EQ 2.0

What is it?
TrainYourEars EQ Edition is an ear training software for Mac and PC designed to help you understand equalisers and frequencies like never before.

How does it work?
It speeds up your learning process exposing you to hundreds of random equalizations you have to guess. If you are wrong, it will let you know “how wrong”, and it will let you hear both your guess and the correct answer.

In no time you will develop a frequency memory which will allow you to connect the sound you imagine in your head with the parameters you need to dial, quickly and easily than ever.

What is new in TrainYourEars 2.0?
It has a brand new training method. Instead of guessing, you have to make corrections while you hear the result.

The person who suggested this method to us in the first place was Bob Katz, a renowned mastering guru. We tested it, we loved it, so here it is for all you to enjoy!

Besides it has a new, modern and clean interface, a new assisted training screen, a new exercise designer, it supports other languages, and many other features.

I like the idea but why should I train?

The ability to connect what is in your mind with the appropriate parameters you have to dial to get that sound is not an easy task. The steps involved should be:

1. Listen to the signal

2. Imagine what you want

3. Translate your imagination

4. Dial the parameters

Sometimes people get lost in the translation step (no. 3 above), and start turning knobs without confidence. The more you work, the better you understand what those knobs really do, but it is a slow process.

People excel in this matter after many years, because they have learned experimenting with lots of different processes applied to lots of different sources. The purpose of this training is to open your ears to what each frequency sounds like and reduce the amount of time needed to acquire this knowledge.

In 15 minutes you can guess or correct 100 random equalisations, so training every day for a few weeks is equivalent to accumulating the experience of many years.

Interesting and how does it work?

1. First, you load the music you want to train with in the Audio Player.

2. Then, you choose an exercise or design a new one using the Exercise Designer.

3. And finally, train your ears with one of these two methods!

In the new version 2.0, you can use the EQ to correct the equalised signal and make it sound like the original again.

What if I am already a good engineer?

There is always room for improvement! We have designed the software so you can adjust your exercises to something that challenges you. Once you start getting good at it you can introduce changes to make it harder, train a different parameter or train a new combination of parameters. The possibilities are so limitless that it is useful from beginners to professionals! (or even golden ears).

The best path to success is to take your training seriously. Keep in mind that it’s going to take a while and prepare yourself for 10-15 min of training everyday.

TrainYourEars is designed to let you work at your own pace. Once you learn how to design exercises, you can adjust them to something which is “not super hard, but challenging enough” in each step of your learning.

What that means is:

– If you are working on an exercise and feel like you don’t have a clue of what’s going on, consider making it simpler.
– If you are working on an exercise and feel like you get it right most of the time, consider making it harder.

This “hardness” adjustments made by you (the student/engineer) is what makes TrainYourEars incredibly powerful and it can help you take your ears to the next level.