BARBELITH underground
 

Subcultural engagement for the 21st Century...
Barbelith is a new kind of community (find out more)...
You can login or register.


Transfering from audio tape to CD?

 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
16:05 / 04.06.03
I've got some old sessions and stuff on D120s that I'd quite like to transfer to CDs before they rot completely. Is there anyone out there that could help me do this?
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
16:22 / 04.06.03
I can help.

The way I do it is I send the audio coming from the tape deck/stereo to the computer - you just want to have one of those wires that have the kind of jack that goes into a standard discman headphone jack on both ends of the wire. You plug it into the appropriate audio input jack on the back of your computer.

I highly recommend the programs that I use to record and edit audio, but it will cost you some money to get them. Total Recorder costs $11.95 US, and you can use it to record any sound made by your computer, encoded or not. I use it for recording from tapes and dvds, as well as realaudio and quicktime streams. It's great, but you're going to want to have a program like Acoustica to edit and clean up what you record. With Acoustica, you can change audio levels, make all manner of audio edits (I often use this program to make "radio edits" of very long songs for mix cds), record original compositions, overdub over existing tracks, and make complicated audio/DJ mixes. It's a fabulous program.

If you have access to soulseek and other p2ps, you may want to check to see if other people have already circulated digitized versions of those radio sessions.
 
 
rizla mission
13:27 / 06.06.03
I've recently discovered I can digitise stuff on tapes with little bother. Which has opened endless vistas of possibility for my dozens upon dozens of Peel tapes.

Getting the volume right's a bit tricky though, and the quality tends to be a bit iffy. But then, I don't much care about that sort of thing.
 
 
De Selby
10:50 / 07.06.03
I use CoolEdit Pro to clean out the clicks and pops, off of records, and it has a tape hiss cleaning function as well.
 
 
No star here laces
10:16 / 09.06.03
On a related topic, I need to burn some vinyl onto cds (for flux, in fact). My iBook only has USB inputs. How in hell can I do this?

Also, if I manage to set it up so I can record to my hard drive, how can I then burn a mixed cd that plays continuously, but has track markers on it?

Am somewhat luddite in recording tech at mo, usually restricting myself to MDs...
 
 
Saveloy
10:44 / 09.06.03
Croydon:

Re your second question - depends on your burn software. On the one I use (and f**k me I've completely forgotten what it's called) you can tick a little box that says (in effect) "don't insert the standard 2 second pause between tracks". This means that each track starts immediately after the last. So you can split one track into two, burn it as two tracks one after the other, and you won't hear the gap. So you could record one huge long mix as one piece, chop it up in a .wav editor (such as CoolEdit) into seperate tracks and burn as described above to achieve the effect you're after.


There's also an option for mixing, so that one track fades into another, but I haven't used that yet.
 
  
Add Your Reply