Sound Therapy CD

Technical document about sound therapy CDs

Sound Therapy analogue sound on digital playback

Throughout the Sound Therapy literature we have emphasized the advantages of analogue sound. For many years Sound Therapy was only available on cassette tape so that the entire process was delivered via analogue sound.

We have now introduced a product range on CD, which uses digital sound for the final playback stage. However, 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.

We have always stood for the superiority of analogue sound, and we still do. Analogue sound is natural, whole sound, and this is important for the therapeutic process of Sound Therapy. Through out careful, highest quality reproduction methods, we can now provide a product with the advantage of analogue processing on a digital playback medium. This is how we do it.

The Sound Therapy process

Analogue live recording capture as much as possible of the true essence, variation and power – and of course the high harmonics – in the music.

Analogue activation with Electronic Ear keeps the power and variation in tone intact. This process activates the ear muscles and stimulates the entire nervous system.

Analogue progressive filtering reflects the natural sound heard in the womb, where the high frequencies are augmented and 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 sound integrity while balancing and fine tuning the whole production.

Analogue to digital conversion. This is the most important part of the final digital production and hence is done on the highest industry standard equipment in a world class sound reproduction studio.

Playback. The final stage of portable playback technology in now offered on a digital medium, as market changes mean that analogue cassette playback cannot be supported indefinitely. However, as there are also drawbacks with cassette technology, such as wow and flutter, tape wear, tape head wear and moving components parts, we believe the end result of doing this final stage on digital does not lose any net value, since we have maintained high quality analogue at every other stage of the production.

Myth: digital to digital conversion is perfect with no loss of quality. This is untrue. There are always errors in digital conversion, so the most often this process happens, the more errors there are. Therefore maintaining analogue technology up until the very last stage is the best way to ensure the therapeutic effect. Our company is UNIQUE today in using this process, as we closely follow the parameters determined by both Dr. Tomatis and Patricia Joudry.

Myth: digital audio programs can be copied on a computer and produce good quality sound. This is untrue. Although you can copy a CD on a computer, or download it from internet, the quality produced is far reduced compared to the sonic quality that is produced on a studio quality audio CD recorder. It is like comparing the little mini-cassettes tapes that used to be used in answer phones to the reel to reel tapes and professional equipment in sound studios.