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Great thanks! And it's seems pretty big indeed. I'll see what can be done.

Yeah, found that link, but it doesn't open for me? Can you open it? There might problem with my internet then or something.

Thank you for the links. Still need to figure out how this damn dube has to work for sound wave interferences. Any ideas?

Yes, i acknowledge, but that's also the reason why i need it- for camera, recording interviews and directional sound capturing. But could you tell what is it needed for making one? Or what is the main idea to follow? Or can it be done with simple stuff at all?

Maybe this post is little bit off topic, but still. Could anyone know how to build shotgun type microphone? I need shotgun mic for my camcorder, but i don't want to pay so much money and i can't find any good information about them. Could anyone help me out and tell me how shotgun mics work? Alot thanks!

I got my first recording done and it's here. I also moved it under Live Recordings - Music. About mounting the mics- i also moved them little bit more down, so they didn't stay so inside of glasses and were more under the thing. So i think that rim wasn't so much on the way, but who knows. Maybe i should move them totaly outside- will see. Anyway, let me know what do you think about the recording.

I also own a MiniDV camera and it's quite good camera. I have mic input, i can select the recording volume for mic and it's 16 bit sound. But the quality of sound depends on the camera. I usually have recorded the sound from mixing unit with line in and used the camera only for filming when i want to capture live recordings. But you should do a test. Record with camera and with MD at the same time for comparison. That should show how good the sound of camera is compared to MD, ofcourse if it's possible.

Isn't that a wonderful thing to spend your time on then?

I don't like the idea of drag-n-drop. It seems to be lame, like most of the HD and Microtrack stuff. It seems to be only a MP3 player and that's it. But i still find MD a much more effectively used. You still can use MD without a computer, just record with optical cable or with mic/line-input a live concert (sure you can do the same with microtrack, but i don't know about listening with it?). It's up to everybodys own choice. I prefer MD.

It's easy to make one of your own. You just take a picture you like, edit it and resize to 48x48 pixels (i think if i'm not mistaken). And then you just convert it to .ico file. I use Irfan View for it, wich is freeware by the way. Simple, i think.

Yeah, but even before iPod Sony acted stupidly with MD. MD could have made a bigger breaktrough, after MD is a wonderful unit, but even wonderful things can't make breaktrough with some little help?! I just want to say that there was lack of buyerfriendly attitude, Sony made itself situation hard. I mean all the software problems and copyright stuff and so on.

I was used to use ordinary CD-Player, it was slim and it was ok with me. Then some time ago i decided that i need a smaller and with more capicity unit. Ofcourse there was basicly only two choices - Harddrive MP3 or MD! Somehow i still find MD more useful and nicer. Maybe because i like that it has a recording-option or maybe it's isn't so lame? I mean the drag-n-drop system, ok, it's fast and simple, but it's seems like it's mostly for just people who doesn't care about sound quality and everything like that. Ok, they are making all kinds of stuff to iPod, like the Linux stuff - thats really nice, they should do something like that to MD. Bottom line is that i find MP3 players little bit too lamely used and i'm afraid that maybe in the future there isn't any nice recordingoptions at all. Only just drag-n-drop mp3 listening. Sad and bad Sony!

Yeah, DIY is just wonderful, because i have boxfull of capacitors, resistors and much more like this from old soviet union, when there was alot of selfbuilding stuff. I'm glad that i have this box, because we in Estonia (country, where i live) don't have Radioshacks or what it was. And it's real hard to get anything. It even seems that MD is dying here (actualy anywhere?), but i couldn't get RH910 over here, wich i wanted. There is only on store selling MDs and they only had RH710, i think. So i ordered mine from amazon. But that's important at all. About the mics i can't say anything right now, because i don't have a MD recorder YET! I have only tested it with computer mic jack and i know it is working. EDIT: I got my MZ-RH910 and got first bootleging done. Mics attached to my glasses i recorded hour-lenght concert. I got sample from that concert under my album. Feel free to judge and say what seems bad and so on.

Probably a smarter choice, but i'm used to use DVD Decrypter anyway for editing/cloning/copying/decrypting DVDs anyway..

First of all - great thank you to greenmachine! Really great DIY! Anyway it gave me inspiration as long as i'm waiting for my new unit (MZ-RH910). After that i get my unit i can start live recording and do my first bootlegs at all. Thank you all guys! The thing i built. I had to improvise and go without mic-jack, just cord inside the box and out. And i also had to use 11kOhm resistors instead of 10kOhms, but i think it won't matter so much. [attachmentid=908] I'll let you know, when i get my first recordings done.

Like raintheory said, only input is USB and you can transfer files only trough SonicStage. So first of all you need to get the DVD Audio files into your computer. But DVD is little more complex than just Copy-Paste files off from DVD. I'll try to explain the theory as simple as i can. Anyway, i assume that it is a ordinary DVD (movie or something like it). For getting the audiofiles into your computer you need a DVD-Rom on your computer. After you have inserted the DVD into your PC's DVD-Rom you need program called DVD Decrypter (you can get it from here), wich is freeware by the way. Now you got DVD Decrypter and DVD in your PC's DVD-Rom. With DVD Decrypter you can select the audiostream you want under Stream Processing. If you have done that, then Decrypt it and then you have the audio file in your computer in format of .AC3, wich you need to encode into WAV, MP3 etc. For this you can use program called HeadAC3he. After that you can just transfer the file onto your MD. And if your computer doesn't have a DVD-Rom, then you can record the audio from DVD into your computer with ordinary DVD player and pair of cables. And again use the SonicStage after that. I hope it helps.

also one solution is xispe's idea of using usb to charge, check the link.