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The BOOM Library was founded in 2010 by award winning audio guys from Dynamedion, the biggest European game audio studio based in Mainz, Germany.
The BOOM Library prides itself on providing high end, ultimate sound effects for all media and audio professionals. Our products have this specific edge you will not find anywhere else: every collection comes with a 96 KHz high definition, huge source library of our original recordings + a great variety of designed SFX, ready to use.
All BOOM Library products are royalty free - which means you get unlimited synch rights with every purchase.
Our mission is to provide top notch sound effects and source recordings in high definition. All treated with great Sound Miner metadata, fast to use, easy to access and epic sounding: BOOM!

film sound designer, composer, field recordist, modular synthesisor, photographer, dreamer..

We are Max Frick & Arnoud Traa.
We create sound libraries for sound professionals.

As sound designers we are obsessive collectors of sound. We work on a wide range of media projects. Everything from cinema to VR and from installations to radio.

We create high quality sound libraries for sound professionals that aim to immerse their audience.

Our goal is to create unique sound effects that fill the gap in any media production, whether linear or interactive.

All libraries are thoroughly described in metadata and delivered in the highest possible sound quality.

Arnoud Traa is a Dutch sound designer/recordist and composer with a fascination for vanished or vanishing sounds. 
If you want to support his work, click on the button above! Thanks so much!
He works on film, theatre, installation art and games from his studio 'De Auditieve Dienst'.

In 2012 Arnoud started 'Het Geluid van Nederland' in collaboration with "the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision".
Het Geluid van Nederland (or The Sound of the Netherlands) is a crowd sources sound archive aiming to capture the 
present and past soundscapes of the Netherlands.
Currently Arnoud is working on a sound effects libraries, theatre projects and more.

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