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Congrats @Alejandro Cortorreal for winning the Golden Ears Award!

@Pietro Gerbassi is now a SoundGym certified member. Congratulations Pietro!!

Congrats @Pietro Gerbassi for winning the Golden Ears Award!

Congrats @Peak Pulse for winning the Golden Ears Award!

Congrats @Nick Pukies for winning the Golden Ears Award!

Good luck, everyone. This one is REALLY tough...

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

SpacePan Champ Winner, Aug. 10th - Aug. 13th:

1st: @Mike Benza 101 pts
2nd: @Stelios Mavroyiannis 101 pts
3rd: @Helmut Mair 100 pts

See complete standings:
https://www.soundgym.co/contest/view?id=RTADBJ2C04N

Congrats @Stefano Patroni for winning the Golden Ears Award!

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

@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!