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hi, have a Sharp MT877 MiniDisc recorder which i am very pleased with - i upgraded from analogue to MD several years ago. the MD is silent of course it also takes several minijack mics excellently. i mainly use it for recording ambient sound for home movie soundtracks but i was wondering, if there was anything 'mini' out there now which recorded to WAV audio files that you could interface directly with a pc? thanks Ric

could well have been either - or a mixture of both? i bought the player to use with an ornithologist's listening mic to pick up ambient, outdoor sound for a soundtrack (small project) - everything worked fine over the weekend when i tested if out: in fact the mic is too powerful, picks up the noise of car engines and aeroplanes that you are not aware of otherwise: i may experiment with a 'sound baffle' - which would double as a wind baffle? for someone who grew up with cassette recorder technology, the Sharp MD is sensational - with it's plug-in control device so you can noiselessly operate the unit without actually touching it? highly impressed thanks Ric

thanks A440, it is weird - when i use the other mics through an extension lead, they all work fine ~ i have no idea why? could it be the other mics are more sensitive than the tie clip (make unknown) , that there is some kind of interaction between mic/jack and recorder, when all are in close proximity, so that distanced by the extension lead, this effect vanishes? one of the jacks started making noises in the mic, like it was acting as an aerial, at one point - or like micro feedback? extension lead has solved the issue, anyway :] many thanks, Ric

Hi - Ric / newbie, i experiment a lot with recording devices and have finally caught up with MD. have tried a range of external microphones with the sharp - all giving worries except a tiny 'tie-clip' stereo mic, which the Sharp really seems to get on with - all the other mics - including a condenser - seem to give a noisy jack connection, which i have never encountered when using them in other devices - so i wondered, is there a particular type of mic which has to be used with this MD player/recorder or all MD's, please? thanks, Ric