Thread: plz help me understand binaural beats..

Binaural beats are low frequencies such as what you mentioned. I'll try my best to explain how they work. It's been a little while since I learned, but I can get the gist across.

Basically, they play two sounds, both different frequencies, so for example, we'll say 600 and 615. Each sound will be played into a different ear ( I think it matters which ear receives which sound, but can't remember for sure). Then the brain will hear both those sounds, but combined, you will hear the difference. So if the frequencies we mentioned above are used, you will hear an "imbalance" of two sounds. Kind of like a vibrato effect. It is the difference of the above frequencies, so in my example case it would be 15. But one of the sounds, the low, isn't actually real. Your brain creates it because of what it's hearing. The one your brain creates is the binaural beat, the low frequency that they claim to have. Binaural beats are supposedly effective at lowering your states of consciousness.

So hopefully I helped clear that up just a little bit. There's more science-y stuff to it, but that is the basics of it.

Great explanation to add on to Majority's.

http://www.web-us.com/thescience.htm

Not a good read if you know nothing about them. A little steep but with the above explanation this site explains in very good detail all about binaural beats. I recommend reading the whole page. Fascination stuff.

I only recently tried them with headphones and it was some pretty crazy stuff. Very powerful if you're receptive.

ok i suppose my thread title is a bit misleading..

i actually somewhat understand binaural beats.. however my curiosity is directed more towards the youtube site that i provided a link to in my original post. i was just wanting other people's opinions on whether or not this site offers legitimate binaural beat music.

the description, which i also quoted in my original post, shows where said youtube site makes the claim that they indeed use binaural beats in their music, however they have posted music videos with such titles as 528 hz and 852 hz.. which would lead one to believe that if a song is entitled "528 hz" then that is the frequency at which the song is set to. BUT that frequency does not fall within the binaural beat frequency range.

so i was just wondering if there's something i'm missing or am i right in assuming that the youtube page is mistaken?

Your question was answered. Two higher frequency sine waves are played and difference between the two sine waves is perceived by your brain. Example... 400Hz in one ear and 430Hz in another is perceived as 30Hz. Otherwise you couldn't listen to binaural beats with headphones at all since no headphones can produce such low frequencies. That link I put up explains everything in very good detail.