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Re: Analogue / digital conversion

Subject: Re: Analogue / digital conversion
From: Jeremy Minns <>
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 09:54:38 -0200
Vicki,

>I have successfully transferred analogue cassettes from a Sony WMD6C to an
>iMac, using earphone-out socket on the cassette player to the audio-in
>socket on the iMac.  However I need to keep the cassette player at least 2
>metres away from the computer to avoid hum.  I also power the cassette
>player with batteries, not mains, and I avoid touching the cable or cassette
>player during the recording session.

As I mentioned in my earlier posting, by connecting my analogue recorder to 
my DAT recorder and the latter to the sound card I now transfer recordings 
to the computer in a single step. However, sometimes a mysterious loud hum 
appeared in the sound file. This turned out to be caused by my switching on 
a halogen desk light whose transformer happened to be right next to the 
analogue recorder.

Jeremy



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