Delta34 minHeadphones recommended

Frontier session · G16

Three Stage Descent

A staged journey: 12 Hz → 6 Hz → 1.5 Hz, over 20 minutes.

Choose the full transition or begin at the advertised audio target. You can scrub and extend either path in the player.

Audio movement

Frequency journey

How the rhythmic pulse embedded in the sound changes from the opening moments to its destination.

Three Stage Descent frequency journeyThe embedded pulse moves through 12 Hz → 6 Hz → 1.5 Hz, creating distinct phases instead of one straight ramp. The target begins at 20 min and then holds for 14 min. This is the modulation rate embedded in the audio, not an EEG reading.DeltaThetaAlphaSMR13.76.80Target holdHzStartTarget · 20 minEnd · 34 min
Multi-stage path

The embedded pulse moves through 12 Hz → 6 Hz → 1.5 Hz, creating distinct phases instead of one straight ramp. The authored target begins at 20 min and holds for 14 min.

Why this journey

Exploratory listening

These sessions foreground the engine’s less conventional behaviors so you can hear how the signal design changes the experience.

How to use it

Give the transition room

Comparing unusual trajectories, delivery modes, envelopes, and modulation techniques. Start quietly and let the ramp unfold instead of judging the session in its first minute. The target then holds for 14 min by design. You can also start directly at the target, scrub the journey, or extend the hold in the player.

Signal, not a scan. The line shows the modulation rate generated in the audio. It is not an EEG reading and does not promise that brain activity will follow the curve. Listening responses vary.

Under the hood

Signal specification

Every audible behavior is published. The values below describe the sound engine—not a biological dose or guaranteed effect.

01

Journey

Beat start
12 Hz Alpha
Beat target
1.5 Hz Delta
Ramp
20 min
Session length
34 minutes
02

Sound field

Carrier
128 Hz
Modulation
Isochronic
Modulation depth
0.9
Envelope
Sigmoidal
Duty cycle
50% on
Harmonic mix
8%
Noise field
Deep Brownian
Spatial orbit
0.012 Hz one turn every 83s
03

Playback

Delivery
Isochronic, Monaural or Binaural
Listening setup
Headphones — the 128 Hz carrier is below what most speakers reproduce
Available in the player

Choose the spatial feel

This session starts in isochronic mode. You can change how the beat is delivered without changing the frequency journey, or add a Shepard-Risset carrier drift for a continuously falling timbre.

Monaural
Two tones summed before they reach you, so the beat exists in the air rather than being built in your head. Smoother and less percussive than isochronic, and it works on speakers.
Binaural— needs stereo headphones
Two carriers a few hertz apart, one per ear. The beat is constructed in your brainstem, so it needs stereo headphones to exist at all.

New to these terms? Every row above, explained in plain language.

Design character

How this one is built

The collection that exercises the parts of the engine nothing else reaches. Native binaural, monaural and poly-rhythmic sessions rather than isochronic ones with alternatives, alongside multi-waypoint beat curves and the only duty cycles in the catalog that are not 50%. Organized by technique rather than by outcome, which is why the bands range from 1.5 Hz to 22 Hz inside one collection.

Listen responsibly

Brainwavest is a wellness and relaxation tool, not a medical device. Session names and guidance describe design intent, not a promised physiological result. This session runs on a 128 Hz carrier, below what a phone or laptop speaker reproduces — use headphones or it will sound almost silent. Start quietly, and never use rhythmic audio while driving. Read the full safety notes.

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