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Pierre James
Mar 28, 15:16 in SoundGym Cafe
At what point is soundgym still making you a better producer/engineer/etc. vs. just making you good at the games?

At my level I'm 100% sure it's still helping (I'm not even at bronze yet).  But at some point, your ears must be good enough and you've played the same games 10k times and you must just be training for the game no? 

Kind of like a PhD drummer that can hear a 31/30 polyrhythm pattern, but can't come up with a great beat for a Beatles song (obviously that's a flawed example, but hopefully it illustrates the point)

Curious what you guys have as your goal before you think my time is probably better spent elsewhere? And curious if it changes by profession?

I'm more of a songwriter & musician and use production as a means to get good demos to producers and engineers.  I think my goal is to get to 75-80th percentile on each game and then I will feel I have done my basics and am ready to move on to other areas of learning.

Anyone else think like this?
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Quinten Hodson
Mar 29, 06:12
This is a great thread with some interesting insights! I've only been on here for about two months but have noticed dramatic improvements in several areas, getting to the 80th percentile. However there's others, namely compression games, where I just can't hear and don't know what to listen for and as such I'm not improving much at all. On that note, if anyone could recommend any good blogs or Youtube videos on how to hear compression I'd be most grateful!
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Aksel Kaaver
Mar 29, 11:47
I have a free account. For me, these points (or awards) are not that important. But the training is. It is completely comparable to sports training. It does not help much when I reached a certain (athletic) level and then stopped training. I may not set to myself a higher goal, but I will continue to train - this will keep my muscles in good condition. Same here.

@Adam, it depends on your goals. About what you have difficulties with - strengths, weaknesses. And about the time that you can devote here during the day.
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Albert Ventura
Mar 29, 14:39
You complete the exercises without errors? If not, keep practicing. If there's errors and you need effort to detect the sound changes then you're improving. And detecting changes in EQ and volume and pan it's a crucial, basic skill for a producer. This is just a training ground, then the important thing is to be able to decect all of this in your productions.
Hello everybody,
I'm looking for frequency training tips.

I realized that i find difficult to identify certain frequency ranges, especially from 2k to 6k, i'm having hard time to recognize the character of those ranges, and of course trying to guess from nothing on different instruments/sounds make things harder.

Do you have any guide (video possibly) you can suggest me to understand better the qualitative placement of frequency ranges ?

Something that goes more specific than eq charts blue print?

Thanks in advance.
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David Chung
Mar 29, 14:13


This is how I help my students first identify these ranges! His channel is incredible.
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Devin Shepherd
Mar 29, 14:31
David, This is a great video. Thank you for sharing it with us. connecting the vowel sound to the frequency definitely helps to outline what I need to be listening for.
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SoundGym
Mar 28, 18:47 in SoundGym Official
Congrats @Mike Ortynskiy for winning the Golden Ears Award!
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Colin Aiken
Mar 29, 04:01
Fantastic!
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Maya B
Mar 29, 12:51
Congratulations!
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Paul Gilbody
Mar 29, 13:55
Well done!
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SoundGym
Mar 28, 15:01 in SoundGym Official
Congrats @Marcos Bastos for winning the Diamond Ears Award!
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Colin Aiken
Mar 29, 04:01
Outstanding!
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Maya B
Mar 29, 12:51
Amazing, congrats!
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Ricky Hall
Mar 29, 13:37
awesome congrats
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SoundGym
Mar 29, 08:38 in SoundGym Official
Congrats @Phibu Music for winning the Diamond Ears Award!
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Phibu Music
Mar 29, 08:42
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Jose Ledezma
Mar 29, 10:06
Congrats!
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Maya B
Mar 29, 12:50
Congratulations!
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SoundGym
Mar 29, 08:04 in SoundGym Official
Congrats @Olivier Arntz for winning the Golden Ears Award!
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Maya B
Mar 29, 12:50
Yay, congrats!

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