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Homemade Subliminal CDs
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michael
on Thu Apr 01, 2004 10:14 AM
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An anonymous reader writes "Hello Slashdotters, I am totally stumped on how to do this. I would like to create custom subliminal CDs for my own use. I don't trust the CDs for sale in the stores, after all, who regulates that industry and ensures there actually is a message on them, and if so, what is the message? I would like to create positive motivational CDs, or even recite text from study guides/trivia, you name it, and lay it underneath tracks from a custom CD of my favorite bands. What is the best software to use to create such a beast on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems? And conversely, has anyone used any of the music software on these platforms to actually analyze the contents of commercial subliminal CDs? Any advice would be of use...thanks!"
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Subliminal Messaging (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Subliminal Messaging (Score:5, Funny)
OK, I couldn't say that without laughing either
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Re:Subliminal Messaging (Score:5, Funny)
[soothing new age music plays]
[Das speaks] Welcome to the superliminal weight loss tape. I will provide you with the gentle encouragement you need to lose weight and be a better you. Are you ready? Sit someplace comfortable, close your eyes, and turn up your headphones. We're ready to begin.
[Das screams] HEY FATTY! GOD YOU ARE FAT! SMALLER PEOPLE ORBIT YOU! EAT LESS FOOD YOU FAT FUCK!
Etcetera. We also have a tape that will make YOU less wishy washy and indecisive and more attractive to girls.
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Re:Subliminal Messaging (Score:3, Funny)
I'm afraid if I go through with it, the causality paradox might cause the universe to explode.
Self-suggestion, not subliminal (Score:3, Interesting)
And on that note, let me point out that what this guy wants isn't exactly best described by "subliminal messages". I think he meant "self-suggestion messages". The difference is that you don't have to be tricked by it. You know it's there, you want it to work, you just let it slip out of your immediate attention, and that's where it makes its effect.
As for the technical means, you just have to record a message and simply mix it with audio tracks. For best results: the message should be spoken by the perso
Re:Subliminal Messaging (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Subliminal Messaging (Score:5, Interesting)
I told the students they were being tested on the ability of typing in words to help them remember their meanings. Meanwhile other words and definitions were being flashed on the screen. At the end of the session (10-15 mins i think) they were given a test with both sets of words, and only the subliminal words were counted.
I tested 3 varying durations of the messages, and one of the durations actually had noticeable score above the statistical average for guessing. I was getting psyched. Then I realized I needed a control group too, where I didn't flash anything on the screen. It turned out the control group got nearly the same score as that one above-average group.
I did statistical ANOVA analysis, and basically there was no significant correlation between the group scores and the flashing duration.
It was still a fun project to do. And I got to present the project at the Monmouth Junior Science Symposium [monmouth.edu] too, which ironically happens to be running today and tomorrow.
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Re:Subliminal Messaging (Score:3, Informative)
You can't flash words any faster then the computer screen updates. Back in the Commodore 64 days, I was able to read up to 10-digit sequences, no matter how "quickly" you flashed the digits, because the television works on a 24
Re:Subliminal Messaging (Score:3, Insightful)
I don't know about that... In the movie "Fight Club" I found out what those "cigarette burns" (to use fight club's words) mean... I had noticed them long before.
And, although it would be flattering to think of myself as "quick", my reflexes are pretty normal... I remember mentioning them to several of my friends and they saw them too.
Although I will admit that I play a lot of FPS's, so maybe I have "trained" mysel
Re:Subliminal Messaging (Score:3, Funny)
Where can I find a subliminal masseuse?
Re:Subliminal Messaging (Score:5, Funny)
One is giving a subliminal massage right now.. but don't realise it!!
I guess this is a good point as any to insert my probably untrue friend-of-a-friend story. This guy went to Thailand and went to a massage parlour. Anyway, he got this great sensual massage and at the end he's pretty excited, and the woman notices and says to him "you want masturbate?"
So, he eagerly agrees, and she disappears for a while. He thinks she's getting ready, washing her hands or something, so he waits. And waits. And waits.
Eventually she sticks her head back round the door and says "You finish yet?"
