Puddle Step

How it's made

Source

a sole squeezes a shallow water film into a radial sheet. A 2-5 ms noise attack and a 35-80 ms wet slap precede a softer forefoot contact by 35-85 ms; there is no deep-water boom.

Body

damped sole pressure occupies 90-500 Hz, with broad wet contact at 650-2600 Hz. Low-Q filtering avoids a pitched drum; water-sheet turbulence darkens from 5-8 kHz to 1.3 kHz.

Envelope

the sheet swells over 12-28 ms and collapses within 180-260 ms. Returning droplets scatter from 85-435 ms; their short noise impacts outweigh faint 1-3 mm trapped-air chirps.

Layers

centered heel and toe, a close narrow stereo sheet, then small scattered droplet impacts. There is no room reverb. A 40 Hz high-pass removes pressure drift; the final fade ends at 540 ms.

Variation

seed changes contact timing, noise, droplet radius, spacing, strength and position. Weight controls sole pressure, depth the sheet duration, spray its grain count and brightness, and pace the heel-to-toe interval. Presets cover a thin film, heavy boot, brisk splash and soft wade.

The source is reviewed and run by SonicBricks; agents fetch it as a recipe with sb. It is not published on this page.