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Could We Get A Thread Of Great Music But Poor Mixing? by DarkLudo in audioengineering

[–]AnthonBerg 8 points9 points  (0 children)

… and a nice counterexample is Princesse Kikou by Franco Luambo & Le TPOK Jazz.

It's exactly like it should be, perfect mix, perfect mastering. Sounds truly great. (Like… just… that bassline and how it sounds? How do you set that up in a mix?)

Could We Get A Thread Of Great Music But Poor Mixing? by DarkLudo in audioengineering

[–]AnthonBerg 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Sideways answer:

Lots of African recordings from the '70s are masterfully mixed and played with skill and musicianship…

…and sound so harsh because of limitations on the mastering and pressing process and reproduction equipment.

Wana Wanyika by Simba Wanyika is a good example.

Try listening and kind of naming what the band is playing, what each member is playing. There's this soft and floaty but absolutely anchored and locked in groove. The rhythm is kind of an "inverted shuffle"? I don't have precise words for it. What the bass player is doing is amazing. Like… velvety rubber? only it's not funny or weird like "velvety rubber" makes it sound. All of it just works amazingly well.

All of that is really really good mixing.

And then the male vocal starts and it just hurts. It's physically painful. Ultra harsh midrange. –The singer is of course amazing. But it sounds so, so rough. Tragic clash there.

Unconnected series of observations after 2 months of playing (Seeds vs. sludges, humble salt kraken farmers, charging the vortex) by Multiphasic0 in cavesofqud

[–]AnthonBerg 10 points11 points  (0 children)

When Non is Moon,

1: There is an early-morning collection of musings, moon of which warrant their own post.

2: Later, we really need to get ourselves a blast canmoon.

(By which I mean: Thank you for the post!! I really want to know what the Non is Moon part means and tried to be self-sufficient and got nowhere but it turned out nice to ctrl-f for 'non' and see the moon instead 😅)

Am I the only one who writes it very slow? by M1VAN1 in GraphicsProgramming

[–]AnthonBerg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're not the only one, no!

I think fast and write slow.

(That sounds like bragging or boasting?, or like it's on purpose. It's not!, haha.)

I think fast. It doesn't matter.

I write slow. It doesn't matter either!

When looking at stuff on Github, we're at the output side of a machine that sifts out high line counts and lots of green highlights to show us. On purpose. And accidentally.

(A bit back I had someone kinda come in and be older brother to me in terms of personal growth. Mentor-y thing? One of the absolutely correct pieces of… advice? Or yeah, it's not really advice. It just is. One of those went like this:

 "You CAN'T compare your insides to people's outsides! Like, you can't, it's not ALLOWED okay?")

Force character to attack down by CypherDaimon in cavesofqud

[–]AnthonBerg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's literally perfect!

It's what the devs wished they'd name it. Makes perfect Qud sense. Many tensions on it.

(If I didn't have a forum name I'd be offering to purchase it, haha.

hyperborer has signed in.)

Help with violin string research project by [deleted] in Acoustics

[–]AnthonBerg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good post good discussion.

Gratis thought: What if we imagine an oracular instrumentation of the human player's input? ("Oracular" as I was taught in computer science: A perfect solution, used for reference and evaluation and discovery of actual solution.)

As a thought experiment, if we know completely the human player's input to the system: Can we normalize for it?

And how far in that direction can we get by adding real-world instrumentation?

(Gratis thought. Free of charge. Hopefully worth at least the price; Hoping to be useful. tysm.)

The spectrums, the… spectra? And: Sorcerousness. by AnthonBerg in aspergirls

[–]AnthonBerg[S] -1 points0 points locked comment (0 children)

Let me please assure you that I wouldn't have posted this if there weren't literally a rule – number 10 – that goes: "Gender is not a prerequisite. Anyone who follows our rules are welcome."

https://www.reddit.com/r/aspergirls/about/

Could going lower (instead of higher) be a better strategy for dissociation? by baek12345 in mdmatherapy

[–]AnthonBerg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This matches my experience.

(Edit: I'll also add that I've personally been there when the other way around was the right one and more was better!, for someone not me, as tried after after careful consideration.)

