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argo35
New member
How can I record a album on a CD. It's a old album that was never put on a CD. I would like to be able to listen to it in my car
Armistice
Son of Yoda
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Not really what we mean by home recording.... but I'm bored...
Assuming it's a cassette tape, you need to unscrew the little screws holding the two sides of the case together (make sure you rewind the tape first), then roll the entire tape out on a flat surface somewhere. It has to be in a straight line, so you may need to buy a bigger house, or possibly find a vacant airport runway.
Now, take a blank CD-R and, starting at one end, and after putting a pencil through the middle, roll the CD along the left side of the tape, then, when you reach the end, turn round and come back on the other side. Note that if you're doing this properly, this will also be the left side of the tape.
Done!
There's another way, but it involves taking stereo outs from whatever you're playing the tape on, sending them into a stereo in on your computer (which probably doesn't have such a thing), or via an audio interface that does have the correct inputs (but which you probably don't own and isn't worth buying just for this), or perhaps doing the left channel and right channels one at a time into your computer via a cable which you may need to buy but then you're going to have impedance level issues, unless your computer has a line in socket, all into a program called Audacity, which you can use to line them up and render as a .wav file and then burn that file onto a disc using Windows Media Player, assuming we're talking Windows...
I can tell you that any person on this BBS could do it, but unless you cough up a bit more information on what equipment you have, essentially, you're stuffed.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings...
Not really what we mean by home recording.... but I'm bored...
Assuming it's a cassette tape, you need to unscrew the little screws holding the two sides of the case together (make sure you rewind the tape first), then roll the entire tape out on a flat surface somewhere. It has to be in a straight line, so you may need to buy a bigger house, or possibly find a vacant airport runway.
Now, take a blank CD-R and, starting at one end, and after putting a pencil through the middle, roll the CD along the left side of the tape, then, when you reach the end, turn round and come back on the other side. Note that if you're doing this properly, this will also be the left side of the tape.
Done!
There's another way, but it involves taking stereo outs from whatever you're playing the tape on, sending them into a stereo in on your computer (which probably doesn't have such a thing), or via an audio interface that does have the correct inputs (but which you probably don't own and isn't worth buying just for this), or perhaps doing the left channel and right channels one at a time into your computer via a cable which you may need to buy but then you're going to have impedance level issues, unless your computer has a line in socket, all into a program called Audacity, which you can use to line them up and render as a .wav file and then burn that file onto a disc using Windows Media Player, assuming we're talking Windows...
I can tell you that any person on this BBS could do it, but unless you cough up a bit more information on what equipment you have, essentially, you're stuffed.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings...
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ecc83
Well-known member
Behringer U-Control UCA222 USB Audio Interface at Gear4Music.com
Out of hi-fi into laptop. Cheap as a few packs of recordable CDs (NB, do NOT get CD"RW" just plain old CDR.).
You could use some software called Audacity but I would suggest you download the trial version of Sony Soundforge. Not only is it as easy to use any any of them it has some PGood noise reducing tricks in it, handy for vinyl duping as well. It might even by now have a CD burning regime in it? If not someone here will recommend one I am sure. I still use Nero 6 in XP but then I rarely burn CD these days.
But! Does the car not have a usb port on the radio? Even VERY cheap audio ***t has them these days. You would still need the Behringer box but could put shedloads of music on a 4G stick. And DO save as .wav not MP*&^%!!3 Even cassette tape deserves better than that!
Dave.
Out of hi-fi into laptop. Cheap as a few packs of recordable CDs (NB, do NOT get CD"RW" just plain old CDR.).
You could use some software called Audacity but I would suggest you download the trial version of Sony Soundforge. Not only is it as easy to use any any of them it has some PGood noise reducing tricks in it, handy for vinyl duping as well. It might even by now have a CD burning regime in it? If not someone here will recommend one I am sure. I still use Nero 6 in XP but then I rarely burn CD these days.
