Listener's Choice: The Best Mics for Your Studio

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(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai - Go Unlimited to remove this message) Y'all ready to be history?

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Get started.

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Welcome.

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Hi.

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Hi.

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Hi.

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Hello, everyone.

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Darren Robert Robertson from Voodoo Radio Imaging, Sydney.

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Next to the VO stars, George the Tech

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Whittem from LA.

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And me, Andrew Pinkers, voiceover talent and home

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studio guy.

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Line up, man.

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Here we go.

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And Austrian Audio, making passion heard.

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We've had a bit of a passionate response

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to our new Facebook group, which is the

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pro audio suite podcast group.

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And Rubbo threw up a survey about microphones,

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which one people would like to use and

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do use and don't use.

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Yeah, I just, I kind of figured a

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robust discussion about microphones is always well received.

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So I figured I'd start one and it's

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only a small sample because we've only just

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started the group.

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But some of the results sort of had

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me thinking a bit.

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So basically what I did was I did

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a poll.

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And I didn't go with my favorites.

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I just went with the microphones that as

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a freelance audio engineer, when I'm walking into

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other studios, I come across a lot.

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And I stuck them up there with an

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option for people to put their own up

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there as well.

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So the ones I put up were the

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SM7B, the NT1A, the TLM103, AT2020, 416, of

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course.

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And that was about it.

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And then left it open for people to

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sort of put their own up.

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And the question was, which one's your best

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mate?

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So what's the microphone that you choose in

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your studio?

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Now, I've got to be honest, I kind

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of did figure that the 416 would feature

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fairly heavily and it has.

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I mean, the 7B sort of comes in

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fairly close and the TLM103 are exactly the

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same in terms of response.

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But then some of the ones in the

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comments were sort of interesting as well.

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Well, the one I thought was interesting was

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someone jumped on to Bill.

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Now I've got to try and get his

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name right.

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Bill Answa.

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Is that right?

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Answa.

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Yeah, I think it's Bill Answa.

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Anyway, sorry, Bill, if I got your name

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wrong.

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He is using the Austrian audio OC18 into

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an SSL2.

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Well, someone's been listening to our podcast.

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And is he using the 4K button?

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He says.

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Yes, he does.

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Yeah, he goes, yes, indeed.

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Thanks for teaching me that.

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Yeah, and Phil writes on the Lewitt, which

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doesn't feature fairly.

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Yeah, we mentioned it on the show, but

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I don't see it a lot.

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What else was the other one?

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What's the 875R?

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What's that, a shotgun?

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It's an excellent, excellent bargain shotgun mic.

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Is it?

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Right.

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It's the one that you recommend, George, isn't

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it?

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It's so good.

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Like, it's only Achilles heel is that it's

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not the quietest mic.

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Self-noise is, you know, not as good

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as a 416.

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But it's a damn good substitute.

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You know, it sounds similar.

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I have one.

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So one of these days we'll pull it

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out and we'll compare it.

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Yeah, I'd love to hear it.

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But it sounds similar.

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It's not quite as large.

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It's sort of like a short shotgun.

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Is the polar pattern as tight as a

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416?

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I would say no.

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I would definitely say it's not as tight

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at all.

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It's a more, nowhere near sophisticated mic.

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It doesn't have that very complex line tube

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interference design.

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Yeah.

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So anyway, it's a very simple mic, but

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it just sounds good.

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And they're always under 200 US, 175 maybe.

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So that one's a...

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169 B?

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That one's a great value.

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And we've been recommending it a lot to

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folks who want a stunt mic.

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Well, this is an interesting one from Jeff

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Berlin.

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Obviously the obligatory 416.

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But he also has a Bosch or Soundalux

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U195.

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I don't know that microphone.

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What do you say?

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I have a Soundalux U99.

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And it is basically a clone of a

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U67 using an actual EF86 tube.

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And the Soundalux mics became Bach.

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Yeah, that's right.

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Yeah.

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And they are pretty high-end mics.

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They got bought by Universal Audio.

