Photosonix UtraBass User manual

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by Jeff Labno and Snezana Zdravkova
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and their use with AVS Binaural Beats
Sensory rhythms
for mental fitness!
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ultraBassTM Headphones
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About the authors of this book
Jeff Labno has been in the Light & Sound Industry since
1980, when he founded Altered States MindGym. Currently, he is
consulting as a product specialist.
Snezana Zdravkova is one of the principal designers of
PHOTOSONIX products and written materials.
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About PHOTOSONIX
Thank you for your interest in Light and Sound Relaxation and our
products. You have purchased the utimate LowBass headphones for
your light and sound relaxation machine. We hope this booklet helps you
understand the features, the benefits and the possibilities. And that you
will enjoy your relaxation system for many years to come.
We first began manufacturing electronic equipment in 1981. In 1989,
we applied our expertise in microprocessor-embedded technology to
manufacturing light and sound systems (also known as AVS audio
visual stimulation devices). We feel that we have developed the most
diverse, and complete line of light and sound relaxation systems. We
offer systems for home users who like to keep it simple, for home users
who like all the features, for professionals such as therapists, for
researchers and for commercial usage.
Our line of relaxation products incorporate many industry firsts, such as:
choice of light color for glasses, PVStim glasses for use with eyes open,
hemiStim glasses for hemispheric specialization, midiStim for use with
brainwave biofeedback, bi-color glasses (using two different colors),
downloading sessions from the Internet, units with custom programs for
healthcare professionals, dual binaural beats and dual monaural beats,
multi-user systems, integrating breath pacing with light and sound, sine
wave light technology, and Light WeaveTM light technology.
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About the ultraBassTM Headphones
After an extensive search and testing of many options, we are pleased to
bring to you the ultraBass (Low Bass Frequency Response) headphones.
We chose this model because it offers the low frequency response that
many other headphones are not sensitive to and are not capable of
detecting. In pursuit of excellence in sound quality that the AVS experience
needs, and because we offer several AVS models that utilize sessions with
low frequencies, notably the Nova Pro 100 and InnerPulse, such quality
headphones were needed.
First, let us start by saying that the LowBass haedphones are a great way
to enjoy any music or audio stimulation. But for that you need not read this
booklet. For that you just put the headphones on and start the music. This
booklet is only aimed at helping you use the headphones to expand on the
quality of Binaural Beats sound and your AVS experience.
Binaural Beat frequencies in the low pitch ranges can be used in many
different ways. Learning the basics of how binaural beats are created will
help you even if you are not interested in making your own version of
sessions with them. In this booklet we will provide enough information for
you to find your way in the enjoyment of the binaural beats. By trial and
error you will be able to discover your preferences and enhance your AVS
experience.
Enjoy.
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What are Light and Sound systems?
The frequency ranges of Light and Sound sessions are based on basic
brainwave states (see page 13). They are general guides and they will
not work the same for everyone. This is the reason we offer so many
sessions and tone combinations in our systems, the variety helps most
find what is suitable and enjoyable for them to use.
Strobe light has long been known to change brainwaves, such as
looking at the flickering light of a campfire. The same is true for strobe
sound, such as taking a walk on the beach, listening to the sound of
ocean waves breaking on the shore. In both situations, the result is a
more relaxed state of mind.
Light and sound systems uniquely combine these two sensory
stimulations. By combining light with sound, brainwave transformation
is much more efficient than by just using one of the senses (light, or
sound).
While light stimulates the front of the brain (cortex  logical thought
process), sound is processed by the back of the brain (limbic 
emotional process). The combination of light with sound stimulates both
the front and back of the brain at the same time. This helps to balance
the activity of the front with that of the back of the brain by increasing
the activity of both at the same time.
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Who Uses This Technology, and Why?
Light and sound machines were first used for experimental therapy in the
1970s. Flickering light and sound rather quickly transition people from
thinking about their daily to concerns to being in a more deeply relaxed
state.
Deep states of relaxation were deemed conducive for therapists to help
people make positive changes very quickly. Very much like hi-tech self
hypnosis. Light and sound technology is now often used in conjunction with
hypnotherapy to augment hypnosis programs.
In the mid 1980s, businessmen in the New Age community began to
promote this technology as the ultimate high, because the lights in the
glasses produced an amazing array of colors and patterns, with your eyes
closed. Meditators also found the kaleidoscopic light show, at times looks
like a mandala (spiraling meditation chart), useful to help quiet the mind.
In the late 1990s, the use of light and sound once again grew amongst
therapists to help patients relax, control their stess, practice breath
exercises, meditate and recently to help children and adults who suffer
from learning challenges, such as ADD (attention deficit disorder).
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Quick Start
Low Frequency Binaural Beat using ultraBass Headphones
The ultraBass headphones enable you far superior use of the low
binaural beats frequencies (and sessions designed with them) that our
machines are capable of. The headphones can add a great enhance-
ment of the Audio Visual Stimulation Light and Sound experience in the
low frequency binaural beats. Try it, you will not be disappointed.
1. Turn your system on.
2. Press the down button until the display reads oPc (operator
control).
3. Press play, and wait for the countdown (10, 9, 8).
4. Press the select button (8 times) until you access the tone
selection (display reads PFr).
5. Press the up button (3 times) until the display reads bb for
binaural beats.
6. Press the select button (once) until the display reads 7.81 (for
Frequency 1 [F1] selection).
7. Press the up button until the display value reads 30 (30 Hertz).
8. Press the Select button (once), the display will read 128 (128
Hertz [P1} setting).
