cable-less mic for iaudio G3 mp3 player to record interviews

[badscience]

Hi!

I've an iaudio G3 mp3 player, which has a line in socket, and I would like to record interviews with it. Stupid, you may say, but there you go. It's small and unobtrusive rather than hidden.

The quality has to be intelligable, rather than hi-fi.

I'd like to get a small cable-less mic to plug into it, so I can record one to one interviews by plonking it down on a table between me and the interviewee, or for small groups round the same table. So, omni-directional, or cardiod? (the mic will be a couple of feet below mouth height).

mono's fine. stereo would be nice.

I've seen some mics like:

MM-TMM-RT Right angle Tiny Mono Microphone

http://www.microphonemadness.com/products/mmriantimomi.htm

something with a right angle would be great, so I could lay the G3 flat on the table, and have the mic pointing the right way.

SP-MCE-494 - SOUND PROFESSIONALS - NOTEBOOK/LAPTOP COMPUTER AND MD/DAT/MP3 MONO CARDIOID MICROPHONE

http://www.soundprofessionals.com/cgi-bin/...item/SP-MCE-494

they look like the right kind of size and shape... but I don't think the G3 does plug-in power, so they'd be no good, right?

So - any reccomendations? Apart from get a Hi-MD or Nomad Jukebox!

You guys know all about mics, so I thought it would be OK to ask. If you know of any better fora for this kind of request, please do point me towards them.

With many thanks,

Sacha

[greenmachine]

It's not only that it does no plug-in power, but the line-in also offers no significant preamplification, which is needed to record quiet to medium sounds like speech with a microphone. Otherwise the recordings would turn out way too quiet, maybe barely recognizeable. You'd need either a powered and preamplified mic or an additional preamp in addition to an unpowered microphone, which can be quite expensive. The Nomad Jukebox wouldn't be much better - it doesn't do plug-in power either and has a rather low quality mic preamp (added gain via firmware upgrade).