Hi this took me like 15 minutes in Audacity but literally 2 hours trying to find some way to upload it that doesn't get immediately sniped by sumerian and I'll be honest I can't be certain it won't happen again BUT
Please enjoy a little spacial audio thing based S P E C T E R, a fic I'm writing that you can read Here.
It also functions as a version of the Just Pretend acoustic from the OST album without the live performance attached, which is nice to have. Cannot stress enough that you'll get the best experience out of headphones though, seeing as it uses the L/R channels to give the proper ~*vibes.*~
Wanted to share another cool sound design trick I discovered - if you want to make a fire loop ( a softer one, like a small campfire for example) try scrunching up some plastic bags and recording them as they "settle" - the end result sounds a lot like fire! Also, if you give this sound a high pass filter, it can sound like raindrops against a window too.
Most people can’t listen to music because the lyrics distract them, but ambient sounds seems to be the best at creating the perfect atmosphere for writing and studying. It can also be used as a sleep aid, for roleplaying, to relax and for those that suffer from tinnitus.
Listed below are plenty of options for you to explore and choose from.
Ambient Mixer
Is a free crowd-based sound mixer offering you some unique quality soundscapes with different atmospheres for relaxation or as background noise. You can make your own sound mixes (or atmospheres as they are called) with hundreds of options as well as vote for your favorite ones. There’s even mixes inspired by popular movies, television shows, video games, and so on.
A Day in Camp Half-Blood
Aboard a Pirate Ship
Fallout - Wandering the Wastes
Gryffindor Common Room
Hufflepuff Common Room
In Rivendell
Japanese Zen Garden
Mr. Tumnus’ House
Neverland
Ravenclaw Common Room
Riding with the Winchesters
Slytherin Common Room
Storm on the Hogwarts Express
The Great Hall at Hogwarts
Victorian London
Witcher Campfire
Working in a Lab
MyNoise
Is a free (and is open to donations) website with multi-purpose noise generator. It helps you to focus while working in a noisy environment or to help settle your anxiety. It’s also useful for those that suffer from insomnia or tinnitus.
Autumn Walk
Café Restaurant
Calm Lake
Cat Purr
Clockwork
Fireplace
Fish Tank
Gregorian Voices
Irish Coast
Japanese Garden
Jungle Life
Laundromat
Medieval Village
Nocturnal Garden
Polar Expedition
RPG Battlefield
Rain On A Tent
Traffic Noise
Train and Railroad
Waterfall
Youtube
Isn’t just for watching videos, you can even listen to music such as ambient sounds with background noise and some even included instruments. Here’s a couple to start you off...
1920s Hotel ASMR Ambience {with vintage music from Tower of Terror} [1 hour long]
Ambience/ASMR: Family Kitchen in Victorian Cottage, with Fireplace (19th Century Village) [5 hours long]
Is an online audio distribution platform for both listeners and creators. Listening to music on SoundCloud online is completely free and you don't even need to create an account to do so. In order to upload and comment on tracks, however, you will need to register.
Free users have an upload limit of three hours of audio, and file sizes cannot exceed 4GB. Additionally, a track created by a free user can only be downloaded a maximum of 100 times. If your account exceeds three hours of uploaded audio, uploading will be temporarily disabled. To continue uploading, you will need to make space for new uploads by either deleting older tracks to get under the free limit, or by upgrading to a paid plan.
Airplane Cabin White Noise Jet Sounds [1 hour long]
Bird Sounds - Morning Birds for Relaxation, Meditation, Yoga, Naturescapes, Forest Ambience and Spa [1 hour long]
Campfire Sounds on the Beach, Ocean waves, Nature Sounds for sleep, study #N012 [30 minutes long]
Cat Purr - 1 Hour ASMR Sound For Sleep, Study And Concentration [1 hour long]
Crowd Cheering [14 minutes long]
Fan Sounds White Noise for Sleeping [5 hours long]
Fireplace Sounds |공부할 때 듣는 장작 타는 소리 [2 hours long]
Forest At Night - Crickets Owls Rain Wind | Naturals Sounds - Relaxation Deep Sleep Study (ASMR) [1 hour long]
Fountain Pen Writing ASMR [7 minutes long]
Frogs sounds "Forest Sounds at Night", owls, crickets for sleep, study, relaxing #N018 [1 hour long]
Pure Beach Ambient Sounds [15 minutes long]
Rain Sounds - Ambience for Meditation, Relaxation, Massage, Yoga, Tai Chi, Reiki, Sleep Music, Baby Sleep and Relaxing Ambient Soundscapes [1 hour long]
Thunderstorm - A Sound of Thunder, Relaxing Thunder Sound for Meditation, relaxation, Music Therapy, Heal, Massage, Relax, Chillout 3D Sound Effects Nature Sounds [1 hour long]
Spotify
Is a digital music streaming service that gives you instant access to its vast online library of music and podcasts. Unfortunately, you need to get an account to listen on Spotify.
The basic account version of Spotify is completely free. It offers unlimited access to the full catalog of music and podcasts, but comes with a few drawbacks. The most intrusive are frequent ad breaks. These can really kill your groove. You’re also limited to just a few song skips, and audio quality is slightly lower at 160kbit/s.
