# singing hal and coppying cassette to computer

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by the subtle knife (Account disabled) on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2008 10:14:35

hey all, it's rob here.
i was just wondering if there's any way of coppying a cassette tape to a computer without actually using a microphone. it's just that i have some audio book that i wanna coppy.
also, does anyone know how to make the dollfin synthisiser sing? i heard a demo of it on pd audio, and i think it's just cool!
thanks
rob

## Post 2 by WillieTheWoof (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Thursday, 03-Apr-2008 9:36:58

you can plug your cassette player in to the input of your sound card and use an audio editor such as wave pad or goldwave to do this.

## Post 3 by Reyami (I've broken five thousand! any more awards going?) on Thursday, 03-Apr-2008 15:55:25

Do you need some sort of special cable to do this?

## Post 4 by SingerOfSongs (Heresy and apostasy is how progress is made.) on Thursday, 03-Apr-2008 21:41:32

You do need a special cable, but the cheaper ones are pretty cheap. It's a cable with the sort of end you have on headphones or microphones, but on both ends. Hope that helps.

## Post 5 by frequency (the music man) on Thursday, 03-Apr-2008 21:51:00

personally i wouldn't hook up some cheap cassette deck. That can introduce unnecessary hiss that could be prevented by using a component or perhaps a USB deck.

## Post 6 by WillieTheWoof (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Friday, 04-Apr-2008 9:30:38

But sometimes that is all a person has. Believe it or not I use a panasonic walkman and it works quite well. As far as the cable you will need a cord with a sterreo mini plug which is also called an sterreo eighth inch plug at both ends. This should do the trick. This is assuming that the output from your cassette player is sterreo and the input to your computer is also sterreo.
You can get this from radio shack for about probably 7 bucks.

## Post 7 by KC8PNL (The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.) on Saturday, 05-Apr-2008 0:03:41

I would suggest CDEX for doing this with cassettes, since it's free. If you want to do things like editing hiss and such, WavePad is a little more advanced and has some features which allow you to eliminate pops hiss, etc. GoldWave has a bit more to offer in this area, and is only $29, so if you plan on doing things with these cassettes such as editing, I would recommend this.

## Post 8 by motifated (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Saturday, 05-Apr-2008 3:08:49

Has anyone heard about the cables from Lightsnake with the USB connector on one end and the various other plugs on the other? They have the analog to digital converter built into the cable, from what I read.
Lou