Re: MD: portable MD with mic recording

2000-05-23 Thread Aivar_Grislis
>John Rolt wrote: >Hi all! My wife's a music teacher and needs a portable (not personal) MD >system to be able to replay CDs and MD ... she also needs to be able to >make reasonable quality, stereo recordings of her pupils' performances. The Sanyo MCD 3100 is a really nice boombox with MD, CD, &

Re: MD: portable MD with mic recording?

2000-05-23 Thread Len Moskowitz
John Rolt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone advise on a suitable system or have I missed something (eg > can one record via a mic into the line input? If so, what sort of > mic?). It does seem dumb to me that with MD so brilliant for live > recording so few units (other than portables) hav

Re: MD: portable MD with mic recording?

2000-05-23 Thread Richard Huggins
>Hi all! My wife's a music teacher and needs a portable (not personal) MD >system to be able to replay CDs and MD ... she also needs to be able to >make reasonable quality, stereo recordings of her pupils' performances. > ... >We can't find a boombox or mini/micro system Ever since boom boxe

Re: MD: portable MD with mic recording?

2000-05-22 Thread J. Coon
Jeanmougin wrote: > > All the portables have stereo microphone inputs but the majority of mics are > powered with low voltage. The consequence is that if you plug them to the mic > input, you will have to raise the recording volume and, in that case, you will have > a backgroung noise (caused b

Re: MD: portable MD with mic recording?

2000-05-22 Thread J. Coon
If you use a boom box system, you would have to use a preamp to bring the mike level up to the "line-in" level. It works on the home deck units, the boom box would have to have a Line-in input for that to work. My guess is that a preamp and boom box would be a little less prone to being lifted

Re: MD: portable MD with mic recording?

2000-05-22 Thread Jeanmougin
All the portables have stereo microphone inputs but the majority of mics are powered with low voltage. The consequence is that if you plug them to the mic input, you will have to raise the recording volume and, in that case, you will have a backgroung noise (caused by the mic input). So, you'd b

Re: MD: portable MD with mic recording?

2000-05-22 Thread john . h . rolt
Hi all! My wife's a music teacher and needs a portable (not personal) MD system to be able to replay CDs and MD to classes and individuals - so far, so good. But she also needs to be able to make reasonable quality, stereo recordings of her pupils' performances. We can't find a boombox or mini/mi