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Relax

beach waves · 15 min

This page opens on the Relax mix: beach waves, a real recording, with green noise underneath. Silence is the alternative, available simply by not pressing play.

Which sound suits a sitting?

The Relax mix pairs beach waves, a real recording of surf at Punta Allen, Quintana Roo, Mexico, at 85%, with green noise at 25% underneath. The waves rise and fall slowly, with no sudden sounds in them, and green noise adds an even floor rather than any movement of its own. Green noise on its own, and every other recording, including night wetland's frogs and crickets after dark, are one tap away if you would rather try something else.

How long should it play?

With Pro, the Relax mix is set to thirty minutes, and the timer also offers 15, 60 and 90 minutes, or all night, which is eight hours. Without Pro, it plays for fifteen minutes a day. The sound fades out over about half a minute at the end, so the end of the sound can mark the end of a sitting if you would like it to. The length can be changed before you press play, or partway through, with the new length counting from that moment.

Speaker or headphones?

Either works; the mixer plays the same way through both. A speaker leaves the room's own sound in the mix alongside it, which is worth trying against headphones to see which sits better with a particular sitting.

Updated October 2026

Where the sound comes from

Beach waves. Recorded by Felix Blume on November 1, 2015, at Punta Allen, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Public domain (CC0). License terms Original recording on freesound.org

Green noise. Made in your browser, not a recording.

Listen safely

This is a sound, played back through whatever speaker or headphones you already own. It doesn't diagnose, measure, or promise anything about how you sleep, focus, or feel — it's just noise and a handful of real recordings, mixed the way you like them.

Keep the volume low enough that you'd still notice a smoke alarm, a phone ringing, or someone at the door. If you fall asleep in headphones, choose a volume and a pair you'd be comfortable wearing all night, and a session length that ends when you'd want the sound to stop.

If you use this near a baby, keep the speaker several feet from the crib, never inside or clipped to it, and keep the volume low — the same care you'd take with any sound machine in a nursery.

If your relationship with sound, or with sleep, feels difficult rather than simply restless, a doctor or audiologist is the right person to talk to. This is a mixer, not a clinician.

Can I use a different mix, or build my own?

Yes. Night wetland, jungle rain and the noise colors are one tap away, and with Pro the mixer supports up to six sounds at once if you want to build a mix of your own.

How loud should it be?

Keep the volume low enough that you would still notice a smoke alarm, a phone ringing, or someone at the door. The listen safely note below has more detail.

Does this page claim any effect on stress or mood?

No. This page describes what is playing and how long it runs. What a sitting practice itself does for you is a separate question, and not one a sound mixer is positioned to answer.