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Ticking Clock Room
A quiet study with a large pendulum clock ticking slowly over soft room tone, for focus and period scenes
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0.00 / 8.00 sNight room
Tweak
renders in the CLI · WAVChange parameters to build an exact command. Your agent runs it with sb and gets the WAV.
$ sb get HE4SW81D92@1 --preset night -o ticking-clock-room.wav
How it's made
- Source
- the escapement of a large pendulum clock. Each beat is a pallet dropping onto the escape wheel: a 2–4 ms noise click (1–4 kHz) plus a softer 15 ms knock; "tock" beats are slightly lower and duller.
- Body
- the tall wooden case rings in a few damped wood modes (≈ 1 : 2.6 : 4.2, 60–250 ms) and its air cavity resonates near 140–220 Hz, which gives each beat its hollow "tok" weight.
- Room
- a quiet study is a pink-noise bed low-passed around 300–900 Hz that drifts slowly, decorrelated left/right, with a trace of air above it; a few early reflections add the size of the room.
- Rhythm
- strictly periodic, 0.8–2 s per beat (a long pendulum is slow); the 8 s loop holds whole beats so it repeats without a seam. Alternate beats pan a little left and right as the pendulum swings.
- Variation
- `rng` varies every beat's strength and mode tuning by a few percent, as real escapements do.
| Parameter | Range | Default | Unit | Controls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| interval | 0.8 – 2 | 1 | s | Beat interval |
| size | 0 – 1 | 0.6 | — | Clock size |
| case | 0 – 1 | 0.55 | — | Case resonance |
| room | 0 – 1 | 0.5 | — | Room tone |
| sharpness | 0 – 1 | 0.4 | — | Tick sharpness |
| tock | 0 – 1 | 0.5 | — | Tick–tock contrast |
| swing | 0 – 1 | 0.4 | — | Stereo swing |
| 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('HE4SW81D92@1')