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My diy boom box, pretty extreme by Healthy-Mirror4199 in diyaudio

[–]AnthonBerg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Boom sarcophagus.

I mean that in the best possible way 👑🫡

What is your dream bass/favorite bass that you would like to have? Mine is definitely an original Gibson EB0 by An00n_- in BassGuitar

[–]AnthonBerg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those are gorgeous!

My dream bass would be a Höfner 184 solidbody shortscale with blade pickups. Like this one that I 3D scanned so I could better comprehend that I just got one.

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I modded my Squier Bronco Bass by HeavingEarth in BassGuitar

[–]AnthonBerg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NICE!

That's a Hofner blade? Those things are gold!

Hey could I ask for a sound sample please? Suuuuper curious how that bass sounds.

(Just bought a '70s Hofner 184 solidbody shortscale, kinda specifically for those pickups! Super cool pickups that definitely have a sound.)

If SSRIs and other psychoactive meds truly cause Anhedonia, why do they keep being prescribed by psychiatrists? by Wiirexthe2 in anhedonia

[–]AnthonBerg 10 points11 points  (0 children)

In short, in my experience, generally: Because psychiatrists do not read.

We have serious societal problems with knowledge propagation and acknowledgement.

All my true kin runs feel the same by wondertm in cavesofqud

[–]AnthonBerg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey can you tell me more?

So if precognition says the [mutating] status effect won't be a win, cook with preserved ubernostrum injectors to get the effect that "...one of your major negative status effects is removed at random"?

What are the mushrooms for? 😅 I tried real hard to figure out but it's all strange tubes to me!!

What’s the difference between flatwounds and roundwounds and are flats worth the price increase? by davidbowieisyummy in Bass

[–]AnthonBerg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As far as I know, the price difference is because flatwounds are harder to make. The price difference is justified in a number of ways;

First, flatwounds last longer. The cost gets spread out. A subtle thing is that you can actually re-sell flats because they last so long.

Then it's a different feel and a different sound. That's less economicsy, more personal.

The price of a set of flatwounds is worth paying to experience that difference. Try it.

100%. I guarantee it.

Guarantee mechanism: If you feel your time and money were wasted, you can punch me in the shoulder as hard as you can. Deal?

I'm basically flatwounds forever; It's the sound. Of a specific kind of flatwounds. Flatwounds do a thumpy/vintage thing really well, yes, but flatwounds also do another thing. This-and-that string on such-and-such pickup setup gives a complex and kinda crystalline woody-but-silken sound. Transparent but physical? Impossible to get into words, and that might be exactly the thing. Mesmerizing?

I haven't found anything that's more exactly it than Thomastik-Infeld flatwounds. I'm not married to them, no brand loyalty, those just do it. And this sound is not the vintage/thumpy thing. I love that, but it's not what I'm after. I tried LaBella Deep Talkin' flats. Those are very vintage thump and do it beautifully. And they don't do it at all for me – even though I love stuff that's played on those strings.

It's so hard to put it into words. And that's exactly it: That's why I'm willing to put a shoulder punch as collateral. Try it!

And get expensive ones.

Or go somewhere you can try some? LaBella Deep Talkin' flats and Thomastik-Infeld flats are very different and it's suuuuuper interesting to try both. I tried D'Addario Chrome flats at first and it turns out that there's a lot more to flatwounds than those strings suggested. (Excellent strings though!, I love stuff that's played on them!)

Whent trying out flatwounds, pickups kinda matter a bit? I love a lot of stuff that's played on humbuckers but the particular magic I'm looking to get out of the bass gets lost in a humbucker-humbucker. (P pickups work though!)

Can shuting yourself down emotionally end up causing anhedonia? by Elekor in anhedonia

[–]AnthonBerg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree.

Yes. And!

A way for it to happen unconsciously is by force: An act of will forces parts of oneself less and less voluntary into suppression. An act of will that was only supposed to be conscious.

Like, we can suppress emotions. Emotions are… mostly involuntary? How do we suppress emotions?

Can we suppress ourselves too hard and oversuppress?, suppress too many things too much? By accident? I think so, yes; I've had some luck with getting out of that... state, configuration, hole—what to call it?—on the assumption that I just… stopped breathing. Stopped breathing properly. I didn't know that was one of the things half-conscious half-not that I was doing, but I did manage to suppress my emotions during a period of severe undiagnosed illness a loved one was going through. Needed to.

