ST-02 / RELATIONSHIPS / STANDARD PROGRAMME / FREE
Open hand
Say the true thing, kindly.
People who argue better than they repair.
0:45 · AAC-LC stereo, 96 kbps · 22.05 kHz · House voice — synthesised. One pass, built to loop.
Not medical, diagnostic or therapeutic. No outcome is promised. This is self-direction and rehearsal, which is old, plain and enough.
WHY THIS ONE EXISTS
Say the true thing, kindly.
Relationship audio usually aims at being loved. This one aims at being easy to be honest with, which is the part you actually control. Every line is an instruction to yourself about your own conduct — none of them is about changing another person.
How to use it
On the drive home, before the conversation rather than after it.
Write your own versionTHE COMPLETE SCRIPT / 8 LINES
Every word
in the recording.
Read it before you listen.
Nothing else is in the file.
- 01I listen before I answer.
- 02I say the true thing kindly.
- 03I am easy to be honest with.
- 04I let people be more than my worst memory of them.
- 05I ask for what I want without apology.
- 06I hold the people I love with an open hand.
- 07I am worth staying close to.
- 08I repair quickly, and I repair first.
The carried intro at the top of the file names this programme and says that these eight lines are all that follows. If you ever hear a word in a SyncFocus recording that is not on its page, that is a defect and we want to know.
THE LAYER STACK
Five layers.
Published levels.
Produced deliberately, not generated carelessly. Levels are peak ceilings against full scale, and they are the numbers the build script actually uses.
How the method works- 01 / Carried intro
Spoken plainly at full level, peaking at −3 dBFS. It names the programme and says out loud that the eight lines coming are the eight lines printed on this page.
- 02 / Tonal bed
A 123.5 Hz root with its fifth, octave and twelfth, plus a distant pulse on the half-root. Synthesised from scratch, ceiling −14 dBFS. No sample, no library, no licence.
- 03 / Affirmation pass A
The script, centred, peaking at −14 dBFS — the same ceiling as the bed. Speech is sparse and a sustained bed is not, so the voice sits underneath without vanishing.
- 04 / Affirmation pass B
The same script again, 380 ms later at −20 dBFS, widened with the left channel leading. This is what gives the layer its depth.
- 05 / Echo tail
Two taps at 190 ms · 460 ms, alternating sides, on the voice only. The bed is left dry so the echo reads as space around the words rather than reverb on the music.