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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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Introducing Robert Marshall from Source Elements and Someone
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Darren Robert Robertson from Voodoo Radio Imaging, Sydney.
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And tech to the VO stars, George the
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Tech Whittam from LA.
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And me, Andrew Peters, voiceover talent and home
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studio guy.
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And welcome to another Pro Audio Suite, thanks
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to Tribute.
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And there's something new on the way from
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Tribute, which is a bit hush-hush at
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the moment, but I'm intrigued.
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And George is sworn to secrecy, I can
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tell.
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He's gagged.
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He's gagging to tell us.
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Look at him.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And Austrian Audio, making passion heard.
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Now, Austrian Audio are giving away a pair
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of their new Hi-X20 headphones to the
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winner of our mix competition.
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We've selected 10 of the entries so far
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just to run through today, and then our
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shortlist will be sent off to Austrian Audio.
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And Kurt from Austrian Audio will pick us
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a winner.
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Pick a winner?
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So, let's start by having you listen to
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the ones that have come in so far.
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Can we kick off Mr Music with Chris
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Kane?
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Chris Kane, we can.
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Here we go.
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Experience a new destination for adventure, nature, science,
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and culture.
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National Geographic today, tonight at 7 on the
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National Geographic Channel.
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Always wonder.
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Okay, that was Chris Kane.
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Do we just want to run through them
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and just mark as we go?
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Yeah, okay.
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All right, let's do that.
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Yeah, okay.
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Let's do the next one then.
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I've got down here Luke Trusty.
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Trusty Luke.
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Experience a new destination for adventure, nature, and
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culture.
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Tonight at 7 on the National Geographic Channel.
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Always wonder.
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Your old mate, Robbo Ray Kingston.
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Experience a new destination for adventure, nature, science,
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and culture.
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National Geographic today, tonight at 7 on the
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National Geographic Channel.
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Always wonder.
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So, can I just say, knowing Ray, that's
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very Ray.
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Clearly, he wanted a laugh.
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Ray Kington, nice one, Ray.
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Thank you.
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The next one I've got is Amime, or
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A-me-me, or I'm not quite sure
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how you pronounce it, but A-M-I
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-M-E.
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Amine, maybe.
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I don't know.
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Experience a new destination for adventure, nature, science,
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and culture.
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National Geographic today, tonight at 7 on the
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National Geographic Channel.
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Always wonder.
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All right, P.
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Evans, here we go.
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I like the music cue.
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I like that.
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I like that track.
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It's cool.
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Experience a new destination for adventure, nature, science,
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and culture.
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National Geographic today, tonight at 7 on the
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National Geographic Channel.
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Always wonder.
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Methinks P.
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Evans is in radio.
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Yeah, I have a feeling.
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Yeah, I agree.
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Yeah.
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Okay, the next one I've got is Lynn
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D.
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Blue.
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Why?
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Because it was rather side-chain-y?
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There was a bit of EQ towards the
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end.
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Yeah, filtering.
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Filtering the voice, yeah.
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Yeah.
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All right, well, here's Lynn D.
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Blue.
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Experience a new destination for adventure, nature, science,
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and culture.
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National Geographic today, tonight at 7 on the
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National Geographic Channel.
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Always wonder.
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Interesting.
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I'm actually now changing my mind, I think.
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Are you?
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Okay.
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Yeah, I am.
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I think so.
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Now, we've got two here from Paul Seeger,
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one with my voice and one with his
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voice.
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Do we play both?
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Yeah.
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We should play both.
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Do the one with...
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Well, I think it's confusing to have his
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voice in there.
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Well, that was part of the competition, though,
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was to have a bit of fun with
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it.
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And if you didn't like something, make it
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your own.
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So I think both are relevant.
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Here we go.
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Experience a new destination for adventure, nature, science,
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and culture.
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National Geographic today, tonight at 7, only on
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the National Geographic Channel.
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Always wonder.
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And then he also did a mix using
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AP's voice.
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Experience a new destination for adventure, nature, science,
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and culture.
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National Geographic today, tonight at 7, on the
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National Geographic Channel.
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Always wonder.
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Who have we missed?
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We've missed someone.
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Yeah, and one more, which is Tian Tan.
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Experience a new destination for adventure, nature, science,
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and culture.
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National Geographic today, tonight at 7, on the
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National Geographic Channel.
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Always wonder.
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Well, there you go.
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Yeah.
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Who wants to kick off with their thoughts
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on?
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There's my thoughts.
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Your top three.
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Go, Robert, you go then.
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It's all misspelled and everything.
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So I don't have these measured between each
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other, but just, you know, each one on
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a delta, sigma, plus or minus.
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Chris Kane's, I thought his mix was pretty
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good.
