Bottle Break

How it's made

Source

a bottle hits stone; a 1 ms contact triggers a 45 ms broadband fracture avalanche.

Body

thick bottle walls have inharmonic modes near 470, 1030, 1870 and 3120 Hz, killed in 65-140 ms as the shell breaks. A 180-450 Hz pressure pop gives weight without a cinematic sub-bass boom.

Layers

falling chunks combine 0.5-3 ms contacts, 0.9-7 kHz shard modes and short gritty scrapes. Large base fragments ring lower and land harder; smaller chips are brighter and weaker.

Envelope

fracture peaks immediately; irregular contacts spread from 25 ms to 0.65-1.05 s with declining strength and density. Upper shard modes decay faster; the dry tail ends by 1.45 s.

Variation

seeded streams vary contact timing, strength, mode tuning and stereo position. Mass shifts shell and chunk modes; edge controls fracture brightness; scatter controls count and reach.

Presets

heavy thick walls, a bright small bottle, sparse large base chunks, and a wider chip scatter.

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