Saving Old Cassette Recordings to CD

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Hi Everyone
Back in my college days, my friends and I had a lot of fun producing sound on sound recordings with 2 boom boxes, a mik and mixer. I have several cassette tapes with probally around 20 songs on them. These tapes are getting old and before they disintegrate I thought it would be cool to burn them onto a CD. Maybe mail them out as a little Christmas gift to these same friends. I have a Pentium 200 pc with 64 M ram and around 6 G of disk space. What more will I need in order to accomplish this task? I'm very new to this so specific recommendations would be great.
Thanks!!!
Mark
 
Welcome to the board.

1. You will need to determine if your soundcard is up to scratch. What kind is it? If it's a really cheap card, like an ESS based card or crystal, you may want to buy a replacement. Creative Labs Ensonic is a relatively quiet and cheap ($30) replacement.

2. Cable. 2 RCA Mono's from your cassette deck to 1/8" male stereo into the Line-In on your soundcard.

3. Software. Something like Soundforge, Wavelab. These are 2 track editors for recording and editing 2 track files. Wavelab and Soundforge would be overkill for this though. I suggest downloading the demo of Goldwave. http://www.goldwave.com

4. A CD-RW. Yamaha, Mitsumi, Plextor make decent burners at various prices.

5. CD-Authoring software. Wavelab does a nice job of this, but again it's overkill. Most burners come with software - yours probably came with Adaptec EZ-CD which will be sufficent.

Good luck.
 
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