Whilst heading out to get contraband from my car I found a box on my porch. It's pretty heavy.











































































I can haz vocoder. I suppose the keyboard should be here tomorrow or the next day.

Also: Chris knows how to pack up some shiz.

Ah! Good! I hope the keyboard gets there in one piece too, it being larger and heavier.

How did the box look on arrival? Was it beat up at all?

How much of a pain in the balls was it to get the thing out? I was going to put a note in, but forgot to until after i had both boxes taped up and i was just like "fuck it, there is no way i am going to undo all of that just to put a note in."

Chris shoulda sent you a sandwich too, you skinny ass bum.









love, your bro
Mike.

Vocoder? Is that like what Cher used in that one song

It turned up pretty much completely unharmed. All the foam on the inside was undamaged until I made it my polystyrene bitch. And getting in there wasn't easy, that's for damn sure.

The only thing I recall receiving from Chris was a book, and it was well and truly armored.

Yarr, the last job i had in NYC was shipping, and after seeing a large sampling of what boxes go through to get to or from places(some of the damaged returns were really just amazing), i have had a certain boxing/tape OCD since.

Even if the thing is not really breakable at all(like a book - and it was IIRC an already slightly beat up readers copy at that?).

I don't blame you. 'S why I use the USPS if at all possible as I find them the least likely to damage whatever I'm sending. I've had friends and family who've worked for the postal service and friends who've worked for private shipping concerns and I know which I trust more not to break things. I have heard horror stories about how some of the packages are treated.

When I sold my Mark IV, one of the knobs was sheared off in shipping! (UPS.) Apparently a prior owner's tech had replaced a pot with one with a plastic shaft. A friend of mine had one of his ESPs f'd up- and it was in a hard case! Overpackaging is preferable when possible. No airspace, lots of padding, cover everything with packing tape.

...I'm also reminded I should pass that one on to a friend who wants to read it.

I received the T&A fuzz of wonder and the packing was phenomenal. There's pics of the packing in the thread for it. The man knows how to pack shit.

Also, I too worked in a packing/shipping place at one time in my life.

The keyboard hath arrived in equally fine shape. And it was wrapped even more redonkulously than the vocoder.

Hellsyeah

Swell! Yarr, i tried to extra pad its ends and have no less than two walls of cardboard on its exterior. From what i have heard, USPS can be cocks about paying up, if they actually break something, even when insured, so i figured the easiest thing to do would be to try to avoid it getting effed in the a by them in the first place.

I am very glad that both bits made it there well.

Indeed! I am sitting here smiling like a child playing with it. This thing's neat as fuck.

Also, I wish I could steal Chris' handwriting. Shit is like a mixture of stylized legibility and near disaster.

Also: a reasonably accurate description of my personality/existence, IRL.

There's a reason a few of those are kicking around on here. Along with things like joey's Alesis Micron and my Novation. It's a fun flavor of noisemaker for sure. A very different animal than a sample-based workstation sort of synth. I used to have a rackmount MS2000 and Chris from my band has a DW-8000 which cover a fair bit of the same ground; the synth engine on the MicroKorg is essentially an MS2000. (I used to put it in my guitar rack, 'cause I'm an enormous asshole like that. )