Train Your Ears EQ Edition 2
Train Your Ears EQ Edition 2 is nifty app to improve your EQ and listening skills. This app was developed by Train Your Ears™ with the goal to offers an environment where people can practice their listening skills with a series of equalization exercises. Also, they wanted to help trainees improve their understanding of equalizers and frequencies, so they can hopefully make better-informed decisions on their productions.
With this app, you can basically apply random equalization moves on any given piece of audio you choose, then you have to compare the EQ’d version to the original one and pick where exactly those EQ changes took place.
This is a simple yet highly effective testing method that will put our listening skills to test.
Training and exercises: training is done through a series of exercises which revolves around two modes, “correct” or “guess”.
Guess is the basic method, available since the first version of Train Your Ears, and it’s basically about guessing which EQ parameters were used.
While, Correct mode is a new method suggested by mastering engineer Bob Katz, and takes the challenge further by making the trainee correct the signal by applying an opposite EQ move. For example, users will listen to the original signal, after that they listen the EQ’ed signal, then they have to make an EQ move that has to correct that EQ’ed signal, taking it back to its original state.
The app is not complicated to use and the sound quality is generally good.
Train Your Ears EQ Edition 2 costs about $55.99 USD, and its recommended for anyone who dwells with equalizers in any capacity, be it professional or amateur, from musicians, producers, mixing and mastering engineers to audio equipment enthusiasts.
The software is installable on Windows 7+ or Mac OSX 10.5+
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