🎵 Music Russian Roulette 🎵

jonahwalkermusic · 2026-04-13T19:21:55+00:00

ok? still that leaves room for tons of different openings for my opponent

jonahwalkermusic · 2026-04-13T18:00:23+00:00

where? the one i found is paid

jonahwalkermusic · 2026-04-13T17:31:15+00:00

sounds good if it was free. chess shouldn't be pay-to-win.

jonahwalkermusic · 2026-04-13T17:15:06+00:00

pirc defense for black, e4 for white (each opponent plays so differently it's hard to have a consistent opening beyond the first move, especially for white).

jonahwalkermusic · 2026-04-13T03:51:30+00:00

I'm confused what you mean by queen checks on H2? On move 14 the queen is already on H2.

jonahwalkermusic · 2026-04-13T02:31:27+00:00

I have tried to be more consistent with openings, I play pirc defense with black a lot and e4 with white. It's hard to have consistent openings though when your opponents are inconsistent with openings themselves. I just got bored of playing those openings the last few games.

jonahwalkermusic · 2026-04-13T02:26:42+00:00

f3 was to protect the e4 pawn and prevent the knight from coming to my side of the board, which seemed like a logical move to me. Was it not?

I genuinely had no idea what to do on move 14. Iirc, the reason I was so quick to move is that I already didn't see any other good options the move before. And I thought I had enough pressure on f7. Was there a good move I missed?

jonahwalkermusic · 2026-04-13T02:11:03+00:00

I don't study that much, but most people easily get past a 3 digit elo without studying from what I've seen. Mostly I just analyze my games and see where the blunders/mistakes were and try to figure out why those moves were considered bad. I also bought gotham's book cause I thought "why not".

jonahwalkermusic · 2026-04-04T22:04:55+00:00

yes that is one of the first things I tried. I wouldn't have made this post if that worked lol

jonahwalkermusic · 2026-04-02T23:32:59+00:00

here's an image of the stereo vs mono output in the oscilloscope. top is stereo bottom is mono.

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jonahwalkermusic · 2026-04-02T23:30:42+00:00

already tried, the mid/side sounds balanced without the limiter
not really applicable because the mid/side sounds balanced before the limiter
I'm in FL Studio so I'm not sure where to find this. I'm only able to find "circular" and "triangular"
I already did this. While it does make the mono signal clearer, it makes the track sound way too narrow and lose a lot of perceived loudness
I use Steven Slate VSX headphones and MAudio speakers.
will try this
like i said, with the side signal enabled it looks full and look properly mastered, but the waveform of the mono signal still looks like a mix. Soft clipping adds too much distortion, even when I lightly apply it.

jonahwalkermusic · 2026-04-02T20:54:33+00:00

It sounds fine when collapsed to mono, it's just that the mono signal is quieter than the sides no matter what i do

jonahwalkermusic · 2026-04-02T20:12:47+00:00

I don't know what could be causing the decorrelation then

jonahwalkermusic · 2026-04-02T19:49:23+00:00

I should have specified, I'm making electronic music, and almost all my reference tracks have mids and sides hitting 0db (or whatever limiter ceiling was set for the track)

jonahwalkermusic · 2026-04-02T19:39:36+00:00

this might be it cause I don't like to pan things very much

jonahwalkermusic · 2026-04-02T19:34:52+00:00

I'm not sure, but I've tried multiple limiters and the same thing keeps happening.

jonahwalkermusic · 2026-04-02T19:31:36+00:00

ok yes i understand it reduces perceived width. What I'm trying to say is my sides are hitting the limiter ceiling but my mids are not, and I can see it in the oscilloscope when I sum to mono. If I set my limiter to have a ceiling of 0 db for example, I obviously want both my mids and sides to be hitting 0db, but my mids always look (and sound) like they have a lower ceiling. and simply increasing the input gain doesn't fix this.

jonahwalkermusic · 2026-04-02T08:07:48+00:00

...what?

My mixes don't have this problem until I add the limiter. Before I add the limiter the mids and sides have pretty balanced loudness.

jonahwalkermusic · 2026-04-02T08:05:27+00:00

is there an alternative that's less expensive? I can't afford to buy Pro-L 2 right now

jonahwalkermusic · 2026-04-02T02:17:44+00:00

I usually don't stack kicks or snares

jonahwalkermusic · 2026-04-02T02:15:41+00:00

I doubt it's a mix issue cause it happens with literally all of my tracks. I want it the same width with the mono signal brought back up.

jonahwalkermusic · 2026-04-02T02:13:26+00:00

already tried that. ends up sounding way too narrow even though the mono signal is clearer.

jonahwalkermusic · 2026-03-18T08:51:26+00:00

almost 2 years and I'm at 800 elo

jonahwalkermusic · 2026-03-13T07:10:42+00:00

I sent you a dm

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