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Thread: Audio cassettes-anyone?
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20th December 2010, 01:32 #21
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I copied some of my wife's cassettes to cd just by using an old walkman and feeding the output into my pc. Quality isn't hi fidelity but is good enough to listen to in the car.
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20th December 2010, 06:13 #22
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Some people still play cassette tapes hock:
This is the 21st century for peets sake!"But it aint how hard you hit, it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done." Rocky.
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20th December 2010, 07:13 #23
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My daily driver still has the original tape deck. Shame I haven't any tapes at all though.
So AM radio instead...
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20th December 2010, 14:45 #24
I've captured and digitised plenty of vinyl and cassettes over the years.
For vinyl, you definitely need an amp or pre-amp between your turntable and your PC as DaveB points out.
Critical points:
1) a Good Turntable with a good stylus cartridge. This exercise is all about removing and filtering, so the initial capture must be as wide in fidelity as possible.
2) clean the stylus & LP before capture. Some people use a special bath...I use a wet and dry brush. Purists will tell you to get it right the first time because vinyl needs to 'rest' for several hours before being 'played' again.
3) Good software. I've been using CoolEditPro with some special plugins to reduce pops, clicks and hiss as much as possible.
It's always good to archive your raw captures, so that you can exploit better filtering software in the future or better compression techniques (ie I have been using FLAC over MP3 for several years now)
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20th December 2010, 20:46 #25
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A girl at work drives a 2005 X5. She was shocked to learn it had a cassette player about a month or so ago. The informant was her 5 year old nephew. Beamer drivers.
My phone has an alarm clock! Ner Ner! :p
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20th December 2010, 20:47 #26
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