Mackie Big Knob Studio Command System

Got the Mackie Big Knob Studio Command System to help with studio monitering transitions. So far its working wonderfully and no clicks between moniters and is very easy to use.
Precise Level Control
Using a big, convenient volume knob, Big Knob lets you adjust volume levels the way our ancient audio ancestors (Analogus Engineerus) did - with a simple, intuitive knob, not with a mouse and screen. The end result is a higher degree of precision and much quicker level adjustments.

Monitor Selection
When it comes to mixing, pros know it’s best to get a second, and third, opinion. So Big Knob lets you quickly switch between 3 pairs of studio monitors, or 2 studio monitors and a subwoofer, or studio monitors and a home stereo, or any other combination of powered speakers.

Source Selection
On the input side, Big Knob lets you connect up to 4 stereo input sources at once. This means you can simultaneously connect to your computer/DAW outputs, CD player, cassette deck and even a turntable using the premium onboard RIAA preamp. You can even connect keyboards, guitars, drum machines, samplers - anything you’d like to hear - through your monitors. This makes Big Knob great for comparing your mixes-in-progress to your favorite CDs, for archiving your old LPs, jamming along to your favorite tune, and lots more.

Talkback Section & Headphone Control
With its built-in Talkback mic and spring-loaded activation switches, Big Knob lets you quickly communicate with musicians in both the studio and tracking room - no more hand signals through the glass! Big Knob also sports two high-powered headphone outputs with a discrete headphone mix bus, solving the communications needs of most computer-based studios.

All the Right Connections
Although its shiny silver knob is a head-turning feature, Big Knob's rear panel is equally impressive. There you’ll find three distinct Monitor outputs with individual level control; 2-Track A and 2-Track B stereo outputs with level selection switches; a DAW stereo output for your computer; a Studio output with level control; a Phones Mix input with level selection switch; 2-Track A and 2-Track B Stereo Source inputs with level control; a DAW Mix input from your computer with level control; and even a Phono input with level control for direct connection to your turntable.

Sound Quality
Because Big Knob plays a crucial link between recording output(s) and studio monitors, we placed the utmost importance on pristine, no-compromise sound quality. For this reason, Big Knob features ultra low-noise op amps, extremely low-tolerance components and state-of-the-art surface mount technology. All of this ensures superb sound in critical listening environments and long-term reliability - even under daily, and nightly, studio use.

Christmas Eve at the T's

Juan Montes Rodriquez Flamenco

Well I was in Gutiar Center a few days ago and saw this guitar and thought it might be good to get one. I orginaly was thinking it was a Ramerez but my dislexia kicked in. Its a Flamecno with a Spruce top and Cypress sides and back. I traded in my older Flamenco with pegs that I got from Montavalo in Berklee CA. No more Trace Amp or Fishman. Hope I made the right decession.
Will tell more later. Standard size, 650mm scale, 52mm Nut, 58mm Spacing at sadle.Will Install Clear Golpeador- (Tap Plate) & Clear string guard behind bridge.
Standard Gloss Laquer Finish. V

CAD Mic and New Palm Studio Set Up

Our new Dog Sonoma

Our new Pup Kathys Christmas preset early, Well no for Macki Controll surface for now.

If I didn’t work here, I’d buy a Mac

If I didn’t work here, I’d buy a Mac
Allchin: If I didn’t work here, I’d buy a Mac | News.blog | CNET News.com
If there’s one rule you’d think would be drilled into executives’ heads, it would be this: Don’t say anything in e-mail you don’t want seen publicly. That advice is being driven home for retiring Microsoft exec Jim Allchin. Groklaw has reported that an Iowa lawsuit turned up a 2004 memo of his sent to Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates, in which Allchin states that “Microsoft had lost sight of what customers need and that he himself would buy a Mac, if he didn’t work for Microsoft.

well at least they know what works at Microsoft and its not Microsoft. Its Apple

Maguel Flamenco Guitar 1965 #70

A Before coming to the US in the early 1960s, Miguel Company was chief luthier for the Cuban National Folk Orchestra. He made not only guitars but other traditional stringed instruments and did repairs and restorations as well. By the time he was making 12-string guitars in his little shop in Coral Gables, Florida, just south of Miami, he was probably in his late 70s or early 80s. It's doubtful he made more than 100 or so 12-strings. James Durst writes about the highest-numbered one I know of in his story "Searching for #77," which appears in Bruce Pollock's book Working Musicians. But 12-strings were not just an afterthought for Miguel—along with the year and the number of each guitar, the professionally printed labels he placed in every one of his guitars included the "Spanglish" inscription "Specialized on twelve strings." As a musician in Miami in the '60s, I saw more than a few of them—Nigel Pickering of Spanky and Our Gang was another south Florida musician who played one. In south Florida, with its large Cuban and Cuban-American population, there is high demand for anything made by a Cuban master guitar builder, and about ten years ago a Cuban-American guitar appraiser examined my 1966 Miguel (#54) and estimated its value at $8,000—$10,000.