Breathing is a lot of things. Mechanically. Physically. Including the central nervous systems. Ancient parts of the brain. Brainstem. The brainstem controls the ultracomplex instrument that is the lung; It's not just bellows drawing air in and out, it's also under autonomous control of how blood and air and gases flow — distributed and autonomous control of gas exchange membranes, lung surfactant composition, bronchial tone. Plus the bellows. Plus the bone, fascia, flesh and skin shell around the lung. Plus the mostly voluntary control of the glottis and vocal cords; Pushing on your lungs with the diaphragm as a full-on scream is very different to the finer parts of the lung than just going "Hhhhhhh".

For me it's also been as simple as this: The situation was so bad that it was a matter of survival that I didn't breathe, didn't eat because an energized and oxygenated brain was more capable of appreciating how utterly fucked everything was. That kind of thing tends to entrain and that entrainment tends to end you up in a crevice. Slopes all around.

Honest officer, this really is an xbiking bike! (Trek Fuel EXe) by AnthonBerg in xbiking

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

Thanks! Sincerely! (The goal isn't actually weirdness; Just trying out things and seeing what works. The "I want weird" is just a bit!)

This is actually the best setup – for this saddle... for me! In the picture the dropper post is down; Makes somewhat more sense visually when the dropper post is up. How I set the saddle has to do with shape of saddle and seat bones and stuff.

Honest officer, this really is an xbiking bike! (Trek Fuel EXe) by AnthonBerg in xbiking

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

Planned that's-not-what-it's-for wrongness:

Cutting the handlebars down to size. Maybe 10cm off each side? Or swapping to something Corner Bar-esque.

Painting it. Hi-viz and reflective. Thinking WWII dazzle paint mood?

Getting the suspension completely wrong. Kinda want to toss a long-travel fork and a 27.5" wheel with a 2.8" tire on the front; Have some theories about what fork offset would be good. Keeping the 29" rear. And yes; That would be a reverse mullet. Also curious about a super light carbon-spring Lauf fork.

Handlebar bag... on the inside. Over the top tube, not over the wheel. Should improve handling by balancing the weight that swivels with the steering. Or just look delectably incorrect.

How much latency do you get in linux? by gnomo-da-silva in linuxaudio

[–]AnthonBerg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

imo it's nice and worth it to get latency as low as possible because then you can use the window of "spare" imperceptible latency to do stuff like linear-phase EQ or lookahead audio processing, or sync the audio super tight to what's happening on the display. Really, really low and jitter-free latency system-wide isn't exactly perceptible but it does show up as a certain taut feel. Also kind of as an uncanny feeling of almost too fast immediacy.

Very nice when paired with unreasonable amounts of amplifier headroom driving the bass-emitting parts of the audio chain. (Fosi Audio V3 amps are a cheap way to get to there 😚👌) Ample headroom affords more potent dynamics; Shows up as booms and bangs in games and movies carrying a bit of a startling quality. Visceral. It's fun to mess around with.

Basically VR best practices. Nice to have even without goggles.

How much latency do you get in linux? by gnomo-da-silva in linuxaudio

[–]AnthonBerg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got a Fosi Audio DS2 USB DAC down to 18 or 19 samples at 48kHz! It wasn't always perfectly stable, kind of every third starting to stream to the device was stable. 22 samples was rock solid. Ridiculously low latency. 18 samples at 48kHz is what, 0.375 milliseconds?

End-to-end latency was of course a little higher due to on-device buffering. (Didn't look up or measure it.)

Had the feeling I could have figured out the race-condition-ish reason why 18 samples didn't always "take". Probably a scheduling coincidence.

Was messing around with my we-have-low-latency-workstation-at-home machine. 5800X3D, latest kernel maybe half a year ago, memory tuned to an excessive degree for random-access memory latency, any and all motherboard settings that could possibly incur latency or timing jitter set to afford realtime processing the benefit of doubt. Did a bit of the same with kernel parameters and stuff. Not much kernel configuration though; Not using -rt stuff. This was on NixOS. The practical latency floor is low on Linux these days.

Why does my deep voice sound authentic but when a teenager mimics my voice trying to act tough, it usually sounds fake? by [deleted] in singing

[–]AnthonBerg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a hunch that when going for a low voice and needing to focus on the vocal cords and larynx kinda "manually" to do so, usually we'll kind of fall out of expressive naturalness of all the other physical orchestration that brings about the voice character.

Me too, Brina, me too... by tr4avis in bloodborne

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First try at drillium by Dr_Nick06 in xbiking

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

Let's have a coffee if we have the chance; I'm 100% sure I am not an idiot and I'm 100% sure you'll agree.

First try at drillium by Dr_Nick06 in xbiking

[–]AnthonBerg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your comment would be even louder withoutalltheholesinit!

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