The creation process
Analogue Live Recording captures the true essence, variation, power, and the high harmonics in the music.
Analogue Activation with the Electronic Ear keeps the power and variation in tone intact to activate the ear muscles and stimulate the nervous system.
Analogue Progressive Filtering reflects the natural sound heard in the womb, where the high frequencies are augmented and the brain is energized, gradually training the ear and brain to greater gymnastic and acoustic heights.
Analogue Studio Mastering is a vitally important way to retain intrinsic sound quality while balancing and fine tuning the whole production.
Analogue to Digital Conversion is done on the highest industry standard analgoue to digital processor in a world class sound reproduction studio to retain musical integrity.
Why is Sound Therapy now on CD?
Up until late 2006, the Sound Therapy listening programs were only available on cassette, as analogue sound is more therapeutic than digital. A digital signal is artificial and does not convey the full range of sound, instead approximating sounds in smaller steps. High frequencies can come across quite distorted when converted to digital.
However, due to the winding down of the analogue industry and limited availability of equipment, the Basic Music Kit, the Family Kit and Advanced Kits are now available on CD, as this is currently the best format available for audio playback in a portable form.
Sound Therapy International is committed to delivering the highest quality studio sound for therapeutic benefit on a portable medium.
Analogue Sound Therapy on Digital Playback
With improvements in technology and a careful transfer process, it is possible to retain the therapeutic elements of analogue sound while offering an end product on CD.
While digital sound is used for the final playback stage, the entire recording, mastering, activation and filtering processes are still carried out on analogue sound, using reel-to-reel tape and a full analogue studio.
The final digital conversion is done using superior technology on real time with the top sampling rate available. Our digital copies are made at slow speed with careful monitoring to retain high frequency information. The use of digital technology only in the very final stage allows us to retain the great majority of analogue qualities.
Why not MP3 or iPod?
Though convenient to carry around, MP3 and iPod are not suitable technologies for Sound Therapy because there is much less acoustic information retained by them. In order to store sound in smaller file sizes, essential elements are lost, particularly the high frequencies and harmonics which Sound Therapy requires.
Any music downloaded from the internet or ripped to your computer from a CD is only a shadow of the original - it loses a large part of its high fidelity, and someone with a trained ear can easily detect its inferiority.