Worship Sound Guy Ear Trainer
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Weak-spot map

Your accuracy across all ten ranges.

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The trainer

Train your ears

Turn on the skills you want to work. With more than one on, the trainer mixes them up round to round so it never feels like the same drill twice. Then hit start.

Training modes
Difficulty
Big, wide moves that sit right on the common landmarks, with guide marks on the spectrum.
Session focus
Sound source
Nothing plays until you press start.
Compete

Leaderboard

Climb the tiers, chase a bullseye run, and add friends to see who is really putting in the reps.

Internal

Admin

Every registered account, their progress, and how the app is actually being used.

The essentials

Learn

Everything you need to know before you drill, plus the tool to build your reference by ear. Ear training is not a talent you are born with. It is a skill, like learning a room or learning a board, and it comes from reps.

How your ears hear frequency

On the console, the jump from 100 Hz to 200 Hz looks tiny next to 1,000 Hz to 2,000 Hz. But your ears hear both as the same size step, because both are a doubling. That doubling is an octave, and your ears think in octaves whether you know it or not. That is why we do not train you to name an exact number. Nobody hears in Hertz. What you can learn is which neighborhood a sound lives in, and getting the neighborhood right is most of the fix.
Tip

Being a little off is not the same as being wrong. If the real answer is 500 and you guess 630, you are close, and your ear is working. The drills score you that way on purpose.

The ten landmarks

You are not memorizing twenty thousand frequencies. You learn a small set of anchors and get good at telling which one a sound is closest to. These are the ranges you actually touch on a Sunday.

Hear it for yourself

This is where you build the reference. Pick a range, boost it, and listen. Then cut it and listen to that. There is no score here on purpose, just time in your ears.

Interactive EQ

Drag the dot anywhere on the graph to move a boost or cut around the spectrum and hear it on the current source. Flip EQ On / Flat to A/B against the untouched sound.

Live
Drop an audio file here or click to browse. A short loop of music or a vocal works best. Everything stays on your device.
Plays pink noise through a single band so you can hear each range on its own. Use gentle volume, especially on headphones.
500 Hz·Mids
Goodbody, articulation Too muchboxy, cluttered
Width (Q)Wide
Drag the dot: left and right picks the range, up boosts, down cuts. The word tells you which range you are in. Start wide, then tighten the width once a range has a sound you recognize.

Set yourself up

Ear training is only as good as what you listen on. If your reference is bad, you are teaching your ears the wrong map.

  • Use real headphones or your monitors. Laptop speakers and cheap earbuds roll off the lows, hype the highs, and hide the ranges you are trying to learn. Honest gear that shows the whole spectrum, not expensive gear.
  • Keep the volume sane. Loud fatigues your ears fast and flattens the differences you are listening for. Conversational level, and leave it there.
  • Train on the same setup. Every pair of headphones has its own voice. Learn 500 on one and switch to another and you are partly starting over. Same cans, same room, same volume.
  • Do not train tired. Late after a long Sunday is the worst time. Short sessions when you are fresh beat a long grind when you are fried.
Gotcha

Training on bad monitoring is worse than not training at all. If your earbuds hype 5k, you will learn a version of 5k that lives nowhere but those earbuds, and then you will mishear it everywhere else.

How to practice

  • Short and often beats long and rare. Ten focused minutes a few times a week goes further than one exhausting hour a month. Treat it like an instrument, not a test.
  • Chase your weak spots. Once the map shows a cold range, aim there. The gains hide in the ranges you keep missing, not the ones you already own.
  • Train on music, not just noise. Noise teaches the ranges cleanly, but a real mix is what you fight on a Sunday. Once the neighborhoods feel familiar, spend most of your time on music and your own audio.
  • Be patient. This is a season, not a weekend. Some days it feels like you are getting worse, because you are starting to hear things you used to miss. Keep showing up.
Tip

Warm your ears up before you mix, not just when you train. Two minutes with the interactive EQ above before a service resets your reference and wakes your ears up before the first downbeat.