#OverSampling

[ampreviews]

Oversampling in Audio: A Simple Explanation of Its Impact 🎶✨

If you’re an audiophile or just someone who loves great sound, you’ve probably heard of oversampling. But what does it actually mean, and why should you care?

In simple terms, oversampling is the process of increasing the number of samples per second when converting an audio signal from analog to digital. This means the digital version of your sound wave has more data points, making it smoother and more accurate. The result? Clearer, more detailed sound with less distortion, even at higher frequencies.

Whether you’re listening to music, watching movies, or gaming, oversampling can drastically improve the quality of your audio. It’s like upgrading from HD to 4K for your ears!

Curious to learn more about how oversampling affects your sound system?

[aminta]

lots of people dooming over the election but i simply think all the polls are fucking lying 👍

[djcringlewips]

meow meow meo- ANGELIC BLAST!!!!!!!

sing it with me and the original "demo" that I completely completely screwed to make the final

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

CNN admits it commissioned a poll that intentionally "oversampled Republican and Republican-leaning" voters, making them 59.5% of the base, when in fact they are 35%, all in order to secure negative results for Biden. Cheap stunt.

[Robert Scott Horton]

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

Today, at the initiative of the George W. Bush Institute, U.S. presidential foundations and centers for thirteen presidents since Herbert Hoover released a statement expressing concern about the health of American democracy. The statement notes that while the diverse population of the United States means we have a range of backgrounds and beliefs, “democracy holds us together. We are a country rooted in the rule of law, where the protection of the rights of all people is paramount.” 

“Americans have a strong interest in supporting democratic movements and respect for human rights around the world because free societies elsewhere contribute to our own security and prosperity here at home,” the statement reads. “But that interest is undermined when others see our own house in disarray.” Without mentioning names, it called on elected officials to restore trust in public service by governing effectively “in ways that deliver for the American people.” “The rest of us must engage in civil dialogue,” it said, “respect democratic institutions and rights; uphold safe, secure, and accessible elections; and contribute to local, state, or national improvement.” 

Traditionally, ex-presidents do not comment on politics, and this extraordinary effort is the first time presidential centers have commented on them. Because this step is unprecedented the Eisenhower Foundation chose not to sign, although it commended the defense of democracy. But the centers for Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama all did.   

That the executive director of the George W. Bush Institute felt obliged to take a step that is a veiled critique of today’s Republican Party—Bush’s party—is a sign of how deep concern over our democracy runs. David Kramer, the Bush Institute’s executive director, said the statement was intended to remind Americans that democracy cannot be taken for granted and to send “a positive message reminding us of who we are and also reminding us that when we are in disarray, when we’re at loggerheads, people overseas are also looking at us and wondering what’s going on.”

While concerns about the weakening of American democracy have been growing since the beginning of the century, the 2024 election presents new challenges. The campaign season is heating up just as state and federal prosecutors are beginning to hold senior figures accountable for their attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. 

This timing means that on top of the usual partisanship of this era is layered a political fight over holding leaders accountable for crimes. On the one hand, we are seeing the release of increasing amounts of damaging information about right-wing figures. On the other hand, we are faced with the determination of right-wing leaders to stop the prosecutions. Since the best way to do that is to make sure a MAGA Republican wins the White House, we are in the midst of a storm of disinformation designed to undermine the key institutions of our democracy, particularly the rule of law. 

In disbarment proceedings yesterday in California, Trump lawyer John Eastman refused to answer a question about whether he and others seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election discussed getting Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the most senior member of the Senate, to preside over the counting of electoral votes on January 6 in place of Vice President Mike Pence, who had made it clear he would not go along with the president’s scheme to refuse to count votes for Biden in states Trump falsely maintained that he won. Eastman declined on the grounds of attorney-client privilege. When asked, he said his client was Trump. 

Los Angeles Times legal analyst Harry Litman said: “That’s going to have to come out, and it’s a whole new nugget” about what was going on in Trump’s orbit to overturn the election results. 

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[five-thousand-loaves-of-bread]

Just as psychology research had its WEIRD (“western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic”) sampling bias, autism research has not only a WEIRD sampling bias, but also has essentially oversampled the same, narrow band of what are considered the easily “researchable autistics,” and expected those findings (as well as the applications and interventions that resulted from them) to apply to everyone.

