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USAT BOMB.wav

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sandyrb

June 3rd, 2007

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Sound effects > Natural elements and explosions
Grantham, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom

Recording of an actual explosion in the Vale Of Belvoir, Leicestershire UK, in about 1988. There was a thick fog at the time which added a very pleasing natural reverb effect. The explosive device was a small steel cylinder filled with black powder and placed under a fallen tree. This source was captured using a Phillips cassette recorder and digitised some years later.

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cannon
cinematic
echo
explode
exploded
exploding
explosion
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field-recording
fog
grenade
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leicestershire
military
ordnance
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thunder
thundering
war

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

0:05.644

File size

972.4 KB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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sandyrb

17 years, 10 months ago

Yes, quite unprocessed. You can thank the trees for the early reflections and the fog for the decay. Actually it was necessary to fade the reverb early because of someone laughing on the original tape. :-)

Thanks for all the kind comments!
Cheers,
Sandy.

S
Simon_Lacelle

17 years, 10 months ago

Wow, perfect sound! Exactly what I needed! But is that unprocessed? I can't believe it the reverb is so damn good.

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arifd

17 years, 11 months ago

sharp, transient explosion. will serve as a good basis for my synthesis. cheers

G
geoffamongkings

17 years, 11 months ago

exactly what i was looking for!

C
Co3

18 years ago

Nice.. not exactly what I was looking for but still great!

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