[IRCA] STATION IDs - TAPES TO CDs

2008-12-29 Thread Pete Taylor
Like others who are doing the same thing, I am in the process of putting all my reel-to-reel- and cassette-stored IDs on CDs. My son recently installed an M-Audio device in line between the Marantz earphone outlet and the computer. I have been experiencing some serious problems with

Re: [IRCA] STATION IDs - TAPES TO CDs

2008-12-29 Thread Bruce Portzer
Hi Pete I've been archiving airchecks and DX for a while using Audacity running on a Vista laptop. I'm using a Behringer UCA-202 card to convert line level audio to USB. I haven't had any problems with artifacts. I have my sound card set to its highest quality setting (16 bit, 48000 Hz,

Re: [IRCA] STATION IDs - TAPES TO CDs

2008-12-29 Thread Len Hyde
Sounds like an impedance mismatch. I don't know what an M-Audio device is, but I simply go from Line Out on my tape deck to Line In on the computer sound card. You'll need a cable with RCA plugs on the tape deck end and a stereo headphone plug on the computer end. You probably can buy that, but

Re: [IRCA] STATION IDs - TAPES TO CDs

2008-12-29 Thread cafe
Like others who are doing the same thing, I am in the process of putting all my reel-to-reel- and cassette-stored IDs on CDs. My son recently installed an M-Audio device in line between the Marantz earphone outlet and the computer. I use an M-Audio Delta 44 with my computer system -

Re: [IRCA] STATION IDs - TAPES TO CDs

2008-12-29 Thread Russ Edmunds
--- On Mon, 12/29/08, Bruce Portzer bport...@comcast.net wrote: From: Bruce Portzer bport...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [IRCA] STATION IDs - TAPES TO CDs To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America irca@hard-core-dx.com Date: Monday, December 29, 2008, 1:01 PM Hi Pete

Re: [IRCA] STATION IDs - TAPES TO CDs

2008-12-29 Thread Russ Edmunds
--- On Mon, 12/29/08, c...@islandnet.com c...@islandnet.com wrote: I use an M-Audio Delta 44 with my computer system - heck, I recorded a whole album on it with my musical partner... What you seem to be describing is overload. The Earphone output on your marantz might be too low an