Digital Sound Recording
How to transfer old tape record sound to digital sound?
I have some old sound tapes which has record of my daughter’s talk when she was a baby. I want to transfer it to digital signal, saved it to CD. How I do it?
You can record tape onto PC using musicmatch or audacity. Audacity is free.
1 Download and install audacity from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
2 Plug output of tape player into soundcard.using suitable lead.
3 Start audacity and press record (press the red button)
4 Play tape player.
5 When done, stop the recording in audacity
6 Save sound file: under FILE select wither export as MP3 or Export as wave (wave is better quality
You can edit the file, clean the sound, trim it before saving, but you can do this later: just open your WAVE file from audacity and edit it.
Here’s the tricky bit: when recording, you may have different options of where to plug in the leads, this may take a bit of trial and error: you may either find that audacity is recording nothing or that the recording is poor quality because impedances don’t match. (I listened to the recording as I recorded it and it was very poor quality, but upon playing the recorded sound later, it was fine, you you’ll have to see which is best) I got much better quality from the “microphone in” than the “line in”, even though it was a line input.
You can experiment with different tape player volumes and input volumes or with different tape players. It can take time, if you want good quality.
Also, make sure sounds are on: goto start, control panel then in “sounds and audio devices” click device in device volume and make sure the mutes are not selected and the volumes are high enough.
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