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Home studio recording/ Converting analog recordings to digital recordings?

I was curious to know if it is possible to plug (input) an ordinary tape deck into a digital portastudio, and to use the tape deck to play my old analog "mastered-down" cassettes, and transfer the old analog masters into a digital format.

I assume that if it works, the resulting digital recording would be of an inferior quality(?) and would result in having my entire songs being transfered to a single digital track that I wouldn't be able to manipulate(?)..

The point of all of this for me would be to simply convert my tapes to CDRs (my portastudio has a CD+RW) for back-up storage, because I'm very good at losing things..

Also, I don't have any other method of converting tapes to CDRs, and the portastudio I'm referring to is a Tascam DP01FX/CD.

Thanks!

Update:

My question was about converting tapes to CDs, not CDs to my (non-existing) computer. Thanks for trying.

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  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago
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    If your tape player has rca outs you could use rca to male xlr cables straight into the DP01. If you lose quality, you may want to adapt the rca to 1/4" and get a stereo direct box. This should get you the best quality possible with your gear.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    He would not understand what he's speaking about. digital is more beneficial precise and would seize each and every of the ingredient. digital does no longer degrade by using the years like cassette or record. some human beings like the imperfections in cassette of record. some like the actual incontrovertible truth that analog sorts of recording are linear and also you could't bypass tracks on impulse. I knew someone that beloved to play cassette because it compelled them to hearken to tracks all by using. you gained't understand this yet there grow to be a standard replace in audio format. those days they changed the way audio grow to be kept, they traded frequency decision for more beneficial quantity. you should observe that mp3 information of orchestral music is lacking even as mp3s of father songs sound in simple terms high-quality.

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    Take your mastered CDs, then rip them onto your computer. iTunes will do this fairly well and is available free from Apple for both Mac and PC.

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