But! Does the car not have a usb port on the radio? Even VERY cheap audio ***t has them these days. You would still need the Behringer box but could put shedloads of music on a 4G stick. And DO save as .wav not MP*&^%!!3 Even cassette tape deserves better than that!
Dave.
mjbphotos
Moderator
Most people don't even have working turntables or cassette players anymore.
That's why a few places came out with USB Turntables and USB cassette players.
That's why a few places came out with USB Turntables and USB cassette players.
grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
Of course, I'm not most people !
mjbphotos
Moderator
Of course, I'm not most people !
No, you're not!
And I've got both a turntable and a dual-cassette player. But not hooked up to my computer.
witzendoz
Senior Member
Actually a good part of my studios income is from the fact that I have a Cassette, DAT, 4 track, 2 track (1/2 and 1/4 track) machines of most speeds in good working order that I can transfer tape to the computer from.
OH and a turntable.
Alan.
OH and a turntable.
Alan.
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ecc83
Well-known member
Whilst we are listing old kit!!! I have...
Sony and Grundig Mini Disc recorders,
Sony TC-K611S Dolby S casstte deck (bloody good that!)
Technics RS-TR I65 twin cassette deck
Phillips very early CD player CD460
Phillips digital cassette recorder DCC 730 (and several unopened blank cassettes)
Teac A3440 1/4" four track OR machine.
2 VHS hi-fi sound video recorders (would love a Betamax. Just playback would do!)
Rotel integrated turntable and arm (but I need to get a new stylus for my Shure M75)
Toshiba reciever.
Any/all of the above could be patched into a PC or laptop given about an hours notice.
Dave.
Sony and Grundig Mini Disc recorders,
Sony TC-K611S Dolby S casstte deck (bloody good that!)
Technics RS-TR I65 twin cassette deck
Phillips very early CD player CD460
Phillips digital cassette recorder DCC 730 (and several unopened blank cassettes)
Teac A3440 1/4" four track OR machine.
2 VHS hi-fi sound video recorders (would love a Betamax. Just playback would do!)
Rotel integrated turntable and arm (but I need to get a new stylus for my Shure M75)
Toshiba reciever.
Any/all of the above could be patched into a PC or laptop given about an hours notice.
Dave.
rob aylestone
Moderator
The op is a flyby not knowing what we do, and if he is from the UK I'd bet he mean record as in vinyl when he says album.
mjbphotos
Moderator
His subject line said 'from tape' is that British for vinyl?
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ecc83
Well-known member
"Album" is another silly American import. We Brits (of a certain age) called them "LPs". "Singles" were "Forty fives" over here and then there was the "EP" (just to confound things there were a tiny few 45rpm, V high quality 12" LPs made. But no one buying Tommy Steele on 45s would EVER have known that!)
I sometimes say "black disc" as a catchall but most often "vinyl" . A "record" is what you DO or make!
I also wonder if Britain made probably the most obscenely horrible "vinyl" player? The Dansette used but ONE! valve stage (UL84) and tracked a ceramic cartridge so heavily that it produced about ten, yes ONE ZERO volts to drive the valve. Direct rectified mains so they were bloody lethal as well as bloody awful to listen to!
Dave.
I sometimes say "black disc" as a catchall but most often "vinyl" . A "record" is what you DO or make!
I also wonder if Britain made probably the most obscenely horrible "vinyl" player? The Dansette used but ONE! valve stage (UL84) and tracked a ceramic cartridge so heavily that it produced about ten, yes ONE ZERO volts to drive the valve. Direct rectified mains so they were bloody lethal as well as bloody awful to listen to!
Dave.
grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
I, being of a certain age, always used 'album' and 'LP' interchangeably. I never really used the word 'single' until I was nearly an adult. To me they were just 'records'. And it's only in the last 12 or so years that the word 'vinyl' has insinuated itself into my consciousness. But I never use the word. And EPs were merely a tangible reality confused by the verbal abstraction........that's why they never took off
although I got two the other day by T.Bone Burnett.