In article , steve
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I may want to have a bash at making a recording of my wife's choir. I
realise it will not be remotely professional quality, but I hope I could do
better than a portable cassette deck!

I had in mind recording in two ways:
1. On my Sony Minidisc player
2. On my PC, creating a WAV file onto the hard disc, which I could later put
onto CD.

I have an old but decent (I think) pair of panasonic microphones which I
could experiment with. I assume I would stick them into my stereo amplifier
(circa 1975), and then feed the output into my Minidisc player and into the
sound card of the PC.

I know my home PC (Athlon 1400 processor) seems quite happy at making decent
WAV files, using Musicmatch software. I haven't tried yet with my work
laptop (Intel 900), and I don't know what software I would use on that.

Thanks for any (polite) suggestions, or any pointers to web sites that I
would find useful.

Steve



Acquire an old REVOX tape machine and make sure its set up well, borrow
or hire the bast mic's you can lay hands on, and then revel in the sound
afterwards :-))
--
Tony Sayer