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Foley sound effect · free downloadZipper

No.039
Length
460 ms
Format
WAV · 44.1 kHz · 16-bit · mono
Size
40 KB
License
CC0 1.0 — no credit needed
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A jacket zipper pulled shut: a fast run of tiny metallic ticks, a soft cloth rustle under them, and one small stop at the end. Use it for bags, jackets, tents, suitcases, or a character getting ready to leave. Recorded nowhere, made entirely out of noise and short grains.

How it was made

teeth: 42 ticks over 380 ms (about 110 per second), each 3 ms of white noise band-passed at 2.6-4.2 kHz (Q 3), levels jittered between 55% and 100%
cloth: white noise 400 ms, low-pass 1.4 kHz (Q 0.7), at 20% level, 10 ms attack then a 300 ms decay to -60 dB, so it is gone by 310 ms and fades out before the teeth stop at 388 ms
stop: sine 240 Hz at 380 ms, 40 ms, 2 ms attack and 18 ms to -60 dB (the pull tab landing)
envelope: ticks start at 8 ms and stop at 388 ms; the buffer is 460 ms so nothing is cut mid-tick

Good for

zipperzipjacketbagclothesfoley

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