Need help with live recording

[btmorris82]

Hello all

I Have a net md mz-n510

My roomates band is going to practice tonight and i was hoping to record the session. We bought a $90 mic a little while ago.

When trying to set the recording level manually i cant get the line level indicator to go past three bars. I turned the mic level all the way up btw.

This unit only has a line in. no mic in.

Is there anything i can do to make this work??

Am i screwed cause my md doesent have a mic in??

Band practice starts in about an hour so a quick reply would be great.

[btmorris82]

Hello all

I Have a net md mz-n510

My roomates band is going to practice tonight and i was hoping to record the session. We bought a $90 mic a little while ago.

When trying to set the recording level manually i cant get the line level indicator to go past three bars. I turned the mic level all the way up btw.

This unit only has a line in. no mic in.

Is there anything i can do to make this work??

Am i screwed cause my md doesent have a mic in??

Band practice starts in about an hour so a quick reply would be great.

Is there anything i can buy to boost the signal from the mic?

[dex Otaku]

Is there anything i can buy to boost the signal from the mic?

A mic preamp.

See: Hints on how to control your levels and make undistorted recordings / AGC, Manual levels, Battery Boxes, Attenuators, Preamps?!?!? in the Live Recording forum.

In the short term, if you mic is self-powered [uses a battery of its own] or if it's a dynamic mic [doesn't need power], the line-in might suffice if the source you're recording is very loud.

[A440]

How about a mixer output (headphone, perhaps) into Line-in instead of the mic?

It's important to know what mic you're using. With loud music you may not need a preamp; you could get by with a battery module like this one:

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

Before your order it, though, tell us what your mic is.

[shannonhills]

You DO know that you won't be able to upload what you've recorded to your computer, or transfer it anywhere else in any format that any other device can read, right?

You WILL be able to record better-than-CD quality sounds, and if you connect speakers to your minidisc recorder, you and your friends will be able to hear far more than you heard when you recorded it. But that's where it ends.

Cheers to you.

[dex Otaku]

You DO know that you won't be able to upload what you've recorded to your computer, or transfer it anywhere else in any format that any other device can read, right?

They won't be able to upload digitally via USB with a netMD model, but they can copy to any other device [including a computer] via analogue means [a.k.a. they way everyone's been doing it since the dawn of electro-mechanical sound recording]. They could also copy digitally via SP/DIF using a deck with optical output, or upload via USB using an RH1.

You WILL be able to record better-than-CD quality sounds, and if you connect speakers to your minidisc recorder, you and your friends will be able to hear far more than you heard when you recorded it. But that's where it ends.

Total bollocks! For one thing, the first-generation recording already has one pass of lossy compression on it, so it's not even CD quality the instant it's first recorded. For another, look back one paragraph.