Topic: remember the JB3?

[heath]

sounds less than fun. 

[TaperBryan]

what are jb3's going for these days?  I've got one lying around I'd be looking to sell, too...

[kfrinkle]

I ran across one of mine today whilst looking for something else.  I remember the good old days of trying to crotch that thing, being a 6ft tall skinny bloke, it was not fun.  I love me the pcm-m10.

[Javier Cinakowski]

Heath, did you ever find a HiMD deck?  If you did, I'd buy it from ya when you are done with it...

[F.O.Bean]

I ran across one of mine today whilst looking for something else.  I remember the good old days of trying to crotch that thing, being a 6ft tall skinny bloke, it was not fun.  I love me the pcm-m10.

Hehehe, CLASSIC!

[MULETAPER]

Im ALWAYS looking for a JB3 have owned 5 down to one until I swap hardrives in the other to get 2 working units. if you have one your willing to part with that woks PM me... if the price is right Ill take it.

[Brian E.]

F that thing.

I lost a couple recordings on it for zero reason.  Plus the battery life was abysmal.  So glad to be rid of it.

[bdasilva]

And... that damn line in jack breaking off... I fixed dozens of those... "for karma and shipping"   Sure was good in its day though.

[jagraham]

glad i retired mine last year.  it had the problem where it would just freeze up during recording and the resulting file would have noise at that part of the recording then it wouldnt restart for the remainder of the show.  really frustrating, i wouldnt even give the thing to someone much less sell it.

[Humbug]

What do you mean remember the JB3? Been using mine since 2004. Last night I decided to get it signed by a couple of artists that I've been taping since then, Danny Bowes and Ben Matthews of the band Thunder, at their aftershow:



The metallic pen ran a bit, but you can still read the sigs!

[Brian E.]

that thing is a ticking timebomb, Humbug

[newscane]

Just noticed this thread... timely as I wait for my JB3 replacement to arrive   Been using one since I got into taping in 2007 (well, I taped a few shows with a borrowed rig in 2006...  that was with a JB3 as well).  It was working well, but transfers got to be too much of a bear.  My primary computer these days is Win7, so I can't do a direct transfer.  I was transferring to my XP netbook, where I'd process if I was on the road, or transfer (generally via thumb drive) to my PC to do post.  Of course, that initial transfer just CRAWLS at USB 1.1 speeds (they dropped 2.0 when they added Firewire... makes sense, right?).  I also lost part of a recording last year when I filled the hard drive, and lost part of my first real tape with the friend's JB3 when heat caused it to shut down (full disclosure: it was Tampa, in August, outdoors, and I made the mistake of wedging the JB3 into a bag).

All that said, it served me pretty well.  Gonna hang onto it, I think, because there's no real way to get rid of it 

[Brian E.]

sure there is.  The car window on the interstate is an option.

[runonce]

sure there is.  The car window on the interstate is an option.

as you like - but JB3s fetch 100-200 bucks on ebay everyday...

[OOK]

sure there is.  The car window on the interstate is an option.

dude now that was funny!!!