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Cordless Power Drill

A cordless drill drives a screw with a rising motor whine, loaded gear chatter and a braked stop.

kind
one-shot
length
1.90 s
downloads
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id
EM9JDN0AJ4

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Preset
Spectrogram of “Cordless Power Drill”, default preset
Spectrogram of “Cordless Power Drill”, default preset: time left to right, frequency bottom to top.
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Change parameters to build an exact command. Your agent runs it with sb and gets the WAV.

Command
$ sb get EM9JDN0AJ4@1 -o cordless-power-drill.wav

How it's made

Source
a cordless drill driving a screw; rotor hum at 130–290 Hz and gear mesh at 0.9–2.3 kHz. Rounded harmonics, speed-linked brush noise and fan turbulence form separate continuous layers.
Body
broad plastic housing bands at 460 and 1850 Hz colour the noise; no room reverb is baked in.
Envelope
0.16–0.40 s trigger ramp, screw resistance lowers speed through the drive, then an electric brake stops rotation in 90 ms. The complete action lasts about 2 s, including a short silent tail.
Events
jittered 55–95 Hz tooth chatter grows under load; 5–8 late clutch slips use 3 ms excitation into 650/1450/3100 Hz damped modes, lasting 16–35 ms, before the trigger releases.
Modulation
2.6 Hz speed wander and rotor-rate torque ripple couple whine and noise to the drive.
Variation
seeded tuning, chatter strength and slip timing; speed, load, trigger ramp, drive time and clutch amount distinguish fast light screws, slow torque, clutch seating and gentle trigger control.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
speed0 – 10.62—Motor speed
load0 – 10.6—Screw resistance
ramp0.16 – 0.40.28sTrigger ramp
drive1.35 – 2.051.7sDrive time
clutch0 – 10.45—Clutch slip
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-25engine 1.0.1use('EM9JDN0AJ4@1')

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