The MIke I'm speaking of may have been from Jersey originally, but I don't think he had a SV255 back then. He really was using a D5 until just a couple years ago, with the 421/300 combo and some huge mixer. Now he uses his 480's mostly, but still uses the 300's. I think he scraped the 421's.
It was my finally giving in to the OTS that got me on the 300 wagon. Prior to that I was using Beyer M88's and doing FOB. But even before those I was using a shared pair of 300's 7/31/82 thru 7/4/84 all west and midwest. Beyers fall '84 thru spring '85, then the move to OTS thru '91. I made some sick M88 FOB's on the fall '84 tour, but the Oades had that one pretty well covered.
Gave up taping in '91, cause I didn't have the funds to go digital. My rig made the final tour but I didn't
. Thank god for the Q, I may have never got into taping again.