Stop Hunting For Frequencies & Learn This EQ Trick Instead 

For a horn player...Formant relating to the vowel sound is crucial understanding. This is how a trumpet player will match the shape of their throat for the frequency of the note they're trying to achieve. It is the formant of the frequency. A low note on the trumpet is the aah sound. A high note on the trumpet is the ee sound. If you're trying to play a high note on trumpet, that would be the "ee" formant. If your throat shapes for ee the high note will be easier to play and will sound better. If you're trying to play that high note and you have the shape (formant) of your throat for the "ooh" sound it will be hard to play the high note because the fomant of your throat doesn't match. For a low note on the trumpet they will shape the throat for the "ooh" sound. They are not singing "ooh" through the trumpet. Just shaping the throat for it. When you get the shape of your throat matching the formant of the note you're trying to play, that's when the note jumps straight into better tone. The trumpet response is almost instant, easier to start. And the tone is rich and resonant because the shape of your throat (formant) matches the note you're trying to play. So when you play trumpet from a low note up to a high note your throat should continually change from "who, boo, or poo" to "oh, bow, or Poe" to "ah, baa, or pa" to "a, bay, or pay" and finally to "he, bee or pee" for the highest notes. You don't _sing_ those words through the trumpet. You just shape your throat as if you were going to. And if your vocal chord is the correct matching tension for _singing_ the note you're trying to play. Then you are a professional. That is the secret sauce. The "in between" vowel sounds are called dipthongs. Midway between A and E is the diphthong AE. All of these sounds correspond to the notes of the instrument. Give some "throat" to your trumpet sound. It also applies to vocalists.

Today I learned that my tinnitus is around 4 kHz. In all seriousness, this method is really cool. Thanks for sharing!

For me, 500Hz always sticks out as the sound of skateboard wheels rolling on concrete

Fun! I guessed every single one easily; but I've never equated it to these mnemonics. Good work for teaching a fundamental concept for the community! This will help many people!

Good tip! However, spotting those frequencies in pink noise is not the same as spotting them in the context of music. It's not a bad place to start, but I'd suggest training one's ears by taking a piece of music one enjoys listening to repeatedly and running it through a parametric EQ, setting a single mid band to medium to narrow Q, and boost 250 Hz by +6db, then gradually sweep up through the other frequencies you mention in the video, and pay attention to what aspects in the sound jump out at each frequency. Then do the same thing, but instead of boosting, use a -6db cut, and pay attention to what aspects of the sound get swallowed up each time at each frequency. Once you feel comfortable with that tune, try another in a different style, doing the same thing, and so on until you have a decent grasp on what you are listening for. You can make this exercise more effective if you have another person who can shift the frequencies without you seeing and asking you to tell them which frequency they boosted or cut. Good luck!

As a signal analyst who tries hard to view (or to hear) the world as scale and frequency or what's alike to it, I found this very intriguiing. Thanks for your inspiring content!

Interesting approach!!

Your videos are always so clearly laid out and explained. I appreciate the thought you put into giving clear and concise explanations. Thank you!

Easier to do with white noise than actual music. I can get within range by ear but to pick out the exact frequency is more difficult and more of an educated guess .

Great guide, the way I learned when I was a teen was ringing a wedge slowly and identifying each of the feeding frequencies then filtering out in a 1/3 graphic, doing this over and over in different rooms and situations gave me the confidence to do it in live shows

Holy Moline! I never paused long enough to notice this before. Thnx for this as these absolutely Amazing Austrian Audio Hi-X15 headphones provide me with the first time ever demonstrating an open honest Smooth-as-Sade Silky 20Hz Sine. in an anechoic chamber, that smooth.

Very nice! Interesting concept.

Really fun stuff! The first test really reminded me of traffic noise from a highway or similar - most car tires seem to have a resonant frequency around 1 kHz, which causes a significant peak there on the otherwise wide spectrum "friction noise" (especially at higher speeds). I'm very familar with most of those test's playing around with EQ on different sounds, so I hear the differences pretty well anyway (adding letters just makes it more compicated. It's like music notes - it says me nothing about how it sounds - just give the frequency or frequency range in Hz instead says a lot more about how it sounds, haha) But I guess this is a big help for those who want to make music and haven't played around with an EQ, analysed frequency content of a lot of sounds (mostly non musical sounds and live recordings in my case) and even built signal generators and filters in electronics, for several years in advance.

fantastic video!

