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Training your ears (EQ). Any suggestions?
« on: February 11, 2016, 02:31:18 pm »
I'm currently looking into things to train my ears. More specific for mixing and mastering.

I know it comes experience, but do any of you know ways to train them?

For example I showed a friend of mine a project the other day and he could hear some clashing going on around the 300 to 500hz region. In my ears it sounded good but once he worked on the mix it did sound better.

Are there any ways to train my ears more to EQ better?
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Re: Training your ears (EQ). Any suggestions?
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2016, 03:29:36 pm »
I am interested to see responses in this thread.

I also did a quick google search in regards to your topic and found this website

careful of the volume you have at play back.

It has instructions that are pretty nifty to play the game or guess and check, or just get familiar with the frequencies.
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Re: Training your ears (EQ). Any suggestions?
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2016, 06:59:23 pm »
It isn't free but it's well worth the money.

http://www.moultonlabs.com/full/product01

I went to school for audio engineering and we spent 30 minutes at the beginning of one of my classes using this to train throughout the semester. It is a very effective way to train your ears. The concept, you'll hear pink noise (pretty much even volume throughout the frequency spectrum) and then they will make a 10dB boost or cut in a specific area and you have to guess where that boost or cut happened.

The boosts/cuts happen within a smaller and smaller range as you go through the disc so your ear becomes more laser focused on frequencies.

A recommendation: if you do buy them, do it at the beginning of the day and ONLY do it for 30 min or so at a time. Any more and your ears become fatigued and the effort is wasted.

Hope this helps!
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Re: Training your ears (EQ). Any suggestions?
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2016, 08:07:53 pm »
Quote from: KLANG on February 12, 2016, 06:59:23 pm
It isn't free but it's well worth the money.

http://www.moultonlabs.com/full/product01

I went to school for audio engineering and we spent 30 minutes at the beginning of one of my classes using this to train throughout the semester. It is a very effective way to train your ears. The concept, you'll hear pink noise (pretty much even volume throughout the frequency spectrum) and then they will make a 10dB boost or cut in a specific area and you have to guess where that boost or cut happened.

The boosts/cuts happen within a smaller and smaller range as you go through the disc so your ear becomes more laser focused on frequencies.

A recommendation: if you do buy them, do it at the beginning of the day and ONLY do it for 30 min or so at a time. Any more and your ears become fatigued and the effort is wasted.

Hope this helps!

Thanks mate!

I have a look into this course and you are right about what you said. The best thing is to do it when you wake up in the morning and sit for 30 minutes training your ears.

I'm going to do myself an audio engineering study from september this year, but it's still far away.
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