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Tough time naming this one. It's about equipment we either made ourselves or modified in some significant way. \"Do it yourself\" is close enough.

Oh, and we had the same stupid recording problem we had once before where one mic wasn't recording so the levels are way off (despite some effort to fix it in post...it was worse!). At least it's a short episode.

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Tough time naming this one. It's about equipment we either made ourselves or modified in some significant way. \"Do it yourself\" is close enough.