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Congrats Miles! ✨✨✨

Miles, that's excellent! Congrats for winning your Golden Ears!

Fabulous!

Congrats Nicolas! ⚡⚡⚡

Way to go, Nicolas! Congratulations for winning those shiny Golden Ears!

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!

Thanks, everyone, for your kind words! This honor was quite a surprise, to say the very least. Stelios, if I'm not playing the horn, you'll find me on the trails in the nearby mountains. Cuantas, life is most certainly not boring here (almost too much going on!). Carolyn, one of my big motivations is giving back to the community, and I've focused a bunch of energy on that desire. Mike B, many thanks as always! Socky, oddly enough, many of the theoretical physicists I worked with at Sandia National Laboratories played trombone - something I was almost tempted to do a survey on. John, I could only wish to see Chicago as many times as you, and Rush' Moving Pictures tour back in the 70's was nothing short of awesome. Mike M, thanks - and I'm sure I'm not the only TRE member to receive this honor.

Very cool!

Congrats Emma! ⚡⚡⚡

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 :)