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Chime Bells
Chime Bells is a set of struck metal chimes with long ringing tails, sounding roughly every two or three seconds. It is the warmest and lowest-pitched of the three small-bell recordings here, with real body under the ring rather than pure sparkle. Suits meditation, slow work, and listeners who want space between events.
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Stack this under rain or a fire, keep the blend, and play it with your screen off. Slo, on iOS, Android and Mac.
Warm bodies and long tails
Each strike opens with a bright attack and then decays over several seconds, and because the tails overlap, the loop never falls silent. The energy is spread across the low mids and the 1–4 kHz range in roughly equal measure, which gives the chimes weight — this is the reason they sound rounder than the brighter bells here. There is a modest stereo spread, enough to place chimes at slightly different positions.
Compared with the other small bells: tiny bells are much higher and leave near-silent gaps, while the glassy windchime is a continuous bright tinkle with no low end at all. Chime Bells sits below both and moves more slowly than either.
Space between the notes
The two-to-three-second gap is the point. People use recordings like this as meditation landmarks — notice a strike, follow its decay, wait for the next — or as a slow, unpressured backdrop for reading and hand work. It is a poor choice if you want continuous coverage of room noise, because the level rises and falls by a wide margin across the loop.
Hear the brighter neighbours on tiny bells and the glassy windchime, or go much deeper with heavy church bells; all are on the sound library index. To keep something running under the gaps, open the chime bells and gentle rain blend in the free sound mixer.
Frequently asked questions
How often do the chimes strike?
Roughly every two to three seconds, with tails long enough that the strikes overlap and the loop never goes quiet.
How is this different from tiny bells?
Chime Bells are lower, warmer, and carry real body under the ring. Tiny bells are much higher and leave near-silent gaps between strikes.
Will it mask background noise?
Not well. The level rises and falls across the loop, so a continuous sound such as rain or brown noise is the better choice for coverage.
How long is the loop?
About 36 seconds.