Trust your Ear
Six short mixes. Pick the first one that doesn't feel right to you.
Test + Instructions
Hi there
You’ll hear six mixes of the same 16-bar instrumental, under 30 seconds each. They all differ in subtle ways, but you don’t yet know exactly how. Your task is to pick the first one that doesn’t feel right to you, and choose that version on the poll at the bottom.
🎧 Headphones recommended
🔊 Loudness is matched
Baseline track (Version A)
For comparison only - not part of the poll
Version B
Version C
Version D
Version E
Version F
That’s it - one click, no wrong answers.
LMK in the comments if none of these versions crossed your line.
Next week, I’ll unpack what changed between versions and what the results might reveal about how we trust, and more importantly, question what we hear.
doux is meant to be a kind of musical watering hole—a meeting point for people who care about sounds and the stories behind them.
I’ll be posting my own work, sharing the work of others that deserves your ear, and running small experiments around the habit of listening. More ideas in the hopper, but starting small and all that…
Over time, I hope doux will become a home for collaboration and a birthplace for the ideas that shape what music (+ the music space) might become.
Join me here if that resonates!
very cool