Veloudina the cat stood on her back feet trying to reach the Suzuki chromatic harmonica emitting nice sounding notes

Recording soft singing vocal with Shure VP64 microphone outdoors

Outdoors creates this soft natural big intimasy without comb filter frequency responce artifacts. Signal path: George singing very softly Wasting my young Years - London Grammar - outdoors (balcony) with heavy neighboor a/c machinery noise - VP64 at 2-3 in - Pleiades soft slope bass filter (130Ohms, 40mH) - GSM German transformer 500Ohms to 50KOhms of 230mH input inductance for more low cut - Tascam Porta Two HS with bass at -2 and trable at +1 - JVC 9425W radio used as monitoring subtle bass boost amplifier for using a small speaker - speaker is Pleiades linoleum Auratone 5C type with Tesla 5in fullrange - indoors - Vicky's ears, mind. (Bass cut is used for flat frequency responce from singer's mind to listener's mind, see Motion Picture Recording and Reproducing Characteristics - D. P. Lowe, K. F. Morgan - Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers). Monitoring level was calibrated by listening to Une belle Histoire- Fugain

Creating short hair with mimimum energy waste

At your risk, take all safety precautions. Using for example a hair trimmer comb. Constantly wet hair speeds up the process. At your risk.

How is this bossa nova rimshot beat created then?

After hours of listening with Vicky to the song In a manner of Speaking - Nouvelle Vaque, the following rule of thump had been found: 3,3,4,3,3 beats ie total of 16 beats. Pa ta ta, Pa ta kia, Pa ta ta kia, Pa ta ta, Pa ta kia. Repeat.

A one transistor fm tuner, with lock-in homodyne (same frequecy as carrier) phase demodulator

This was found by chance on the children Hit Radio AM/FM spring kit given by Spyros, made by Eastcolight Ltd. The C1923 VHF transistor is powered by 3V. Between collector and emmiter there is 10pF apparently to sustain oscillation. Emitter is connected to RFC (radio frequency choke) which is then connected to 2.7K which is then connected to (-). A 10nF is connected from base to (-) so apparently bass is grounded (grounded bass topology). FM antena is connected through 5pF to emitter. Tank reasonant circuit is (8pF//variable C//L made by 5 thick turns of small diameter) connected to collector. In series with this LC is a 10K load resistor for getting the music signal! So the other side of 10K is supplied by 3V. 47uF is the decoupling power supply capacitor which maintains 3V at its terminals. Lower side of 10K is connected to 10nF//50nF to (-). Apparently 10nF is decoupling and 50nF is frequency response deemphasis. There is also a 20nF from bottom of 10K or top of LC to RFC. Bias is by 10K from lower side of load resistor to base. 2 simple grounded emiiter stages with 330K bias resistor each from collector to base amplify audio. Important information on understanding operation was found on the nri fundamentals of FM reception 33CC-1, page 18, locked-in oscillator detector. Then while Vicky was driving it was observed again how the wheels appear to go backwards of forwards due to the stroboscopic effect apparently analogous to the audio signal detected by phase change. The street flickering light is the local oscilator and the changing angular velocity of whells is the information detected. Then the interesting white paper , Principles of Lock-in Detection - zhinst.com was found. How would the ability of extracting a signal a million times less than noise combine with an open grid, base or gate amplifier, or are they using such front end already? Then found by chance Homodyne detection on page 413 of the Schwartz book on Information Transmission. Homodyne comes from homo which comes from homio which in Hellenic means same. Botto0m line we want to listen to the radio station at 100MHz, we adjust the oscilator to 100MHz. Was FM radio invented by observing how a regenerative detector could detect phasechange when it would perhaps self oscillate?

