Empty Cathedral

How it's made

Source

a large stone nave at rest. The room tone is air in motion: pink noise, decorrelated left and right, low-passed around 300-900 Hz and drifting slowly; a brown-noise rumble (25-80 Hz) is the building's low hum.

Body

stone surfaces ring in sparse, inharmonic modes with 4-9 s decay (modalPreset 'stone', large size); a thin 1.5-3.5 kHz air band gives the faint high shimmer of a 6-10 s reverberant field.

Events

distant knocks (a pew shifting, a far door) are soft low-passed bursts at 0.04-0.08 /s, each followed by a smeared noise tail that decays over 5-8 s; faint creaks (timber and iron) are slow band-passed noise swells with a gliding resonance around 300-900 Hz, one every 15-30 s on average.

Envelope

nothing is loud; the bed breathes with two slow drifts (periods ~10-25 s) and every event arrives from far away: attacks of 5-30 ms, then long decays.

Variation

`rng` sets timing, pan, pitch and strength of every knock and creak; presets move the balance between air, rumble, knocks, creaks and size.

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