Improve Your Mixes | Ear Training for Audio Engineers

This video will introduce you to the BEST ear training technique for audio engineers! Whether you are a studio recording engineer, a mixing engineer, a live sound FOH or monitor engineer, or just a HiFi enthusiast, this method will improve your ears for critical listening.

Download the free Ear Training Guide to get a quick start practicing this method.

0:00 - Introduction
0:37 - How To Identify Frequencies By Ear
3:08 - Why Ear Training Is Important
3:57 - How To Practice Ear Training
4:57 - Subscribe to Audio University!

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[ToddWCorey]

Great stuff! I've been doing live sound for 25 years and never thought of using vowels. You CAN teach an old dog new tricks.

[levif]

This is my first Audio University video. I appreciate the production of your video. You weren’t assuming, arrogant, or pretentious like so many YouTubers are. The pace of the video was steady, and the content was fitting for this video, as opposed to cramming it all in one video.

Much appreciation for you guys.

[MikeMike-kcst]

I have always done ear training as a musician, but the concept of listening as an egineer has somehow eluded me all of these years. I now listen to every song in a different way. I find myself scrutinizing mixes, compression ammounts, auto tune, etc., when it used to be purely about the songs themselves. As a novice producer with 30 years of being a musician, I can't believe how much free knowledge is available now days, thanks to the internet and folks like those at Audio University. This is probably my favorite channel to learn from. Thanks so much and keep up the great work!

[modernmusicstudio]

Ear training is something most musicians leanr either through experience or through courses. It is so much more important to producing music than people think! What a great lesson for something most people don't think about!

[mattiaswiborn]

Recently I have found myself singing these vowels along with mixes to find frequencies - and now I see this video! Explains what I have been doing without knowing why, thanks!

[JesseDanielSmith]

I'm sure I am echoing everyone else when I say that your forward, no-nonsense style is a breath of fresh air in this community

[AFRoSHEENTARCMICHAEL]

This is seriously genius because words are indeed sounds and phonics of Vowels have free airflow so a constant push which opens up the mouth so this makes extreme sense beyond a basic comprehension. Like how consonants and consonance are similar.

[Cody_OConnell]

Ever since I started doing ear training on a regular basis with Train Your Ears software, my mixing ability has improved a ton

[liamlynott]

I am a complete amateur when it comes to music tech and sound engineering and you've just completely blown my mind. Thank you very much

[mortenjorck]

Simply brilliant. Incidentally, a mnemonic occurred to me as I was watching, and now it will be impossible for me to forget at least 250 and 1k: “twOO-fifty” and “wAAhn-kay.”

[mgmthegrand]

"Associating vowel sounds to frequency bands" - I stumbled on to this discovery a few weeks ago! With my mouth I started emulating the sound of white noise with a filter sweeping through it and it finally clicked that I can use the connection between that sound and the frequency spectrum somehow to improve my mixing and ability to identify frequencies. I've been looking for content that could expand on this theory further and BOOM! Thank you, Audio University!

[docmemphis]

Man, this trick is extremely helpful. Much gratitude.

[hgstarsongs]

Wow, this is a fantastic tip! I have never heard anyone else explain it like this, and while I'm a complete newbie, I heard the vowels immediately. Definitely bookmarking this video right away - thank you so much!

[synthoelectro]

Been mixing and mastering since 2000, you never stop learning.

[patricksutherland]

As a newcomer to audio detailing / mixing, I found this a cool way to learn and describe the khz! Will be looking out for more methods like this

[simon_patterson]

That's awesome! I've never heard of that. Thank you!

[andyhsong]

jesus this youtube channel is a freaking goldmine

this is the first channel i "hit the notification bell" for haha

[SuperFluidFerroFluid]

I highly respect the fact that you ask people to like and subscribe After your presentation, that alone is so valuable! Big thumbs up, Im learning so much from this channel!

[alanrankin]

I have always wondered, why frequency bands are displayed how they are. Yes, I know it's logarithmic, but that itself doesn't say so much to me at least. That octave division just opened my eyes! It's that simple!