Grandfather Clock sound effects, tick, tock and the big hourly chime. The slow swing of the pendulum, the heavy ticking you can hear from the next room, the whirr of the works before it strikes. Recorded close on real antique clocks, from several angles. There are darker, reworked clock textures here too, for when time itself should feel wrong.
A grandfather clock is mostly about pace. The tick is slow and woody, with a clear gap between each swing, and that gap is what makes a quiet room feel tense. The antique clock libraries record the ticking in long, steady takes you can loop, along with the chimes and the Winding. Smaller clocks, down to the Wall Clock and the pocket watch, sit in the wider collections, and there are horror texture sets built from metal ticks played forward and reversed. Period dramas and haunted houses both use them.
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