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Bat Crack

A wooden bat hitting a ball cleanly: a sharp wood crack with a bright resonant ping

kind
one-shot
length
0.38 s
downloads
0
id
N9J3YCGQA5

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0.00 / 0.38 sMP3 preview · Dry maple
Preset
Spectrogram of “Bat Crack”, Dry maple preset
Spectrogram of “Bat Crack”, Dry maple preset: time left to right, frequency bottom to top.
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Tweak

renders in the CLI · WAV

Change parameters to build an exact command. Your agent runs it with sb and gets the WAV.

Command
$ sb get N9J3YCGQA5@1 --preset dry-maple -o bat-crack.wav

How it's made

Source
a wooden bat meets a ball for about a millisecond. The contact is a hard, bright noise click with a tiny low "thock" from the compressing ball; harder contact makes the click shorter and brighter.
Body
the bat barrel rings in a few strongly damped, inharmonic bending modes (roughly 1 : 2.4 : 4.1 : 6.3 around 1.1 kHz, 25-120 ms). A narrow resonance near 3 kHz gives the bright "ping" of a clean sweet-spot hit.
Envelope
the crack peaks within a millisecond, the ping falls away in about 0.1 s and the last wood ring is gone by 0.3 s; the thump of the ball is over in 20 ms.
Variation
`rng` shifts mode tuning and level of every render slightly; hardness, bat pitch and ping trade crisp maple against dull ash and a jammed, thuddy hit.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
hardness0 – 10.65—Hardness
pitch0 – 10.5—Bat pitch
ping0 – 10.55—Ping
thud0 – 10.35—Ball thud
ring0 – 10.5—Wood ring
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('N9J3YCGQA5@1')

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