44 Sonopedia ExplosionMilitary_S08WA.143.wav Warfare, Explosion, Military, Blast, Trail, Off, Military
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2.0 0:10Explosion Explosion
45 Sounddogs Sound Library Rumble,Gurgling,Low,Bubbles.wav Explosion: Rumble Gurgling Low Bubbles
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2.0 0:11Explosion Explosion
46 Sonopedia ExplosionBlast_S08WA.127.wav Warfare, Explosion, Blast, Military, Hard, Military
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2.0 0:05Explosion Explosion
47 SoundStorm Library Explosions-ArtilleryShell_3.wav Explosions - Artillery Shell Explode - C U - Explode W Debris
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2.0 0:11Explosion Explosion
48 Sonopedia ExplosionBlast_S08WA.113.wav Warfare, Explosion, Blast, Large, Demolition, Blast, Trail, Off, Distant, Military
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2.0 0:12Explosion Explosion
49 Sonopedia GrenadeExplosion_S08WA.228.wav Warfare, Grenade, Explosion, Debris, Blast
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2.0 0:03Explosion Explosion
50 Sonopedia ExplosionOilDrum_S08WA.147.wav Warfare, Explosion, Oil, Drum, 55, Gallon, Metal, Flame, Blast, Military
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2.0 0:06Explosion Explosion
51 Sounddogs Sound Library Rumble,Volcano,Swell,Soft.wav Explosion: Rumble Volcano Swell Soft
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2.0 0:10Explosion Explosion
52 SoundStorm Library Explosions-WindExplosion-Sw.wav Explosions - Wind Explosion - Swish Rolls By
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1.0 0:29Explosion Explosion
53 Sounddogs Sound Library Explosion,Wood,Large,Short.wav Explosion: Explosion Wood Large Short
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2.0 0:03Explosion Explosion
54 SoundStorm Library Explosions-LowEndExploWRoll.wav Explosions - Low End Explo W Rolling Echo - Rumbly, Static-like Debris Spray On Some, Good Debris On Others
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2.0 0:24Explosion Explosion
55 SoundStorm Library Explosions-BuildingDemoliti.wav Explosions - Building Demolition W Countdown x2, Good Debris Spray
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1.0 0:42Explosion Explosion
56 Sounddogs Sound Library Explosion,Roar,Debris.wav Explosion: Explosion Roar Debris
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1.0 0:03Explosion Explosion
57 SoundStorm Library Explosions-HugeWoodCrashOrE.wav Explosions - Huge Wood Crash Or Explosion - C U - Abrupt, Whissing Before Impact, No Reverberation, Large Wood Chunks Fall As Debris
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2.0 0:18Explosion Explosion
58 Sounddogs Sound Library Explosion,Huge,Roar,Rumble.wav Explosion: Explosion Huge Roar Rumble
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2.0 0:13Explosion Explosion
59 SoundStorm Library Explosions-ShortLowEndThuds.wav Explosions - Short Low End Thuds - Short Muffled Low Booms Designed To Sub-Woofer Sweetening Of Explosions Or Fireworks
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2.0 0:46Explosion Explosion
60 BBC Sound Effects Library Explosions.BBC.ECD18e.wav 81mm Medium Mortar, Firing Multiple High Explosive And Smoke Charges, Explosions After 0m21s. (Distant Perspective.)
