Re: Transferring cassettes

["Avocet" madl74]

> I'm considering buying a new digital recorder and resuming recording
> activities and wonder if any of these recorders would be suitable 
> for
> transferring directly from a cassette deck.

Dale,

You don't need a new digital recorder to digitise analogue recordings 
as you can record analogue directly on your computer, but you may need 
to upgrade your computer sound card to something like an Audigy USB.

The playback quality is limited to what is available from the casette 
tape, but it can be cleaned up digitally. I doubt if you would hear 
any deterioration with recording off your sound card at 44.1ksps at 16 
bits, but the Audigy SE goes up to 96ksps at 24 bits which you won't 
need.

David

David Brinicombe
North Devon, UK
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