Ripping from audio cassette?
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I assume you have all the cabling require to rig a cassette deck to your PC? All it needs is a 3.5mm to 2xRCA or otherwise a 3.5mm to 3.5mm
Now as for software - recordings from cassette are likely to sound poo compared to ripped MP3 files. As such you will need some means of cleaning up the output and probably boosting the levels a bit. When recording from a Vinyl output I use steinberg wavelab, but it's not cheap (if you are a paying for software kind of person). It does let you do all sorts of clever stuff though.
You can then if you feel so inclined drop CD track marks into your recorded audio file, boost up the level and burn it back onto CD...
Now as for software - recordings from cassette are likely to sound poo compared to ripped MP3 files. As such you will need some means of cleaning up the output and probably boosting the levels a bit. When recording from a Vinyl output I use steinberg wavelab, but it's not cheap (if you are a paying for software kind of person). It does let you do all sorts of clever stuff though.
You can then if you feel so inclined drop CD track marks into your recorded audio file, boost up the level and burn it back onto CD...
Sound forge is a good package also, there's a free trial of the home version available Sound forge audio studio full licence is about £40 i think.
_dobbo_ said:
Sound forge is a good package also, there's a free trial of the home version available Sound forge audio studio full licence is about £40 i think.
Cool, many thanks.
Not done my cassette based stuff yet but I did convert some very old reel to reel stuff a while ago.
The effects of Dolby, where present, can be interesting I have read. Probably worth doing a little web based reading on that. I have some references but they are all on a notebook which is currently 'windows negative' so time consuming to get at.
I have retained an old version of the free Musicmatch program for Line IN recording. More recent ones dropped Line-in from the free version and you have to get the full $19.99 version if you need line in. Tghe old one works well enough for me and so far as I can tell I don't desire any of the features of the newer releases.
Loads of audio cleanup programs around and, as previously observed, some will work better than others generally and there are likely to be even more specifically appropriate applications if needing to deal with Dolby processed streams. It's been a couple of years since I last investigated so probably quite a few new things around in that time.
HTH
The effects of Dolby, where present, can be interesting I have read. Probably worth doing a little web based reading on that. I have some references but they are all on a notebook which is currently 'windows negative' so time consuming to get at.
I have retained an old version of the free Musicmatch program for Line IN recording. More recent ones dropped Line-in from the free version and you have to get the full $19.99 version if you need line in. Tghe old one works well enough for me and so far as I can tell I don't desire any of the features of the newer releases.
Loads of audio cleanup programs around and, as previously observed, some will work better than others generally and there are likely to be even more specifically appropriate applications if needing to deal with Dolby processed streams. It's been a couple of years since I last investigated so probably quite a few new things around in that time.
HTH
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