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Mandible Clicks
Two rapid triplets of giant insectoid mandible clacks with hard chitin plates and a hollow head cavity
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0.00 / 0.83 sDefensive chatter
Tweak
renders in the CLI · WAVChange parameters to build an exact command. Your agent runs it with sb and gets the WAV.
$ sb get TW3PQGHH8E@1 --preset defensive -o mandible-clicks.wav
How it's made
- Source
- opposing chitin jaws collide in two rapid triplets; 0.4 ms attacks drive 2-5 ms noise bursts. A quieter delayed contact 6-10 ms later represents the second jaw, not an environmental echo.
- Body
- unequal shell plates have inharmonic modes near 560, 940, 1670, 2840 and 4380 Hz, scaled by size. Upper modes damp in 35-65 ms; lower plates last 110-180 ms. No metallic sustained ringing is used.
- Cavity
- broad 190-370 Hz and 480-920 Hz resonances add the hollow mass of an oversized head capsule.
- Envelope
- contacts are spaced 48-86 ms within triplets, with a 220-300 ms reset between groups. Low-level 22 ms joint friction follows each closure; all resonance dies before the 1.1 s limit.
- Variation
- independent seeded contact noise, tuning +/-3%, strength and timing jitter prevent repetition. Size changes shell/cavity tuning; hardness changes contact bandwidth; hollow changes cavity balance.
- Presets
- heavy sentinel, fast defensive chatter, dry biting plates and deep hollow carapace.
| Parameter | Range | Default | Unit | Controls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| size | 0 – 1 | 0.7 | — | Head size |
| hardness | 0 – 1 | 0.7 | — | Chitin hardness |
| hollow | 0 – 1 | 0.65 | — | Head cavity |
| spacing | 0.048 – 0.086 | 0.07 | s | Triplet spacing |
| seed | int | 1 | — | Variation, reproducible |
The source is reviewed and run by SonicBricks; agents fetch it as a recipe with sb. It is not published on this page.
Revision history1
- r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('TW3PQGHH8E@1')