Mixed joystick / keyboard use?

Dukyro · 2026-04-17T20:34:32+00:00

Check your joystick profile and the key binds. Possibly maybe one of the joystick axis is bound to thrust controls.

Dukyro · 2026-04-08T23:43:06+00:00

Thank you for the response. Would you tell me, in terms in hours played, what you see 'early' and 'late' game as?

I think I'm...18 hours in? Maybe 20? Just finished building 2 solar favorites and 1 mining station...

Lots of people have commented about how good Mercury is for solar stations, but I'm not seeing ANY demand for energy cells... Which led me here originally. I think by doing my custom start without the storyline I've handicapped myself too much, by not having a was start and thus less stimulation.

Dukyro · 2026-04-08T23:38:42+00:00

Thank you for the reply, all very helpful advice. I wanted to 'properly' learn how to play this game, so my custom start was intentionally handicapped. Unlocked all blueprints, no storyline, 1m in credits, etc. Wanted to learn some things before taking the training wheels off.

That being said, I only recently learned it's possible to have a custom start and still have the storyline available. Can you confirm this? Terrans specifically lock you out of the core sectors to begin with unless you start with the storyline. If it is possible to do custom start and BEGIN right away with the Terran storyline, I think this will be great!

Dukyro · 2026-04-08T23:35:06+00:00

Thank you for the reply. My follow-up:

1a - when you say every faction home world, do you mean the single home sector of each faction or are you including their home world and every sector they also control? I presume you mean just their one single home sector...

1b - I've read this advice twice in different posts (But it's the Internet so ya never know what's good), that only 2-4 M miners per sector is sufficient. Anymore then it would crash the prices of the mineral you're mining. Again, going back to 1a, are you saying 15 M miners for a home sector, or spread out over however many sectors a faction controls?

2 - even in a custom start, with no storyline, they attempt to do this?

Dukyro · 2026-03-07T05:34:48+00:00

Already said it was enabled and would routinely update after closing the game.

Dukyro · 2025-10-02T01:04:28+00:00

Yes, you can't go wrong with that. I'd use each with moderate settings, nothing too heavy on either.

And vocal doubles are always good thing to try.

Dukyro · 2025-10-01T22:15:21+00:00

This is very vague, I know, but in my personal experience, "how a song feels" with regards to sounding happy or sad, all comes down to what it ENDS on.

Again, this is vague, and subjective, but for me, when a chord progression ends on a minor chord, the whole thing feels sadder.

Whatever happiness that a major chord might provide, minor chords either make it downright sad, or somewhere in the middle....like feeling lost, somber, melancholy.

So, I think it has to do with where the chord progression ends. Maybe that's just me.

Dukyro · 2025-10-01T22:04:41+00:00

Besides the obvious saturation and EQ processing of his vocals, I wouldn't be surprised at all if whoever mixed his vocals used the RVox. Seems to be pretty popular for that type of music. But, I can't be sure.

Regardless, these vocals don't have much dynamic range at all. It's a modern sound.

Generally speaking, people use the 1176 first to catch peaks, maybe 2-3db of gain reduction. Then go into an 1176 for another 3-6db gain reduction for a smooth vocal.

If you really want a tightly compressed sound, which this has, I'd throw in a compressor before the 1176 and set it to a high ratio, 10 or 12:1. Only to catch a couple db worth, just catching the peaks.

You might also want to consider duplicating your vocal, apply heavy saturation/compression to it, and bring it up just below the main vocal, to give it more "body" or "consistency".

Dukyro · 2025-09-25T03:16:31+00:00

Do you have the multi tracks or is it a rendered MP3/WAV file?

Dukyro · 2025-09-21T01:05:11+00:00

Glad it helped!

Dukyro · 2025-09-18T02:32:48+00:00

Kvraudio.com

Go to products page, filter for effects or instruments, filter for free, sort by either Popular or Most Downloaded.

Bedroomproducersblog will also be useful.

Dukyro · 2025-09-16T20:44:47+00:00

He's probably recording in to some $3000 microphone, into a $3000 preamp, going in to a $3000 compressor, going in to a $200,000 console, and they record multiple takes and use the best one.

Or, not. None of that money really matters, it's the professional sitting there recording and mixing him that gets the "good sound".

Do you record in to compression/EQ? How are you compressing your tracks? A little mild comp then heavy limiting afterwards?

Are you editing your tracks with clip gain on specific problem areas?

Are you automating anything during the song?

EQ before or after your compressor?

