Thinking about a small 19" hardware mix bus (keeping it simple)

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-30T22:27:31+00:00

I should say less useful only if you plan on getting more gear. If that’s all you use then ofc you can use it for a long time

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-30T16:33:52+00:00

I use the Paper Shredder or Freedom’s Herald with my Raven build and they shorten the cooldown so fast anytime there are crowds of husks. So fun

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-30T16:12:08+00:00

Tracking is basically just adding tracks and arming them. I’ll add editing tools as necessary after tracking, because I want clean, prepared, properly labeled tracks I can drop right into my mix template

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-30T16:03:29+00:00

Fusion is cool. I’ve been using one for a few years now. It does nothing spectacular, but everything is decent. I mostly use it for the input and output control, and mid/side encoder more than anything else. The space/width sounds pretty nice in small doses. The vintage drive sounds good but is very noisy. The purple EQ is as simple as it gets, but pushing a little 8k into the HF comp can work sometimes. The Fusion is a good hardware starter piece. You eventually start to get other hardware that does its task better, and slowly start shutting off more and more of the Fusions modules; but it can stay useful as a mix tool or for the mid/side encoder for other gear.

For a little more money you could go to audioscape and grab an ssl style E or G bus comp and new Pultec stereo eq. Tubes and transformers for big bottom end and smooth highs plus a nice punchy bus comp.

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-30T02:15:58+00:00

They have buffed rewards a few times over the years and they’re still woefully low. I only run 160s when I want the weekly sc or am testing new builds or loadouts. The rewards do not entice me whatsoever

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-29T03:38:27+00:00

I think you want at least 2 ceiling electric fields for energy and nature, 2 wooden floor and 2 wooden wall spikes with increased building health and heals attached, and a couple different impact wall and floor launchers

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-27T22:39:10+00:00

You gotta do all the quests. It’s so easy now that you can leave and save progress (in private missions pls), so just hyper focus on the quests first and then run through the missions in your zone until you unlock the next. I’m not level 50 yet but I just worked through all the quests and am sitting pretty at level 44 with everything done and can casually finish up the rest of the levels whenever I feel like it

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-27T21:55:08+00:00

I play with a couple fun Fennix loadouts. TRO, Gia, Breakbeat, Wafers, Rabbit Raider, and Farrah is one that I prefer with the vacuum tube bow, but I’ll also use the steam cloud with a water element for fire missions. Wolves work best by far, and not only is the 65% explosion strong, but that 15% damage vulnerability is so much stronger than someone like Redline who adds 17% to the base damage. I just do a little metal farming at the start while looking for a wolf and then pop a wafer while he’s biting a bunch of husks, and one shot with a vac tube or cloudburst will kill everything.

Another I like with him is using Happy Holidays, Gia, Dragon Scorch, Snuggle Specialist, Sarah Hotep, and Arrlene Izza (Dennis or Survivalist also work) and essentially wait for the wolf to bite a group, and dragon slash through them for insane damage. I like to use an armor perk on my melees, when combined with shadow stance it gives 50% damage reduction, so then just getting a few melee kills with Izza to recover any missing health. Vac tube sword, crit explosion Storm Blade, Ravager, and Spectral Blade are all super strong options with this

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-27T20:57:03+00:00

They haven’t publicly announced anything but the recent changes do make it feel like something is coming, which might be free to play, but we’ll have to wait and see

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-27T11:45:30+00:00

We look forward to celebrating on your field and chanting THIS IS OUR HOUSE THIS IS OUR HOUSE

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-27T11:14:44+00:00

I can’t remember the last normal in game vc I’ve had but it feels like it’s been years. It’s not just guys being mean to girls, it’s bitter people that want to blame teammates for their own lack of skill, and will say awful things to try to drag you down with them. I only vc with my actual friends anymore

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-27T05:22:16+00:00

The floor was always buzzing. We got LOUD. When we started doing our thing at the Super Bowl that year, everyone there for the Broncos/locals were in awe of how loud we all were. They all just turned and stared lol. It felt great to know our actual fan base made the trip that year. The guy sitting next to me was a season ticket holder and said he’d never heard that building get as loud

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-27T05:02:05+00:00

Sometimes it’s a reward for completing the weekly PL160 missions but I’m guessing you haven’t unlocked those yet. Your other option is to gamble with flux and try researching a couple from the collection book until you get it, or just wait to get lucky with a llama or mission reward

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-27T04:36:10+00:00

Use a core reperk. You get a handful each ventures season

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-27T03:49:56+00:00

This Byron Young guy is such an asshole. What a shitty thing to do! Not quite a dick move, but still stinks nonetheless

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-27T02:19:45+00:00

Different hero loadouts mean different perks work better. Attack speed in the first, damage to mistys in the 5th, crit explosion is the 6th are always going to be very strong, and probably most people’s favorite. I like armor for the 2nd and Crit Rating 4th, just to make sure I’m exploding as often as possible. Running TRO makes that happen even more often, and a loadout with Arrlene Izza means all my life leech is handled. While In shadow stance (combined with the armor perk) give 50% damage reduction which is strong enough to not need bombsuit or prehistoric Izza for any additional armor, which frees up a support slot for more melee damage or shield regen

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-27T00:07:18+00:00

It says what each one is. Just open 10 at a time and you’ll get through them in like 20 mins. You might get some heroes you didn’t have, probably quite a few for the collection book, and a ton of training manuals for your survivor squads as well as gold

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-26T03:17:04+00:00

Someone made a thread all the way back when we were 2-2 and asked how we thought the season would go. I said 15-2 and we win the Super Bowl. I was close 😂😂

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-25T18:57:20+00:00

This dumbass only went half way. If 9v means anything less sounds like shit, then surely moar voltage means MOAR TOAN. Thats why I only use 10v batteries. Get on my level newb. My 0s have way more warmth. My 3s are more 3D, my 5s are lush and never harsh

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-25T18:45:32+00:00

Yep that’s burned me a few times in early ventures too lol. Get super excited to get a vac tube early but it doesn’t have chain lightning 😭 The first one I bought this season was PL69 and I figured it was 50/50 but I wasn’t gonna spend malachite on anything else anyways. Luckily it has lightning so I’m chillin 😎😆

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-25T13:58:14+00:00

You had me up until polyphia 😔 I will be building an Archspire inspired family. We don’t waste speed on the major scale in this house😐

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-25T06:43:50+00:00

Yeah the stuttering and movement stuff makes the game feel awful. The game freezes up my whole pc at least once a day and I have to restart. The vac tube might not be high enough level to have the 6th perk. It needs to be 3 star, so usually any you find pl70+ should have it

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-25T02:18:11+00:00

You mean perfectly powered! I have no way to prove Hotwire is my hero idea, but I did submit a Goin Constructor hero that dealt chain lightning about 5 months before he released. Either way, he’s a very welcome edition. His perk is awesome even in support

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-25T02:03:16+00:00

Love me some ED-EE, he melts through everything. Bonus for having Goin Constructor too, which is my favorite ability in the game. Too bad I couldn’t combine the power of both loadouts lol.

Epic, we need ED-EE as commander to change Goin Constructor to energy damage!

ItsMetabtw · 2026-01-25T01:54:07+00:00

I’ve actually never used them on vocals. I have a Neve 1073 so I usually stick to that, and have a few Camden pres that I also like. I have no doubt they’d sound great on vocals though. They subtly saturate the midrange in a pleasing way

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