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Audio Cassettes
Monday, September 19th, 2011
How to Do Audio Cassette Duplication
After the 1970s to till 1990s the compact cassettes became popular as the most common form audio available. It gained popularity by its different names like: audio cassettes, cassette tapes, or just plain tapes.
Though the then time it became the most popular choice for all audio media but soon it got a change with the introduction of CD. For its high quality capacitance and superior sound effect– this cassette gains pleasing appeal to everyone: young, middle and old altogether.
From then a craze was founded in the marketplace to achieve all audio cassettes into CDs as it promises compactness as well as a high level sound quality. CD acronym for Compact Disc save memories and convert your cassette tapes into digital media format by dint of some cheap equipments. The conversion process is very easy.
What you need
What you need to execute it easily, a Cassette Tape player with a headphone jack, a computer with a soundcard, free “Audacity” software and a 3.5mm (1/8-inch) male-male stereo audio cable.
How it could be converted
1. Plug-in one end of the audio cable into your cassette player’s headphone or “Line out” jack and the other end connect to your computer soundcard’s “Microphone” or “Line in” jack. To prevent your soundcard get damaged use the “Line in” jack if it be possible, and not the “Microphone”.
2. Then Start Audacity and change the input type to “Line in” or “Microphone” according to your soundcard jack. This is known as Audacity to record. It “hears” on the soundcard input. Now open the Edit menu and select your Preferences. On the screen you will get to see what you need to do then. Now use “Device” selector to choose your input (soundcard, audio jack, microphone, etc). Then change the “Channels” selector to get mono or stereo recording. 3. Now press red circle or record button on Audacity, then press play on your cassette tape.
4. Press stop button or Yellow Square on Audacity after the finishing of its playing.
5. Then make use of the “File -> Export as WAV” menu item to save your recording. Then you can save the resulting WAV file on your computer then convert it into MP3, or burned into a CD. Now you can get your needs with Audacity’s audio editor features. Here, you could cut, paste and mix effects easily.
So the copying of audio cassettes is not a hard task rather an easy task.
About the Author
Suman Jalal.
writes articles on:
copying of audio cassettes
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Arts and Entertainment
Vintage Audio Cassettes Compilation
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