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Bob Cap

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Cassette to USB
« on: April 18, 2014, 02:15:33 PM »

Have a customer stop in the morning looking for a cassette tape player to USB output so he can transfer his cassette tapes to his computer.

I told him to just hook up his cassette deck to the input on the computer.

He doesn't have a cassette deck anymore... :)

Anybody have one they can recommend?

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Re: Cassette to USB
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2014, 04:23:28 PM »

Have a customer stop in the morning looking for a cassette tape player to USB output so he can transfer his cassette tapes to his computer.

I told him to just hook up his cassette deck to the input on the computer.

He doesn't have a cassette deck anymore... :)

Anybody have one they can recommend?

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An Alesis iO2 and your choice of cassette player.
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Re: Cassette to USB
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2014, 05:58:12 PM »

Have a customer stop in the morning looking for a cassette tape player to USB output so he can transfer his cassette tapes to his computer.

I told him to just hook up his cassette deck to the input on the computer.

He doesn't have a cassette deck anymore... :)

Anybody have one they can recommend?

Bob Cap
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Something that doesn't require any computer futzing, but still has USB if you want it:

TEAC AD-RW900

http://www.amazon.com/Teac-AD-RW900-Recorder-Reverse-Cassette/dp/B006BUVOZ8
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Re: Cassette to USB
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2014, 07:13:02 PM »

Something that doesn't require any computer futzing, but still has USB if you want it:

TEAC AD-RW900

http://www.amazon.com/Teac-AD-RW900-Recorder-Reverse-Cassette/dp/B006BUVOZ8

What part of this do you not understand?

"Have a customer stop in the morning looking for a cassette tape player to USB output so he can transfer his cassette tapes to his computer."

...from the OP.  Client WANTS to use his computer.

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Re: Cassette to USB
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2014, 12:42:08 PM »


...from the OP.  Client WANTS to use his computer.

I'm jumping ahead to the next part of the conversation a few months down the road where they talk about using it for a couple of tapes and finding that it's too much work and is there a way to do it without so much manual work in the computer - slicing and dicing the audio they've captured.
If the customer asked the question, my assumption is that they have a box full of tapes, not just one or two.  If it was one or two, I'd think they'd just ask a favor of someone they know who does audio - "can you transfer these for me?"
There'd be some resale value in the standalone unit as well, so overall a low risk, high expected outcome for the customer's actual problem.   If it was cheap, we'd be recommended services that do this for you - that fact they're not common shows that the problem is all in the labor.

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Re: Cassette to USB
« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2014, 07:29:22 PM »

I have thought about setting up a way for our church secretary to transfer old archived tapes to digital-they could just drop a top in a couple times a day.  I just wish Audacity or some other DAW software had an "auto stop" for recording that would stop recording after say 4 minutes of no audio so I don't fill up  a drive with white noise.  I guess it would be asking too much too have the usb cassette drive (there are some available-but I have no experience to recommend) communicate with the software to pause during tape reverse and stop and end of tape.  Can't believe that would be extremely difficult-and probably a market for it.  Obviously creating tracks would take time-though Tascam tape/CD decks have that capability built in-just a bit pricey for most people.
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Re: Cassette to USB
« Reply #7 on: August 12, 2014, 02:02:31 AM »

I purchased a similar unit and used it to transfer a tape while I was on a train to St. Louis, MO. It worked quite well. The unit I have does not have auto reverse on it, It came with Audacity,
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Re: Cassette to USB
« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2014, 08:03:14 AM »

I just wish Audacity or some other DAW software had an "auto stop" for recording that would stop recording after say 4 minutes of no audio so I don't fill up  a drive with white noise.

I can't say if Audacity does or not but ProTools, Cubase, and Nuendo all have session duration settings.  They are easily configured for a time limit. 

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Re: Cassette to USB
« Reply #9 on: October 01, 2014, 01:31:49 AM »

If you have a few thousand tapes to digitize, you can probably justify spending a few thousand bucks one of these:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/562786-REG/Graff_Of_Newark_LC60553_LC60553_Stereo_Cassette_Digitizer.html

Any USB-based system will probably be limited to 2x speeds at most. The above will operate at 4x or 8x speeds.
« Last Edit: October 01, 2014, 01:34:04 AM by Jonathan Johnson »
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