Thread: Anyone make their own binaural beats?

Yikes! Hold on a minute! The tutorial was mistaken in showing you how to create your own beats!

As it turns out, the right channel beat is the left channel frequency PLUS the variable...so if you had 100 in the left ear, and 82 in the right, you wouldn't have a frequency difference of 18...it would be 82, which is beyond useless. If you'll excuse me, I have a few tracks to remake...

Originally Posted by Mario92

Yikes! Hold on a minute! The tutorial was mistaken in showing you how to create your own beats!

As it turns out, the right channel beat is the left channel frequency PLUS the variable...so if you had 100 in the left ear, and 82 in the right, you wouldn't have a frequency difference of 18...it would be 82, which is beyond useless. If you'll excuse me, I have a few tracks to remake...

82 might be beyond useless for lucid dreaming, but higher frequencies around that spectrum can get you pretty wired. Once I tried 90hZ, made me feel like I had downed a few strong coffees - and the speed of my thoughts was off the chart.

Also, keep in mind that isochronic tones elicit a stronger neural response than binaurals, and are too quite easy to make.

Good luck!

Originally Posted by Mario92

Yikes! Hold on a minute! The tutorial was mistaken in showing you how to create your own beats!

As it turns out, the right channel beat is the left channel frequency PLUS the variable...so if you had 100 in the left ear, and 82 in the right, you wouldn't have a frequency difference of 18...it would be 82, which is beyond useless. If you'll excuse me, I have a few tracks to remake...

i'm trying to learn how to make my own beats by using audacity as well..

i'm not sure what you're saying here.. lets say i wanted my binaural beat to be at 5 hz.. so i would put 100 in the left channel, and 105 in the right?

i can't find anywhere online that clearly explains this

edit: after messing around with this some more.. i had a thought that seems to make sense, which is always good lol..

ok.. assuming you're using the same audacity plug-in as me.. (binaural tones with surf 2) it seems only logical that the creator of this plugin would make the default settings to act as a sort of guideline.

if you don't get what i'm saying look at it like this.. ok so the first thing you do is open audacity. second, go to project and then click on new stereo track. after that click on generate, then click "binaural tones with surf 2"... ok, since this is a "fresh" audacity (meaning we just opened it therefore all of the settings will have been reverted back to default) then the settings seen at this window will be already workable. why would the creator have the default settings provide an example that wouldn't be already workable?

ok so that means if you're correct in thinking that the right channel frequency must be set to the left channel frequency plus the desired hz number, then why would the default right channel frequency be set to 17.5 when the default left channel frequency is set at 100?

hopefully you can see what i'm saying - i tried explaining it as clearly as i can.. btw i'm not assuming i'm correct in thinking this.. i would just like some people that have messed with this to express their opinions about my understanding. thx!

You are correct. The left-channel tone is a constant, but the right-channel tone is a variable. The right channel is equal to the left channel plus the variable. (i.e., if you wanted a 5 hz frequency, you'd put 100 in the left channel and 5 in the right channel, rather than 105). At first, I, too, assumed the programmer was mistaken, but since then I've noticed that he programmed in a working default.

thanks for your quick reply mario..

i'm glad we're on the same page

I'd like to start off by saying: POST NUMBER 200! YAY!

Binaurals are great, but I've come across something called Isochronic tones. They're supposed to work better than binaurals, and if you already have audacity, the hard part is over! They're actually easier to make than regular binaurals, too.

Here's the link/tutorial: http://isochronic-tones.blogspot.com...sing-sine.html

Originally Posted by Mario92

I'd like to start off by saying: POST NUMBER 200! YAY!

First of all: Congratulation!!

I have a programme on my Ipod called Ibrainwave. You can change the frequency to what you think is the best. I tried it once but almost got sick. That means it does something to you. What frequency do you use?

It shows 4 hz = sleep and 6 hz is meditation. I think when you use just somewhere below 6 hz your brain will be almost awake which is perfect for LD

It's a good one to try this again, I hope I will not be sick