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Nice and loud, but still you could hear
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stuff.
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Trusty, I didn't think was a very good
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mix.
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I think the vocal is low, kind of
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thin sounding.
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Ray, very funny.
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Hilarious.
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Loved it.
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I didn't like Animes or whatever.
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I can't remember why, but didn't think it
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was such a good mix.
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P.
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Evans.
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Yeah, interesting.
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Not bad.
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He did some effects there.
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It was a little bit cut, but creative
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and cool.
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Lindy Blue.
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Not too bad of a mix.
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I don't know if it was as good
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as Chris's.
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And then Seaver or whatever that person was.
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Paul Seeger, yeah.
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Seeger, yeah.
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So the one he did, I wasn't such
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a fan of that.
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But the other one he did with your
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voice, I think it was also not too
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bad.
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Probably one of the better ones, but I
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don't think Chris's.
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I still think Chris's was better.
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And Tian Tan, the last one?
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Not bad either, is my note.
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Not bad either.
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That's fully detailed.
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That's amazing.
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So if you're going to do top three,
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Chris Kane obviously is in the top three.
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Yeah, Chris Kane, probably actually Tian and one
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more.
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I'll go with you guys.
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I think Ray was a lot of fun.
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Chris Kane and Tian.
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Okay.
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Yep.
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Okay.
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I'll go with those three.
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Cool.
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George.
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I think I tend to vote more on
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production quality than on creativity.
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I think that's just kind of my...
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Well, that's your bag.
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I'll say this.
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So that's the thing.
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So Chris, number one, I did star ratings.
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It was good.
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I gave it four out of five.
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Second, LT.
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I gave him three.
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I didn't think it was that bad, actually.
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RK, damn funny.
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I thought it sounded pretty bad.
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Yeah, it did sound pretty bad.
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There's a bit of compression on there, right?
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I mean, come on, mate.
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What are you doing?
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Seriously.
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If it was ironic, then good for you.
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AM, the entire track, everything was mono'd.
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So all the effects and music, everything was
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right down the center.
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So don't know if that was intentional or
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not, but it's when you're comparing with everybody
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else in stereo, with such a cool wide
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stereo feel that sounded really...
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That aligns with my...
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But not bad, not a bad mix, just
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mono.
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So if it was for mono, that would
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be great.
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If it was a mistake, can I just
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tell you, I can relate to that.
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Because when I was doing Work Experience, I
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made my very first radio commercial.
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And I thought it sounded really cool because
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it had this sort of delay effect going
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on on the voiceover.
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And I put it on a cassette because
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I mixed it while the guy who's...
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I was doing Work Experience with went out
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for lunch.
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And he left me an 8-track multitrack
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session open to mix.
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So I put it on a cassette and
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thought, cool, there's my demo.
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When I went for my first job interview
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with a guy called Phil Lentz, who subsequently
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gave me my first job, the first thing
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he said to me was, I really like
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your demo, but did you realize you had
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a today and a tomorrow track open at
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the same time?
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So I had two versions of the voiceover
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over the open that was giving me that
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really cool delay effect that I was listening
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to going, man, that sounds amazing.
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But it was actually two versions of the
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script.
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So there you go.
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If that was a mistake, you're not the
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only one, can I just say.
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The initials PE, that was the fifth one,
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three stars.
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Fine, nothing great.
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LB.
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The mastered output level's kind of low compared
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to the others, you know?
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But I didn't mind.
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I thought it was a clean, quality mix.
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I gave it four stars.
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PS1.
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Yeah, PS1, the first one.
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Just from a technical standpoint, could have been
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a lot better.
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I mean, he went out on a limb
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and just went creative and did everything from
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scratch.
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So points for that, but still, I gave
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it a two.
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His second one, gave it a three.
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I mean, three or four.
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I guess it depends on whether you look
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at radio production creativity as another point, using
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side chains and ducking and whatever.
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But I really, really thought the Tian Tan
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one was my favorite.
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I really thought that was the one that
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stood out the most.
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I really liked the mix.
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I thought the fidelity, just from the technical
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perspective, from tastefulness, from the way the voice
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is EQ'd and sits right in the mix,
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doesn't sound overly...
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It wasn't as aggressive as Chris.
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Yeah, I don't...
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I prefer less aggressive, I guess, you know?
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And very clean, but still clear.
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So that was my...
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So what's your top three then?
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Tian?
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Top is Tian and CC or Chris at
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the beginning would be second.
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And LB maybe would be third.
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Okay, cool.
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Andrew, you're next.
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Okay.
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Well, it's funny, George, we're actually the same.
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I did actually, I've changed it after listening
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to them again, because I only had one
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listen the other day.
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So I've got, not necessarily in this order,
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but I have Tian Tan.