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Re:Subliminal Messaging (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Subliminal Messaging (Score:3, Informative)
I know it's April 1 but... (Score:5, Funny)
I don't trust the CDs for sale in the stores, after all, who regulates that industry and ensures there actually is a message on them, and if so, what is the message
April 1, 2004: Aluminium foil sells record amounts worldwide. History will refer to it as "The Slashdot-Bauxite Phenomena" which seems to predominately strike teen->30ish single male geeks.
Re:I know it's April 1 but... (Score:5, Funny)
This is not true. Many of the government's newer brain-scanning and subliminal suggestion waves are designed to have an impact through traditional tin foil. Aluminum foil, while not as effective overall, is quite effective against these newer control beams.
The proper foil hat to prevent mind control and reading is comprised of two layers, one of aluminum and one of tin foil. Just be sure to press the two sheets together very tightly, as there is some evidence that a control beam getting through the first layer might be reflected back by the second, causing a resonance that can build up in the gap between the layers. This resonance can cause massive headaches and occasional head-explody.
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Re:I know it's April 1 but... (Score:4, Insightful)
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Submliminal advertising is hokum (Score:2, Informative)
You have nothing to worry about, because subliminal advertising is not effective. [snopes.com]
Re:Submliminal advertising is hokum (Score:3, Interesting)
When you are driving down the road and you see the big golden M, do you suddenly get hungry?
When asked for a beverage do you ask for a "Coke" or a "Pepsi" or a "Sprite"? (For giggles I ask for a cola, around my parts people look at me funny.)
When you are buying something at the store, and are presented with 3 options, do you automatically assume the most expensive is the best?
When you need to blow your nose, do you ask for a "Kleenex?"
Re:Submliminal advertising is hokum (Score:5, Interesting)
Anyone in the UK see the program where someone (Derren Brown?) asked a load of advertising people to design a logo and a catchphrase? They made pretty much the exact one that he had put in an envelope before they started. And how? He got the taxi that they came to the office in to drive a certain route, and he planted certain things, logos, words, and images along the way. It all goes in. Everything that you experience is in your subconscious somewhere - that's why you can get it back out under hypnosis. Anyway, back to my circular-breathing Zen chanting back-slapping.
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Re:Submliminal advertising is hokum (Score:3, Informative)
Derren Brown is a magician. This is a magician's trick. I've seen it done at least a dozen times, by a dozen different people. It has nothing to do with subliminal messages!
"Everything that you experience is in your subconscious somewhere - that's why you can get it back out under h
More apr 1 jokes? (Score:2, Funny)
Are you too? (Score:5, Funny)
I would like to create custom subliminal CDs for my own use.
Anybody else creeped out?
Re:Are you too? (Score:3, Funny)
I wonder if this one is really going to use them for personal reasons though... Sounds to me like it's just the next logical step in their War against Piracy.
Subliminal messages? (Score:5, Informative)
Okay, seriously. You want Audacity. It's multi-track sound-editing software, so you can prepare your subliminal messages and just add them into another waveform. Then you save the results.
Enough with the April 1st jokes (Score:2, Insightful)
whole year to prepare after all!
Better than last year (Score:4, Interesting)
Remember last year when every story (almost twice the normal amount it seemed like) was obviously completely false? I have to say that the stories this year a much better. Likely false, but there is enough behind them that they could be true. Slashdot is doing a much better job this year, I'm enjoying the stories.
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That was your April Fools joke right? (Score:3, Funny)
Just spped it up (Score:5, Interesting)
BS (Score:5, Funny)
Umm... hey hottie... nice iPod... here, listen to THIS mp3 I have...
Re:BS (Score:5, Funny)
--trb
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Re:BS (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:BS (Score:3, Funny)
custom subliminal CDs (Score:5, Funny)
Dear God (Score:2, Insightful)
Aphex Twin has subliminal pictures (Score:5, Interesting)
Why worry? (Score:5, Funny)
Subliminal advertising and the Navy (Score:5, Funny)
Lisa: But you have recruiting ads on TV. Why do you need subliminal messages?
Smash: It's a three-pronged attack. Subliminal, liminal, and superliminal.
Lisa: Superliminal?
Smash: I'll show you. [opens the window, and shouts at Lenny and Carl, who are standing on the corner] Hey, you! Join the Navy!
Carl: Uh, yeah, all right.
Lenny: I'm in.
