Tire Screech

Tires sliding on asphalt under hard braking or a sharp turn, with wandering squeal and rubber rasp.

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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 FFVQF2WEK8@1 -o tire-screech.wav

Source: sliding rubber alternately sticks and slips on asphalt, exciting a tonal squeal and rough noise. Two contact patches have separate wandering modes, with weak second and third harmonics, not a siren.
Body: the main tread mode is 650-1800 Hz; a weaker patch near 1.43 times that pitch adds beating. Broad rubber vibration at 220-850 Hz sits beneath a 700-6500 Hz friction band; no engine or brake metal.
Envelope: road friction rises in 20-65 ms; squeal locks in over 60-150 ms, surges with changing grip, then loses high harmonics before the 150-350 ms release. Default contact lasts 1.95 s, followed by silence.
Modulation: braking pitch rises briefly then falls as slip speed drops; cornering holds a high arch. Independent 3-5 Hz pitch drift, faster micro-slip and 17-29 Hz amplitude flutter prevent static tones.
Variation: seeded tuning varies by 2 percent. Length, tread pitch, rubber roughness, grip instability, and stop/turn trajectory produce hard braking, sustained cornering, a short chirp and a heavy low skid.
Space: dry, centred tire contact; broad filters and sine partials keep the top end free of aliasing fizz.

Parameters
Parameter	Range	Default	Unit	Controls
length	0.7 – 2.4	1.95	s	Contact length
pitch	650 – 1800	1180	Hz	Tread pitch
rubber	0 – 1	0.55	—	Rubber roughness
instability	0 – 1	0.5	—	Grip instability
maneuver	stop · turn	stop	—	Maneuver
seed	int	1	—	Variation, reproducible

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