Lobengula

Hi Kevin, Thank's for such a prompt reply, I'll take your advice and go for the Sony, I have so much other sony stuff, it's laughable. One thing that I have noted in the last 6 months is the drop in available MD equipment on the shelves in NRT. I have not been involved in MD until recently (1 week), but it seems to have certain advantages over MP3 players, etc. The only drawback is the upload from the player to the PC - it has to be in analog format- whatever happened to "innocent until proven guilty", Sony, and the rest, assumes that we are pirates. Sorry, just blowing off steam. Thanks again for your input, and will get back to you about how the gig went. CJ

Sitting in my Tokyo hotel room, watching CNN(yetch), I have 24 hours to make a decision as to what MD to buy. Why I need one?, my girlfriend is a singer, she has this great gig coming up, and I said that I'd record it for her - talk about pressure!!. You'd also think that here in the-land-of-sony people would know about Hi-MD, all I get is a blank stare and a sucking of breath through clenched teeth, even when accompanied by my most modest bow. Earlier on today, zooming off to the LAOX store armed only with a scribbled note from my Japanese compatriot (heck knows what THAT said), I tracked down a Sharp IM-DR80, MD-DR77, Sony MZN-920, and some others not worth mentioning because they were Aiwa and Kenwood. Well, to get back to my digitallema, I need to record a live show, in a small room ( seats 50-70 people), ideally I'd be recording from either a digital or analog output from a TC reberb machine, or an analog output from a Peevey 600 mixer, all the musicians will be plugged in, keyboard, violin, drums, and a horn. The show will be about an hour long, so one disk might do the trick, I don't know. If you have any ideas, I'm all ears. Thanks in advance. CJ