Hi guys, I got the arx brass when the price went down. Many people complain that there horn sounds too thin. I thought so, too. I created a tune that has 2 trumpets, trombone and sax. People are constantly stating that there brass sounds are thin and does not sound good in the mix.........You want a quick way around that? Here's how you can get a fat, expressive sound almost as if Jim Guercio himself produced it. Lets say you already have the midi info for each horn part, in the fantom.(I had to fix all mine cause i had 2 trumpets on one midi track and so forth)...which was kinda painful and futile...but thats how arx 03 works....if you have 2 parts on one midi track....it's going to either split it up or play it weak....so, fix all your parts, relay all your midi parts (twice in some cases if u had to split some midi. Before I got arx I was using the onboard brass that was in the fantom. So this is how your sound is going to change.. Let's say you had your trumpet on Ch 15, ok..use that part as (exp1) like you have been, then duplicate all the midi parts directly underneath that one and use the onboard preset (stereo brass, or gm brass and sax, or whatever)......adjust the volume so that your arx trumpet is slightly louder than the onboard preset......basically what your doing is blending the both of them. By doing this, for some reason it sounds huge.....it's your arx trumpet, along with the noise settings doits, fall, staccatos etc ..and it's resting on top of your onboard preset..which is already blended and an octive lower. It sounds like a fat ass trumpet, rather than 3 weak sounds blended together. And the personality of the sound is better to, because the arx trumpet has all the noise and the effects on it, while the onboard sound only adds the octive and the fullness...like a natural delay, it sounds cool...pan them right on top of each other...dont split them up...whoever gave me this advice....thanks dude.......cuz blending horns? that only works when your using mics. If anybody has been complaining about the thin sounds.....blend it with an onboard preset...I couldnt believe it myself. Your horns will sound 10 times bigger...realistically.