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(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) Welcome to a special Passport...
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what?
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Let's go!
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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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To the Pro Audio Suite.
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These guys are professional, they're motivated.
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With Ted's The VO Stars.
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George Whitton, founder of Source Elements.
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Robert Marshall, international audio engineer.
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Darren Robbo-Robertson and Global Voice.
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Andrew Peters, thanks to Triboo.
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Austrian Audio, making passion heard.
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Source Elements, George the Tech Whitton.
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And Robbo and AP's international demos.
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To find out more about us, check theproaudiosuite
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.com Line up, baby!
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Here we go!
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And welcome to another Pro Audio Suite.
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Thanks to Austrian Audio, making passion heard.
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And Tribooth.
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Don't forget the code T-R-I-P
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-A-P to get $200 off your Tribooth.
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And of course, the Passport VO from Centrum.
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Which is the reason we're here this morning,
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to discuss setting up for a session with
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your Passport VO.
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Okay, where do we want to start, Robby?
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Well, let's start at your end.
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So what we're going to do, we're actually
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recording this podcast as a demonstration of how
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you might record a podcast in this situation
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where you've got a guest and a host.
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Or if you wanted to do, if you
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were doing a two-way session, you could
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just take out the recording you side of
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things.
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And you could, this is that.
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So your end would then become how you
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as a voice actor do a two-way
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session on your Passport VO.
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So we've both got our, using our Passport
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VOs as our interface.
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I am running Pro Tools, but Pro Tools
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is quite happily and comfortably running the Passport
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VO as my input and output, which is
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nice.
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Yep.
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So I'm running through my Passport VO with
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the CC8 from Austrian Audio.
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Give that a plug.
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As you can see on the screen here,
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I'm barely, in fact, this is something to
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be careful of with your Passport.
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Don't get too hot with the levels because
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you can see on mine, I'm barely hitting
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the two green dots on the view.
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So be mindful of that.
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Also make sure your speakers are turned off
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and you will see the red dot there.
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So that's turned off.
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I'm actually on mic two, as you can
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see is illuminated there.
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Yep.
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And that's about it really.
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So it's pretty straightforward at my end.
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If I wanted to use comms, then I
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could use the comms USB, the second USB
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interface, and then I can patch it that
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way.
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If someone wants to talk to me on
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a phone or whatever.
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Yep.
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But that's pretty well it at my end.
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Yep.
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So you're actually the audio engineer end and
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I'm the talent end today, but that's okay.
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So, I mean, the first and foremost thing
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here is this has all worked from simply
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plugging this in, all this stuff in, right?
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We haven't had to change anything except for
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change on your door.
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What it's listening to is the interface and
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it's the same for me here.
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So if I was the talent, then in
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that case, let's have a look at my
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Passport VO here.
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You can see my mic at the top
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there and my mic input.
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I have the two USBs connected at the
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bottom here.
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And one of those turned up on my
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machine just as Passport VO.
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And the other one turned up as Passport
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VO comms.
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So what I've done and I can share
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with you here is here on Google Meets,
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which is what we're looking at now.
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All I had to do was go into
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my input and output and basically just change
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that so that my microphone becomes Passport VO.
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And I can show you that down.
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It's right down the bottom there.
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Passport VO comms, sorry, is my microphone.
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And Passport VO comms is also my speaker.
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So that's that side of things.
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And then here on Pro Tools, you can
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see I just changed my playback engine to
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be the Passport VO.
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So that's now taking the input and output
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and sending that to my Passport VO.
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Back here on my Passport VO, I now
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have the option to blend the mix of
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Andrew and me using the comms fader here.
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So if Andrew's too loud or I'm too
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loud, I can change that mix.
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That doesn't affect what's going into Pro Tools,
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which is nice.
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It only depends on what I'm hearing.
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And I've got my headphone volume, of course.
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And I can, you know, mute myself if
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I don't want Andrew to hear me swearing
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at him.
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The other neat thing here for me is
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that if you have a look here on
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Pro Tools, when Andrew says hello, I can
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actually record the comms side of this conversation.
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So for whatever reason, if I was doing
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an audiobook or if I had to edit
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the session and I wanted to record what
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Andrew was telling me, then that's a completely
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separate track.
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Everything's split 100%.
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There's no blend.
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There's no mix.
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There's no anything.
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So I can then go back and listen
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back through the session and make the edits
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that Andrew was asking or make the decisions.
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Or if it's a podcast, obviously, I've got
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nice, clean audio to edit and process.
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So it's pretty simple.
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And the other thing is for someone like
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me, even though I'm playing the engineer today,
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I'm not, if I'm doing a session, a
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voice session, I can actually split and do
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a stereo track and then use the comms
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and the record, feed them into the same
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laptop.
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The comms will go to the right channel
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and the record will go to the left
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channel.
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So if you're giving me direction, I can
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leave that there.
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Like they may want that session with the
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direction as well.
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So I'll just export a stereo file to
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them and they can hear their direction when
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they're doing edit points that they want or
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pickups or whatever happens to be going on
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during the session.
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So that's another bonus of having the two
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USBs.
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Yes.
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And the other bonus of having it set
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up this way too is playback.
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If with me being the talent, if Andrew
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was the engineer and said, hey, can you
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play back that last take?
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And obviously I can't stop recording in Pro
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Tools right now, because I'll stop recording the
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podcast.
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But I could stop my Pro Tools session,
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go back and just play that last take.
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And I don't have to change a thing.
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Andrew will just hear it.
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So there's none of this confusing.
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Oh my God, what do I turn on
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now?
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What do I turn off now?
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God, is it going to feed back all
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those little panic attacks?
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It just happens.
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And again, from plugging in two USB ports,
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that's all it took.
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Because mix minus is one of those phrases
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that basically you shit your pants.
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Scares the shit out of people.
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Mix minus, oh my God, playback.
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But you don't have to worry about that
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with Passport VR.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Pretty simple.
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It's a beauty.
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I'm yet to find a flaw, to be
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honest with you.
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I've been playing with it a bit since
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I've had it in my hot little hands
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the last few weeks.
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And I'm yet to find something that makes
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me go, oh, that's a shame.
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Yeah.
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So, and I can honestly say that.
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Yeah, it's great.
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I mean, in fact, I've got mine set
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up in this studio here.
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I took out the SSL2.
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Now it is my monitor controller.
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It's for the laptop, which we're using now
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for this kind of stuff.
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So, yeah, that's how it's all set up.
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Speakers, it's driving speakers, driving two microphones.
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Yeah, that's it.
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It's here.
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Nice, as they say in Australia.
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Nice, nice, nice.
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Well, that was fun.
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Is it over?
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Andrew Peters.
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