What rain and fire give you together
Rain carries this one. It is a wide hiss that keeps going, and hiss is what softens sounds at the pitch of doors, footsteps and a TV in another room. The fire adds close, dry detail in the gaps, which is the part that makes it feel like you are indoors and the weather is not. Both are recordings, so both keep changing, and neither holds a steady line the way generated noise does. Nothing here reaches the deep end, so a bus outside or a neighbor's bass still comes through; brown noise under rain is the mix built for that.
Using it to close the day out
Press play while you tidy up, make tea, or move away from screens for the evening. A sound you only use at that hour becomes a cue, though that is your habit doing the work rather than the audio. On a wet night it blends with the real rain outside, and on a dry one it fills a room that feels empty. Keep it under conversation level so you can hear the door, a phone call or someone in the next room, and pause it when you need to listen to something properly.
Lean it toward the window or the fire
For rain against the glass and little else, take the fire down into the high twenties. For a cabin feel, bring the fire up near 42 and ease the rain back a touch. If the two seem to be competing, lower the master volume first, because natural recordings blend better when they are quiet. Headphones bring out far more crackle than a speaker across the room, so a separate setting for each is normal. Wait a minute between changes, since both recordings drift on their own.
Explore the sounds in this mix
Listen to each layer on its own: Rain and Fireplace. Or start from scratch in the free online sound mixer.
Frequently asked questions
Which one is louder to start?
Rain leads at 55% and the fire sits at 37% underneath it.
Can I fall asleep to it?
You can if it suits you, though a fire crackles unevenly and that keeps some people awake. The mixer timer will stop it after 15, 30 or 60 minutes.
Will an ad interrupt it?
No. The player is free, there are no ads in the audio, and there is no account to make.