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The white noise app that took me four nights to set up right
I kept waking up at 3am because my fan was too loud but the silence was worse. So I downloaded this white noise app and spent like 20 minutes messing with sliders for rain and thunder and brown noise. First night I picked the ocean one and my brain kept waiting for a wave to crash. Second night I tried rain on a window and it sounded like someone was tapping my bedroom glass. Third night I found the fan option but it had this weird hum at the end of each loop. Finally on night four I just combined the soft static with the lowest volume setting and put my phone across the room. Worked perfect. Why is there no simple preset for "just make it sound like an air conditioner with no rhythm"? Has anyone else sunk way too much time into this or am I just picky?
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mila_murphy211mo ago
Four nights is nothing, I spent a week on this exact problem last winter. The killer for me was loop points, every single track had a tiny gap or a click that my brain locked onto at 2am. Static with no pattern is the only thing that works, everything with a rhythm makes you wait for the next beat. Phone across the room is smart too, keeps the screen light out of your face.
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danielkim1mo ago
Did you try brown noise or just plain static? Brown noise ended up being the sweet spot for me, low enough that my brain stopped hunting for a pattern but not so flat that it felt weird. I also put a fan on for the white noise and it covers up little house sounds way better than any app did.
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