Wow. I am amazed. I use a simple ASudioTechnic AT822 hanging from a string and feeding a loverly little Sony MDLP which I then replay directly into Sound Studio tracks under OSX. It works pretty well for my purposes but I am nowhere neasr the sound engineering buff you guys are!! I can take the dry tracks and mix them, filter them thirty ways, and do a lot of other neat things, but it's all software.A