Sound effects tag

Crack Sound Effects

Crack sound effects in every material that can split, snap or give way. Branches snapping underfoot, timber splintering, ice popping on a frozen lake, rock breaking apart, bones taking a hit in a fight. Then the big ones: thunder ripping across the sky, a rifle shot echoing off the hills. Short and sharp. A good crack is over in a flash, which is exactly why it cuts through a busy mix.

Libraries
153
Publishers
76
Formats
Mono, stereo, M/S, surround, ambisonic
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$3.50 to $499
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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
Tagged for Soundminer or UCSUntagged

Soundminer and UCS fields written into the files.

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All 153 libraries tagged Crack

96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono.
Glass cracking sound effects recorded at 96 kHz / 24-bit in a professional Foley studio, covering slow tension builds, window cracks with impact, pressure squeaks, floe crackles, and loose shards.
121 files · 131.6 MB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Natural ice sound effects, featuring 312 high-quality recordings of cracking, crunching, and breaking elements, captured in 24-bit/96kHz for authentic frozen water ambience in films and games.
312 files · 587 MB
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono.
Glass smashing sound effects across 279 UCS-compliant files covering cracking, shattering, window breaks, pressure and tension builds, loose shards and bottle smashes, recorded dry in a pro foley studio.
279 files · 258 MB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono.
Car window glass sound effects recorded in a Foley studio from real car doors and windshields, covering smashes, tension cracks, falling shards, debris sprinkles, scrapes, and metal tool impacts.
188 files · 240 MB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Thunderstorm sound effects captured at near, medium, and far distances, including claps, cracks, pealing rumbles, and rain falling on stone, leaves, and metal railings in urban settings, recorded at 96kHz.
70 files · 874 MB · Metadata
48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Electric burst sound effects across 300+ files including Tesla coil arcs, spark discharges, degraded impacts, glitch alarms, warped tape movements, aggressive whooshes, electro pulses, and electromagnetic rises.
300 files · 625 MB
-50%
48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Underwater ice creak sound effects recorded on frozen lakes with an Aquarian H2d hydrophone and Schoeps CCM4, featuring resonant fractures, tension cracks, impacts, and debris in surface, hydrophone, and mixed perspectives.
52 files · 800 MB · Metadata
44.1 kHz, 16-bit. Formats: Stereo.
This library of character sound effects features movement and combat audio, including footsteps on various terrains, body hits, punches, kicks, bone breaks, and weapon thrusts.
117 files · 28.2 MB
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
This library provides Christmas cracker sound effects, including grabs, hits, movements, pulls with and without bangs, snaps, and paper hat handling and rips.
154 files · 151.7 MB · Metadata
-28%
48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono.
This library contains 104 sound effects for crafting and building, featuring tool interactions, wood impacts, structure construction and destruction, and detailed Foley.
104 files · 38 MB
Was $25.00, now $18.00
Add Build & Craft to cart
-25%
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
This library contains 82 wooden sound effects, including hits, creaks, scrapes, slides, shakes, rummage, textures, and collapses recorded from raw timber.
82 files · 117 MB
Was $10.00, now $7.50
Add Woodpile Chaos to cart

A crack lives in its opening milliseconds, the bright transient before any rumble or tail, so the material matters more than the size. Dry wood gives a sharp, splintery snap. Green branches bend, then tear. Ice Crack recordings have that strange, laser-like ping that zips across the ice. Rock is dull and gritty, and usually brings Debris with it. The libraries here cover all of that and more, from foley fights and wood breaks to thunder, destruction and paper and cardboard tearing. Sound designers stack a clean crack on top of a heavier Crunch to make an impact feel solid. They get used in horror for bone breaks, in games for breakable props, and in films for every storm and every tree that comes down.

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