Gavin Atkin

Same problem.

(I was a provincial country boy at the time, btw.)

Nobody taught me 'liberal values' at university (I studied sciences), and I'm prepared to bet in many subjects liberal values are not taught now. What does he think he's talking about?

Singing.

Distraction?

You'll have to ring it. We have landline for that purpose only - but the time saved easily justifies £6 per month!

Nah. Surely 24%+19%.

"The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction."

~ Samuel Johnson

That was five decades ago!

I loved the carillon years ago. I hope it still plays!

But I think they were pretty well dead before Johnson; I'd guess what killed them was the political discovery that you could say anything in support of Brexit, and there was no need to demonstrate plausible evidence.

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I was just thinking that.

Me too. It's a messy looking thing, and I'm still wondering how you eat one.

Obviously, though still not to my taste. But on their recent form, competence would be going some ;-)

That viewfinder!!!

A photo of a lifetime. I wonder whether Ponting forever wished he'd been able to lower his camera by another foot, so the mast didn't clash with the icicle. Or was that deliberate?

Wasn't the same argument often levelled at the series of ineffective Conservative governments that Labour replaced? Has something changed that forces governments to be this way? 24hr instant news, perhaps, or social media, or the most partisan news media I've ever seen in my lifetime?

Nice work Martin!

Also, leftover mince pies make you slim. The clue is in the name; ask any French speaker.

They're for carolling. Old local carols are best.

Were the photos taken for blackmail purposes?

All true. They're good for all sorts of things, and take up very little space.

It's the entire liberal middle classes who are to blame. But tell me, who reads her newspaper? Is there a little discussed group called 'the illiberal middle classes'?

It's almost as if the EU is not a left wing organisation. Imagine that...

YouTube video by Gavin Atkin Procaster windshield test: no windshield, the WS2 windshield, a cut-down WS2 or a popper-stopper?

Also, the Rode Procaster/WS1 combos that the New Statesman uses are pretty good, but I've found that they're even better with a gently modded windshield.

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Ditto, traffic sounds from the road outside your home.

The AT4040's pickup pattern is w-i-d-e, and that's a problem.

Dynamic mics are generally made to be used close up, so room sounds can easily be swamped out and forgotten. Hence my sE Electronics suggestion.

They're both great mics in many ways, but on some folks (and banjos, check my YouTube on the matter) the AT4033a can be nasal and the AT4040 is nice in an acoustically treated room, but in a normal domestic room can pull in too much in the way of room resonances.

I've used the V7x. Haven't used the Dynacaster, but it has the same capsule, allegedly.