Hello guys, I am once again asking for help, this time with DB King :D
With all of the other games, I feel like, even if I'm not beating my best results, I am improving. I can recognize differences in the comp/distortion games easier, even if I don't always choose the right answers. I have a clearer idea of the frequency spectrum and more reliable results, even if I don't pass new levels. Even the delay game seems learnable to me.
But I just don't understand how to judge the dB differences. I've gotten to lvl 17 (or 18 maybe) and I feel like there has been zero improvement, sometimes I just guess it right, sometimes I don't. Of course, there are some things I feel like I've memorized (like, a difference between, let's say, a 10-18 dB range vs a 5-8 dB range). But I can't imagine ever reliably guessing stuff like 2 vs 2.5 dB. Or even at the lower differences something like 16 vs 20 dB. Feels different with each type of sound.
Do you have any tips on improving at this? Thanks, have a great day!
Each round I use the volume knob on my interface to try and set it to a comfortable listening level. I look at the bypass and make sure I'm on the loudest side. Then I do my best to recreate this listening level. Then, After I do my best to recreate that listening level, I hit the button, and the level goes down. I always want it going down. because if i set the level on the quiet side it just gets really loud. Once you start doing this over time you can get a better gauge on it. -5, -10, and -20 are the most important levels to concentrate on. -10 is pretty quite. -20 is Very quite heading towards silence. Once you kinda get a feeling for these you have a basis to judge things in between (-6,-12 for example) It will still take some time. But, by doing this its helped me out a lot. Rock on!
I agree with Marcus. You can't learn this by rote - That's a rational intellective technique - OK for learning history or geography. What you're doing here is developing an intuitive skill. The only way you can do that is by osmosis - Absorbing it by repeating and repeating and repeating. Remember also that the more pain you feel because you're making no progress, and the longer you feel it, the better it is. it means your subconscious mind is constructing a more sophisticated paradigm to deal with the task. Never give up, and someday soon you will discover you are starting to take off.
So I get that when using my iPad rather than my desktop. Not only when changing between the different options but during all audio playback. That seems more like an internet issue, as if it's struggling to steam the audio or as if it's trying to do real time sample rate conversion.
Your problem sounds more like what I mentioned in the previous comment. Games like Reverb Wizard, Distorted Reality and Dr. Compressor are likely to click/pop when changing between different sounds due to the tail/sustain that these effects add. If you chop a piece of audio before the tail has completely finished then that abrupt cut will cause a pop. It's why you have 'Create fades on clip edges' as an option in your DAW. I might be teaching you to suck eggs here (English idiom for those not in the UK) but those pops are a common occurrence when a loop isn't perfect. There are a fair few imperfect loops in the different sounds on here and you'll hear them at the loop point but the pops from chopped tails can work to your advantage. Click between the different options quickly on Reverb Wizard and if you hear a pop while changing, the reverb setting are different. It can easily help you identify which is the odd one out.
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