Got it for $450 at a local record store that I've been eyeballing for a while, he just hasn't been able to sell it (probably because it's not quite the right place to be selling one of these anyway). The good news is that it works just fine, and that he had no experience with these, much less checked the auction site for going prices. I need to give it a thorough cleaning even though he said that one if his employees/techs went through it all (he sells used and vintage stereo equipment too).
So yeah, I have an awesome wife. She knew I was getting frustrated with my Tascam 38 and all of its problems and said I really needed to get back into the swing of things with my recording, because we just bought a house a few months ago, and with all the projects I haven't been able to sit down and just jam at the very least. She knew I had been looking for one of these, and told me it was an early Christmas gift
Here's where I was a total moron; the owner of the shop was going to throw in a little ProCo DI box with it because he swore that you needed to "boost your signal to get it to record on the tape"
But I told him he was confused with needing phantom power for mics that require it, not line level signals. Anyway as I was finishing testing it out, I noticed he had this dumb little Realistic mixer that I had been looking for to use with my tape delay setup:
So I'm like "can you throw this in too? I needed one of these". And he says "Yeah, instead of the direct box? Sure." I was like noooo... well ok. I probably could have said something, since the DI retails around $50 and the mixer is an obsolete $5 eBay score, but I didn't really need a DI yet anyway, and needed the mixer. So, no loss, no gain.
I can't wait to start messing around with this and recording some analog tracks again!
