Introduction to Binaural-beats and brain wave entrainment

[nekrogoblinkon]

i wonder can binural beats effect deaf people

[ibenian]

@nekrogoblinkon well, i know it effects blind people, but i don't know about the deaf people.

[integraleric]

Thank you.

[ibenian]

I've realized that the low quality versions of this video actually don't work well because of the way youtube does resampling. To hear the effect with both ears, and not hear any wobbling with one ear, you must watch in its original quality which is 480p.

[AmyS77]

Odd, I can perceive the wobbling effect just as well when listening with one ear as I can when listening with two. I have however reproduced this binaural beat effect with audio programs capable of producing panned monotonal waves (to ensure that it's a genuine binaural beat and not an artifact of youtube's sound compression), and can perceive the wobble with one ear there as well.

I'm curious as to what this says about the auditory perceptual capabilities of my brain though, :p

[bruceleeC64]

It may introduce the phenomenon, the benefits it claims is differently entirely

[ibenian]

@bruceleeC64 Just search for 'binaural beats', 'brainwave entrainment' on google or wikipedia, and decide for yourself. Again, I'm not trying to convince anyone about the influences.

[Zee96969696]

are you just making this stuff up? you betta not be, otherwise i'm getting confused, i donno whether to believe or not to believe, why don't you give us real scientific articles that support your claims a? braniac?

[ibenian]

@Zee96969696 The purpose of the video is not to convince you to believing any of the influences of this technique on brain. It just demonstrates the phenomenon itself. If you want to learn more, just search for 'binaural beats', 'brainwave entrainment' on google or wikipedia.

[ibenian]

@Zee96969696 Auditory Beats in the Brain Scientific American,1973 by Gerald Oster.

[plurhtid]

What is the name of the song used in this video? The dance-ish one.

[ibenian]

@plurhtid It's a soundtrack (Existence the Sweet) from the VocaTalk free background album. But you can listen the full track here: watch?v=qxXm4Y2OhZI

[ChilloutSessionZ]

common knowledge hidden from you...

[ibenian]

Those are called monaural beats and you don't have to listen with both ears in order to listen to them. The real binaural beats on the other hand require listening with both ears. The fact that you hear wobbling sound even though no such sound is played to your ears proves that it's generated in the brain. However, monaural beats also have similar effect without the proof of your brain being stimulated. Binaural beats can stimulate the brain even when mixed into music at barely hearable levels.

[ibenian]

@ibenian In other words, monaural beats are generated outside and fed to ears, whereas binaural beats are generated in the brain. Since I use them mixed with music + speech, I prefer binaural beats because I can keep them very low while still stimulating the brain.

[WeWillFindEachOther]

Thank you for your explanation.

So if I understand correctly, if one hears with one ear the wobbling it can never be a binaural beat, regardless the technology that was used to put them together.

I mean I just had a conversation with someone, who told me that certain binaural beats, sounds like monaural beats( like you explained) because they were specialy created, but still are binaural beats.

[ibenian]

@WeWillFindEachOther No matter how you call them it's about stimulating brain states. In fact there are other techniques too. For instance in my app I'm also using cross-feed modulation. There's also other techniques. Search "Brainwave entrainment" on Wikipedia and you'll find an interesting article.

[WeWillFindEachOther]

But could be that WMM is just messing things up: )

And therefor perhaps one needs more advanced equipment to add binaural beats to create a video?

[WeWillFindEachOther]

The following thing happend also.

When I downloaded a video with binaural beats from You Tube and converted it with Any Video Converter, into a mp3 , the beat stays intact. No wobbling on one ear, only on two.

Then when I add that mp3 In Windows Movie Maker and create the video(tried it with only that mp3, no voice or music added sofar, all of a sudden the sound completely change and I hear even another sound along with it lol and with one ear it had the wobbling in it aswell: )

[ibenian]

@WeWillFindEachOther If you do any sort of digital processing on an already generated binaural beat track, you may disturb the effect. I guess this is especially true if the digital algorithm ends up compositing left and right tracks to create certain effects like depth. Even digital filter can spoil the whole thing because it can cause phase lag or suppress the frequency. In my app, I add the binaural beat at a proper stage not to disturb its stimulus effect.

[WeWillFindEachOther]

ahh oke I understand.

Thanks for all the info and your time to answer me, much appreciated!!

[WeWillFindEachOther]

Hi Ibenian,

I have a question for you.

Often when I listen to binaural beats on the internet or download them, then I always hear the wobbling effect as I listen to them seperatly in the left as in the right ear, like you explained in your video.

When I listen to your video I don`t hear the wobbly effect only when I listen with both ears at the same time.

So now I am wondering are most of binaural beats fake, on the internet?

I really would like to hear your point of view.

Thank you, Tessa