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Ambience sound effect · free downloadRadio Static Loop

No.035
Length
14.00 s
Format
WAV · 44.1 kHz · 16-bit · mono
Size
1.2 MB
License
CC0 1.0 — no credit needed
Download WAV 1.2 MB

A 14 second seamless loop of a radio tuned between stations: a band of soft static with a slow drift across the dial, sparse crackle on top, a thin 2.4 kHz whistle that almost becomes a station, and 50 Hz mains hum underneath. Use it for abandoned rooms, night driving, radio scenes, or a background that should sound like nothing is being said.

How it was made

static: white noise, band-pass drifting 1.1 kHz <-> 1.9 kHz (one slow pass, 1 cycle in 14 s), Q 0.8
air: white noise, low-pass 320 Hz, Q 0.6, at 45% level (the "body" of the room)
crackle: about 8-15 bursts a second (fixed seed), each 1.5 ms of noise with a random level, some arriving two or three in a row
hum: sine 50 Hz at 0.028, plus 100 Hz at 0.012
whistle: sine at 2400 Hz drifting 2.2 <-> 2.6 kHz on the same 1/14 Hz cycle, level 0.022, written as phase accumulation so the pitch does not drift with time (2400 x 14 s is a whole number of cycles, so the seam is continuous)
speaker: high-pass 300 Hz, low-pass 4 kHz (a small radio speaker)
seam: 0.6 s rendered past the end and equal-power crossfaded (sin/cos) back onto the head
noise seeds: 341 (static), 342 (air), 343 (crackle)

Good for

staticradiohumloopambiencenoise

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