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Project Studio Tea Break

Mike & Jon

Mike Senior & Jon Whitten survey the project-studio world over a cuppa.

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56:00

PSTB #19: Snug-verbing, virtuoso electricity, and The...

Project Studio Tea Break ·

2019/11/01

Bellingstropp-Smythe & Sons proudly present this month's Oolong Hour, replete with snug-verbing, potty-mouthed sponsors, sensual mastication, and goodly chunks of papier-mâché. John (aka The Salieri Of Puppets) betrays his 18- and 25-year-old selves by using the creepily long arms of the fishy fishy fish man to dragoon fresh talent. Mike reveals the linguistic thread connecting Niall Horan, Susan Boyle, and The Four-letter Count, while marvelling at the electrotom excesses of The RAH Band. Neither

55:40

PSTB #18: Madonna fixations, Scaramanga's axe, and...

Project Studio Tea Break ·

2019/10/01

The Master Breakers return refreshed and alert from their summer travels with fresh crisp-packet metaphors and an unhealthy Madonna fixation. Jon's been gate-crashing perfume adverts at The Royal Opera House with his close personal friend Salvador Dali, as well as pioneering the concept of whistlestop touring without the whistles or stops. Mike's been blurring the line between computers and footballs, but still has the pleasure of introducing the Cathedral Of Binaural Toast Foley, Scaramanga's axe,

09:05

PSTB #17: Audio bacon, Spot The Toast, and chatting...

Project Studio Tea Break ·

2019/09/01

It's a holiday facepalm special this month, with Mike destroying his means of production and co-hosting with a sock puppet. Meanwhile, Jon has tracked down the elusive Miss T for an in-depth discussion of gravy. There's a challenge for all you Foley connoisseurs too: our first ever 'Spot The Toast' quiz! And, of course, everything sounds better with audio bacon... Fancy more of this nonsense? Then please support the podcast at https://www.patreon.com/projectstudioteabreak For more episodes and links

59:53

PSTB #16: Reverse hallelujahs, stereo hoovering, and...

Project Studio Tea Break ·

2019/08/01

This month it's a Superbooth special, with intense dubstep typing, motivational sawtooth waves, and a bag of smashed crabs that's blown the lid off Indiegogo. In other news, the Dark Prince Of Crochet (aka Jon) has been shouting into a recycle bin, building up his resistance to haggis, and operating machinery in a baggy PVC suit. Mike reminisces about recording cheese straws, stereo hoovering, and asynchronous bunny-hops. Meanwhile, at the Cross-cultural Variety Show we have acoustic pub-funk,

58:53

PSTB #15: Hobbit feet, old submarine bits, and...

Project Studio Tea Break ·

2019/07/01

It's no holds barred this month as Leo Tolstoy and Jean-Jacques Nattiez square up in a musical version of Celebrity Deathmatch. Meanwhile, your intrepid Master Breakers consider displaying their Hobbit feet in glorious HD and commiserate over shared tonsorial option-paralysis. Mike's career as a kazoo virtuoso goes from strength to strength, which is fortunate given how he's been facepalming himself out of work over the phone. On the hunt for sexy plays, Jon's in the Batcave with lots of eyeliner

51:49

PSTB #14: Heavy-metal kittens, karmic pest control,...

Project Studio Tea Break ·

2019/06/01

Armed with their best picardy thirds, the guys start up their viral factory once again with heavy-metal kitten videos and Chewbacca singing Nessun Dorma. There's exciting news too of dubstep's karmic pest-control properties, 19th-century composers' beards, and Mike's first world-record attempt. Jon brings us a box-fresh facepalm with guaranteed 100 percent shame, while Mike (aka Mäik) hoovers the inside of his piano in the aftermath of our first ever sponsored toast Foley. More crucial production

56:51

PSTB #13: Oxtail filtering, harmonikazoos, and the...

Project Studio Tea Break ·

2019/05/01

Heading into festival season, your intrepid crowdsurfers park their inflatable car so that Jon can wreak quiz-based revenge and explain the origin of the 'f*** you' delay. Speaking of Bangface, Mike treats his co-host to a Grommit-grade tale of thoroughly British Palmfacing, and extols the virtues of oxtail filtering. Meanwhile, Jon sacrifices his browser history to the gods of multi-instrumentalism in order to salvage the European Project, while singing through his harmonikazoo. Plus, Billie Eilish

56:53

PSTB #12: Count Duckula, gourmet risotto, and bunraku...

Project Studio Tea Break ·

2019/04/01

Defying ancient Mayan prophecies of the apocalypse, your intrepid Master Breakers explain how to raise 40 grand in three quarters of an hour, while making 40 percent of a joke about The Danish String Quartet. Google's prog-rock Bach emulator is tested to destruction, with plenty of gory details about Count Duckula's death by cookies, Mike's Frankenmix monster, and Jon's anti-Vatican orgy. Plus, we reveal how gourmet risotto and Angry Birds can help banish bouts of freelance lethargy, and Jon

01:01:54

PSTB #11: Syllabist poetry, John Cage's evil twin,...

Project Studio Tea Break ·

2019/03/01

For this month's episode your intrepid Project Studio procrastinators cut like a knife through their favourite lyrical cliches, plan a Syllabist poetry slam, and resist the urge to shout 'Hey' while drinking moonshine under a harvest moon. Errol the Chipmunk is sorely provoked by discussions of nonconsensual Bowie abuse, swirling styrofoam snowstorms, and John Cage's evil twin. (Don't worry -- it's all in the name of sound art.) There's magic too, as Mike explains how to transform a stampeding herd

56:33

PSTB #10: Pigmy elephants, flamboyant boxer shorts,...

