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Check out that article, it has some real good info. I work at a studio, so I was lucky enough to have a portable DAT available, although I have bought one for home. Sony makes a high quality portable DAT, model# PCM-M1. I use a TEAC DAT at work and bought a used PCM-M1 DAT for $400. The PCM goes for $600-700 new. You can get them at Guitar Center or a good music store, you sometimes find used ones there at a good price. Circuit City sometimes carries DAT portables (rarely though), but they usually always have portable minidisc recorders. These minidisc MD units are very good, we use them in the studio also. The quality is excellent, you can re-arrange tracks on the MD, and if you have another unit you can run digital copies of your recordings. You can buy them new starting at about $300, or get a used one in a pawn shop for less. Make sure they are can record as well as playback though. I like to use a Shure SM58 mic most of the time. It's a standard music mic but it works great for recording, great for live sound. New they run about $85.00 for a SM58, and a Beta58 runs about $150. You can buy a used SM58 in a music store as well for $40-50. A great mic, not a condenser mic though. A good condenser mic picks up all sounds that it hears in all directions around the mic. The SM58 ( a cardioid dynamic mic) picks up sounds in a certain pattern around the mic, mostly sound from the front. I like the 58 because if I hold it out, it won't pickup much of the sound I make behind the mic. A couple tips that I learned. Get a mic stand with a soft rubber base and pad the area around the microphone clip (or get a shock-mount clip for your specific mic). Sometimes you might be holding the mic out or the stand out, make sure you don't shake it too much or it sounds like an earthquake. Also use a windscreen on a windy day, but too much wind and it isn't worth recording because you'll get just wind and it does sound great like it does in the movies. <br /> I'd recommend you get a used Shure SM58 ($40), a real good mini-disc recorder (300) and a short mic stand ($20). Get the right cables and you might need adaptors for the minidisc too ($25-35) and a few minidiscs ($3-5 each) and you'll be setup in great condition. Watch those levels too! Email me if you need any more info. I do this kind of thing for a living. I'll check back. Good luck and have fun, Pete
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