About White Noise MP3s.com
White Noise MP3s.com is dedicated to sharing soothing ambience, drones, and environmental white noise soundscapes, incorporating select sounds created both by nature and humans — air conditioners, fans, office equipment, appliances, machinery hums, waterfalls, birds chirping, leaves being rustled by the wind, et al. — to create a “sanctuary” of calm when listened to.
White Noise MP3s.com is solely owned and operated by Karen Ramirez in Toronto, Canada. I approach source material from every possible angle and utilize extensive programming to exploit a multitude of sonic tranquilities using both the obscure and the obvious, found sounds, natural and computer generated sounds, combinations of field recordings, and my own zany inventions, to make sure that each soundscape delivers its own attractive audiodisiacal ambient effect.
With this digital haberdashery of simply spiffing white noise soundscapes at your avail - and the hallowed, sacred power of the internet - far be it for you to be short on sleep, relaxation, tinnitus relief, and ambience to write your doctoral thesis to.
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Each MP3 is encoded at 192 kbps for quality and at least an hour in length. I personally take an interest in the satisfaction of each and every customer. I personally guarantee satisfaction to every customer with a 60 day no quibble money back guarantee or free replacement. I may be contacted at [email protected]. If you have purchased an MP3 and are unsatisfied, please contact me - I won’t bite.
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White Noise MP3s.com is solely owned and operated by Karen Ramirez in Toronto, Canada. I am a composer and conceptual sound designer based in Toronto, Canada, currently doing freelance audio production work for various studios by day, and a stealth cookie ninja by night. I have been involved in electronic music for over 8 years as a musician, composer, producer and sound designer, and my sound design and production music have been broadcast on TV worldwide. I graduated from York University with an Honours BFA in music with studies emphasizing sound design, electronic music composition, recording and mixing. While on campus I composed, recorded, engineered and produced music for a radio show, Donut Soda, for 3 1/2 years and interned at CMFX 96.3FM.
Throughout the naughts I had developed hyperacusis and tinnitus from a noise trauma incident where the sound from the airbags deploying in my car reached over 170 decibels when I was hit by a stupid drunk driver at a red light. Apart from being dazed, I didn’t really notice much afterwards - but in the weeks to come, I had developed annoying ringing sounds in my ears that just wouldn’t go away whenever I tried to sleep or whenever it was completely silent, unless something in my vicinity was generating sound. Sleeping was extremely difficult and retarded for me unless there was a constant, soothing hum running to relieve my tinnitus - such as from an air conditioner/fan/shower/faucet.
That was when I started to develop an incredible passion for ambient, atmospheric phonography and environmental white noise. I am an avid field recording enthusiast, and am almost always found with a portable recording device nearby. Many of the sounds I capture invariably become raw material for new soundscapes and musical concepts, and refining recording techniques, updating studio and recording equipment has been a continuous process.
I also know how to make great guacamole.
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It’s what you hear when all the audible frequencies of sound are combined at the same density and time. It’s kinda like white light, which is white as a result of the whole spectrum of colors being brought together. It comprises over 20,000 frequencies, and is used primarily as a sleep or relaxation aid.
The actual sound produced by white noise is comparable to a fan, air conditioner, rainfall, or ocean waves. It’s a gentle tone that can be found everywhere in nature and even in your home from the sink running in the kitchen to the computer fan in your room.
Because white noise combines all frequencies of sound ranging from high pitches to very low tones, it’s very effective for masking unwanted and annoying sounds.
What is tinnitus?
Tinnitus is that annoying high-pitched ringing or whining sound perceived in your ears when it’s completely silent. Usually you can’t hear yourself think when this happens. The experience isn’t too far from discomforting.
I have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD). Why does white noise help me concentrate better and be more productive?
How do low-pitched soundscapes alleviate the ringing sound of tinnitus?
Actually, a team of researchers from University of California, Irvine discovered that a low-pitched sound applied to a patient by a simple MP3 player suppressed and provided temporary relief from the high-pitch ringing tone associated with tinnitus.
Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng, Ph.D., research director of the Speech and Hearing Lab, first thought of treating a patient’s tinnitus with a high-pitched sound, a method called “masking” that is sometimes used in tinnitus therapy attempts, but he ruled out that option because of the severity of the patient’s tinnitus.
So an opposite approach was explored, which provided unexpectedly effective results:
A low-pitched, pulsing sound – described as a “calming, pleasant tone” of 40 to 100 hertz of frequency – which, when applied to the patient through a regular MP3 player, suppressed the high-pitched ringing after about 90 seconds and provided what the patient described as a “high-level of continued relief.”
Of course white noise MP3s provide only temporary treatment for tinnitus, but they still make for great ambience and sound masking.
Actually, if you think about it - in today’s hectic world of loud, obnoxious neighbors and retarded roommates, resorting to white noise in the convenience of MP3s is a wise investment.
Radio/television static is high-pitched and hurts your ears.
White noise machines and sound conditioners aren’t really great at being portable and masking heavy truck rumbles/pounding/low bassy oontz.
Of course you’d be like, “hello, earplugs” but earplugs don’t mask the ringing sound of tinnitus - they just amplify it. Tinnitus is heard most often under silent conditions.
Are air conditioners, fans and heaters energy efficient?
A pair of headphones and a couple of white noise MP3s wrapped in delicious, cochlear amenity… why not?
