Start by turning the EQ off. Listen to that. Then when you turn the EQ back on you are listening for what frequency is being turned UP. Move the cursor over it and select it. The selector is giving you a fairly wide range at first, so you can guess generally: is it Low, Low Mids, High Mids or Highs.

Hope this helps.

Good stuff @James Henley

You have to use your ears to notice where in the frequency spectrum is the sound boosted

I also found it tricky starting out, Maria. If it's a matter of not being familiar with the range of sound qualities on the frequency spectrum, I found this video helpful:

From it, I made my own visual guide (putting words on top of a screenshot of the SoundGym peakmaster game). I found it helpful to attach words to over-amplified frequencies like boxy, boomy, brittle etc—I could now start to hear these qualities. There are more descriptors folks will use than this, but here's a start, I hope it helps :)

It definitely gets better. I knew absolutely nothing about this stuff getting in. Lifetime musician but hadn't done frequency training. Just kept doing the EQ exercises over and over and it started piece by piece becoming audible to me.

SOUND GYM PEAK MASTER (and other EQ games) TIP:

Here’s how I do it: listen between the original and boosted signal for these accentuated vowel sounds in the boosted signal (they’re not exact to the hertz, but thinking with these guideposts has helped me):

125 Hz: UH
250 Hz: OOH
500 Hz: OH
1 kHz: AH
2 kHz: EH (nasal sounding)
4 kHz: EE
8 kHz: IH (the i has a short i sound as in the word ”if)

If you hear a blend of two adjacent vowel sound syllables, then just guess which one you hear more of, then extrapolate.

I do use this technique, I find it helpful