Binaural Beats Are Boring… So I Built Something Else | Bisochronic® Studio

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:06]I don't like binaural beats.

[00:00:08]Did I get your attention?

[00:00:10]Yeah.

[00:00:11]Keep listening.

[00:00:13]It's not that they're not effective.

[00:00:15]It's just I think they're kind of boring and lacking depth.

[00:00:21]So, for the past year or so, I've been producing my own complex multi-layered tracks on YouTube that I call Bysiochronic.

[00:00:31]And so far I've had really good uh I've had really good feedback from the audience.

[00:00:38]And so much so that the channel has grown to over 100,000 subscribers, which is insane.

[00:00:47]So, thank you everyone for all of your support uh on this amazing journey so far.

[00:00:54]Now, a lot of you have asked what it actually takes to create these tracks. And some people would also like to make these tracks for themselves.

[00:01:06]So, I'm going to teach you in this video everything there is to know.

[00:01:12]But, I have made a little tool here for you called the Bysiochronic Studio.

[00:01:20]Now, this isn't originally where I make my tracks. I actually make them in a program called Reaper.

[00:01:29]Now, this is a little example of some of my tracks, right?

[00:01:35]I don't particularly want to teach you this program because it's a bit it's a bit complex and it's not for everyone. Uh so, instead, that's why I have put together this studio, which combines all of my architecture in a way that you can pretty much go crazy with it and you're not going to stuff anything up. I've got it all sort of locked in a sense uh to my style.

[00:02:12]So, whatever you choose should really kind of work in a sense.

[00:02:18]So, I'm going to run you through that.

[00:02:21]But, before we do that, I'm going to do a quick little brain warm-up with you.

[00:02:27]So, this is going to be a comprehensive guide on all things binaural, isochronic, and most importantly, isochronic.

[00:02:39]But, we're going to start with the basics first. And if you already know this stuff, that's cool. But, this is still a fun uh a fun way to learn regardless, even if you know it.

[00:02:51]Um now, I would recommend getting some headphones or earbuds.

[00:02:58]If you'd like to pause the track now and do that.

[00:03:01]And when you're back, we will make a start.

[00:03:05]So, I've set up three tracks here.

[00:03:10]Just to explain binaural and isochronic, and we can move forward and get out of Reaper.

[00:03:17]So, I've got the left channel here set up with 100 Hz tone, which sounds like this.

[00:03:32]Now, if you heard that in your right ear, you've probably just got your headphones around the wrong way.

[00:03:37]So, left tone 100 Hz, okay? And in the right channel, I've got 104 Hz, which sounds like this.

[00:03:49]It's a slightly different pitch.

[00:03:53]Um now you might be asking 100 hertz, 104 hertz, what does that even mean? So, if you imagine a guitar string, you pluck the guitar string and it starts vibrating like this.

[00:04:08]It's oscillating, right? If you were to zoom in and slow down this vibration and count how many times it oscillates, for 100 hertz tone, you would count 100 times per second is what the oscillation rate would be.

[00:04:31]So, 100 hertz basically just means 100 times per second, which sounds like this, okay? Now, this is just a solid tone.

[00:04:45]Uh the most basic tone. There's There's nothing to it. It's just a pure pure tone that I've put into the left ear.

[00:04:55]Same thing with the right, except instead of being 100 hertz, it's 104 hertz, okay? So, what is What does this mean?

[00:05:04]Binaural beats are an illusion, okay?

[00:05:08]Did you know that?

[00:05:10]It it's made up of two solid tones, one in each ear, and your brain perceives the difference between the two tones, right? In this case, it's going to be a 4 hertz difference. So, that 4 hertz means four times per second.

[00:05:27]Now, you're going to hear a wob wob wob sort of sound, and it's going to be like 1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4 every second, okay? And that's what 4 hertz means.

[00:05:40]So, if it was 1 hertz, it would be once per second, so you could count 1 2 3 and that's basically 1 Hz, all right?

[00:05:49]So, I'm going to show you here what happens when you put two solid tones, two pure tones, side by side that are slightly different in pitch, and you're going to hear the wob wob Now, while you're listening to this, if you're able to, take one of your ear plugs out, and not ear plug, ear buds, sorry.