But the spectrum is far more diverse and heterogeneous than we realize. Sure enough, even as I review past autism research as part of my studies, I look at the autistic participant profiles and the truth is that a majority don’t represent autistics like me. Autism research participant selection is filled with implicit and explicit exclusionary criteria, such as IQ cut-offs, ability to be able to sit still, to perform tasks and engage, to respond orally and not have co-occurring or complex conditions. But why should IQ be an exclusionary criterion when it is mutable and has been historically problematic for marginalized groups? I have to then wonder how findings from studies with so many exclusionary criteria would benefit autistics like me.

Research participant selection bias is especially problematic in a disability like autism because the primary goal of research is to provide explanations. Studies also influence policy priorities, interventions, treatments, who gets access to funding, access to spaces, and even societal attitudes. Most importantly, research leads us to applications and solutions. If we are left out of research, we are left out of the solutions as well.

author hari srinivasan is minimally speaking autistic with high support needs and oral-motor apraxia, whose autism & disability very visible. he went to undergrad at UC berkeley & now doing PhD in neuroscience at vanderbilt university.

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[mariacallous]

Just before the recent advance of Ukrainian forces into Russian territory, there were signs that Americans were becoming somewhat less confident about Ukraine’s prospects in the war with Russia. Add to this that the United States is in the middle of a heated election season where Republican politicians have been less supportive of backing Ukraine, one might have expected a drop in American public support for Kyiv.

Yet, our new University of Maryland Critical Issues Poll with SSRS shows robust, even increasing, support for Ukraine.

The poll was carried out by SSRS among a sample of 1,510 American adults from their probability-based online panel, in addition to oversamples of 202 Blacks and 200 Hispanics, July 26-August 1, just before the Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region. The margin of error is +/- 3.0 %.  Here are some key takeaways.

Americans across the partisan divide are far more sympathetic to Ukraine than to Russia

A strong majority of Americans across the political spectrum sympathize more with Ukraine than Russia in the ongoing war: 62% of respondents express more sympathy with Ukraine than Russia, including 58% of Republicans and 76% of Democrats. At the same time, just 2% of respondents said they sympathized more with Russia in the conflict, including 4% of Republicans and 1% of Democrats. Republicans (20%) were more likely than Democrats (7%) to say they sympathized with neither side, while equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats (5%) said they sympathized with both sides equally.

More Americans want the United States to stay the course in supporting Ukraine as long as it takes

The percentage of respondents who said they want the United States to stay the course in supporting Ukraine grew from our October 2023 poll, reaching the highest level in our tracking since the spring of 2023. In our latest survey, 48% of all respondents said that the United States should support Ukraine as long as the conflict lasts, including 37% of Republicans and 63% of Democrats. All these numbers are new highs in our four polls since March-April 2023.

This shift among Republicans is especially striking considering recent campaign statements by the Republican candidates for president and vice president, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. Both members of the Republican ticket have made statements opposing further U.S. military aid to Ukraine.

Fewer Americans say Ukraine is winning and Russia is losing

Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, our polls have tracked the American public assessment of Russia’s and Ukraine’s performance and prospects in the war, as we had reason to think that this assessment might influence the degree of public support for backing Ukraine. In the previous three polls, since March-April 2023, we found little change in that assessment. In the latest poll, there was a marked drop in the assessment that Ukraine is winning and Russia is losing.

Overall, 30% of respondents said Russia is failing in the latest poll, compared to 37% in October; and 21% said Ukraine is succeeding, compared to 26% in October. A plurality of about one-third said each side was neither winning nor losing. Democrats were more likely to think Ukraine (29%) is winning compared to those who said the same about Russia (9%). Republicans were more likely to express equal attitudes about the extent to which Russia (17%) and Ukraine (17%) are winning.

Fewer Americans view current levels of Ukraine funding as about right

American public attitudes on the level of funding for Ukraine remain highly partisan, with more Republicans saying the level is “too much” (52%) and more Democrats saying it’s about “the right level” (39%). Fewer respondents to the question about the level of U.S. support said, “they didn’t know” (26% compared to 33% last October). At the same time, there was an increase in the overall respondents who said the United States is spending too much (35% compared to 29% in October), and there was a simultaneous increase among those who said it is spending too little (15% compared to 10% in October).

