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Yes, thanks, I like that PCM-M10. Small, long battery life and can stick in 16 gig memory card. Thanks...

Is minidisc still the latest and greatest? I've used a MZ-NH900 for some years and still happy with it for the most part. Batter life can be a pain but sound can't be matched. I use it to record Church services that I can later edit onto CD's and it's nice not having to filter the tape hiss etc.... However, I was wondering if there is better for this application. The fidelity of digital voice recorders were crappy when I bought the minidisc but I wonder if that's improved? At that time they were good for dictation and that's about it. No music that's for sure. It would be nice to record onto micro SD that can hold several weeks of services or a full week of revival and still get the fidelity and true sound reproduction that I get with my minidisc. No moving parts should greatly improve battery life. Thoughts?

Thanks for the tip, I just ordered one of the Delta mics to replace the $10 jobby i currently use. I like the recordings i get with the $10 jobby so the Delta can only be better. Hopefully I still won't need the extention cable as I currently get no motor noise...

Seriously Guys, Sony should be giving you and this site a commission or at least helping with the bills, I would have taken this thing back without you guys. Thanks a bunch...

Is there anyway to turn this feature off? I could live without it...

Yesterday while I was recording at Church my recorder recorded 1 hour and 4 minutes on one track then another 37 minutes on another. After turning it on and setting it down I didn't touch it again. What would it split my track like that? This is the first time it has done this and it appears to be all there so it is no big problem I am just curious why.

Now you're cooking, Sound Forge has a time stretch feature. There is a preset reduction to 85% which speeds up the pace but doesn't change the pitch. It will take some time to do but I think I can selective speed up so less noticable less immpactive parts untill I get the size I need. This may be an option, THANX!

This is what I usually end up doing plus I will include the good old faithful songs etc... that I like and have on most CD's. I am known around the Church as the guy with a copy of everything so I am always being asked for a copy. I give them away but would like to cut my cost and also my personal CD storage space. All my archived backup's are in MP3 and on DVD which I can play here at the house but not in the car.

After making my live recording at Church I burn the sevice to CD. To do this I edit out everything I don't want and only leave just the stuff I want like the sermon, a few song etc... I make the recordings 16 bit, 44,1 khz stereo wave files. It never fails, I always end up with like 800 to 850 megs of stuff. This is not enough to waste a new CD but it is a little too much to fit on a single CD. I search for spots to edit here and there but I can never edit enough to fit it on one CD. What kind of tricks do you guys know of that might compress my 850 megs onto one cd? Even if I could burn it mono it would be ok but would the disc play in my car? I would drop the sampling one some of the tracks. Anything???

Yesterday was my second Sunday recording, I toiled all night with the final descisions on settings. I went with low sensitivity and 15/30 as a medium. I just knew all was going to be great this time. No waving AGC, no overdriven preamp etc... I guess with all my testing and changing of settings I forgot one important detail, I got home and only had about 15 minutes of the service. You got it, I didn't charge the batteries. The 15 minutes wsere great but our pastor was asside himself and preached an extra good message. People were coming up asking me for copies and of course i said, sure! Live and learn...

So you are leaving Michelle out the act already? What loyalty. JK, have you practised with this guy yet? Good luck!

I would have to agree that with several storage devices, each with their own software. SS gives you less control and lets you set least personilized settings by default. For instance, where you want your files to go or be named... Then there is the codec situation. Wave converter should be part of the actual package and not an after thought. Why can't we set it to launch auto when the MD is attached to PC? All my other apps do.

Not bad at all. Makes you feel one with nature...

I didn't see it either but i figured i just didn't know where to look for it. Can someone else try to attach it?

Attached...

