receiver to sound card.......

[MrMojo]

in my pc i have a soundblaster live! sound card. i have a older marantz 2220 receiver that i want to connect my casset recorder/player to and then connect to my sound card.

my question is; on the back of my stereo there are plugs.... ie line in this and line out that with R and L channels. Do I use a pair of these plugs and run two cables to my sound card jacks?

Or, on the back of my stereo is also a single rca jack that reads "quadradial out put". Should I use this jack and only run one cable?

i am totally new at this and i want to transfer some cassets to cd.

thanks,
steve (duh)

 

[LooneyTunez]

Use the L/R line outs of your receiver to your soundcard. That quadradical output is probably some form of quadraphonic output that will not give you the proper signal.

Otherwise, just take the L/R outputs right off the cassette deck to your soundcard. That will be a more direct path anyway.

 

[MrMojo]

Tunez ?

thanks,

i like the idea of hooking the casset straight to the sound card. however, i did not get a book with my soundblaster live!, card and i have no idea which sound card jacks to plug the R and L cables into, from the casset. i've been advised to use the *blue* jack on the card as this is apparently the line in jack.

any suggestions?

thanks,
steve

 

[LooneyTunez]

It's been awhile since I've seen the back of a SB Live, but if you know the blue jack is the line in, then that's the one to use.

 

[MrMojo]

Tunez?

so, do i use a Y splitter to plug the R and L cables into and then to the blue jack (line in) on the sound card?

thanks,
steve

 

[LooneyTunez]

The cable you need is L/R RCA's to an 1/8" stereo phone plug. Your local Radio Shack will have this type of cable.

 

[James Argo]

Re: Tunez?

so, do i use a Y splitter to plug the R and L cables into and then to the blue jack (line in) on the sound card?

thanks,
steve

Yes... I assume you'r tape's output had RCA type conector. Then make / buy some Y cable RCA L/R to small male stereo jack. Plug the RCA to your L/R audio output of the tape, and the small jack into the LINE IN of the SB Live!. Now, in Windows, go down to kernell's taskbar (...that's it, in the bottom right hand side where you can see small icon of speaker beside clock.) open up, click on properties, set to recording, at this point you may select the recording source, chose Line Input, mute others. Start your recording aplication (S Forge, CoolEdit, etc... ). Record... Voila...
And... Welcome to the home of the brave, Homerecording.com/BBS...

 

[MrMojo]

thanks.......

i got the cable and i can listen to the tapes over my computer. now, i must figure out how to transfer the tape contents to cd. i think i must record the songs to my hard drive and then to cd???

thanks again,
steve

 

[James Argo]

Yess... You just fire up some recording app I've mentioned latter, there you can record, edit, and "mastering" before burning to CD. You can record it to stereo .wav file. Save, edit, normalizing (to make sure the volume level is not too low nor too high and distorted), remove the noises, etc... you may even brightening the sound you've recorded. Save the result. Open your CD burning app such like Adaptec, Nero etc... open the wizard to make CD audio, select the source from the wav files in sequenced tracks. Burn it... There you go... CD's... Just make sure you open the Audio CD wizard, otherwise, you burn the wav files as data files which is incompatible on your CD player...

 

[MrMojo]

Thanks guys, I got it going

I will get better, but you got me started.

Thanks,
Steve