Recording with a Sony MZ-R410

[BleedingMe]

I recently bought a Sony MZ-R410 on an online auction. I couldn't find a lot of info about about it before I purchased it, but I just assumed that because it was a Recording MD I could use a microphone to record concerts.

Now I realise it only has a line-in and no mic-input making it pretty much useless. I did read that you could use a pre-amp with a mic and am wondering if anybody who knows anything about this could tell me if this little pre-amp box would do the trick with this particular deck.

Thanks in advance.

[A440]

That's a mono preamp, so no.

Sorry to say, your cheapest option is probably to start over again, because a separate stereo preamp will be more expensive than buying an older MD. Sell that one online and get a recorder with a mic input. Here is info on all the models:

http://www.minidisc.org/equipment_browser.html