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They should have had you in the Dos Equis commercial for -most interesting man in the world- I've never known a physicist that records small ensembles and plays trombone! That's awesome.

Steve! I think we are brothers from a different mother! I read your article and can completely relate. Of course, my parents wouldn't let me play trombone so I had to play trumpet (my dad was a big Herb Alpert fan). I've seen Chicago tons of times since I was a wee lad and love love love Jimmy's playing (all of them, really - including Bobby as I'm a big keyboard player). But most impressively, I love that you're a big Rush fan. I've seen every tour since 1977 and I've been waking up to Limelight for the past 20+ years on my alarm.

Great article, super inspiring. Keep it up and I'll be checking out your stuff.

Steve! Didn’t realize we had a hero in our midst over at TRE! Great interview, so pleased for you!

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Fabulous!

Congrats Nicolas! ⚡⚡⚡

Very cool!

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Congrats Miles! ✨✨✨

Congratulations Amaury! 🌈🌈🌈

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Fantastic!

Congrats Egor! ✨✨✨

Use all of them. The more varied sounds you train on, the more well rounded your ears will become and the more situations you'll be prepared for.

The only exception to this is if you're playing games that need the full range of sounds and you're using a sound that doesn't have them. A vocal with nothing below 150hz and nothing above 10khz is obviously not the best to use for EQ Mirror because it might randomly boost 120hz or 12khz and you'll have to guess.

Obviously, if you work exclusively with heavy metal music, you'll benefit more from having metal sounds on heavy rotation - but you'll still learn more by switching them out pretty regularly for something completely different.

Thanks! I agree we have to vary the sounds, but some packs are better than others. For example, I love the Indie Rock pack, it's very well mixed and has cool songs, which always helps when you're listening to lots of repetitions. However some of the songs are cut in a filtered section (which is the case in other packs too), so it's not unusual to get a question where the bass is boosted, but there's no bass in that particular part
Alternative Rock II is a good example of how all snippets can be useful because they're all full-range, and the songs are good too :)

Wayta go Doc!

Great track, @Doctor MojoTrip, and great title!

Thanks everyone!