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Originally Posted by crounsa810

#2 has been really annoying me lately. Idk if it’s the mixing of Sirius streams, the EQ of my music app, or a combo of all of it, but the most prominent sound in so much of what I’ve been listening to is the goddamn squeaking trumpet over everything. Jeff gets a sax solo? Can’t hear it because Rashawn is playing at the same time and much louder. The trumpet has its place in some stuff, but it’s WAY too prominent these days and needs to tone down. Everything the horns do sounds like it’s coming in through a funnel and it doesn’t sound good.

I’d honestly rather have Tim turned up and the horns turned down at this point. It’s just getting too grating to the ears. Even at MSG last year, I was really taken aback by how piercing the horns sounded. At least to my ears, it sounds like the mix turned down Tim Carter and Stefan, turned up Rashawn and Buddy, and left Jeff and Dave at the same level.

Thinking of that one video of Dave talking about Rashawn and everything he’s done, as well as bringing in Buddy, coupled with his insecure Insta posts and how prominent the trumpet is on everything kinda made me think this band is more the Rashawn Ross Band than the Dave Matthews Band.

I like the trumpet in places, but too much makes it sound like the Dave Matthews Marching Band.