Tag: BINAURAL

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2008/08/11/are-next-gen-binaural-beats-a-replacement-for-recreational-dru/'; Dim the lights, put on your headphones, sit back, and relax; we're going on a journey through the bizarre and controversial world of binaural beats. The concept is simple: When playing two slightly different low frequency tones, one to each ear, a pulsating middle tone will be ...

Look, we get what they're trying to do here. The two "ears" are meant to capture sound in stereo in the same way a human does, therefore producing a better sound picture in playback. The only problem is that your subject, be they human, inanimate or a strange hybrid, is going to be so busy being freaked out by this set of blue ears that they'll forget to make any sort of "natural sounding" ...