Start training
New here? Spend a few minutes in the Listening Library first so every range has a sound before you get scored.
Your weak-spot map
No data yet. Run a drill and this lights up.Listening Library
Before you can pass a test on the spectrum, you have to know what the spectrum sounds like. This is where you learn it, and there is no score on purpose. Pick a band, boost it, listen. Then cut it and listen to that.
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.
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.
Progress
Which neighborhoods you own and which ones you keep missing. Not a high score for its own sake, but knowing exactly where to aim your practice next. Everything stays private to this device.
Level 1
Level and total XP. XP comes from every scored round, more for a clean bullseye.
0 day streak
Train on any day to keep it alive. Best streak 0.
0 rounds
Total scored rounds across all drills. Reps are the whole game.
Weak-spot map
Cold means you cannot hear it yet. Warm means it is locked in.Accuracy over time
How your day-by-day accuracy is trending.Leaderboard
WSG Central members, ranked by best Daily Challenge.Learn
Everything you need to know before you drill, on one screen. 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
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.
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.
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.
Warm your ears up before you mix, not just when you train. Two minutes in the Listening Library before a service resets your reference and wakes your ears up before the first downbeat.