![]() So how do we set the tone controls and such? The Fletcher Munson curve really shows us that our ears hear midrange area much better than they hear the extremes of bass and treble. Sit there and listen to your CDs and such right in the middle of the stereo field like that. Place the stereo speakers at ear height to your favorite listening chair, and whatever the room dimensions, place the speakers and chair in a pretty exact equilateral triangle to suit. I like two-way speakers over multiple drivers, a good medium to high quality stereo amp or receiver, and a good listening environment, set up properly. One does not need to spend a bunch of money here, but one does need to have the basics plus the basic knowledge of how to use it in order to be able to hear things correctly. First is your listening system the equipment. What will do it for you is making sure that what you listen to and how you listen to it is correct, and the rest is up to you and the time you spend working at it daily. Just as with the Interval and Pitch recognition exercises, no amount of writing or reading is going to develop the Golden Ears for you. Now let's talk about training our ears to know what sounds good and right with electronically reproduced music and such. Most still believe Absolute Pitch abilities to be some sort of talent or gift, but the facts are that you can once again train your ear to deal with this sort of pitch recognition if that is your goal, David Burge has been selling the course for years, but remember what I said earlier about Perfect Pitch, I have known musicians who have wanted to get it removed because it gets in their way. A recording engineer does not need Absolute Pitch abilities to get by, one can simply compare keyboard or guitar notes to certain unknown frequencies to ballpark them from the note to the frequency domain with the help of a frequency chart anyway. Perfect Pitch (Absolute Pitch is a better term) can actually be detrimental to one's ability to play an instrument, old wives tales notwithstanding. Then there is the so-called "Perfect Pitch", which is something that may get in the way of identifying Relative Intervals if the target instruments are not dead in tune or tempered. There are proggies designed to help you with this that work like a PC game, no excuses for not getting with the program. That's a very powerful instrument to have, and best of all, you already have everything needed to start using it, all you have to do now is spend some time internalizing each of the twelve intervals in upward and downward motion, and practice identifying them. What's important are the number of half steps between notes. Contrary to what some may believe, a well-practiced ear at Relative Pitch intervals can simply listen to a song or an entire orchestration for that matter and realize with perfect infallibility what all the note relationships are. Practicing identifying the basic twelve musical intervals within the octave, moving both up and down, will improve your ability to hear any musical event by many orders of magnitude. There are a few different facets to ear training, so let's dive right in and identify them.įor a musician, the ability to hear the differences in musical intervals, that which we call "Relative Pitch", is a very desirable if not mandatory skill to practice and develop. Anything else just has to do with the methodology for getting to that one point. And for good reason when you think about it: Everything you do in the studio has but one purpose and one purpose only, to tantalize and delight the human ear at playback. Let me start by stating this in no uncertain terms: Your ears are simply superb instruments for judging audio events. ![]() There seems to be some difficulty in understanding what it means to train the human ear (and the brain between) and how subjective or objective the use of same may be. ![]() Let's start with Mac's thoughts on the subject.) We firmly believe it's important to properly train your ears and then trust them while doing digital recording. ( Ed note: You'll hear the phrase 'learn to trust your ears' often on this site. ![]()
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