I'm working on my bachelor's thesis (string instruments in country music) and need more people to complete my survey. It only takes about five minutes to complete. It would be greatly appreciated!
I've been working on improving my ability to recognize missing frequencies without comparing the altered sound to the original, but I still haven’t found a reliable way to do it. Most of the time, I get close — usually within about 100 Hz — but other times I’m way off.
Do you have any tips that could help me make more accurate guesses? I’m pretty sure this is a skill that would really help me make better mixing decisions. Thanks in advance!
So, as I thought, it's not just about recognizing missing frequencies, but also about knowing what the original sound was like before the cut. I think that, as you said, it would be more beneficial to first hear the original sound, and then switch to the one with the cut applied. Otherwise, it's more about remembering the original sound than actually learning how to detect missing frequencies. Thanks, @Vitalii Mizhenin
Hi Santi! I love your question 😃 I have been playing this game a bit differently so will share my experience just to offer another perspective. I also would like the ability to hear the cut sound & know what is missing, without comparing it to the original. But I am learning to do this in the following way: First, listen to the cut sound & estimate the frequency in your mind – but do not click anything! For example, just say to yourself, 'about 2 kHz' if you think that's the answer. Then, listen to the original signal – and, as Vitalii mentioned, you're then playing the Frequency Boost game! The missing frequency suddenly reappears and this is a way to check your answer before submitting 😆 When I play this way – rather than just listening to the cut signal and submitting my answer immediately – I am developing a memory for what it sounds like when the missing frequency suddenly reappears. This memory is what helps me to anticipate the missing frequency in future questions – I basically listen to the cut signal and imagine what would happen if the missing frequency suddenly reappeared. I hope that makes sense – it's a bit hard to explain! 😂 Anyway, good luck and stick with it! 💪
Hi Santi, to me this was a process of time. If you train long enough you will start to notice a strong resonance where the boost happend. For the cuts it's the emptyness and the immediate feel that there is something missing. A few years ago as I did the olympics pretty much weekly I was at the point where I heard the noise-floor of the samples or the breath-in noise of the vocals. Best is to use good headphones like the beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro to really focus on that stuff. At acertain point its just that you hope to get results that are neary by each other so you don't have to travel much with the mouse, trackpad or whatever :D Hope that helps a bit. Good luck and keep it up! Cheers!
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May 25, 14:10