Clapper Cut

A sharp double wooden clap that marks a comedic or punchy cut

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0.00 / 0.27 sMP3 preview · Classic slate

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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 QC4VCDK97S@1 --preset classic -o clapper-cut.wav

Source: a hinged hardwood stick snapped onto a wooden slate. Each strike is a 0.3–1.5 ms broadband noise burst (hard-on-hard contact) plus a brief band-passed "crack" around 3–5 kHz.
Body: the slate rings in damped inharmonic wood modes (≈ 1 : 2.57 : 4.2 : 6.5, 20–120 ms, fundamental 450–900 Hz for a thin board); a small air cavity under the slate adds a short 180–320 Hz knock.
Envelope: two strikes, the second slightly softer and tuned a few percent off (stick bounce); the whole cut is over in about 0.3 s with a short ring that is damped by the hand holding the board.
Variation: `rng` jitters mode tuning, strike gap and strength; `gap` sets the stick-to-stick spacing, `hardness` the burst length and brightness, `size` the board pitch, `ring` the decay of the modes.

Parameters
Parameter	Range	Default	Unit	Controls
gap	0.05 – 0.14	0.085	s	Strike gap
size	0 – 1	0.4	—	Board size
hardness	0 – 1	0.7	—	Hardness
ring	0 – 1	0.45	—	Ring
hollow	0 – 1	0.3	—	Hollowness
seed	int	1	—	Variation, reproducible

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