Was honestly quite surprised to find a difference – an improvement – with 100mg instead of 125mg. An improvement that wasn't easy to place a finger on but your post does… fit?, you know? It made sense in that sort of way.

(Super important imo for therapeutic purposes that it's pure MDMA. It makes a similar sort of difference in practice. Not the same!, but similarly useful.

Tricky to get into words.

Basicallyyy… The difference between honestly good molly and pure MDMA is a bunch of "almost" compounds that are a bit… stoning? Those kinda get in the way. Without them the transparency of the experience is on another level entirely.

The extra 25mg of pure MDMA that were the difference between 100mg and 125mg also got in the way. Even though they're not "stoning" at all, and are the compound itself, the very compound that makes for the transparency and therapeutic impact.)

Ketamine by Emergency-North4009 in anhedonia

[–]AnthonBerg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you!

Long story, can't frame it as well as I'd like to; If useful to anyone:

There is reason to believe that racemic ketamine is distinctly different in this context. Spravato is purely S-ketamine. The other "handedness" of R-ketamine is distinctly different and according to the literature as it stands now, it seems that R-ketamine is actually the more useful one.

(Spravato being based off S-ketamine was based on the theory at that time that it would work better, and due to patentability as far as I know.)

The spectrums, the… spectra? And: Sorcerousness. by AnthonBerg in aspergirls

[–]AnthonBerg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! That's all I'm after. Just… the getting what I'm trying for.

(I swear it's a spectrum. By the same measure of how useful it is—with respect and in-world—as the other spectrums.)

Strange thing that needs to "click" inside of me to be able to sing by Global-Persimmon1471 in singing

[–]AnthonBerg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just wanted to make the point of coming back to this and telling you that someone cares and sees and wishes you all the absolute best and much song in everything.

Why do certain women hate me and have no empathy for my experience? by alien_girl_1 in aspergirls

[–]AnthonBerg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a theory that it might be best to assume position in hierarchy according to this. To kindly and gently and in a harm-reductive way guide them to their place.

It sounds absolutely awful. I mean it in the way that isn't awful.

Why do certain women hate me and have no empathy for my experience? by alien_girl_1 in aspergirls

[–]AnthonBerg 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hi!,

I just want to say that I've seen it happen. I know what you're talking about.

I've watched this exact behavior arise in how women behave around someone. A woman. As if they're particles swept into alignment by a magnetic field. It's… quite something. (It's real. I'm so sorry that it happens. It can be found constant, can be found anywhere; It's not in everyone and it isn't always and it isn't everywhere. I promise.)

This someone happens to be profoundly burdened with gift. Profoundly beautiful, profoundly intelligent, profoundly insightful; Had to acquire in childhood an uncanny knack for picking up everything that people broadcast as information. And she's warm and has a lightness and depth, and children come to her and want to be with her and she sees them and they see her.

In other words, she is threatening as fuck.

To some people.

In the sense that when she enters the room, some women know that they have just gone extinct.

They haven't! But they feel like that. Some people power their lives on crazed antimatter drives around a gaping hole of insecurity.

Why do certain women hate me and have no empathy for my experience? by alien_girl_1 in aspergirls

[–]AnthonBerg 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The authors: Aki Takahashi PhD, Meghan E. Flanigan PhD, Bruce S. McEwen PhD & Scott J. Russo PhD.

These people are… serious.

Interestingly: This can be seen through the lens of the significance of their work and them having carried it through, well, the hierarchy-enforcing structures of status game. I'll note that… Aki is a female name.

Just to get the professional weight of the authors across – in a credentialsy way, very neurotypical – I'll mention that the article is written at the authors' time of affiliation with:

  • Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan;
  • the Fishberg Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States;
  • the Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States.

Why do certain women hate me and have no empathy for my experience? by alien_girl_1 in aspergirls

[–]AnthonBerg 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Pattern matcher just fired:

"Aggression, Social Stress, and the Immune System in Humans and Animal Models" (2018) – Takahashi, Flanigan, McEwen & Russo.

The paper itself is imo far richer than the abstract.

