Hi guys,
I was hoping someone would throw together something like this so those in the home/hi-fi community could get a hint at what audio professionals consider required skills. The link was posted during a discussion on the Live Audio Board, and I believe many DIYers and those trying to improve their system could benefit from a little playing with this.
The program is called the Simple Feedback Trainer. It is intended to help train you to be able to identify feedback frequencies. In the audio trenches where they have to make even the bad sounding stuff work, those problematic frequencies must be cut to keep the system from howling. When you download the program you can set the options and then click start. I would make sure and limit the frequency range to that of your computer speakers as well as the ISO frequency centers. You only need to click on the fader of the frequency band to select what you think the frequency is. Keep clicking until the tone stops and another starts. The bottom info bar confirms what the last frequency was and how many guesses you've made.
While these sorts of exercises don't imporve the sound of your system directly, they very well may help you better identify what frequency ranges are causing problems you are hearing. The fancy and much more elaborate (and expensive) way to train your ears is with the Golden Ears CDs which sell for a few hundred dollars. In the home environment the set geared for studio work are probably most applicable.
What a great way to procrastinate or otherwise burn time :roll::
Simple Feedback Trainer
I was hoping someone would throw together something like this so those in the home/hi-fi community could get a hint at what audio professionals consider required skills. The link was posted during a discussion on the Live Audio Board, and I believe many DIYers and those trying to improve their system could benefit from a little playing with this.
The program is called the Simple Feedback Trainer. It is intended to help train you to be able to identify feedback frequencies. In the audio trenches where they have to make even the bad sounding stuff work, those problematic frequencies must be cut to keep the system from howling. When you download the program you can set the options and then click start. I would make sure and limit the frequency range to that of your computer speakers as well as the ISO frequency centers. You only need to click on the fader of the frequency band to select what you think the frequency is. Keep clicking until the tone stops and another starts. The bottom info bar confirms what the last frequency was and how many guesses you've made.
While these sorts of exercises don't imporve the sound of your system directly, they very well may help you better identify what frequency ranges are causing problems you are hearing. The fancy and much more elaborate (and expensive) way to train your ears is with the Golden Ears CDs which sell for a few hundred dollars. In the home environment the set geared for studio work are probably most applicable.
What a great way to procrastinate or otherwise burn time :roll::
Simple Feedback Trainer
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