Hey, you– the guy with the rack of audio gear sitting in your closet that you never use. Or maybe you work at a radio station with piles of old, unused analog gear that you replaced with that fancy-pants digital system. Or heck, maybe you work at Symetrix and have oodles and oodles of gear sitting in a warehouse.

Whoever you are, if you have a Symetrix 421m AGC-Leveler and if you’re not using it, I need it. Actually, I need two of them.

I don’t have a heck of a lot of money, but I do have a genuine need for a pair of 421m AGC-Levelers. Here’s why:

Jaime and I host this little online talk show called America’s Debate Radio. We talk politics, and take phone calls. I’ve rigged together a duct tape, rubber band, and bondo studio and I think I’ve done a fairly good job at it. We sound good. But there’s a problem.

The problem is that when we take calls, I have to direct a ton of attention to making sure the callers levels fall in line. Too high and I risk clipping. Too low and the listeners can’t hear the caller. And in this age of cell phones and voip, we all know that levels are all over the map.

So it goes like this. Someone calls. We put them on the air. Jaime handles the first few minutes of the call while I rush to tweak levels. Without fail, the caller asks me a question. I have been paying attention to VU and dB meters, adjusting levels, reducing bass, tweaking treble. The question is asked and my response is similar to, “Errrr…uhhh….duhhhh…. ummmm…. ” That is because I had to direct my attention at audio gear and not at what the caller was saying.

To put it in just a few words, I have to spend my time paying attention to gear and not the caller, and it makes me sound like an idiot, and it lessens the quality of the show.

SOOOOoooooooooooooooo…..

If you have any Symetrix 421m units sitting around, please, by all means, let me know. Hopefully we can work out a fair price or trade.