High Heel on Polished Tile

How it's made

Source

a hard heel tip hits polished tile in a 2-6 ms band-limited noise click, followed by the broader, quieter forefoot contact 42-105 ms later. Neither contact is an ideal digital impulse.

Body

shoe loading adds a damped 210-480 Hz knock; bonded ceramic contributes inharmonic modes near 1150, 2070, 3460 and 5250 Hz, with T60 of 40-110 ms, shortest at high frequencies.

Envelope

0.2-0.6 ms onset; contact cutoff drops from 5-10 kHz to 2.6 kHz as pressure spreads. The toe settles within 20 ms. A smooth final fade ends at 340 ms inside a 400 ms render.

Space

three quiet, low-passed reflections at 13, 27 and 43 ms suggest a tiled interior; a diffuse 80-170 ms filtered decay supplies a slight room ring without a long reverb wash.

Variation

independent seeded excitation, mode tuning within 2%, and heel-to-toe timing jitter. Hardness changes tip width and brightness; load adds body and toe weight; roll sets contact delay.

Presets

needle heel is bright and narrow, kitten heel lighter and softer, block heel has more low-mid loading and sole contact, and brisk step has a short roll and stronger room reflections.

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