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Sword on Plate Armor

A blade hitting plate armor: a dull, mid-heavy clank that is damped quickly

kind
one-shot
length
0.78 s
downloads
0
id
6Y5Y5D87EE

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Change parameters to build an exact command. Your agent runs it with sb and gets the WAV.

Command
$ sb get 6Y5Y5D87EE@1 -o sword-on-plate-armor.wav

How it's made

Source
a steel blade edge striking a plate cuirass. The contact is a 1–3 ms hard noise transient (the "tak"), followed by a short scrape/scuff of the edge sliding over the plate.
Body
the curved plate is a thin shell with a few inharmonic, strongly damped modes concentrated in the mid range (500–3000 Hz, T60 40–180 ms); the padded interior and the wearer's torso damp it further and add a low thud (120–220 Hz). The blade itself rings faintly and high (3–6 kHz), but only for a few tens of ms.
Envelope
sharp attack, body modes fade in about 0.25 s, a faint blade ring and plate rattle tail to ~0.7 s.
Variation
`rng` jitters mode tuning and noise, `weight` shifts plate size, `hardness` the contact brightness.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
weight0 – 10.5—Plate size
hardness0 – 10.5—Edge hardness
damping0 – 10.6—Padding damping
ring0 – 10.35—Blade ring
scrape0 – 10.3—Edge scrape
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('6Y5Y5D87EE@1')

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