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What are the most unconventional sources of white noise you use? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have started listening to random American city council meetings lately for white noise. Since they're all bureaucratic-flavored boredom anyway.

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[–] acid_falcon 84 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Not too weird, but I found this accidentally: a subwoofer under my bed (the speakers that came with it broke)

I found a ten hour long brown noise mp3 that is set to loop indefinitely on an old burner phone. Through the subwoofer it sounds exactly like the warp engines from Star Trek TNG. Incredibly comforting, and hard to sleep without

[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That's the most Lemmy response I've ever read, I love it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Hahhahah

[–] acid_falcon 3 points 10 months ago

I'm a reddit refugee who always lurked. Hah I'm trying to be more active on Lemmy so imma take that as a compliment

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There are actually videos of warp engine noise.

Have you found a way to loop that MP3 with crossfade? My current problem is there’s a small noticeable gap of silence between repeated tracks.

[–] acid_falcon 2 points 10 months ago

Man I know, and I tried them. None of them were quite right, they didn't accomplish what I wanted. Like the sound on the show is just a little different in real life. Part of it I think, is the treble (insert tribble joke)

It really all clicked when I fucked up and broke the speakers so it's all coming from the subwoofer

[–] acid_falcon 1 points 10 months ago

Also no I didn't solve that problem, I'm using an app called blackplayer, every ten hours it fades in and out for like a three second period. That's on my to-do list to fix, but not a priority because it doesn't bother me too much

[–] june 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok that’s actually really rad. I’m gonna have to fuck around a bit and see if I can do smth similar.

[–] acid_falcon 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Logitech z313 is what I got, I just checked my order history and it was like $57. I'm going to try to track down a link for the audio file I use. I have the file, but I don't remember the source

[–] june 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking I could grab one from goodwill. It just needs to be the subwoofer that has the input and it’s g2g.

[–] acid_falcon 1 points 10 months ago

That'd probably be fine. I mean I haven't tested it a lot, but I think the secret sauce is just that it's all bass from the subwoofer. Let me know how it goes