They have long tails, so it’s very easy to layer them on top of a rain loop and get natural-sounding results. The “Heavy Thunder” samples are provided as one-shots. The provided loops can work at any tempo, and of course, there is no need to use time-stretching because the loops do not contain rhythmic content. You can easily connect multiple copies of the same audio file in an audio track inside your DAW to create infinite rain loops. The majority of the samples in the “Rain” and “Distant Thunder” folders have been edited to loop perfectly. It was almost as if the storm was trying to tell me that it isn’t playing around and that it doesn’t fancy ending up in a free sample pack. Play the last sample in the “Heavy Thunder” folder at a loud volume, and you’ll understand why I chickened out. Still, at that moment, I was pretty sure that staying outside would be too dangerous, so I played it safe. There would have been around five or six more fantastic thunder strike samples if I kept recording that time. The funny thing is that I got a bit scared at one moment, so I turned off the recorder and took shelter inside a building. This is something I regret from today’s perspective.

Those are the most valuable samples in the pack because recording a storm from such a close distance is indeed a very rare opportunity. The coolest sounds in this library are the samples of seven thunders that struck very close, even too close if you ask me. These can be mixed with clean recordings of rain if you need background noise for a movie or an audio project. There are also around twenty recordings of distant thunder rumble. I’ve also recorded the beautiful sound of raindrops falling on an umbrella, and it almost sounds like vinyl noise. The rest of the audio content was recorded in quieter parts of the city, far from the busy downtown. You can hear the cars passing by on some of the recordings, tires splashing through puddles, and people walking around in a hurry. This free sample collection contains all the sound effects you may need in order to evoke the atmosphere of a rainy day in a large city. The sounds were recorded in 24-bit depth using a portable Edirol R-09 stereo field recorder. Rain And Thunder is a free thunderstorm sound library featuring 64 high-quality field recordings that I captured during a spring storm on the streets of Belgrade.

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