Potion Uncork

How it's made

Source

a cork leaving a glass flask neck. The stuck cork slips free in a 3 ms pressure release: a band-limited noise burst, followed by the neck's air column (Helmholtz-like, 600–900 Hz) ringing once.

Body

the thin glass neck rings with a few bright, inharmonic glass modes (≈ 2.4–7 kHz, 0.1–0.35 s) that give the pop its glassy edge; the flask cavity adds a short low "thup" at 300–500 Hz.

Fizz

released gas is turbulent noise. It opens after the pop, band-passed with a centre sweeping upward (≈ 2.5 kHz → 7 kHz) as the foam thins, over a swarm of tiny bubbles (0.4–1.2 mm, 2.7–8 kHz) whose rate rises then falls.

Shimmer

the magic. Sparse glassy sine pings on a pentatonic lattice (2–7 kHz), each a 5 ms attack and 0.15–0.4 s decay with a faint detuned partner for chorus; they cluster as the fizz peaks and fade last.

Envelope

pop at 0.06 s; fizz swells in 0.35 s and decays over ~0.5 s; shimmer trails to ~0.9 s; every layer is closed by a final fade so the tail is silent.

Variation

`rng` jitters cork tuning ±4 %, glass mode ratios, bubble sizes, ping pitch, timing and pan.

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