9. Press the down button until the value (128) lowers to 40 Hertz.
10. Wearing your headphones, manually change F1 and P1 up
and down until you get the desired result, based on how it
makes you feel.
11. Suggestion: have a pen and paper nearby to record the F1
and P1 values, take notes as to their effect on how you feel, for
future sessions.
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What Are Binaural Beats?
Binaural beats are auditory brainstem responses which originate in the
superior olivary nucleus of each hemisphere. They result from the
interaction of two different auditory impulses, originating in opposite ears,
below 1000 Hz and which differ in frequency between one and 30 Hz.
For example, if a pure tone of 400 Hz is presented to the right ear and a
pure tone of 410 Hz is presented simultaneously to the left ear, an
amplitude modulated standing wave of 10 Hz, the difference between the
two tones, is experienced as the two wave forms mesh in and out of
phase within the superior olivary nuclei. This binaural beat is not heard in
the ordinary sense of the word (the human range of hearing is from 20-
20,000 Hz). It is perceived as an auditory beat and theoretically can be
used to entrain specific neural rhythms through the frequency-following
response.
Various Uses Of Audio With Embedded Binaural Beats
Uses of audio with embedded binaural beats that are mixed with music or
various pink or background sound are diverse. They range from
relaxation, meditation, stress reduction, pain management, improved
sleep quality, decrease in sleep requirements, super learning, enhanced
creativity and intuition, remote viewing, telepathy, and out-of-body
experience and lucid dreaming. Audio embedded with binaural beats is
often combined with various meditation techniques, as well as positive
affirmations and visualization.
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Where to find additional information and learn more
Smith, J.C., Marsh, J.T., and Brown, W.S. Far-Field Recorded
Frequency Following Responses: Evidence for the Locus of
Brainstem Sources. Electroenceph. Clin. Neurophysiol. 1975, 39, 465.
Smith, J.C., Marsh, J.T., Greenberg, S., and Brown, W.S. Human
Auditory Frequency Following Responses to a Missing Fundamen-
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Starr, A., Wrege, K.S. Binaural Interaction in Human Auditory
Brainstem Evoked Potentials. Neurol. 1981, 38(9): 572-580.
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Yamado, O., Yamane, H., & Kodera, K. Simultaneous Recordings of
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Choices of binaural beats in PHOTOSONIX Systems
bb (binaural beats) waver up and down in volume, and, as such, are
much more relaxing than strobe tones. Pioneering researchers, investigat-
ing the impact of sound on human behavior, developed beat frequencies
for precisely that reason.
Beat frequencies happen when two sound waves of different pitches occur
at the same time. The two pitches of sound interact with each other, and
the result is a new pattern, a sound wave which wavers up and down in
volume at the frequency that represents the difference in pitch between the
two sounds.
bbS (binaural beats with surf) Many people have told us that it is one of
their favorite tones, because it is quite pleasing to the ear, and deeply
relaxing. You are mixing two of the most relaxing tones.
dbb (dual binaural beats) dual binaural beats were first experimented
with by Robert Monroe. He used them to induce out-of-body experi-
ences. His main formula was to use combine a beta frequency to keep you
alert, with a theta wave, to induce a dream state. The idea was to induce a
state of mind awake, body asleep.
When it comes to dual binaural beats no one is exactly sure what state of
mind the combination of two brainwave states will actually produce.
Different people will have very different experiences with the same
combination. For that reason, Robert Monroe used a whole lot of different
combinations in his signature series, The Gateway Experience, so that
just about anyone would find a combination that work well for them.
You can do the same. If you experiment with dual binaural beats, you will
see what combinations work well for you.
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Where to find additional information and learn more
Lane, J.D., Kasian, S.J., Marsh, G.R., and Owens, J.E. Binaural
Auditory Beats Affect Vigilance Performance and Mood. Depts. Of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 1997, Duke University Medical
Center, Durham, NC.
Loizzo, A., San Martini, P., Venturini, R., Zapponi, G.A. Interaction
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Neher, A. Auditory Driving Observed with Scalp Electrodes in
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Choices of binaural beats in PHOTOSONIX Systems
dSb (dual monaural binaural beats) This tone allows you to create a
different brainwave frequency in each ear. Sound heard in the left ear is
processed by the right side of the brain, and sound heard in the right ear
stimulates the left side of the brain.
The left side of the brain is responsible for analytical thinking, math, and
logic; whereas the right side deals with abstraction, art, and creativity.
Using dual monaural beats, you can adjust the activity in each side of the
brain, or hemisphere, to either be more logical, or creative.
If you want to be more analytical, then you would adjust the beat frequen-
cies in the right ear so that they are faster than the frequency in the left ear.
To be more creative, you then want the frequency in the left ear to be
faster than the right ear. Faster beat frequencies would be in the alpha and
beta ranges, above 8 Hertz. Slower frequencies would be in the theta and
delta brainwave states, below 7 Hertz.
The use of dual monaural beats is quite new to the field of light and sound,
therefore, there is not a lot of documentation on exactly how its effects
really work. There also is not an exact science as to what each side of the
brain really does. While the right brain pertains to creativity, such as
processing music, many trained musicians use the left brain when playing
music. This highlights the fact that the brain is much more complex than
any model can define, and that you will need to experiment in order to
find out what actually works for you.
Where to find additional information and learn more
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Auditory Evoked Brainstem Potentials in the Guinea Pig During
Monaural and Binaural Stimulation. Hear-Res. 1981 Nov. 5 (2-3): 271-
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Frequency Following Responses to Monaural and Binaural Stimuli.
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