[00:06:12]Or with headphones, it might be a little tricky, but you can still try.

[00:06:17]Take one ear away, and you'll hear a solid tone. As soon as you put that second ear back on, the wob wob wob will come back. And if you do it with the other ear, take that away, turns back to a solid tone again.

[00:06:30]So, I'm going to show you that right now. I'm just going to slide both of those channels up, and you're going to hear the wob wob wob, and just play around for a couple of seconds.

[00:06:52]Do you notice that?

[00:06:55]So, super interesting how when you listen to one tone on its own, there's no wob wob wob, but when you listen to two, you hear that wob wob wob.

[00:07:08]Now, that is your brain interpreting a phantom beat, all right? The difference between these two tones.

[00:07:17]That in essence is how binaural beats work. Two tones, and the difference between the two, that rate is what your brain perceives as a rhythm, and it's actually able to sync with that rhythm.

[00:07:34]It's not quite like you listen to 4 Hz, and suddenly your brain is dialed into 4 Hz. Not quite like that.

[00:07:43]But, your brain is more susceptible to being able to sync with that rhythm, which is called frequency following response. And the more that you listen to these sorts of things, the more you're able to kind of train your brain uh and allow new neural pathways to form, essentially making this um an easier uh process to obtain these states.

[00:08:15]So, what [clears throat] are these states?

[00:08:18]Actually, before I go into that, let me just show you the last channel here that I've got.

[00:08:24]So, I've just shown you what binaural beats are.

[00:08:27]Now, you're probably wondering what are isochronic pulses.

[00:08:31]Well, it's basically just where you switch the tone on and off at that rate. So, with the binaural, you heard the wob wob wob wob four times per second.

[00:08:44]But, now with the isochronic, you're going to hear that same rhythm, but it's switching on and off. So, I'll show you that.

[00:08:57]All right.

[00:08:59]That's what isochronic pulses are essentially. So, if I play all three, we're going to have both binaural and isochronic together.

[00:09:13]Okay.

[00:09:14]That's essentially the principle behind everything that I do, except instead of using two tones for a binaural beat or one tone for an isochronic pulse, I will use multiple layers like the DMT pineal harmonic, for example.

[00:09:35]Let me just give you a quick show of what that sounds like in Reaper.

[00:09:51]Okay. Now, there's a lot going on there, so I don't want to overwhelm you with a program like this. So, we're now going to get out of Reaper into the studio, and this is going to be way more fun.

[00:10:07]Okay, let's get right into it.

[00:10:10]So, there's a quick start guide here, but we're going to skip that because I'm going to be your guide now.

[00:10:18]Sorry.

[00:10:21]So, come down here to the intent builder, right? If you come in and you have a bit of an idea of what you want, I want a sleep track, I want a calm track, something like that. You can just come to the presets, and let me give you an example of what they sound like.

[00:10:38]Hopefully, the volume's all right here.

[00:10:45]>> [music] >> Okay. Or we can just have a pure tone, all right?

[00:10:52]I have an intensity levels and a texture profile, which adds things like wind and drone harmonic layers.

[00:10:59]We can get into all of that later.

[00:11:02]Now, you come down here, I've got different presets that you can choose from, either from a drop-down menu, or you can just sort them by category.

[00:11:12]Okay.

[00:11:13]So, these are all just default presets.

[00:11:15]If you just want to come in and go, "Okay, I want a sleep track or something."

[00:11:20]Or you want a theater track, you could just choose one.

[00:11:28]Okay, just like that.

[00:11:31]This tells you everything that hearing, Uh uh your carrier tone, binaural, everything like that, all right?

[00:11:39]This is just like a quick go-to card once you've made your own uh track, you can basically come back and and see everything here.

[00:11:50]Now, we start here with building our session, all right?

[00:11:56]So, it's start off with a carrier frequency.

[00:12:00]What is that exactly? Well, the carrier frequency, in essence, carries the track.

[00:12:06]It's what everything is kind of built around.

