@Meet Coo I'm not a musician (unless playing the radio counts😃). Involved with live production/mixing. Soundgym is a invaluable resource for improving and maintaining critical audio listening skills! Cheers!
I'm SO curious... what you find to be the most challenging games?
Also, what do you find easiest?
I know everyone is different and hears things a little differently so I'm kind of expecting answers to vary greatly.
I'm stuck at level 18 on DB King and level 16 on stereo head while at level 56 on Reverb Wizard. I'm not sure why those 2 games are such a struggle for me. My ear for EQ is coming along nicely but detecting changes in volume and hearing where the sound is coming from are difficult for me. (I also struggle with the new Sonar Beast game)
Here's one of my favorite random performance photos. It cracks me up. It's a equally a good photo and it reminds me a soap opera scene, the way Jason, our bass player is glaring at me. I feel like his gaze communicates so much. Like, will you ever practice with a metronome? OR what is it like to skate by without actually getting good at your instrument? bahhahahaha. Just kidding. He would never say those things but I think it's funny.
Probably the most challenging/frustrating game for me now is Feedback Eliminator. The levels are basically all the choices from 40hz to 12.5khz, so I mostly miss by 1 band or by 2x or 1/2 the value.
Still find the gym beneficial even if passing levels isn't really a thing that happens much anymore.
Game I'm done with and don't play at all, Distorted Reality (lvl 40) the samples are so similar, that even when I can hear a difference, I can't reliably pick the correct answer anymore.
@Romano G to my ear, there are only 3 different tones but many octaves on feedback eliminator which has helped me a TON to get farther. each time the number doubles, it is the same tone in a different octave. I was pretty sure I was hearing it but when I finally sat down with the practice version and mapped it out, it made all the difference in the world for me in my success rate on that game.
Yes, of course we pay him. bwahahaha 😄 And he is FREAKING AMAZING. We gig for a living full time. We only play for free AT MOST once or twice a year (if that). And that's done for a good cause or for a dear friend and it's extremely rare. That's a big part of me learning to record and mix. It's strenuous work slinging gear all the time. I would like to get at minimum, decent at recording and release my own music and maybe even record and mix for others and maybe ease up on gigging so much. It is a ton of fun though and I truly feel honored that I get to live this life!!!
Regardless of the type of musician you are, ear training is never gonna be bad for you.
There may or may not be better ways to spend your time but, personally as a guitar player / songwriter, I desperately wish I had started my ear training journey a decade ago.
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