About this station
A sound world for Fan
Room Fan combines long recordings of box and room fans. Its familiar mechanical airflow is less abstract than generated noise and works naturally for sleep, office focus, and masking nearby conversations.
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Fan noise
Room Fan — Fan Noise for Sleep
The familiar, steady hum of a fan for sleep and everyday focus.
40 min in rotationField recordingContinuous shuffle
Your session
Starts at a different place and keeps going without repeats in each rotation.
Ready when you are
Start anywhere in the rotation. Every passage plays once before the station reshuffles.
FAQ
Questions about this station
Familiarity is most of it. A fan is a sound your brain has already filed as harmless and ignorable, so it fades into the background faster than an abstract signal. It also carries a low-frequency air component that generated noise usually lacks.
Yes — long recordings of box fans and room fans, not synthesised airflow. The small irregularities in real motor and blade sound are what keep it from feeling flat over an entire night.
A fan is essentially a naturally filtered noise source: broadband, but with the harshest highs already rolled off by the physics of moving air. If white noise feels too sharp and brown noise feels too heavy, a fan usually lands in between.
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