[00:12:09]Now, there's no rules here. You can choose any carrier frequency that you want. So, I'm going to give you an example of what that sounds like, and basically just choose something that's comfortable.

[00:12:29]Actually, I'm going to turn this off and go back to a pure tone, all right?

[00:12:38]Okay.

[00:12:43]This is all the carrier frequency is.

[00:12:48]So, if that feels comfortable for you, if that feels comfortable, maybe you like a bit of bass, you just choose what you want. So, we're just going to go with 100 Hz, all right?

[00:13:06]That's what that sounds like.

[00:13:07]The micro tune, this will just do a micro adjustment. So, if you really want to fine-tune it, you can, okay?

[00:13:18]And then you get your binaural layer, which essentially that's going to be the tone played in the right ear.

[00:13:32]So, if you've got 100 in the left and you had a 10 Hz binaural beat, you'd have 110 Hz in the right ear, giving you a 10 Hz binaural beat 10 times per second.

[00:13:45]And that'll just sound like that.

[00:13:51]Schumann ratio 6 Hz 4.5 All right. So, I have a bunch of presets here if you just want to quickly choose one.

[00:14:02]Now, something that I like to do is use different uh harmonic ratios like octaves. So, what is an octave?

[00:14:14]Well, if you have 100 Hz and you were to double it, you would get 200 Hz, which is an octave an interval of one octave.

[00:14:25]Now, an octave is basically when you go from one note in the musical scale back to that same note. So, C D E F G A B C.

[00:14:36]All right.

[00:14:37]You start at C and you end at C, so that is one octave and then it starts again.

[00:14:42]C D E F G A B C D E F G A B C so on and so forth. It goes up in octaves.

[00:14:49]So, I'll give you a quick example of what an octave sounds like.

[00:14:57]You might have just heard a bit of bass come in then. Now, I'll put the upper octave on.

[00:15:09]All right. So, it's essentially the same note but either an octave up or an octave down.

[00:15:17]All this does is create a little bit more depth >> [snorts] >> and uh immersion to the field.

[00:15:24]So, if we come down again, we've got here the bisochronic pulse.

[00:15:29]So, I showed you before an isochronic pulse is just turning that tone on and off.

[00:15:36]So, we can do that here. Now, I'll Let's go with the lower octave. Let's go upper octave as well, and we'll work off a 4.5 Hz binaural beat, okay? Which will sound like this.

[00:15:51]Now, we can turn on the pulse, and I've got here a whole heap of different ratios, which are locked.

[00:16:01]So, you can pretty much go crazy here.

[00:16:06]Whatever you do, nothing's going to get out of sync because I've got everything locked. The pulse rate is um locked in a ratio with the binaural rate, okay?

[00:16:23]So, I'll give you an example of that.

[00:16:26]I've got a one-to-one ratio for the pulse.

[00:16:29]So, if we turn that on, you can hear the pulse.

[00:16:36]Now, >> [music] >> there are different shapes of pulses, and I generally like sign.

[00:16:54]Okay?

[00:16:55]So, what you can do with the pulse is you can have it at the same rate as the binaural.

[00:17:02]Or you can halve it, double it, right? And if you were to change the binaural, the pulse is going to stay locked uh in relationship with the binaural layer.

[00:17:21]So, it's never going to go out.

[00:17:25]You can see the bionic pulse here actually changes in relation to what the binaural set up. Okay?

[00:17:33]So, I've locked all of this so that you can pretty much go crazy on here and nothing is going to go wrong. Everything is still going to remain uh phase locked uh to some harmonic relationship with the binaural.

[00:17:49]So, you don't have to stress about anything. I've sorted that out for you.

[00:17:54]So, let's go back. We'll play it again. I'm just going to put on a one-to-one pulse.

[00:18:02]Like this. All right.

[00:18:04]Now, I've recently added a feature called ping pong pulse, which essentially it's just pulsing that sound from left to right. Left, right, left, right instead of on, off, on, off, on, off. So, I'll show you what that does.

[00:18:21]And we'll turn up the depth and I'll switch it on and off for you.

