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Car Crash Crunch

Two vehicles collide: a heavy low impact, crumpling sheet metal and a tail of tinkling glass

kind
one-shot
length
2.48 s
downloads
0
id
ZZ4SNP9D8C

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0.00 / 2.48 sMP3 preview · Windshield shatter
Preset
Spectrogram of “Car Crash Crunch”, Windshield shatter preset
Spectrogram of “Car Crash Crunch”, Windshield shatter 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 ZZ4SNP9D8C@1 --preset shatter -o car-crash-crunch.wav

How it's made

Source
two vehicles collide. The impact is a heavy, short transfer of momentum, followed by the body panels buckling and tearing in a burst of irregular metal events, and finally loose glass falling.
Body
(1) a low thump: a sine dropping from ~95 Hz to ~42 Hz plus low-passed brown noise, the chassis absorbing the shock; (2) a mid "slam" of the sheet-metal panels: damped inharmonic modes; (3) crumple: 10-30 small metallic events (band-passed noise snaps into short metal-bar modes), densest in the first 0.4 s and thinning out as the metal settles; (4) glass: sparse small bright glass-mode ticks from 0.12 s to the end, each tiny and quickly damped, getting softer and rarer.
Envelope
the thump peaks within 3 ms and decays over ~0.5 s; the crunch runs ~1 s with falling strengths; the glass tinkle tails off by ~2.2 s. Everything is dry, no room.
Variation
`rng` places and tunes every crumple and glass event, so each seed is a different crash.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
weight0 – 10.6—Weight
crumple0 – 10.6—Crumple
glass0 – 10.55—Glass
brightness0 – 10.5—Brightness
duration1.4 – 2.52.2sLength
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('ZZ4SNP9D8C@1')

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