Rain Sounds
What you're hearing
- Pink noise
- Steady rain (off to start: raise it to add it)
- Ocean waves (off to start: raise it to add it)
Most sounds here are generated live in your browser, so nothing long downloads before it plays. The full mixer adds more sounds, other versions of each, and real recordings.
Questions
- What is pink noise?
- Random noise whose power falls by about 3 dB for every octave you go up, so every octave holds the same energy. It sounds even and natural. Source: Wikipedia: Colors of noise.
- Is pink noise good for sleep?
- It has been studied more than other colours, often played in short bursts during deep sleep in a lab. Playing it all night at home is a different thing, and overall the evidence is still weak. Source: Riedy et al., “Noise as a sleep aid: a systematic review”, Sleep Medicine Reviews, 2021.
- Pink or brown noise?
- Brown is deeper and darker; pink has more of the middle and top. If brown sounds muffled to you, pink is the next step up.
- Is it free?
- Yes, for now everything is free, the real recordings included. There is nothing to sign up for, nothing to install and no ads. Later some real recordings may move to a paid option; the sounds made in your browser will stay free.