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TrainYourEars EQ Edition is an ear training software for Mac and PC designed to help you understand equalisers and frequencies like never before. TrainYourEars EQ 2.0 is a EQ ear training app for Mac and PC, that makes EQ ear training for mixing engineers cool and super intuitive. Use it on a regular basis, and the app will help you get better at equalization and mixing. After a successful launch, its price has been permanently reduced from.
Every rookie gets caught at some point twiddling EQ knobs on a console or forever sweeping through a digital parametric for just the right sound. I’m always on the lookout for great teaching tools, especially when they can be used even in an online class. This last week, I did some research on ear training apps. Won me over, especially for school use. What’s the Value of Ear Training?I asked a lifelong live sound engineer what he’d teach if he was hired by a college to do live sound instruction.
He said the ability to pick out frequencies and adjust them accordingly is by far the most important thing to learn, and he’d spend most of the time on that one skill. Enter EQ ear training apps. The goal, of course, is to produce students that have the proverbial “golden ears”—discernment perfection that can fix any problem frequency in one quick movement with little hesitation. The alternative is time wasted slowly sweeping through bands with endless A/B testing. It’s not the best idea, especially if you’re doing it in front of a client. If you’re a live engineer, poor EQ chops means frequent feedback and a less-than-ideal sound.For the hobbyist engineer, a lot of apps can train your EQ chops fairly well.
There are a bunch for free and sub-$15 that’ll do a decent job. As far as I can tell, TrainYourEars (which I will abbreviate TYE from now on) offers the best of every other app, and then some. For starters, it’s downloaded as a standalone program for Windows or Mac. One common complaint about most mobile apps is changes in compatibility and functionality with each update. Even if it’s installed in a lab setting, there’s a chance it could update out of functionality mid-semester or from one year to the next.The most basic ear training apps play a frequency and have you guess the frequency. This “guess” method is one of the two methods used in TYE. The other is “correct,” where you hear an alteration in audio, then have to apply EQ to correct it to sound like the original.
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While I definitely prefer the correct method, the guess method is arguably better for certain exercises.Fortunately, ear training apps have evolved far beyond simply playing a frequency. Most will play real, in-context audio, then alter it for the quiz. TYE can play pink noise, it’s own songs, songs from your computer, or will stream whatever is playing on your computer (though I found it easier to just create an imported playlist of mp3 files). You can also tell the program to play distraction noises, such as a person talking nearby, to simulate an actual live event.
The AppThe first stop in TYE is the Audio Player tab.This is pretty cut and dry—and beautiful, from a UX perspective. You import songs (for my test, I just used mp3 files). It’ll play through your list, or you can repeat/loop audio. Song selection is particularly important for some exercises. Since most of my list was a soft ballad compilation I made, several songs didn’t go low enough to test 125 Hz and below; and, since you can add in a random “no change,” it sounded the same as a low cut/boost on those songs (basically a guess between no change and LF EQ).
The same goes for high frequencies; when you’re starting out, anything above 8k is much easier to detect if the song has a lot of content up in the “air” zone.Below the Audio Player are tabs for noise (pink and white; pink is preferable) and for streaming the audio from your computer live.The Options tab has sound card setup, eight languages, shortcut mapping, how many recent quizzes are used to calculate your scores, and a place to route the audio to 32-bit VST plug-ins. The latter was a pleasant surprise for me. A lot of people might night use it, but it’s very useful for an instructor. I took advantage of the feature to route my signal through a real-time spectrum analyzer, so I could really see the waveform as it was being altered.
This is a nice skill to tune, since a lot of modern EQs have a spectrum analyzer overlay to look at as you’re adjusting parameters.The ExercisesEach exercise is highly customizable. The default has a limited number of frequency bands, with large boosts and cuts. When you get better at it, you can slowly increase a number of bands (and by extension, shorted the distance between them) and lessen the amount of EQ applied. You can have up to 10 bands altered in a single go, with boosts/cuts as low as 3 dB, for up to 28 bands.
Some exercises also test your listening for how wide the EQ was applied at Q factors of.5 (very wide) to 25 (super narrow).
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