Thursday, October 29, 2026

Marinella

 

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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]








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


At your risk. Please take all safety precautions so that something does drop on your head, your ears are damaged or your less precious microphones.


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


 

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Cannons

 

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Zhanna recommended me this.



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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.



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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:









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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





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

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Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Life is Beautiful

 




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What is Music

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Beautiful playing game, interaction between the bass melody and the melody in our mind.


For example:


Largo from Bach F minor Concerto.


Just 2 melodies creating beautiful intervals of  2 notes are sounding together.



 




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Curing a cat with kidney problems?

 

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This is not a medical advice or a nutritionist advice.


Using the freshest possible fish? boiled with just filtered? water, no oil no salt?


Very quickly after starting this diet the skin of the cat stopped smelling urine. This scent was used as an indication that there is problem with the kidneys.


The cat drinks ordinary tap water as by carefully reading the instructions of Britta filters it can be read that they are not suitable if there are kidney problems.


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The Pleiades amplifier model numbers can be really the schematic

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For example Pleiades K117 220R 4M7.


See previous post.




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How to connect a Sennheiser MD421HN to iPhone for recording with Garageband, or camera etc.

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The beautiful microphone can be 24in away with no need to set the bass correcting switch for proximity effect. Recording outdoors with windshield will avoid close wall reflections.


The MD421HN already has an internal step up transformer, so no need to add an external.


So the impedance is high, the voltage high and we are ready to connect to the gate of a JFET.


For example the Pleiades K117 220R 5M5 preamplifier can be used. The JFET is a K117, a 220ohm resistor is used connected between the source terminal of the JFET and ground, and a 5.5Megohm between gate and ground. Then the drain terminal is connected to the mic input of the mobile device iPad or iPhone. For a modern device an apple USB C to 3.5mm adaptor is used, See previous posts. Headphones may need to be connected so that the mic is recognized too.


The MD412HN high Z signal is connected to the gate of the JFET and the whole Pleiades preamplifier can be assembled inside the mini Tuchel connector as it is only a JFET and 2 small resistors.


It sounds very nice with no hiss or noise.


Later addition:


It seems to be out of phase, please see:


https://euroelectron.blogspot.com/2026/10/updates-to-pleiades-k117-220r-single.html






 

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Garageband

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It looks very promising. The fantastic sound of strings expression modulated by hand touching the iPad iPhone screen.


Trying to persuade Zhanna to use. I think she really appreciated the sound and she played something so beautiful using the cinematic strings.


How about trying to making it do more things.


For example:


Recording the upper strings playing C major but then adding cello and double bass playing E instead of C.


Using 2 devices so that one person can play melody at the piano and the other the bass part at the piano, thereby expanding the keyboard and recording 2 persons playing live.


Adding an Apple USB C adaptor to 3.5mm and connecting a Pleiades K117 microphone single JFET preamplifier so that a studio microphone can be connected such as Sennheiser MD421, see next post.


Recording with windshield outdoors so that acoustics are infinite, very high reverberation radius.












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We Are the World, studio session

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Moussaka

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This is by George, a chef who had worked in cruise ships and the Dafne's restaurant in Athens, in Plaka under Acropolis.


George started at around 13 years old, long time ago.


This is what I remember him narrating.


Round cut potatoes are crusty fried and placed half on top of each other, like dropped dominoes.


On top a bit of grated parmesan and small bits of tomatoes.


On top ditto for courgettes.


(My version) ditto for oyster mushrooms instead of minced meat.


On top ditto for eggplants.


Remember everything like dropped dominoes and between each layer little parmesan, and tomatoes.


On top round cut peeled tomatoes.


Putting in oven for a while.


Then adding the bechamel sauce and baking in the oven.


George said he makes the bechamel sauce just by lightly baking flour in a pan with a bit of olive oil and adding milk, and stirring? 





 


 

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A Healthy Dessert?

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This is not a medical or a nutritionist advice.


Whole grain tahini, a few teaspoons


Adding a teaspoon of cocoa powder, non fat reduced.


Adding a teaspoon of good quality honey.


By Zhanna.



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The Most Important Video You Will Ever See

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The lecture of Prof. Bartlett University of Colorado.






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Thursday, October 1, 2026

Some comments from John Simon on Producing Suzanne - Leonard Cohen


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After an e-mail communication with the great producer on Suzanne - Leonard Cohen.


A link had been sent by e-mail to John Simon of this euroelectron post:


https://euroelectron.blogspot.com/2026/09/music-and-electronics-molecules-and.html


Below is the reply:


George.


Yes. You found me.
This is a lovely recording.
You are right that the recording of a singer who sings softly enables us to hear a far greater frequency range than that of a “screamer” or “belter” — so there is a level of personal intimacy present.
I was also the arranger for most of this album and I am proud of the use of female voices as a background element. They were all recorded in the same way. The mic in both cases were Neumann U-87s.
I did not produce or record several songs on the album because I had to move on to other projects at the time. For instance I did not record “Stories of The Street” or “Teachers”. But I believe I recorded all the rest.
There is a lot more lore from that era in my book, “Truth, Lies & Hearsay: A Memoir Of A Musical Life In And Out Of Rock And Roll” by John Simon.  Available from Amazon and wherever fine literature is sold.

Thanks for getting in touch.

Warmly,

 js

John,

Yes the girls sound like angels, don't they?

Is the reverb on the voices including Leonard's an echo chamber?

Warmly,

George



An old EMT “box”. About 6 feet long, 4 feet tall and 18” think. It had a plate in it.













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