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I stopped practicing after the course ended and while I haven’t slide all the way back down to Beginner, I also haven’t been able to maintain a perfect score on Intermediate.

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I will come back and update this article when I do.Īnother important thing I learned is that pitch memory either improves or deteriorates. Unfortunately, what I didn’t get to do was try out some feedback detection in the field, yet. My intention was to send signals to my brain’s pleasure and pain centers that this was important stuff. That shit is hard!Ī technique that I used here, which I found helpful, was to move quickly and get emotional. I quickly moved out of Beginner, spent about two week on Intermediate, but never graduated from Pro. There are four levels that increase in difficulty by adding more frequencies to identify.

It’s a lot easier to work with 1K, 1.25K, and 1.6K than it is to work with 987.77, 1046.5, and 1174.66.Īudio Frequency Trainer will allow you to set a minimum and maximum test frequency, which is why we visited the Ear Doctor first. Audio engineers are more familiar with the whole numbers seen on a graphic EQ.Audio Frequency Trainer was the best game I could find.Why did we use 1/3 octave spaced frequencies instead of 1/12 octave, which would relate more to our musical experience up until now? Three reasons: The only thing that graphic EQs are really good for is ear training, which is exactly what we used them for in Live Mix Mastery. And I guarantee you that it will never happen at the exact frequency of one of the sliders of your graphic EQ. The bad news for sound engineers is that microphone feedback could potentially happen at any frequency. The good news for musicians is that there are only 12 notes. Once you’ve got the pitch of any note, you can find the pitch of any other note through the memorized interval or by simply following a chromatic scale. One of the first things you learn in music school is the interval relationships between notes on a scale in western music. By accident, I had taught myself pitch memory. One day I was walking into a piano rehearsal room, humming that song, sat down, and realized that I was singing a perfect A. I had my first taste of this in college when I set my wake up alarm to the song How It Feels to be Something On by Sunny Day Real Estate. For me at the age of 18, this was mind-blowing. He had learned to play so many of them that playing any note would trigger his memory of a song and then its location on his fretboard. This is how the kid at guitar camp with me was able to identify almost any pitch. Unless you were born with perfect pitch (yes, this exists) then you memorized those pitches through repetition. You have listened to your favorite song so many times that you can start singing it right now with pitch accuracy. But I had never really taken the time to practice with a system and measure my results. Logically, playing these games to improve our ear training to increase our speed in the field makes sense. Three minutes playing Audio Frequency Trainer and seven minutes cycling through games on SoundGym. Schedule 10 minutes of daily ear training in your calendar.User Ear Doctor in SoundGym to test your hearing.

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With Live Mix Mastery I had a great opportunity to test this with a group of professional audio engineers. As a result, I put together all of the best time saving techniques I’ve learned over the years and taught them to 20 students over four weeks.Įvery technique I taught has been field tested to deliver results except for two things: pitch memory for feedback detection and EQ training for faster mixing. Everyone I talked to was confident that they could overcome any obstacle thrown at them if only they had enough time. I got a variety of different answers, but the common trend among all of them was the need for speed. This is very important for me and all live sound engineers because we need shortcuts to survive.ĭuring my Live Mix Mastery pilot course last year, I talked to a lot of sound engineers about their biggest problems out in the field. I don’t think I’ll ever have golden ears, but I do believe that I can train my ability up to a useful level. When it comes to listening abilities, I have always had a growth mindset. Results: After 30 days I made a 13% increase in my EQ ability and tripled the speed and accuracy of my pitch detection. I want to quickly remove any feedback as it occurs. Ringing out stage monitors is a waste of time. I don’t want to fear microphone feedback anymore.

Why: I’m sick of guessing and sweeping with the parametric EQ.

Hypothesis: Through 10 minute sessions of daily ear training I will increase the speed and accuracy of my pitch detection and EQ application.

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