Hello It's Me - HQ Audio

Preamble: Listen up, you slack-jawed twats:
It's beyond irrelevant, but Todd's not gay. You'd know that if you had at least two brain cells to rub together. So please just STFU with that line of commentary, mmmkay?

This is an audio commentary, really, and an experiment testing my skills at audio sweetening.

I love this video and his vocal in it, and saw the show when it originally aired. That Todd does the live piano and vocal against the backing tracks that he himself created is a rather unusual thing for the era.

I haven't heard or seen the DVD version of this that's currently being hawked on late night American TV. So, I have no idea what it sounds like. But the audio accompanying the version of this with the highest view count on YouTube is horrendous; it sounds like it's coming from a 50¢ speaker mounted in a tin can. Here's the video I originally downloaded to work on:
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I decided to have a go with making the audio a little more palatable, completely for my own amusement. It could use some more work, but this is the first time I ever tried anything like this. In case anyone cares about this sort of thing, I used Audacity, GarageBand and QuickTime Pro, along with some free plugins.

Comments and criticisms are welcome!

Love ya, Todd!