alanspcs

Sonic stage 3.4 seems to be bringing me back to an interest in the HiMD. Questions about external mics/preamp: I have an old Sound devices MP2 preamp I'd like to feed into the MZ-M10 or M100 for eventual upload to an iBOOK, and I'm concerned about overloading the line level inputs. Any one have experience with external feeds, besides self powered mics? Kindly share. Also, I'm assuming that the Mac compatible players come with Sonic stage for Mac? or is that an extra purchase? TIA - alan

Very helpful, thank you. -- alan

Yes, THAT is the question. If I understand the Owners Manual, uploads can only be from original ANALOG recordings -- which seems to rule out ANY sort of digital input while recording. If I'm wrong please set me straight. Thanks

Did Sony actually build a portable digital recorder that can't be used with a quality mic-preamp-AD converter? To put it another way, Is there a Marantz PDM-670 in my future? Thanks, alan

I'm confused, needless to say, but I can not find a definitive answer elsewhere. Help? I appreciate that I can't record from the digital out of a CD player, for example, and then upload the files into my MAC (10.2.4) -- BUT, is it not possible to feed the digital out of a mic-pre into the new Sony HiMD recorders? for eventual upload? TIA, alan