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Location: WNC-God's Country | I'm working on my New Year's Resolution to get this done...Any suggestions ? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I use Audio Hijack Pro to transfer LP/Cassette/R2R -> CD. You can also capture any kind of streaming audio, youtube, etc. Basically anything that you can plug into your computer or that can come out of your computers speakers you can capture digitally.
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/ |
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Location: WNC-God's Country | Thanks Gallerinski....Does anyone make a casstte to CD recorder? I see a few Tascams but I can't tell by the description if you can actually record from a cassette to a CD. |
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Location: closely held secret | You could do it with any stand-alone cd recorder... but they cost $$.
The only easy cheap method to convert analog to digital is to record it using your computer. Run the cassette deck into your computer's sound card and use Dave's solution, or really any audio recording software, one track at a time, saved as WAV. Then you can do any clean up it may need (eq, hiss removal, whatever) and then burn the saved tracks to CD. If possible always save as WAV. You're already working with less than optimum media (cassettes, probably worn). If you record it to a compressed format (mp3) you'll lose even more quality. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Is there such a thing as RCA jacks to USB cord?
Where you can plug in a turntable or cassette deck to a USB converter cord? |
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Location: closely held secret | If you have a usb audio interface with rca inputs(unlikely) you could use that.
The usual way is to use a common rca to 1/8" cable (2 rca plugs on one end, 1 1/8" stereo headphone plug on the other. 1/8" is the standard size for the inputs on most on-board audio cards in computers. Determine which jack on your computer is the line-in (usually blue) and plug the cable into that and the outputs on your cassette player. Make sure the line-in is enabled in the windows sound control. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I go from Cassette to Computer and then to CD using this:
Cassette 2 PC
it comes with software and Audacity...
I also have a turntable that converts my old Albums to PC (mp3)...
All part of my new multi-purpose recording Studio: HomeWard Studios...
All I need now is time...never enough of that... |
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Location: NW Washington State | I'm not endorsing it, but Behringer makes a cheap one. Might be OK for a small project. If I were going to digitize a lot of tapes that were important to me, I'd spend more on a better interface. A good tape deck with a separate USB interface will probably give better results than an inexpensive all-in-one.
http://www.amazon.com/Behringer-UCA202-U-Control-Audio-Interface/dp... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | How many do you have to do? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by MusicMishka:
All part of my new multi-purpose recording Studio: HomeWard Studios...
All I need now is time...never enough of that... Maybe you need to change the name to WAYward Studios. |
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Location: WNC-God's Country | Galleri..I would like to start off with about 20 or so. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Maybe you need to change the name to WAYward Studios. Point Taken.... |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Internal Converter
External Converter |
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Location: WNC-God's Country | Thanks for all of the input...I went with BruDev's suggestion on the Internal Converter. Hopefully it will do what I'm hoping it will do. I figure going direct from cassette to the computer should be the cleanest transfer. I hope I'm right..
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Location: Phoenix | After years of messing around, here's my setup. Basically, I've got a regular home stereo set up next to my computer. The turntable, cassette player, a CD player, and tuner all go into my integrated amp (preamp and amp in one unit). So I can listen to music "normally" just like in days BC (before computer). I also took an output from the integrated amp and put it into the soundcard of my computer, using an adapter cord to go from standard RCA plugs on one end to the stereo 1/8 plug on the other end. When I want to make an MP3 (or even a WAV) from cassette or LP, I use a freeware program called CDEX to record live from the analog input on the soundcard.
For true CD sound, I record as a WAV rather than a MP3, then burn the WAV to the CD using the computer's CD burner. |
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Cassette to CD to PC ?
