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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Postilnik" data-source="post: 1582" data-attributes="member: 184">I finally got Harman&#039;s listener training software installed and gave it a try, focusing on band identification, with both boosts and cuts. I did 100 practice runs with the Tom Waits cover song, starting at level 4 (for a total of 8 possible answers to choose from each time). My score was around 53%.This seemed like a pretty lousy score, and it made me wonder if I need to totally re-evaluate my abilities as a live sound engineer. However, there were some patterns in my results that aren&#039;t really accounted for in the score.First of all, about 90% of the time when I made mistakes, I correctly identified whether it was a boost or dip, and I was also within one or two bands of the correct one. Second of all, the score is not weighted to reflect how many bands the listener is choosing from. Making a mistake when you have two boosts and two cuts to choose from is not the same as making a mistake when you have nine boosts and nine cuts to choose from.Does anyone have thoughts about how one&#039;s results in this program correlate to live engineering ability? I would like to conclude that I&#039;m not in the wrong field entirely...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Postilnik, post: 1582, member: 184"] I finally got Harman's listener training software installed and gave it a try, focusing on band identification, with both boosts and cuts. I did 100 practice runs with the Tom Waits cover song, starting at level 4 (for a total of 8 possible answers to choose from each time). My score was around 53%. This seemed like a pretty lousy score, and it made me wonder if I need to totally re-evaluate my abilities as a live sound engineer. However, there were some patterns in my results that aren't really accounted for in the score. First of all, about 90% of the time when I made mistakes, I correctly identified whether it was a boost or dip, and I was also within one or two bands of the correct one. Second of all, the score is not weighted to reflect how many bands the listener is choosing from. Making a mistake when you have two boosts and two cuts to choose from is not the same as making a mistake when you have nine boosts and nine cuts to choose from. Does anyone have thoughts about how one's results in this program correlate to live engineering ability? I would like to conclude that I'm not in the wrong field entirely... [/QUOTE]

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