u/AUDIO_OX

I’ve been lucky enough to work with pro bands and producers for a long time, and lately a lot of indie artists have been reaching out to me to mix their albums. The problem is that, in many cases, the songs feel almost unmixable at least in my opinion. For example, everything is played in the same octave, the frequency spectrum isn’t balanced properly, the recordings are poor quality, etc.

I’ve already talked to some of them and explained the issues, and they understood where I was coming from. But I’m curious if any of you have dealt with this before, and if there’s actually a way to successfully mix songs like this.

That question messed with me for years.

I've been obsessed with audio since I was a kid. When it was time to pick a major, Audio Engineering wasn't really a choice, it was the only thing I could see myself doing. The first time someone in class asked me if I could identify which frequency just got boosted, I realized I had no idea. I'd been guessing my entire life.

The answer everyone gave me was the same: practice. So I did. Hours in my home studio, opening the DAW, EQing reference tracks, training my ears the slow way. Problem was, study load + assignments + work meant the practice time left over was tiny. And studio monitors aren't portable, I couldn't train on the bus, on lunch breaks, between classes. All that dead time was wasted.

I kept dreaming of something I could just pull out of my pocket. Plug in headphones, run a 5-minute round wherever I was, no DAW required. Couldn't find one I liked, so I started building it myself.

A few weeks later it shipped. It's called Freqy. I use it every day between sessions and the difference in my mid-range judgment has been honestly humbling. Turns out my ears were guessing way more than I thought.

Curious how others here got past this. Did you train with pink noise, real tracks, or something else? What actually moved the needle for you?

Hey everyone,

Long-time lurker, first-time poster. I'm Nader, an audio engineer based in Michigan.

I've spent years training my ears the hard way — listening tests, frequency challenges,

hours in the DAW. The problem? Every ear training tool I found was either desktop-only,

Mac-only, or hadn't been updated in a decade.

So I built Freqy — a mobile EQ ear training app for Android.

What it does:

- Plays you a sound with a hidden EQ boost or cut

- You guess the frequency

- Earn XP, build streaks, see your weak frequencies on a heatmap

- Use your own audio files or built-in pink/white noise

- Multiple modes: Guess, Correct, Blind

I'm launching in a few weeks under my company Sotem Gate LLC. Would genuinely love feedback

from this community — what features matter most to you in ear training? Anything you've

always wished existed?

Happy to give early Pro access to anyone who wants to test it. Just comment or DM.

Site: freqy.app