Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Home Making a great beer?

At your risk. This is not a medical or nutritional advice.


I do not know if this is beer but it tastes great. Now that the temperature is higher it deteriorates quicker, in less than 48 hour preparation.


Please see net post on the updated Pleiades meal.



Pleiades Meal Update

 At your risk. This is not a medical or nutritional advice.


Soaked in filtered water for 48 hours selected (checked for small hard for teeth objects) barley seeds. Funnily enough the water after 48 hours tastes like a great beer. But now in summertime with higher room temperature at 48 hours it has deteriorated.


Then adding 2 teaspoons of whole grain tahini. Great taste.


Then 100 per cent cocoa powder. Great taste.


Then 1 royal date for sweetening and even greater taste.


Can this be made to a chocolate bar? Will it also work with oat flakes?



Justine Margo

At your risk.


My new vocal teacher.


I went to Modern Music Arts after searching for Speech Level Singing in Athens (the technique pioneered by Seth Riggs which I learned from Quincy Jones interviews when he wanted to prepare singers he was producing such as Michael Jackson).


Anyway the school happens to have a branch in my hometown New Smyrna. 


I feel privileged to have as teacher Justine:.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0giJiLcsjxk&list=RD0giJiLcsjxk&start_radio=1



Harris from Effectum Electron

 At your risk.


I had the pleasure seeing again Harris from the very nice electronics repair and construction shop Effectum Electron in Athens:


https://www.effectum-electron.com/


I was telling him about the Pleiades electron tube pre preamplifiers with one electron tube operating with a 3.6V (3 1.2V batteries in series). The schematic should come if one Google searches with keywords Pleiades Amplifier Schematic. I was also telling him about the Pleiades DLxx or EL84, or EF183 triode connected single electron tube power amplifiers with a step up input transformer instead of a driving electron tube. Also the Pleiades power amplifier with no capacitors or resistors just one battery for heaters, one for Anode supply, one for bias, one input and output transformer and how nice they sound.


I was very pleased to see how tidy his lab is. He is making a single ended electron tube power amplifier on a very nice green painted chassis. It is so refreshing walking in your hometown, New Smyrna and an intelligent person is up to building a nice single ended electron tube amplifier.






Shure SM7

 

This video came automatically after listening to the Year of the Cat - Al Stewart






Year of the Cat - Al Stewart

 



Al is his name.


On the mixing desk Alan Parsons.


This song was refreshed in my memory by Tassos in the Dual turntables service department in Athens. It is a pleasure meeting Tassos who is a fan of the AES journal and great music such as the Year of the Cat.


I bought this on 2 CDs. the remastered one sounds bass heavy. But it has information on how the songs were conceived. I listen to the original CD I bought the same day. it sounds softer and great.


Signal path: Sony CD Walkman - Sennheiser HD-580






 









Paris Night Chanson

 



It is interesting I keep confirming how good singers increase the pitch of each note after the note begins. In effect they correct it. For the first song of this compilation. It is AI.


 So it seems AI is doing it too.