Saving Old Cassette Recordings to CD

[myszko]

Hi Everyone
Back in my college days, my friends and I had a lot of fun producing sound on sound recordings with 2 boom boxes, a mik and mixer. I have several cassette tapes with probally around 20 songs on them. These tapes are getting old and before they disintegrate I thought it would be cool to burn them onto a CD. Maybe mail them out as a little Christmas gift to these same friends. I have a Pentium 200 pc with 64 M ram and around 6 G of disk space. What more will I need in order to accomplish this task? I'm very new to this so specific recommendations would be great.
Thanks!!!
Mark

[Emeric]

Welcome to the board.

1. You will need to determine if your soundcard is up to scratch. What kind is it? If it's a really cheap card, like an ESS based card or crystal, you may want to buy a replacement. Creative Labs Ensonic is a relatively quiet and cheap ($30) replacement.

2. Cable. 2 RCA Mono's from your cassette deck to 1/8" male stereo into the Line-In on your soundcard.

3. Software. Something like Soundforge, Wavelab. These are 2 track editors for recording and editing 2 track files. Wavelab and Soundforge would be overkill for this though. I suggest downloading the demo of Goldwave. http://www.goldwave.com

4. A CD-RW. Yamaha, Mitsumi, Plextor make decent burners at various prices.

5. CD-Authoring software. Wavelab does a nice job of this, but again it's overkill. Most burners come with software - yours probably came with Adaptec EZ-CD which will be sufficent.

Good luck.

[myszko]

Thanks for the info Emeric. These BBSs are awesome!
Mark