CD/Tape music recording

[MrBrett]

Is there ANY way possible to get music off a cassette tape and burn it onto a CD without having to play the tape into a microphone and hope your room stays really quiet? I've heard of DAT drives that use media that look exactly like cassette tapes (thought it might stand for Digital Audio Tape or something like that). Or is there some piece of equipment that would do the job (and that wouldn't cost me an arm)? Your ideas are greatly appreciated.

-MrBrett

[Adisharr]

Originally posted by MrBrett:
Is there ANY way possible to get music off a cassette tape and burn it onto a CD without having to play the tape into a microphone and hope your room stays really quiet? I've heard of DAT drives that use media that look exactly like cassette tapes (thought it might stand for Digital Audio Tape or something like that). Or is there some piece of equipment that would do the job (and that wouldn't cost me an arm)? Your ideas are greatly appreciated.

-MrBrett

You don't have to keep the room quiet unless your playing the tape INTO a microphone that's plugged into the mic input. Typically you would use the LINE input on your soundcard and record the sound as a .WAV file. You can then burn that from just about any CD writing software right to an audio CD.

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[LethalWolfe]

Originally posted by MrBrett:
Is there ANY way possible to get music off a cassette tape and burn it onto a CD without having to play the tape into a microphone and hope your room stays really quiet? I've heard of DAT drives that use media that look exactly like cassette tapes (thought it might stand for Digital Audio Tape or something like that). Or is there some piece of equipment that would do the job (and that wouldn't cost me an arm)? Your ideas are greatly appreciated.

-MrBrett

DATs are cassettes, but they are small than standard consumer tapes. All you need to plug the "out" on your tape deck to the "line in" on your sound card. Assuming your tape deck has stereo(left channel and right channel) RCA outs you'll need to go to some place like Radio Shack and tell the guy you're going from Stereo RCA to a "mini" line-in and he should be able to get you the right adaptor. Like Adisharr said, once it's on your PC as a .wav you'll be able to burn it to CD.


Lethal


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[Headshot Harry]

Dude DATs are Digital Audio Tapes, they hold 45 minutes only they have 16tracks as opossed to cassette tapes which have 4tracks (you play them on DAT player and they cost about 10 times more). If you want to record its easy as getting you best tape player take a small jack to jack line, pluging one into your tape player and the other into the soundcards line in, what you want to do is turn the tape player up to maximum vol until the highest note hits red on your on your graphic equalizer. If you have it on highest youll get distortion and lowest will give too much white noise, make sure you play using a system with DOlby NR. Also if your skille doyu can remove thhese two things with goldwave.