Mechanical

Furnace

Warm brown-leaning roar at 3.7 in seven-second cycles with a fast 0.7 Hz flicker

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About This Sound

Furnace is the roar of a gas burner or a basement boiler kicking on, holding for a few seconds and easing off, with a fast flicker inside the flame. It is warm and enveloping, and the flicker gives it a restless, physical quality that steady presets do not have.

The color is 3.7, well toward brown. The envelope rises over 1 second, decays to 70 percent, holds for 4 seconds and releases over 2, a cycle of about seven and a half seconds. A triangle pulse at 0.7 Hz flickers the level roughly every 1.4 seconds on top. Grey EQ is off.

It suits people who like the feel of a heating system cycling on a cold night. Diesel Engine is the faster, darker mechanical throb at 4, and Distant Thunder in the nature category is a similar slow-cycle brown sound with a much softer attack. It is a daytime and evening sound more than an overnight one.

Best Used For

Try this: Set the pulse to 0 to remove the flicker if you want the burner roar without the restlessness.

Technical Details

Noise Color
Brown (3.70 on the 0–4 scale)
Envelope
1s in, hold 4s, 2s out (7.5s cycle)
Modulation
0.7 Hz triangle (one cycle every 1.4 s)