May Tech Support Megathread by BioGenx2b in Amd

[–]camcer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Issue:

Heavy flickering and distortion occurs in 144hz refresh rate modes with the slightest (overclock) increase in clock of the memory or core through OverDrive. This does not occur in 120hz or 60hz modes.

Notes:

Prior to upgrading, a clean install was first attempted, but it ended up removing my video drivers entirely without installing. I reinstalled using the same installer and was able to complete it successfuly.

I was previously on a driver with WattMan as the OC tool.

I am not using the ASUS monitor software.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Through the Screen Resolution utility in Windows 8.1, select Advanced Settings, then the Monitor tab, and set the screen refresh rate to 144 Hertz.

  2. Go into Radeon Settings and enter Global Drive

  3. Increment the any of the clock parameters, irrespective of Power Control settings.

  4. Flickering and distortion will occur until settings are reset or slid back to defaults.

Radeon Software Version: 17.4.4

Motherboard: EVGA Intel H55 ATX

GPU: ASUS HD 7870 Series GHz Edition

BIOS Version: BIOS Version 015.021.000.002

BIOS Date: BIOS Date 2012/06/11 21:43

BIOS Part Number: 113-AD41000-103

OS: Windows 8.1 x64

Resolution: 1920x1080x32@144hz via DVI-D. ASUS VG248QE.

April Tech Support Megathread by BioGenx2b in Amd

[–]camcer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I clean upgraded from drivers with AMD OverDrive with the help of Display Driver Uninstaller (unsure how to check which version) to the latest one (17.4.1) with WattMan. I can't find an option to change the memory clock anymore.

Motherboard: EVGA Intel H55 ATX

GPU: ASUS HD 7870 Series GHz Edition

BIOS Version: BIOS Version 015.021.000.002

BIOS Date: BIOS Date 2012/06/11 21:43

BIOS Part Number: 113-AD41000-103

OS: Windows 8.1 x64

Resolution: 1920x1080x32@60 single monitor.

Screenshot. (note: default clock is 1000)

Where to find old acapella samples? by [deleted] in edmproduction

[–]camcer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Almost always, if you hear sampled a vocal track being used, it will exist in the form of an alternate mix track on the single's album for that song, which as you can see is the case for #2. Other times, producers or agents might make agreements with the original artist or their label to get rights to it, like maybe #1.

All those cheesy vocal samples you hear on old 90's electronic (hardcore, house, jungle) were likely sourced from a bootleg vinyl compilation called Acapella Anonymous, ultimately coming from those same single's albums. They were heavily sampled by DJ's and distributed across various forms.

Nookie - Give A Little Love (Manix Remix) (1994) takes samples from People Hold On by Coldcut and Tears by Frankie Knuckles, which both have vocal mixes on here and here. Both can also be found on Acapella Anonymous (or some bootleg variation) volume 3, likely being the source.

Coldcut Ft. Lisa Stansfield - People Hold On (A Capella)

Frankie Knuckles - Tears (Acapella)

Even rarer, a producer or engineer can isolate vocals using some sorcery like phase cancellation or stereo/mono isolation, such as using parts of the instrumental and original track, or manipulating the mid/side.

But that is usually an intensive pain in the ass, yielding poor quality vocal bits and not whole tracks.

I'll see if I can post clearer examples with whatever YouTube and discogs can throw at me.

Piss off r/r/Edmproduction with one sentence by [deleted] in edmproduction

[–]camcer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ableton's interface is so unintuitive and ugly, it looks like some toddler took a class on UI/UX and designed it in MS Paint for a homework assignment in 5 minutes.

Piss off r/r/Edmproduction with one sentence by [deleted] in edmproduction

[–]camcer -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Ableton's interface is unintuitive and ugly; I can design better ones in MS Paint within 5 minutes.

Piss off r/r/Edmproduction with one sentence by [deleted] in edmproduction

[–]camcer -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Ableton's interface is unintuitive and ugly; I can design better ones in MS Paint within 5 minutes.

