craig2000 Posted August 30, 2006 Report Share Posted August 30, 2006 Ok,So were a band that loves to record live. We used to use the old minidisc before Hi MD and before it broke down on us. Because the old one broke, we have a nice mic for it, some disks etc that we can use(unless the hiMD ones are special). I have a $200 budget. We plan to use the minidisc to record live music with a mic line in only (we dont care about uploading music to it etc) as it is a cheap easy solution to recording all of our shows.I have heard that the new minidiscs have the ability to upload the DATA to a PC via USB, thereby eliminating the need to sit there and upload in realtime... We used to use Polderbits to realtime it to a WAV. Im hoping that the new ones allow you to just data load (usb 2.0) right into some program that allow conversion to mp3 in time that is significantly quicker than real time.Does anyone ahve any suggestions? And dont say the 910 because it appears as though no one has this model in stock. We dont care about cool features, etc. Just want to be able to record digitally and get to an mp3 on a pc as efficiently as possible.THANKS!!!!www.craig2000.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmachine Posted August 30, 2006 Report Share Posted August 30, 2006 (edited) You record line-in only? The inexpensive NH600 (not NH600D) might be the recorder for you. You will need a program called SonicStage for uploading and conversion to wav. LAME is the preferred choice for high quality mp3 encoding. There are three recording modes: PCM (uncompressed, 1411kbps, CD quality) , Hi-SP (256kbps, near CD quality) and Hi-LP (64kbps, significant quality loss, might be good enough for speech). PCM will upload in approx. 2-3x realtime, the other modes much faster, although the connection is sub-USB1.1. Edited August 30, 2006 by greenmachine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted August 30, 2006 Report Share Posted August 30, 2006 Here's your baby for $150. http://www.minidiscaccess.com/item.html?PRID=1553220MZ-NH700. Records in PCM, uploads, etc.--but only to PC, not Mac. It uses SonicStage, a Sony program that after many years of bugs finally works pretty well. When you get the NH700, don't use the disc that came with it--go to Downloads on this site and either get the full SonicStage 3.4 installer or Sony's online 4.0 installer. A Hi-MD unit will use your old discs, but you only get 27 minutes of PCM (that's .wav) on an 80-minute MD. You'll get 90 minutes of PCM on a 1GB Hi-MD, list price $7.00. With Hi-SP, which is like the sound on your old MDs, you get 2 hours 20 minutes on an 80-min MD, just under 8 hours on a 1GB Hi-MD. If you still have a stack of old MD recordings you want to upload, the only unit that will do that is the MZ-RH1, around $330. And if you're uploading to a Mac then you should also get the RH1, which is Mac compatible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig2000 Posted August 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2006 you guys friggin rule!!!thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted August 31, 2006 Report Share Posted August 31, 2006 I didn't think of the MZ-NH600, but as usual greenmachine is right--that would also do the job with its line-in recording. But be very careful in buying one. The MZ-NH600D, which was the version released in the United States, has no line-in jack--it was just a portable player, D for downloading music onto it. Sellers are very happy to confuse the NH-600 with the NH-600D, so contact them first and make sure the (white) line-in jack actually exists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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