Camera Flash Pop

A flash bulb charging with a rising whine, then a sharp pop and a soft hiss tail, for photo-style cuts

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Preset

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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 ZM8WBYQXN2@1 --preset studio -o camera-flash-pop.wav

Source: a flash unit charging. A capacitor-charging inverter whines as a thin tone whose pitch climbs with the capacitor voltage (≈ 2 kHz → 6.5 kHz); the discharge is a sudden spark in the flash tube.
Body: the whine is a sine plus faint 2nd and 3rd harmonics with a slight wobble from the inverter ripple (≈ 9 Hz) and a little band-passed air noise; the pop is a 1–2 ms broadband click, a 2–4 kHz crack from the tube and a short 190 → 70 Hz thump from the casing.
Envelope: the whine swells exponentially over the charge time and is cut dead at the discharge; the pop decays in about 40 ms; a soft high-passed hiss (capacitor and tube cooling) falls over about 0.4 s.
Variation: `rng` shifts the start/end pitch by a few percent and the ripple phase; presets change charge time, pitch range, pop weight and hiss amount.

Parameters
Parameter	Range	Default	Unit	Controls
charge	0.3 – 1.2	0.75	s	Charge time
pitch	0 – 1	0.5	—	Whine pitch
pop	0 – 1	0.6	—	Pop weight
hiss	0 – 1	0.5	—	Hiss tail
seed	int	1	—	Variation, reproducible

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