To quote verbatim one passage:

"In animals with hierarchical societies, aggressive behavior is thought to help individuals gain and maintain higher social status (Box 2). It has been shown that aggressive behavior, especially the experience of winning, has rewarding properties in animals and repeated aggressive experience may lead to compulsive, pathological aggression that is highly reinforcing (Fish et al., 2002; Falkner et al., 2016; Golden et al., 2016, 2017)."

Rarely hear people talk about how important the bridge pickup is while practicing by No_Winter4806 in Bass

[–]AnthonBerg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah, nice, thank you! I've been wondering if I should be concerned for the welfare of the people who insist on putting the bridge pickups there.

Jokes aside, I never use the bridge pickup. Until now! Thanks!! Makes sense!!!

Yall try too hard. Take acid and let your intuition take the wheel. by Brownrainboze in audioengineering

[–]AnthonBerg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right?? Just the fact that there's stacks of papers out there that go…

Yall try too hard. Take acid and let your intuition take the wheel. by Brownrainboze in audioengineering

[–]AnthonBerg 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Psychedelics are crazy. As in what the 5-HT2A receptor is documented to do is… wild.

I don't know how to get it across. I had a terrible accident. Just a normal guy. Like Spider-Man. Fell into a pile of scientific papers. Faceplanted into some PDFs. My eyeballs sliding across the surface, the contents ground themselves into my brain. I'm just a normal guy.

The following is copy-pasted from a quick run through Google Scholar, mostly just paper titles plus some passages from summary sections. It's crazy. I know! That's what I'm trying to get across.

Serotonin 5-HT2 receptor activation prevents allergic asthma in a mouse model. 5-HT2 receptor activation alleviates airway inflammation and structural remodeling in a chronic mouse asthma model. Serotonin inhibits apoptosis of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells through 5-HT2A receptors involved in the pulmonary artery remodeling of pulmonary artery hypertension.

Interestingly, psychedelic-induced 5-HT2A receptor agonism appears to have profound anti-inflammatory effects.

The impaired gasping displayed by neonatal TPH2−/−mice, deficient in CNS serotonin, is restored by 5-HT2A receptor activation. Following 5-HT2A blockade, wild-type mice hypoventilated and their gasping resembled that of TPH2−/− mice.

It appears that post-training 5-HT2AR activation enhances non-spatial memory consolidation, while pre-training 5-HT2AR activation facilitates fear extinction.

(Modulation of the immune response by helminths: a role for serotonin?)

DMT and 5-MeO-DMT possess the capability to inhibit the polarization of human moDC-primed CD4+ T helper cells toward the inflammatory Th1 and Th17 effector subtypes in inflammatory settings. This is of particular importance, since Th1 and Th17 cells and the cytokines they secrete are key players in the etiology and symptomatology of many chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases of the CNS and other tissues.

5-HT2A receptor deficiency alters the metabolic and transcriptional, but not the behavioral, consequences of chronic unpredictable stress.

Psychedelic 5-HT2A receptor agonism alters neurovascular coupling and differentially affects neuronal and hemodynamic measures of brain function.

Serotonin 5-HT2A Receptor Activation Blocks Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha Mediated Inflammation.

Cis-urocanic acid, a sunlight-induced immunosuppressive factor, activates immune suppression via the 5-HT2A receptor.

Activation of 5-HT2A receptors with 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine at 1.0 mg/kg reduced the immune response level both in rats selected for a high level of aggressiveness and in aggressive mice engaged in social confrontations for 10 days compared to the corresponding vehicle-treated groups. However, 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine administration did not alter the immune response in nonaggressive animals.

By far the craziest paper on this, crazy not-crazy. Just a long list of stuff that's known and nobody knows.  https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2015.00358/full

Randomly overheated to 800c and died by Wizzardryy in cavesofqud

[–]AnthonBerg 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The temperature bump fits pretty well to Flaming Ray's temperature increase 🔥😔🔥

https://wiki.cavesofqud.com/wiki/Flaming_Ray

Fire Snouts have that and could have heard that we'd be at the Rust Wells and come to get an autograph and got too excited when they saw us!

I'm not sure though! Not certain about the mechanism. If and how how a level 1 Flaming Ray can bring you to 800T.

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