Going up to San Jose and Berklee today!

Wow its almost hear. Time to pick up my new used old flamenco guitar. For me it has been a long wait and the wait is almost over. I have been waiting since 2000 for a Flamenco sounding guitar of the likes of Ottmar Liebert, Gypsy Kings, Thomas Michuad, Jesse Cook, Vincente Amaigo, Johans Listiand, Jammie Bonk, and Paco DeLucia. Well the wait is almost over soon I will have a very authentic sounding flamenco guitar. Hears another few pics of the guitar I will post more on this later tonight or tomarow. Wheew!

New Flamenco Guitar

Well I am going to pick up this Guitar on Sunday 12.9.06 up in San Jose my good friend Charlene pick this up for me. Wow wosa she drove to Santa Cruz to pick this up and purcase it.

Its been very nice away from PH

I have been away from Princeton House for almost two weeks and while I have not adjusted to the Night Life my soul is much more quiet and at peace. I am greatfull for the experences that I had at Princeton House especially the folks and wonderfull people in the PH ER. I cant say the same for PH Amsissions Staff but that is another problme that will need a lot of help if it is ever to be fixed. Its good to not be at PH. I really like what I am now doing at Light House Network.

New Palm Treo 680

After deciding that the problmes with the Palm 650 were not going to go away I decided to try the new Palm Treo 680 and what a wonderfull improvment. I like how the phone is more stable and is able to handel the call volume and email needs that I have for it at Palm Recording and Soul Care. Its a wonderfull extention of my Mac.

Just 7.2 more Hours to go to Freedom

well 4 me its just 7.2 hours to go for freedom from KS and PH. While I have loved my job helping people in need and the staff at the PH ER are just wonderfull I cant say the same for my experience in the department that I worked for. It has been a hell and the negative energy in the department is just groling. Managment picking on the wrong things to pick on and not support the staff for the very very hard job they do. Well I have enughf and have moved on. Today is my last day and I am looking forward to the new chanlanges that are ahead.

New Console for Palm Recording Studio

I really like the color of this console and think it would add the final touch to Palm Recording Studios. I have been in contact with the manufator in Fla and will continue to keep posting the updates. Aslo feel free to check out www.victortarassov.com for more info.

Operation Mercy

Bringing Hope to the Needy Peoples of the World






Iraq
Capital City:




It looks like Lighhouse Network will be involved and vist and we will help the good people hear understand about our medicine, treatment, and care of patients. I am looking forward to sharing what I have leaned over the years in working as a thereapist in the ER, Hospital, Local Churchs, Private Pratice and other settings.

Baghdad
Population: 25,374,691
Literacy Rate: Men: 56% Women: 24%
Population Below poverty line: Unknown
Unemployment rate: estimated to be over 60%
Facts: For the past 25 years ruled by Saddam Hussein, the people of Iraq have been subjected to poverty through territorial disputes, lavish palaces, and costly wars. The recent war of March 2003 has resulted in the end of the Saddam Hussein regime. Now there is much to be done to help the people of Iraq.
There is a continuing shortage of modern trained medical and paramedical personnel, especially in rural areas. The health system needs a jump-start to find resources for hospitals and health centres and to begin adequate waste and sewage disposal.
According to the World Health Organisation, “Extreme vulnerability characterizes the health situation of the Iraqi people. Several wars and 13 years of economic sanctions left a heavy toll on the nutrition of the population, on the social structure, on the economy and on the health infrastructure and services. Continuing widespread insecurity and lawlessness constrain the access to health facilities with the exacerbation of fighting in different areas of the country causing a large number of casualties.” (www.who.org) Operation Mercy’s Work in Iraq
Operation Mercy has a close history with Iraq. We were founded in an attempt to bring hope and relief to the Kurdish people after the Gulf War in 1991. As the 2003 war approached, Operation Mercy began preparing personnel and planning relief efforts with other NGOs and UN working groups. We are focusing particularly on medical and educational needs in the Al Qudisiyya Province between Baghdad and Basra. Current Operation Mercy Programmes:
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Iraq Relief We have been based in Iraq since the spring of 2003 and have seen many positive changes. The needs however are still very great and we hope that as an Operation Mercy team we will be able to see more positive changes in the society. Having distributed medical supplies and school stationary, we are now moving away from relief into development, with the aim of empowering the local community to take responsibility for the improvement of their personal lives, their community and their country.
Iraq Development
On the education side, Operation Mercy has been able to complete the refurbishing of another two schools during the month of January, bringing the total to five, after completing three schools in the countryside last summer. One of the two refurbished buildings hosts two girls’ secondary schools, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. A total of 523 girls are able to study in this school. During one meeting our staff were able to address the mothers and encourage them to allow their daughters to finish secondary education.
One of the development programmes is called CBR, Community Based Rehabilitation, where we are working with handicapped children in the area. People are very enthusiastic about the programme, and in a short time we have been able to accomplish a lot. However, the needs are great, especially in health education, and challenging the attitudes of the people takes time.

