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Pierre James
Mar 29, 15:25 in SoundGym Cafe
Going to start a little thread for myself to track my percentage over time. I started in December (4 months back) and I'm seeing others progress (e.g., getting to 80% in 90 days or so), and so I want to keep a thread to make sure I'm not missing days. If I'm going slow that's ok, just want to make sure I'm aware of my progress :)
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Pierre James
Mar 29, 15:25
Day 1 1974 SPI 65% - this morning I felt my ears were really good I immediately passed 4/5 games (very happy about that).

Feedback eliminator feels like perfect pitch at times (which I don't have) when there are 4 boxes right next to eachother. One thing that helped was trying to keep all the notes in mind and use relative pitch to help. That can be hard if it jumps 5 octaves.
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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Paul Gilbody
Mar 29, 14:49
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
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Michael Francis
Mar 29, 14:53
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.
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Pierre James
Mar 29, 15:18
WOW so many response. Thanks you guys. I think the biggest takeaway is that people feel that it's not just about improving, but also about maintaining and warming up for the day so some of the diamond guys (even though improving is great), it still makes sense to do it because without it ears aren't as sharp for the day that's really interesting I hadn't thought of that.

Anyway this motivated me a ton, thanks everyone.

BTW - I feel like a lot of people touched on enjoying it while you do it - I genuinely enjoy my time on the site it's pretty fun and relaxing, sometimes I feel like I procrastinate from finishing my own music with this site haha, hopefully not the case, but for now enjoyment does not seem to be an issue :)

I'm going to set a goal for myself to get to 80% and start a separate thread to track it because even though they have training history - I feel like I'm reading the graph wrong or something but it doesn't simply show total SPI / percentile over time which I am genuinely very curious how long these things take and how much time I've spent on the platform so it'll be a nice way to do it !

Thanks for the responses!
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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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Maya B
Mar 29, 12:50
Congratulations!
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Devin Shepherd
Mar 29, 14:57
Congrats!!!
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Helmut Mair
Mar 29, 15:10
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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mark daly
Mar 29, 11:13
nice work!
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Maya B
Mar 29, 12:50
Yay, congrats!
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Devin Shepherd
Mar 29, 14:57
Congrats Olivier !!
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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