Recording MP3s to Cassette Tapes

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Hehehe ... this was a funny page ... thanks for sharing it ...

This guy at angelfire seems to only know how to make a copy of another tape. Why else would he need a line --> cassette adapter?

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...but it is a tape that has a wire running out of it with a headphone plug at
the end of the wire...
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Plus he recommends using the headphone out ... which makes me believe that he's unaware of the line out on his soundcard.
Basically, he's doing the same thing (just using headphone out ... which is no good) except that he also includes the whole line --> Cassette part ... totally not needed.
Either his stuff has no line in/out jacks or he's clueless. Oh well works for him I guess.
Follow Cakey's advice ... line out from the soundcard ---> Line In on your cassette deck.
This way, you can also cough or fart without it recording through the mic you would've had on the speakers! We don't want the ladies to hear that! heheh :D
 
Hi everyone, I'm a bartender and two of my waitresses asked me if I could record MP3s to cassette tapes.Can it be done? thanks, bo PII450, Soundblaster live x-gamer card.
 
Natch, but why not just record direct from tape or CD or vinyl or whatever?

Anyway, I keep my hi-fi permanently linked into my recording set-up so it's simple enough just to record from the line-out on my soundcard to a tape-in on my hi-fi amp, and hence onto tape.

Feel free to ask again if i din't answer the question.

matt
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Cakey2:
Natch, but why not just record direct from tape or CD or vinyl or whatever?

Anyway, I keep my hi-fi permanently linked into my recording set-up so it's simple enough just to record from the line-out on my soundcard to a tape-in on my hi-fi amp, and hence onto tape.

Feel free to ask again if i din't answer the question.

matt<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

So Cakey, it's just line out to tape in? What's this all about?http://www.angelfire.com/biz3/MrMp3Man/tape.html , Bo Cybulski
 
Bo: Cakey's right- that guy at Angelfire has been sniffing too much rubber cleaner. The same signal that goes to a stereo or powered computer speakers or a mixer can be fed to a cassette deck with nothing else done.
 
My God!!! "put a microphone up to the computer speakers"..... :D

The speaker out on most soundcards in just a line level output. It can be hooked directly up to the rec. inputs on a cassette deck. Should sound decent enough.

I am wondering just what this special deelly he is talking about. Sounds pretty wild to me.

Ed
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by sonusman:
My God!!! "put a microphone up to the computer speakers"..... :D

The speaker out on most soundcards in just a line level output. It can be hooked directly up to the rec. inputs on a cassette deck. Should sound decent enough.

I am wondering just what this special deelly he is talking about. Sounds pretty wild to me.

Ed<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I bought one of those things today at Radio Shack. It's called a CD-to-Cassette Adapter. It looks like a cassette tape with a wire hanging out of it.I quote"Plays your portable CD player through your car cassette player". The wire has a 1/8" mini plug on the end of it. You stick the cassette part into your player and the mini plug into the headphone or line out of a Discman.Adjust the volume on both devices and now you have CD on a cassette deck. $20.00 for that, $5.00 for a Y-adapter audio cable so i'm covered both ways. Does anybody think this will work on a dual cassette deck with no inputs except for headphones , or is that anglefire guy really nuts? bo cybulski
 
Well, if all's that you had was a double cassette deck that didn't have line inputs, then that would be the way to go I suppose. But a 1/8" TRS to two RCA adapter would cost a hell of a lot less (like $3 or something), and all's you need is a regular old cassette deck with REC. inputs. If you have ever heard those CD to cassette adapters, you would know to avoid them as they tend to sound god awful. Also, a lot of times those internal duplication cassette recorders/players have a compression deal on them that muck up the sound. Also, you are doing I/O's that you don't need to do.

Trust me, just run out of your line out on your sound card to the REC inputs on a regular old cassette deck and start recording. It will work fine.

Ed
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by sonusman:
Well, if all's that you had was a double cassette deck that didn't have line inputs, then that would be the way to go I suppose. But a 1/8" TRS to two RCA adapter would cost a hell of a lot less (like $3 or something), and all's you need is a regular old cassette deck with REC. inputs. If you have ever heard those CD to cassette adapters, you would know to avoid them as they tend to sound god awful. Also, a lot of times those internal duplication cassette recorders/players have a compression deal on them that muck up the sound. Also, you are doing I/O's that you don't need to do.

Trust me, just run out of your line out on your sound card to the REC inputs on a regular old cassette deck and start recording. It will work fine.

Ed<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Sonusman how do you just reply---without the quotes? Yea that's all I have to work with. One of the girls has a dual cassette deck, radio combination, with no imputs. I know people with decent systems,but they wouldn't be anxious to rip out their decks and drag them over here. Personally i'm done with tapes altogether, and come to think of it I haven't seen a mashed cassettes, with twenty feet of tape blowing in the wind, on any parking lots lately.Anyways I'm gonna give it a try , and thanks to all you guys for the help. bo cybulski
 
Hey bncybul, to reply without quotes, go to either the top or bottom of the page and click on the Post Reply icon instead of clicking on the little icon on someone elses post, you know, the little Page icon with the arrow through it.

Ed
 
I looked all over for that Post reply. and it it was right there. thanks, bo
 
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