14 DAY TRIAL // OK, the subtitle definitely sounds funny but it reflects the truth: Re Go Media have released an ear-training software which is now at hand. The Audio Wizard Pro Ear Trainer is a program designed to improve the way you both hear and detect certain frequencies and this is definitely one good asset for a sound technician.
Better frequency training comes in extremely useful for the sound processing personnel as it will allow a far better first-hearing analysis of a recorded track as far as frequency changes and effects envelopes are concerned.
Audio Wizard Pro Ear Trainer is structured as a course and contains many hours of explained tricks and lessons which are scheduled for daily routine. You can't advance to the next lesson unless you became familiar with the contents of the previous one and come to master them.
Putting these things in other words, following and properly ?graduating? such a training course will make your hearing more precise and more important, you will know what sounds and how does it sound. From amateur statements like ?those highs are hurting my ears? you'll most likely go to professional and say ?some 3 decibels should be cut off from the 19KHz band?; eh ? sounds more like the pro you'd like to become, doesn't it?
It's with the help of such software and thorough training you'll become able to detect bad setups for EQs in certain given cases such as for particular instruments (piano, guitars, drums) and mixes; what's even more important and especially useful in live stage conditions is the sonic effect boosting or cutting certain frequencies have on the overall sound.
At the end, I'll quote Re Go Media with the specs for Audio Wizard Pro Trainer:
?-100+ Intense Training Lessons. In the training you will listen to audio that will train your ear to memorize the exact frequency boosted or cut. Almost like being able to hear an exact pitch, but this is hearing an exact frequency change.
-Over 1000 audio test questions. Here you will listen to an audio selection and see if you can answer which frequency was boosted or cut! Sounds hard? It gets easier with practice.
-Learn to hear the boosts and cuts, and its effects on the following: Pink Noise, Songs, Acoustic Guitar, Acoustic Bass, Electric Bass, Drums, Snare Drum, Tom Drum, Kick Drum, Pianos.
-Very detailed EQ'ing techniques for: Male Vocals, Female Vocals, Back Up Vocals, Kick Drum, SnareDrum, TomsCymbals & Overheads, Rock Bass, Rhythm Bass, Clean Guitar, Electric Guitar, Lead Guitar.?
At the price of $14.99 I guess I will buy it in a very short time should the demos proove me that it's worth spending my time with it. Nevertheless, for the sound engineer/technician, it's a very valuable tool; yet it will not anmke you play better if you want to become a rockstar...