Skip to content

Cartoon Bonk

A hollow wooden bonk with a pitched, wobbling ring, like a cartoon character hit on the head

kind
one-shot
length
0.56 s
downloads
0
id
94JYTNXXWD

one-shot · 0.56 s · 0 downloads · 0 likes

0.00 / 0.56 sMP3 preview · Tiny tink
Preset
Spectrogram of “Cartoon Bonk”, Tiny tink preset
Spectrogram of “Cartoon Bonk”, Tiny tink preset: time left to right, frequency bottom to top.
Download MP3Sign in · 20 free a day
0
Free for commercial use. No attribution needed.

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 94JYTNXXWD@1 --preset tink -o cartoon-bonk.wav

How it's made

Source
a padded mallet hitting a hollow wooden block. The strike is a 2–6 ms low-passed noise burst plus a faint low thump; the cartoon character comes from a pitched "boing" tone riding on top of the knock.
Body
the block rings in a few damped hollow-wood modes (ratios ≈ 1 : 2.4 : 4.1, 40–120 ms) with a 150–300 Hz cavity resonance for the hollow boom; the pitched ring is a sine with a weak second partial at ≈ 2.5 x.
Envelope
the knock is over in 0.15 s; the pitched ring decays over 0.3–0.5 s while its pitch wobbles (4–9 Hz vibrato, up to 12 % deep, fading out) and settles slightly below the start pitch.
Variation
`rng` jitters pitch (±2 %), wobble phase and strike noise; `pitch` sets the ring, `wobble` the vibrato depth, `hollow` the cavity level, `hardness` the strike brightness; presets move between a classic bonk, a dull thud, a big boing and a tiny tink.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
pitch250 – 1100520HzPitch
wobble0 – 10.5—Wobble
hollow0 – 10.5—Hollowness
hardness0 – 10.5—Hardness
ring0 – 10.5—Ring
wobbleRate3.5 – 106HzWobble rate
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

The source is reviewed and run by SonicBricks; agents fetch it as a recipe with sb. It is not published on this page.

Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('94JYTNXXWD@1')

Related sounds

More in Impacts