i want to put all my cassettes onto cd's

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i have hundreds of mixed tapes full of old music i cant part with.
does anybody know how i can record these tapes onto cd's?
please be specific cause i really need to do this.
thanks :)
 
I use a program (on my computer) from Cakewalk called Pyro 2004 to transfer cassette sound to my computer (you can download it for $29 from their website cakewalk.com) I will briefly describe how I hook things up: I put my cassette in a cassette player which has RCA type left/right line-outs...I run a cable from those line-outs and converge the left and right sides to a stereo phone-plug and plug that into my line-in of my computer soundcard. After that it is a matter of using the program to set a proper level and then record the songs to the computer hard-drive...after that you can burn the songs to CD...So (beside the cassette player and cable) you need a computer with a CD burner and a recording program (I'm sure, besides Pyro 2004, there are other programs others might suggest)
 
You can download a free trail version of Adobe audition (formely cool edit pro). To use for 30 days as well. The price to purchase it (299.00) is hefty but if you were just going to hunker down and tear through all your tapes in a few weeks, you could save a few bucks. The editing and recording functions in Audition are super intuitive and the hardware set up is just as MAWTANGENT described. Good luck.
 
Audacity ( http://audacity.sourceforge.net ) is FREE and unrestricted.

Plug line-out of tape deck to line-in of PC. Record at 16bit/44.1khz. Burn .wavs to CD with Nero or whatever program came with your CDburner. Done.
 
ok dude if you really want to do that first off, everything everybody else said is correct, but the line in isnt always the default recording line. it could be set to mic depending on your sound card, and you do realize it will take days to do that if you really have that much stuff. heres a simpler solution. goto a peer 2 peer site and download them then burn them to cd. bearshare, or kazaa both have a pretty wide range of stuff im sure you can find what your looking for. if you do want to go the other route pm me and ill send you software to help you with it and a text document explaining how.
 
Make sure that all noise reduction is done on the deck (given that U used any in the rec, Dolby and the like). The offline processing you can do afterwards is another story. Remember that with a bad quality sound card the outcome will suck, even if the card supports 24 bit or sth (It's the quality of the converters that matter). For example most on board-24bit-surround-bla-bla are no good. Your transfer will be real time so it might well take ages.

SOS: Digital clipping is nothing like analog. Information is permanently lost and sounds terribly. Must be avoided!!! Far better to rec to a little less level, which you can make up afterwards (i.e. normalizing) rather than clip.

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Doc Strange said:
... goto a peer 2 peer site and download them then burn them to cd. bearshare, or kazaa both have a pretty wide range of stuff im sure you can find what your looking for. if you do want to go the other route pm me and ill send you software to help you with it and a text document explaining how.
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Can you clarify this - what are you saying ?
 
it would take a long time record them track by track which requires manual supervision, which leads to boredom, which leads to inconsistency. it would be easier to download them from a share site. but if he/she wants to record them track by track, if they pm me i will send them software to do it with, and instructions on how to do it.
 
yhanks

hey tim,
thanks for the audagy tip! I still have a small problem though. I have a tascam 244 cassette fourtrack and a stereo out cable into my computer. Still, when i record it on my pc it uses a mono track. I want to keep my stereo tracks. Do you know what went wrong? Or someone else maybe?? Thanks!!
 
You guys sure go through a lot of work. I just plug my tape's line out to my CD recorder's line in and start dubbing. I only use my computer to dub more CDs. :confused:
 
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