The percentage of respondents saying that U.S. support for Ukraine is at the right level has dropped from 28% last October to 24% in July-August, with Republican support dropping from 18% to 15% and Democratic support dropping from 41% to 39%.

Americans support encouraging Ukraine to engage in conflict-ending diplomacy

We asked: “How much would you support or oppose the United States urging Ukraine to engage in diplomatic negotiations with Russia and the United States as soon as possible to end the war in Ukraine?”

We found strong bipartisan support for American urging of Ukraine to engage in diplomacy with Russia, though Republican support is more intense. Overall, 77% of respondents were supportive of diplomacy, with 40% saying they “strongly support” and 37% supporting “somewhat.” Republicans were more “strongly” supportive (53%) compared to Democrats (33%).

Conclusion

Before the recent advance of Ukrainian forces into Russian territory, the American public was growing less confident about Ukraine’s prospects in the war. Surprisingly, this has not undermined overall public support for Ukraine, especially the expressed commitment to stay the course for as long as it takes, which increased since last October. However, attitudes toward the level of support, while partisan, indicated some decline: A 6-point increase among those who say the support is too much, compared to only a one-point increase among those who say either that support is at the right level or too little (from 38% in October to 39% in July-August).

The most striking finding is the degree of bipartisan overall sympathy with Ukraine that encompasses majorities of Republicans and Democrats. The significant increase in the percentage of Republicans who want to see the United States stay the course in its support for Ukraine for as long as takes is especially notable as it occurs in the middle of a presidential campaign where the presidential candidates have taken contrasting views that might lead to a deeper partisan public divide. Early reports about the success of the Ukrainian advance into Russia may have impacted U.S. public support for Ukraine further, as in our previous studies, we found a positive correlation between the degree of perceived Ukrainian success on the battlefield and the degree of public willingness to support Ukraine.

[broadlyepi]

Hi there! N0n-B1nary again with another song, this time more in the Electroswing category. If you like it, please do give it a reblog, or give me a follow as that'd be pretty great. The point of this tune was to create some electroswing that might have been created if AI took over the world and tried their hand at swing, but oversampled from modern electroswing to supplement what they found. I hope you like it! The art for this song is "Les Belles Sauvagesses de 1920 (1920)" by George Barbier (French, 1882 - 1932).

Fun fact about the artist: Barbier was known for his extravagant personal style, as was his entourage of fellow artists, gaining them the name "Knights of the Bracelet". Aside from art, he also did costume design for a Cabaret music hall called Folies Bergère.

[darkmaga-returns]

A new poll from Yale University researchers paints a grim picture for the future of the Democratic Party.

The survey from Yale Youth Poll is drawing attention for its stark data showing plunging support for Democrats among key demographics.

The polling shows a growing divide among young voters.

The news is a major blow to the future of the Democratic Party.

The poll was conducted in early April and released this week.

Pollsters surveyed 4,100 registered voters nationwide, including a targeted oversample of 2,025 voters between the ages of 18 and 29.

Conducted by undergraduate researchers at Yale University, the survey measured voter sentiment across a range of political and cultural topics, including immigration, free speech, and public safety.

Among the most notable findings, President Donald Trump now holds a net favorability of +7 among 18–21-year-old men.

Meanwhile, former Vice President Kamala Harris has fallen to a net-48 in the same demographic, a 55-point gap between the two.

[darkeagleruins]

1 Year inflation expectations: NY Fed survey vs UMichigan.

Spot the political one out

This is what happens when you purposely oversample democrats who are all convinced Trump will end the world

- what a joke...

[bighermie]

Pollster John McLaughlin Says Polls Are Oversampling Democrats to Pump Up Kamala's Numbers | The Gateway Pundit | by Mike LaChance

No shit...... ya think?

