Hi john..

as i mentioned earlier.. I have the Nomad.. and love it. It suits my purpose exactly.... which was to be able to record live performances.

It has, with the 6gb hard drive, the capacity to record 8+ hours of music in wav format. There is a line input which will accept any line level input. About a mic? i think you would need some sort of powered mic to go directly into the nomad... or.. you could put your mic through any small mixer board.. and use the 'tapeout' from the board to the jukebox.

once the file is saved in wav it has the ability to transfer to the computer via USB port where you can use any wav editor (i use cool edit) to trim etc.. it will also transfer the file to mp3 within the unit as well, but better saved as wav then edited outside then converted to mp3

the thing i like about it is that you can have 2-3 gb of mp3's on the jukebox for playback and still have room for recording 4-5 hours of music!! There are also built in effects and other special features within the jukebox.

also.. for recording cass/record to mp3.. you can play your source continuous into the jukebox (record players need to use a small preamp) then transfer to the computer to edit and separate the tracks before saving to mp3 and burning to cd...

but.. like mentioned earlier.. you need to define what it is you are wanting to do.. now and in the future...... then find the right tool. I initially started looking at minidisk recorders... but found this was more to my purpose and went that route.

btw.. they are coming up (i think now available) with a jukebox with a 20gb hard drive......

have fun

musicman