Hey, just to let you all know you cannot trust the training you are getting here on Sound Gym. I was baffled by struggles with certain games, DB King in particular. So I decided to get scientific about it. I set up a test environment with a reference mic and SPL meter to measure the db differences. I found that most times the test equipment and the game matched, which is good...except there were a couple of instances that they DIDN'T. For example the question was -7db or -5db, and the test equipment actually showed a -9db drop in level. So since -7 was closer to -9 I chose -7 and per the game the answer was wrong. I opened a support ticket and their answer was that they do not see any need to investigate. I don't know about you but I have a pretty big issue with that. Since this place claims to be teaching and training site I feel they have a duty to provide accurate teaching and training. It 's like if you went to a gym and trained to lift 75 pounds and got to the point you could in the gym but then you go out in the real world and try to lift a 75 pound bundle of roofing shingles and can't. Then you test the weights at the gym and find out that some of them are incorrect and are not the weight that they claim. But the gym refuses to fix it. I'd pretty much label that gym a fraud since people are being give a false sense of reality and then sent out to the real world where their training fails them. It is up to you if you want to keep paying money to a place that does not prioritize accuracy.
Thanks for sharing this Michael! The db game would drive me crazy sometimes, and I swore some of the answers felt off to me. Good to know that I'm not at least not crazy!
I measured the total RMS deviations in practice mode with pink noise as a source and they were less than 0.1dB Pull your socks up and get back to training.
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