This is nothing new to most of you ,but I was reminded of this on my last band gig when a sax and clarinet player came up to me on break and commented on how authentic my clarinet sounded, on my solo. I have read several times ,that our ears become accustomed to whatever sound we are playing and loss track of the very sound we are trying to emulate.

Thinking back to the early eighties ,FM couldn't come close to today's sampled sounds ,and it is more difficult to choose or edit a sound for realism. In my case ,it was the G70 I was playing. I had favored the KN7000 for band because I thought it was more realistic. However ,when I edited my sounds in the G70, to my ears ,I realized the basic sound was closer to the real thing ,hence the comments.

My point is that players should not necessarily grow so accustomed to their sounds to fool your ears to what's real.