Re:Subliminal advertising and the Navy (Score:3, Funny)
Homer: "Lisa, that's a load of rich, creamery butter."
You're too late (Score:3, Funny)
Begone! (Score:3, Funny)
Once I learned the TRUTH I BURNED all my Pat Boone and Mandy Moore CD's! MUSIC IS EVIL!
Stop what thou are doing now unless you want to Burn in a Lake of Fire!!!!
Simple. (Score:5, Funny)
Behold, the power of suggestion.
Re:Simple. (Score:4, Funny)
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Multitrack editor (Score:4, Interesting)
DO NOT make it an mp3/aac/ogg or any other compressed format as that will drop the "unheard" information from the file. That would defeat the purpose. You need to save the file as aiff or any other PCM format.
Studies on whether or not this actually works are inconclusive. It may depend on your receptiveness to the method. Good luck.
Here's a surefire way (Score:5, Funny)
if you use subliminal tools that are proven to be
very effective by people with the
experience in the areas of consciousness,
memory and mental capacity. If you just believe
every quack out there there's no telling the
mess you can get into. So don't trust every
offer by every amateur with a web page.
Nobody will tell you the bad results. In fact,
everyone will say they have good results.
You need to do your research well.
Subliminal Message #1 (Score:5, Funny)
old subliminal message tapes (Score:3, Informative)
Subliminal messaging definitely does work, but maybe not in this format of sub-audible talk under a soundtrack. It's used all the time in visual print advertising.
To answer the question: just record a message track, mix it in with your music track and adjust the volumn so it can't be consciously heard. Use cooledit. A five yo child could do it.
I Realize This is a Joke, BUT! (Score:4, Informative)
Use Cool Edit! (Score:3, Interesting)
This is a real way of influencing your state of mind, not necessarily exact content, but being able to train your brain's rhythms (alpha, beta, theta) at a certain frequency where the effect your meditation or excitement is most useable.
Not bullshit: Take two tones, one at 700 hz, the other 705 hz, and play them in stereo headphones, left/right configuration. What you perceive is the classic 'beat note' you might hear while say, tuning a guitar. This beat note is a FIVE hz tone (the difference), which under normal circumstances is waaay to low to hear. What ends up happening (this has been studied) is that your brain unconsciously begins to train itself at the frequency of that note you 'hear'. so if you want meditational frequencies (theta: 1-3 hz?) you set it to that and then put those tones behind some listening material. You can also do something like change the tone from a 3 hz seperation up to a 17 hz one over the course of 15 miunutes --- listening to this can 'move'' your state of awareness from a deep mediation to a state of extreme awareness. or vice versa, if you just got off of work and want to relax. anyway, all this talk of subliminal messages; this is the real thing.
njoy.
Mini-mini-HOWTO (Score:3, Interesting)
A few years back I ran across patent #5,159,703 [uspto.gov], which claims a method for subliminal audio. The jist of the method is to frequency- or amplitude-modulate the "message" with a carrier wave sufficiently higher than the range of hearing (for me, about 16KHz, YMMV). You then mix this with the music track.
CDDA supports up to 22KHz, and most speakers/headphones claim a frequency response up to 20KHz, so this gives about 4KHz of bandwidth for the message, which is roughly the same bandwidth as voice telephony.
I never got around to actually seeing if it actually worked (just because it's patented, doesn't mean it's valid), but you're welcome to try ...
Subliminal... (Score:4, Interesting)
Subliminal messages are in the range above conscious hearing. This is generally agreed to be 20KHz. Therefore, you would take the spoken portion, and boost it by 20KHz, then add in the music at the normal frequencies.
Now, the real trick here isn't how you record it, but how you play it back. If your audio goes up to say, 25KHz -- you better make sure your speakers/headphones go that high, or it will be a completely useless excersize.
Now, depending on what you are trying to achieve, you might try something else instead. Look into doing binaural audio beats. They are very simple to produce (20 lines of Java, for example). To work correctly, they would require headphones and for best results you do NOT mix it with any other sounds.
The goal behind the binaural audio beats is to cause your brain to resonate at the same frequency as the sounds, thus putting you in a different mental state (alpha, beta, theta, etc) which could result in a hypnogogic state (between sleep and awake) which might help achieve whatever results you are looking for.