The minidisc players themselves were amazing at recording too. Mine has built in compression and normalization when recording. I've recorded a load of gigs with

The minidisc players themselves were amazing at recording too. Mine has built in compression and normalization when recording. I've recorded a load of gigs with a tiny clip on mic powered by an AA battery. I got very good sound quality, better then any bootleg Ive heard not taken of the mixing desk.