Product Description
The Applauses library is a rich, two-year field recording project capturing crowd reactions across a wide variety of acoustic environments. Recorded in both interior halls and open-air exterior venues, this collection documents audience reactions ranging from intimate small-group handclaps to large crowd ovations. Defined by crisp transient clarity, dense spatial distribution, varied emotional energy and natural acoustic reverberation, it provides an indispensable crowd audio toolkit for theater productions, live event sound design, television broadcasting, game audio or film post-production.
Whether you are layering authentic reaction beds for a stage play, building interactive sports crowd feedback or populating cinematic venue soundscapes, this collection provides versatile and ultra-transparent source material captured with high-sensitivity omnidirectional capsule configurations.
Diverse crowd scales and acoustic spaces: Features 50 unique applause recordings spanning small intimate gatherings, mid-sized auditorium crowds and large exterior audience reactions across varied acoustic environments.
High-definition sonic detail: Recorded at 192 kHz using ultra-low-noise FEL Pluggy EM272 and Sonorous Objects SO.3 microphones to capture crisp individual handclap transients, wide stereo imaging and smooth high-frequency detail.
Varied emotional dynamics: Includes pure rhythmic handclapping as well as energetic crowd reactions featuring vocal cheering, whistles and enthusiastic ovations for maximum programmatic versatility.
Pristine resolution and headroom: Captured using 32-bit float resolution to preserve maximum dynamic range from soft, polite handclaps to explosive, high-SPL standing ovations without clipping or distortion.
Technical Specifications
Audio quality: 32-bit / 192 kHz (Lossless resolution for dynamic processing, pitching and spatial mixing)
Workflow: Fully UCS compliant (Universal Category System)
Microphones: FEL Pluggy EM272, Sonorous Objects SO.3
Recorder: Zoom F3
Content: 50 WAV files (Small and large audience applause, interior and exterior acoustic spaces, dry handclapping, enthusiastic cheering and audience ovations)