A steady tone to anchor your sound bath
A continuous Om-like tone to lay under bowls, gongs, and voice in a sound bath
Start a Sound Healing DroneA sound bath is built from sustained, overlapping tones — singing bowls, gongs, chimes, and voice — that ring and decay while a listener rests with their eyes closed. The one thing those instruments do not naturally provide is a constant floor of sound. Between strikes there are gaps, and in those gaps the room, the traffic outside, and a restless mind all rush back in. A continuous drone fills that floor. It is the bed every other sound floats on top of.
Used this way, the drone is structural rather than decorative. It holds a steady root pitch so your bowls have something to be in tune with, it masks the small sounds of the space, and it removes the awkward silence between movements. Whether you are facilitating for a group or lying down for your own practice at home, one unbroken tone gives the whole session a center to settle into.
A low drone gives your bowls and gongs a steady root to ring against and fills the frequency gaps between them.
Continuous sound covers the gaps between strikes so attention never falls back into the noise of the room.
A sleep timer and slow fade let the bed run and end on its own while you play live or simply rest.
For a sound bath you want a tone that is deep, spacious, and uncomplicated, so it supports the live instruments instead of crowding them. Here is where to start with OmTones' controls.
Pick a low Root Note so the drone sits below the pitch of your bowls and gongs and acts as a true foundation. C2 or C3 leaves the upper register open for higher chimes and voice. Deep bass needs decent speakers, so move up to C3 if you are working in a small room or on modest gear.
Best for: The constant floor that every other sound rests on
Turn on Just Intonation for the pure 3:2 ratio that marries well with naturally tuned bowls, and try A4 = 432 Hz from the Tuning System menu if you prefer a slightly warmer pitch. Treat both as tradition and personal taste — they are not proven healing effects, but they are easy to try and cost nothing.
Best for: Matching acoustic instruments and shaping the mood you want
The Sound Bath preset loads a rich, immersive wash that pairs well with live instruments. Push Reverb / Space toward 50–70% so the tone feels like it surrounds the listener, and enable Evolution Mode at Slow with a gentle LFO so the bed breathes rather than sitting perfectly still over a long session.
Best for: A full, room-filling backdrop under bowls and gongs
The aim is to start the drone once and leave it untouched while you play or rest. Here is a setup using the actual controls:
For groups, run OmTones through room speakers so everyone shares the same field of sound. For personal practice, speakers still feel more enveloping than earbuds while you are lying down.
Keep the foundation simple and low. Set the Drone Type to Pure (Single Note) or Fifth (Sa-Pa), choose a low root note such as C2 or C3 so it sits below your bowls, and turn on Just Intonation for a clean, beating-free tone. Add Reverb / Space around 50–70% for an enveloping wash, and enable Evolution Mode at Slow so the bed stays subtly alive across a long session without competing with the instruments you play live.
Be honest here: there is no strong scientific evidence that 432 Hz tuning or specific Solfeggio frequencies produce measurable medical or healing effects. They are best understood as tradition and personal preference. Many facilitators and listeners simply find a slightly lower pitch warmer and more relaxing, and that subjective comfort is a perfectly good reason to use it. Treat these tunings as part of the atmosphere you are creating, not as a clinical treatment.
Find the fundamental pitch of your main bowl or gong, then set the OmTones Root Note to that same note an octave or two below so the drone supports rather than clashes with it. Most hand-hammered bowls are tuned close to natural harmonics, so turning on Just Intonation helps the digital drone marry with them. If a bowl sits between standard pitches, nudge the Tuning System or pick the nearest root and let the reverb blur the small difference.
Yes. For home practice or a small group you can build an entire session on the drone alone. Start with a slow Fade In, run a Fifth (Sa-Pa) tone with gentle evolution and generous reverb, and use the Sleep Timer to set the session length so the sound fades out on its own at the end. It will not replace the texture of live bowls and gongs, but it gives you a complete, hands-free sonic bed to lie back into.
Load the Sound Bath preset, drop the root low, raise the reverb, and let one tone hold the room.
Start a Sound Healing DroneA few pieces that pair well with a steady digital drone under live sound:
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