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Congrats @Nick Pukies for winning the Golden Ears Award!

Congrats @Jean marc JOANNES for winning the Golden Ears Award!

Complete beginner here🥹

@Giuseppe Angelo is a BeatRace legend - congrats on the win!

Hourly BeatRaces here: https://www.soundgym.co/beatrace/index

Congrats @John Stanard for winning the Golden Ears Award!

@Troy Loper just uploaded the song 'Summer Solstice' to the SoundGym Charts.



🎧 Listen and vote now ›

Quick one to try before you close your session tonight: solo the quietest two seconds of your current mix and turn it up loud. What's actually living in there?

If the answer is dead silence, a flat zero, that's usually the tell that a track was built entirely in the box. Real rooms never go that quiet, and that low-level noise was doing real work: keeping the record feeling like one continuous space, giving you distance cues, keeping the vocal present between lines instead of vanishing and reappearing.

New post breaks down exactly where the cleanup habits (gates, stripped silence, heavy de-noising) go too far, and how to put the life back on purpose without just adding hiss for vibe. Worth a read if you've ever wondered why your mix feels thinner than the reference track.

Read here: https://www.soundgym.co/blog/item?id=the-case-for-a-dirtier-mix-why-digital-silence-sounds-cheap

Anybody else have issues with SpacePan? My machine can handle my DAW running at 32 samples with 30 tracks and a hundred plugins before it starts to sweat but, for some reason, with SoundGym open and nothing else I get SpacePan lag. Not to mention the general click and drag the whole game around issue when you get to the parts of the game where speed matters.

Anybody else have issues with this and find a way around it? I'm using SoundGym as a Safari app if that matters.

Boost Champ Winner, Aug. 6th - Aug. 10th:

1st: @Cindy Preta 78 pts
2nd: @Mike Benza 77 pts
3rd: @pedro poyart 76 pts

See complete standings:
https://www.soundgym.co/contest/view?id=V3SVHKK863V

Huge congrats to @Colin Aiken - 'Glass Parade' just took the top spot this week. Drop a prop, leave a comment, and give it a spin:

https://www.soundgym.co/chart/index