Try This Every Time You Open Your DAW – Ear Training For Better Mixing



This ear training exercise will quickly improve your EQ and mixing skills. I do this almost every time I open a project and it helps me focus my processing and enjoy mixing. After suggesting this to hundreds of artists and clients, I thought it was time I just made a video about it!

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0:00 – Intro
0:30 – Ear Training Exercise
2:32 – Why is this so effective?
4:42 – EQ Masterclass
4:58 – Discord Server

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47 thoughts on “Try This Every Time You Open Your DAW – Ear Training For Better Mixing”

  1. With Ableton EQ Eight, use Q=2.84 and turn off "Adapt. Q".

    Details:
    I was wondering why the difference was so difficult to hear with Ableton EQ Eight. So I installed a demo of Pro-Q 3 and it was much easier to hear the difference! After a bit of research, I discovered that a Q value of 1 in Pro-Q 3 is 0.71 in Ableton, so 4 as shown in the video becomes 2.84. Also, "Adapt. Q", which is on by default, adapts the Q value to behave like "classic analog EQ". With those fixes, the delta between a track filtered by EQ Eight and a track filtered by Pro-Q 3 is null.

    And thank you Michael, I'm already starting to have fun already with gentle EQ changes 🙂

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  2. Im dying EQing my vocal, its been 3 months still cant get it right. I watch lots of your video but when doing it myself its super hard. Or might be im using 15$ microphone 😂 vocal is not that bright 😭.

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  3. Golden remark: The absence of a frequency tunes you in so much more than just trying to boost that frequency. This is exactly the opposite of what a novice such as myself does!🤔

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