An FAQ or something to help me with this?

[Big Al - The Peoples Pal]

I've got something like 250 pre-recorded tapes that I don't listen to
much these days as the newish tape machine (separates system, amp,
speakers, CD player, radio, tape player) is too noisy.

So what I would like to do is convert some of tapes to either "wav"
files or "MP3" and then back to "wav". The mp3 has the advantage I
think in being able to sort out the files before hand to convert on to
CD, but I could be wrong here. (added this to see if I was barking up
the wrong tree and you all know better)

The difficult bit is getting the tapes into my computer I've got a
tape deck, a AWE64 sound card and a cable that should be able to go
between them (i.e. Red and White plugs from Tape deck to a single
"earphone" type socket).

So what can I use to create the wav files?

Can I use the tape deck without the need to hook up the amp to record?

Have I sort of got it right I admit I'm a bit of a nugget when it
comes to these sort of things?

Hoping for your gentle guidance and enlightenment.

--
Alan - aka Big Al - The Peoples Pal

[Iain Miller]

You should be able to take a line out from the tape deck to a line in on
your soundcard using the cable you describe & use any old piece of software
to record the wav - you probably got one with the sound card.

No , you don't need to use the amp

Hope you have a HUGE hard disk!

"Big Al - The Peoples Pal"

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[Big Al - The Peoples Pal]

Sorted mate, knew I was doing something wrong as the mic was crackling
like mad, the line out appears to allow reasonable quality recordings
to wav. Good enough for my hearing anyway.

Only problem now is sorting out the recording levels so that when
mixing tracks to the same CDR I don't end up blowing either the amp,
the speakers, or my ears for that matter.

Well I think I will actually be more selective and only record the
tracks I bought the tape for in the first place. Looking forward to
actually listening to music I don't get pissed off with, due to some
terrible track in the middle of it or the noise of this TEAC tape
player [1]driving me crazy.

[1] The Kenwood deck previous to this one decided to change its speed
(more and more often) as it flipped over to the next side, couldn't be
bad to it though, played constantly for about 6 years or so, without
putting a finger to it. The TEAC V-377 deck was a poor purchase even
though it was cheap.
--

Big Al - The Peoples Pal

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"Big Al - The Peoples Pal"

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Use the line out from the deck to the line in on the soundcard.
If you use Easy CD Creator 4, this contains "spin doctor" a program designed
for transferring LP or other analogue sources to digital - it has goos noise
reduction algorithms...
-Joe