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Homemade Subliminal CDs

Posted by michael on from the real-submissions-unedited dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Hello Slashdotters, I am totally stumped on how to do this. I would like to create custom subliminal CDs for my own use. I don't trust the CDs for sale in the stores, after all, who regulates that industry and ensures there actually is a message on them, and if so, what is the message? I would like to create positive motivational CDs, or even recite text from study guides/trivia, you name it, and lay it underneath tracks from a custom CD of my favorite bands. What is the best software to use to create such a beast on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems? And conversely, has anyone used any of the music software on these platforms to actually analyze the contents of commercial subliminal CDs? Any advice would be of use...thanks!"

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  1. Subliminal messages? by lavalyn · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... You will get naked and horny ... ... You want sex now ... ... vi is superior to emacs ...

    Okay, seriously. You want Audacity. It's multi-track sound-editing software, so you can prepare your subliminal messages and just add them into another waveform. Then you save the results.

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    Doing the Right Thing should not be preempted by making a buck.
  2. I Realize This is a Joke, BUT! by neildiamond · · Score: 4, Informative

    Cool Edit Pro/Adobe Audition actually has a feature for this type of thing. You can make biofeedback type of things with it.

  3. Re:Subliminal Messaging by Trigun · · Score: 3, Informative

    type man xsublim on your linux box. A useful utility and a hilarious read.

  4. Re:Submliminal advertising is hokum by quisph · · Score: 3, Informative
    "Anyone in the UK see the program where someone (Derren Brown?) asked a load of advertising people to design a logo and a catchphrase? They made pretty much the exact one that he had put in an envelope before they started.

    Derren Brown is a magician. This is a magician's trick. I've seen it done at least a dozen times, by a dozen different people. It has nothing to do with subliminal messages!

    "Everything that you experience is in your subconscious somewhere - that's why you can get it back out under hypnosis."

    Actually, you can't. It's a popular myth, but it's just not true. Studies have shown that recollection under hypnosis is actually less reliable. Hypnotized subjects, when they can't remember something, have a tendency to make up an answer!