Water Hammer Pipes

A valve snaps shut, sending diminishing hollow knocks and damped metallic rings along a water pipe.

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0.00 / 2.05 sMP3 preview · Small supply pipe

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Tweak

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 GSMEJMBJE0@1 --preset small-supply -o water-hammer-pipes.wav

Source: a closing valve stops the water column; 3-7 reflected pressure fronts knock pipe supports. Each front excites a 2-7 ms filtered noise contact and a 65-155 Hz, 70-160 ms pressure thump.
Body: water-loaded metal pipe flexure has modes at 1, 1.73, 2.91, 4.37 and 6.24 times 230-600 Hz. T60 is 0.30-0.95 s for the lowest mode; upper modes damp faster, avoiding a sustained bell tone.
Envelope: fronts recur at 85-190 ms with small path-dependent timing offsets and lose 36% per return. Support chatter follows each main contact by 12-22 ms; the entire response settles within 2.05 s.
Layers: a quiet 130 ms filtered turbulence collapse accompanies closure; no room reverb is baked in.
Variation: seeded contact noise, timing, strength and mode tuning vary; pipe size sets both body bands. Presets distinguish a heavy riser, bright small supply, loose fast brackets and wall-muffled plumbing.

Parameters
Parameter	Range	Default	Unit	Controls
size	0 – 1	0.6	—	Pipe size
returns	3 – 7	5	—	Pressure returns
spacing	0.085 – 0.19	0.145	s	Return interval
ring	0 – 1	0.65	—	Pipe ringing
wall	0 – 1	0.12	—	Wall muffling
seed	int	1	—	Variation, reproducible

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