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I've been digitizing some audio tapes lately and I thought it would nice to briefly talk about the setup that I was using while digitizing. Though to be honest this is mostly just an excuse for me to post some dithered images.
I've always thought that digitzing analog media such as cassette tapes would require specialist, arcane equipment. Little did I know that in order to save my analog media that I would only need my cassette player, audacity and a trusty aux cable. Figure 1 shows my current ``audio digitizing'' setup.
Figure 1. My ``state-of-the-art'' analog-to-digital studio.
As it turns out, recording cassette tapes is suprisingly easy. As long as you have a working cassette player (Figure 2) and Audacity [1] you can connect those two through an aux cable by plugging one end to the player's headphone jack and the other to the computer's microphone jack.
Figure 2. The working cassette player.
Once done, all you need to do is to start a recording session in Audacity and play the tape (Figure 3) on the player and Audacity will treat the incoming signal as if it's coming from a microphone.
Figure 3. A cassette tape to be digitized.
While I doubt that this is the best way to record tapes, this solution works with the equipment that I already got. Perhaps there are other, more brilliant, approaches to this. Maybe you, dear reader, know more about this, haha! Should that be the case, just hit me up with an email and I would be very glad to talk about this.
