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if I had to get rid of all of my syns
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except five which five would I keep and
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why that is what we're going to talk
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about in today's video and to have a bit
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of fun let's make a little bit of a game
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out of it so I will give you five hints
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as to which five SCS I will keep and you
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can pause the video and write a comment
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which five SCS you think I would never
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sell and once you watched all of the
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video you can actually go and edit the
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comment and let us know how many you got
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right or why you got something wrong I
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think this can be a fun little game that
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we can play and here are the five hints
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there's the obvious one the hint that
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should be obvious to anyone who has
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followed the channel for some time there
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is a drum machine on the list that is a
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future classic and the number three is
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the syn pick that will trigger
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synthesizer
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Reddit a lot yeah let's just call it a
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controversial pick and number four is
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the best designed digital syn according
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to me and number five is a massive polyn
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write a comment with your guesses and
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while you're at it write your five CN
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that you would never sell and while you
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are writing a comment I will talk a bit
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comment check the description of the
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use my link to drro kid you get a
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discount and you also support the
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channel my first pick is actually the
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least exciting and the most obvious and
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it should be obvious to anybody who has
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been following the channel for some time
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and that is the mini log not the XD
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which I actually like better in some
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ways but I'm picking the original Mini
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log just give this a listen and notice
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how the mini log is is cutting through
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in an interesting way it's almost harsh
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but also very distinct
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it's my most used syn and the reason I
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would keep it is the same reason I don't
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recommend it to people that often it is
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because it has a very peculiar sound the
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result is often a slightly harsher more
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metallic sound which doesn't really
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sound digital rather it just sounds
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unique and it often stands out a bit in
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a mix and frankly the minog XD is a
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better option for most people but I
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would keep the original Mini log next up
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let's talk Dr drums so drum machines
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aren't something that I'm hugely excited
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by but there is one drum machine that I
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would never sell it's a future classic
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according to me and yeah it's um drum
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roll the Pulsar 23 so I'm going to try
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and show you why the Pulsa 23 Is Magical
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but I'm not saying that it's for
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everyone so the first thing I do is make
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sure I've connected this pin here to the
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Looper reset and then I connect here to
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the trig input of the high hat to get a
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sort of
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metronome I mean what's not to love
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about this
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and when you get bored you just delete
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it from the Looper it's gone forever and
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uh we just have this annoying um
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metronome clingy clangy thing here
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and we can do something else
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and I think what I like a lot about it
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is something that is maybe a red thread
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in today's video it's that it's quite
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imprecise it's it's kind of the total
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opposite of like an electron device
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where you can get really granular with
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things and make it super precise the
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Looper which was the the thing I didn't
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like when I first reviewed it is now the
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thing that I really like
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[Music]
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there is actually a bit of backstory to
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my Pulsar Journey so I first saw the
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Pulsar 23 at Super wo 2019 which was
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also the first year I went to Super
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booth and there was so much going on and
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there was this orange drum machine and I
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got to sit down with it and demo it and
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it just blew me away and I loved it from
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yeah from first sound it was just such
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an incredible machine and later on I got
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to review it and I think you can see in
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that video that I I really enjoyed my
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time with it
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okay this pick will trigger a lot of
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people so yeah sit down make sure you're
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sitting down make sure you have a sip of
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the
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coffee and the therapist in me wants to
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encourage you all to
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Just Breathe just breathe it's just sins
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we're talking about here you need to
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breathe because yeah my next pick is the
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op1 field oo and here's just a I just
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sat down and I made a little thing here
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started with this electric
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[Laughter]
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[Music]
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piano nothing fancy and I just started
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layering stuff on top of it
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[Music]
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and it just started to build up a little
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something something yeah I don't know
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what it is but it I I think it just
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shows that whenever I sit down with it
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something kind of unexpected or
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beautiful tend to happen
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yeah okay so before anybody calls me a
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teenage engineering shill I don't really
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work with them I think they sent over
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like a pocket operator many many many
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years ago but let me address the
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elephant in the room the price of the
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op1 field is a bit ridiculous even if I
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got mine on a sale I think it was
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$1,500 I think it's still too much but
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two things can be true at the same time
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the price can be ridiculous and it can
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still be one of the most inspiring and
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fun devices that I own it's also super
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frustrating so three things are true at
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one time okay so this far in the video
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how many points do you have how many
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things did you get right and how many
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things did you get wrong so far I'm
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really curious to read the comments when
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it comes to digital sins I have tried
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many and while there are several which
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sounds fantastic I think that this next
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syn bats all of them and that is the
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Hydra
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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sent most importantly the build quality
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is just exceptional it's a 10 out of 10
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uh compared for example to Cork's
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digital sces there is really no
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competition
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[Music]
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secondly the the workflow is great I
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have said it before and I will say it
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again the multiple small screens make
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this SC so much more fun to use and I
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think that's partly why it's a keeper
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for me it's just a very fun synthesizer
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to use and I mean since software sounds
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really good it's all about the the
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workflow how it feels to use for me when
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it comes to Hardware since
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[Music]
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[Music]
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surprise I have used original poly brute
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since it came out and now that I have
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the poly brute 12 in the studio uh yeah
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what can I say it's just a fantastic
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sounding syn and it's a joy to use and
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here's one of my favorite
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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sounds and what I really like about the
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poly boot is how expressive it can get
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so with this sound here the more you
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press down the
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key the more intense it kind of
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[Music]
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gets and if we take a quick glance here
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at the mod Matrix when you go here from
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presets to mod we can see at a glance
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what's going on what is routed where and
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yeah it's just easy to understand what's
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going on and it's easy to set up if I
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want to Route something I just press the
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button here turn the knob and yeah it's
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very quick and while there are many
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Fantastic analog polycin out there I
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think we definitely live in a golden age
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of syns there are so many great analog
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polycin to choose from but the main
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thing the main draw for me with the
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polyb 12 is the physical mod Matrix I
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think that this is the only analog poent
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with this sort of physical mod Matrix
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anyway and it makes creating modulation
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routings much quicker and easier and you
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can actually see the routings in a much
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more visible way just at a glance and I
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think that that is just such a huge draw
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in addition to a great sound so yeah
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that's why it's a keeper for me I think
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I think I'll always have a poly Bru in
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my studio so those were the five scenes
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that I would never sell and why and I'm
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super curious how many did you get right
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and if you missed some of them perhaps
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there's a reason why you can drop a
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comment down below and explaining
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explaining why he didn't get five
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right no but seriously thank you so much
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for being here for for taking part in
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this little challenge or this little
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game of mine and yeah I hope to see you
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in future videos hope you have a great
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day talk to you all later
