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Manhole Cover Drop

A heavy cast iron manhole cover lands with a dull clank, rocks on its frame and settles into low rings.

kind
one-shot
length
2.08 s
downloads
0
id
NJW1S6AVGX

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0.00 / 2.08 sMP3 preview · Tight damped seat
Preset
Spectrogram of “Manhole Cover Drop”, Tight damped seat preset
Spectrogram of “Manhole Cover Drop”, Tight damped seat preset: time left to right, frequency bottom to top.
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Tweak

renders in the CLI · WAV

Change parameters to build an exact command. Your agent runs it with sb and gets the WAV.

Command
$ sb get NJW1S6AVGX@1 --preset tight-seat -o manhole-cover-drop.wav

How it's made

Source
a cast iron disc falls onto an iron seating rim; 3-9 ms filtered noise excites both bodies.
Body
disc flexural modes at 148, 237, 391, 563, 817, 1193, 1739 and 2483 Hz, not harmonic. Split mode pairs beat by 1-4 Hz; low modes have 0.9-1.3 s T60, upper modes only 0.15-0.5 s.
Layers
a 65-180 Hz damped seating thump gives mass; short 0.7-4 kHz contacts give the dull clank.
Events
alternate rim contacts accelerate from 180 to 35 ms spacing as tilt collapses, losing energy. A final quieter seating contact damps the disc; remaining low rings settle without room reverb.
Envelope
sub-millisecond rounded attacks, a strong first impact, 0.3-1.0 s wobble, tail by 2.1 s.
Variation
seeded contact timing, force and mode tuning; size lowers modes, looseness extends wobble, hardness opens the contact spectrum and ring controls material damping. Four seating variants.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
size0 – 10.65—Cover size
looseness0 – 10.65—Frame looseness
hardness0 – 10.45—Contact hardness
ring0 – 10.6—Iron resonance
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-25engine 1.0.1use('NJW1S6AVGX@1')

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