[00:18:39]See here how when it's off, the pulse just pulses in the center.

[00:18:45]When you turn it on, it goes left, right, left, right. This just gives you a little bit more immersion and uh and depth again to that pulse uh which can can be great in a lot of instances.

[00:19:00]Okay?

[00:19:02]I'll turn that off.

[00:19:05]And we'll go down here to the next section. Now, we've got the solfeggio and sweep layer. So, I put a lot of harmonics over all of my tracks because again, immersion and depth, it's everything.

[00:19:22]Um Now, solfeggio layers take these with a grain of salt, all right?

[00:19:29]There's not very much science behind these numbers.

[00:19:34]These frequencies have come from a modern-day uh interpretation of the Book of Numbers to get these frequencies, okay? So, there isn't very much scientific credibility behind these numbers.

[00:19:54]The the actual solfeggio system is your do re mi fa so la ti uh sort of system. It It's like a vocal practice to help uh ancient musicians to find particular notes in a scale.

[00:20:12]So, that's what the original solfeggio system is, but the modern-day one uses these frequencies.

[00:20:22]Um I use them because a lot of people a lot of people really resonate with uh with these numbers.

[00:20:30]Um they have a lot of like spiritual importance to people, so I like to include these. I personally like them, but just saying, take them with a grain of salt because this this isn't a clinical uh part of my architecture.

[00:20:50]However, it's not really it's not detrimental per se because I can still I'll show you pulse these layers at the same frequency as the binaural essentially getting the same entrainment effect, and I'll show you that now.

[00:21:25]Okay, that's all that is.

[00:21:29]We can turn it down.

[00:21:34]So, they add a nice uh harmony um to the track, so that's why I incorporate them. And I pulse them at specific rates.

[00:21:48]So, we can pulse the soft video layers here, or we can just have them as a stand-alone tone like this.

[00:22:01]Okay.

[00:22:02]Or we can ping-pong them.

[00:22:08]I might have to turn that on.

[00:22:17]So, you can see how that goes left, right, left, right when it's on.

[00:22:22]Pretty cool.

[00:22:24]Okay.

[00:22:25]Now, the next thing is a low-pass sweep, and this is something that I use on a lot of my layers, especially the harmonic layers.

[00:22:34]Instead of having the tone constantly there, it gradually fades in and fades out just to just to help with comfort more than anything, so I'll show you what the sweep layer does.

[00:22:51]If I bring the sweep period down, you get a better idea.

[00:23:02]6 seconds sort of fades in, fades out.

[00:23:12]So, you can drag this out and essentially have it a better idea of it. You can increase the intensity of that.

[00:23:25]So, that just helps with things like not having a constant tone in your ear.

[00:23:33]It gives it a bit of variety, I guess.

[00:23:37]Moving on to the next section, we have the atmosphere layer.

[00:23:42]So, this is hit and miss with a lot of people. Some prefer it, some don't. But, this is where I've got the pink noise, white noise, or brown noise working as like an atmospheric, I guess, synthetic wind or ocean layer.

[00:23:57]So, to give you a quick idea of that, I'll turn the volume down just so it's not harsh.

[00:24:04]Turn that on.

[00:24:09]All right. That's all it does. It just bit of bit of an airy noise, bit of an atmosphere noise to kind of tie everything together.

[00:24:20]And we can put that onto a pan, so that sound also will drift across from left to right.

[00:24:27]Some people really like it. I enjoy it, but some people just prefer to hear the tones, so you've got the option to switch this on or off.

[00:24:38]Now, underneath I've got a drone, which basically acts like a lower octave, like a bass layer.

[00:24:45]So, if I I'll turn this soft video layer off so we can hear it a bit better.

[00:24:53]But, if I turn the drone on, you may or may not hear this.

[00:25:03]It's a little bit of a bass rumble.

[00:25:05]So, it's just a fifth musical uh harmonic that just helps kind of support the field again, add a bit of a chord structure to the tones, I guess.

[00:25:21]And the same thing applies here to the harmonic stack.

[00:25:24]So, again, the best way to experience this is just to hear it, and you'll have a better understanding of what each of these uh options does.

