Notices by elle mundy (exchgr@mastodon.world), page 6

what the—

the zusk/muck cage match is a fight to the death, right? please? 🥺

@thomasfuchs he was already barred from railsconf as far as i know

@aral as far as i know, @MonaApp, which is so stable and good that it’s mind-boggling that it’s still in beta, can do this. it can also load an entire profile and its latest posts from the source server

@Techronic9876 @thomasfuchs counterpoint: mastering good code design technique and optimizing software to be leaner and faster also saves time and allows for more time to be creative

@inthehands @conniptions @mekkaokereke yep, that makes a lot of sense. but i think distributing the end result at anything higher than approximately cd quality is just kind of a waste of bandwidth

@inthehands @conniptions @mekkaokereke just so i understand what you’re saying, for instance: 24/96 would be useful for mixing and mastering, and then only at the final bounce step would it be wise to bounce to 16/44.1? i would tend to agree, since in the daw, one is constantly fiddling with levels, effects, panning, and even slowing/speeding, operations that would require higher precision than the end listener

@conniptions @inthehands @mekkaokereke yeah, i think that’s not really true. when sampling, it goes through a low-pass filter that discards frequencies above something slightly lower than half the sample rate. i think the same is true for downsampling https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/44,100_Hz#Human_hearing_and_signal_processing

@inthehands @conniptions @mekkaokereke i would love to see some listening test data on this if it exists

@inthehands @conniptions @mekkaokereke i can understand 48, but what’s the argument for 96?

@inthehands @conniptions @mekkaokereke yes, exactly this. listening to digital masters that weren’t subject to the loudness wars (for instance, mfsl) is a very good experience, often sounding as good or better than vinyl. streaming services’ lufs-based loudness leveling renders the loudness wars moot, and people listen in noise canceling headphones, so these days, music tends to be mastered with much less of that horrible compression

@inthehands @conniptions @mekkaokereke and due to the fact that cd quality audio is outside the bounds of human hearing, we’ll never actually notice that quantization noise. 16-bit audio has a 96dB dynamic range (well enough to blow your eardrums out), and 44.1kHz accounts for nyquist-shannon at the maximum of human hearing plus a bit for the high pass rolloff at the top. audiophiles who claim otherwise are victims of pseudoscience and placebo marketing

@mimsical @amyhoy it sounds like they pump and dumped their own bank. see: greg becker sitting on the fed, greg becker calling for those looser regulations, greg becker cashing out days beforehand

@evan i guess more accurately, organizer

@evan by talking 1:1 to lots of people with opposing views and convincing them of the truth, and having them do the same

@evan none of these is sufficient. it takes collective action, coordination, and government intervention.