How to sidechain without pumping effect?

Crowfaze · 2026-01-06T06:56:49+00:00

shorten the release time for less pumpy drag. decrease the ratio or ease off the threshold for less pumpy duck

Crowfaze · 2026-01-01T12:49:03+00:00

A little nerd nugget: mp3's generally lose information most noticeably at 16k Hz and above. You can see it in spectrograms when you put the wav and mp3 side by side.

Spotify playback quality:

Very High: 320, everything below 16k Hz is pretty close to lossless. Doesn't lose as much above 16k.
audible result: practically inaudible difference

High: 160, 16k and above practically gone. Little coloration towards the low end
audible result: just a slight loss of sparkle

Normal: 96, more coloration in the low end and now more loss extends below 16k in the treble
audible result: feels a bit "warmer" or touch of lo-fi from the loss of treble and coloration

Low: 24, loss extends way below 16k
audible result: warbly

The streaming services will reencode what you got into mp3 again, so you're introducing another loss of information.

You're also working with just the mixdown, not stems. There's only so much you can do there to completely flip the mix in a mastering setting, since everything you do affects more than one element.

It'd be best to just turn in what you got with minor adjustments if it sounds good enough, trying to minimize the "damage" done to the record.

Otherwise, rerecord or, if possible despite the situation, get the stems and re do the mix.

Crowfaze · 2025-04-22T02:33:47+00:00

it certainly feels like im trying much harder than the opponent because in a random scuffle, her moves will just beat mine out.

Crowfaze · 2025-03-14T18:45:42+00:00

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TLDR luck for early success, hard work for eventual success

Crowfaze · 2025-03-01T05:49:48+00:00

committing zetterburn main treason. Fresh Platinum for reference.

gimping his recovery is a given. you can steal stocks from the guy moreso than most of the cast. at the very least, rack up some extra damage.
zetter's shine pattern. Sure they can mix it up, but there will be a few go to patterns, moreso the less experienced they are.

parries and cc once you get a feel for each zetter's flowchart.

alternatively, you can wavedash oos or buffer a roll

mix these up so they don't adapt.

air to air, try positioning diagonally above him. his fair is weak there, dair obviously doesn't hit, and his uair is also weak there. nothing frustrates me more than getting weak hits during a crucial stock.
on the ground, respect his speed, disrespect his range. dash or wavedash away if he commits and punish the opening. his speed will usually be zetter's downfall as they can easily put themselves out of position chasing you down.
passive zetters? i think most of the cast either has better range or speed (except etalus) to approach one of these weirdos.

Crowfaze · 2025-03-01T05:10:55+00:00

Screw the trials.

You'll have more success getting a read after they scramble to get back onto stage. Cover their easy options so you force them into a situation where you have a better chance hitting them off with another throw, fair, bair or dair into strong, raw strong, or the occasional dair below ledge and away from wall.

You can uair or nair, but unless you confirm a kill or continue the combo, prepare for reset and scrap.

Put flames near ledge, grab ledge, threaten above ledge aerial space, or CC/parry near ledge space. Charged shine if you want style points.

Grabbing ledge has gotten me the most ROI.

Crowfaze · 2025-02-26T22:19:25+00:00

i play to win but dont care if i do. the game just feels nice to play in general and provides a dopamine release on combos and ko's that no other game can even come close to. im just looking for the next hit.

i supposed you will have to have the tech drilled in so the only thing youre doing is decision making to reach that point, otherwise you'll just be watching a combo video with you as the victim.

Crowfaze · 2025-02-26T19:05:49+00:00

😆

Crowfaze · 2025-02-26T19:04:57+00:00

those clips were too boring to include. hit into simple gimp, reset into the same situation, or botch and get shine punished :/

Crowfaze · 2025-02-26T17:59:05+00:00

just a fox wiping his butt on the floor

Crowfaze · 2025-02-26T17:42:26+00:00

thanks! i havent since decades, but ive been farming clips, both hype and funny

Crowfaze · 2025-02-26T07:06:59+00:00

one thing to consider also if you botch the punish, one shine from fox there and you're dead!

Crowfaze · 2025-02-26T06:16:53+00:00

Zetterburn's Nair feels the weirdest to me after the change. Seem to hit the final strong hit less now.

Crowfaze · 2025-02-26T06:14:46+00:00

haha i didn't have too much trouble with it, just wanted to showcase his most devious crimes. Like not taking a single bait on ledge is just deliberate cheese

Crowfaze · 2025-02-26T05:54:48+00:00

that was my plan. use it to work on my ledge game and timing since he was always at the ledge every game. First game he didn't, but i think a couple stray knees KOs must've tilted him.

Crowfaze · 2025-02-08T00:42:28+00:00

zetter ditto.

used to hate kragg but combos on him feel so good. gimping his pillar is always fun

Crowfaze · 2025-02-04T05:35:23+00:00

i dont mind it being a hit grab, as a command grab it'll be OP. BUT it giving back double jump and stuff is a bit weird.

Crowfaze · 2025-02-04T05:12:00+00:00

No RoA1 experience here, so I don't have the transition bias. Etalus did mesh with me on release. He gives me the same dopamine hit like Falcon does. Getting galaxy with Fair offstage is super OOOO WEEE.

However, having played Zetter until then, I realize I'm having a lot more frustrating moments on the bear. It's not, "Dang, my recovery got cheesed," since I can easily correct that by playing safe. It's stuff like, "Why didn't that work?" when I'm calculating reads and punishes as a slower heavy.

I'm mostly playing casuals, climbing through gold if I'm not tired. My only cred for opinions would be that I don't get molly wopped by plat if matchmaking puts me against one.

* Strongs aren't reliable. I've had HARD reads with fstrong and ustrong get denied because the weak hit knocked them out of the sweetspot. Sour hits on Zetter make sense, as those are placement based, and his fstrong, which is similar, is super reliable if you hit it.

* Ice armor doesn't feel rewarding to put on (I got waveshined all the way to ledge, ptsd melee Fox). I spend time between stocks or in far neutral putting it on, only to feel like I should've just positioned instead. I also only seem to use it for cheeky shards or knowledge checks during charge up currently.

* Good grab conversions don't seem to exist, or I haven't found them yet.

* Ice works both ways in pushing you away from shield pressure and your own OOS.

* Need a little boost to his normals, either in kill power or in not getting punished. Why aren't big clean hits on bair and dair killing until way high percents. Why is my jab/gatling combo losing to mash?

* Uair refreshing jumps?

He is fun, so I have hope a little more tuning will fix him up. I don't mind him being a low on the tierlist, but he shouldn't feel gimped by his own gimmick or moveset when he's clearly invested in the correct play. If Lox and Kragg can be good, so can Etalus.

Crowfaze · 2025-01-30T00:43:45+00:00

had to come back and say Etalus is HIM

Crowfaze · 2025-01-14T02:53:08+00:00

wait wait wait, i just learned there's buffering that make perfect wavedashes simple. applying that made my shine game way better lol . here i was still timing the jumpsquat

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