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I have Linda Blue.
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Linda Blue.
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Okay.
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Yep.
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And I have Chris Kane.
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They're my three.
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Your top three.
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But what's the rank?
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I thought you guys liked Ray.
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I thought I wasn't rocking the boat.
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Yeah, we thought that the humour was funny.
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But I gave...
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I was doing the same kind of thing,
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the five star thing.
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And my first listen, I gave Chris Kane
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four and a half stars.
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In retrospect, I think I would give Tian
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Tan four and a half stars.
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I would give Chris Kane four, Linda Blue
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four.
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Then I had the Paul Seeger mix of
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me.
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I gave him 3.5 for that.
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I would have given him three for his
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reed, for that mix.
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Paul Evans, I also had 3.5, Amini
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three, Ray Kingston.
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I gave him a three because it made
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me laugh, but probably shouldn't have done.
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And Luke, trusty, I gave it two.
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Are we tossing Ray because you didn't take
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it seriously?
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No, we didn't.
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I'm not tossing him because he's on my
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list.
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Ray made it.
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Look, part of the criteria was for creativity.
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So, you know, I kind of feel like
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he deserves a vote for that.
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So, you know...
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The reverb was like...
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It was just that sort of special touch,
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wasn't it?
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And the compression, well, you know, he's a
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radio guy.
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So if it doesn't sound compressed, it's clearly
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not compressed.
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So, you know...
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Play Ray one more time.
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Experience a new destination for adventure, nature, science,
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and culture.
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National Geographic today, tonight at seven, on the
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National Geographic Channel.
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Always wonder...
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Is he saying a word?
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I don't know.
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Who knows?
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Only Ray will know.
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And he'll ring me and tell me once
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we get off this podcast.
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It is loud in your face.
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Yeah, it is really in your face.
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The sucking compression, there's something about that.
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I mean, he needs to get an honourable
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mention.
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Can we give him a four?
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Well, an honourable mention then for Robert.
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My other two for the reasons that I
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don't need to express because everyone else has
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already expressed them.
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I kind of feel like Chris and Linda
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are my two picks as well.
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Linda Blue and Chris Kane would be my
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two.
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If I have to put an order to
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all of it, I'd say Chris, then...
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So, here we go.
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I've written them down.
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So, Chris has a vote from all of
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us.
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So, it's Chris Kane.
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Ray has a vote from me and Robert.
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So, that's two votes for Ray.
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Tian, one, two, three.
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Tian has three.
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Yeah, I've got...
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Three votes for Tian.
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Chris Kane, we've done.
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Linda Blue has two.
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Wow, we might need a...
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I would give her...
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Hang on one sec then.
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So, who are we missing?
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Who's CB?
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CB got one vote.
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CB.
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Is there a CB?
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I've got CB down.
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Who did you vote for, George?
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I've got Tian, Chris and CB.
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Or should that be LB?
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No, he's got the same as me.
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So, that should be Linda Blue, should it?
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That's my writing.
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Okay, so Linda Blue actually gets three votes.
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Okay, so we've got Chris, Tian and Linda
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are our top three then.
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And Ray is out by...
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He's missed by one vote.
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So, maybe we put him in as the
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encouragement award just to sort of see whether
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the guys at Austrian Audio agree that maybe
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his special touches deserve the headphones, I guess.
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I wonder if that'll...
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I think he deserves to be in the
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top.
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So, we've got Chris, we've got Tian, we've
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got Ray and we've got Linda.
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Okay, so that's our top four.
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So, they're the four we'll send across to
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Austrian Audio.
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And we're going to hopefully get one of
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the guys on the line from over there
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to have a chat about the new headphones
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and pick the winner in a future episode,
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hopefully not too far away.
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Yeah.
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Cool.
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Well, there you go.
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Thank you to everybody.
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That was a fun experiment.
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That was entirely too much work.
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You guys need to appreciate how much of
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a pain in the neck that was to
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do for everyone involved.
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20 minutes and they set up...
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Setting up mixed minuses and God knows what
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so everybody can hear it.
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And all the file gatherings and da-da
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-da-da.
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But you know what?
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We finally did a contest and we've...
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Exactly.
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Robert, bring on Source Connect 4 and save
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me all that grief, please.
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Very cool.
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Nice, guys.
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Thank you to everybody who entered and thank
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you for taking the time to do it.
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Because I know, I mean, just setting up
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to do that, you know, there's a good
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half hour, an hour's work in all that.
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So much appreciated.
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And if we could give you all a
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pair of headphones, we would.
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Yeah.
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No, thanks for the effort.
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But we're not paying for it.
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In fact, Austrian Audio have just told us.
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Look under your chair.
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Well, that was fun.
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