[vyl3tpwny]

if you're still answering questions - in response to ur previous answer abt ur favourite plugins, what makes fabfilter compression and eq specifically better for you than just like generic stock plugins? :0

sound quality is overall better, no cramping at nyquist, lots of oversampling options, resizable - well designed interfaces, many more options than the average stock counterpart, cpu efficient, best dynamic eq there is, cleanest compression (on clean mode, setting fastest attack and release with hard knee produces virtually zero distortion which is practically unheard of) but also doesnt skimp out on vintage sounding sensibilities too, robust customizable modulation options including envelope followers for creative fx, most intuitive controls of any processor of its type (pro q3 especially is about as good as an eq can ever get in terms of intuitive workflow), lots of qol utility options like band splitting and m/s l/r processing, multiband crossovers on all multiband products sound immaculate even on zero latency settings, things that take 20 clicks in other processors take 2 in fabfilter's, sidechain referencing and spectrum readouts absolutely stellar and clean, unobtrusive designs <3

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Lakshya Jain and Giacomo Squatriti at Split Ticket:

Over the course of this election cycle, perhaps no single demographic has received more attention than young voters, which many polls now suggest to be increasingly Trump-curious. This has been observed alongside a similarly shocking swing toward Biden among elderly voters. If these surveys are correct, then our political landscape would be undergoing an incredible, unprecedented age-based shift in public opinion, despite 2024 being a rematch election in a period of record polarization. To better understand and test this notion, we conducted two surveys. The first was a small, but focused, poll of 255 young voters, weighted by race, gender, and partisanship to be representative of the age group, with respondents probabilistically sampled from a voter file and interviewed, crucially, via live texting.

The second was a national poll of registered voters with a youth oversample, done through an opt-in web panel. This non-probability methodology is an increasingly prevalent way of conducting polls — organizations like YouGov, Data For Progress, and Morning Consult use these types of panels. As online opt-in panel methodologies have gotten more popular, their proponents have pointed to their strengths: quick field times, large sample sizes, more diverse respondents, and (of course) lower costs. But these methodologies may also have pitfalls, especially because they compromise the basic tenet of probability-based sampling (that every individual in the population has an equal probability of being in the sample) and the anonymity of their respondents may yield poorer-quality data. We decided to do this analysis in order to compare this non-probability methodology to our (probability-based) voter file study conducted via live text.

This latest poll was fielded between March 25th and 28th, had a sample size of n=847 registered voters and a margin of error of ±3.37%, and was weighted by race, gender, region, age, education, and 2020 vote. To facilitate proper analysis of the youth vote, we oversampled young voters (n=300) in this survey and weighted the oversample internally by race, gender, education and 2020 vote. And to ensure that young voters didn’t comprise a disproportionately high share of the electorate, we weighted them to the appropriate electorate share for the final results. So, what did this national poll say about 2024? Among all voters, Donald Trump leads the field with 39% to Biden’s 37% of the vote. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. comes in at a distant third, with 11% of the vote. Around 10% of Americans are still undecided, and a further 3% say they would not vote if these candidates are the only ones on the ballot.

When the undecided voters are pushed, the candidate shares rise to 41% for Trump, 40% for Biden, and 16% for RFK Jr. Interestingly, this Trump lead comes despite Democrats actually leading Republicans on the generic ballot, 44% to 42% (though neither are statistically significant leads).

The topline itself probably doesn’t come as a big surprise — this result is broadly in line with the vast majority of recent polls. A more interesting result, however, is found in the youth vote, because the national, opt-in panel-based survey yielded drastically different results from the live texting poll for voters under 30. As a reminder, our live texting survey suggested minimal gains for Donald Trump among young voters in both favorability and vote share. While president Joe Biden remained deeply unpopular with this demographic, the support that he lost went to RFK Jr. or to abstentions, rather than to Trump. This is why Biden led Trump among young voters in our previous survey, 35% to 25%. Importantly, while those voters broadly disliked Biden in our text-based survey, their antipathy towards him was much lower than it was towards Trump, whom a full 61% of young voters viewed “very unfavorably”. This explained why Trump’s vote share remained so low despite Biden’s incredibly poor approvals — young voters strongly disliked the former more than they did the latter. It also explained the surprisingly high vote share for RFK Jr. (23%), as a large chunk of disaffected voters seemed to view him as an outlet for a “protest vote”.

