Sound effects tag

Combat Sound Effects

Combat sound effects for every kind of fight, from bare knuckles to a full battlefield. Punches and body hits. Weapon swings, and the clang when blades meet. Gunfire, bullet whizzes and explosions for the modern side, spell casts for the fantasy side, and medieval battles recorded with real actors charging and shouting. Nothing gentle here.

Libraries
103
Publishers
34
Formats
Mono, stereo, surround
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$9 to $399.99
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Recorded or designed
RecordedDesigned

Recorded means captured in the field or a studio. Designed means built from other material.

Channel format
MonoStereoM/SSurroundAmbisonic

Mono for 3D positional audio. Ambisonic and surround for immersive mixes.

Embedded metadata
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Soundminer and UCS fields written into the files.

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All 103 libraries tagged Combat

44.1 to 48 kHz, 16 to 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
This collection contains 430 hand-to-hand combat sound effects, featuring a variety of punches, body hits, smashes, and impacts without weapons or armor.
430 files · 64.1 MB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
High-fidelity sound effects captured from Dassault Rafale jets blend with futuristic interfaces, explosions, and sci-fi weaponry across 154 meticulously engineered recordings inspired by modern cinema.
153 files · 618 MB

Combat sound gets built in layers. A single Punch on screen is often a whoosh and an impact, with something crunchy on top when it needs to hurt. That's why so many of these libraries split the parts: swings, hits, scrapes and gore as separate files you can stack. Melee gets the most attention, with Sword clashes and shield blocks. Ranged combat brings gunshots and bullets hitting different surfaces, and the fantasy sets add spells that hit like weapons. Fighting games, shooters, RPGs and action films all use them. Variation matters. Hear the same hit over and over and the fight falls apart.

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