Appliances and Other Household Ambiances [32 tracks, 42 minutes long]
Car and Traffic Sounds for Sleep and Relaxation [12 tracks, 3 hours long]
Is a website and app that recreate the ambient sounds of a busy café (and other public spaces) to boost your creativity and help you work better. There are only three tracks that you can listen to for free -- Morning Murmur, Lunchtime Lounge, or University Undertones.
The other three -- Paris Paradise, Brazilian Bistro, and Texas Teahouse are available for $9 per year
Noisli
Is available on the web and as a app on mobile for iOS and Android. It is a background noise generator that helps you to drown out annoying noises in order to create your perfect environment for working and relaxing.
If you don’t create a login, you only have access to 16 sounds to mix including brown noise, electric fan, a train going down tracks, and rustling leaves. With a free profile, you can save and share your mixes, have access to a timer, and also have access to an in-site text editor.
Noizer
Is a free online ambient noise generator that offers 20 ambient sounds to mix and match. It also has a shuffle function, a sweep mode that mixes up volume levels over time, and a few different background color schemes. It’s simple but effective, and it even works offline if you install it as a web app.
Defonic
Is also along the same lines as Noisli and A Soft Murmur. The home page has a daytime mode and a nighttime mode to make things easy on your eyes. It offers 15 free sounds to listen to alone or mixed with others. There’s a timer function which will mute in one hour or 30 minutes. However, to have full access to all of the features and sounds you’ll need to go premium.
A Soft Murmur
Is an online background noise generator designed to help you relax, focus, and tune out unpleasant sounds from your environment. It’s available on the web, and in the Apple and Google app stores.
It has 10 different options of free sounds that seem to be common in sound mixers (rain, crackling fire, coffee house chatter). You have the power to adjust the volume of each of the sounds. A timer, mix-saving option, and share option are all available too. There is also a paid upgrade available with 13 more sounds including pink noise, cicadas, and air conditioning.
SimplyNoise
It a white noise sound machine that you can use to drown out everything around you and help you focus on your writing. The site is free and requires no registration. You can try out the sample pack of their most popular Soundscapes and signature noise. It's also available as an app for the Android and iOS.
Rainy Mood
Is a free website that plays steady rain and thunderstorms sounds. If you just feel like listening to rain and knocking out some of that work you’ve been putting off, this is for you. It is available on iOS ($5.49) and Android ($3.99). The apps have additional sound options for thunder and different impact textures for rain, including tin roof, grass and dirt impact sounds.
Rainyscope
Is a free ambient noise website (from the creators of Hipstersound) that uses only the natural sounds of rain and birds (though not together) to create distraction-free background noise.
Although this website doesn’t have the additional sound options like Hipstersound, you can choose from seasonal rain patterns and visualizations, like the light, gentle rain of a spring shower or the heavier, colder rain sounds of fall and winter.
If you aren’t feeling very rainy today, you can also click into the Canicule mode to stop the rain sounds and listen to birds chirping instead.
One neat, additional feature of this background noise website is that it has a timer option, which could be useful for scheduling work breaks or for falling asleep to nature sounds.
Lofi.co
Is an interactive catalog of original animated illustrations in which you can create your custom soundscape with. You can mix nature sounds and lofi music or use their suite of productivity tools. You can interact with the highlighted parts of illustrations to play rainy sounds, birds singing, or other ambient noises. The full catalogue of background sounds and scenes is available to premium members for $2.99/month.
Additionally, the team donates 1% of their monthly revenue to mental health organizations around the world.
Hipstersound
Is an ambient noise website featuring the comforting sounds and background chatter of several different cafes from around the world. There’s your free basic demo of ‘Busy Café’, a ‘Café de Paris’ and a ‘Quiet Resto.’
You can switch additional ambient sound options on or off. Or adjust the volume of each from a menu in the upper left hand corner of your screen. Would you like to take your café experience outdoors? Turn on the ‘Street corner café’ sounds or the ‘Windy terrace.’
While all of these features are free to use, you can also get a full year of Hipstersound Premium with full access to new tracks and other features for $19.
Tabletop Audio
Is the premier, advertising free and free-to-use, user supported ambient game audio site on the web. There’s currently about 300+ ambient audio all of which are created by Tim Roven, a professional composer and sound designer. His website has won multiple awards over the last several years, and he even received a glowing review from Wil Wheaton.
Each year millions of tracks are played and downloaded from the site and it is entirely supported by it's users via Patreon or PayPal. Every ambience audio is also 10 minutes long of non-repeating sound. The audio player will loop the playlist by default, i.e. when it gets to the last track it will start again with the first track. If there is one track in the playlist, it will loop.
Purrli
Is a free online white noise generator that recreates the sound and the presence of a cat purring next to you. You can customize your very own cat purr using sliders that adjust from ‘Sleepy’ to ‘Happy,’ and ‘Relaxed’ to ‘Overjoyed,’ and more. There is also a timer function available.
ABBA’s ‘Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (A Man After Midnight), but you’re in your childhood bedroom, listening through your phone speaker as you try and fall asleep through the sounds of a thunderstorm. As you drift in and out of sleep, you can hear your parents asleep in the other room, and traffic passing by outside.
For @tipsy-geneticist
Sounds taken from freesound.org: mike_stranks, 2hear, GM180259
