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What I'll probably end up doing is putting the recorder in a little CD Walkman case, with the mic sticking out of the zipper just a little bit, then put that on the ground right in front of the barricade where I usually stand. At the festival I'm going to, there's still going to be a dozen or so rows of VIP seating in front of the general admission (standing) area, so I think it might work out alright(ish, not too close, not too far, I hope), but I won't know until I try it. Should be pretty easy to get away with, as long as I can get the group that I'm with not to *kick* the barricade. =) I think I can get the mic far enough away though that it shouldn't matter *too* much....

I got a great deal, I think... $50 for a $70 mic? http://www.etronics.com/product.asp?stk_co...ode=sonecmds70p Anyways, thanks for all your help in here! =) I'll head down to Phoenix in a couple of weekends to test it out. I've just gotta wait for my friends to actually play a show down there on a weekend. If I run into any problems with actually *doing* the recording and stuff, I'll be back in a new thread for more advice, but I think once I get it, it's just a matter of playing with it a lot to see what works. =) Again, thanks to everyone for your advice and recommendations. =)

OK. I just got the MT770/888 now. Next thing is to find a mic. I'll probably hit RadShack when I get my hands on the recorder and see what I can find there... (...probably not much.) $70 for a mic seems like a good price, but am I going to be sacrificing any audio quality when I record? I keep hearing people say that I should spend more on the mic than I do on the racorder... I realize that price does not always equal quality, but is that Sony mic going to be the one that I want for what I'm doing? IF it is, that's going to be *awesome* because I wanted to spend less than $300 anyway, and I got the MT770 for just $135. Should I spend the extra leftover money on a mic "just because I can afford it" or what? Do I want a "powered" (?) mic like eadg145 suggests? Or is there something even better? I know that I want one with a cord so that I don't have the sound of the recorder recording itself, but I'm not sure which one I want. I want to get it by the end of next week so that I can take it to Phoenix and record some of my friend's bands in concert to test it and see what works and what doesn't before I take it to this festival at the end of July. I want to be able to test it a few times before the big weekend.... =) Thanks to everyone for your help so far! I really appreciate it! Mike

Alright... I did some looking around for the MZ-N707 you recommended, and found a few places to get one, but it's kinda hard to find since it's discontinued. The problem is that you mentioned something about them not doing well in loud environments.... I think I need to find one that *will* allow me to record in loud environments because I expect the concerts to be pretty loud. I did some looking around, and I don't see any that specifically say anything about setting the recording level. On another forum (linked from here) someone said something about their Sharp recorder allowing them to change the recording level and even do it on the fly if necessary. Would this one work: http://bluetin.com/audiomd/re/sh/mt880.htm I don't see if it has the ability to set recording levels, but I don't see that it doesn't either.... I don't know where it would say something like that at... As a side note, I'm glad that I started my quest relatively early... On most of the other forums I go to, a topic this old would have been lost forever. Hopefully I can get enough help to get the right equipment picked out in time to test it at a few concerts before the festival that I'm going to the last week of July... Once I find the right recorder, I'm sure finding the right mic will be easier (won't it??) but I want to make sure that I don't waste any money. I'm on a little bit of a budget, but at the same time, if I'm spending that much money, I want to get my money's worth... If anyone else has advice on which recorder to get, let me know! I really appreciate it! =)

Alright.... I'm going to a concert festival this summer, and I want to make some recordings of some of the bands while I'm there. It's a 3 day/4 night festival.. What I want is an easy way to record the bands I want to hear, with the ability to easily transfer those to a friend's borrowed laptop overnight so that I can re-use the discs the next day. I want something where I can easily copy the files over to his computer, then when we get back home, copy those files over the network to my computer so that they can be burned to a CD. From the research I've done, it sounds like I'm going to have to jump through hoops to do this. It doesn't sound like it's going to be as easy as I hoped it would... I was hoping it would just be a matter drag and drop the .wav file from the mini-disc to the computer, but that seems like it's going to be impossible. Is it? Will I have to instead buy a whole stack of minidiscs and wait until I get home to transfer the stuff off? What is the easiest way to do what I want to do? Which recorder should I get? I'm completely lost here. The whole situation isn't what I thought it was.