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Isochronic Tones Experiment
Due to some recent threads on binaural beats, I've been trying out some different ways of adding Isochronic Tones to my music. In this experiment there are two versions of the same guitar recording. The guitar audio remains untouched, but I have added delays and reverbs modulating at specific frequencies to try to produce different states of mind for each take - one is set to make you feel relaxed/sleepy, the other awake/focused. It works for me, however, I know which one is which - I could just be experiencing some kind of psychosomatic placebo effect.
So, I'm curious what others think. Try IsoChron A and B. Do they work at all? If so, which one does what?
(Recommended: listening times for Isochronic Tones are 10-30 minutes, so you might want to loop the track a few times before trying the other; headphones or speakers can be used, probably best with headphones; DO NOT listen to while driving!)
Download here or on Soundcloud
If anyone is interested in the process:
Guitar (Taylor GS Mini) was recorded into Cubasis 3 using a Tascam iM2. Added some delays (Nembrini Delay3000) set at specific rate frequencies. The audio was then copied to another track with a reverb (DDMF MagiVerb) going into a tremolo effect (Bleass Dragonfly - love this app!), both pre-fader, both set at specific frequencies and 100% wet - no guitar audio output, just effects. The two tracks were then (subtly?) blended together.
Specific values were found using BPM to MS Converter, a really useful app that converts tempi/note values into ms or Hz.
- How did IsoChron A and B make you feel?1 vote
- IsoChron A = awake; IsoChron B = relaxed  0.00%
- IsoChron A = relaxed; IsoChron B = awake100.00%
Comments
I must be totally dumb but I reach a page with:
IsoChron AB.zip
3 items
-macoxs
-IsoChron A.wav
-IsoChron B.wav
and I can't do nothing but "copy file name"
Hey @jo92346, you need to download the zip file (see download button in picture), unzip and play.
(It's the busy season, but I'm looking forward to listening to your latest creations sometime soon. Thanks.)
I like it !!!
holy f! I'm actually dumb indeed!
wow, that is gorgeous!
Thanks for trying out the tones @yellow_eyez @jo92346. Did the tracks make you feel relaxed, alert?
I've attached a poll to collect results.
I think the second track must’ve been the alert track. Reason being, while I can’t say I was relaxed relaxed, I noticed I was paying attention to the song more…wait, I know that sounds contradictory, but what I mean is I started to kinda be less distracted by the outside and just kinda listen to the track, no urgency to get to B. When I listened to B (I was also interrupted tbh so maybe that affected it) I didn’t notice anything particular besides paying attention to the guitar more than A since I was now listening for distinctions/differences…hence my backwards deduction on which was which.
Which tones were used for the respective tracks? Did they work? lol
Did you try it yourself????? (this would’ve been the perfect kickstart to the Guitarists’ Guide haha!)
Can you please post this on SoundCloud or Bandcamp. It sounds like it’s very cool. I would love to hear it, but I’m old school.
Added Soundcloud to the OP - maybe I'll get more than 50 plays with these .
Added poll (again ).
What if they both make you sleepy? Just kidding!
First of all the random clicks in the recording really bugged me and kept me awake.
Other than that the first one seemed to have more resonant effect on my skull, not sure if that’s the tell tale sign.
Great playing btw
Edit. I didn’t fill the poll as I found relaxation in the playing rather than the effects.
Thanks for listening @yellow_eyez @supadom. I'll post which one is which later, hoping to get a few more votes .
Beautiful track, preference was A but can’t explain why, certainly wasn’t anything to do with being awake or relaxed as both applied to both versions 😊
Thanks for listening @GeoTony (again).
Results: the few people who listened appeared to guess correctly and preferred IsoChron A. Here are the details:
IsoChron A: delay and tremolo/reverb effects set at 4Hz (Theta wave) - which is supposed to induce a trance, dreamlike state.
IsoChron B: delay and tremolo/reverb effects set at 16Hz (Beta wave) - supposed to induce an alert, focused state.
Reasons for trying this experiment:
As far as I’m aware isochronic tones (and binaural beats etc.) are either listened to unaccompanied (i.e. with no music) or played together with some meditative, repetitive music. My goal was to surreptitiously blend the isochronic tones into the music via the tempo, reverb and delays - there's a reason why certain rhythms and tempos are more often used than others. Using this method any music can contain tones/beats without the listener knowing - that sounds a bit devious now I’ve written it down. Anyways, I'll keep experimenting.
If anyone else is interested in this experiment I would be happy to blend in an Isochronic (Background) Tone to your music.
👆same here. Found the music very relaxing and soothing, lovely playing. That would account for a lot more than the delay frequency. In this case it would probably add to the relaxing effect but I don’t think you can make this track “non-relaxing”
This sounds very intriguing. I would be most interested in hearing the results on this one. I’m mostly interested in the trance, dreamlike effect. I enabled downloads if you care to try.
@Dav This uses one of the Blocs Wave vocal samples we talked about.
Thanks for listening. This is the interesting point of the experiment: can the same piece of music be used to make you feel differently. Here's an isolated clip of just the reverb/tremolo effect of IsoChronB blended beneath the guitar. Listening to this on its own, especially in headphones, makes me feel very 'non-relaxed'. Even though you cannot hear this clearly in the IsoChronB mix, it is still there and will (maybe) have an effect.
Thanks for the interest. Downloaded.
Tempo is 120bpm if that helps. Feel free to adjust the volume.
Thanks, @Paulieworld. I like it, will big up some vocal packs.
With every sound pack you get drums, bass, melodic, percussion, FX, and vocal. All of the sound packs have a “theme”. It’s a pretty good deal. Many of the sounds are pretty good. The others, not so much. The levels are inconsistent, and the zero crossing don’t always loop well. I often edit them in Cubasis and it helps. In the Edit window, you can change the volume and adjust EQ to some degree. You can also change the tempo and pitch of the samples. That can be very useful. In fact, I’m using a few right now.
I think they were mostly designed with EDM in mind, but you can get pretty crazy with them. They all cost less than a Big Mac. What could possibly go wrong? Have fun!