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.





AI song Lana del Ray - Red Violin

 At your risk.




This came up near the top of renewablemusic YouTube channel when I logged in.




Total euroelectron views 726,000

Thank you very much.


As almost everything it seems to grow exponentially.


Views per day is about 5 thousand.


I find it hard to believe. 



Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Simon Yorke Designs

 

At your risk.


www.recordplayer.com


I heard yesterday about Simon Yorke turntable designs while having the pleasure to meet Lucas.






musicalike, a YouTube playlist

 

Here is the URL for musicalike:


https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpEisBQ5la76mpSBX1IuTnT6iD1ywZCq6









Should a youtube playlist be created on renewablemusic channel?

 At your risk.


For example a playlist of great quality music from any genre called 


Music I Like (musicalike).


Example songs:


Acapulco Nights - Lunghi

My Army of Lovers - Army of Lovers

One Day in Your Life - Michael Jackson





On increasing the microphone distance to record a much better vocal, reply to Eleni, Vasilis. Σχετικά με πιο σωστή απόσταση μικροφώνου από την πηγή φωνής

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Eleni and Vasilis were doing alive PA rehearsal outdoors. It was suggested that Eleni increases the vocal mic distance from 1in to more than 3in. The sound opened up, there was treble detail and Eleni sung much closer to in tune, (her pitch increased much closer to in tune).

Here is the reply to the them:


Γειά σας.

Σας στέλνω αυτή τη φωτόγραφία Jim Reeves - RCA Studios
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/12688782

Το μικρόφωνο δεν πρέπει να κοιτάει προς το στόμα αλλά προς τη μύτη ή το κεφάλι σύνήθως απο ψηλά.

Όταν τργουδήσατε σε διπλάσια απόσταση αμέσως ακούστηκε καλύτερα γιατί τα περισσότερα μικρόφωνα είναι κατασκευασμένα για παράληλα μέτωπα ηχητικού κύματος και όχι σφαιρικά [!]. Στη διπλάσια απόσταση μειώθηκαν μόνο τα μπασα (proximity effect) και έτσι αναδειχτηκε το λαμπερό μέρος της φωνής. Και για λόγο που δεν ξέρω ακόμη η φωνή ήταν πολύ λιγότερο χαμηλή από τον σωστό τόνο.

Την ώρα που ηχογραφούσατε, το μικρόφωνο είταν πιο κοντά απο διπλάσιο και χάλασε λίγο ο ήχος αλλά δεν ήθελα να σας διακόψω.

Κανονικά ένα κατευθυντικο μικροφωνο ακουγεται σωστά (επιπεδη καμπύλη απόκρισης ως προς συχνότητα) σε απόσταση πάνω απο μισό μέτρο. Το ύπαιθρο είναι ειδανικό γιατι εκεί δεν έχουμε εκατομύρια καθυστεριμένες ανακλάσεις του ήχου που καταστρέφουν το αποτέλεσμα σαν θολωμένο είδωλο.

Καλή συνέχεια Βασίλη και Έλενη.

Σας επισυνάπτω το εγχειδίδιο μικρωφώνων. [1] Microphones - Neumann - Bore, Peus