Ear Training
Weekly. Test your ears and discuss — music, mixing, and more. Included with residency.
Test your ears and discuss — music, mixing, and more. Interactive listening exercises with fellow residents to sharpen your critical listening skills.
Upcoming Sessions
- Jun 04 5am (PT) | 8am (ET) | 1pm (UK) Shane Mickelsen
Recent Sessions
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We worked on multi-note chord ear training using a stack-of-fourths voicing, exploring why certain interval relationships make individual pitches difficult to isolate — particularly when notes share harmonic content with each other. We used sine waves and an EQ solo technique to strip away competing overtones and focus attention on individual pitches, then connected those listening skills to a frequency-identification exercise using EQ curve matching on a live mix.
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Covered the difference between saturation and distortion, with live demonstrations on kick drum, bass, and vocals using the Abbey Road Saturator and a virtual guitar amp. Worked through multi-stage compression on a vocal chain — three compressors in sequence for peak reduction and makeup gain — and explained why reverb belongs on an auxiliary bus rather than directly on a track, including how to EQ and automate the reverb tail independently. Also addressed gain staging, headroom management, microphone selection for noisy rooms, and tracking levels for vocals.
All resident events are included with your Beat Kitchen Residency.
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