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Ship Bell
A brass ship bell struck in two quick pairs to mark the watch at sea
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0.00 / 5.93 sDeep hull bell
Tweak
renders in the CLI · WAVChange parameters to build an exact command. Your agent runs it with sb and gets the WAV.
$ sb get H060JP26VR@1 --preset deep-hull -o ship-bell.wav
How it's made
- Source
- a brass ship bell hit on the outside by an iron clapper. Each strike is a 1–3 ms broadband click (hard metal on metal) followed by a short low-passed thump from the clapper pushing the rim.
- Body
- the partials of a cast bell relative to the nominal: hum 0.5, prime 1, minor-third tierce 1.2, quint 1.5, nominal 2, then 2.5, 3 and 4.2. Brass rings long and bright: the low partials last up to `ring` seconds, the upper ones fade first, so the strike is bright and the tail mellow. Each partial is a pair of modes a fraction of a hertz apart (cast asymmetry), which makes the tail shimmer.
- Envelope
- the two strikes of a pair are `gap` seconds apart (the second a little softer), the two pairs are `pause` seconds apart. Earlier strikes keep ringing under the following ones, as in open air with no reverb.
- Variation
- `rng` mistunes the partials by ±0.3 % and jitters strike timing and strength by a few ms / %. Presets change pitch, ring time, strike hardness and the rhythm of the pairs.
| Parameter | Range | Default | Unit | Controls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pitch | 350 – 1100 | 620 | Hz | Pitch |
| ring | 0.8 – 2.6 | 1.6 | s | Ring time |
| brightness | 0 – 1 | 0.6 | — | Brightness |
| strike | 0 – 1 | 0.6 | — | Strike hardness |
| gap | 0.25 – 0.7 | 0.4 | s | Gap within pair |
| pause | 0.7 – 1.5 | 1 | s | Pause between pairs |
| shimmer | 0 – 1 | 0.4 | — | Shimmer |
| seed | int | 1 | — | 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.
Revision history1
- r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('H060JP26VR@1')