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The Question Man
Mar 25, 2023
Hello everyone!
Can you please tell me what's your workout routine in Sound Gym?
Do you do only engeneering part or do you also do Beatrace part? How much time it takes for you do go through whole routine?
For now I'm only doing main part of sound gym and takes me about 25-30 minutes to complete the routine.
Just for you to know - I'm a sound producer, sound designer and audio engeneer and it's sometimes really hard to wear all this hats at the same time.
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Almog Pines
Mar 25, 2023
I typically do the daily workout in like 5 minutes. I just don't take my time on it like I should. my spi is 360,000. Sometimes I'll do about half an hour of practice of whatever exercises I feel or think I need improving on. A really important thing I learned was not to play these as games, but to actually learn from them so I can apply them to my mixing. Hope this helps.
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Kevin Krouglow
Mar 26, 2023
I used to do about 30min to an hour. Then the levels got harder and I got a bit obsessive about needing to pass them, so it would take longer and I'd do about 1hr-2hrs first thing in the morning.

Sometimes I'd also do a shorter workout in the eve - more recently maybe the Olympics or EQ training competition. Or just a selective few games that I want to improve on. I used to do lots of extra rounds of EQ cheetah, peak master, kit cut, bass detective, and feedback eliminator.

I didn't do the Beatrace stuff for the first month of my membership - didn't even realize they had games or you could collect coins from them. I started doing that more so for fun and the coins.

Practically the Beatrace component isn't what I personally got SoundGym for. I don't have that hard of a time creating beats or recreating beats when I need to in daily life - I also play drums so that helps (and I don't see the necessity of being 100% accurate - i.e. if you miss a hihat that's layered with a snare and clap in 45 sec isn't a big deal). But it is fun!

Identifying tempo is useful... I guess, but I have a tempo tap app on my phone (which I don't use for the game as that'd be cheating i.m.o.), so it doesn't benefit me hugely to be able to identify tempos accurately by ear. Technology can easily assist me with that. Likewise with swing. I know when something has swing, and I can adjust the swing when I want some on my track and see what feels good. Never have I had to identify accurate swing values from listening.

So that's how I answer the question for myself - I do the beatrace stuff for fun and coins at the end of my workout, but I don't really care that much about it. But that's me - someone else may benefit greatly from that part, might even really help someone how to construct their own beats if they're not as familiar with it.

Main soundgym stuff however is super useful to me. Especially the EQ games. Been a game changer. The compression games I didn't expect to be as useful, but they have. So have the reverb games, which I expect the least. The panning and stereohead stuff has helped me hear panning more automatically when listening to reference mixes - rather than having to actively pay attention, it just pops out to my awareness more readily, which is useful.

So all that to say is, like Almog pointed out, focus on what helps you learn so you can apply it to your mixing - and only you will be able to know what aspects you want to develop more, and what will benefit you the most. If you need to identify tempos on the spot, maybe that'll help you more. If you want to get better at hearing beats and recreating that, then spend more time in Beatrace. If you feel that this area is something you can do just fine in, but hearing EQ better will help you, then do the EQ games more
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The Question Man
Mar 26, 2023
Thank you for all replies! It's really helpful to know someone's approach to this website. I've just cought myself thinking that if I'll be really good at each game here I'll instantly become an amazing producer and mixing engeneer.
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Alexandra Escalle
Mar 27, 2023
Hello !
I spend 20-30min on the daily routine, if I feel good I do some exercices to try to pass a level and if I feel tired I start to listen some videos to learn.

2 hours per day here approximately after I left and I work in the real life or I try to produce and create.

For me, it's important to keep the balance between learning, exercising and creating.
I think I'll start Beat Race and Olympics Games when I'll be certified (🙏) I can't to everything in the same days but ... step by step !
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