Static Burst

How it's made

Source

the untuned receiver of an analogue TV picks up thermal and atmospheric noise: broadband white noise from the tuner front end, plus a thin low-level mains-related buzz from the deflection circuits.

Body

the audio stage band-limits the noise (high-pass ≈ 80 Hz, low-pass 6–14 kHz) and a slow-moving band emphasis around 2–4 kHz makes the hiss shimmer; sparse unipolar impulses (high-passed at 1.5 kHz) add the crackle of static discharge.

Envelope

a channel change is a hard cut: a 2 ms attack, a slightly hotter first 40 ms while the tuner re-locks, a flat sustain with irregular level flutter (about 25 Hz, from lowpassed noise), then a 6 ms release so the cut is abrupt but click-free.

Variation

`rng` varies the crackle pattern, the flutter and the band-emphasis wander; macros set length, brightness, crackle amount and the buzz level; presets span a short clean cut, a standard channel change, a dark far-station hiss and a crackly storm.

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