February 23, 2007

Ambient noise, apparently free. Here's purring. Here's the scratch of a pencil. Here's a typewriter (with carriage returns). Here's a restaurant. Um, warning: sound.
posted by goofyfoot 17 years ago
  • That's awesome! I miss the clock I used to have that would put you to sleep to the sound of nature. It would wake you up to the gentle "caw" of a bird. Then when you didn't get up "Caw." "Caw!" "CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWW!" Seriously, though I may just leave this on the PC and let it go all night. I like the rain forest one.
  • My cat wakes me up by standing on my bum and yelling.
  • Nice post. I've always wanted one of those white noise machines for sleeping, but they're all stupidly expensive. I use a fan that cost me $12 instead.
  • Oh yeah - 'cos you can only sleep if white people are making soothing noises. You racialismists disgust me. I hope brown people keep you up all night jabbering away in their crazy sub-human languages.
  • BROWN NOISE MACHINE "QUIDNUNCOPHONIC" FOR SALE CHEAP $0.59 O.B.O.
  • I turned on my TV one day and heard the familiar white-noise static of total signal loss. Thinking something was wrong with my satellite system I started to investigate, but when I changed the channel it worked fine. I switched back to the original noisy channel to discover that it was one of my audio-only channels - the one called "Nature Sounds". The track they were playing was called Niagara Falls.
  • mmmm...restauranty.
  • More soothing noises. [via]
  • My cat wakes me up by standing on my bum and yelling. Well, with that problem added to this, it's a wonder you get any sleep at all.
  • AWESOME post.
  • Too cool! I love the train and they typewriter (the carriage-returns-included version), and of course the kitty-cat purring his nummy-wummy little heart out. As for the static/white noise thing, it makes my noggin hurt.
  • Download Audacity, the open source sound editor Install it, then follow these instructions: Generate > White noise > 30 seconds Effect > Low pass filter > cutoff freq=660 Effect > Tremolo > wetness=96, freq=0.2 tada! waves on a beach!
  • Come on, guys, a carriage return is a special character which marks a new paragraph - it doesn't make a noise!!