[00:25:37]So, I can add a fifth or a 12th to the uh the binaural or to the to the harmonic stack, sorry.

[00:25:55]Things like that, right?

[00:25:58]Again, makes it a bit more of a bit more of a chord kind of sound.

[00:26:09]And you can obviously increase or decrease the volume of that.

[00:26:15]We'll come down to the next bit, and we've got our anchor tones.

[00:26:18]This is just like the solfeggio harmonic layers, but there's a couple more here, so.

[00:26:25]Let's put an anchor tone on.

[00:26:28]All right.

[00:26:32]Bunch of different frequencies here that you can choose from.

[00:26:35]And again, you can pulse those, ping-pong those if you want.

[00:26:48]And then, everything again is going at the same pulse rate. So, nothing's interfering here. Everything's a musical uh harmonic uh ratio.

[00:27:02]So, nothing is uh there are no disharmonics or phantom beats or anything like that.

[00:27:09]Now, come down here to This is a really fun one, the architect journey builder.

[00:27:16]Basically, what this is, it allows you to build a journey. So, for example, if you want a 5 Hz binaural beat for 5 minutes, you can do that. And then, after that 5 minutes, if you want it to change down to 2 Hz, you do that for 5 minutes.

[00:27:39]Maybe you could drop it down to 1 Hz for another 5 minutes.

[00:27:45]You can essentially build a journey, and you just switch that on here.

[00:27:50]And it's going to play out after 5 minutes, that binaural beat is going to shift across to 2 Hz smoothly, and then again to 1 Hz, 6, and 4.5. So, you can make your own little journey rather than have the one uh binaural beat sort of frequency the entire track.

[00:28:16]So, this helps to change it up, and you can use these for lots of different things. Like, I've got some templates here for a sleep descent, and it'll just take you gradually down from 10 Hz down to a 1.5, which is great for just settling in to go to bed.

[00:28:38]Uh or when you're waking up, you could have a uh This probably isn't for waking up necessarily, but it's one you could do during the day to bring you from like a 12 12 hertz sort of zone down to 4.5 hertz.

[00:28:58]Uh the focus ramp it brings you up. So, all these different uh templates here that I've got for you, if you don't really know what kind of journey you want, you can just click one and go.

[00:29:14]Then we get down to pretty much the last bit where we can export uh the audio.

[00:29:23]Um and the really cool thing about this is that it's going to come with a little summary and description and everything of all the frequencies you've chosen and a bit of information as well as like a creator card as well, which is pretty cool.

[00:29:40]So, you can save your presets. You would just uh whatever we've got now, we would copy and it uh if you were to paste that in a text file, it would it would show up. You would just copy that code again, click paste, and it will put that file up for you ready to go.

[00:30:02]Now, you can send me uh presets that you've made and I'll listen to them and if I think that they're really cool, I might uh feature them and maybe put them into a YouTube track.

[00:30:20]Um so, I've just got a few things down here about the use, what you can and can't use the tracks for, and I mention about the uh presets if you submit them.

[00:30:36]So, that's pretty much it.

[00:30:39]I'll go back up to the top. Um I think we've covered everything. We've got the pulse, the binaural, and the harmonic layers.

[00:30:51]Um everything's up here, so you can quickly click down to it if you wanted to.

[00:30:56]Um and again, you've got everything that you've put in listed up here in your little little custom card. You could copy the blueprint, rate it, do whatever you like.

[00:31:09]Um essentially, that is the Brainaural Studio. So, you don't have to get Reaper, you don't have to learn how to use a digital audio workstation.

[00:31:20]You can just come in here and make a track, download it, and off you go.

[00:31:30]Now, I hope I have covered everything.

[00:31:32]Um it's quite early for me, so it's very likely that I've forgotten one or two things.

[00:31:40]So, drop a comment, ask question, let me know what you thought. If I've missed anything, please let me know.

[00:31:47]Um and if yeah, if if you want to know more, let me know.

[00:31:52]Please like, subscribe to the channel if you haven't already, and I will see you when the next track comes out.