I’ve got some old master stuff on cassette from my old bands and such that I’d like to digitize. Anyone have any non-expensive advice for how to do so?
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plug your cassette deck into your sound card and record away.
Well, the only problem with that would be my lack of cassette deck. I’ll poke around.
Not sure how expensive it was, but my mom had a combination tape player/cd player that could convert things back and forth.
The problem is that the defects in tape recording are not as ‘fixable’ as LP’s. Tape decks can be found at Goodwill and the like, but crosstalk, wow, and stretching tape all lends itself to crappy digitization.
(Where the pops and stuff you get on LP’s can be easily filtered.)
The other problem was: The tapes I loved the most, suffered from the most degredation because they got played the most.
So…tapedeck + RCA to stereo cable, plus your computer plus Audacity will get you to where you can judge if it’s worth it or not. It wasn’t for me, but my music was easily available in iTunes.
i bought roxio’s converter not too long ago and got all of my cassettes into mp3 format flawlessly.
I had a bunch of rare things on cassette from 1979, which were originally recorded on a reel to reel deck in 1971. I converted them about five years ago, and they came out great. Far better than they sounded on my cassette deck,