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Topic: recording from cassett to CD |
Ron Victoria
From:
New Jersey, USA
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Posted 18 Dec 2005 6:01 pm |
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| My father wants to put his cassetts onto CD as they are getting old and noisy. He has a good deck with outlet jacks. Is there a CD player/recorder he can buy where you can jack in and record? What would the cost be? Thanks, Ron |
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Bill Ford
From:
Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 18 Dec 2005 7:26 pm
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Ron,
There is a program that I have used that works pretty good. (www.Ripvinyl.com) you can download a trial version,and if you like it,purchase the useable version. The trial version has a beep every few seconds.You need a player(cassett player) with a line out plug so you can record direct to your hard drive through line in , you can then arrange the playlist to your liking and burn to cd. You can also record "what you hear"
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Peter Johannisse
From:
Spijkenisse, The Netherlands
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Dave Boothroyd
From:
Staffordshire Moorlands
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Posted 19 Dec 2005 12:16 am
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I've been doing a lot of this recently, using Soundforge as the recording programme. There are a couple of things you might need to know.
1. The noise levels are quite high on some pre-recorded cassettes - tape hiss mostly .
It helps to have a noise reduction programme to get rid of that. I have found a surprising number of what appear to be digital clicks (?) on some of them.
2. The high frequencies are thin and feeble in most cases, and especially on home recorded or copied-from-Vinyl cassettes. I have used a BBE Sonic Maximiser to add a little CD sparkle. You might be able to get away with some careful EQ.
Don't forget to Normalise the levels before you burn to CD.
The way I do it is to record the entire Cassette, Normalise and process the whole file, then cut and paste individual tracks to separate files. Trim off the excess silence at the beginning and end, then save them in a new folder called after the Album. Just name them as 01, 02 etc- it saves time and keeps them in the right order for the burner.
If you are happy just to hear the song, then don't worry about all this, but I want a CD to sound like a CD, to I do a bit of remastering, and I like to keep the differences in level between the quiet and louder tracks.
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Cheers!
Dave
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 19 Dec 2005 3:11 am
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Audacity is a free program that you can use to "record" to the PC.
Record to the PC first and then when the songs are on the PC you can make CD's. Also, for full fidelity record them as wav files. When the audio CD's are burned do not burn them over 12X to assure compatibility with most audio CD players.
Also this article I wrote on interfacing audio to a PC may also help. It was written for Dell support but really applies to any PC.
http://the-predator.tripod.com/dell/sec7-9.html
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Joe Law
From:
Leslie ,GA
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Posted 19 Dec 2005 4:53 am
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Ron,
All the solutions suggested are good but, I posed this same question a while back and someone suggested that I get a stand alone CD recorder as the easiest solution and I have found that to be the best for me ,particulary if you have some cassettes that don't have to be cleaned up.
They're not expensive and you just connect through your Hi-Fi system or directly and record away one shot and you're through with a good CD. Mine is a Phillips. You can get them retail or off eBay.
Hope this helps you.
Joe Law |
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Ron Victoria
From:
New Jersey, USA
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Posted 19 Dec 2005 1:04 pm
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rpetersen
From:
Iowa
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Posted 24 Dec 2005 3:48 pm
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I have a bunch of casettes I would like to put on CD - Does anyone have one of the Phillips recorders for sale
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Ron Petersen &
The Keep'n Tyme Band
Mullen Universal 12 - LDG SHO BUD - Session 400 LTD - Vegas 400 - ETC.
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Dennis Lobdell
From:
Freeport,Tx,USA
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Posted 24 Dec 2005 4:49 pm
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| Ron: Philips CDR 778, works easiest and fastest for me. Dennis |
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Kevin Ruddell
From:
Toledo Ohio USA
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Posted 25 Dec 2005 5:23 am
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| I bought a Behringer mini mixer for interfacing between the cassette player and cd burner from Guitar Center for $50 that works well. You can use the 3 band eq to boost or cut tone and the gain structure to adjust levels that may vary rather than riding the brners record level knob . I used an Alesis reverb unit to add a little ambience on some stuff that was recorded live . Is it Abbey Road studios ? No : but it is an improvement over going straight to the burner. |
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