Burning CDs from cassettes?

[skydiver30960 0]

I have been entrusted with two cassette tapes of the Christmas Carols that my family used to listed to while we gathered around the tree each year. We're talking classic stuff: the Reader's Digest Choir sings the classics and the Sesame Street/ Muppet Show gangs get together to do some wicked renditions!

I know, pretty low-powered stuff nowadays, but it's the stuff memories are made of right?

THE POINT OF MY POST:

Nobody in the family owns a cassette player anymore, at least not one that I would trust with these family treasures. So, I want to get them burned onto CD so that the fam can continue to wallow in chintzy nostalgia each holiday season.

I'm having a hell of a time finding anyone local who can handle this. So: does anyone online here have the gear or know someone who has the gear to burn the cassettes onto CD for me? I'm not looking for them to be digitally remastered or anything, just put on disc.

Thanks; you guys are my heroes;

Elvisio "Riverbottom Nightmare Band" Rodriguez

[Scoop 0]

You should be able to plug a stereo system through your computer and record as an MP3 through the line in input. Then burn it to CD. As its only cassette and the quality was never great to start with you can probably do it with a simple male to male small phono cable

[legorowbot 0]

Here's one way to do it... i've never tried it though, so I can't say how well it works.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/7a8d/

Why does it say "Append signature to post" when I don't have a signature?

[usedtajump 1]

I recently discovered an old cassett tape of a band I used to play with. Tried every avenue I could think of to get it put it on CD but came up empty. Finally took it to a local recording studio and got it transfered for $25.00 all the while sweating it out that the 30 year old tape didn't break before completion.

The older I get the less I care who I piss off.

[usedtajump 1]

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You should be able to plug a stereo system through your computer and record as an MP3 through the line in input. Then burn it to CD. As its only cassette and the quality was never great to start with you can probably do it with a simple male to male small phono cable

Scoop, I thought of the proceedure you mentioned but the appropriate cord required cost almost as much as getting the recording studio to do it professionally. They even cleaned up the sound glitches that are usually present with an old tape.

The older I get the less I care who I piss off.

[skydiver30960 0]

Recording studio sounds like a possibilty... Scoop the problem with your idea is like I said I don't have a cassette player anymore, just the cassettes...

Elvisio "I always was destined for the recording studio anyhow, with a name like Elvisio and all" Rodriguez

[Scoop 0]

Really you can get the cables for £5 here

But yeah, I can see how not having something to play cassettes in the first place makes it difficult

[Reginald 0]

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You should be able to plug a stereo system through your computer and record as an MP3 wav through the line in input. Then burn it to CD. As its only cassette and the quality was never great to start with you can probably do it with a simple male to male small phono cable

There fixed it for you.

MP3's suck...(hey it is bonfire!)

"We've been looking for the enemy for some time now. We've finally found him. We're surrounded. That simplifies things." CP

[usedtajump 1]

Scoop, just getting the distortion of a 30 yoar old tape cleaned up was worth $25.00.

The older I get the less I care who I piss off.

[billvon 3,119]

>but the appropriate cord required cost almost as much as getting the recording studio to do it professionally.

$5.49 or $7.99 at Radio Shack

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2103859

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2102949&cp=&pg=2&origkw=1%2F8%22&kw=1%2F8&parentPage=search

[usedtajump 1]

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>but the appropriate cord required cost almost as much as getting the recording studio to do it professionally.

$5.49 or $7.99 at Radio Shack

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2103859

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2102949&cp=&pg=2&origkw=1%2F8%22&kw=1%2F8&parentPage=search

Maybe in LA but the RS in Bardwell, KY (population 1500 including the nursing homes), the only RS in a 35 a mile radius of where I live, didn't stock it and really didn't know WTF I was talking about. Anyway, the point being, the sound technician in Paducah did it RFN and cleaned up the degenerated sound on the 30 year old tape for $25.00 and I can now burn as many copies as are necessary. So far that's only been one.

The older I get the less I care who I piss off.