Curious what kind of alarm/ringtone people are rocking. Gentle and subtle tunes or straight up horrible loud alarms?
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.
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.
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.
Piezo.
Wakes up quickly.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.
The acoustic guitar riff from Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
https://www.zedge.net/ringtones/aa54599a-d2a9-3e59-b11c-58b00c29d9ae
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.
Rooster alarm. Only thing that wakes me up without pissing me off.
It’s funny how, back in the day, getting a new phone meant immediately going through all the ringtones to pick the one you liked best. Nowadays, most people - myself included - just leave it on the default. I honestly can’t remember the last time I changed a ringtone or message tone. I might have on my old Nokia N73, but not since. The alarm tone I do change, though - I don’t need to be screamed at first thing in the morning. Just the vibration alone is enough to wake me up.
That said, I’ve actually been considering changing the ringtones for both of my SIM cards. Apparently everyone here has a Samsung, and nobody seems to change their ringtone - so every time I’m at the hardware store and a phone rings, you get like seven builders all pulling out their phones at once. Since I don’t particularly enjoy talking on the phone, every time I hear my ringtone - even if it’s from someone else’s phone - it gives me this little PTSD flash.
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
works every time.
