British Cosy Hours

Wind sounds

Gusts round the chimney. Free, live and never looping.

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This is wind heard from indoors: a low, moving rush that swells into gusts and falls away again, with a thin whistle round the chimney. It is made live, so the gusts never come in the same order twice.

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How the wind is made

Wind is noise with movement in it. Here a deep noise is passed through a filter whose pitch drifts slowly up and down, and its loudness is pushed to a new level every few seconds. Those two together give gusts: a rise, a hold, a falling away.

In the window, the trees lean, the smoke from the cottages blows flat and the inn sign swings on its bracket as you turn it up.

A winter night

Wind alone can be bleak, which is sometimes what is wanted. For something kinder, add Fire underneath so there is a warm room for the wind to be outside of, and a little Rain for a proper November.

A black rain cloud emptying itself in grey sheets over a flat sea.
Seascape Study with Rain Cloud, John Constable, 1824 to 1828. Public domain.

Questions

Is this wind or white noise?

It starts as noise, but white noise is flat and still. This moves: the pitch wanders and the strength comes in gusts, which is what makes it sound like weather.

Can I make it howl?

Turn Wind right up. The whistle round the chimney gets stronger with it. It stays a country gale rather than a film storm.

Does it loop?

No. The gusts are chosen at random as you listen, so no stretch of it comes round again.

The hanging sign of British Cosy Hours: gold lettering on a dark board, a sleeping cat and a robin under the moon.
Next door: Fireplace sounds. The sign of British Cosy Hours

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