focus Beta band
Deep Focus & Flow State
14 Hz beat · 440 Hz carrier · 5 phases · 60 min · intermediate
The longest session in the catalogue and the one with the most phases. Built to run underneath an hour of work rather than to be listened to.
The beat and carrier in the heading are the main phase — the part of the session it was built around. They are not what plays for the whole length. Every programme here opens in the alpha band, wherever it is going afterwards, and most come back up before they finish. The full phase plan is on this page, and it is the honest picture of what you would actually hear.
Hear it
Thirty seconds rendered at the parameters of the phase named above — not an excerpt cut from a finished file, because sessions are built to order and yours does not exist yet. The figures the player draws are computed from the audio or from plate mathematics; none of them is a measurement of your hearing.
What this actually is
Fourteen hertz is just inside the beta band, at the slow end. Fast enough to read as a flutter rather than a swell, slow enough that it does not become the thing you are paying attention to.
Beta runs from thirteen to thirty hertz. The beat is fast enough to be heard as a distinct flutter rather than a swell, and every beta programme sits inside the three-to-sixty-hertz band that matters for photosensitivity — which is why the visual layer, if you add one, never flashes at the beat.
The full phase plan
Five phases across an hour, and it is the only programme here with two main blocks rather than one. Twenty-five minutes at fourteen hertz, a three-minute reset back down to ten, then a second twenty-five-minute block a hertz faster than the first. It is the shape of two work periods with a break between them, and the break is part of the design rather than a gap in it.
| Phase | Role | When | Beat | Band | Carrier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Activation | induction | 0–5 min | 10 Hz | Alpha | 400 Hz |
| Focus Block 1 | main | 5–30 min | 14 Hz | Beta | 440 Hz |
| Micro-Reset | transition | 30–33 min | 10 Hz | Alpha | 432 Hz |
| Focus Block 2 | main | 33–58 min | 15 Hz | Beta | 440 Hz |
| Wind Down | emergence | 58–60 min | 10 Hz | Alpha | 432 Hz |
Where the 440 Hz carrier comes from
Standard concert pitch. The A above middle C as standardised internationally, and the reference nearly every instrument you have heard is tuned to.
This one is simply a standard. It carries no tradition and claims nothing, which is exactly why it is used where a neutral carrier is wanted.
The carrier is the pitch you actually hear. The binaural difference — the part that makes this a structured session rather than a tone — lives between the two channels and is set by the beat, not by the carrier. Choosing one carrier over another is a tonal choice, the way picking a key is a tonal choice. It is not a functional one.
What this does not claim
Flow state is a term from psychology with a specific meaning, and this programme does not produce it. Our own evidence record says cognitive outcomes are the least supported domain in the published literature — that record is on this site and it is worth reading before you buy anything in the focus category, ours included.
Who it is for
A work block you have already decided to do. It is the wrong tool for making yourself start.
Nothing here is for sale yet. These are the starting points a session can be built from, published so you can see the whole range before anything is priced.