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My mom has been going through my grandfather's garage cleaning it out for him and she came upon a box of tapes of me when I was a child, just me talking, singing, telling stories I made up ect. (these are audio tapes)

She wants me to put them on CD so that the recordings don't get damaged any further. Now, here is my idea-

I hook up my tape player* to my computer as audio line-in, record the tapes as .wav convert it to .mp3 and burn it to CD using my CD burner........that will work right?


If that will not work..........how do I accomplish this for her?






* yes, I still have one of those, it's attached to a turntable, an AM radio and an 8-track, kick ass stereo setup yeah?

In theory it should.

But, you'll need to record non-stop and turn off all system sounds so that it doesn't get garbled.

but then I could go and split tracks up with my audio editor right?

What kinda reciever and speakers do you have?
I don't know, I am a girl.

I don't mess with the wire-y stuff.

haha:p

* yes, I still have one of those, it's attached to a turntable, an AM radio and an 8-track, kick ass stereo setup yeah?
What kinda reciever and speakers do you have?

but then I could go and split tracks up with my audio editor right?
Yes of course. But, the initial recording has to be continual.

You don't need to convert it to mp3, use WAV but make sure you record in 16bit not 32 bit.

You could also download sound edditing software, to remove hiss, compress it and equalize it etc... (If you know what you are doing, I don't think everyone is a sound enginer)

You don't need to convert it to mp3, use WAV but make sure you record in 16bit not 32 bit.

You could also download sound edditing software, to remove hiss, compress it and equalize it etc... (If you know what you are doing, I don't think everyone is a sound enginer)
I used to have a recording studio in my garage, not a professional though, basically I did tapes for like local garage bands (this was pre-cheap CD recording technology)

It should work fine. I have had to do similar things when transcribing interview recordings of very low quality.

A lot depends on the quality of the sound card, cables and jacks though. Cassette tapes are not good quality sound to start with so any additional noise can make the final result worthless.

Before recording the whole tape, record just a minute or so, and check the quality.

I don't think she expects super great quality, she just wants to save my comments on the 88 presidential election (oh my how my political stance has changed)

and you know me singing and stuff.......it's all very cutesy.

My mom has been going through my grandfather's garage cleaning it out for him and she came upon a box of tapes of me when I was a child, just me talking, singing, telling stories I made up ect. (these are audio tapes)

She wants me to put them on CD so that the recordings don't get damaged any further. Now, here is my idea-

I hook up my tape player* to my computer as audio line-in, record the tapes as .wav convert it to .mp3 and burn it to CD using my CD burner........that will work right?


If that will not work..........how do I accomplish this for her?






* yes, I still have one of those, it's attached to a turntable, an AM radio and an 8-track, kick ass stereo setup yeah?


Your are correct that is how I am converting my vynal to CD

There are also free programs like audacity which have some very cool features (from cleaning up noise to splitting tracks) and you can record it to mp3

Your are correct that is how I am converting my vynal to CD

There are also free programs like audacity which have some very cool features (from cleaning up noise to splitting tracks) and you can record it to mp3
that is my editor of choice, being that it's A) free and B) nearly idiot proof. :p