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SoundGym
Nov 14, 12:57 in SoundGym Official

Congrats @Morgan Watson for winning the Golden Ears Award!

Ron Toll
Nov 14, 14:14

congrats!

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Lio LM
Nov 14, 18:43

Congrats Morgan! ⭐⭐⭐

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Steve Rinaldi
Nov 14, 22:22

Morgan, congrats for winning your Golden Ears - on to Diamond!

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Kevin Koelzer
Nov 14, 15:14 in SoundGym Cafe

1240 miles by Milan Parodie is out now! Mixed by yours truly

BOJOOPE BABATUNDE
Nov 14, 15:22

cool i love the mix

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Zeo Wei
Nov 14, 15:26

I love the glitch sound. It's sexy for my ears

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Kevin Koelzer (author)
Nov 14, 20:11

Thanks Bojoope, and Zeo, vinyl always sounds good

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SoundGym
Nov 14, 05:24 in SoundGym Official

Producer choice: sound design or arrangement?

You have to choose one skill for producing: Sound Design or Arrangement?

🎚️ If you could master just one, would you choose to craft perfect sounds or perfect structure?

Sound design brings the color, arrangement tells the story. Which one would you rather be known for, SoundGym fam? 👀

Kaspars Aansons
Nov 14, 07:12

Sound design is changing so fast that it ages almost instantly. What feels fresh today can be outdated by tomorrow. But a good arrangement is a stable value - once you master it, you can stay relevant for a long time.

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Ariel van den Berg
Nov 14, 10:43

I guess that depends a lot. In electronic music, there are a lot of artists from the 60's and 70's still relevant for their soundshape, just like in the 90's and 00's. We still refer to hiphop, techno, early electronic for our synth and drum sounds. As goes for guitar sounds like Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, and many other big artists in any genre for that matter.
But in the end all of them needed both to be remembered, if you have a good arrangement but crappy sound design (or the other way around for that matter), you will not be relevant in any time :)

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SoundGym
Nov 13 in SoundGym Official

Congrats @Tomáš Svoboda for winning the Golden Ears Award!

Steve Rinaldi
Nov 13

Tomáš, that's fantastic! Congratulations for winning your Golden Ears!

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Colin Aiken
Nov 13, 23:45

Brilliant!

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Lio LM
Nov 14, 03:59

Congrats Tomáš! ⭐⭐⭐

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SoundGym
Nov 13 in SoundGym Official

Congrats @keith pearson for winning the Diamond Ears Award!

Colin Aiken
Nov 13, 23:45

Outstanding achievement!

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Helmut Mair
Nov 14, 01:55

Congratulation!

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Lio LM
Nov 14, 03:58

Congratulations Keith! 🌈🌈🌈

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SoundGym
Nov 14, 02:44 in SoundGym Official

Emma just shared her daily SoundGym routine, and it’s a great watch

Hello everyone,

Emma just posted a new video where she goes through her real daily SoundGym training session. No hype, just an honest look at how she practices, the games she uses, the moments she struggles, and the small wins that keep her going.

If you’ve ever been curious about how other musicians structure their ear-training, this is a really refreshing peek into someone else’s process.

Why it’s worth checking out:
- It’s interesting to see how another creator builds their training flow.
- Emma explains her thinking in a very relatable way.
- You might pick up ideas for your own daily routine.

If you give it a watch, feel free to share one thing that stood out to you.
Always nice to learn from each other. 🎧💬

👉 Watch Emma's Full SoundGym Session here:

Ron Allen
Nov 14, 00:07 in SoundGym Olympics

If you've got some spare sound coins, the SoundGirls could use some love!
https://www.soundgym.co/donation/index

Rachel Tirta
Nov 13 in SoundGym Cafe

hi all :) ive taken all of your feedback from my last mix and tried to apply it in this new one. I used sidechain compression on the bass, which is my first time using sidechain compression so i doubt its any good but i focused a lot on getting the kicks to do what theyre supposed to do and also adding found sounds into my work, which is the very subtle whirring noise in the background. i want to try and keep moving away from depending on MIDI instruments and more toward audio and vocals, so theres only 3 midi elements in this mix. any feedback would be really helpful :)

https://soundcloud.com/musicartist2002/nov-project-4-v2

John Ackerberg
Nov 13

Rachel!

This isn't the same loop as your previous post but I really like this one. It has potential.

Now you just really need to define what you want to do with this. Do you want it to be the foundation for a song or maybe you want to make loops instead? That would be very helpful in order to map out where to go next.

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SoundGym
Nov 11 in SoundGym Official

Congrats @vinylorend letanov for winning the Golden Ears Award!

Billy Lorne
Nov 11

congrats on your golden ears, Vinylorend!!

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Colin Aiken
Nov 12

Fabulous work!

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Ron Toll
Nov 12

Congrats!

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