I’ve been reading through some of the old discussions on Minidiscs, and I finally decided to take the plunge and purchase one. After a few days of watching eBay, I managed to snipe a Sharp MD-MT20 for $50 (Buy it now about 20 minutes after it was listed ). It’s a few years old, but it had good reviews, and a couple people on here said it was good.
My question is, what would be a good mic for it? I’d like it to be fairly unobtrusive, and with a cord so I can place the mic in the middle of the session table and keep the unit away from the beers, ciders, water, etc.
The first question is if it has a microphone input or line input. If it’s line input, then the only thing that might work is the Archos microphone. If it’s microphone input, then you could get any stereo microphone. Sony has nice ones, but you could get good results with basically any small stereo microphone. You want something with a chord, instead of something that attaches directly to the machine, for noise reasons.
Hi,
You will LOVE the Minidisk.
It ALWAYS plays back in perfect pitch so you can play along
with it to practice and not have any problems like the old casette
had. Its so nice and small too, to just sit beside you at a gig.
I always put mine in front of my monitor so that the whistle was well
heard…it helped me improve my parts of the tunes and really helped
hear what others were hearing.
(I just have a little stereo mic, $32, from Radio shak that plugs into the
“mic” place.)
Have fun with yours!
Lolly
It has both, a mic input and an optical/line input. Any particular Sony that is pretty decent? And yeah, I read about noise from the unit. Sharps seem to be relatively immune (Although I still want a cord, so I can keep the unit itself safe), Sony seemed to be the units that had the worst problems with direct attach mikes.
). It’s a few years old, but it had good reviews, and a couple people on here said it was good.