Then there's the colleague of mine who currently has the sound radio wants for hard rock. A single guitar part might have two dozen tracks. Doubles, octaves, fuzz, flanger... Several tracks for the bass. Several for the kick. Well over a hundred in total not including sends. Says his aim is to create a brick wall wave form without resorting to over compression and limiting, even on the stereo buss. Even he thinks it's funny and sad.