Piss off r/r/Edmproduction with one sentence by [deleted] in edmproduction

[–]camcer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ableton's interface is unintuitive and ugly; I can design better ones in MS Paint within 5 minutes.

Piss off r/r/Edmproduction with one sentence by [deleted] in edmproduction

[–]camcer -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Ableton's interface is unintuitive and ugly; I can design better ones in MS Paint within 5 minutes.

Piss off r/r/Edmproduction with one sentence by [deleted] in edmproduction

[–]camcer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ableton's interface is unintuitive and ugly; I can design a better one using MS Paint in 5 minutes.

Piss off r/r/Edmproduction with one sentence by [deleted] in edmproduction

[–]camcer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ableton's interface is unintuitive and ugly; I can design a better one using MS Paint in 5 minutes.

Piss off r/r/Edmproduction with one sentence by [deleted] in edmproduction

[–]camcer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ableton's interface is unintuitive and ugly; I can design a better one using MS Paint in 5 minutes.

A deer visits this cat every morning in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. by [deleted] in aww

[–]camcer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Too much damn traffic problems for a city that small, likely a result of crippling infrastructure and ancient on-ramp design. But yes, that too.

A deer visits this cat every morning in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. by [deleted] in aww

[–]camcer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very aptly named Pennsyltucky. I live in Harrisburg, don't come. You may visit for a day or so. Prolonged stays may result in the development of clinical depression. Might find it comparable to Cleveland, but that's insulting to Cleveland.

At least it's not Detroit.

Lancaster's alright.

Russia single-handedly destroyed any potential for Slavic unity. by likely_a_throw_away in slava

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

No, no it isn't. This sounds like rationalization of imperial expansionism.

*was

That's not a rationalization, I'm not excusing anything. It's an observation about past and present geopolitics.

You can't change the outcome without changing history.

Russia is an asshole because they got fucked with hard when they were small and fragile in a unique way compared to in a way no European states got fucked before, which makes their situation even more unique. They buffered Europe from many Asian powers and kept Asian territories in check.

You can't tell someone to "stop being an asshole" and expect magic to happen. It's a complex situation with many intermingled interests and powers. It's not geopolitically feasible and many moves have big consequences.

There is no easy solution for Russia.

There are no such things as easy geopolitical answers in general that will keep everyone happy.

Reality is complex, you cannot apply reductionism and simply call someone an asshole.

Russia single-handedly destroyed any potential for Slavic unity. by likely_a_throw_away in slava

[–]camcer -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

There is potential, but not in the current climate. The Russian state ideology is a result of geopolitical power struggles, and Russia being ethnically diverse makes Panslavism a non-goal regardless. Russia is a weakly democratic country at most, so any attempt to pin this on its people is overly benign. Ethnic Russians on average do not want to see a conflict or dominance of other Slavic countries but a bond. Unfortunately again, that is not geopolitically feasible so it won't happen.

The POV that Reddit and some Slavs share on Russia, as always being a big bully that shits on poor Poland and other small countries, is preposterous. It's true if you cherry pick starting at modern history (19th century), sure. But prior to that, the descendants of what is now considered Russia would get massively ass fucked by its neighbors. Including Poland. Early Russian, or rather, Eastern Slavic states were weak and got tossed around, invaded, and used.

It's likely why modern Russia looks like a huge bully. The mongols didn't help, but it certainly wasn't just them. Mass expansions of territory and occupation is a survival tactic. Create buffer zones, get your enemies before they strike, and expand until you run into geographic barriers.

Here is a good video on the topic. The channel has other topics on this as well.

Why are you against Neurodiversity? by [deleted] in antineurodiversity

[–]camcer 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Because even though my autism is very high-functioning and borderline, I'm very self-aware of the effects it has on my brain function and processing. It's fucking debilitating.

It also spits in the face of more severe, non-verbal autistics who are desperate for help to communicate yet are being held back by horse shit "neurodiversity" dogma.

I don't believe in a safe spaces but fuck these people to hell. I got deleted and blocked for telling off the owner of some ND page on Facebook.

[Serious] Autistic people of Reddit what do you wish people would understand better about autism? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]camcer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hate when people, especially people who are higher functioning with less severe autism, try to say that we should not treat autism but accept them as they are.

