[quote="LPChip"][quote="sbrander"]mayb coz trackers hav more experience wif music and know when they hear something special or not[/quote]

Yeah thats right.

When a tracker listens to another tracker (or a commercial artist to another commercial artist) they listen very differently to a track than a regular listener.[/quote]

Well but something needs to be said. Often people who are trackers are very into a specific style of music and very commonly fail to see a tree obscured by the forrest, if you get what I mean.

Sometimes it happened to me that people said my tracks could use a little more variation and I wondered how to change my tracking style only to find out later that they used a player that failed to play the song right and played all the notes the same instead of the melody (a particular XM player didn't understand ModPlug's pitch modifiers or Winamp which as usual failed to see the resonance filters).

And as I've mentioned in the beggining of the post, it often isn't the software that's to blame. In my tracks I often utilize the side-effects that some 'bugs' in the trackers have (a leaky resonance filter setting can be rather convenient to form an absolutely awesome transition and when a sample is played too loud for internal processing, an effect tactically placed on such a sample can have a very nice disortion effect) and then get those 'proffesional' comments like "the piano sample was too loud" (with no piano samples in the track), when I begin to wonder if this person even listened to the track or just reviewed the code.

It's good to keep a distance there, people who think they're smart tend to be very wrong indeed.  :roll: