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> Discovering new white noises? Washing machine, hair dryer, forest, see, bar, wind, workplace noises?

Those are noise, but not white noise. White noise has all frequencies at equal intensity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_noise

This is like how white light has all frequencies of (visible) light. There are other "colours" of noise too, like pink noise and blue noise, that have different mixes of frequencies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_of_noise



I know it is not technically white noise (it's just relaxing noise, really), but I appreciate your comment, noise colors are a fun subject.

My sloppiness came from the fact that, as I have seen, in the YouTube noise video world, 95% of the videos have the "white" label in the title, even if they aren't technically white.




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