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I prefer silence, but since the open-plan fad holds sway here, I've found rain to be the most effective substitute. The best rain track I've found so far is 57

by kps 13y ago

I prefer silence, but since the open-plan fad holds sway here, I've found rain to be the most effective substitute. The best rain track I've found so far is 57 at http://archive.org/details/Sounds_of_Nature_Collection http://archive.org/details/Sounds_of_Nature_Collection

saidajigumi 13y ago
Thanks for posting this. I needed a reminder of the great stuff lurking in the Internet Archive's "stacks".
justin66 13y ago
This is super cool. Thank you! I have to admit I don't get the joke about crickets...
karthikv 13y ago
This is a fantastic collection. Thanks for sharing this!
moultano 13y ago
Check out gordon hempton: http://soundtracker.com/ http://soundtracker.com/ He makes fantastic binaural nature recordings. The advantage of binaural recordings is that they have an amazing feeling of "space" so that you forget that you are wearing headphones and that you aren't sitting in a forest. I've made some of my own as well. https://soundcloud.com/moultano https://soundcloud.com/moultano
- kps 13y ago
  Very nice — I'm working to your Fall Creek right now (my code's compiling). Do you use a commercial dummy head or something less costly?
  - moultano 13y ago
    I salivated over a dummy head for years until I found this: http://3diosound.com/ http://3diosound.com/ All of these were recorded with the original model of it.
kamaal 13y ago
When exposed to noise for prolonged periods of time, sometime in the middle noise becomes silence. You don't feel there is noise, unless some turns it off or increases/decreases a little. Its called conditioning the mind. Its a bit like the right pane in eclipse, In years I never remember using it even once, yet its absence will irritate me. Ever get that feeling sometimes when you are surrounded by people in a noisy place and yet after sometime sort of don't even feel that is disturbance.
jmah 13y ago
There are some great hour-long ambient recordings at http://whitenoisemp3s.com http://whitenoisemp3s.com

by kps 13y ago

saidajigumi 13y ago

Thanks for posting this. I needed a reminder of the great stuff lurking in the Internet Archive's "stacks".

justin66 13y ago

This is super cool. Thank you! I have to admit I don't get the joke about crickets...

karthikv 13y ago

This is a fantastic collection. Thanks for sharing this!

moultano 13y ago

Check out gordon hempton: http://soundtracker.com/ http://soundtracker.com/ He makes fantastic binaural nature recordings. The advantage of binaural recordings is that they have an amazing feeling of "space" so that you forget that you are wearing headphones and that you aren't sitting in a forest. I've made some of my own as well. https://soundcloud.com/moultano https://soundcloud.com/moultano

kps 13y ago
Very nice — I'm working to your Fall Creek right now (my code's compiling). Do you use a commercial dummy head or something less costly?
- moultano 13y ago
  I salivated over a dummy head for years until I found this: http://3diosound.com/ http://3diosound.com/ All of these were recorded with the original model of it.

kamaal 13y ago

When exposed to noise for prolonged periods of time, sometime in the middle noise becomes silence. You don't feel there is noise, unless some turns it off or increases/decreases a little. Its called conditioning the mind. Its a bit like the right pane in eclipse, In years I never remember using it even once, yet its absence will irritate me. Ever get that feeling sometimes when you are surrounded by people in a noisy place and yet after sometime sort of don't even feel that is disturbance.

jmah 13y ago

There are some great hour-long ambient recordings at http://whitenoisemp3s.com http://whitenoisemp3s.com