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I heard this today on Love radio FM in Athens. The lyrics are sad but the music sounded nice:

Sound engineer according to AI is Giannis Smyrneos.

According to AI here is some information of the studio where it was recorded called Polysound:

Το στούντιο Polysound υπήρξε ένα από τα πλέον ιστορικά και εμβληματικά στούντιο ηχογράφησης, μείξης και mastering στην Αθήνα, αφήνοντας ανεξίτηλο το στίγμα του στην ιστορία της ελληνικής δισκογραφίας. [1]

Η Ιστορία και η Εξέλιξή του

Η απαρχή: Ξεκίνησε αρχικά τη λειτουργία του ως Σιφίλμς Studio (Sifilms) υπό τη διεύθυνση του Σίφη Σιγανού. [1]
Η εποχή του Γιάννη Σμυρναίου: Το στούντιο αγοράστηκε και μετονομάστηκε σε Polysound από τον κορυφαίο ηχολήπτη Γιάννη Σμυρναίο, ο οποίος το λειτούργησε και το απογείωσε έχοντας ως βασικό συνεργάτη τον Γιάννη Συγλέτο. [1, 2]
Η τεχνολογική πρωτοπορία: Κατά τη διάρκεια της δεκαετίας του 1970, το στούντιο εξοπλίστηκε με κορυφαία για την εποχή μηχανήματα, όπως μια κονσόλα 24 καναλιών της MCI, καθώς και με υλικό που προερχόταν από το παλαιότερο στούντιο ERA της οδού Σταδίου. [1]
Η εξαγορά: Το 1992, η ιδιοκτησία του στούντιο πέρασε στους ιδιοκτήτες του εξίσου γνωστού Sierra Studio. [1]

On creating great sounding analog effects such as Leslie, tremolo or ADT without extra electronic equipment or spending extra electric energy

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A lightweight open back full range speaker can be hanged by its cable and rotated, see a much older post on creating a Leslie type effect. The angular speed always changes in a smooth way giving a great sound. Here is how the Pleiades prototype sounds like:

 

Also at the end of this track where the whole mix was passed through the rotating speaker and added to the original signal:

Microphones can be swinged above a speaker on the floor as explained by record producer Tony Swain on the making of Night Dubbing - Imagination. [1]  

A microphone can be handheld while recording a friend's guitar and moved in a to and from motion to create a hand mad tremolo recording effect. The following was recorded with a Sonotone crystal microphone except the glockenspiel which was recorded with an electret capsule connected trough a battery to a military output transformer, (always use a suitable fuse in series with an output transformer for safety):

For a very simple and effective ADT, artificial double tracking or delay added to the original signal effect a water hose of say 1 meter be placed near to mouth and ear while singing. Time delay can be varied by using different lengths of water hose taking advantage of the relatively slow speed of sound in air.

The echo chamber is another example.

Imagination can be used for even more...

Reference:

[1] Interview with Tony Swain - Joe Wells - Journal on the Art of Record Production

 

Cannons

 

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Zhanna recommended me this.

Zhanna Light

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We discussed GarageBand with Zhanna. She immediately got it as soon as she touched on her phone and played so beautifully the cinematic strings, choosing such nice chord progressions.

By the time we met again she had already done this, her second I think GarageBand track:

 

I love the C major 7th chord she is creating by having a high pitch instrument play B while bass is at 0:15.

Updates to the Pleiades K117 220R single JFET dynamic microphone preamplifier adaptor for iPhone, iPad, mobile phones etc

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My apologies.

It is possibly out of phase.

It is a bit harder to take notice by hearing on headphones while singing or speaking as there is a latency (time delay) on my iPad.

The reason for the out of phase is that a single common source amplifier is an inverting amplifier, this means when voltage rises at the gate (input) the voltage at the drain (output) decreases.

At the Pleiades lab most K117 preamplifier prototypes built seem to be out of phase.

For example the K117 built inside a female XLR is out of phase. This was confirmed by connecting between mic and preamp an XLR barrel phase reverse adaptor. The 2,3 pins should be reversed and preferably a new preamp be made.

The Sennheiser MD421HN K117 preamplifier built inside the mini Tuchel connector seems to out of phase too as the microphones sounds with reduced bass and strange sound. A new prototype has to be created by reversing the connections inside the mini Tuchel connector. The middle pin is a common audio ground, let's hope it will work.

Possibly a reason why GarageBand was not used for such long time. It is rediscovered by Zhanna and me. On the following only the photo is AI generated:

Would it be a good idea to have record producer's section in record shops or playlists?

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For example:

John Simon

Suzanne - Leonard Cohen 

and other great songs

Phil Spector

You've lost that Loving Feeling - Righteous Brother

Imagine - John Lennon

and other great song

etc

It takes me sometimes a whole day just to make an XLR or minituchel microphone cable

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