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Aggressive Button Tap / UI Tap Hit

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subquire

November 15th, 2025

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Sound effects > Electronic / Design
Game Sounds

A short, percussive tap sound — punchy, snare-like, and great for UI feedback, game menus, or digital button presses. The transient is crisp with a light, natural resonance and a subtle short reverb tail. Slightly aggressive in attack but easily EQ’d or softened for different contexts.

Originally recorded by SUBQUiRE by physically tapping a desk near an Audio-Technica Precision 100 condenser mic, processed in Ableton Live using native effects only (EQ, compression, and a tiny bit of room reverb).
Completely original — not sampled or synthesized from any external source.

⚙️ Technical Info

Duration: 0.56 s

Sample rate: 44.1 kHz

Bit depth: 24-bit

Channels: stereo

Dominant frequency: ≈ 139 Hz

Spectral centroid: ≈ 3.1 kHz (mid-bright transient)

RMS level: 0.04

Zero-crossing rate: 0.11 (snappy, transient-heavy sound)

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Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

0:00.562

File size

145.4 KB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

24 bit

Channels

Stereo

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