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Hello all from Chicago. I'm a mac-aholic but also love playing with windows boxes.

I have recently built myself a home PC with the following:
Asus 7V266 board with an AMD 1700 + and 512 DDR ram
SCSI 160 Card and drive
CDWR & DVD
Santa Cruz sound card

My aim is to do compile songs from my CD collection and perform live crossfades while playing out to my cassette deck and then also burn the collection to CD.

The problem I experience is with the tapes I have produced so far. There seems to be a lot of crackling and poor highs within the tape. I know my tape deck is cheap, having bought the Kenwood dual deck from Circuit city years ago.

My question is whether anyone has info regarding the TASCAM 102 or 300. I have been considering, seriously, the 300. I thought a 3 head deck would give far superior results to my shitty kenwood.

Also, does anyone have an opinion of the Turtle beach card? So far I like it but notice weird things with the volume when I use winamp.. winamp seems to control the master volume of the card?

any info is appreciated.
 
You could rip the CD songs into a sound editor on the PC, then crossfade them to taste and avoid tape entirely (and maintain sound quality).

Is there a particular reason why you want to crossfade live to tape?

The deck you're currently using-- is it a standard, plain-old cassette deck? Cheaper tapes, dirty heads, etc. could be the problem. (It could just be the cassette format itself.)
 
Yo CjinCHI:

I always like to respond to folks from my old home town, CHICAGO.

I'd suggest, if you want a good tape deck, to look at any SONY ES models.

I use the dual deck Sony ES cassette recorder and I mix from my Yamaha 2816 analog outs direct to tape and get very good results.

Don't know about "crossfading," ect. I've never done that. But, if you go for cassette, the ES Sony models are good.

I once bought a highly touted Tascam MKII dual deck and the person who made it didn't ground anything; everytime I pushed a switch, I got the sound on the tape -- I gave it to my nephew to wreck.

I've heard that the Como Inn on Milwaukee Avenue closed. I used to work there and grew up with the owner's son.

Really miss the restaurants in Chicago as most of the restaurants in Grand Rapids are too sterile.

Good luck.
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Thanx for all the info... I thought TASCAM was better than SONY? I have, and still do, own lots of sony products.. MINIDISC etc.. in fact my previous tape deck was SONY and it really was a piece of junk.. not an ES model though and perhaps that makes the difference.. then again maybe I had a lemon machine...

CHarles
 
I thought TASCAM was better than SONY?
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That may be true in general, but the ES line is audiophile quality to all but the snobbiest of hifi junkies.
 
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