Thanks for all the advice guys... Is there some way I can get you the file Dex? I would sure love having your input. I was going to try the loud music setting but page 36 of the manual says, "if an unexpectedly loud sound is input when mic agc is set to loud music, the recorded volume thereafter may drop very low". That sounds like I could end up with a recording that is initially high in volume then drops low and not recover. Any idea if I am correct? Makes since... If that so then the manual volume adjustment should fix it, right? What does 10/30 mean? Even if the preaching was a little low, shouldn't it come out ok once it's normalized? I tend to sing filler along with the choir. I tried to join but they moved rehersal to a night I can't make. If you heard my singing you wouldn't suggest having the mic anywhere near me. as my pastor would put it, "he's loud, I can say that for him". Might give that a try, I was also thinking some kind of equalizer would be nice to run the file through prior to burning. The problem is, the speakers on my puter are not great and if I equalize to those the outcome will have no hope...

I think some of what I was hearing was the speakers on my puter. I burned the songs to disc and played them on the way to work and this sounds fantastic. Still a little too much drums but I'm thinking if I begin sitting on the opposite side of the pulpit may fix that. will somebody please give it a listen and let me know any suggestions to improve the quality?

What is the bandwidth of what you will be recording? If it is just voice then a digital voice recorder will work fine. Whatever you get, make sure it is a minimum of usb2.0 or you may get frustrated.

I would have sounded better but I couldn't find my other shoes... Thanks for all the help and advice. I just listened to todays service and overall I think I'm on to something here. You guys did me right! You can't hear the motor noise at all during music etc..., it was easy to use and the sound is not too bad. However, I know I have some tweaking to do. I plan to get a short cord from radio crap sometime this week but there were a couple of other things that perplex me. Please listen to this sample. To set the seen, my Pastor is leading this song. He is walking around with his mic in front of the pulpit maybe 5' from recorder. Our PA sounds fairly loud in the sanctuary and I have no trouble hearing him. The recorder is setting on the podium with the mic facing opposite his direction which is toward the choir. The drummer is probably 20' and to the right side of the pulpit. This is the same side of the podium where the recorder is sitting, except, again, the mic is not facing the drummer either. As you can hear, the cymbals are dominating the recording and the sound tends to go up and down a bit. Also, periodically there is a tick or static sound where the machine is doing something. It did this all through the recording. Hope that isn't when it is writing to disc. The dominating cymbals, you think that is mic, its reletive position or what? The up and down sound, you think that is the AGC or what could be doing that? Any ideas for the tick sound? I did notice it seems to be in sync with the volume going down. I wonder if that is the AGC also? Again guys, thanks for all the help.

I think what I need to make this work is a wireless mic. I could the put the mic on the podium and keep the recorder by me or even in my pocket.

Nope, I use AGC because I don't want to cause a distraction fiddling with manual setting everytime (after each choir song etc...). I also am trying to keep it small and inconspicuous as possible so no battery pack either. I also wanted something that concealed nicely in my suit coat pocket (no bulges etc...) Sure. Excuse my singing because you have to turn it up to hear the noise. I'm starting to think I screwed myself going this mini disc route. I should have went with my first thought and got a digital voice recorder like this one.

I appreciate all your suggestions Capt'n but do you anyone reccomend any that plug directly onto the mini disc? I ask because, as I explained, I like to record at church. Being a minister also I sit in the pulpit. This also allows me to place my recorder on the preaching podium which makes for great recordings. I'm afraid the mics with wire might make to much of a production out of my recording. You know, draw attention away from where the true focus should be as I try to get it all set just right. With a built in or attached mic, I can slip it into a out of the way spot as he begins speaking and like Ron would say, "set it and forget it". Minimum distraction is my objective.

found it,

Would you happen to have a link? I can't seem to find it with the search.

Maybe that's my problem. Here is the MIC. I initially thought the recorder would come with a MIC and when I found out it didn't, the wife took away my budget. This was the most I could afford. Turns out the company is in Israel and it took 3 weeks for the mic to arrive. Any one know of an economical mic that will give me faily good recordings? Im not looking for studio, just something I can burn to a CD and be proud to say I did it with my NH900.