Infrasound shown to give people the willies:British scientists have shown in a controlled experiment that the extreme bass sound known as infrasound produces a range of bizarre effects in people including anxiety, extreme sorrow and chills — supporting popular suggestions of a link between infrasound and strange sensations.…
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76 - Eric Olsen
you didn't mention the Depends
77 - HW Saxton
ATTN:Tonight on "The Discovery Channel"
at 9:00 PM PST there will be a special
on "Myth Busters"(great show BTW)about
"The Brown Note".
78 - Eric Olsen
thanks HW! but I wouldn't watch with the sound on - too dangerous
79 - Eric Olsen
hmm, American Idol broadcast at the exact same time as The Brown Note - coinkydink? I wonder.
80 - HW Saxton
"American Idol" affects me like a Brown
Note.
81 - E'noch
What notes played together can make the brown note. I had it writen down years ago but lost it.....
82 - TOMBOB
Just to clear this for you, if you make your 'brown note' recordings into MP3s then it'll get cut off anyway, mp3s compress by cutting everything that naturally can't be heard, including everything under 20hz.
83 - monkel
I can't believe how many idiots can't seem to figure out that YOU CAN'T REPRODUCE THIS ON YOUR PC. I know approximately dick about sound waves and whatnot, yet this is so very clear to me! What are you not comprehending? In the words of Mr. Slave "Jesus Christ!"
84 - T.P.
This was the most educational text my school internet has been used to look up. Thankyou.
85 - Nathan R.
As MP3 no it won't work. as an .ogg file, it does. I only have creative 5.1 speakers, but when using Audacity with a rap song (black eyed peas - pump it), i dropped the frequency to 7 Hz, then saved as .ogg, played it back. didn't exactly shit myself, but i did feel extremely light headed and my heart was pounding, as well as my stomach bothering me somewhat.
86 - drifter
is there any way to re-create it on a mac- ibook?
87 - Ph-Alice
While you can possibly CREATE the sound on a computer, the fact is you're going to need some pretty awesome subwoofers to produce it at a volume which will actually affect anything. the likelihood that your computer will play it back with all necessary components, or that you will be able to reproduce it on transportable media is very slim.
88 - Eric Olsen
it will probably take a fleet of alien spacecraft to actually send it amplified through the air
89 - Griff Moore
How do you get the brown note?
90 - Eric Olsen
perhaps read this thread
91 - cookyman
Once upon a time.... what about the black note. In ages gone by, the great mystics new the power of sound. The power to control, the power to pursuad, and the power to anniliate in a manner that could not be traced. Scary it may be.
92 - the wizard
it works on some but just causes emense pain on others and any site that offers the sound was shut down. why , becouse people are affraid
93 - Eric Olsen
there is also the matter of conveying the sound - it would destroy almost any equipment through which it was transmitted
94 - heyhey
Listen to
"Aphex Twin - Smojphace EP"
tracks 2 and 3 (ktpa1 and ktpa2) - titles
both of these give me the chills at certain points (in addition to a headache)
feels like going to a dentist... horrible sounds
pretty crazy
95 - peter deckmen
when i played the brown note my bouls relased and i defaced in my pants causing fecial matter to get on my balls witch gave me shitty nuts.and they smelled for a month.
96 - ssslayer
LOL
I was searching for Brown Tone - Eddie Van Halen's guitar tone.
And look where I am - in deep brown shit.
97 - tom
does any1 have the brown note???
98 - eric
i got great downloadable bass site for 40hz
99 - Ellis
I should let you all know that you can reproduce the brown note with a pair of professional subwoofers. A lot of loudspeakers that specify their frequency range are at the db input level of -3db to 0db. If you took about 30db off of the input level, the subwoofers range will be incredibly increased. Try inputting the note at about -30db to -40db and THEN see what happens.
Now creating the frequency? That's a different matter... It's a case of trial and error.
Please note that if you want to try these stunts please consult your doctor first and have your doctor present when you attempt this stuff.
100 - Rory
NO shit !
101 - Jim
I just read about this in Quirkology. It's a psychology book written by Richard Wiseman, who took part in this experiment. It's pretty interesting.