When listening to music, do other people make an effort to identify and follow (at least for a little while) each different instrument/sound in the mix?
When I wear my fancy shmancy in-ear-monitors I tend to occasionally stop what I'm doing as I try to pick apart the instrumentation of more complex productions. And I think I might be weird
@neatchee
Yes. I also listen for unusual instruments.
Like the #ViolaDaGamba in Violet Evergarden.
There's also something that sounds like a #Theorbo in Sound of the Sky. And a decent-sounding #Harpsichord in Ascendance of a Bookworm.
The last two might be electronic, but if they are they're extremely well-done. I know the gamba is a real one.