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So I was about to breakdown and buy myself an MP3 player since I saw the Creative Zen Nano for a good price.

I'm going over the specs for it and it say it has recording capabilities.

So then it kinda hits me that I could use this to record concerts and what not.

But then it hits me that my camera also has recording capabilities and sounds like complete crap when you record a concert or anyhting noisy since it overloads the mic.

So I thought I'd check here to see what kind of equipment you guys have to record concerts with.

Matt - What did you have before you were raped of your recorder at Edgefest? What kind of cost am I looking at?

Looking for primarily a MP3 player first and a recorder 2nd but if I'm going to record I want some decent quality out of it.

Suggestions?

I can give you some suggestions but I don't have time at the moment.... don't buy that player just yet though, if I remember correctly it's not a good one for recording.

I have a Sony MZ-RH10 Hi-MD recorder. It transfers music over a USB cable, so you have no quality loss. It also functions as an mp3 player. It uses 1gb Hi-MD discs, and also supports standard mini discs, both of which are rewriteable. However, you can't tranfser recordings on standard mini discs with the USB cable. I bought mine on eBay for around $298.

I can also recommend the Microtrack 24/96. I don't own one, but it does seem to be a very good recorder. It uses a compact flash memory card, so you have no moving parts, which can be very helpful if it is exposed to a lot of jerking or shaking. These run around $400 on eBay.

The mics I use are Core Sound Stealthy Binaural mics. I think I spent around $275 on them, maybe a little over $300.

Josh can make good suggestion on standard mini disc recorders, and maybe some other microphones that run at a lower price, but still provide quality audio.

Hmm I'm thinkin $150 would be my max price point for something like this.

Then you'll want to find a good mp3 player.

i never thought of that...i have some mp3 players lying around my house.

Kicker774 wrote:Hmm I'm thinkin $150 would be my max price point for something like this.

yeah, i'm almost positive there's no way you'll have both a good recorder and mp3 player on that budget.

half jill wrote:i never thought of that...i have some mp3 players lying around my house.

wanna send me one?