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2.0 0:38Explosion Explosion
61 SoundStorm Library Explosions-Fireworks-CU-F_2.wav Explosions - Fireworks - CU - Firecracker Explosion
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2.0 0:01Explosion Explosion
62 SoundStorm Library Explosions-MiscellaneousExp.wav Explosions - Miscellaneous Explosions - Explosive Debris Hit And Whoosh - Large Booming Explosion, Followed By Stereo Whoosh And Raining Debris
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2.0 0:14Explosion Explosion
63 Coll Anderson Sound Library EFX Bathroom Debris 02.wav Debris, Interior, Medicine Cabinet Items Fall Into Sink And Floor Of Bathroom
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2.0 0:02Explosion Explosion
64 SoundStorm Library Explosions-ExplosionSweet_1.wav Explosions - Explosion Sweetener - Distant - For Bazooka Or Rocket Blast
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2.0 0:12Explosion Explosion
65 Sounddogs Sound Library Explosions,Slow,Muffle,AmmoDump.wav Explosion: Explosions Slow Muffle AmmoDump
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1.0 0:40Explosion Explosion
66 SoundStorm Library Explosions-LowPercussionExp.wav Explosions - Low Percussion Explosions - Medium Distant - 3 Booming Blasts
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2.0 0:20Explosion Explosion
67 Sounddogs Sound Library Explosion,Sand,Debris,Fall.wav Explosion: Explosion Sand Debris Fall
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2.0 0:12Explosion Explosion
68 Sounddogs Sound Library Explosion,Debris,Wood,Glass.wav Explosion: Explosion Debris Wood Glass
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1.0 0:07Explosion Explosion
69 SoundStorm Library Explosions-LargeContinuingE.wav Explosions - Large Continuing Explosions - CU - Prison Explosions
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1.0 0:51Explosion Explosion
70 Sounddogs Sound Library Explosion,Large,Metallic,Echo.wav Explosion: Explosion Large Metallic Echo
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2.0 0:05Explosion Explosion
71 BBC Sound Effects Library Explosions.BBC.ECD71b.wav Warfare, World War II: Small Explosions With Reverberation (reprocessed)
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2.0 2:01Explosion Explosion
72 SoundStorm Library Explosions-SlowedDownEarthq.wav Explosions - Slowed Down Earthquake Explosion - Large Rumbling Explosion, Good Debris Fallout, Multiple Takes
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1.0 0:55Explosion Explosion
73 SoundStorm Library Explosions-Fireworks-CU-Mag.wav Explosions - Fireworks - CU - Magic Poofs
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2.0 0:13Explosion Explosion
74 BBC Historical Sound Effects Library SingleP_BBC-Historical_B 7.wav Single Pistol Shot - Interior (from 78 Disc)
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2.0 0:11Explosion Explosion
75 SoundStorm Library Explosions-Primacord-Deep_1.wav Explosions - Primacord - Deep Kaboom - Mutiple Blast, Reverb - Channel 01 L And 02 R
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2.0 0:12Explosion Explosion
76 Coll Anderson Sound Library EFX Bathroom Debris 07.wav Debris, Interior, Medicine Cabinet Items Fall Into Sink And Floor Of Bathroom
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2.0 0:02Explosion Explosion
77 SoundStorm Library Explosions-ExplosionSweet_5.wav Explosions - Explosion Sweetener - Distant - For Bazooka Or Rocket Blast
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2.0 0:20Explosion Explosion
78 Sounddogs Sound Library Implosion,Short,Blunt,Med.wav Explosion: Implosion Short Blunt Med
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2.0 0:01Explosion Explosion
79 SoundStorm Library Explosions-Blasts-CU-VeryGo.wav Explosions - Blasts - C U - Very Good, Various, Pack Of Concussive Select And Composites
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2.0 0:30Explosion Explosion
80 SoundStorm Library Explosions-Metal-MCU-Medi_3.wav Explosions - Metal - MCU - Medium Explosion, Deep Boom Thud With Metal Vibrations, Crashing, Metal Squeaking With Strain
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2.0 0:26Explosion Explosion
81 SoundStorm Library Explosions-DetonatorCordWit.wav Explosions - Detonator Cord With Metal Ring - C U - Great, Booming, Debris With Metal, Explosions Sweetenter
