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Fantastic result - the ears have it! What's impressive too is the speed of installation, and no choking adhesives.

Unique to an active analogue compressor (though not all types) is the overshoot on the leading edge of sounds. It's often used creatively to restore a sense of attack to drums, and it can spice up vocals. That's OK for a singer, though it easily sounds ugly on what I record which is plain solo speech. My compromise for narration is moderate analogue, about 2:1, followed by mild DSP. Never pushing either too hard!

Our Modern Watchwords sold for £13,750. Hear two verses at Churchill's Lost Poem read by Howard Ellison

Click YouTube's auto-transcript for a surreal counterpoint to Winnie's words!

Funny thing is, this 'performance' led to a first on-camera booking - as a respectable, non-speaking businessman, in a heavy-metal rock video!

Outstanding sound and vision so why such minimal support for Mac? I had to send my C910 back for refund. All sorts of things it just would not do on my Snow Lep, quite apart from the limited control. Logitech must wake up on this matter, and as Phil says, they should spell things out in their documentation.

Ancient Sennheiser HD580 headphones definitely respond all the way across. But they don't have the 'feel' of a speaker sub. Very useful - thanks to you Gadman.

HHGTTG got a mass following in UK when it launched in 1978 on the BBC's national Radio Four. Memorable droll performances from comic actor Peter Jones, and from sound effects genius Paddy Kingsland. Sample tile: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Whimsical and intelligent, the source of legend, as Kaushik notes: 'the Answer to the Universe is 42'. R.i.p. dear Douglas.

Sounds more convincing than speakers usually do when re-recorded. What a great demo. I use an eight-inch Celestion driver on a two foot tall stand for checking voice recordings: much more natural and revealing than any boomy/tubey box that I could reasonably afford. Had no idea there's a community of the baffle-free!

First 3-minute ad I ever watched right through. Brilliant!

Take a look also at the new (announced December 2012) Leap Motion. It's like a kinect: you don't touch anything, just gesture over the little gizmo which is about the same price as the MT. I haven't bought it yet: trying to decide between these two possible ways to control audio tracks for editing. Like others, I am fed up with Magic Mouse dropouts and battery-charging.

Hey, really great demo... but I want to agree with trackend1 that an analogue meter still has some advantages for fine-tweaking DC or audio levels. And you can read it from the corner of your eye while you are focused on aiming the probe. And it will reveal a fast fluctuation in a voltage, which the digi won't. But I'm just an audio guy!

Fascinating and, like Nick Humphrey's books, presented with style and humour. I really would like to know the time and location of this lecture.

Also useful (but probably bigger than really necessary) if you want your router to keep running during brief power outages.

Genious. Thanks so much, Dean! Having just got a really good separate webcam (Logitech C910 pro) the mirrored image was crazy. What iMovie won't do is capture direct from any cam other than the iMac onboard, so I needed Photobooth as a get-round.

Five minutes brilliantly worked - and full of really sound tips from a pro performer.

Julian is the real thing. My wife and I met him decades ago when he was first exploring the Bach remedies. Excellent guy. We moved house and lost contact, so it's great to see him here!

Interesting indeed. Analogue compression is still preferred by many vocal recordists.

But there is a shortcoming: overshoot. Perhaps listeners like those hardened leading edges, and certainly some producers use it to sharpen up drum sound. But it's not natural - and artefacts show up on solo voice.

The old BBC AM6 used a dual mono comp with an analogue delay path to defeat overshoot: brilliant for broadcasting, no spikes - but the pop deejays didn't like it.

Really helpful, thanks. Sound quality of the Microsoft microphones seems inferior to the others. Amazing because capsules, even good ones, are so cheap there's no excuse for MS to fit the ones they do.

Thanks for your reply... just caught up with it! Well that is simply astounding. I now understand the man who told me long ago he preferred his thorn-needled horn player to anything. Could not believe it at the time.

It was clever, but we could be suspicious about two things: the constancy of the noise of descent, and the sharpness of the 'impact' sound through what we were led to believe was a long pipe. But this is fine: the prank invites us to think critically about what we perceive, and, after all, the prankster has quickly owned up! That's not bad science.

Friendly guy, interesting video, but this is yet another audio-topic video which would gain so much from having the studio mic connected direct to the camera, so we could really hear befores and afters, and the perils of handling a live mic. If sometimes there is no line input to enable that, camera-makers and reviewers please wake up!