Strengthen your sonic arsenal with award-winning quality gun sounds.

Energize your projects with the dynamic strength and powerful realism of King Collection: Guns – featuring gun recordings from the private library of Richard King (Dunkirk, Inception, The Dark Knight) – available exclusively from Pro Sound Effects.

Curated in collaboration with King, Guns delivers a massive, untapped treasure trove of versatile firearm sound effects so you can create with the same tools used in a multiple Oscar®-winning career. Be armed and ready for any scene with common, rare, and vintage weapons spanning three centuries – from handguns to artillery. Sculpt your own designs with detailed multi-channel recordings. Drag-and-drop tastefully layered stereo composites straight into your project to move fast with maximum impact. Note: This library is not included in King Collection: Vol. 1

“The thorough mic placement and expertise behind these gun recordings really capture the energy, power and detail I look for to create drama and make a statement.”Richard King

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King Collection: Guns is your creative sonic ammunition

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    Guns for Any Project

    A wide variety of guns spanning three centuries. Pistols, rifles, machine guns, shotguns, artillery and more from the Revolutionary War to present day.

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    Multi-Channel Recordings

    Blend and design the raw recordings with different perspectives and microphone arrangements to fit the needs of your project.

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    Versatility and Flexibility

    Multiple gunshots per file means you get the variety needed for any scene. Plus plenty of gun Foley, handling, ricochets, and bullet impacts to finish the job.

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    Big Budget Resource

    Even one gun recording session is expensive. Get access to thousands of exceptional weapon sound effects captured by top Hollywood recordists – for a fraction of the cost.

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    Ready-to-Use Composites

    Stereo mixdowns tastefully layered by Richard King with minimal processing. Drag-and-drop directly into your projects to deliver maximum impact fast.

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    Work Faster

    Each sound effect has been transparently edited, shaped, cataloged, and divided out into mono and stereo files to streamline your workflow without heavy editing or EQ.

Features - King Collection: Guns

Features

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  • 100% Royalty-Free for use in any project
  • Rich Metadata: Optimized for fast, pinpoint search
  • Multi-Channel Files: Raw recordings from various perspectives
  • Stereo Composites: Ready to use in your project

Tech Specs

  • Instant Download Delivery via Download Manager
  • File Format & Resolution: Native Broadcast .wav formats: 24/48k, 24/96k, 24/192k
  • 3rd Party Software Compatibility: Search, Soundminer, BaseHead, Netmix, Workspace (Pro Tools), Find Tool (Avid Media Composer), Media Bay (Nuendo), Adobe Premiere

Which version is right for you?

In curating KC Guns, we created a go-to all-purpose pack for any media creator by focusing on the most useful guns for film, TV and games. KC Guns Pro is simply the most extensive guns library ever – a comprehensive resource for serious sound artists with 41 hours of recordings from more than 90 different weapons.

Go-to guns for any project. The most extensive guns library ever.
PRICE $199 $1,999
AUDIO FILES 532 Files (7GB) 6,279 Files (62GB)
TOTAL SOUNDS ? 3,350+ Sounds 25,000+ Sounds
WEAPONS 20 90+
SOUND LIST View PDFDownload XLS View PDFDownload XLS
DELIVERY OPTIONS ? Download Only Download Only

What sound artists are saying about the King Collection:

The scope of perspectives in the multi-channel recordings is really useful in editing. You can do a lot of damage with this library, and it's gonna sound fantastic.

Bob Kellough
Bob Kellough Sound Editor
(Justice League)

Fantastic array of all types of weapons. PSE did an amazing job cleaning and time aligning so you can build your own composites on the fly.

Matt Yocum
Matt Yocum Sound Designer
(Pet Semetary)

A masterful collection of gun recordings that not only provide dramatic impact but also have great textural variation, nuance and perspectives.

Joseph Fraioli Sound Designer
(Kin)
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Explore sounds from KC Guns

Each sound in this library was created with narrative purpose and the highest-quality tools while crafting the soundtracks for feature film projects. Strengthen your stories with King’s ear for powerful realism, and boost your toolset with access to a massive supply of common, rare, and vintage guns – from the modern Glock 22 to the enormous Bofor 40 mm artillery weapon, explosive .75 caliber Blunderbuss shotgun, and much more. We worked together with King to curate a library that is uniquely comprehensive – listen to a small sample from a variety of categories.

Optimized metadata for quicker searches and better results.

Crafting the right soundscape starts with finding the right sound. The PSE Editorial Team team has carefully cataloged each sound effect in this library, so you can spend less time searching and more time in the creative zone. Detailed, rich descriptions optimized to our metadata standard and embedded to each file allow for lightning-fast, pinpoint search results and a streamlined workflow.

View the sounds and categories we have selected for this library:

GUNS – SOUND LIST:  XLSX

GUNS PRO – SOUND LIST:  XLSX

Awards & Nominations

With 4 Academy Award® wins for Best Sound Editing in the last 15 years, Richard King has won and been nominated for an enviable list of the industry’s most prestigious awards. Highlights include:

  • 4 Academy Award® Wins
  • 2 Academy Award® Nominations
  • 3 BAFTA Wins
  • 1 BAFTA Nomination
  • 4 MPSE Golden Reel Wins
  • 12 MPSE Golden Reel Nominations
  • 1 MPSE Career Achievement Award
  • 1 AMPS Nomination

Explore King Collection Guns Pricing Options

Find the best feature and pricing fit for your needs
  • Individuals

    Single-User License

  • Teams

    Multi-User License for companies and media creation teams.

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$199 Perpetual License

? Monthly Payments: Starting at $17
? Monthly Payments: Starting at $100
King Collection: Guns includes:
  • 660 Files (6.4GB)
  • Delivered Instantly via Download
  • Online Access
  • Royalty-Free Commercial License
King Collection: Guns Pro includes:
  • 6,400 Files (76GB)
  • Delivered Instantly via Download
  • Search Software
  • Online Access
  • Royalty-Free Commercial License

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