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Ambience sound effect · free downloadOcean Loop

No.030
Length
16.00 s
Format
WAV · 44.1 kHz · 16-bit · mono
Size
1.3 MB
License
CC0 1.0 — no credit needed
Download WAV 1.3 MB

A 16 second seamless loop of waves on a shore: each wave rises fast, breaks, then takes its time draining back, with a hiss of foam right at the break. Use it for seaside scenes, sleep, slow reading, or a background that should feel like it has been going on for hours.

How it was made

wash: white noise, low-pass 480 Hz, Q 0.55, driven by an asymmetric envelope: 18% rise, then a long 82% drain (power 2.2), floor 0.3, one wave every 8 s
second wave scaled by 0.9 + 0.1 cos(2 pi t / 16), so the two are not identical
foam: white noise, band-pass 2.6 kHz, Q 0.7, level 0.12 + 0.6 x a break envelope that starts at 15% of each wave (10 ms attack, 80 ms decay)
grit: white noise, band-pass 900 Hz, Q 0.4, at 0.18, always present
seam: 0.6 s rendered past the end and equal-power crossfaded (sin/cos) back onto the head
noise seeds: 181 (wash), 182 (foam), 183 (grit)

Good for

oceanwavesloopambiencesleepsea

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