Needing guidance!!!

[rb51]

Never done this before-HELP!!! I am a minister and want to take my sermons from cassette and move them to CDs. Can I do this with my computer if I have a sound card and if so, what program (software) do I need that will not break the bank? I have the cassette player, cable, CD's but the only program I now have is Sound Recorder and I don't think it will work. Again, HELP!!! Please.Needing assistance!!!

 

[apl]

You probably can do it. Run the line out from the tape deck to the line in on the PC. Hit play. See if you can record it using Sound Recorder. Save it as a .wav file. Use your CD burning software to create a music CD with the .wav files.

Try it with a little section to see if it'll work. The software might limit you to 5 or 10 minute chunks, which will be OK because that will allow the CD listener to skip ahead and back in reasonable steps.

Good luck and God bless you!

 

[Rock Star 87]

have no fear, this dude is here

first off, if you have the Roxio CD burning app, it comes with a sound editor, and unless your sermons are only a minute long (hehehe) sound recorder won't work. Well it well but its a pain. anyways, gold cables are nice for sound quality, and a tape recorder, wired with 1/8 jacks out of the headphone jack to the computer's line-in jack. Then set the line-in to record on your souncards mixer. Open sound editor and hit record. then play the sermon and you'll see it when you hit stop, save before anything and then take the silence out. From there burn it with roxie. PM me with any questions. thanks.

 

[manning1]

minister - look for the original cool edit 96 (via google.com) on the net
and download it. it has lots of features for recording/audio editing, and one important feature is it has a nice noise reducton feature on it for reducing noise. if you have very noisy cassette sermons try several passes with noise reduction slider set quite low so artifacts are not introduced. you will find it very usefull. also check out goldwave.com.
also audacity is another with NR built in.
then having recorded and cleaned up the from cassette recording
there are loads of programs that will let you burn a cd from the pc wave file.
peace.