Thanks for the welcome back Terry. My last rig was JW mod c460s > V2 > todd-mod sbm-1 > D8. And although I made a lot of great recordings with it, between the rig, the stand, the caps, the cables, the gear, etc., having to lug it all around, set it up and break down, etc...it just became too consuming for me and started taking away from the fun of just going to a show and chilling out. Now I basically just want a rig for the smaller more local gigs that I go to that don't get recorded by anyone. That little sony recorder looks nice and I'll probably just go with that. But like I said, I was in hopes that smart phones had evolved enough to do the job. Especially since they're being geared more and more towards being part of societies overall audio/video experience. So many people now plug their phones into everything from their car stereos, to home stereo, and tv for video. You would think that the quality of the audio/video aspects would be increasing, not decreasing.