Project Studio Tea Break ·

2019/02/01

This month, Mike succumbs to Brexit-fever and receives entirely unnecessary divine assistance in looking foolish. Meanwhile, Jon skips through fields of daisies with his new robot roadie, stuffs his shoes with his own flamboyant boxer shorts, and explains how to score top marks in Ambient Wishy-Washy. Despite exciting new developments in the Einaudi Grudge Match, our two hosts nonetheless manage to set aside their differences for long enough to discuss their favourite song key-changes, Chuck Berry's

59:06

PSTB #9: Imaginary edits, Bearable Brass, and the...

Project Studio Tea Break ·

2019/01/01

It's time, once again, to join your two favourite master-breakers, as they laugh off the evil eye of TC Electronic, strut their stuff to the Monkey Banana Dance, and revel in sensitive performances of double-bass, trumpet, and hand-gun. Mike reveals his three acid tests for equipment reviewers, before presenting fresh harvest from the Facepalm vine. John gives his friends a brutal Whittening with help from delta blues legend Wobbly Jefferson and "Have you heard the original?". And we contemplate the

52:24

PSTB #8: Spray-on acoustic stubble, vegan suspense,...

Project Studio Tea Break ·

2018/12/01

It's a veritable sugar high this month, with Jon lathering himself in maple syrup to talk about the inventor of the jello shot and how he himself miraculously dodged a speeding facepalm bullet. Meanwhile, Mike explains how Mackie have been protecting the earth from alien symbiotes by knobbing Tom Hardy into submission, and relives his finest hour as part of Sound On Sound's market-leading Double Entendre Department. We bestow our opinions of anechoic chambers on the Patron saint of Q&A, and nominate

56:24

PSTB #7: Auditory dog hair, erotic mic cables, and...

Project Studio Tea Break ·

2018/11/01

It's time to join The Numerical Suffix Twins and The Ultimate Frisbee Conspiracy for another bout of testing concepts (and SM58s) to destruction! Nibbling their hand-monogrammed biscuits, your intrepid hosts take on the 'jukebox musical' phenomenon, delivering their verdict on which 1980s TV shows would best suit the format, whether Kurt Cobain ever sang the part of Jean Valjean, and why there's clearly such a scarcity of grumpy-looking white men who can't sing. The facepalm action is bang up to the

56:42

PSTB #6: Invisible gorillas, All Star (but...), and...

Project Studio Tea Break ·

2018/09/30

It's a star-studded caffeine pitstop this month, as our intrepid project-studio podcasters count the syllables of pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis with Eminem, The Carpenters, and Dominique the singing nun. Jon takes a break from hay-bale racing The Village People to give an applause-poaching masterclass and stop a stampede with his phantom-powered Taser. Mike (aka 'Baby Hagrid') calls time on the heavy-metal volleyball to hunt invisible gorillas and bemoan the quality of machine

58:53

PSTB #5: Masking-tape snobbery, fake artists, and...

Project Studio Tea Break ·

2018/09/07

It's a culinary adventure this month, as Mike and Jon sit down at their mahogany podcasting table, pour themselves a creamy lactose-adjacent fresh drink and ponder Marmite theatre, the evolution of the Creme Egg, and knuckle sandwiches for unethical psychologists. Further excitement, too, as PSTB's first Patron skews our Einaudi grudge match and Errol The Editing Chipmunk makes his debut utterance. Mike shares tales of masking-tape snobbery, dreamy school reports, and public facepalming, as well as

54:15

PSTB #4: The Straight To Landfill Award, smirking...

Project Studio Tea Break ·

2018/08/07

This month, there have been tough questions about the latest NAMM show product releases: Can Yamaha restart the 'marketing valve' gravy train? Should TC Electronic be shipping their new plug-in with a free pencil-sharpener? And who will walk away with PSTB's coveted Straight To Landfill Award? For Facepalm Of The Month, Jon takes a break from mixing the heartbeat of the universe to explain how some gigs are too classy for their own good, and what it feels like to be smirked at by a slice of

42:59

PSTB #3: The inverse McGherkin, T-Pain's Uncle Vanya,...

Project Studio Tea Break ·

2018/07/06

This month has plenty to appeal to our apparently core demographic of single Russian women. Horrifying numbers of musical theatre directors. Mike's patchy DIY history, featuring the Lego podium and Bucket-o-foam baffle. The Chick Corea Electric Band's inverse McGherkin, and how Mick Jagger and David Bowie's "Dancing In The Street" really is that bad, even with the music. Plus, Jon curls his toes to Mike's Facepalm Motherlode and we discuss how live performers might best impress the sound man, as

40:33

PSTB #2: Mics for melee, homeopathic guitar solos,...

Project Studio Tea Break ·

2018/06/07

Your intrepid Chippendale hunk-biscuits refuse to rest on their laurels for the second episode of Project Studio Tea Break. No sir! Mike's got his cape and stage fan at the ready, and is preparing to knob synthesizer designers through the post. Jon's inflated his mullet, donned the Rhinestone jacket, and generated a facepalm feedback loop by winning the Wooden Spoon with wooden spoons. And, crucially, the Toast Foley has been upgraded! Pressing questions this month include: What's the best mic for

35:39

PSTB #1: The SM57 tuning dial, The Phantom Facepalm,...

Project Studio Tea Break ·

2018/05/07

The inaugural episode of Project Studio Tea Break sees Mike Senior and Jon Whitten settle down with their cuppas to ponder the big issues of project-studio existence. The SM57's tuning dial, for instance. Or toast Foley. The Tell-tale Tummy. Whether it matters what side a dulcimer-player dresses. Plus, do you know what a Meccano X-Wing, the wine-tasting clap, nipple clamps, and Minecraft's mullet-mod have in common? Or that The Phantom Facepalm hails from Godalming? For in-depth coverage of these

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