Hello, I am a new subscriber and contemplating the purchase of my first minidisc (portable) recorder. I have read faqs and lots of web pages in the past two days but have not found answers to these 2 questions (apologies if they are frequently asked and if I have just missed finding the data ! ) :- (1) What kind of microphone is typically accepted by minidisc recorders ie. what input impedance ? (2) one of the faqs commenting on analog copy said that this mode generally sounds fine . But I wonder what "generally" means! Would I expect to hear audible (even intrusive) levels of background hiss ( a bit like the bad old days of cassette/tape ) ? The reason I ask (2) is that I am also new to taking .WAV samples of CDs onto my PC harddrive. I had a lot of trouble finding a digital audio extract program that would do the job without clicks stutters and bumps! So I initially did it by analog ( with 'Audiograbber' I think it was ) but the background hiss was unacceptable. I wonder therefore if this is a problem with analog copying in general, or was it a fault specific to my CDdrive/software/soundcard ? I have since found a method in 'CDex' which seems to be happy to do it digitally from my drive, but it still leaves me with the question-mark over analog copying from digital material. To complete the picture : the intended use for all this audio analog copying is the portable recording of bird song, animal sounds, environment noise (quarry blasting, aircraft, Concorde etc ) and the subsequent editing/copying/ compiling. Thanks for your time, Malcolm. SW England. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
