SBaGen is free software, and should come with various waveform scripts you can experiment with.
I don’t know of any recommendations for a particular binaural track or waveform parameter set that would have been somehow verified to cause a specific mental response better than other types of tracks.
I’d love to see some blind testing of this brainwave stuff to see whether it’s more than placebo.
Doesn’t seem too hard to do. Just do a blind comparison of genuine binaural beats carefully crafted to induce a state of concentration or whatever, and random noise or misadjusted binaural beats. It probably requires two people though, the tester and someone other than the tester to create the audio files and give them to the tester without telling them which is which. The tester should preferably be a binaural beats virgin—they should never have heard binaural beats before.
Something along the lines of the above would probably work, but I haven’t thought about the experimental protocol in detail. If someone actually goes ahead with this, obviously they’re gonna have to flesh it out and agree on a more precise protocol.
Personally, I couldn’t be the tester because I’ve listened to binaural beats before and might recognize them. I might be able to be the fake audio file creator, but I’d have to look into it more to make sure I can create something that doesn’t accidentally have binaural beats in it, etc.
SBaGen is free software, and should come with various waveform scripts you can experiment with.
I don’t know of any recommendations for a particular binaural track or waveform parameter set that would have been somehow verified to cause a specific mental response better than other types of tracks.
I’d love to see some blind testing of this brainwave stuff to see whether it’s more than placebo.
Doesn’t seem too hard to do. Just do a blind comparison of genuine binaural beats carefully crafted to induce a state of concentration or whatever, and random noise or misadjusted binaural beats. It probably requires two people though, the tester and someone other than the tester to create the audio files and give them to the tester without telling them which is which. The tester should preferably be a binaural beats virgin—they should never have heard binaural beats before.
Something along the lines of the above would probably work, but I haven’t thought about the experimental protocol in detail. If someone actually goes ahead with this, obviously they’re gonna have to flesh it out and agree on a more precise protocol.
Personally, I couldn’t be the tester because I’ve listened to binaural beats before and might recognize them. I might be able to be the fake audio file creator, but I’d have to look into it more to make sure I can create something that doesn’t accidentally have binaural beats in it, etc.