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Bonfire
Bonfire is a large fire heard close up, and it is busy. Something snaps or pops about once a second over a deep, continuous burn, which makes it the most eventful recording in this set. The difference between it and the Soft Campfire file beside it is that rate and nothing else. Good company for a room. Harder to ignore than a small fire, and a poor first choice if you wake at sudden sounds.
Ready to play
Stack this under rain or a fire, keep the blend, and play it with your screen off. Slo, on iOS, Android and Mac.
What makes a fire busy
Sap boiling out of the wood, fibres splitting apart: each is a short, sharp event, and this file delivers roughly 72 of them a minute. That is six times the rate of the Soft Campfire recording added alongside it, which is otherwise nearly the same file — same weight underneath, same balance across the range, same steadiness of level.
The cracks put a little more energy into the upper half of the sound, but only a little; those shares barely move between the two recordings. It is how often events arrive that changes, and frequency is what attention responds to.
Choosing between the fires
The site already has Campfire and Fireplace. What this file adds is density rather than a different kind of fire: take it when you want something audible happening every second or so, and take something quieter when you do not. All of them appear on the sound library index.
The low bed under the cracks makes it one of the better low-frequency maskers in the collection, though it also means a phone speaker gives you only the top half of the file. The image is narrow, so the fire stays put. If the cracks are too present at the level you need, put rain over it in the mixer so the gaps between them fill in.
Frequently asked questions
How active is this fire?
About one separable crack a second, roughly 72 a minute. It is the busiest of the water, weather and fire recordings added here.
How does it differ from Soft Campfire?
Event rate, and little else. The two sound near-identical between cracks; this one produces six times as many of them.
Are bonfire sounds good for sleeping?
It is more eventful than most sleep sounds. Some people find the irregularity easy to ignore and others wake at each pop, so the quieter fire recording is the safer starting point.
Will it mask traffic?
Better than the water and rain files here, since around a third of it sits in the low band where traffic and machinery live. You need a speaker that reproduces that band for the effect.