\_____/ <----- Me Plate
6 portions of Lasagna in the freezer, plus 4 half-portions, or hot snacks.
I ate the corner bits… 
Carinthia.xx
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< me beak
Made some lens caps today.
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But are they good wiv butter?
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You can’t take pictures of me with that.
Why not? Do you believe it will steal away your soul?
No, you’ve forgotten to take the lens-cap off!
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Not a brand I’ve used, so can’t comment on that particular mic. Looking at the specs, the frequency response isn’t great. Might be OK if you’re only going to use it for speech, but I reckon you’d be better off going for something a bit more versatile. This is the one we use for pretty much everything - really lovely mic:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rode-Microphones-NT2AANNIV-RØDE-STUDIO/dp/B004L06ZCM
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It’s a Rødent. You keep råts?
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Joe thank you
I am going to get chapter and verse about the specs and comparison of that for ever and ever Amen
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I mostly use cheap rubbish, but if I were laying out money for a good mic I’d be looking at Røde first.
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Joe, thanks for that - I’ve never heard of them but I will look them up! The application is not only nothing but speech, it’s quite low bandwidth: think AM (medium wave) radio and you’re about there (FM “wide” transmissions - the best quality used apart from some esoteric digital modes - use a maximum 12.5 kHz - technically a maximum “deviation” of 5 kHz). We’re talking ordinary telephone quality here!
Heil is quite well known and seems to be generally well thought of for amateur radio use - so the necessary adapter cables to connect them to popular radios (with a separate PTT switch) are readily available, theoretically I guess most mics are XLR so there should be such a thing as a “standard” adapter. Yeah, I could probably make one up myself but I’m trying to avoid that fiddliness 
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And that dear cellarati is the Bull being comprehensible to mere mortals like me!
I just hope he refrains from fluent Unix or Linux
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I know that feeling! Though I do often crimp ethernet cables for Feral, who regards this as a minor miracle.
yardarm
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“A tangled cable is a happy cable” as someone once said.
Meamwhile, Sparrer, could I have the lend of a loan of yer bow and arrer? Only there’s this fecking robin shoutin ’ its beak off…
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Robins got no respec’. Tell it there’s a sale on at Primark.
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And how do sparrers show respect?
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Not Bein’ Seen. (An important skill, when one is small and reputedly delicious.)
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Wee birdie you are the most delightful darling of a bird that will never feature on my menu
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Member of a vanishingly small subset of the feathered population, then…
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Fair’s fair. I’m quite fond of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Main Course.
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