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In the field, Jonathan used an Audio-Technica AT835b mic and a Marantz PMD 222 cassette recorder he bought on Ebay. He recorded his narration on the same gear, under a homemade blanket tent. He got free version of ProTools running on his Imac and bought a Acomdata external FireWire hard drive to hold the session and audio files.

He did all the production himself, with some email advice from us. He sent rough mixes along the way for comment. We received the final version here and found it needed some level fixes. We didn’t do any re-mixes (That’s all Jonathan), but we did even out the levels, give it a dose of compression at about Ð6 with the WAVES L1 Ultramaximizer (fabulous dynamics tool, a plug-in for ProTools), some light EQ for intelligibility (roll-off below 75 hz and slight boost at 3500), and made a few more cuts here and there to get it under 30 minutes.

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