mz-nh600

[lyceemoliere]

I have a chance to buy a mz-nh600 (not 600D) for a low price. With the line-in for this model what can I transfer in and what can I not transfer in. (ie Can I plug into a cassette deck and transfer a casette to the mini? Can I record a lecture?) ????with or without extra equipemnt or cables......and which of these items once transferred can be uploaded. I know that some of this has been covered before and I apologize but I wasnt anticipating this opportunity and I am now seriously looking into this. I do have the mz-nh6oo-d and am familiar already with this device.

Thanks

[bobt]

With a line in you can record off of devices that have a line out, like cd players, amplifiers, mixing boards etc. without a pre-amp you cannot record from a microphone. There are very compact battery powered preamps, but if you are spending extra for a preamp go dor a deck with a mic input.

Personally if the price is right I would go for it.

Bob

[lyceemoliere]

With a line in you can record off of devices that have a line out, like cd players, amplifiers, mixing boards etc. without a pre-amp you cannot record from a microphone. There are very compact battery powered preamps, but if you are spending extra for a preamp go dor a deck with a mic input.

Personally if the price is right I would go for it.

Bob

Thanks so much. Can you upload the material from the cassette player or cd palyer as well> If i did get a pre-amp at a later time- could lectures be upladed or not?

[Guest NRen2k5]

The only thing you can't do without a preamp is use a microphone.

Without a preamp you can still record from anything that has a line-out or even a headphone jack.

[lyceemoliere]

The only thing you can't do without a preamp is use a microphone.

Without a preamp you can still record from anything that has a line-out or even a headphone jack.

do I understand correctly that you can then upload what has gone onto the minidisc?

[A440]

Thanks so much. Can you upload the material from the cassette player or cd palyer as well>

As long as you record analog into line-in--just using a regular stereo plug to stereo plug cord, not an optical connection--you can upload.

Recording from the cassette would be in real time. You could record it onto a minidisc by connecting the headphone out of the cassette to the line-in of your NH600.

But don't bother with the minidisc at all if you want to get a lecture from cassette to computer. Simply connect the headphone out of the cassette to the line-in or mic-in of the COMPUTER and use a recording program like Audacity to record it directly into the computer.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Then if you wanted you could download it to the MD.

The only problem is a lot of laptops don't have a line-in jack and have a bad mic-in jack. You can get the Griffin iMic for about $35, and that will give you both mic-in and line-in through a USB connection.

From a CD, the best way to transfer is using Simple Burner (from the Downloads section at www.minidisc.org ). Just put a CD in your computer, connect the NH600 via USB and download it to the minidisc.

[raintheory]

You can upload recordings from the optical in... But you will need to use MarCs HiMDRenderer to convert the uploaded OMA files to WAV.

Analogue recordings can be converted to WAV within SonicStage.