Glass Jar Set Down

How it's made

Source

a heavy glass base meets wood; a rounded 3-8 ms noise impulse excites both solids. A weak, softer contact 17-25 ms later models the base seating flat, rather than a bouncing jar.

Body

table bending modes at 132, 227, 386 and 641 Hz decay in 65-190 ms; a 34 ms low noise cushion supplies the solid clunk. No sub-bass boom or room reverberation is added.

Glass

inharmonic wall modes at 760, 1239, 1915, 2987 and 4492 Hz have T60s of 100-470 ms; upper modes decay first, and hand or contents damping shortens and darkens the ring.

Envelope

a 0.7 ms rounded onset, immediate energy loss into the table, then a brief glass tail; a final 620-700 ms safety fade leaves silence by 800 ms, without truncating audible modes.

Variation

seeded mode tuning varies by +/-0.8 percent and seating time by 4 ms. Size lowers glass modes; contact hardness changes bandwidth; damping models contents; table changes support.

Presets

careful placement is soft and muted; firm placement has more wood and contact bite; an empty jar rings higher and longer; a loaded jar gives a lower, strongly damped clunk.

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