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Of course, my natural inclination was to go out and try as many of them as I could find after watching that news report. Tried a bunch of ones on youtube, as well as the ones on the wikipedia page. No noticeable effects, however. Perhaps vuvuzelas have ruined obnoxious droning noises for me.

I will say that going from the noise to sudden quiet afterwards is sort of jarring, once you had acclimated yourself to the drone. But I think that's just a quality of all white noise, not a drug-like effect.

I already have a digital drug anyway, and it's called Black Label Society.

Edited, Jul 16th 2010 12:18pm by Eske

Order Of The Black is going to be sick!

I went to YouTube to look up some of that stuff. Some is just electronic music, but some can make some interesting effects.

Now, by effect I mean something like this: One frequency in one ear and a different frequency in the other, but combined makes it sound like an alternation between those two frequencies. This one, for instance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQK_uZEPRaM&feature=related

But all this is is noise. Maybe musical noise, but still just noise.

How can people be against this?

Placebo.

As a trained musician I keep wanting to tell someone to adjust their instrument. The "binbeats" or whatever are how musicians tell if they're in tune with the rest of the orchestra or not. One person plays a tone, and everyone else plays and adjusts their instrument to match it, until all the wiggly sounds are gone.

Relaxing? It's annoying as heck to me. Someone is out of tune.