Ice sound effects

Bright glassy knocks that settle into stillness. This is the version most edits want, because it is the only ice sound an audience hears every week and recognises without being told.

A deep grinding release with cracks running out of it. Reach for it when something is about to give way and you want the audience to know a beat before it does.

Dense granular collapses, one per step, splintering as the weight goes on. It carries a walking shot on its own, which very few surfaces manage.

Fine splitting ticks with a light fizz between them, as warm liquid works into cold ice. It is a small sound that makes a close shot of a glass feel filmed rather than staged.

Continuous bright friction with chips spraying off the edge. The sound of a skate or a chisel is what tells an audience a surface is hard rather than soft.

One dry crack, then a bright spray of fragments skittering away. The scatter after the break is the part that sells it, and the part most library takes cut short.