Curious what kind of alarm/ringtone people are rocking. Gentle and subtle tunes or straight up horrible loud alarms?
I was using the Dragonzord “flute” for a while but switched to the siren from Silent Hill. My partner hates both but if I need a wake-up alarm I need it to flood my body with panic adrenaline.
My parents looked for like six months to find me a Dragon Dagger. One day I was pulled out of school early and I thought I was in trouble. My mum brought me outside to her car, stood at the rear for a moment, then unlocked the trunk. I could hear harps playing and angels singing as it slowly revealed a new-in-lunch Dragon Dagger. It played three songs and had a slashing sound. I was the happiest girl in the world.
I didn’t use its proper name because I didn’t think people would know what I meant but I see now I was foolish.
I was OBSESSED. That hunk was my favorite Power Ranger. My mum made me a Green Ranger costume complete with an EXTREMELY well-made chest shield gold thing for Halloween even before I got my Dragon Dagger. I hear he was a dick on set (the American one) so that makes me sad. But alas.
I still have my Dragon Dagger.
My uncle (very near my age) also had a Green Ranger costume, I think there was a lot of gold lame involved. We generally weren’t allowed toy weapons though so I’m envious of yours.
The edges were all rubber! Child me gnawed the tip of it off, so it’s certainly not pristine anymore.
My alarm is just the default android one, but my text tone is the windows XP fatal error sound.
Love this dude
I use the great fairy fountain from old school Zelda (ocarina of time specifically) as my wake up alarm, as it’s very peaceful to wake to. But still nerdy. It went with Navi going “hey listen!” Every time I got a text ;)
Mostly I use my watch alarm tho, which is vibration that starts gentle and gets stronger, and that’s plenty.
If I get shocked awake I have a panic attack. I try to avoid that.
Fanfare for the Common Man
https://www.mobiles24.co/downloads/s/84880-3-fanfare_for_the_common_man
Kind of a “ready to take on the world” thing happening.
Cuz, you got this!
Disturbed - Down With the Sickness
Dude, we want to turn the alarm off not up!
My alarm cannot be anything with a real melody or I will hum it for hours on. I use some default tune what’s more of a trill, does the job. My text/email alert used to be popping the bottle cap sound, my current phone has some brrp noise close enough to a fart to make me giggle - I’m old but not mature.
As for ring tones, I used to purchase some for pocket change from the last page of the tv guide. All fun and games until all the old relatives started dropping like flies. It just doesn’t feel right to get an invitation to another funeral preceded by the Scissors Sisters ‘I don’t feel like dancing’ or Eamon’s ‘fuck you’. For a long time my ring tone was the old school land line ringing. From the moment I was able to choose the ring tone from my playlist it has been ‘Heavy Cross’ by Gossip. I feel it’s suitable for all occurrences while being only mine.
This stock Nothing alarm tone , really like Nothing sounds so use them for everything !
portal radio song
I love and use the Unsolved Mysteries intro song for calls, and a generic one from my phone for alarms.
Alarm is the hypnotoad sound. No ringtones for calls, just vibration.
I use a 14400 baud handshake.
Just saw your comment after I left time with the same thing haha
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
Damn, thats not bad.