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Yeah, that's correct.

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Oh, really?

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Yeah.

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Wow, that's too bad?

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Is that too bad?

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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I mean...

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It's kind of weird.

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I thought they bought Sphere microphones.

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They had to buy all of them microphone

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companies.

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So I threw all the mics that were

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in the comments, I think, into the survey.

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So it's easier to see.

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And it's going to make it easier for

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people to continue voting.

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But did you see anything that surprised you

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here?

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Not me.

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Nothing really.

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I mean, there's certainly plenty of ones that

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you don't see regularly in professional studios, not

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that that means jack shit.

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Because in a professional studio, you're looking for

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a workhorse that will do a whole bunch

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of things, I guess, especially in post-production

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houses, as opposed to music studios.

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There's just no representation of a PZM mic

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here.

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Come on.

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There's no crown PZMs?

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Oh, man.

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Like, turn my wall into the microphone.

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Yeah, that's right.

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The MK4, the Sennheiser, what's an MK4?

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It's like a lower end shotgun.

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No, actually, no.

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It's their entry-level side address LCD.

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Large diaphragm.

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Oh, okay.

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Large diaphragm.

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It's like, I mean, I think in character,

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it's somewhere very similar to a TLM102 or

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103.

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It's in that range.

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Is it kind of like the AKG perception?

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Kind of.

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It's like that zone.

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But I mean, it's not that cheap.

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It's still a $400 mic.

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I think it's more like a two.

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Oh, it's used.

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Maybe it's used $200.

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Yeah, maybe.

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I mean, Guitar Center's got them, but maybe

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those are used.

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But Sweetwater's trying to sell it for $400.

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How much is an AKG perception?

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LDC.

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I don't know.

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They're quite a bit cheaper, like 200 range.

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So, yeah, the Sennheiser MK4 is not bad

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at all.

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There's quite a few people who have those.

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Well, speaking of Sennheiser, just as an aside,

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Chris McCallum, who we've had on the show,

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he's probably one of Australia's best known location

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recordists, put up a post about his Sennheiser.

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He says, I have an interesting occurrence with

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a 10 year old Sennheiser MKH8060 shotgun mic.

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One day it stopped working without warning and

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only issued a static frequency.

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I've taken it to Sennheiser's service and they've

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discovered that they are unable to open the

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mic as the special screws holding the electronics

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inside the barrel are completely seized.

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They say they can see no sign of

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corrosion, but are unable to open the mic,

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sort of shoring it open.

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What has surprised me is they have offered

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to take possession of this mic and offer

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me a brand new one for an exchange

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of $700.

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These mics now retail for well over $2

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,300.

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So, I'm very happy with the outcome.

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So, this is now the second new exchange

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I've had since the original purchase, as there

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was a recall in the very early serial

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numbers.

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So, it was replaced then as well.

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I can't really fault their response and commitment

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to their brand.

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So, hey, that's...

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Did you see my response on that?

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No.

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What's yours?

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What did you say on that?

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But they're charging him...

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I was the original recording of the screws

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falling out.

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They're basically saying they'll do the repair for

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$700.

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So, they're basically giving him a brand new

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mic for $700, yeah.

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As the repair?

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As the repair, I guess, yeah.

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I'd say yes if it came with a

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one year warranty.

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Right.

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At least.

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Or whatever the new warranty is, I guess.

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It's a bit of a bummer though.

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But yeah.

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I had a similar thing.

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I actually had a similar thing happen with

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my 416.

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It was an old one and it was

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playing up, I sent it into Sennheiser and

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they kind of said, look, we can fix

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it, but it's probably going to cost, you

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know, almost the same price as a...

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Probably about half the cost of a new

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one.

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And then they...

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Yeah.

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But then they sort of said, look, you

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can fix it, but we can't guarantee it

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because it is old and there's components could

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let go.

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Then did me a cracking deal on a

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new 416.

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Nice.

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As long as the mic wasn't cracking, that's

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a good deal.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Well, the first one was, the second one

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wasn't.

