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Turn on a compressor and it instantly sounds better, right? Not quite. It's just louder. That extra dB of makeup gain is tricking your brain into thinking the processing did something magic.

New on the blog: why loudness bias fools even experienced ears, and the one habit (gain-matching) that takes it off the table for good. 🎚️

Check it out: https://www.soundgym.co/blog/item?id=loudness-bias-why-plugins-sound-better

Congrats @Ariana Lucero for winning the Golden Ears Award!

Cut Champ Winner, Jul. 13th - Jul. 16th:

1st: @Mike Benza 62 pts
2nd: @Cindy Preta 60 pts
3rd: @Romano G 59 pts

See complete standings:
https://www.soundgym.co/contest/view?id=GHT3G4Z795O

Congrats @Cachin Hsu for winning the Golden Ears Award!

Congrats @İZMA Müzik Yapım for winning the Golden Ears Award!

@Dermot O Mahony just uploaded the song 'Truth Hurts' to the SoundGym Charts.



🎧 Listen and vote now ›

Is anyone else experiencing this...my daily workouts are resetting when finishing the last game for the day, and not registering a completed workout. Its not a huge deal, but curious if there may be a system bug. its happened a few times.

Congrats @Andi Beyerlein for winning the Golden Ears Award!

Hello everyone,

im struggling massively with Reverb wizard on guitar sound but can get on pretty easily with the vocal samples.
does anyone have any advice on this? for the guitar reverb I almost can't tell any difference between the samples and reverb.

Congrats @Bill Radovich for winning the Diamond Ears Award!