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Thanks... I'll look around for them. One thing I like about the little Sony mic I'm using now is that it does do a fairly good job picking up all of our instruments in our rehearsal space. We're pretty much scattered about through a small room... drums in one corner, guitar in another, yet another guitar in another, etc. I am kind of wondering if a more directional mic might result in some unbalanced mixes.

Thanks for the advice! I'm tempted to go that route. Those mics are a little expensive but it looks like E-Bay might make it a bit more manageable. I'm pretty pleasantly surprised by how well the little Sony T mic I have works, but if this would be a big step up... well, that's worth looking into.

Hi all, I've been using an MZ-NH700 with a ECM-DS70P for recording our band's rehearsals and performances, and I'm fairly happy with the results. That little microphone records much better than I had thought it would. I would always be happy with a bit of a sound quality improvement however, so I'm considering a replacement mic -- particularly the Sony ECM-907. I just have a few questions: -because the ECM-907 uses a battery, does this mean I can/should plug it into the line-in input? Or should I still use the mic input? -will the fact that it uses a battery (instead of relying upon the recorder to power it) result in a noticeable increase in the recorder's battery life while recording? -is it really worth it? IE, should it really present a noticeable improvement in recording quality? Thanks!

Thanks again for the reply. I received my MZ-NH700 last week but foolishly forgot to purchase any media at the same time. Man, those minidiscs are hard to find, but I finally wound up with one on E-Bay. I've played around with the recorder a bit but haven't yet had a chance to record our rehearsal, which will likely be *loud*. I imagine I'll be setting the microphone up for low sensitivity of course. Do you think I can get away with the unit's automatic recording volume adjustment, or is manual really the only way to go?

Thanks for the information and advice. I didn't realize that it used USB 1.1. Oh well... I suppose can do other things while it's transferring. I already bought one via E-Bay, so it's too late to go back now It seems like these things have been steadily increasing in price... perhaps I'll just sell it again if that trend continues because a much faster transfer rate would be very handy.

Hi all, I've recently been reading up on MD recorders and came across this forum. I've found quite a few answers that make the MZ-RH700 sound very appealing for recording our band's rehearsals and jam sessions with my friends, but I just have a few questions: -Is it very time-consuming to transfer the audio from the player to the computer? Suppose I've recorded a full gig of material. How long can I expect such a transfer to take on a fairly fast and current computer? -If I place track markers to separate one song from another, will these songs then upload as separate files, or will it still upload as one big, long file that needs to be separated into tracks on the computer? -I'm basically looking to convert the audio into MP3 format so that I can easily share them with bandmates and friends via email. Can the Sony software do this, or is there another very easy tool recommended for it? Or should I just use LAME or something? -Finally, I read something in Sony's manual for this unit that implies that I can only upload the recordings I make on the unit to a computer once. I'm hoping I just misunderstood that section. Can't HI-MD recorders simply be recognized as an external hard drive by a computer, therefore allowing me to just drag and drop the recordings as many times as I'd like? Anyway, thanks in advance for any help!