Any cassette-to-mp3 recommendations?

[billy_bob]

As per thread title. I've got a box full of stuff on cassette that I'd like to convert to mp3s. Lots of suspiciously cheap devices on the market. I'm not a perfectionist about the sound quality but I don't want to lose too much - they're already less than crystal-clear.

Any recommendations?

ps can someone move this if it should be in some techie forum instead?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

There was a thread on this exact issue not too long ago iirc.

 

[ska invita]

you just need a tape deck an amp and a computer - have you got those things?

 

[ska invita]

http://www.urban75.net/forums/threa...ay-to-transfer-old-tapes-to-my-laptop.292577/ .... is a start

 

[billy_bob]

Thanks, I'm going to assume the question about amp/computer was not meant facetiously .

I'm exceptionally inept at this sort of thing so sorry if this is a dumb question - I connect the headphone line out on the amp to the mic socket on the computer, right?

 

[ska invita]

Thanks, I'm going to assume the question about amp/computer was not meant facetiously .

ha ha not at all - it took me two years to get hold of a working tape deck! If you have all that youre pretty much set.

Go Tape Deck Out > Tape In on the Amp
Then go from Tape Out on the back of Amp into the Mic on the laptop/pc.
Most likely you'll need a 2 phono to 1 mini jack cable for that
(3.5mm Mini Jack Stereo to 2 x RCA Phono Adapter)

Does that make sense?
Then you need a program to record the audio on your computer....see other thread