almost everything is limited 😓 at least give us 2 more games

Sometimes there's a 30% off or so discount code online...
https://www.soundgym.co/coupon/view?id=IZU3CJL5LYU&aff=9026

Even at a higher price, this community is well worth supporting.

95 USD for a year with 30% (blackfriday).
You can play to a lot of different games, you can learn (60 hours of formation), you can speak with others, compare your mix with others, the community is good, you can play with others ...
For me, it's really helping in the real world so it's ok.

My 2 cents is that it depends on what benefits it brings to your daily life. If music is just an occasional hobby and you're not really spending much time on it or soundgym, then I can definitely see it feeling like it's too much to pay.

I work in music (commercials, Film/TV), and this is a HUGE benefit in my workflow for much less than I spend on anything else really - it's less than my dropbox subscription, about the same as SoundCloud I think... probably similar to Vimeo... costs much less for the whole year than any VST, sample or loop library (some of those end up being like $1000 for just one quality orchestral section). To be able to mix better and faster, know frequencies quicker etc gives me an edge and also speeds up how I work. I've noticed a huge improvement in just a month of doing this regularly. I used to mostly just rely on the realtime visual EQ and just frequency sweeping - having a general sense of subs, lows, mids, highs. But nothing precise. I started hearing other productions way better after doing SoundGym for only a couple weeks. Like hearing that a snare in a track I like has more lows, or more highs. Hearing how the percussions might be mostly hi passed, or actually have a lot more mid-low frequencies giving them body, and how this affects the actual arrangement - what is added and taken away and how it complements the frequency spectrum. Being able to identify frequencies like this using your ears is huge... because you can't really pull up the stereo mix and look at the EQ visualizer and get a REAL sense of what each instrument is like in it's frequency spectrum - sure you may see something popping out here and there, but generally it's all flattened to the 2mix with every other sound in the track, and you can't tell by looking at it what's really doing what. With your ears you can, but you have to be able to know what you're hearing. It's actually a little embarrassing for me that after 20 years of playing/writing music and 10 years of making a professional living in music, that I wasn't able to hear these things that well - only very vaguely. It'd be a lot of trial and error and it'd work well enough for me. Now I can be more intentional and precise. I can tell when my snare should be fatter or thinner etc - rather than just feeling something is missing and trying different things out. And it's not just knowledge.. the craziest thing to me is that my ears (primarily brain really I assume.. I imagine the regions associated with sound processing) just improved daily. Not that I started to KNOW more, it just became easier to hear and know what I'm hearing.

I paid for the year. Made more sense to me. Within the month it's already been worth way more to me than I paid for the whole year. I had no idea I could improve my ears this much more in so little time after this long of working in music... everything else was diminishing returns.. you know, hours of work and tons of vids etc, but tiny incremental progress. Soundgym felt like getting a turbo boost lol. I supposed I discovered a neglected part of my musical abilities! LOL. And I did ear training etc in University - but it was a classical program.. so no frequency detection - more so intervals and sight singing etc (which I've not kept up lol).

Anyways! My point is, as someone working in music, the cost is tiny compared to how much benefit it brings. Just the amount of time saved EQing (which is literally something I do on EVERY track, and often have like 100+ tracks) pays back more than enough for this. Time is money, and is your life, even a minute saved on each track will add up to over an hour on a project, likely even more. You also get back what you put in - so you have to practice to make it worthwhile.

My streaming subscriptions cost more than this (Netflix, Crave, etc)... but they bring me way less benefit than this!! LOL. Not to mention the feeling of being productive and the satisfcation of improving - versus just vegging out for a bit.

But if you're someone starting out, not having much money to invest (if you're a student for instance etc), and not really making a living out of music, I can see this feeling like it's a bit expensive. If you're serious about music though, I truly believe that it will give you a huge edge, more so than any other piece of gear/software you can really get (asides of course from the essentials to actually be ABLE to do the work lol - like a mic, an audio interface, an instrument to record - but in terms of improving your $200 mic to a $1000 mic, or to spend $100 to improve your ears, improving your ears will be a much better investment I.M.O. - you can EQ that mic recording and compress and process it once you know what sounds right - but a better mic doesn't necessarily mean you'll actually know how to edit the recorded material to achieve what you want).

Please see 'Discounts' and look for the 'SoundGym | 30% Off' product...
https://www.tonegym.co/products/index