"upgrading" My Audio Recording Equipment

[Yverish]

Hey there,

I want to upgrade my audio recording equipment, to the point of making lossless recordings. I now make recordings with my iAUDIO U3, but those are in VBR wma format, so although good to my ears, not lossless and not "widely" tradeable.

I'm now looking around for a 2nd hand MD (still lossy? been reading stuff about that on TTD) or Hi-MD. but as I know shit about MD's (never owned one ), could the more experienced users here tell me which ones are worth to look at, are there other/better alternatives (older DAT's?) or are there maybe some members who have something to sell?

Please give as much info as you want, I'll be using it for stealth taping, so size does matter

[leomet_2000]

i have a Sharp MD - MT 770 and is awesome!... anyways people is still saying that DAT is a lot better because is real lossless, my recording are checked and they are lossless but i always tape in LP2.... 150 min mode.

[Duane]

A few months ago I bought a new rig.....upgraded from cassette recorder finally. I now have......
SONY MD (HD) - MZ-NH700 WITH GIANT SQUID OMNI-DIRECTIONAL POWERED MICS WITH BASS-ROLLOFF
Seems to work pretty good...only recorded Kiss so far and Alice Cooper this weekend. Seems to work pretty good for me. Small and compact (the md recorder) stealth mics that clip on your hat/glassses aren't as simple as they say....keep that in mind. Sony seems to make pretty simple to use md's from what I've seen.

Here's a sample.....hopefully it still works.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DVO0DK94

[Yverish]

A few months ago I bought a new rig.....upgraded from cassette recorder finally. I now have......
SONY MD (HD) - MZ-NH700 WITH GIANT SQUID OMNI-DIRECTIONAL POWERED MICS WITH BASS-ROLLOFF
Seems to work pretty good...only recorded Kiss so far and Alice Cooper this weekend. Seems to work pretty good for me. Small and compact (the md recorder) stealth mics that clip on your hat/glassses aren't as simple as they say....keep that in mind. Sony seems to make pretty simple to use md's from what I've seen.

Here's a sample.....hopefully it still works.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DVO0DK94

Thanks for the input so far. I'll be checking your link out later, Duane. Another noob question here, is the bass roll-of in your batterybox/mic/other? I have a Skytronic mic (stereo) with matching batterybox (it's the same mic+batterybox Erik/fey-metallica uses), but I have no option for cutting of the bass frequencies. I'm happy with the results of the mic so far, so I'm mainly looking for a new "storage" device.

[Duane]

My battery box is seperate and I use a 9 volt battery in there, the md does have a powered input but I use the battery anyways. The battery box has the bass-roll circuitry in there....so in otherwards I can't turn that part off. This hasn't been a problem yet, and not sure if it will be?

[Yverish]

My battery box is seperate and I use a 9 volt battery in there, the md does have a powered input but I use the battery anyways. The battery box has the bass-roll circuitry in there....so in otherwards I can't turn that part off. This hasn't been a problem yet, and not sure if it will be?

Ok, thanks for the answer. I can get a 2nd hand Sony HI-MD MZ-NH600 (don't know what is different to your NH-700) + Sony MD MZ-N510 (normal MD) + additional battery which fits both of them + some MD's for €80 (dunno what it is in $ atm), would that be a good one? So I'd have and an MD-recorder, which I could resell of course and the possible Hi-MD-recorder that I would want...

A link to that auction (on a dutch ebay-like site) is to be found here: LINK

EDIT: here's a link to an auction for the same Hi-MD you have, Duane: LINK
What would be a reasonable price for it? There's another one on the site for €175, but that's way to much for me to spend at the moment.

[Duane]

Seems like a good deal, as long as they both work. I paid $230.00 Canadian for the hd-md brand new.

[Yverish]

The NH600 doesn't have a line-in with volume control, so that one is not an option. Your sample of the NH700 sounds good (mics play a big part in it though), can you set the volume of the line-in during recording?

[Duane]

Yes I can adjust the volume....not sure on the line-in because I used the other input for the microphone. I didn't want to goof around with all the setting when Kiss came out so I set the recorder for "loud music", and it seemed to work out just fine. Here's the link of my whole Kiss show mp3 so you get a better idea of how my machine works.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VSAXW7RO

[jarrur]

How about Edirol R-09. You can record 24-bit/48kHz (or 44.1kHz) linear PCM. Has Mic and Line inputs. Guide.