Classic Breakdown‪!‬ Classic Breakdown!

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So here is another portion of Dracula read with a singular lack of preparation or skill. As I say, it’s an acquired taste. Members of my own family don’t listen to it, so let that stand as some sort of warning to you.
It’s recorded not on a wax cylinder but using the less than stellar (Stella!!!!) headset mic by audio technica which purports to have a capsule from the 2020 series. Not so sure that it’s entirely suited to recording long form audio even for a podcast.
The sky outside is actually blue so must get out there and do something even less constructive.
Ciao.


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Why do bats suddenly appear
Every time you are near?
Poor old Lucy! Always wanting to leave the windows open and somewhat averse to the garlic baguette that Van Helsing brandishes before her pallid fizzog. She’s arguably, in the words of 1950s magistrates, asking for it, fang-wise. But she’s certainly a fighter and submits to her arduous toilet twice daily, administered by her maid, whose name, of course, is never revealed.
Bram Stoker purists will be relieved to know that Banana Nesquik does not get a mention this week. But just like supermarket home delivery there’s always a disappointing ‘substitution’ in the shape of a Melton Mowbray mini.
I hope this week’s episode will spawn many comments be they harsh or otherwise.
Thanks for listening.
And remember, try to grow your own garlic for wreaths and garlands, as importing them from Holland will make the maps go redder.



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Once again we return to the land of Bram Stoker.
I was tinkering with the Audio Technica headset mic., as if you wanted to know that and then was playing with the Studio One software which is less than user friendly imo. Trying to make a stack or plugin chain that tamed the whole thing. It’s noisy and a bit echoey, and NOT my usual studio or equipment. Time to go back to the functional idiot-proofery of Twisted Wave and Reaper, possibly the Beyerdynamic 201 of the previous episode.
But of Dracula I can say nothing more. Some people have asked that I persist - and sometimes I am filled with enthusiasm. Today, as you might guess, not so much.
Still, off to lunch in an excellent hostelry shortly in good company. Will there be beer? Yes, there will and perhaps the rosbif of olde England.
If you were looking for a funner and contemporary novel that’s heaps better than Dracula have a look on my YouTube channel for the four part recording of The Beetle. The first two chapters are beautifully written.
Best wishes,
Greg



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Well, look: I was in a comfy chair and that's perhaps why this episode is a little lacklustre.  There is literally nothing to recommend it.  Perhaps making Seward a bit more estuary is enjoyable for me, but makes little sense.  You can't really imagine the Westenras having him over to shoot or hunt, but who knows?  Lucy does sound like she plays the field a bit in terms of suitors - or did, at any rate before the big bite.

I afraid I got the stomach rumbles during this episode.  I've excised some of them with brutal imprecision.

It's a long book.  But we seem to be picking up a few more listeners - like a cart during the Black Death. Pushing up towards 3 figures now!  Let's hope we can smash that lofty barrier before the aliens invade good and proper.

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