Binaural MP3 Encoding <- Will It Affect The Binaural Beats?
I have been asked this excellent question a lot during the last week.
Will encoding or compressing the binaural beats into mp3 affect the binaural beats?
And since it is such a highly technical question I decided to ask my sound engineer and then ‘dumb down’ the answer into a language we can all understand 
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After extensive talks and testing with my sound engineer we have discovered that mp3 compression can affect the binaural beats.
IF the creator uses too much compression or does not encode the channels independently it will affect the audio.
But after significant research we know that we can compress the mp3 while encoding the channels separately and still have the binaural beat affect but this only possible due to having the best professional software which allows this.
“Nevertheless, never re-encode the mp3 files, just in order to preserve max quality.”
I hope that helps,
Sincerely,
Paul Kleinmeulman
Australia
P.S. All 12 Binaural Beats audios at http://www.MyMindShift.com are converted the right way.
If I will encode binaural to mp3 with 48 kHz and 320 kb/sec will it work?
That is a very high bitrate and sampling frequency. My sound engineer says it is possible but not optimal.
Sincerely,
Paul Kleinmeulman
Australia
What would be optimal?
I mix all my files at 320 kb/sec.
From what Ive read elsewhere you can mix binaural beats with ambient/what audio files you wish,rather than just listening to the pure binaural beat.
Will this lessen the effect?