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Cassette to CD conversion instructions and microphone damage concerns

16th February 2008, 09:29 pm


Question:

I viewed your site on converting tracks from tapes to CD.  The instructions on your site are correct right?  We are going to buy the cables we need and hope that we will be doing the right thing.  You say to prevent damage to try and use the line out jack and not the microphone.  on my laptop i have 2 sockets one for the microphone and the other for the headphones.  which one do i use?

Answer:

The instructions on your site are correct right?

For most situations, and if you follow my directions, then yes, they are correct.

You say to prevent damage to try and use the line out jack and not the microphone. on my laptop i have 2 sockets one for the microphone and the other for the headphones.  which one do i use?

If you have a microphone and headphone (but no LIN IN) jack, then you can still use the microphone. You just need to be sure that when you record, the volume on your cassette player is turned down. If the volume on your player is too high, it could potentially damage your computer’s sound card or microphone. Read this link for more detail on the differences between recording with the microphone jack and line in jack.

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3 Comments

  1. joel:

    This looks like a promising way to do a transfer of tapes that I have been wanting to do for a long time. I have a Mac- will the software work okay?

    Thanks

    8 March 2008, 5:55 pm

  2. Andy Kaiser:

    Yes. Audacity is avalable for Macs, too, and the same methods and instructions apply.

    8 March 2008, 8:05 pm

  3. jon:

    im trying to import some tracks from my tascam 424mkii into audacity through my alesis multimix 8 but im not exactly shure how to acomplish this task any help would be apriciated thanks

    16 January 2009, 4:07 pm