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Book Close Thud

A heavy hardcover slammed shut: a flat low thump, squeezed air and settling paper flutter.

kind
one-shot
length
0.70 s
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id
A03DABWHNW

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0.00 / 0.70 sMP3 preview · Padded cloth binding
Preset
Spectrogram of “Book Close Thud”, Padded cloth binding preset
Spectrogram of “Book Close Thud”, Padded cloth binding preset: time left to right, frequency bottom to top.
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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 A03DABWHNW@1 --preset cloth-bound -o book-close-thud.wav

How it's made

Source
a hardcover compresses its paper block; a 3-10 ms filtered noise contact drives the boards.
Body
broad, strongly damped board modes at roughly 115, 193, 326 and 510 Hz, T60 55-190 ms. A 65-170 Hz noise cushion adds flat mass without a pitched sub-bass or a hollow drum ring.
Air
squeezed air rises over 12 ms, then darkens from 2.8 kHz to 650 Hz within 160 ms.
Pages
5-10 overlapping band-limited noise flaps start at contact, lose brightness and strength, and spread apart over 0.35-0.56 s as the last free leaves settle against the closed covers.
Envelope
contact at 18 ms after a brief air lead; body dies first, paper finishes by 650 ms; a smooth final fade reaches zero at 700 ms, leaving a clean tail within the 800 ms render.
Variation
seed jitters mode tuning, flap timing, colour and strength. Mass lowers board modes; firmness shortens and brightens contact; loose pages extends flutter; air controls the squeeze. Presets cover a heavy tome, a tight sharp closure, loose old leaves and a padded cloth binding.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
mass0 – 10.75—Book mass
firmness0 – 10.6—Cover firmness
pages0 – 10.55—Loose pages
air0 – 10.5—Air squeeze
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-25engine 1.0.1use('A03DABWHNW@1')

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