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Service Bell

A single tap on a desk service bell: sharp plunger click and a high, clear steel ring

kind
one-shot
length
1.24 s
downloads
0
id
98QAEPF0A5

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0.00 / 1.24 sMP3 preview · Shop counter
Preset
Spectrogram of “Service Bell”, Shop counter preset
Spectrogram of “Service Bell”, Shop counter 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 98QAEPF0A5@1 --preset shop -o service-bell.wav

How it's made

Source
the plunger of a desk bell is pressed once; a spring-loaded hammer taps the inside of a small steel dome. The tap is a 0.5–3 ms broadband click (hard metal on metal) plus a short, dull thunk (60–120 Hz body of the base and plunger housing) lasting about 25 ms.
Body
a shallow dome rings in few inharmonic modes, relative to the main mode: 1, 2.32, 3.86 and 5.6. Each is a pair of modes a fraction of a hertz apart (the dome is not perfectly round), so the tail shimmers slowly. Decay times fall with frequency: the main mode rings about 1.3 s, the top mode under 0.25 s.
Envelope
the strike is instant; upper modes die first so the attack is bright and the tail a clean, pure high tone. A short fade-out after the ring ends keeps the tail free of clicks.
Variation
`rng` mistunes the modes by ±0.3 % and varies the tap click; `pitch` scales every mode (dome size), `decay` the damping, `brightness` the upper modes, `strike` the hardness of the tap.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
pitch1400 – 36002300HzPitch
decay0.5 – 21.3sRing time
brightness0 – 10.5—Brightness
strike0 – 10.6—Tap hardness
shimmer0 – 10.4—Shimmer
thunk0 – 10.4—Base thunk
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('98QAEPF0A5@1')

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