jazzywench

As a private music teacher, I am extremely concerned about the potential demise of the MD. I have a MZ-700 (bought second hand a few months ago) and have teamed it up with a sony mic and am very pleased with the results. My pupils love the fact they are recorded quickly and with such good results! I cannot afford to be off buying new equipment every five minutes, especially when I'm happy enough with what I've got. As for Sonic Stage, I just ignore it for live recordings and use Audacity teamed with WMP which works perfectly. Sony need to sort this out pronto. It was mentioned earlier how radio people use mini discs for jingles, they also use them for field recordings, I remember being interveiwed once and being amazed the the portability!I know many muisicans who use them for gigs because then their backing tracks never skip. What are we supposed to do if the format becomes defunct? PS, I actually still use tapes for instant recording of exercises for pupils too, rubbish quality but at least it's instant!