Veloudina

He arrived late at the forest. Veloudina the cat greated with her very high pitch for a cat couter soprano voice. After she had something little to eat he stood facing the forest at night with a good quality Suzuki chromatic harmonica for the first time. Slowly and very softly starting warming it up. Veloudina hearing for the first time such a sound in her life went bananas. She immediately aproached and started caressing him with her velvetine hair. On almost every new note in tune she would come back almost dancing or singing and she would caress him with her tail on his chest. The melody is Midnight Cowboy - John Barry

Should the record producer be allowed to adjust the electronic component values (between safer range of values) of a simple say front end mic amplifier etc circuit?

At your risk. For example adjusting just Vb on an open control element amplifier. For example an open grid electron tube front end microphone preamplifier. Or even adjust cathode temperature by adjusting heater voltage. Other example, adjusting Rl, Rk, Vb in order to suit her, his recording environment and the sound in their mind. In pure low component count simple signal path circuits it should be possible using variable resistors, capacitors, inductors etc. Would this be a better alternative to the fixed components world set by the electronic engineer who then has to add for the producer, lesser perhaps sounding EQs, adjust threshold in a limiter, overload protection pad etc. When for example Rl is adjusted the centre quiesecent point can be shifted for production of less or more second harmonic distortion and less or more 3rd etc. Vb can dictate headroom which may be intentionally set to low for more processing of peaks. Anode current, usually in microamps region, cathode temperature can decrese gain but improve signal to noise ratio or even increase gain. Interaction of change of gm (transconductance or anode resistance) can change the frequency response by interaction with the output transformer inductance in order to create a flat frequency response from producer's mind to listener's mind. Should the circle between record producer and electronic engineer complete in phase or out of phase;) See also: Adjusting cathode temperature of electron tubes, for example Georg Neumann may have deliberately underheated the VF14 electron tube of the U47 microphone from %0mA at 60V to 40mA at 35V.

Cats teach tenderness

Cats can teach humans to be tender

Artificial Double Tracking (ADT) without time delay?

A synch analog copy of the vocal is rerecorded and then added (mixed with the 1st generation master take). Example, on Tezcatlipoca - Ira, George, firtsly the vocal and DX200 drum loop was recorded on Tascam porta one. Then when overdubbing bass and synth (micrKorg) strings, by newbe mistake the vocal had been transfered too on the strings or bass track. This possibly makes the vocal louder or standing out as observed by Vicky while listening to an mp3 transfer of the session cassette where on the particular balance (mix) strings are spontaneously added or remomed.

The WE 408 A 6028 substitute electron tube for the VF14 electron tube on the Neumann U47 microphones...

seems a clever idea as both electron tubes are specified at 50mA heater current and are therefore underheated at 40mA;)

On suspending an omnidirectinal speaker from ceiling

At your risk. After Spriros on Katoumas shop kindly giving a short Paso catalogue, an omni speaker was seen suspended from ceiling like a modern chandelier lighting. So today the following experiments were done: Placing a flower pot (adaption of an idea by the other Michalis) on floor and then placing an 8in fullrange speaker on top of the flower pot! Placing the Pleiades linoleum Auratone 5C type monitoring speaker on the wooden floor with speaker facing the ceiling. Both sounded very nice connected to JVC 9425W bass boosing radio, with excellent bass, liveliness. Advantage is that sound quality stays the same around the speaker and that the speaker is almost never straight in front of the listener which does not seem to sound right on those speakers anyway as the sound gets too bright.

Oniremeni Kiriaki...

miazis me tin kardia mou, pou exi panta xasteria, Xriste ke Pa, Xriste ke Panagia mou. (Vicky, George paraphrasing optimisticaly the song Sinefiasmeni by Tsitsanis

A front end mosfet that selfbiases to the middle of the load line, 2SK214

By opening up Vicky's non working (muted) Sony ST-S100L FM stereo tuner a lovely 2SK214 was found just after the antenna circuit. Looking up the datasheet, similarty to 2SK170 was found and in addition Vgs=0 is in the middle of the characteristic curves! How would a Pleiades one transistor microphone front end preamplifier would sound like, open gate? How would the fabulous Le Passific - Hiraga, Walthers RIAA MM record cartridge pramplifier sound with the 2SK241?