Curious what kind of alarm/ringtone people are rocking. Gentle and subtle tunes or straight up horrible loud alarms?
Alarm is the hypnotoad sound. No ringtones for calls, just vibration.
I use a 14400 baud handshake.
I made my own from scratch at one point. Perks of being a sound designer lol.
Could you please share it?
It was years ago and I don’t think I have it anymore. But I felt guilty I didn’t have anything to give, so I went ahead and put this together just now: https://files.catbox.moe/0smvcl.mp3
It’s really good! Thanks! Might use it as my alarm, actually! :-)
Yeah, I find a lot of alarm defaults are way to stress inducing. An alarm just needs to be heard. Not give you a heart attack.
https://navidrome.30p87.de/share/dKT4RKtkCF
The first sound gives me a heart attack now
I have an analog alarm, and when ever I hear an old fashioned phone ringing I get a rush of adrenaline and a feeling of existensial dread.
Damn, thats not bad.
The acoustic guitar riff from Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
https://www.zedge.net/ringtones/aa54599a-d2a9-3e59-b11c-58b00c29d9ae
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
works every time.After replacing most of my mid-high frequency hearing (starting from 1000Hz and nosediving thereafter) with tinnitus - no tone, just vibration. Rattling away in the cradle does the job.
On the bright side, I am rarely woken or kept awake by noise.
On the bright side, I am rarely woken or kept awake by noise.
I almost wish I had tinnitus then because I’m woken up by any one of my four roommates opening and closing doors or the construction a block away that starts at 7am on the dot.
Roomies are temporary, but the scree in your ears is forever. I’ve adapted - it has been my unwanted yet constant companion for decades.
Others can mentally struggle with it, especially if onset is sudden and permanent from otherwise normal hearing. Fairly high up the symptom list for brain tumours as well, so that’s just swell for new sufferers that now need their head inspected.
Protect your ears, kids. We only get two and they’re very easy to damage in today’s noisy world.
I sampled Beastie Boys - Get it Together. The break where Q-Tip says, “Phone is ringing…oh my god”, and then a little part of chorus after that “get it together…see what’s happening” looped.
Piezo.
Wakes up quickly.Rooster alarm. Only thing that wakes me up without pissing me off.
For a while I had Willem Dafoe’s “Haaaark! Hark, Triton” speech from The Lighthouse as my wake-up alarm. After a couple glorious weeks of startling awake to the curses of a crazed lighthouse keeper, my partner used the marital veto and I changed it back to the default gentle jingle. Haven’t messed with it since.
I used to have Buddha Bar - Solitude as my alarm, but after a month or so I found myself associating it with waking up and it lost its calming effect on my morning. I’ve since resorted back to whatever my phone defaults to for minimum damage to sounds I like.
Talk radio station. Starts at low volume and builds up slowly. Calm voices are the most relaxed sound to wake up to. Tried all sorts of other sounds and they’re all too abrasive to wake up to.
