• Vandals_handle@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Vin Scully(Dodgers), Dick Engberg(Angels, Rams), Chick Hearn (Lakers) and Jiggs McDonald(Kings) on my 9 volt transistor radio well hidden under the covers. So well hidden that it ended up switched off and in the drawer by morning.

    Breeze, rustle of leaves, sounds from birds and insects. Fan if no breeze.

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    8 months ago

    I never played sleepy music until I was a teen, and every night I played Cake - Fashion Nugget. Great, mellow tunes, and I learned ALL the lyrics subliminally!

    Ok, I did listen to it awake, so maybe it wasn’t completely subliminal, but it’s been a while and I bet I could still sing 80% of the album from memory.

    Nowadays, it’s just the fan or AC running.

    EDIT: I typed the wrong Cake album originally.

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    I shared a bedroom with my twin, so no audio. I prefer the sound of the AC on over off though, lovely background sound of nothingness.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeM
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    Silence, it was usually my pose rather than the background noise that affected sleep. When I sleep, I often look like I was carried out of the chamber of secrets.

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    As a kid, it was the local oldies station for a while, then swapped to this long-form recording of ocean surf my parents had on CD.

    These days a fan is fine, though I’ll put on rain or surf white noise, or ambient music, with headphones if I’m travelling somewhere & it’s noisy.

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    As a kid, CD documentaries about constellations and astronomy

    Modern day, video essays about the lore of soulslikes and random media I’ve gotten sucked into

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        I was lucky and my parents were able to get me one of those ceiling projection globes that makes the shadows in your room look like a night sky in a forest clearing, been thinking a lot about inspirations from growing up because I was able to find one of those rare actual starter homes we’ve all been told of in myth and legend and have started to hype myself on all the ways I get to make it mine

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.world
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    It’s gonna take a bit of explaining, so bear with me.

    You guys know Al Jazeera, right? The news channel that everyone loves. Well uh… in the 2000s, they had other non news related television networks. A series of sports channels, a documentary channel, and… a children’s channel (we’ll call it JCC for short). Depending on the time period, at night they don’t broadcast programs at all, and instead they aired an animated test card that looped all night long. Before 2009, it looked like the EBU color bars, but they actually made it seem alive. I don’t remember that one very fondly. From 2009 to about 2012-13, it was just the channel logo in a night setting, but with extremely soothing music (a remix of the channel’s theme song) and sound effects that actually genuinely made me fall asleep on multiple occasions.

    I actually managed to find recordings of both test cards on this French website, right here.

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    Nothing as a kid. Now I listen to a detuned playlist of fascinating, but dry science/history/tech videos.

    My current rotation is Anton Petrov, Sean Wilsey, Red Wrench Films, and Curious Droid, all played at 85% speed, 95% pitch.

    Edit 95 pitch, not 90.

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      Very intriguing answer ;) If you’ll indulge me for a momen, can you tell me more about how you came to decide on those tweaks

      Been working on some psychoacoustics stuff recently so this is very appropos

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        I slowed it down because it’s more sedate sounding. Even though these videos have relatively even tonal qualities, they sometimes speak fairly quickly. I adjusted the pitch only enough to reduce the distortion from the speed shift I just checked and the numbers are actually 85/95, not 85/90. 90% pitch is too unnatural sounding.

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    Robot chicken. Now, I usually have on some kind of space documentary, creepypasta or some long gameplay videos.