Shadow_7
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With brass playing there's all sorts of mouthpiece only exercises and pencil exercises and tons of thing that don't involve playing a trombone to get better at playing a trombone. But ultimately there's no substitute for the real thing. Sure those other things help and might help address a particular flaw that needs addressing. But you can get there from here without it. It might take a good long while, and you might be bored out of your head without a little variety. But you can make it work.
All I'm saying is that you need a certain familiarity with a sound that isn't / was NOT "recorded" to know what the "recording" should sound like. Sure Hollywood has trained us on what some things should sound like. But for those of us who've actually been to / performed in a purely acoustic group (sans anything electric). And whatever you used to record and deliver sounds nothing like the actual group as we know it sounds having been in it half a decade or so. Then we'll probably seek out someone with a different setup / process until we find someone that can give us what we expect. Or do the whole damn thing ourselves because such a thing doesn't exist. I'm just saying you need some familiarity with the real world sound in order to help make your sound a better match to that sound. Versus the sound of everyone elses bad recordings. The modern equivalent of a marching band being 50+ bass drums and a cymbal if you go by what you hear on the radio. And I don't doubt that somewhere such a group exists. But it's more common for that to be furthest from the real world configuration of most groups.
All I'm saying is that you need a certain familiarity with a sound that isn't / was NOT "recorded" to know what the "recording" should sound like. Sure Hollywood has trained us on what some things should sound like. But for those of us who've actually been to / performed in a purely acoustic group (sans anything electric). And whatever you used to record and deliver sounds nothing like the actual group as we know it sounds having been in it half a decade or so. Then we'll probably seek out someone with a different setup / process until we find someone that can give us what we expect. Or do the whole damn thing ourselves because such a thing doesn't exist. I'm just saying you need some familiarity with the real world sound in order to help make your sound a better match to that sound. Versus the sound of everyone elses bad recordings. The modern equivalent of a marching band being 50+ bass drums and a cymbal if you go by what you hear on the radio. And I don't doubt that somewhere such a group exists. But it's more common for that to be furthest from the real world configuration of most groups.
