I'm fairly new to minidisc, and not at all technically minded so please be gentle with me. I have tried to look through some of the threads but they all seem to start at a point much further down the line. I am learning to play acoustic guitar and hope soon to get into electric. I sing too, and play in informal groups. I recently bought a new laptop for my work, and hoped that I might be able to use that for recording but it's looking to be an expensive option £200+) and pretty complicated. Plus the laptop is big to lug around. I did used to have a minidisc recorder (a Sony Net MD) but I got frustrated with the problems of transferring what I'd recorded from the MD to computer - ideally I want to be able to share my recordings on MP3 and / or CD. A friend was keen to get a MD and as he offered me what I'd paid for mine on EBay, I sold it to him. So now what I have is a hi spec laptop, an acoustic guitar, an electric guitar with amp and leads and just a £5 microphone suitable really only for speech recording. I'm prepared initially to shell out up to £200 on the necessary equipment to give me simple recording of live music, no sophisticated mixing features required at this stage although the capacity to do that later would be a bonus, and the capability to transfer my recordings onto CD or MP3 without too much hassle or loss of quality. Is that a realistic goal? I'm happy to buy stuff on EBay and wait a few weeks for the right thing to come along. My budget would have to cover the cost of a microphone, any software I would need and the MD recorder itself. Please can anyone suggest the best way forward for me? Thanks!
