This is my first post. After having downloaded and listened to many sounds from this great forum, I am delighted to finally be able to contribute. Hope you'll like it. While I am a rookie here, I was fortunate enough to have very loud perfomers and an excellent device.
In a distant past I had attended to and even recorded some exciting situations, one in particular which I will reveal in the (True) Stories section. But this was so long ago - with a Sony tape recorder - that I lost the files.
The story behind this recording is quite funny. I had to spend 2 nights for a course in the city of Bern. I had picked a moderately priced hotel, part of an international group. Never did I have in mind to spy and record anything. That same day, however, I had picked up a new recorder at a store, the Sony SX-2000. Hence the title: a very lucky day. I would not have had a recorder with me otherwise.
As soon as I approached my room, I heard exciting moans from the room 705. I hurried up to unpack the device and walked to their door. Unfortunately their room was in the middle of the long hallways, next to the 2 elevators. Customers were coming and going quite often, not surprising at such an early time of the evening. I was disturbed several times and tried different tactics:
- holding the recorder against the door, and walking away when the elevator bell rang
- putting the recorder at the bottom of the door, with the risk that my brand new expensive device be taken by someone
- hiding the recorder on top of a lamp and leaving it there hidden and unattended
The couple was likely german (or austrian). They did it from 6:43 to 7pm and started again 1/2 hour later. Needless to say, I spent most of the night hoping to catch them again at a less busy time, but nothing happened.
This SX-2000 has some interesting features: it can record for days and can be USB powered by an external battery. A smartphone can start and stop the device remotely by bluetooth. I have some ideas how I could use these features in the future.
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iago
