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SykkBoy · 08-21-2004, 02:57 PM

I was going threough storage and found an old demo tape one of bands made back in the day....the masters, sadly, were lost in a fire.....

I'd like to grab the music from this cassette (rapidly deteriorating) and was wondering best way to transfer it...

I'd love to get MP3's of these 3 songs and clean them up a bit digitally...

The sound on them is fairly ghetto (recorded and mixed totally on the cheap in the garage) but would love to preserve them....

candyflip · 08-21-2004, 02:59 PM

Tutorial: Cassette to MP3/WAV

For the purpose of this article, we're going to keep it SIMPLE. You want to make an MP3 today, not next week.

1. Connect the tape player to the LINE-IN input plug on your sound card. My cassette player is an old Walkman. You may prefer to use a stereo system. I use a 1/8" mini-jack to go from player to PC. Confused? Just go to an electronics store.

2. Make sure you have got the Line Source selected. On my system it is found via Control Panel/Multimedia/Multi-media Properties/Devices.

3. I turn down the player, but hit play. If all works correctly, I get the music playing out of my PC speakers.

4. If you're an absolute beginner with a PC, that's OK. You can use MusicMatch Jukebox as an efficient means of recording from LINE-IN. Simply hit play on the cassette player and hit record on the jukebox. What you should end up with is a WAV file that is around 10 MB in size for every minute of recording.

5. If you're a little more advanced, you may want to substitute MusicMatch for an audio editor. I use Cool Edit 2000 as it is pretty easy to operate and I've got audio restoration plug-ins that work quite well with it. Boot up the audio editor and make sure you have set your recording parameters to 44.1 khz, stereo and 16 bit. The resulting WAV file will be of 'CD quality'.

6. To convert the WAV to MP3, there are a lot of choices. If you're a beginner, you may want to download an all-in-one package that offers an MP3 encoder, decoder and player. See the MP3 section of this site. When you go to encode remember that the higher the bit-rate, the higher the audible quality of the music. An MP3 file in stereo at 128Kbps is the standard, but you can go much higher if you want.

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SykkBoy · 08-21-2004, 03:01 PM

thanks guys
I probably could have googled it I guess, but GFY is just quicker sometimes ;-)

Doctor Dre · 08-21-2004, 08:27 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by SykkBoy2
thanks guys
I probably could have googled it I guess, but GFY is just quicker sometimes ;-)

google is always faster

you are just lazy

SykkBoy · 08-21-2004, 08:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Doctor Dre
google is always faster you are just lazy

you got me
I just wanted to create hype for these long thought lost musical treasures...

fr8 · 08-21-2004, 09:46 PM

Going to post a few of them when you get them?

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pornstar2pac · 08-21-2004, 11:14 PM

welcome to 1983!

stick with 8-tracks

SykkBoy · 08-22-2004, 07:09 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by fr8
Going to post a few of them when you get them?

yeah, after I clean them up a bit

SykkBoy · 08-22-2004, 07:11 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by pornstar2pac
welcome to 1983!

stick with 8-tracks

actually, this demo was recoded back in 91, a time when you were probably shitting in your diapers and sucking your mother's tit for an extra drop of milk

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candyflip Carpe Visio Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: New York Posts: 43,064	Tutorial: Cassette to MP3/WAV For the purpose of this article, we're going to keep it SIMPLE. You want to make an MP3 today, not next week. 1. Connect the tape player to the LINE-IN input plug on your sound card. My cassette player is an old Walkman. You may prefer to use a stereo system. I use a 1/8" mini-jack to go from player to PC. Confused? Just go to an electronics store. 2. Make sure you have got the Line Source selected. On my system it is found via Control Panel/Multimedia/Multi-media Properties/Devices. 3. I turn down the player, but hit play. If all works correctly, I get the music playing out of my PC speakers. 4. If you're an absolute beginner with a PC, that's OK. You can use MusicMatch Jukebox as an efficient means of recording from LINE-IN. Simply hit play on the cassette player and hit record on the jukebox. What you should end up with is a WAV file that is around 10 MB in size for every minute of recording. 5. If you're a little more advanced, you may want to substitute MusicMatch for an audio editor. I use Cool Edit 2000 as it is pretty easy to operate and I've got audio restoration plug-ins that work quite well with it. Boot up the audio editor and make sure you have set your recording parameters to 44.1 khz, stereo and 16 bit. The resulting WAV file will be of 'CD quality'. 6. To convert the WAV to MP3, there are a lot of choices. If you're a beginner, you may want to download an all-in-one package that offers an MP3 encoder, decoder and player. See the MP3 section of this site. When you go to encode remember that the higher the bit-rate, the higher the audible quality of the music. An MP3 file in stereo at 128Kbps is the standard, but you can go much higher if you want. __________________ Spend you some brain. Email Me

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