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Rotating Lawn Sprinkler

A rotating impact sprinkler with rhythmic ratchet ticks, interrupted spray and a sweeping outdoor hiss.

kind
loop
length
8.00 s
downloads
0
id
S70Z2Y6DRX

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Preset
Spectrogram of “Rotating Lawn Sprinkler”, default preset
Spectrogram of “Rotating Lawn Sprinkler”, 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 S70Z2Y6DRX@1 -o rotating-lawn-sprinkler.wav

How it's made

Source
a pressurized water jet drives an impact arm; broadband turbulence spans 450 Hz to 9 kHz.
Body
the pawl excites damped metal and housing bands at 820, 2350 and 4100 Hz, lasting 12–32 ms.
Envelope
5, 7 or 9 impacts/s have 0.6 ms attacks and a weaker return contact 13 ms later. Each arm strike interrupts the jet briefly; the continuous spray remains underneath the ticks.
Motion
one or two full azimuth cycles per 8 s change pan, jet level and air-absorbed brightness. A diffuse stereo layer models fine droplets landing on grass, without enclosed-room reverberation.
Variation
seeded timing jitter of 1.5 ms, strike strength and modal detuning avoid a rigid machine gun.
Controls
pressure changes jet colour and spray density; mechanism balances the pawl against water; distance absorbs treble and narrows motion. Presets cover heavy, fine, broad and distant sprinklers.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
pressure0 – 10.65—Water pressure
mechanism0 – 10.65—Ratchet presence
distance0 – 10.2—Listening distance
spread0 – 10.8—Sweep width
paceslow · steady · faststeady—Arm cadence
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('S70Z2Y6DRX@1')

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