Malcolm Stewart wrote:

If you're going down this route, you need to make sure that you can change
the mic-preamp gain, on the fly,

All the current generation of Hi-MD recorders allow this.
They forget the setting and that you are in manual, though,
if you stop recording other than by pausing.

If Sony ever relinquishes their "right" to erase my
recordings from the media after I've uploaded them to my
computer I will buy one and fully test the pre-amps.


Bob
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"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no
simpler."

A. Einstein