Topic: Highway Murder

[VibrationOfLife]

I really feel like I got away with one.  My 442 shit the bed.

I reached out to SD and it was a $942 ish to just open it up.

I found a sound guy living on a golf course in Cali who had one for sale on e-bay.  I dickered.

$400.  It arrived in the original packaging everything, all the cardboard, the manual, everything. I'm aghast.

I called SD and asked if they wanted my unit that I would ship for free to use for parts or testing- and they declined nicely.

I'm ecstatic.  I fucking love the sound of the 442 pre's into my recorder.  This is my sound.

I can't tell you how happy I am. I hugged the delivery driver and had a great conversation.

I cannot again, tell you how psyched I am.  I spoke with SD, and they sent me stickers for my faders. (We found some in the back somehow, what is your address?) How amazing is that?!

Good people still exist.  Have the faith, and also, a 5 year alert on the ebay still comes up once in a very long while.

I am an atheist, but I do believe in karma.  Mint, with paperwork, perfectly clean, unscratched 442.  In the box, wrapped from the factory with plastic and paper.

Mind blown. Many shows to come .......... Patience is key.

RIP my last recording with my last brick, barely the LED's working and the power out connection was Fbar: https://archive.org/details/wb2026-04-01  Still pulled it off.  BARELY.

Mods: feel free to move this to the drama forum.  I tried to place it the best I could.

Is it weird to be dancing around the room at 50 about some old technology?  I think not!

A 442 retailed for $3k when it came out which is $5.5k today.  Imagine swallowing a $5.5k nut right now in your life.  I couldn't, but I can record some amazing shows to make it very worthwhile.  Ha. Still giddy AF.

If that last recording was my last, I would be very happy.

And also a big thank you to Dank for the hypers.  Such a great person to deal with.  I recorded ^^^ that from the very very back of a theater above many hundreds of people.

[giovanpi]

There seem to be karma in gear acquisition...
I got scammed a few month ago trying to buy an oscilloscope, 300€ disappeared, a few weeks ago I was in the lab at UNI, and saw a scope in the pile of E-Waste, took it home, hoping in having something I could repair. But It actually works fine, I imagine it's just a bit too old for the lab, not as nice as the one I wanted to buy, but much more modern than what I wanted to replace.
Enjoy the microphone!

[phil_er_up]

 When the Sony M10 was discontinued many were looking for used ones. People were selling them for more then they cost and up to around $500. Well was looking in a local CL electronics section and someone posted one used less then 5 times for $50 and he lived less then 2 miles from me. He did not know what they were worth. Drove to his house and the M10 looked brand new and he had the box and all accessories. Said he used it to record board meeting about 4 times and never used it since. Thought about giving him more money due to he was not getting what it was worth. Very rarely do you find a deal like this now a days!!!