Cassette to a CD

Billy Tonnesen · Post by **Billy Tonnesen** » 5 Jan 2010 8:21 pm

I just saw an Ad in "Heartland America" catelog for a for a device manufactured by "Grace Digital Audio" for transferring Cassette Tapes to CD's
. You download the Cassette to your Computer and then burn the CD. Anyone know about this ? The total cost encluding S&H is about $120.00. Iv'e got drawers full of Cssette live recordings which I would dearly love to have on A CD. I am not promoting this product, just want some input if it would be any goodl

Gene Wilcox · Post by **Gene Wilcox** » 5 Jan 2010 9:40 pm

If you already have a cassette deck with L/R outs,
you may want to consider something like this:

http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/pr ... sku=583090

Something along these lines would allow you greater flexibility for future use, for other applications.

And better software, as audacity is free and limited. Not knocking it, you get what you pay for

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 6 Jan 2010 3:12 am

This has been covered in detail many times on the forum. If you have a PC and a CD burner drive you don't need any addtional equipment, other than a cassette player. You do need a recording program and the free Audacity program is a very popular recording program.

You connect the line out of the cassette player (or stereo system) - NOT the speaker connection - to the PC's stereo "line in" connection. You record the songs using the recording program and save the songs as wav files (not MP3 as they are not full fidelity). After you have the songs recorded to the hard drive, you can burn standard Audio CD's using your CD burning program.

There may be more detailed instructions around, but that's basically it - no addtional "hardware" is needed.

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 6 Jan 2010 3:18 am

why not just buy a small MP3/Wave recorder for about the same price , such as a zoom H2 or whatever, plug the cassette into the recorder, record all you cassettes onto the SD card in wave or MP3, move the files to the PC and then burn the files to a CD.

Then when you are all done you still have the kool Mp3/Wave recorder in your possession and can use it anytime you want !

Or just do what Jack said !

You may not even have to spend 5 cents if you have a stereo input on your pc soundcard.

Welcome to the future !

Billy Tonnesen · Post by **Billy Tonnesen** » 6 Jan 2010 4:26 pm

Thanks Guys !

Billy T.

Ray Montee (RIP) · Post by **Ray Montee (RIP)** » 7 Jan 2010 9:51 pm

I bought a CROSLEY..........nostalgia........unit.

It will play 33,45 & 78 records, AM-FM radio & casette tapes directly onto a CD and then "FINISH" the disc.

No other equipment or software is required.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 8 Jan 2010 5:31 pm

You don't need a computer. All you need is a CD recorder, like those made by Philips. They work exactly like a cassette recorder but they use CDs. You just take the output of your cassette deck to the input of the CD deck, put the cassette deck on play and the CD deck on record, push both buttons and you're away.

I transferred my entire collection of reel-to-reel session tapes and most of my LPs to CDs by this method. It was easy, and it works in real time. If you use a computer it takes twice as long, as you have to record from the cassette to the computer, and then the computer to the CD. Using a regular CD recorder makes a much better copy.

Here, this is the sort you need, but don't buy this particular one because it has faults...
http://cgi.ebay.com/PHILLIPS-CDR870-CD- ... 3a565bb8cd

Here's another model, this time with three CD players and 1 CD burner, so you can copy from CD to CD or from any other audio source to CD. I have two of these. They're indispensible...

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 9 Jan 2010 12:00 pm

Ray Montee wrote:I bought a CROSLEY..........nostalgia........unit.
It will play 33,45 & 78 records, AM-FM radio & casette tapes directly onto a CD and then "FINISH" the disc.
No other equipment or software is required.

Yes, as Ray says, that's an excellent way to go if you just want to push a button, walk away, and let the machine do the whole thing for you. In fact I'm thinking of getting one of those myself.

TEAC/TASCAM make a similar machine...

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 10 Jan 2010 10:41 am

I bought one of the Crosley units yesterday. It should arrive sometime next week.

Mikey Phillips · Post by **Mikey Phillips** » 16 Jan 2010 7:34 am

Billy,
You might want to check out DAK industries. For about $80.00 you can do all of what you want and even more with LP's. It lets you make separate tracks of each song rather than a 1 track CD of all songs like some others do. You get a lot of other things too. I really like mine

chuck abend · Post by **chuck abend** » 22 Jan 2010 10:19 am

I use Acoustica spin it again software that you download for about 30.00'
Tape to c/d and records to c/d.Very user friendly and easy to use/with voice instruction and effects.
They also sell the 8 track recording studio for
32.00 or so,that you download also.
I record thru a mixer with a c/d soundtrack and
into a good tape deck and blend them.
I record them into Spin it Again when Ihave a good take with no mistakes on tape.Sounds great like a pro. Chuck Abend

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