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Tao / Dow "The Path, Way"

What is "Tao"?
The idea of TaoCommon dictionary translations of Tao include: road, path, way, means, doctrine. In the Tao Tee Ching, it is generally used to indicate the unseen, underlying law of the universe from which all other principles and phenomena proceed. It is described as unnamable, unfathomable and inexhaustible. Taoists attempt to be one with this principle.
Most of the Tao Te Ching describes the Tao and its manifestations so this is the best source for more detail. Since it cannot be understood on a merely intellectual level, it is best to feel the words in the Tao as well as understand them. Don't forget that the Tao is a poem. It even rhymes in many parts in the original Chinese. This may have been to make it easy to remember for illiterate people and it may also have been to help us feel the meaning rather than seek to intellectualize it.
The Chinese character 'Tao'You'll see the original Chinese Character for Tao all over the book and all over Asia. This is it's cursive, or artistic appearance.
Chinese Characters are actually pictures of their meanings. The meaning of the "Tao" character is clearer if you see it typed, like this:
It is made of two other characters: Go forward and Head The idea is that your head chooses to a path to go forward on. For this reason it is often used in Asian philosophy to denote the path or way to clarity.
In China, (Tao) is pronounced "dow", as in Dow Jones Index and "doe" in Japanese. You have probably heard of it already in words like : Judo - "soft way" Kendo - "sword way" Karate - do - "empty hand way"

New Wine CD is going to first draft with Disc Masters

Pre Order Your Copy of New Wine for 12.99 for cd and 2.00 for shiping. Hope to be shiping CD's by mid December Just send us payment via paypal to victortarassov@mac.com or send us a check to
Victor Tarassov
Palm Recording Studios
422 N Main St #10
Harleysville PA 19438

I will sign your cd if you like as well. Victor

What a Drag the New Set Up Has been

Well I have been working almost non stop to get the Studio up and running. I have been able to get Logic 7 Express up and going Stylus RMX and Liquid Groves, the CME Keyboard, MOTO 828mkII and some of the Line 6 Pod XT Pro working. I cant seem to get iChat with i Sight working nor can I get the Palm stuff working. This is all because I listened to some one tell me how to correct my time clock in the main menue. I reinstalled the software and it wiped out my former system in OS X I currently run OS 10.4.8 oh what a mess this has been. I think I will wait until Friday to deal with the iSight and iChat and Palm. I will also hope to clean out my hard drive then. O well one day at time. Hopefully by next week all will be up and running well.

Ottmar Rams Head

Ottmar Rams Head
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1996 FOH Mixer

1996 FOH Mixer
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Tibet 206

Tibet 206
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Tibet 204

Tibet 204
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A picture from Ottmar Lieberts photo set from his trip to Tibet 10/06

Palm Recording Studio set up

Victor at Orphas in NJ

TC Electronics G Forse (Yeh this looks good)

The legendary G-Force gives you a variety of great sound effects in an easy to program and fun to operate single rack unit. State-of-the-art DSP technology and 24 bit resolution gives you massive memory, high-speed processing and the best sound quality available.

Flexible routing and control possibilities combined with 8 full-blown effects, each with sound quality surpassing stand alone units, generate sounds unlike any you have heard or even dreamt of before. With the G-Force, digital multiple effects processing has finally come of age enabling you to have high quality sounds without sacrificing the integrity of your original tone!

I have heard Jesse Cook using this pice live and it sounded wonderfull.