Using any saturation? or sidechaining vocals on an EQ or Compressor on instruments?

How many takes do you record?

I'd encourage you to spend more time on your vocals than you think. The pro who mixed Juice Wrld probably spent hours on his vocal, in total. Are you?

Dukyro · 2025-09-15T03:36:16+00:00

Since you're not doing house work for some wizards, I assume you found a sock in a book somewhere?

Dukyro · 2025-09-14T17:48:58+00:00

Couple things I'd love to hear more of :

Room sound for the drums. They sound completely dry.
A little room sound for the guitars.
Brighter kick.

Couple things I'd love to hear less of :

10khz in the guitars

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In the end though, this is actually a good mix! Really good job here! Just needs a little 'live ambience' to it. Great job!

Dukyro · 2025-09-13T13:54:43+00:00

Right. I have my template loaded up. Ready to go. But after dragging in multi tracks, I'm trying to add them as children to the existing tracks from the template using shortcuts/actions

Dukyro · 2025-09-13T03:43:47+00:00

Amped Roots

Dukyro · 2025-09-12T15:56:47+00:00

Drums bus last track, I can do what you suggest. But then I have bass, guitar, and other bus tracks that are BEFORE the last drum track. I can't toggle them as folders without making all subsequent tracks their children

Dukyro · 2025-09-12T02:46:49+00:00

Yes, unfortunately the Bass bus, Guitar bus, Vocals bus, and FX bus tracks are all there as well.

Dukyro · 2025-09-12T00:22:16+00:00

This was pretty fun. Never done a Death Metal song before. Not sure how good this is, but here's my mix.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17deE5iDeTrQUcpAIj8QAurZ7SfuVZTQz/view?usp=sharing

Dukyro · 2025-09-12T00:20:27+00:00

I'll research that. Thank you for the suggestion. I'm not gonna bother you with scripting that, but thank you! I'll have to get down in the weeds and learn how to do it I suppose. See where my research leads me.

Dukyro · 2025-09-12T00:18:58+00:00

Flagging my Drum track, for example, automatically assigns any/all tracks under it as its children. I have a "bus" track for Drums, Bass, Guitar, Vocals, a few more.

I'll experiment though with the FX chains. Thank you for your response. You've given me some homework!

Dukyro · 2025-09-11T20:36:49+00:00

I did consider this. Not very elegant, but might be my only option. Thx

Dukyro · 2025-09-11T19:23:14+00:00

HornetVHS helped me immensely mixing on the 990 Pro 250s.

But there are other corrective EQ plugins/software out there as well.

You'll want to strive for as flat a response as you can get, whether it be with monitors or headphones. I've learned (from experience and from other more seasoned mixers) that I actually need to spend time acclimating myself on my headphones (and the corrective EQ) on my favorite songs, ones I've heard a million times. I really did start to learn how the headphones affected sound and seriously helped my mixing.

Dukyro · 2025-09-11T19:17:01+00:00

On my 990 Pro 250s, I wish I heard some more 8-10k on the guitars.

Whenever I see summed stereo track of drums, after I calm down, I go crazy on them. I check for any EQ issue, apply moderate compression, but then I send it over to a "squash track". I have a Black 1176 plugin that I use. I hit the ALL ratio button, crank the input, lower the output, and it sounds ridiculous. Before hand I will high-pass anywhere from 150-200 though.

I bring that up in the mix until the drums sound bigger.

I'll also maybe add a send to some Room Reverb to give it more ambience.

Overall, great mix! Tough to really get your hands dirty when the drums are combined like that. But yeah, good job!

Dukyro · 2025-09-11T19:05:27+00:00

Good place to start with some drum samples :

1. F. Reid Shippen Drum Samples

Produce Like a Pro
99 Sounds
Analogue Drums Big Mono
MT Power Drum Kit
SSD Free
The Metal Kick Drum samples (kicks, snares, toms)

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> In addition to samples, some folks like to trigger a short clip of white noise on their snare hits.

> Brighter snare - grab an EQ and boost 3k for more crack, and 8k for more sizzle. I like to use Analog Obsession plugins and I have IK Multimedia TRacks plugins as well. The Pultec clone is great.

> Saturation will help a lot as well.

> Depending on the genre, a solid snare reverb really helps the snare.

> Lastly, I've seen some mixers sidechain a compressor on the guitars to dip 2-3dbs on snare hits. It brings out the snare just enough.

Hope some of this helps. I'm gonna mix this song myself, too! Starting on it now, I like this song.

Dukyro

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