soul&folk

A440, (great name - are you a robot? ) I really appreciate your clear explanations. Can this be converted to .WAV format? My home studio software uses WAV for laying down all the tracks. What does the MZ-N910 have exactly? A switch for sensitivity as well as a recording level knob?

Wow thanks! That's a lot of information! I think for now I'm going to go with the MZ-N707 just because I'm dedicating any money I'm scraping togethr on mics and preamps for my home studio. The portable minidisc will really only be a "music scratchpad" of sorts and while I may just capture a great performance and want to keep it, most of the time it will only be used as a reference. Thanks for your advice. I will likely be back to this forum. (Did I read that there are over 51,000 registered users?? Wow!

I'm very new to the world of MD recording. I work for a youth group that just starting an hour a week radio broadcast and the studio gives us a minidisc of the show. We bought a MDS-JE500 and I already had an Edirol UA25 interface. So with an optical cable I was able to transfer the show from the minidisc into Audacity, recording in realtime. We've tried it and everything's dandy. Yes! Here's my question... I'd like to buy myself the least expensive Minidisc recorder for personal use (I'm a musician/songwriter) and then bring the disc to work and transfer it as I've seen I can do. I usually get musical "thoughts" entering my head as I'm driving, or just sitting around the house. I'd love to capture them quickly and later transfer them to the computer. (If I had more money I'd just get myself a Zoom H4 and skip the digital transfer via the MDS-JE500) Can you recommend the right MD recorder? Am I right in assuming that this will work with all minidisc recorders? Oh, one more thing - I'm in the USA- if I read correctly there are more restrictions on MD models in the USA than in Europe because of the music industry's fear of copyright infringement

The youth group I work for started broadcasting an hour a week on a radio station. We're given a recording of it on minidisc at the end of each session. We'd like to upload these shows to our website. We just bought this and I've got one of these Will that be enough to be able to transfer what's on the minidisc as a digital recording to the PC as a WAV file into Audacity with no loss of fidelity? I have heard that on many minidisc units, there's a problem taking the minidisc recorded on one machine and then popping it another to do what I am trying to do (some legal thing to prevent pirating). Is this true? Anyone know if the unit we just purchased has such an issue? That would mean dragging the deck to the radio station each time - what a pain!