Find your room's noise
Start with the sound pattern, not a promise. These guides distinguish steady drones from cycling machinery, speech, vibration and sudden events.
Machinery
Choose these when a motor, fan, compressor, or electrical source has a settled state. Capture during that state, then recapture only when it changes. Inspect a new, hot, sparking, or mechanically rough source first.
Make AC hum less distracting
A steady fan drone may be easier to make less noticeable than a compressor that starts and stops.
Who this is for: people dealing with this specific sound pattern.
A steadier background around humidifier hum
Masking can be worth trying for a motor drone, but intermittent bubbling is less predictable.
Who this is for: people dealing with this specific sound pattern.
A background around fridge hum
A fridge compressor is intermittent, so a captured profile may only fit while it is running.
Who this is for: people dealing with this specific sound pattern.
Shape noise around fan drone
Fan drone can be steady, but variable load and coil whine often change faster than a single capture.
Who this is for: people dealing with this specific sound pattern.
What masking can do for a steady buzz
Inspect an unexplained electrical buzz first. Masking is not a safety check.
Who this is for: people dealing with this specific sound pattern.
Room and building sound
Choose these for sound entering or filling a room. A steady airborne bed is the best fit. Vibration, speech, horns, and changing events call for lower expectations and often source or building remedies.
A background for road hum
A distant, steady road bed may become less noticeable; horns and impacts remain hard to mask.
Who this is for: people dealing with this specific sound pattern.
Living with a neighbor's HVAC hum
A neighbor's HVAC can travel through structure as vibration, which a speaker may not cover well.
Who this is for: people dealing with this specific sound pattern.
A steadier background for shared offices
Background sound may make a steady office bed less prominent, but it does not analyze or remove speech.
Who this is for: people dealing with this specific sound pattern.
Health-adjacent guides are deliberately not published in this beta.