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
- Nov 23 Nathan
- Dec 01 Nathan
- Dec 02 Scott Hampton
- Dec 08 Scott Hampton
- Dec 21 Nathan
- Jan 05 Jam
Recent Sessions
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We spent this morning's session doing a comparative microphone listening exercise, working through a playlist of real client recordings made on a range of microphones — from $38 Amazon condensers to $289 Lewitt condensers — to train the ear to hear what mic choice actually does (and doesn't) do to a recording. Discussion covered how microphone character interacts with voice timbre, why high-end EQ demands differ between dynamic and condenser mics, and how performance and songwriting quality consistently outweigh gear choice.
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Covered compression ear training by working through a live project in Reaper — demonstrating how threshold, ratio, and makeup gain interact, and how over-compression affects dynamics, vocal performance, and high-frequency transients. Used the remastered versus original versions of "Stairway to Heaven" as a real-world listening example to illustrate what over-compression sounds like in context. Discussed multi-compressor vocal chains, cymbal treatment philosophy, and the principle of taking settings to the extreme as a learning tool.
All resident events are included with your Beat Kitchen Residency.
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