When Ask Video announced the release of their dvd 'The Studio Edge: Studio Concepts, Gear & the Physics of Sound' I immediately wrote them asking for an NFR for review in one of the magazines I'm writing for. After two failed attempts transporting something so simple as a dvd from Canada to the heart of Europe I forgot about all it until Ask had a holiday sale some months ago.

This time the dvd arrived safely and as quickly as I had my perverted hands on it I shredded the shrink-wrap to pieces and jammed the disc into my computer, hoping that I in a few hours time would be much wiser and some desperately needed light would be spread on areas where my knowledge is - ehem - less than satisfactory, such as microphones and what lies behind all those cryptic studio connector acronyms.

After watching it from beginning to end I am indeed wiser, but as The Stones once so famously put it - you can't always get what you want. For those who don't like reading I'll give the verdict right away: 'Studio Concepts, Gear & the Physics of Sound' is a tutorial that spans from absolutely brilliant to pointless.