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2.0 0:12Explosion Explosion
82 SoundStorm Library Explosions-LargeExplosionWM.wav Explosions - Large Explosion W Metal And Other Debris - C U - Deep Rumbling, Hissy, Lots Of Debris Spray, Variety Of Explosions And BG Debris
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2.0 2:18Explosion Explosion
83 Sounddogs Sound Library Explosion,Magic,Swirls,Low.wav Explosion: Explosion Magic Swirls Low
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2.0 0:13Explosion Explosion
84 SoundStorm Library Explosions-SmallToMediumDis.wav Explosions - Small To Medium Distant Explosions- Deep, Rumbling, Good Light Debris Spray,
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2.0 0:27Explosion Explosion
85 SoundStorm Library Explosions-Primacord-Deep_5.wav Explosions - Primacord - Deep Kaboom - Mutiple Blast, Reverb - Channel 01 L And 02 R
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2.0 0:12Explosion Explosion
86 Sounddogs Sound Library Rumble,Explosive,Approach_2.wav Explosion: Rumble Explosive Approach
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2.0 0:05Explosion Explosion
87 SoundStorm Library Explosions-Blasts-MediumDis.wav Explosions - Blasts - Medium Distant - Various, Punchy Explosions
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2.0 0:29Explosion Explosion
88 SoundStorm Library Explosions-MiscellaneousE_2.wav Explosions - Miscellaneous Explosions - Explosive Debris Hit And Whoosh - Large Booming Explosion, Followed By Stereo Whoosh And Raining Debris
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2.0 0:11Explosion Explosion
89 SoundStorm Library Explosions-VariousLargeExpl.wav Explosions - Various Large Explosions - C U - Low, Reverberant Explosions, Various Pitches And Lengths, Soft Attack
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2.0 0:31Explosion Explosion
90 Sounddogs Sound Library Explosion,Wood,Debris,Fall.wav Explosion: Explosion Wood Debris Fall
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2.0 0:14Explosion Explosion
91 BBC Sound Effects Library Explosions.BBC.ECD18b.wav Gelignite, Three 8oz Sticks Explode At 20 Feet.
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2.0 0:03Explosion Explosion
92 SoundStorm Library Explosions-LowEndConcussive.wav Explosions - Low End Concussive Booms - Going From Left Channel - Right Channel With Echo, Different Delay Times And Various Explosion Combinations
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2.0 1:24Explosion Explosion
93 Sounddogs Sound Library Explosion,Multiple,Thin,Delay.wav Explosion: Explosion Multiple Thin Delay
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2.0 0:02Explosion Explosion
94 SoundStorm Library Explosions-HowitzerBlast-Me.wav Explosions - Howitzer Blast - Medium Distant - Concussion, Reverby, Good As Weapon Or Impact Sweetener
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2.0 0:33Explosion Explosion
95 SoundStorm Library Explosions-BlastWithDebris-.wav Explosions - Blast With Debris - MCU - Cannon Like Blast Ring With Concussion, Dirt Shower Decay, Each Slightly Different
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2.0 0:19Explosion Explosion
96 SoundStorm Library Explosions-EchoeyBoom-MCU-V.wav Explosions - Echoey Boom - MCU - Very Good, Series Of Large Crashes With Percussive Explosion Like Reverberations And Occasional Debris
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2.0 1:09Explosion Explosion
97 Sounddogs Sound Library Explosions,Short,Many,Delay.wav Explosion: Explosions Short Many Delay
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2.0 0:05Explosion Explosion
98 SoundStorm Library Explosions-LowEndImplosions.wav Explosions - Low End Implosions - Distant - Deep Rumbling, Solid, Some Debris Spray
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2.0 0:24Explosion Explosion
99 SoundStorm Library Explosions-CarExplosion-ECU.wav Explosions - Car Explosion - ECU - First Take W Good Debris , Second Take Long Explosion
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2.0 0:11Explosion Explosion
100 Sounddogs Sound Library Explosion,Rumble,Build,Erupt2.wav Explosion: Explosion Rumble Build Erupt
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2.0 0:36Explosion Explosion