The online panel, however, was entirely different. In this survey, Donald Trump narrowly won young voters outright, getting 34% of the vote. In doing so, he eclipses Joe Biden’s 32% share and RFK Jr.’s 18%. Pushing undecided voters doesn’t change these numbers much. When undecideds are pushed, Trump gets 37% among young voters, compared to Biden’s 36% and RFK Jr.’s 24%. In this survey, Trump gets a considerably higher share of the vote overall, and the young respondents seem significantly more “Trump-curious” — his favorability with young voters registers at a relatively high 39%, which is virtually identical to his overall favorability of 40% in our survey.

Essentially, the opt-in panel methodology appears to yield very different results from the oversample live-texting poll, and it is mostly centered around differences in young voter opinions of Donald Trump (though it may be worth pointing out that even Biden’s “strongly favorable” rating is significantly higher in the panel, at 11%, than it is in the text-based survey, where it sits at an abysmal 3%).

Split Ticket takes a look at crosstab chaos we're seeing in polling that is oversampling of Trump-curious young voters and also of senior citizen Biden voters. Polling methodology differences are playing a role, such as live texting v. online opt-in polling.

[dekaythepunk]

Here's a request on how to make this type of vintage newspaper print effect on GIMP. LET'S GO!

Things you need:

GIMP

Make a canvas of whatever size you want. I'll be making mine 540 by 450px.

Drag in the image you want to use. Resize it by right clicking on the layer in the layer tab and pick "Scale Layer".

3. Go to Colors > Colorify. Pick white to make the pic greyscaled.

3. Next, go to Filters > Distorts > Newsprint.

Play around with the Cell Size. I will keep it very small so it looks more detailed. I would also recommend to put Oversample to 6.

4. If you'd like, you can make another layer and color in the subject to make them pop up even more. Change the mode to "Multiply". And you're done!

[audio-luddite]

I just finished listening to a CD. Gasp! It was made from a 3 track tape that was recorded in 1959. The recorder was restored and made new then 128 times oversampled to make the CD. Mercury Living Presence label. Antal Dorati conducting the London Symphony Orchestra.

Rimski Korssakoff Capriccio Espanol and Borodin Polovetsian dances.

The sound was amazing. Details above and beyond expectations. My CD player sounded better than my turntable. Yes I said that.

The Mercury Living Presence recordings are justly famous. Simple honest recording methods, no mixers from three omnidirectional microphones set above and in front of the players. Set the levels and step back.

The CD was made in 1992. Apparently they pressed LPs in 2015. An original LP is treasure, but I want some of those new issues.

Oh and there's some huge bass in there. No doubt that the CL 60 can handle it. Just WOW.

[dj-dondondonki]

I was getting very stuck the other day with a house track I'm working on and decided to try to get some inspiration/learning in by following a YouTube tutorial.

So I watched this one by OVERSAMPLED about making "vibey Lofi house (VERY CHILL)" and tried to follow his steps to make my own, very similar house track.

I like doing exercises like these because it takes all the hard thinking out of composing -- what sound should I add next, how should I structure the song, etc. -- and you can learn little tricks by imitating someone else. Some things I learned from this exercise:

-delaying the off-beat hihats in house music by just a fraction to produce that swing feel

-using chopped up bits of snare samples to produce little subtle rimshot sounds in the percussion

-first time using SERUM the ableton plugin as a synth instrument, I like how you can customize the sound waves and it comes with a kit of sounds ready-made for dance music

-placing a continuous, low-volume riser sample in the background during energetic parts to add a white-noise, hi-frequency texture to the song. subtle, but it adds some texture and energy. I sidechained it to the kick so it would have a kind of upbeat swing to it.

Some things I'm still struggling to figure out:

-how to get a really good grand piano sound for house music. that "lo-fi" quality to the piano that so many house tracks have -- I'm currently using a combo of Chorus, EQing, Compressor, Reverb and tweaking settings on the Ableton default grand sound. but it still doesn't sound the way I want. but I'm hesitating to shell out money for the plugin that he uses in this video (SAUCE for ableton) so I might have to spend more time making an effects rack for this.

-really getting into the synthesizer and customizing the synth waves and sounds to be exactly what I want. still a bit intimidated by the huge SERUM dashboard and relying on the presets they give me. I'd like to be able to customize the synths to be very particular (and add automation) since synths are so crucial in dance music.