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Are you making fun of this London accent?

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So, that's 8060 is a step up from

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the 416 in terms of...

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Yeah, it looks like it.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Better signal response, maybe.

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Yeah.

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The 8000 series is sort of their...

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That's their new flagship line.

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You know, small diaphragm mics in the head.

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Did Chris mention it in the episode when

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we had him on?

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I feel like he did.

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I feel like he's sort of go to

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mine.

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Yeah, yeah.

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But see, Chris doesn't have a microphone locker.

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He has a microphone walk-in wardrobe.

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Yes, exactly.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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He's the Imelda Marcos of microphones.

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I think Sennheiser makes a sight address version

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in that 8000 series.

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It's multi-pattern and it's like $4000, but

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it's supposed to be really excellent.

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You know what I'm talking about?

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800.

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Is it the 800?

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Is that what it is?

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It's a really odd little mic.

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It's very small.

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And let's see if I can share.

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No, it's a multi-pattern.

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It's not the little small tiny ones.

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I know, but it's really small.

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I mean, I saw it at NAB.

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I was like, oh my God, that thing's

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tiny.

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I think I saw your video.

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I'm looking at the MKH 800 Twin.

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This is a new model of microphone they

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just launched.

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This is a different animal completely from what

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you're describing.

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This one's 3200.

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And it is their variable pattern mic where

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you just simply...

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What's that?

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MKH 800 Twin?

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Yeah, this is it right here.

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I have it on screen, I think.

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Maybe.

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There it goes.

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There it is.

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Look at that sexy baby.

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Quite spendy.

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This picture doesn't show...

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Well, you see how small it is by...

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Because you can see the XLR barrel.

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The tail, it's small.

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It almost looks like a mic port pro,

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the original one.

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It is like the old KM86.

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The Neumann KM86, which is a side address,

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multi-pattern, small diaphragm mic that people go

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kind of gaga over.

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Well, that's quite a spendy mic, 3200.

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Which is two symmetrical push-pull...

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It's a dual diaphragm.

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Is it dual output too?

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Like, could we use it with our...

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Yeah, so the way it works is you

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simply pot up and down the other capsule,

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and that's how you go.

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So it's like...

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But do you have a separate output of

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the other capsule so we can run it

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into our new software that you and I

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have purchased?

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Right.

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Yeah, it is quite a spendy mic.

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You know, it's so funny.

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I have video of me interviewing the Sennheiser

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rep at NAB on YouTube, and someone's like,

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Hey, isn't that Julian Kraus standing right behind

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him?

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It was Julian Kraus standing behind you.

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It was, it was like I missed an

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opportunity to chat with him.

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Oh, I saw it when I saw your

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video.

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I saw him in the background.

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He was having a look at the mics

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as well.

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Is that Julian Kraus?

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I'm like, son of a gun, it is.

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There are so many YouTubers at NAB, of

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course, you know.

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I saw a couple, they were always like

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in transit, you know, but I would love

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to send hello to Julian and thank him

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for his unbelievable commitment to very, very consistent

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and dry videos about audio interfaces.

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He's like the equivalent of the Sahara desert

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for YouTubers.

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It is so freaking dry.

390
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Yeah, but it's useful.

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And big.

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You know, we're the polar opposite, really, aren't

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we?

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Exactly.

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And in fact, on that note, if you

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do want to vote for one of these

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microphones or tell us what you have, go

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to your Facebook and or the Facebook, as

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I saw people call it, and look for

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the Pro Audio Suite podcast group and you'll

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find the thread down there somewhere.

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Not the page, the group.

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Yeah, the group.

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We can even pin that, I think.

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Maybe it might be a way to pin

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it.

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Well, I will.

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I'll pin it to the top of our

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Facebook page.

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Oh, I can do it right now.

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Oh, you can do that.

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There you go.

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Pin the feature.

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There you go.

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So yes.

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Done.

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Out.

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Pinned.

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Pinned.

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So that was fun.

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Is it over?

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