Sound exploration
Listen differently.
Discover sound, train your ears and master the art of mixing.
Method
Listen, understand, practise.
Hearwise connects what you hear with what you understand, and then with what you do. Every topic follows this cycle, from the first reflex to the professional gesture.
- 01
Listen
Short exercises that adapt to your level: frequencies, levels, timbres, dynamics.
- 02
Understand
Every topic is explained with clear representations. A teaching model is always labelled as such, never presented as a measurement.
- 03
Practise
Apply it in real mixing and mastering situations, and compare with references played at the same loudness.
Paths
Three fields, one ear.
Hearwise trains the ear in three fields, from a listening reflex to an engineer's gesture. To get there, you travel through five sound territories, at your own pace.
Listening
Recognise and understand
Hear a frequency, a level difference, a timbre, an attack — and be able to name it.
Mixing
Shape and balance
Equalise, shape dynamics, place each source in space so that everything can be heard.
Mastering
Finish and enhance
Judge a finished track's balance, dynamics and level, comparing at equal loudness.
Five territories to get there.
Each territory trains one part of the ear and serves one or several fields. The same work on the low end serves listening as much as mixing.
| Territory | Listening | Mixing | Mastering |
|---|---|---|---|
| DepthsLow frequencies and the bottom of the spectrum | Yes | Yes | No |
| ColoursTimbre, frequencies and equalisation | Yes | Yes | No |
| MotionDynamics and the time of sound | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SpaceStereo, depth and reverberation | No | Yes | Yes |
| MasteryMixing and mastering decisions | No | No | Yes |
How you progress.
- 01
Explore
In a territory, every module follows the same cycle: understand the notion, hear it, practise it, then master it.
- 02
Acquire
A skill is acquired when you pass a game level with at least 70% of the points. Time spent does not count.
- 03
Master
It is mastered when you pass it again on another day. A territory is mastered when all its skills are.
About
A listening studio, in your browser.
Hearwise is for musicians, producers and sound engineers who want to sharpen their ears. Everything happens in the browser, in French and English, with nothing to install.
Two minutes, no account: your goal, your level and a first exercise, with its correction. Then a free account keeps your progress.
- Sound, when you decide
- Nothing plays without your action: never any autoplay.
- Honest measurements
- A measurement is only presented as such once it has been validated against reference signals.
- The essentials, free
- Core learning stays free. A Pro plan will come later.