Whereas white noise adds subtle suspense, keeping players on edge. "It’s perfect for building tension," Kubiak explains, "like the faint static of an untuned radio." Pink noise can also be used ...

For babies and adults alike, the best white noise machines produce calming sounds ... powerful for my room but would be brilliant in an office full of busy brains that would rather hear a calm ...

whereas white noise is more like flat static. Why bother with doing this? Mainly because building things is fun, but there is also the idea that this is better at blocking out nuisance sounds from ...