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Countdown 10 → 0

Risers · 2026-10-06

Related guide: Glitch, Tape-Stop and Countdown Sound Effects: How They Work and How to Make Them

Claude Opus 5.5

Mid tempoEnergeticDark
New
Space
CC0

Prompt

An 11-second launch countdown in E minor at 60 BPM, with no speech. Ten clean sine pips land exactly on each second (frames 0, 30, ... 270), one per count from ten down to one. Each pip is a semitone higher than the last, climbing from E5 to C#6. A mono sub thump hits under every pip. The first three seconds are only pips, the thump and a dark low-passed E minor drone. From 3 s an eighth-note pulse of band-limited E minor stabs comes in, and its filter slowly opens. In the last three seconds (7 to 10 s) the pulse tightens to sixteenths. The pips get brighter and shorter, a tense F tone rubs against the drone, and a noise riser climbs. That build is cut with a 3 ms fade ending exactly on frame 300 (10.0 s). The launch hits there: a pitch-dropping low boom, a sharp ignition crack and a roaring, crackling engine-noise burst. These decay over the final second to silence. All content below 120 Hz (sub thumps, boom, rumble) is mono.

Metrics

Integrated LUFS
-14.1 LUFS
True peak
-5.8 dBTP
Length
11s · 528,000 samples @ 48000 Hz
Target master
-14 LUFS · peak ≤ -1 dBTP
Checks
Passed

Spectrogram

Spectrogram of Countdown 10 → 0, a free riser sound effect at 11s and 60 BPM

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Timing & cues

60 BPM · 30 fps · seed 1000110

  • Frame 0: 10
  • Frame 30: 9
  • Frame 60: 8
  • Frame 90: 7
  • Frame 120: 6
  • Frame 150: 5
  • Frame 180: 4
  • Frame 210: 3
  • Frame 240: 2
  • Frame 270: 1
  • Frame 300: launch

Ten sine pips (E5 rising chromatically to C#6), each on its cue with a 0.5 ms attack over a mono sub thump; an E minor stab pulse enters at 3 s in eighths and tightens to sixteenths with a noise riser and an F/G rub from 7 s. The bed is side-chain ducked into every count, the build is cut with a 3 ms fade ending on frame 300, and a pitch-dropping boom, ignition crack and crackling engine roar launch there and decay to silence.

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