Anyone make their own binaural beats?

[Maria92]

Just wondering if anyone uses Audacity or a similar program to blend their favorite music with binaural beats. I found this great tutorial on youtube...I'll post the link if anyone wants it. So far, I've created two tracks to the musical stylings of Jimmy Buffett and the Bee Gees, each about 5 songs long. They start in the beta waves and slowly move to the thetas. These things will really wipe you out...they also gave me some VERY vivid dreams. I'd also like to know your experiences with the tracks you made...what kind of music you used, etc. Wondering if I could set my binaurals to hard rock and get the same effect.

[destinationmoon]

I'd love the link! I'm thinking about trying binaural beats to helping with my DILDing and using my own music would help so much!

[Maria92]

Here you go! How to make custom binaural beats The tutorial leaves out a few things: first, you're going to want to download a file converter (like Switch), as Audacity only takes .wav files. Second, once you export your project as a .wav file, you want to convert it back into whatever format you usually use (.wma, etc) to save memory, and you'll also want to delete all of the .wav copies you've created. To learn more about binaural beats, go to Wikipedia. Good luck, and don't hesitate to ask questions! Oh, and I also forgot to mention that you're going to want to track your brain waves (i.e., instead of jumping right to theta waves, start in the betas, and then gradually lower it until you're camping out in the thetas or even deltas).

[Maria92]

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...

[detroitLions1970]

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!

[MaGlCMaN]

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!

[Maria92]

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.