I recommend buying a shotgun mic if you want professional sound. The microphone that comes with the camera is an omni-directional and just kinda records everything around. I'd be interested in hearing if anyone has recorded a dv project with a DAT. I belive DAT is higher quality than dv cameras, as my sony vx-1000 samples audio at 32khz. I'm not sure if a DAT will keep perfect sync with the camera and I don't know if there's a way to hook them up together. And then theres the issue of downloading the audio files from a DAT to your computer. Anybody out there know if this is feasible?(posted 8990 days ago)