This is gonna be so useful thank you!

Great video. Really really helpful. Thanks for posting.

Learning so much from these videos, my mixes have improved greatly already 🙏🏾

This is brilliant stuff

thank you for the teaching, and while in the music excercise, much harder to heard which frequency coming out. also lower frequency of 63 and 125 is harder to notice which is which.

Thanks this is awesome!

That is really useful. Thanks for sharing

That is very helpful, thanks.

Nice!

Wow, it really works, THANK YOU!

Great video

Thank you

I wish I have that deep voice as yours. Mine is very high pitched naturally. 🥺

Depends very much on the speakers you use. Would be useful to train your ear on various speakers, from small near-field monitors to large room speakers. The room itself is also a big variable.

This is original content from the Jason Corey book and really should be credited as such.

Great tutorial, I’ll get back to practicing and I’ll also see how the low end haptics tip responds with a SUBPAC

Excellent pointer here. It's really helpful in pinpointing frequencies. EE and S are irritating to me.

This makes sense because most audio equipment including speakes are tested at 1Khz because its in the middle of the speech band.

4.11 was difficult!!

Good stuff Kyle, I see you’ve installed some new acoustical panels Can you tell you tell us more about why you chose those?

How to idrntify the exact frequncy causing feedback

Kind of abrasive like a "TS". Got it... 😉

I guessed all right except for 4.4 which I though was 4k, and 4.7 which left me confused I didn't know what I was hearing. After finding out 4.7 was 4k, I guess I am not used at associating the sound with the number. I also disagree that a subwoofer is needed to distinguish between 63 and 125hz. I think it's actually very easy with headphones. I'm using headphones and was always able to guess it correctly.

Can u recommend some software for capturing the audio and find out the feedback frequency and how much eq to solve the problem and how to use it

HOLY Frequency Batman. Thank yo so much .... I'll print this out and hang it over my Monitors

For me, I can MUCH easier tell the difference between individual SINGLE frequency tones, than with bandwidth limited white or pink noise, because the latter is a "motley" of multiple frequencies, so the boundaries of the frequency fundamental are very "fuzzy", so the overall sound is just "noise" to me, nothing in particular... And that variance gets even worse with actual music because then you have EVERYTHING coming at your ears all at once. I can pretty much ONLY identify frequencies if they are single, individual frequency, SINE waves. Also, I absolutely 100% HATE ALL so called "haptics", and for me, the whole idea of it is just stupid AND EXTREMELY annoying to me, that's why I totally turn off ALL vibration related to "haptics" or button presses, because it REALLY irritates me!... I can't stand the sensations constantly, it's totally distracting and overwhelming to being able to even focus on the main thing you're trying to do! But I have autism, so that might be why I'm majorly different, "opposite", or "weird" like that, LOL...

Can u pls do a video on how to use smart app for identify feedback frequencies

Surprisingly got everything correct through 1.1. to 3.4, but it got really hard when the music started. So at 4.1. I missed 5 out of 12 and had to cheat the first one. I have Yamaha HS5 and I'm guessing subwoofer is recommended for 63hz & 125hz? I don't have one yet.

Exercise 1.1 EE 1.2 AH 1.3 O 1.4 OO 1.5 A 1.6 AH 1.7 OO 1.8 A

I also hear 125 Hz as F through the teeth, and 63 Hz as FF around the teeth with the cheeks puffed.

All sounds like white noise to me

Come for the audio engineering insights, stay for the linguistics.

Chi-Caaa-goh!

Check out IPA for cross-cultural spellings.

You should probably give your mentor a name in the videos. You say you get all your information from him, but never give him credit.

ee ah oo o a ah o a

haha this is really serious

1:35 so rediculas none of those sound like vowels

The video is going way too fast for someone to memorize each thing

1:17 no

Cheers.

wow masterclass level tutorial! 🫡🫡🫡

Dat doesnt help at producing, but very interesting