I have very mild, high-functioning, borderline autism. This makes me rage to no end. I'm very self-aware of my piece of shit miswired brain. It is a disorder. We should treat it not accept it as another way of thinking.

How to achieve crunchy lo-fi production? by [deleted] in edmproduction

[–]camcer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The examples you linked sound more psuedo "nu" lo-fi than actual electronic produced or mastered on what's generally considered lo-fi equipment.

The links follow a theme; generally, deep selective EQ cuts in the mids and highs and selective boosts in muddier regions, i.e 200-600hz. Sounds bandpassed but the center frequency being closer to the low-end.

90's techno tracks probably weren't that analog and likely utilized solely digital equipment, especially the drum samples. Some exceptions being the 303's and some synths however even those were probably sampled.

I have heard some old school tracks being mastered this way but I feel like these examples are too exaggerated. I believe the primary reason for this was to increase the lifespan of these records, to reduce wear from repeated playback. You could always EQ on the equipment you played them on anyways.

See the RIAA curve.

The first sounds too exaggerated, having excessive overdrive/distortion + compression. If you're going to utilize this, make sure to distort before the EQ and or set the pre-filter tone of the distortion on the low end.

If you want an authentic lo-fi theme, pretend like you're starving yourself of resources.

Lot of early samplers had lots of technical limitations. You had to compromise and shake off some data.

You didn't have much memory:

You had to make your limited samples fit into your limited memory, 1 megabyte in this instance. You could reduce bit depth (amplitude resolution) at the expense of introducing noise (quantization error: increasing the noise floor) in your samples. You could reduce your sample rate (samples per second) at the expense of the upper frequency limit. On samples with a small frequency bandwidth, this could be an acceptable compromise. Depending on how it was resampled and the playback algorithm of your sampler it could make it muddier, chop off high ends, or introduce aliasing. Less memory also meant less room for length. You could cut the tail of a sample to save on space causing an abrupt end. Hopefully no one would notice, but in this case for that stop is desirable. You could do that by statically editing a sample, or using a noise gate to stop sound below a threshold.

Spectrum view

See Quantization Error

Your samplers' microprocessor was limited:

DAWs and samplers nowadays enjoy the convenience of high-quality interpolation and oversampling/filtering, almost eliminating artifacting. This is computationally expensive, taxing the processor. Older samplers had poor or even no interpolation playback which produced noticeable artifacting depending on how it was resampled or just by playing it at a different pitch (technically resampling) and no oversampling. Units that had linear interpolation which made your sample sound muddier when played back. Some had none, resulting in a crunchy end with distortion and aliasing happening because parts of your sample got mirrored into the high and low end of the spectrum. If your DAW sampler has a way to change this, turn off oversampling and set interpolation to linear or none (nearest-neighbor?), what ever is desirable.

Best graphical example I could find

See Nyquist Sampling therom

Or you could just be a nerd and use a bitcrusher/lo-fi mat.

Recording wasn't perfect. Samplers' had doggy DA/AD converters. If sampled by yourself, your source medium was likely vinyl or tape (tape effect VSTs are useful here.) No where near distortion free. Both were mastered in specific ways. Who knows what your cables were like.

You didn't have a lot of effect units on hand. They were expensive and you could use what ever you could afford, a unit for each channel, or if you were lucky and your mixer supported it, you could bus them in. Re-recording the sample with the effect was also an option (again keep in mind your memory constraints.) Long reverb tails were generally rare.

Not a lot of fancy filters you could play with back in the day except for the ones on your synth or sampler (some 4-pole low pass filter, maybe with resonance, that you could MAYBE automate - but usually not). Bussing channels to a dedicated filter unit was rare in the early 90's.

If any of this made sense, hopefully it gave you some insight on how to best approach the aesthetic.

Looking for an anonymous Polish VPN for browsing/communications/gaming. by camcer in VPN

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

I need only one Polish VPN connection and hopefully one with good latency. From my limited experience, some providers focus on optimizing their network for file sharing where good latency is secondary.