How An Audio Engineer Listens to Music - The Act of Listening

A good audio engineer listens to music much differently than the "average listener".
If you can train you ears properly, you can learn a lot from simply listening to your favorite songs!
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[GaragebandandBeyond]

This is an important lesson! LISTEN UP!

[AnnaNovel]

It is such an invaluable video! Truly! Thank you so much Lewin for teaching all of us how to listen to a song properly! Listening critically is hard, but I’m sure in time it'll get much easier to identify each and every detail! Thanks again for choosing this topic! I've been loving your channel for many years and you most definitely deserve that silver play button! I hope you get it soon! Peace & Love! ❤️

[chiparooo]

This is fun to do! Makes old songs new again listening to the nuances. Great advice. Thanks for sharing!

[suyash]

A very important and invaluable advice... Thanks Lewin!

[mitchelgarcianetti]

Pretty much related but one of the best things I learned from you:
I made a song in a Fleet Foxes style with harmonies and, like them, I wanted to use reverb like I was singing in a cathedral. Every individual vocal track had reverb and it sounded like....well oversaturated crap. You taught me to keep all your vocals dry, mix them, export/import them back as one audio file, then add the reverb so it sounded like 6 vocals in 1 cathedral instead of 6 vocals in 6 cathedrals. I haven't listened to the song in awhile until the other day and man....what a difference because I can still remember the other way's "bad" reverb.

[jurgenschuler]

That's one of the most important tips you can get. Thank you!

[thesullivanstreetproject]

Thanks for this! The more I work on my own mixes (just starting to remix everything now), the more I find that it's important to do this and how hard it is to get it just right.

[teessidesteve]

Some top advice here ! Thanks for sharing and I hope you get the Silver Button from Youtube !

[RecordingStudio]

There is one drawback on this technique which I did and I still do (listening to a song critically to learn), is that you lose the enjoyment of listening to music! Every song becomes critical listening rather than enjoying it with all the imperfections. The solution, make sure you get drunk beforehand so you can enjoy it LOL!

[kylebalderson]

I've been listening to music this way since I was a young kid, and didn't even know it was a thing!

[noelmacmillan]

Anyone else notice he used an esports player as the thumbnail instead of an audio engineer?

[edrosa]

I normally don't listen to music for the sake of listening. I'm usually doing something.
During my commute is when I do most of my critical listening. I've put a nice system in my car so I really can hear what is going on.
Driving is normally a fairly brainless activity for me so I put myself in the music.
One thing I notice is the more "pro" a recording is the less sonic space there seems to be between the instruments. On some of my favorite indie bands, with their earlier recordings each instrument has room to breath and in a nicer sound system it is glorious.
As a hobbyist that is what I'm shooting for. Space between.