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Match Strike

A wooden match scrapes a gritty box strip, flares with a bright fizz and settles into a short hiss.

kind
one-shot
length
1.44 s
downloads
0
id
NGTTKF96GN

one-shot · 1.44 s · 0 downloads · 0 likes

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Preset
Spectrogram of “Match Strike”, default preset
Spectrogram of “Match Strike”, default 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 NGTTKF96GN@1 -o match-strike.wav

How it's made

Source
a wooden match rubs a gritty box strip for 0.13-0.38 s; filtered noise and irregular 2-9 ms grains model friction, with a rising spectral centre as the hand accelerates.
Body
the match and cardboard add weak, heavily damped 640/1630/2780 Hz modes, not a ringing tone.
Ignition
the head catches near the end of the stroke; a 9 ms attack opens a bright 2-8 kHz chemical fizz which decays over 0.25 s, with a few rounded microbursts rather than hard impulses.
Tail
quiet pink-noise combustion swells under the flare then loses high frequencies and level; the small flame settles into near silence by 1.4 s. No large-fire bass or added room reverb.
Variation
seeded grain spacing, grain duration, strength and mode tuning vary each strike. Stroke time, grit, head charge and tail length distinguish quick, coarse, gentle and full-head presets.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
stroke0.13 – 0.380.25sStroke length
grit0 – 10.6—Strip roughness
charge0 – 10.55—Head charge
tail0.7 – 1.221.12sFlame tail
seedint1—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.

Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('NGTTKF96GN@1')

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