Audio Hardware/Software Responses

The process of building my microphone was a fun and cool experience. The process in which they were made was right around what i thought it was going to be. I thought getting to make our own microphones was a pretty interesting experience and a very cool thing to know how to do in the future. My microphones worked really good on my drift 1 walks they record very clear crisp sounds of all types. After messing around with the sensitivity and recording volumes it was easy to record both close ups and general ambience. My ideal micro phone set up would be multiple professional microphones with high end wind screens, and mounted to booms.
My experience with operating the minidisc recorder was kind of frustrating at first having to change it to manual record but now that I'm used to it is easy. I haven't used any other recording equipment so i have nothing to compare to. In the ideal world i would just push a button and it would record the sound i wanted at the level i wanted.
Audacity is a pretty program for being freeware and was kind of confusing at first but once i used it and found my way around then it was easy to use. i chose this software because it was the recommended software to use in the class. It worked pretty good and for now until i have a better brand of software this will be the program i use. The last thing i have to say about software is about sonic stage. It would be better if it was cross platform since lots of people are mac users and is a pretty big hassle to transfer all the tracks.