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Marcus Leadley

Sep 15, 2026

19:35
Have you got any examples that you could play for us?
19:37
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
19:38
I, I do.
19:39
Firstly, let me say there's a whole, as you say, there's a whole raft of tools, th- the cheapest of which cost about £2 or £3, um, and they're the repurposed, uh, anyo- anyo- anyone listening who's a little bit older may remember the old analog telephone headset bugs that you'd stick on the back of a headset of a telephone to record a conversation, and it, they work through Faraday's law.
20:03
It's, it's a closed coil of wire.
20:05
So basically it's got lots and lots of turns of wire attached to an input plug on a recorder.
20:10
And a ma- you know, if you, if you bring a closed coil of wire into a magnetic or electromagnetic field, an electrical current will be generated in the closed coil.
25:15
Are you, uh, do you often use hydrophones yourself? Have you got any sounds you can play for us?

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