by zapnosis » March 16th, 2010, 9:35 am
In my experience, there are essentially 2 reasons for using background beats. One, it is something monotonous to listen to. Two, they affect brainwave frequencies. When your brain is highly active, it operates on a high frequency. When you brain is relatively inactive (e.g. during trance), it operates on a low frequency.
When you concentrate your attention on a frequency, your brain converges to that frequency to a degree. Listening to a very slow pulsing tone with your eyes closed will help to induce trance or even sleep. It slows the brain. Binaural beats seem to pulse in your head, usually at low frequencies. It is the pulsing of the sound that causes the effect.
Audacity's tremolo effect varies the volume of an audio track on a certain frequency, meaning that you can make any sound track "pulse", often with the same effect as binaurals, or better.
edit: I realise that for someone who knows about recording technology this must all sound a bit primitive, but I'm only interested in such things as far as they are useful to my projects in mind control. Audacity probably isn't that amazing for home studio use, but I can record with it, edit, generate tones and play around with them, export as mp3 - and it's freeware. I don't even know what ASIO means but I doubt it would make much difference to my files.
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