Combustion is a sound effects library exploding with combustible sound design material.
This collection encompasses explosions, chemical reactions, fires, and various other forms of combustion. It provides a vast scope of sound design elements for weapons, whooshes, vehicles, impacts, and so much more.
What’s included?
- Hail Cannon
- Whoosh Bottles
- Roaring Pipes
- Growling Tubes
- Visco Fuses
- Pulse Jet Jars
- Large Blow Torch
- Ammonium Dichromate
- Gas Heater
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This amazing vortex cannon creates jaw-dropping sounds, and does so with incredible power. It ignites oxy-acetylene gas and releases the exploding gasses through a specially shaped barrel to create invisible vortex rings that blare and whistle up through the atmosphere. Designed to disrupt the formation of hail via shock waves, it’s owner compared it to a large Howitzer cannon without the ammo. This beast is captured from four perspectives. Each one is available in raw and sweetened forms in addition to the full mix of microphones, allowing great flexibility in your design projects.
Whoosh Bottles take advantage of more controlled combustion by only allowing gas to enter and exit through a single vent. The dance of the combustion’s gasses escaping while air attempts to enter to feed the fire results in unique sounding resonant whooshes and fluttering from each container. From a massive metal barrel to a small can… a huge glass jug, to tiny bottles… these whoosh bottles are amazing sound design material.
Combusting fumes in pipes results in some crazy sounding roars. With various lengths, diameters, and materials… there’s a wide variety of material to work with here. Crackly and gritty roars. Long resonant bassy groans. Massive whooshes. It’s all there begging to be molded into your next creature or designed pass-by.
How do you make a tube growl? Methylacetylene-propadiene propane, of course 😀 This incredibly combustible gas burns through tubes short and long. Sometimes the flame viciously tears it’s way to the exit with a large pop. Sometimes it gingerly resonates along the length of the tube until it fizzles out. These unique sounds are great design tools for weapons, impacts, transitions, and so much more.
You might think fuses make pretty consistent sounds, but throw them in some unique situations and you can get some wild sounding material. In Combustion, special visco fuses were used to burn underwater with hydrophones. Extremely fast burning fuses were stuffed in pipes and whirled in circles resulting in spectacular sounds with some serious ultrasonic content.
Pulse Jet Jars are like perfectly tuned whoosh bottles. They’re created in a way that allows them to burn for a much longer time with a strong pulsating flame. Quite literally a jet engine in a jar, the repetitive exchange of fuel and air produces a very distinct quick pulsing sound that has many creative uses.
Truly combustion in it’s most basic sense… this massive propane torch is a force to be reckoned with. It burns through fuel like it’s going out of style and packs a serious punch. Powerful roaring bursts are supplemented with whooshing flame-bys at various fuel-rates. The hiss and tones from propane flowing add a unique layer of (often ultrasonic) sound design potential.
Ammonium dichromate is a fairly mundane looking material… a simple orange dust. When heated to a certain point, however, a chemical reaction takes place resulting in a sparkling light show with a hissing and crackling decomposition sound. This reaction comes with some very hazardous byproducts, so please don’t try this at home!
This heater might not be as dangerous or showy as the other props in this library. However, the raw heat against metal produces some great undulating resonant tones along the crackling tings from liquid propane.
Ultrasonic Content
Like every other sound design library from Collected Transients, Combustion is recorded at 192kHz/24bit so all of the delectable ultrasonic content is properly captured. “But I’m not a dog!” you say, “I only hear to a mere 20,000 Hz.”
Fret not, Sound Designer, the ultrasonic content in these collections is captured to allow you to massively pitch-shift and process the sounds while retaining fidelity and revealing elements you couldn’t perceive before. Don’t take our word for it. Listen to demos and learn more here!
Thorough UCS Metadata
Combustion offers thorough UCS compliant metadata that works across all popular audio database software. Each file is embedded with exhaustive information about the recording. Aside from the usual ‘description’, many other fields are available that provide useful tidbits like recording notes, microphone information, category, and sub-category. All sound effects also come embedded with an image showing exactly what was being recorded.
Multi-Take Files
Combustion takes advantage of multi-take files for many recordings. Adding 685 FILES to your library might sound nice, but logically organizing those 685 SOUNDS into 209 files makes SFX easier to find and edit with in your project.
Combustion takes each prop recordings various qualities and parses them down to multi-take files, so it’s easy to identify what you’re looking for and have similar takes readily available.
Mauro Aramburu –
I found Combustion on the internet almost by accident and immediately bought it along Machine Emanation. Both were so good and so authentic and unique that I went back and bought a third one: Thermal Flux. These libraries helped me immensely to create interesting and characterful sounds for the game. Also, the sounds are so evocative that I found myself listening to them one by one for inspiration. Just awesome.
Nick Lavigne –
Combustion is an incredible library perfect for magic, sci-fi, or the supernatural. The sounds have been recorded and edited extremely well and are super flexible and versatile.
Jesse Rope –
Combustion came along just at the right time when I was in desperate need for some fresh fire fiery content working on Supers in Destiny. I’d never heard flame recordings so varied and expressive and cracking open that library gave me a huge kick of inspiration. I’ll always click through to see what Collected Transients puts out next.
Jack –
A fantastic collection of sound fx that I use regularly. Id highly recommend.
Mick Boraso –
Combustion was exactly what I was looking for – brilliant recordings, thanks!
Anna Sulley –
There’s tons of design potential to be found in the Combustion library. Check out growling tubes for all your bridging into silence and slow mo action needs! Top class original sounds all round!
Andrey Kireev –
Combustion is truly great
Luke Smiles –
Collected Transients is definitely one of my goto producers for highly detailed libraries for my sound design work. Incredible libraries like rOtation, thermal flux, combustion and machine emanation provide sounds you can’t even imagine and are absolutely perfect for bending and twisting into all kinds of sound design possibilities. And for all of the subtlety, energy and eventual destruction of an urban environment look no further than diffuse city, we are the people, along with implosion. The outstanding quality within every Collected Transients library makes them an indispensable part of my toolkit.
Thomas Vertongen –
Combustion and Rotation especially are 2 great libraries for sound design, from weapons to exotic machines. Well recorded and detailed. And when doing urban backgrounds, I always find interesting and highly useable sounds in the Diffuse City library.
Luca Fusi –
Collected Transients have consistently earned their place as one of my favorite boutique library teams with inventive, kinetic and eminently usable sounds in every library. rOtation, Thermal Flux and Combustion are full of character and punch, and positively sing when pitched.
Innokentiy –
I really enjoy the Combustion library and I find that it’s useful for all sorts of stuff: explosions, weapons, magic, vehicles, cinematic stingers, and even cartoon sound effects. When I need to add some character to a sound, this is one of my go-to libraries for sure. Having various takes in one file makes it easier to cut variations of a sound, especially for folks working in the game audio industry. I can recommend this library to anyone who is looking for sounds that will stick out, pop through a busy mix, or for those who are looking for a nice collection of sweeteners.
Fred Noel –
Thermal Flux and Combustion are truly infinite source material for granular synthesis. On top of that, hi res allow you to pitch down 2 octave any sounds for even more material. Top notch libraries!