Bobilewicz

Dear MiniDisc fans, Tomorrow I am going to a concert of G3 (Satriani, Vai, Fripp) and would like to preserve these moments for posterity. I have Sony MZ-N710 (OK, I know this might not be the ideal MD recorder but that's what I have) and I will be using ECM-MS907 for capturing the sound in an acoustically imperfect venue (well, Poland does not have really good venues, damn!) from what I expect to be a wall of speakers several thousand Watts in power. Shall I: 1) set the MD to high or low mic sensitivity? 2) use automatic level control or manual (the latter much more difficult to monitor continuously in the dim light)? Any info asap would be very greatly appreciated. I am also considering purchase of two small mics such as ECM-C115 or ECM-T6 but I doubt I'll be able to afford even one, let alone two. However, I would like to know your opinion on whether or not this is worthwile purchasing such mics from the point of view of both sound quality and "secrecy" of recording (in this respect they're surely better than the ECM-MS907!). Regards Wojtek, Warsaw, Poland

Hello, I am new to this list, so please forgive if this question appeared here before: are there any tweaking or hacking techniques that would allow transfer of MICROPHONE-RECORDED contents of my MD to a PC (possibly in the mp3 format or wav, or any other easily recognisable that can be eventually burned on a CD-R as a regular compact disc)? I mean NOT the usual stuff (which sucks) of routing my MD to my computer via a regular audio cable connecting it to the MD's earphone plug on the one end and the PC's sound card on the other end. I've been through this; in fact, I don't even have a decent sound card and make all my connections via my PC's USB port and Xitel I/O but that still requires Xitel to be connected with the earphone plug via a normal, analogue audio cable. What I mean is: is there any way of transferring sound recorded with a microphone (or from a radio or streaming audio etc) DIGITALLY onto a computer? My MD is Sony MZ-N710. Any clue will be greatly appreciated.