Alarm is the hypnotoad sound. No ringtones for calls, just vibration.
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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
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.
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.
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
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
works every time.
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
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.
Piezo.
Wakes up quickly.
Birdsong. Sometimes I genuinely can’t tell if it’s real birds or I snoozed my alarm - this morning it was real birds.
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.
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!
A cuckoo bird that gradually increases in volume.
Disturbed - Down With the Sickness
Dude, we want to turn the alarm off not up!
I have my alarm set to Good Morning Jazz playlist via Spotify.
I prefer it over most other alarms since it's less abrupt.
I also have a smart lamp set to turn on at the same time. It slowly gets brighter at a set schedule.
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.
I’m just kinda stuck on whether there is an option to play a non-specific ringtone.
Southwest Airlines "Fasten your seatbelt" chime
Android (Pixel 8) says the name of the alarm I have chosen is "Rad Morning."
Hello Goodbye ringtone chime for 20+ yrs solid now. Target tried to make it theirs for a quick min but that was short lived.
My alarm is the spiderman pizza theme earrape version
Its less about being so loud it wakes me up (but it's one of the reason), its more of I don't want to bother my sibling sleeping next to me.
Always gets me up to turn it off, and now i get ptsd just hearing the pizza theme normally. Like increased heart rate, the urge to mute or turn it off, idk wtf happened but i will have a weird reaction just hearing it normally in a youtube video and instantly closing the video
Shower scene theme from psycho. The idea was it would be shocking enough to wake me up every time. After some years it doesn't work anymore but it's still annoying enough to force my brain to wake up and turn it off (eventually).
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.
This is my ringtone.
My first concert I went to after I started smoking weed! Oh my gawd that was in like 2007
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