Grandfather Clock Ticking
Recorded by Jud McCranie (Bubba73).
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grandfather_Clock_Ticking.ogg
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Adaptation for Gecko Watch: excerpt looped, pitch lowered while preserving cadence, bass enhanced, high frequencies softened, short room echo added, loudness normalized, converted to MP3.
The adapted recording is distributed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Gecko Watch playback mix: the adapted clock is also distributed as clock-bed.mp3, reduced in level and softened to sit beneath the voice and score.

Precision clock adaptation: clock-tick.wav and clock-tock.wav are individual transients extracted from the adapted clock recording, with short fades. Web Audio schedules their strongest transients on wall-clock seconds. Distributed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Continuous tape-recorder bed: original full-sample-rate floating-point stereo noise, softly contoured with low-frequency body and a high-frequency shelf, plus faint continuous transport tones. This parallel texture fades at playback start/stop and remains underneath the transmission and continuing score; dialogue and music retain their separate full-bandwidth playback paths.

Mix revision: score bass below 140 Hz is centered for mono compatibility; upper layers retain stereo width. Playback layers share a single master gain stage, with the clock and tape held behind the program. The continuing ambient loop is rebuilt from the same score.

Program delivery: native AAC-LC stereo at 320 kbps in M4A, plus an uncompressed 44.1 kHz 16-bit stereo WAV fallback. Both are rendered directly from the floating-point premaster. Score and bass were balanced together with the final playback layers; the same score supplies the ambient continuation.