Audio Frequency Trainer - learn to identify frequencies

[markhimley]

I am currently taking the Deadmau5 masterclass and came across a link to this site, and figured some people here may find it useful!! It was linked in the lesson about mixing. This site quizes you on frequencies - it plays one and you guess which it is. You can change the difficulty, and preview frequencies.. pretty cool!


http://www.mediacollege.com/media-guru/ ... ainer.html

[waveheavy]

Hard to beat 'free'.

But if you're looking for more, here's what I recommend. I used an early version of it a long time ago when learning to mix. If used weekly, the results can be surprising:

https://www.trainyourears.com/

What's good about it is you can use 'your' own music, or any music track. It will randomly EQ boost or cut areas in the frequency spectrum which you then guess the frequency. This means you are listening to 'real' music to learn the different frequency bands, which is also what you'll be listening to when you do mixes of your own music.

Which frequency areas, and how much cut/boost used you can adjust also. So you can also learn to hear the 'amount of boost or cut', like a -3 dB cut will sound a lot different than a -12 dB cut. I used to load up a bunch of songs from CD's that I was familiar with, and I'd work on each one about 10 min., then go to the next song, etc. I'd do that about 2 to 3 times a week.

Professional mix engineers, when going to an unfamiliar studio to do a mix, often bring with them a CD of reference music they know well. That way they can judge the sound of the monitoring system in that unfamiliar studio. This is a very good tool for creating one of those reference CD's for yourself. You can take your reference CD with you when going to buy a new audio equipment, take it with you to a friend's studio to hear the differences, etc.

[sansharbour]

Mike

Thanks for posting ....nice resource ....there are other interesting sections on creative areas on the page as well

Don

[markhimley]

Hard to beat 'free'.

But if you're looking for more, here's what I recommend. I used an early version of it a long time ago when learning to mix. If used weekly, the results can be surprising:

https://www.trainyourears.com/

What's good about it is you can use 'your' own music, or any music track. It will randomly EQ boost or cut areas in the frequency spectrum which you then guess the frequency. This means you are listening to 'real' music to learn the different frequency bands, which is also what you'll be listening to when you do mixes of your own music.

Which frequency areas, and how much cut/boost used you can adjust also. So you can also learn to hear the 'amount of boost or cut', like a -3 dB cut will sound a lot different than a -12 dB cut. I used to load up a bunch of songs from CD's that I was familiar with, and I'd work on each one about 10 min., then go to the next song, etc. I'd do that about 2 to 3 times a week.

Professional mix engineers, when going to an unfamiliar studio to do a mix, often bring with them a CD of reference music they know well. That way they can judge the sound of the monitoring system in that unfamiliar studio. This is a very good tool for creating one of those reference CD's for yourself. You can take your reference CD with you when going to buy a new audio equipment, take it with you to a friend's studio to hear the differences, etc.

Oh wow, awesome!! I'm definitely going to look into this, thanks for sharing!

[elser]

Cool, thanks for that! I unfortunately learned I can't hear 8k and above. No wonder my mixes are always bright.