vermin
I am brand new to this forum, but have been using DAT Machine for a number of years, and love them. The new digital things I think do not have the feel of a DAT Machine. I have a Roland R-26 that is great for on the go situations. I use the DAT for studio recording and find it meets my needs perfectly.
Well all that said I would take any all DAT machines you want to throw at me.
Let me know and I will send Email and phone.
I am in Southern California but am will ing to travel for DAT.
sorry, dude; The dat is in Brazil.
I wouldn't bother mentioning the rest but it might be a lesson for someone shipping packages there.
I was about to send the recorder to Bub but at the last minute he changed his mind.
So, I Fed Ex'd the dat to a forum member in Sao Paulo.
I paid $80 for 3 day air. I knew Brazil had very high import taxes (almost 100% of the declared value) and I decided to pre-pay the tax also.
IMO, the dat wasn't worth much, if anything but customs might feel different so I declared a value of $50 and added that amount to the Fed Ex payment.
A week after shipping, a Brazillian official e-mails saying my declared value was erroneous and they determined the value to be $1500; and the import tax due was $1400. (They opened up the package and thought at first it was a brand new machine)
I tried to convince customs the machine wasn't even worth the shipping charges I paid but to no avail. After about ten e-mails I gave up.
The last I heard the tax was reduced to $800.
I have a feeling my like-new, pristine Dat is on a dusty shelf in some over-crowded rusty, dilapidated warehouse.
It's all Bub's fault. :)