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.
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.
I see it like going to the (non-sound) gym. You don't just go for a few months and then you're fit and never need to go again. It's like practicing an instrument - practice keeps your skills from atrophying
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)
This kind of feels off for the topic. Making a good beat or songwriting is a very different skillset than mixing. Maybe the creativity of a mix arrangement?
I don't think this site will give you creativity but if recognizing certain frequencies and tones is your weak spot but you have lots of creativity, it can be very helpful.
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?
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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