Ice Creaking Sound Effects

As you can imagine, it requires meticulously set up professional gear and perfect weather conditions to capture the creaking of ice in nature successfully.  Ice Creaking delivers these incredibly detailed and powerful audio gems to your toolkit.

So it was a sunny, windless day, temperature was -27C. Our (very determined) recordist Phil knew of a spot where a lake was known to have great cracking sounds, precisely when the snow had blown off from a recent windy day, and the temperature was fuh-reeezing… which was the case that day. Equipped with a heavy load of gear, he set out on the lake, glasses steaming up. He went to his spot, set up camp and sure enough some great crackling and stress sounds were happening… perfect conditions. You know when you get in the zone, and time flies? Phil now has a wonderful case of frostbite on his wrists… but he brings us some absolutely astounding, visceral sound recordings. We (well ok mostly he) bring you, on a silver platter, the bounty of those recordings.

A lake or river thaws, an ice flow on the move, an iceberg cracks and threatens, a brave soul walks on a frozen pond straining a dangerously thin sheet of ice, a thick block of glacier ice is about to burst…

You may want to check out the Ice Bundle as well which includes this library.